Do you have a working link to an actual explanation of what Obama intends to do with the agricultural sector, or is the quote all there is? I clicked on the first link in the article and got a message that the document did not exist on that server.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/in...php/rubin/40941
Obama To Farmers: Stop Growing Food
Jennifer Rubin - 11.01.2008 - 11:13 AM
You have the sense that the election cannot come soon enough for Barack Obama. Between Joe the Plumber and Joe the VP, the ever-shifting definition of “rich” and the blabber-mouth Congressional allies who hint at tax hikes and defense cuts to come, it hasn’t been a great finish. Now comes this report:
In a recent interview with Time magazine, Obama cited an article written by Michael Pollan, a professor and longtime critic of U.S. farm policies. As Obama described it, Pollan’s article was about “the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil.”
Obama told Time: “As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector … and are partly responsible for the explosion in our health care costs because they’re contributing to Type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in health care costs.”
In loose moments, Obama’s lack of understanding of and condescension toward rural and small-town America always slips out. And really, is his point that if farmers grew less food, Americans would be thinner? The mind reels.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E3DB133AF935A15753C1A96E9C8B63
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=Michael%20Pollan&st=cse&oref=slogin