Livin’ Veg

Obama Talks About The Ag Industry November 18, 2008

Well, he doesn’t specifically mention animals, but he does say some stuff that I totally agree with.

President Elect Obama said:

I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it’s creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they’re contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs.

We have a leader who recognizes our food system contributes more to global warming than transportation. We have a leader who reads Michael Pollen (which I think is fantastic even though he isn’t veg) And we have a leader talking about the obesity epidemic. Check Check Check. I can feel a new wind a comin.

Click here to read the full interview.