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Sustainable Agriculture Expert Named Deputy Secretary of USDA

kathleen merriganBreaking News: Organic food expert Kathleen Merrigan has been named Deputy Secretary of the USDA, the second-in-command job at the nation's main agency for making policy regarding farming and food. Merrigan, a longtime advocate of sustainable agriculture, is currently the director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment MS and PhD Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

The decision pleases sustainable food policy advocacy groups like Food First. Merrigan was listed as one of the "Sustainable Dozen" - a list of progressive candidates for Deputy Agriculture Secretary written by the advocacy group Food Democracy Now!

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Uncle B

2-25-2009 @10:36PM Uncle B said... The poisons in our food have made us into early maturing, fat assed spawn of cannon-fodder for oil barons and Middle Eastern Princes. It is time for American girls to mature physically a little later on in life, once their minds have developed. It is time for American women to demand better, safer food with fewer hormnes in it and Universal health care and responsible males for fathers for their babies. As long as the American woman is treated as a big boobed sex playground for players, and a producers of overtly aggressive little soldiers and factory workers for jobs gone offshore, America will reap what it sews - war and poverty. Please hope that this lady, PhD and all, can fight on the side of a civilized and rightful place in a decent society for it's female members, and break away from the military/industrial and commercial object we have become. G d help her, guide her and protect her, especially from the pressures placed on the mis-use of vagina's of this culture!
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