Fwd: [ploughsharecsa] Obama's pick for Secretary of Agriculture

[Guest guest]

I'm sorry if this is not appropriate, but it seems relevant to our group. I

received this email from my CSA and thought it would be of interest. Please

chime in if you know of another candidate.

Thanks

Susie

Via iPod Touch

I would like to invite your family to sign this live petition effort

to encourage President-Elect Obama to consider a Sustainable Choice

for our next Secretary of Agriculture.

The letter is at: http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/ Time is of the

essence...Within the next few days President-Elect Obama will be

naming one of themostimportant posts in his cabinet - our next

Secretary of Agriculture. For those of uswho care about the

environment, sustainability, healthy food, animalwelfare and creating

local food systems, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.

A groundswell of grassroots support is needed to encourage

President-Elect Obama to nominate a Secretary who will bring

sustainable change to the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture. A

grassroots effort has taken flight. We invite you to JOIN US in this

grassroots effort by signing this live letter advocating a

Sustainable Choice for the next Secretary of Agriculture. Current

signers to this letter include Rick Bayless, Pollan,Wendell

Berry,n Nestle, Bill McKibben, Wes , Sneed and

AliceWaters among many others.

Please join them by once again casting your vote for change

bysupporting a SustainableChoice for our next Secretary of

Agriculture.Help make this type of change possible by signing this

letter. Ourwork has only begun.PLEASE SIGN this letter at:

http://www.fooddemocracynow.org And then FORWARD to all your

friends.As you may know that this effort has appeared in numerous

blogs,including Grist, Salon and in the New York Times

online:http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/foodies-make-

a-pitch-to-obama/?hp We thank you for joining this grassroots effort!