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Dear Mr. Next President -- Food, Food, Food

By Michael Pollan, The New York Times. Posted October 14, 2008.


We must move into the post-oil era to improve the health of the American people and to mitigate climate change.

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Michael Pollan, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, is the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

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