{"id":58,"date":"2013-11-17T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2013\/11\/21st-century-toy-farm.html"},"modified":"2015-10-16T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T07:34:38","slug":"21st-century-toy-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/11\/21st-century-toy-farm.html","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Toy Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21st-century-toy-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2778 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21st-century-toy-farm.jpg\" alt=\"21st century toy farm\" width=\"832\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21st-century-toy-farm.jpg 832w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21st-century-toy-farm-500x337.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e88833019b013babe9970b-pi\"><img class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e88833019b013babe9970b\" style=\"width: 700px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Toy farm 2\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e88833019b013babe9970b-700wi\" alt=\"Toy farm 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hoping to cultivate a better understanding of where the food on our plates comes from, Tomm Velthuis designed a toy farm highlighting the unsustainable reality of the meat industry.<\/p>\n<p>The wooden set, called Playing Food, comes complete with 200 pigs, the enormous amounts of food required to fatten them up, the trees that must be cleared for feed crops, and the acid rain caused by the pigs\u2019 manure. It\u2019s factory farming packaged as an \u2018innocent\u2019 childhood toy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytomm.com\/byTomm\/VOEDSELTJE_SPELEN.html\" target=\"_blank\">more pictures at Tomm&#8217;s blog<\/a>. The farm is on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meating.nu\/evenement\/kunstmanifestatie-meating-tilburg-editie-2013-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">mEATing-kill your darlings<\/a>, an art event about our relationship with meat and animals in Tilburg, the Netherlands. See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/11\/can-i-see-your-meat-license.html\" target=\"_self\">Can I see your Meat License<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hoping to cultivate a better understanding of where the food on our plates comes from, Tomm Velthuis designed a toy farm highlighting the unsustainable reality of the meat industry. The wooden set, called Playing Food, comes complete with 200 pigs, the enormous amounts of food required to fatten them up, the trees that must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,45,315,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}