FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 19, 2017
Washington, DC- In response to Trump’s nomination of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as secretary of agriculture, Greenpeace Senior Food Campaigner Monique Mikhail said:
“Governor Perdue has no track record of promoting policies and protections that would help stabilize climate and agriculture systems, which is what we need the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to do if we’re going to have a fair food system for the 21st century.
The American people need major reforms in the U.S. food system during the Trump administration. Americans want a food system that is transparent, supports the expansion of ecological and organic food production, empowers family farmers to make a decent living, and phases out subsidy schemes that misuse taxpayer funds to push overproduction of GE monocultures like corn at the expense of the environment and farmer jobs.
This is a critical time for American agriculture. Sonny Perdue needs to prove he isn’t just looking out for corporate food systems, but people and farms, too.”
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