Support Sustainable Agriculture, We need your help!

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Please sign the internet petition at: http://www.fooddemocracynow.org

<http://www.fooddemocracynow.org>

asking Obama to consider a sustainable choice for the next Secretary of

Agriculture. We will live with this choice and the administration that

follows for many years. Please click on the website and enter the

information at the top. It only takes a few seconds, every persons

counts and is needed! I have forwarded the comments below from other

local persons including Atina, formerly from Gardens of Eagan. There is

little time left!

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Thank you, Jan

Good Morning, I am forwarding this message on to you for one

reason...please log on to the website link below and sign the petition

urging Obama to make a wise choice for Secretary of Agriculture. Thank

you, Luhning Valley Stewardship Network Begin forwarded

message: We're in the final run for Ag Secy. Unfortunately, two

Monsanto men are near the top of the list. Below is a link to a simple

petition with four candidates that have been endorsed by leading food

and farm people. Could you sign it and send it on in your circles? Our

only hope is many voices together.

Thank you

Poer

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As a society at large, we have lost the connection between food, water,

air and health. Food, our vital resource of nutrition and energy, our

basic component of health and vigor, has largely become, a processed,

fungible commodity. For the most part, we have lost our regional food

systems and economies, and in the last century, we have lost 97% of our

food species along with 90% of our farmers. Biological diversity is not

an abstract concept. It is life itself: the life of people, nature, and

our planet. A high price is being paid with the health of our people and

the health of our natural environment. Doing nothing will increase the

distance and disconnections between food and health, the disjointing

separation between eater and producer, the steady increase in

food-related preventable diseases and the continued deterioration of our

planet's greatest treasures; biological diversity and healthy

ecosystems.

We need a Secretary of Agriculture who understands the health and

environmental impacts of food production and who will work with both

sustainable agriculture and industrial agriculture to create a secure

food system based on:

1) Regional food systems 2) Renewable energy based farming systems 3)

Human nutritional needs 4) Health to consumers, land and the

environment.

Please add your voice to the petition below encouraging President-Elect

Obama to consider a Sustainable Choice for our next Secretary of

Agriculture.

Atina Diffley, Organic FarmingWorks

From Dave of Clear Lake :

We would like to invite 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 the

most important posts in his cabinet — our next Secretary of

Agriculture. For those of us who care about the environment,

sustainability, healthy food, animal welfare 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 States Department 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 Alice Waters among many others.

Please join them by once again casting your vote for change by

supporting a Sustainable Choice for our next Secretary of Agriculture.

Help make this type of change possible by signing this letter. Our work

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-t\

o-obama/?hp

We thank you for joining this grassroots effort!

Sincerely,

Dave

Clear Lake, Iowa