Obama’s “Secretary of Food”?

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/opinion/11kristof.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
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. [...]

Barack Obama Cites Michael Pollan

SOURCE: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/obama-cites-michael-pollan.php
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama responded to Michael Pollan’s “Farmer in Chief” article (see ACLUSA blog files) in an interview with Joe Klein. He stated, “There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy. I was just reading an article in the New York Times [...]