nytimes.com - 12/26/2008
—
To advocates who have watched calls for changes in food policy gather political and popular momentum, Barack Obama looks like their kind of president. >
Comments
Blog Reactions
Obama and the Food Chain
The Moderate Voice —
... The New York Times reports: “To advocates who have watched scattered calls for changes in food policy gather political and popular momentum, Mr. Obama looks like their kind of president. ...
Dan Imhoff: Ripe for Change
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... drafted a letter to the Obama Transition Team, recommending potential candidates for the vacant Secretary of Agriculture position. Within a week, that letter gained over 60,000 signatures. A core group of sustainable food advocates talked with the Obama Transition Team in an attempt to express the severity and urgency of a potential food system meltdown, but it remains to be seen if that testimony will actually be taken seriously. In the mean time, the New York Times ran a full-page article about the Food Democracy Now effort, which is well worth the read. Will the Obama's till ...
Related Content
the obamas visit a chicago food bank
xnerg.blogspot.com 11/27/2008 — and help hand out food. president-elect barack obama and his family spent an hour handing out chickens, potatoes, bread and other thanksgiving food to poor families on chicago's south side wednesday morning after obama introduced his latest economic ...
Food Democracy Now | Home
fooddemocracynow.org 12/15/2008 — Dear President-Elect Obama, We congratulate you on your historic victory and welcome the change that your election promises to usher in for our nation. As leaders in the sustainable agriculture and rural advocacy community we supported you in record ...
Food Bank Results
feedingamerica.org 11/25/2008 — Feeding America Donate Advocate Find a Food Bank About Us Newsroom Home Faces of Hunger Real Stories Hunger 101 PSA Campaign Our Network How We Work Food Bank Spotlight Network Programs The Studies Public Policy Related Links Take Action Donate ...
Home Page | Food Before Fuel
foodbeforefuel.org 11/18/2008 — What is the Food Before Fuel Campaign? The Food Before Fuel Campaign was created to urge public officials to revisit and restructure policies that have increased our reliance on food as an energy source, and to carefully address how to develop ...
Top chefs push Obama to improve food policy
(AP)
news.yahoo.com 1/24/2009 — AP - Visiting one of his favorite Chicago restaurants in November, Barack Obama was asked by an excited waitress if he wanted the restaurant's special margarita made with the finest ingredients, straight up and shaken at the table.
Road to November: Food, Glorious Food
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 10/14/2008 — If food is not your thing, (and that saddens us, but to each his own) please don't comment on the banality of considering macaroni on the politics blog. Just move on to the candidates' economic plans.
Food Safety
truthdig.com 1/29/2009 — READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries
January 28, 2009 Israel Blocks Aid Supplies
January 26, 2009 Too Much Information
January 26, 2009 Super Man
January 23, 2009 Obama Will Rip Away the ‘Global Gag’
January 22, 2009 In ...
Food Fight (video)
youtube.com 1/23/2009 — An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.For a breakdown of the actual ...
Hoover Institution - Policy Review - Is Food the New Sex?
hoover.org 2/14/2009 — FEATURES: Is Food the New Sex? By Mary Eberstadt A curious reversal in moralizing O f all the truly seismic shifts transforming daily life today deeper than our financial fissures, wider even than our most obvious political and cultural divides one ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
