---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Pollan Inquiries</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:inquiries@michaelpollan.com" target="_blank">inquiries@michaelpollan.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:25 PM<br>Subject: [Pollan Events] Petition letter<br>To: <a href="mailto:events@lists.michaelpollan.com" target="_blank">events@lists.michaelpollan.com</a><br><br><br>Friends:<br>
Thought you'd want to know about this letter going around, urging<br>
President-elect Obama to nominate an agriculture secretary committed<br>
to reform. I've signed it, as you can see, and if you share the goals<br>
the letter outlines, I hope you will too. Thanks for considering it.<br>
Best regards,<br>
Michael<br>
<br>
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We would like to invite to sign this live petition effort to encourage<br>
President-Elect Obama<br>
to consider a Sustainable Choice for our next Secretary of Agriculture.<br>
<br>
The letter is at: <a href="http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/" target="_blank">http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/</a><br>
<br>
Time is of the essence…<br>
<br>
Within the next few days President-Elect Obama will be naming one of the most<br>
important posts in his cabinet — our next Secretary of Agriculture.<br>
For those of us<br>
who care about the environment, sustainability, healthy food, animal<br>
welfare and<br>
creating local food systems, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.<br>
<br>
A groundswell of grassroots support is needed to encourage<br>
President-Elect Obama<br>
to nominate a Secretary who will bring sustainable change to the United States<br>
Department of Agriculture.<br>
<br>
A grassroots effort has taken flight.<br>
<br>
We invite you to JOIN US in this grassroots effort by signing this<br>
live letter advocating a<br>
Sustainable Choice for the next Secretary of Agriculture.<br>
<br>
Current signers to this letter include Rick Bayless, Michael Pollan,<br>
Wendell Berry,<br>
Marion Nestle, Bill McKibben, Wes Jackson, Catherine Sneed and Alice<br>
Waters among<br>
many others.<br>
<br>
Please join them by once again casting your vote for change by<br>
supporting a Sustainable<br>
Choice for our next Secretary of Agriculture.<br>
<br>
Help make this type of change possible by signing this letter. Our<br>
work has only begun.<br>
<br>
PLEASE SIGN this letter at: <a href="http://www.fooddemocracynow.org" target="_blank">http://www.fooddemocracynow.org</a><br>
<br>
And then FORWARD to all your friends.<br>
<br>
As you may know that this effort has appeared in numerous blogs,<br>
including Grist, Salon<br>
and in the New York Times online:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/foodies-make-a-pitch-to-obama/?hp" target="_blank">http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/foodies-make-a-pitch-to-obama/?hp</a><br>
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We thank you for joining this grassroots effort!<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Dave Murphy<br>
Clear Lake, Iowa<br>
<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Lisa Foster<br>Master of Public Policy Candidate 2009<br>Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley<br>415/307-3784<br><a href="mailto:lisafoster25@gmail.com" target="_blank">lisafoster25@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Lisa Foster<br>Master of Public Policy Candidate 2009<br>Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley<br>415/307-3784<br><a href="mailto:lisafoster25@gmail.com">lisafoster25@gmail.com</a><br>