The Food Issue - An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - Michael Pollan - NYTimes.com

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Michael Pollan in today's NYTimes magazine on why the next President will need to make food policy a high priority...

Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change. Unlike food, these are issues you did campaign on — but as you try to address them you will quickly discover that the way we currently grow, process and eat food in America goes to the heart of all three problems and will have to change if we hope to solve them. Let me explain.