MESSAGE TO SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TOM VILSACK

摘要

It is critical that USDA open a dialogue on the issues critical to the future health of our agricultural system, the people who labor in it, and the environment in which it operates. President Biden has set an important framework in which to make transformational changes in confronting existential crises that directly intersect with agriculture. Key elements of the framework that intersect with the protection of health and the environment (including agriculture) are: (ⅰ) science-based decision-making, (ⅱ) systemic change to solve societal problems, (ⅲ) phaseout of fossil fuel, and (ⅳ) fight against environmental racism with disproportionate risk imposed on people of color.