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  Secretary of Agriculture

  I have confidence that this is one Cabinet post that will show the courage of real change.

  The current USDA is rife with white collar crime, peopled with shills from Monsanto and other ag giants for the Bush administration. This is one of the most eggregious of all the misdeeds done to the population of America.

  There is such a large body of credible evidence that we need a new focus in farming practices. From massive doses of petro-chemicals to natural and organic crop ammendments. From giant farms with $100,000+ tractors, to sustainable family farms. From farm profits going to corporate headquarters and Wall  Street, to a restoring of rural middle-class America. With the increase and bounty from sustainable farming going to the family farm, to their local communities, to the miller, to the end producer of other foodstuffs - most of all, healthy, affordable food going to our children and grandchildren.

  I hold to my belief that Barak Obama's heart is in the right place at the right time for the good of all America's citizens and foreign guests. And that his principled and ethical transition team will assure us of a Secretary of Agriculture that will purge the USDA  of all big corporate  interest groups who have embedded their loyalists within our USDA to hijack this vital agency for the profit of the few.

  I would love to be on a citizen committee to help in developing a new and sustainable agenda for the new USDA, one that will benefit the vast majority of ordinary citizens across this once great nation.

  I suppose it took a corrupt and inept administration such as the one that George W. Bush bequeathed to us to point out the immense harm that can be done to a populace in the name of corporate greed.

  Jeremiah Cunningham Coyote Creek Farm Elgin, Texas

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