SOCIAL: Fwd: Secretary of Agriculture Petition

[Lisa Foster]

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From: Michael Pollan Inquiries <inquiries at michaelpollan.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Subject: [Pollan Events] Petition letter
To: events at lists.michaelpollan.com


Friends:
Thought you'd want to know about this letter going around, urging
President-elect Obama to nominate an agriculture secretary committed
to reform. I've signed it, as you can see, and if you share the goals
the letter outlines, I hope you will too. Thanks for considering it.
Best regards,
Michael


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, Michael Pollan,
Wendell Berry,
Marion Nestle, Bill McKibben, Wes Jackson, Catherine 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-to-obama/?hp

We thank you for joining this grassroots effort!

Sincerely,
Dave Murphy
Clear Lake, Iowa

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-- 
Lisa Foster
Master of Public Policy Candidate 2009
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
415/307-3784
lisafoster25 at gmail.com



-- 
Lisa Foster
Master of Public Policy Candidate 2009
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
415/307-3784
lisafoster25 at gmail.com
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