Apparently figuring that Barack Obama might be at home hitting refresh repeatedly on Grist, the magazine’s editors asked dozens of environmental luminaries to pretend they were trapped in an elevator with the president-elect.
What would they say if they had an uninterrupted moment?
The list goes long on food and agriculture issues, with the regulars weighing in: Anna Lappé calls for a Food Corps, Ann Cooper (recent subject of CHOW’s school lunch Obsessive video) for increasing funding for the National School Lunch program, Michael Pollan for a food policy czar. But there’s also a lot from lesser-known folks: Zoe Bradbury on the need for more young farmers, the Ethicurean’s Bonnie Azab Powell on restructuring the USDA and appointing a head who’s not from Big Ag, Raj Patel on the global injustice of American food policy. And since Obama, somewhat amazingly, appears to have read Pollan’s open letter to him, offering the next president public advice seems, well, not completely pointless. We’ll see if he shows up in the comments section.
President-elect Obama, please hire Michael Pollan or at least follow his recommendations. Please watch “The World According to Monanto” on YouTube and stop Monsanto from destroying the world’s food supply. And, how about having farm fresh food at the Obama White House? Maybe it’s time the White House had a garden and a couple of chickens.
It’s such a relief to have a thinking president. I haven’t slept this well in 8 years. Thank you for restoring confidence in America.
I hope and pray that you do not disappoint the American public. Hopefully, this is an end to the anti-intellect mindset that permeates Washington. Surround yourself with people that are more knowledgeable than yourself on specific issues. Your choice of Biden as VP conveys those thoughts. I am at peace right now knowing change is coming.
I would say “Please remember that this country was not founded on Socialist ideals, and would you please leave those leanings of yours on the doorstep of the Whitehouse the first day you cross it’s threshold as our next President?”
Don’t raise taxes and don’t cut our military spending!
1) How do you think our White Sox are going to do in 2009.
2) Remember approx. 50 million people didnt vote for you.
What, exactly, do you eat on a regular basis?
I think I would not say a word. And if I did, he would probably claw his way out of the elevator. LOL
I need Social Security…..
Plant an Organic Victory Garden at the White House!
Not only will it be a valuable tool to teach your girls about growing, nuturing, harvesting and enjoying their home-grown food, but it would create a huge ripple effect of interest in schools and communitites in rural, suburban and urban areas alike. There are lots of experts ready to help (urbanfarming.org, et al). Simple plantings of salad greens and herbs would be a wonderful start.
A laudible goal for our society would be that all Americans have the training and ability to produce at least part their own food needs. Let the gardens begin!
…don’t screw it up!!!!!!!
Lotsaluck
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Stop lying and believing your own press releases. We don’t; nor should you. You are over your pay grade. Don’t take us down with you.
Obama is a dining analogy.
He is an un-priced nouvelle cuisine menu item. He comes out looking almost too pretty to eat. Then you taste him and he is terrible. The worst part is when you get the bill.
Even throwing him up later as thoroughly undigestible does not take the charge off your credit card.
Obama, stop subsidizing corn for biofuels and stop making money doing this for George Soros. Stop planting ACORNS.
Take the blinders off, people. Obama is in thick with George Soros and George Soros is out to make money destroying the planet. Don’t think for a second Obama will do anything that disrupts Monsanto, corn biofuels and the rest of corporate agribusiness.
Obama is and always was a George Soros puppet from the day Soros put him in the public eye at the Democratic Convention in 2004. You Obama hopey-changey people have been asleep at the swtich on this one.
This will and should keep you awake at night once you finally stop drinking all that Obama Kool-Aid: (Junk food!)
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/8/1/131233/8756
Please stay “real” and don’t fall prey to lobbyists and interest groups. Do the right thing, the way we all hoped you would.
Will you be appointing Jim Leff to the cabinet and why not?