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Among the remaining top posts that President Elect Barack Obama is expected to name in the remaining weeks of this year is Secretary of Agriculture. That post, which requires confirmation by the Senate, is a crucial one, heading the US Department of Agriculture, overseeing the entire US food supply including organic standards, farm subsidies, food exports, soil and water preservation, national forest preservation, overseas food aid, animal disease, and pest control. Citizen activists have launched a campaign to get Obama to name best-selling food policy author Michael Pollan as Agriculture secretary, but he says he’d turn it down. Instead Pollan recommends Obama make US food policy a top priority for the country, saying “the health of a nation’s food system is a critical issue of national security.” New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof earlier in the week penned an Op-ed saying Obama should rename the position “Secretary of Food.”

GUEST: Tony Corbo, Senior Lobbyist for the Food Campaign with Food and Water Watch. For more information, visit www.foodandwaterwatch.org.