Obama campaigning in Iowa, January 2008.
While the debate over healthcare reform continues to rage in Washington, other political news can get lost in the cracks.
Case in point, did you know that President Obama recently nominated two "Big Ag" executives -- with connections to Monsanto and CropLife -- to key posts in the U. S. Department of Agriculture? The story wasn't covered by the mainstream news organizations, so I didn't hear about it until I received an action alert from Food Democracy Now.
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