Food Policy

(via Ezra Klein) Obama hasn't shown much promise on Ag Policy so far:

Tom Philpott delivers a nice reality check on the Obama campaign's almost wholly disappointing approach to food policy. Despite the momentary flash of promise when Obama mentioned Michael Pollan's work in an interview, his subsequent appointments and statements haven't demonstrated an evident commitment to understanding farm policy as a question of food rather than a question of food producer interests. Indeed, Obama's agricultural adviser, Marshall Matz, is a partner at a law and lobbying firm that represents agricultural interests against federal regulators. And he also served as co-chair of Obama's rural outreach committee, which neatly places him on the wrong side of another problem in farm policy: The tendency to understand it as an issue that's mainly of interest to rural Americans who produce food rather than urban or suburban residents who eat food. That's two for two.

ALSO: I guess there's a new Blog - Obama Foodorama - that follows all things Obama and Food Policy.