Climate Citizen: Michael Pollan on agriculture and health care 3

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   neosapiens Posted 10:37 am
   10 Nov 2009

   Industrial agriculture, fossil fuel companies, and industrial polluters of all sorts have a strong financial incentive to prevent the creation of a truly effective national health care system: Once the federal and state governments recognize their compelling fiscal interest in preventing disease-causing pollution and in ending disease-causing industrial ag practices, it will drive a seismic shift in business practices. Businessmen will have to actually innovate and reinvent how they run their companies--a scary prospect. It might even temporarily disrupt the steady flow of quarterly profits.

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   SierraSu Posted 11:15 am
   13 Nov 2009

   This guy is sooooo right on. If you want to see who is making progress on sustainable agriculture, go to www.landinstitute.org. Their mission statement says: " Our purpose is to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops. ... We are now assembling a team of advisors which includes members of the National Academy of Sciences. These scientists understand our work and stand ready to endorse the feasibility of what we have come to call Natural Systems Agriculture."

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   mtvyfan Posted 5:40 pm
   13 Nov 2009

   Yeah Michael! Please, please, please keep talking and educating our American public, my friend. When our President quotes your words on a national television forum, granted it was during his election campaign, it shows he is reading your work and listening to you. Keep it up!

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