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Position:
Secretary - Agriculture
The secretary is responsible for gathering and disseminating information about agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition as well as for improving the quality of life for those outside of metropolitan areas including improving the rural water supply and waste problems.
Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation
Nominee's Background:
Lifelong family farmer,Kentucky, environmentalist,writer Has a clear sense of how the family farm should be the HEART of US agriculture, critic of how the corporatization of farming has destroyed communities & is destroying the earth
Nominating Speech:
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Agriculture will: Support sustainable agriculture;
Work to ensure the American people a safe, varied and plentiful food supply;
Put public health and environmental safety above corporate, political or regional interests;
Support family farming and encourage healthy economic development of rural communities;
Work to protect the Commons: public lands, air and water, biodiversity, unpatented seed stock;
Promote humane farming;
Work to avoid hurting poor farmers in poor countries with unfair competition from subsidized US crops.
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Comments so far:
August 3, 2006
Anonymous -
Wendell Berry has been an inspirational voice for agri-CULTURE.
April 14, 2006
Annie -
In his own words.
" Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here. "
added link: What we need is here.
March 4, 2006
Richard Pack -
Wendell Berry specifically epitomizes what was once/still can be, the best of rural America, and America in general. Wendell Berry is part of the heart and soul of the America that I believe in and still want to live in. Wendell Berry is American wisdom at its very best. If this was 1776, Wendell Berry would be one of our Founding Fathers. Wendell Berry is a brightly shining light of compassion and wisdom. Wendell Berry is a major part of what is still worth believing, living, and dreaming about America.
January 2, 2006
Sally Lambert -
This man may very well be a genius. If you don't know his poetry, go find it here:
http://brtom.org/wb/berry.html
And most especially, if you want to get to the backbone, as it were, of our racial tragedy, read The Hidden Wound. It will literally change the way you think. A farmer, a poet, a teacher, philosopher, ecologist extraordinaire, a Mensch in Full. Wendell Berry would honor us all just by dropping in for tea.
March 25, 2005
Anonymous -
I thought he passed away.
October 28, 2004
Anonymous -
Mr. Berry would be an interesting choice - someone who is a defender of
sustainable agriculture and the agricultural economy, as well as someone who
has done a lot of writing about the impact of corporate agribusiness.
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