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If you’re going to add your signature to one food petition this year, check out the Food Declaration or the Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture, started by Roots of Change. The Declaration, as the Eat. Drink. Better. blog explained, “calls for a visionary 21st Century Food, Farm, and Agriculture Policy” by moving away from the current industrial-ag system and into a cleaner, healthier system that’s more about health, accessibility, and affordability than the bottom line.

It’s currently in draft form, so check it out, comment on it, endorse it, or suggest your own declaration. You have until November 30, 2008. Next year, look for Slow Food International to be collecting signatures for the final Declaration that will, hopefully, end up in next year’s food policy agenda.

Image from Food Declaration.