Happy NEW Year!!!!!!!!!
Hello Everyone… Jesse here writing on the morning of the eve of the last day of the year… I hope 2009 is the best year all of us have ever had… Thanks so much to all of you who have been a part of our world this last year… and thanks for letting us be a part of your worlds…
In this final post for 2008… I wanted to just take a moment to think positive about the future… We all know that there are a lot of big issues in the world today… and there is a lot of confusion about what is going to happen next… So I’d like to just stay optimistic and remember that what kind of future we’re all going to have is up to each and every one of us… So… let’s see what we can do…
Resources like food and water are going to be increasingly important as the population on the planet increases and so we have to make sure that the people who are in charge of managing them are responsible and conscious people… and right now there is a lot of concern circulating about Barack’s potential choice for The Secretary of Agriculture… Tom Vilsack
Here’s a section of the Wikipedia file on Tom Vilsack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Vilsack):
“Opposition to a Vilsack appointment has come from the Organic Consumers Association, which outlined in a November 2008 report several reasons why it believes Vilsack would be a poor choice for the position, particularly as energy and environmental reforms were a key point of the Obama campaign.[15] Among those reasons the report cites: Vilsack has repeatedly demonstrated a preference for large industrial farms and genetically modified crops;[16] as Iowa state governor, he originated the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, effectively blocking local communities from regulating where genetically engineered crops would be grown; additionally, Vilsack was the founder and former chair of the Governor’s Biotechnology Partnership, and was named Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, an industry lobbying group.”
So please go check out this link to a petition you can sign to show that the public is not going to accept anything less than the best man for the job. This is the amazing thing about the internet, we can all communicate with each other quickly… and now people with shady pasts or ulterior motives cannot hide from the public… PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/vilsack.cfm
And I hope everyone has a great safe night tonight… and a beautiful start to the new year…
LOVE
jrc
