{"id":4198,"date":"2010-03-07T23:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:02:20","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-swiss-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"When I grow up, I want to be a Swiss cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video, that I shot this morning in the outskirts of Gstaad, shows how well cows live in Switzerland.  And it shouldn\u00b4t surprise you, since in Switzerland according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becker-posner-blog.com\/2006\/06\/on_agricultural.html\">Becker-Posner Blog<\/a>, 68% of farmer&#8217;s income comes in the form of a government subsidy.  A billion of people on this planet live on less than a dollar a day.  The average European cow gets $2.7 per day, and Swiss cows get way more than that.  Here&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stwr.org\/imf-world-bank-trade\/farm-subsidies-the-report-card.html\"> another interesting article<\/a> on subsidies and how unfair their distribution is.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G9vpRy9-7wI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G9vpRy9-7wI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you understand Spanish <a href=\"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/cuando-sea-grande-quiero-ser-una-vaca-suiza.html\">here&#8217;s a similar article<\/a> but the video has a special star.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4198\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video, that I shot this morning in the outskirts of Gstaad, shows how well cows live in Switzerland. And it shouldn\u00b4t surprise you, since in Switzerland according to the Becker-Posner Blog, 68% of farmer&#8217;s income comes in the form of a government subsidy. A billion of people on this planet live on less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}