{"id":360707,"date":"2010-02-24T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-smithfield-sustainablity-officer\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:37:56","slug":"smithfield-tries-to-weave-a-silk-purse-from-a-sows-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/360707","title":{"rendered":"Smithfield tries to weave a silk purse from a sow&#8217;s ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Tom Philpott <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just this week I promoted somebody&#8212;and I can&#8217;t even believe I&#8217;m saying this word here, folks&#8212;to a chief sustainability officer.&#8221;<br \/>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/food.change.org\/blog\/view\/smithfield_grudgingly_embraces_sustainability\">Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods, <\/a>speaking before the North Carolina Agribusiness Council. Smithfield&#8217;s environmental record was nicely documented in the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/12840743\/porks_dirty_secret_the_nations_top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters\">2006 Rolling Stone article &#8220;Boss Hog.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-25-corn-usda-merrigan\/\">King Corn airs complaints about USDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-24-your-car-your-meat-eating-the-biggest-causes-of-climate-change\/\">Your car and your meat-eating: the biggest causes of climate change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-23-new-research-synthetic-nitrogen-destroys-soil-carbon-undermines-\/\">New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, undermines soil health<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6dc082f0bc22df5bfa5d4e0a332631c3&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=6dc082f0bc22df5bfa5d4e0a332631c3&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Philpott &#8220;Just this week I promoted somebody&#8212;and I can&#8217;t even believe I&#8217;m saying this word here, folks&#8212;to a chief sustainability officer.&#8221;&#8212;Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods, speaking before the North Carolina Agribusiness Council. Smithfield&#8217;s environmental record was nicely documented in the classic 2006 Rolling Stone article &#8220;Boss Hog.&#8221; Related Links: King Corn airs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}