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Farmer in Chief
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it depends on cheap energy that we can no longer count on
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unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.
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one of the biggest, and perhaps most tractable, is the cost to the system of preventable chronic diseases.
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It is one of the larger paradoxes of our time that the very same food policies that have contributed to overnutrition in the first world are now contributing to undernutrition in the third.
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The American people are paying more attention to food today than they have in decades, worrying not only about its price but about its safety, its provenance and its healthfulness.
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we need to wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine.
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What our food system does well is precisely what it was designed to do, which is to produce cheap calories in great abundance
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What was once a regional food economy is now national and increasingly global in scope
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— thanks again to fossil fuel
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Even if we were willing to continue paying the environmental or public-health price, we’re not going to have the cheap energy (or the water) needed to keep the system going, much less expand production.
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most of the problems our food system faces today are because of its reliance on fossil fuels, and to the extent that our policies wring the oil out of the system and replace it with the energy of the sun, those policies will simultaneously improve the state of our health, our environment and our security.
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in recent years fossil-fuel-based fertility has been so much cheaper and easier to use than sun-based fertility.
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succeeded impressively in keeping prices low and food more or less off the national political agenda. But with a suddenness that has taken us all by surprise, the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close
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Food is about to demand your attention
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it depends on cheap energy that we can no longer count on.
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make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration:
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unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.
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a system that in 1940 produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil-fuel energy it used into one that now takes 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food.
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Four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to diet: heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and cancer
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It is one of the larger paradoxes of our time that the very same food policies that have contributed to overnutrition in the first world are now contributing to undernutrition in the third
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There is a gathering sense among the public that the industrial-food system is broken. Markets for alternative kinds of food — organic, local, pasture-based, humane — are thriving as never before.
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we need to wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine.
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Michael MoyerAnother Pollan piece in the Times magazine
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Yamila Irizarry-GerouldMichael Pollan - NYT Magazine
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es low and food more or less off the national political agenda
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Magazine
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W.W. WebsterMichael Pollan was on NPR's 'Fresh Air' on 20 Oct 2008, discussing 'Food As A National Security Issue' [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95896389]
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