SAY NO TO VILSACK AS AGRICULTURAL SECRETARY PICK!!
Our kossack, OrangeClouds115, has long explained the need for a major shift in our agricultural policy, and how a new Agricultural Secretary can be instrumental in changing our food policies, especially farm policies concerning the sustainability of foods that we eat.
It's amazing to what a great extent that our diet plays in our cognitive and physical development, and the impact is even more demonstrated in our children in our schools. They currently eat school lunches that barely offer them the nutrition they need to succeed academically, and most of the ground beef they eat comes from cull cattle, which are dairy cattle that are too sick to produce milk. These cattle have high strains of bacteria, especially E.coli, which can wreck havoc on our children's dietary systems and send them to the hospital after a single bite of tainted beef.
Governor Tom Vilsack, of Iowa, is a major friend to the agribusiness corporate lobby, and has championed alternative fuels such as ethanol, which have helped jack up gas prices, and our food prices as well. He also supports high fructose corn syrup, which is nearly in everything that we eat, and has been linked to dietary problems that we experience and diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
He's not the change we need in the Department of Agriculture. Please go and read OrangeClouds115's diary about the kind of change that we DO need and why it is more necessary than ever now to let Barack Obama know that this "political" pick may do great damage in continuing the asinine agricultural policies that have starved family farms to the benefit of major agribusinesses, and damage to the environment as well from hog farms that have been linked to pollution.
PLEASE SAY A HELL, FUCK NO!!!! to Vilsack being the Agriculture Secretary. Also, please CONTACT the Obama Transition Team to let them know that Vilsack is UNACCEPTABLE for the kind of change we need in our food policies.