The future of food... How will Obama respond?

If we are talking real, meaningful change toward sustainability, this issue is of fundamental importance--linked as it is to other critical issues: public health, revitalized local economies, clean environment, energy, climate crisis...

The following article brought my attention to two important petition drives.

Obama's "Secretary of Food"?
Wednesday 10 December 2008
by: Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times

Renaming the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Food would assist in moving away from what has been a bankrupt structure of factory farming..

http://www.truthout.org/121108U

Petitions to PE Obama here:

http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/

http://fooddeclaration.org/