Ken Cook is president of Environmental Working Group, a public interest research and advocacy organization known for its Farm Subsidy Database. The author of dozens of articles, opinion pieces and reports on agricultural, public health and environmental topics, "[Cook's] fingerprints can be found on nearly two decades of U.S. farm law" (Omaha World Herald). Read more about Ken.
Craig Cox is EWG Midwest Vice President. He Mulches from EWG's office in Ames, IA. Prior to EWG, Craig served as Executive Director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and was Acting USDA Deputy Under-Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Special Assistant to the Chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Michelle Perez is EWG's Senior Agriculture Analyst. She has a BA in Biology from Occidental, a Masters from the University of Maryland (UMD) and is finishing up a PhD in agricultural-environmental policy at UMD.
Don Carr is EWG's Press Secretary for agriculture and public lands issues. Prior to EWG, Don worked as a Communications Director for the DNC in his home state of South Dakota and on former Senate Leader Tom Daschle's 2004 reelection campaign.
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Following on last week's appearance, EWG president Ken Cook was once again on Clean Skies Sunday opposite retired general Wesley Clark who is the current co-chairman of Growth Energy. The debate this Sunday is on the issue of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC).
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Land use change theory contradicts reality and common sense.
Those who promote it are clearly against:
1) sustainable development of developing countries
2) erradication of poverty and hunger thru improvements in the use of ecosystems and its components as sources of income.
Instead they support and promote fossil fuels consumption and dependence on oil and food imports of the developing and developed countries.
If the developed world legislates using this theory the world's poor will become poorer and hopeless, and our environment will continue to degrade as we burn oil to the end and punish the only human activity that absorbs GHGs: sustainable agriculture, ranching and use of our ecosystems.
Posted by: Martin Fraguio | August 13, 2009 8:19 AM
Martin - Indirect land use, though controversial, is far from discredited and it is simply a fact that grains diverted to fuel increased the price of grains and food-- just how much is where the debate is at. Corn ethanol just can't be big enough to make much of a dent in our dependence on foreign oil without sending shock waves through grain markets.
To your point about developing countries -- one of the bigger fall outs from last year's price increase due to grains diverted to fuel was the exponentially bigger impact it had on folks who subsist on only a few dollars a day, and how even a modest increase in price wallops someone with meager means.
Posted by: Don Carr
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August 18, 2009 2:28 PM