| I'm officially calling bullshit on the Michelle Obama "Let's Move" campaign. If the Obama administration had any sincerity in their efforts to help Americans eat healthier diets, then Obama's top political appointments and policy decisions would look a lot different.
Case in point: Obama just appointed Catherine Woteki of the candy company Mars, Inc. to a top post at the USDA. For the past five years, she's been the global director of scientific affairs for Mars, Inc. If confirmed, she will now serve as the USDA's undersecretary for research, education, and economics.
I highly recommend reading Tom Philpott's piece on Woteki (at the link), where he describes how she'll be working directly under the biotech-loving former Monsanto guy Roger Beachy, and how, when she worked at the USDA in the Clinton years, she felt that "the government's only responsibility to the public concerning the technology is to support it vigorously." What a team these two will be.
Oh, and to Michelle Obama: If I were you, I'd make the President sleep on the couch. |
