Michael Pollan, a writer and food activist wrote a great summary of the  writes a summary of how "Big Food" lobies can fight back any attempt to regulate them. "A food system organized around subsidized monocultures of corn and soy [...] guzzled tremendous amounts of fossil fuel (for everything from the chemical fertilizer and pesticide those fields depended on to the fuel needed to ship food around the world) and in the process emitted tremendous amounts of greenhouse gas — as much as a third of all emissions, by some estimates." SILT helps farmers access land to grow food sustainably [...]