Say NO to Vilsack For Agriculture Secretary

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.organicconsumers.org/vilsack.cfm

Despite a massive public outcry, including over 60,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture. Similar petitions circulated on the internet by OCA's allies, including fooddemocracynow.org, Pesticide Action Network, and the Center for Food Safety have generated an additional 60,000+ supporters, making Vilsack perhaps the most controversial and unpopular Obama cabinet appointment.

Sign OCA's Petition to the US Senate Now!

While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding and abetting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or factory farms and promoting genetically engineered crops and animal cloning. Equally troubling is Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production, which has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.

The Organic Consumers Association is calling on organic consumers and all concerned citizens to join our call to action and block Vilsack's confirmation as the next Secretary of Agriculture. Please help us reach our goal of 100,000 petition signatures against Vilsack' nomination. Sign today! Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect's office.

More information at the link above --

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Thank you

He is really an awful choice.

[Zywiec]

2. Have there been any "Yes" votes for any of Obama's choices?

Maybe we should have another election and vote for someone else...

:crazy:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Thanks for that!

[nosmokes]

4. K&R. Thanks for posting. ou just beat me!

Tom 'lean,mean,Monsanto Monsanto machine'Vilsack is absolutely undeserving of rhe job. In fact, if there was a list of most unfit persons for AG Sec Vilsack would rank in the upper percentile. Nothing in his CV points toward a move away from our current industrial petroleum based mono-cultural heavily subsidized commodity crop system that is failing us and towards a more sustainable local food based system.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Other than the impracticality of ethanol, I haven't got a problem with this.

I think it's a great pick.

[Ron Green]

6. It's an awful pick. He's a punk for agribusiness.

[farmbo]

7. You won't find a better friend for wind energy and cellulosic biomass...

...than Tom Vilsack.
And that's our best shot at restoring the rural economy during Obama's first term.

As for restraining the proliferation of factory farms, Vilsack is light-years ahead of the knuckleheads he's replacing.

Let's not make the Perfect the enemy of the Good.

[truedelphi]

8. Who would the Organic Consumers have as their pick of the crop??

I know I don't like Vilsack but who would be a good choice?

Hightower would be mine, but curious what others think.

[Pastiche423]

9. Done

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