{"id":6987,"date":"2012-04-17T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:52:58","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6987","title":{"rendered":"New American: &#8220;Mich. State Agents Raid Pig Farms to Kill So-called &#8216;Invasive Species'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New American: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/11543-mich-state-agents-raid-pig-farms-to-kill-so-called-qinvasive-speciesq\">Mich. State Agents Raid Pig Farms to Kill So-called &#8220;Invasive Species&#8221;<\/a> by Raven Clabough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michigan&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) has reportedly violated the Fourth Amendment by conducting two armed raids on pig farms in the state&#8217;s Kalkaska and Cheboygan Counties. The incursions, which included six vehicles and 10 armed men, were apparently for the purpose of shooting all the farmers&#8217; pigs under the new \u201cInvasive Species Order\u201d (ISO) that has much of declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the Michigan DNR outlawed feral swine \u2014 pigs classified as non-native, invasive, and said to be carriers of disease and overall harmful to the environment. Though groups fought adamantly to overturn the ban, it went into effect April 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exigency to stop a pig pandemic? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6987\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}