{"id":21078,"date":"2014-01-20T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=318466"},"modified":"2014-01-20T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:00:55","slug":"13-ways-the-eu-beats-the-u-s-on-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/13-ways-the-eu-beats-the-u-s-on-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Ways the EU Beats the U.S. on Food Safety"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/foodUS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"foodUS\"><\/p>\n<p>How does the U.S. stack up against the European Union (EU) on food safety issues? In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/12\/18\/pesticides-raise-flags-european-regulators\/\" target=\"_blank\">restrictions on pesticide use<\/a>&nbsp;in food production, the EU also has remarkably different standards when it comes to matters such as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/agriculture-news\/food-agriculture\/gmo-genetically-modified-organism\/\" target=\"_blank\">GMOs<\/a>, hormones, questionable chemicals and other additives. The editors of <em>YES! Magazine <\/em>created this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/how-to-eat-like-our-lives-depend-on-it\/thirteen-ways-food-is-safer-cleaner-and-kinder-in-europe\" target=\"_blank\">infographic<\/a> highlighting 13 ways &#8220;Europe does food production safer, cleaner and kinder.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/how-to-eat-like-our-lives-depend-on-it\/thirteen-ways-food-is-safer-cleaner-and-kinder-in-europe\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-318472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-20 at 9.04.33 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-20-at-9.04.33-AM.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"932\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/food-living\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOOD<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.org\/p\/food\/gmo-genetically-modified-organism\/\" target=\"_blank\">GMO<\/a>&nbsp;pages for more related news on this topic.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner12\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/topnewsbanner12.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[518,12201,1791,12202,2530],"class_list":["post-21078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-europe","tag-featured-living","tag-food","tag-living","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}