{"id":2660,"date":"2020-03-23t16:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-23t16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2020-03-23t16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23t16:26:04","slug":"agriculture-declared-a-critical-industry-by-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/2020\/03\/agriculture-declared-a-critical-industry-by-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"agriculture declared a critical industry by homeland security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>with the current covid-19 situation the us department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/cisa-guidance-on-essential-critical-infrastructure-workers-1-20-508c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homeland security has confirmed food and agriculture as a critical infrastructure<\/a>. with people becoming more and more distant from food production, it is important to remember that we are dependent on farmers for our food. i saw one post on facebook that said there was no need for farmers since they get their food from krogers and not a farmer. where do they think krogers gets the food they sell?<\/p>\n<p>the homeland security memorandum identified 16 critical industries. with regards to agriculture, they included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span>farm workers to include those employed in animal food, feed, and ingredient production, packaging, and distribution; manufacturing, packaging, and distribution of veterinary drugs; truck delivery and transport; farm and fishery labor needed to produce our food supply domestically<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>farm workers and support service workers to include those who field crops; commodity inspection; fuel ethanol facilities; storage facilities; and other agricultural inputs <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>animal agriculture workers to include those employed in veterinary health; manufacturing and distribution of animal medical materials, animal vaccines, animal drugs, feed ingredients, feed, and bedding, etc.; transportation of live animals, animal medical materials; transportation of deceased animals for disposal; raising of animals for food; animal production operations; slaughter and packing plants and associated regulatory and government workforce <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>of course, those that manufacture our final food products and those that transport the products to the retail outlets are also critical.<\/p>\n<p>so &#8211; thank a farmer, thank a food manufacturer, and thank a truck driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with the current covid-19 situation the us department of homeland security has confirmed food and agriculture as a critical infrastructure. with people becoming more and more distant from food production, it is important to remember that we are dependent on farmers for our food. i saw one post on facebook that said there was no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/2020\/03\/agriculture-declared-a-critical-industry-by-homeland-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;agriculture declared a critical industry by homeland security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}