{"id":183,"date":"2022-09-17T21:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmforward1.wpengine.com\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:32:54","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/who-we-are\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"normal_content bg-white padding-top-small padding-bottom-small\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row center-md\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-styled\"><p>Founded in 2007, Farm Forward&#8217;s mission is to end factory farming by <strong>changing farming, changing policy, <\/strong>and<strong> changing the stories <\/strong>we tell about animal agriculture. 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