{"id":131421,"date":"2024-09-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131421"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:10:11","slug":"nyt-front-page-her-children-were-sick-was-it-forever-chemicals-on-the-family-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131421","title":{"rendered":"(NYT front page) Her Children Were Sick. Was It \u2018Forever Chemicals\u2019 on the Family Farm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allison Jumper\u2019s family was a picture of healthy living. Active kids. Wholesome meals. A freezer stocked with organic beef from her in-laws\u2019 farm in Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in late 2020, she got a devastating call from her brother-in-law. High levels of harmful \u201cforever chemicals\u201d had been detected on their farm and in their cows\u2019 milk, and they were getting shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first, Mrs. Jumper worried only about her in-laws\u2019 livelihoods. But soon, her mind went somewhere else: to her own children\u2019s mysterious health issues, including startlingly high cholesterol levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThen it hit me,\u201d she said at her home in Durham, N.H. \u201cCould it be the beef?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/21\/climate\/farm-pfas-meat-poison-sewage-sludge.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Her family\u2019s farm was hiding dangerous chemicals in their food <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6aYN9OtCNW\">https:\/\/t.co\/6aYN9OtCNW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Judith Enck (@enckj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/enckj\/status\/1838203161552593004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Jumper\u2019s family was a picture of healthy living. Active kids. Wholesome meals. A freezer stocked with organic beef from her in-laws\u2019 farm in Maine. Then in late 2020, she got a devastating call from her brother-in-law. High levels of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131421\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,589,683,140,168,98,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131425,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131421\/revisions\/131425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}