nytimes.com - 12/11/2008
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As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a position renamed “secretary of food.” A Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of Americans engaged in farming. But today, ...
nytimes.com - 12/10/2008
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Obama’s Pick to Decide the Future of Sustainable Food Policy
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... An op-ed column in the New York Times this morning frames the point well: “A Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of Americans engaged in farming. But today, fewer than 2 percent are farmers. In contrast, 100 percent of Americans eat.” ...
NYT pundit demands 'secretary of food'
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... . The latest: New York Times op-ed pundit Nicholas Kristof has opined that Obama should rename the USDA the "department of food." Get this: ...
Digest - News: Subway and Michigan join the ranks of the enlightened, Japan counts (domestic) calories
The Ethicurean —
... supply chain, not just tomato vendors. http://www.nrn.com/breakingNews.aspx?id=360874&menu_id=1368.
Start packing, Chuck: NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof says Obama should reframe the job of Agriculture Secretary as “secretary of food,” and links to Food Democracy Now’s petition for 6 good AgSec candidates, including Chuck Hassebrook of the Center for Rural Affairs. The petition is up to 20,000+ signers! Boo-yah! (New York Times)
Ya think?: The USDA’s Food Safety unit ...
Food & agriculture Dec 12
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... homepage Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’? Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a position renamed “secretary of food.” A Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of Americans engaged in farming. But today, fewer than 2 percent are farmers. In contrast, 100 percent of Americans eat. Renaming the department would signal that Mr. Obama seeks to move away from a bankrupt structure of factory farming that ...
Ag sec revisited
The Ethicurean —
by Steph Larsen
In the five weeks since the election and almost a month since my first post about the Secretary of Agriculture, a lot has changed. But one thing has become increasingly clear: the people that voted for Barack Obama expect change at the head of USDA.
The next person to head the Department of Agriculture needs to be someone willing to step outside the status quo.
The idea is gaining traction, with nods from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, Chuck Hassebrook in the Des Moines Register, and over 28,000 ...
A renewed call for food reform
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
By Steph Larsen In the five weeks since the election and almost a month since my first post about the secretary of agriculture, a lot has changed. But one thing has become increasingly clear: The people who voted for Barack Obama expect change at the head of USDA. The next person to head the Department of Agriculture needs to be someone willing to step outside the status quo. The idea is gaining traction, with nods from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, Chuck Hassebrook in the Des Moines Register ...
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