December 4, 2008

petition for Michael Pollen for Secretary of Agriculture

I received an email requesting me to sign a petition for Michael Pollen for the Secretary of Agriculture. The email said, "This petition is a letter to president elect Obama, urging him to appoint Michael Pollen as the Secretary of Agriculture. The other candidates that are up for election completely undermine the above mentioned objectives and all support big agri-business and biotech industries such as Monsanto. To protect your right to know what you are buying and what you are consuming it is essential that we prevent corporate interests from taking control of our global food systems. To create a holistic and sustainable agricultural future that is not based on economic, social, and ecological exploitation, it is critical that our Secretary of Agriculture be a forward-thinking circumspect, and environmentally minded individual."

Another petition already ousted Vilsack, a proponant of genetically engineered food and industrial agriculture, from the running. Maybe this petition will get some attention. If you are interested in signing it, click here.

For more information on who Michael Pollen is, listen to a podcast here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95896389 and here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/11/27/segments/116803 and for information on sustainable agriculture here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/