[lbo-talk] Pollan on Vilsack: change ain't coming

[Dorene Cornwell]

This morning my daily NPR kicked in just as a "snow squall" delivered
two ENORMOUS bolts of lightning and thunderclaps. I woke up with the
first one and there was Pollan. The second one was a few minutes
later.

Pollan came across like someone railing against gluttony and the
thunderclaps just amplified the theological effect. Unfortunately,
this made me think I was just in for more bloviating and blaming the
consumer and moralistic leftoid scholding, not insightful analysis
that would make it easier to get greens and whole grains as a matter
of course. Sigh.

On 12/18/08, Shane Taylor <shane.taylor at verizon.net> wrote:
> [Michael Pollan on NPR's Morning Edition:]
>
> "I was very disappointed in that news conference," he said, "not to hear
> Vilsack use the word 'food' — or 'eaters.' And the interests of everybody
> except eaters was discussed: farmers, ranchers, people concerned about the
> land."
>
> And so, he said, it's difficult not to see Vilsack's selection as
> "agribusiness as usual."
>
> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98417440>
>
>
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