Beatiful kale,not from a factory farm (photo by terren in Virginia, CC 2.0 licensed)
Nicholas Kristof in his NY Times op-ed today urges Obama to appoint a :
A Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of Americans engaged in farming. But today, fewer than 2 percent are farmers. In contrast, 100 percent of Americans eat.
The interests of big agriculture - the "factory farmers" - are really opposed to the interests of people. The "food" they raise wastes energy, causes huge environment damage, makes us unhealthy, and even leads to antibiotic resistant diseases.
, ) to the next president (Obama, as it turns out) in the 
