{"id":807034,"date":"2020-05-01T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382578"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:58:27","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-i-plan-to-use-stimulus-money-to-buy-meat-for-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-i-plan-to-use-stimulus-money-to-buy-meat-for-food-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: I plan to use stimulus money to buy meat for food banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-dont-support-meat-processors-during-outbreak\/\">letter was published in the April 29 Summit Daily encouraging people not to support the meat industry<\/a> during the national crisis we are now facing. I\u2019d like to offer the opposite view, then double down on it.<\/p>\n<p>First, the sheer<br \/>\ncreepiness of trying to advance a political agenda in a time of crisis really<br \/>\ndoes make my skin crawl. Second, we are talking about human beings who are<br \/>\nbeing hurt by shutdowns at meat-processing plants. We are talking about human<br \/>\nbeings who don\u2019t have jobs, and human beings who have legitimate concerns about<br \/>\nhow they will feed their families. Some of those are our Summit County<br \/>\nneighbors. Whether Samson Natal likes it or not, humans were made to be<br \/>\nomnivores, and meat is an important part of the human diet. <\/p>\n<p>I do intend to support the meat industry during this crisis, and I wish all the best to those in the industry. I haven\u2019t received my stimulus check yet, but when I do, I pledge to set aside $200 of it to shop for good meat specials so that I can donate the meat to our local food banks. We can all do a little something to help those in our community who are in need. That\u2019s my part.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-i-plan-to-use-stimulus-money-to-buy-meat-for-food-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter was published in the April 29 Summit Daily encouraging people not to support the meat industry during the national crisis we are now facing. I\u2019d like to offer the opposite view, then double down on it. First, the sheer creepiness of trying to advance a political agenda in a time of crisis really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 08:40:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}