{"id":5396,"date":"2010-03-10T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2010-03-10T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:16:45","slug":"how-vegan-is-your-organic-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/how-vegan-is-your-organic-food\/","title":{"rendered":"How Vegan is Your Organic Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5397\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/126.jpg?resize=148%2C88\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/126.jpg?w=148&amp;ssl=1 148w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/126.jpg?resize=96%2C57&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though a large organic farm I visited  doesn&#8217;t use pesticides,<br \/>\nit uses fly paper and blue UV light insect-killers<br \/>\nto keep insects away from the crops.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Truly vegan food is always organic,<br \/>\nbut organic food is not always truly vegan.<\/span><br \/>\nTricky indeed.<\/p>\n<p>But less insects are killed on the farm&#8230; I hope&#8230;<br \/>\nthan on non-organic ones,<br \/>\nas there are many huge nettings like fly screens shielding the crops.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible though,<br \/>\nto not intentionally use any means to kill insects at all,<br \/>\nwhile lovingly dedicating alternative plots of crops for insects.<\/p>\n<p>After some &#8216;harvested&#8217; some crops for fun personally,<br \/>\nthey realised there are a few ants accidentally bagged,<br \/>\nwho had to be freed.<\/p>\n<p>The organic is not always vegan indeed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How vegan are you?<br \/>\nHow vegan do you wish to be?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bodhisattva path is<br \/>\nthe minimisation of harm to any being, and<br \/>\nthe maximisation of benefit to all beings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stonepeace<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though a large organic farm I visited doesn&#8217;t use pesticides, it uses fly paper and blue UV light insect-killers to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[223,45,156],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-bodhisattva","tag-stonepeace","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}