[PHNUTR-L] Fwd: [NEdpg] [Fwd: A Sustainable Secretary of Agriculture sign on letter__please forward]

[Joanne Larsen]

FYI


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>Subject: A Sustainable Secretary of Agriculture sign on letter__please

>forward

>Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:15:51 -0600

>From: David Wallinga <<mailto:dWallinga%40iatp.org>dWallinga at iatp.org>

>To: David Wallinga <<mailto:dWallinga%40iatp.org>dWallinga at iatp.org>

>CC: <<mailto:dmurphy123%40gmail.com>dmurphy123 at gmail.com>

>

>/forwarded with permission

..

>/

>Within the next few days President-Elect Obama will be naming one of the

>most

>important posts in his cabinet — our _next Secretary of Agriculturee_.

>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.

><<http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/>http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/>

>

>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 

><<http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/>http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/> 

>advocating a

>Sustainable Choice for the next Secretary of Agriculture.

>

>Current signers to this letter

><<http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/signers.html>http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/signers.html>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 

><<http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/>http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/> 

>this letter at:

><http://www.fooddemocracynow.org>http://www.fooddemocracynow.org 

><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 

><<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/4/145754/222>http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/4/145754/222>, 

>

>Salon

><<http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/12/05/ag_secretary/index.html>http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/12/05/ag_secretary/index.html> 

>

>and

>in the New York Times online

><<http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/foodies-make-a-pitch-to-obama/?hp>http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/foodies-make-a-pitch-to-obama/?hp>:

>

>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

>917 968-7369

><mailto:dmurphy123%40gmail.com>dmurphy123 at gmail.com 

><mailto:dmurphy123 at gmail.com>

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