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Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama

Change We Can Believe In, or a Second Helping of the Same-Old?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green

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Paula Crossfield

I hate to put a damper on your inaugural enthusiasm, but the time to act is now if we hope to at least have someone with an interest in building a better food system at the table.

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California Leadin'

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Wayne Pacelle

There are problems with animal agriculture that still need attention, including painful mutilation of animals without anesthesia, the rampant use of antibiotics on factory farms, and waste generated by these operations.

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Maybe Vilsack Won't Suck?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

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Kerry Trueman

I honestly don't know what to make of the Vilsack nomination, so I asked Denise O'Brien, the organic farmer who ran for Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture in 2006, to share her invaluable Iowan insights.

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Tom Vilsack : Secretary Of Agriculture

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

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DES MOINES, Iowa — President-elect Barack Obama has selected former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to become his agriculture secretary, according to Demo...

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