the ethicurean proposes 10 specific actions the USDA could take in the first 6 months of the new administration in order to make some real change in our food system.
- Make the USDA once again the “people’s department” with staff that answer to citizens before corporations.
- Start supporting diversified, decentralized food systems right now, and stop risking American lives by encouraging all our eggs to be put in one basket (or hamburger in one plant, peanuts in one processor…).
- Stop using the nation’s kids as a garbage disposal.
- Give us clear information about where our food comes from and how it was produced.
- Start protecting us from food gone wrong, and GE crops gone wild.
- Usher in a new era of conservation.
- Make a firm investment in non-biotech agricultural research – and make sure it stays in the public domain.
- Help more people become farmers, and help the ones who’ve made that difficult choice succeed.
- Level the pasture for small farmers and ranchers.
- Realize where the market has failed and help us weather it.
view this list in its expanded form as a pdf, or with comments in parts one and two.
