Barack Obama Discusses The Dangers Of Modern Factory Agriculture

Nov 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Post a comment

Barack Obama Discusses The Dangers Of Modern Factory Agriculture // Archives // ecorazzi.com :: the

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/11/17/ba...

“I was just reading an article in The New York Times by Michael Pollan 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.”

2 comments

Post a comment

Tags:

Barack Obama Discusses The Dangers Of Modern Factory Agriculture

Post a comment

About Me

Me, me, me.

My Groups

Neighborhood

Tags

Archives