This site has very good articles listed under the video. The Open Letter to Hillary Clinton is a good one. Monsanto has been around so long that we forget where they first got started in their quest for the domination of the whole world’s food supply.

Google ‘Huckabee + health’ or ‘Huckabee + fitness’ and you may be surprised. He’s evangelical, from the home state of Tyson’s chicken (McNuggets, anyone?) and he understands linkages between food, health, and economics.

Google ‘manure + biodigester’ and you’ll see that several regions in the US are now experimenting with — and implementing — how to turn vast quantities of cow sh*t into electricity. This in turn helps dairy farmers get more (much needed) revenue, while also recycling bioenergy — which can lead to other changes in what they can do on their farms.

A number of dairy families of my acquaintance are deeply religious evangelicals — they have very deep faith, and they distinguish between Mammon and the Bible quite easily.

Then Google ‘Crunchy Con + Dreher’ and read what Rod Dreher is writing about over at Beliefnet.com; he covers ag and he appears to be part of a burgeoning movement about food that really does cross cultural and political boundaries.

That’s the good news.

But I’m all for rethinking agricultural and food distribution systems.

I heard Pollan interviewed recently about this letter and he said that he had been contacted by the Obama campaign and asked if he could do a 2 page paper on what he had written. He told them no, that Obama has staff for that and that if he could have reduced what he had to say he would have already done it.

I’ll look and see if I can remember exactly where I heard this…