Obama Gets a Passing (Barely) Food Grade
Over at Change.org, here
Key Graf:
I don’t think that Obama himself really gets food and ag issues. I don’t expect him to be all things to all people, and I don’t expect him to know everything about every issue. Unfortunately, MANY – far too many – of the very respected “ag experts” from very respectable institutions in this country absolutely SUCK. It’s the predictable result of a country that has been practicing “better living through chemistry” for several decades and only just discovering sustainability. We’re only now beginning to have university programs that teach sustainable ag. We certainly don’t have a large corps of well-known PhDs to compete with those on the other side. Someone like Obama would have to take a pretty big leap of faith to totally ignore the entire ag establishment and head out into unknown sustainable territory. But who knows. He’s a smart guy. Maybe he’ll get it.
