Why won't the candidates talk about food?

It's astonishing how little attention the presidential campaigns have given to food policy. As Michael Pollan and others keep telling us, it's intimately connected w/ a wide variety of issue areas that demand priority status: health care, global warming, energy, international trade, cost-of-living squeezes on working people. (And whoever's telling the candidates that no one wants to talk about food didn't poll me or my friends. It's pretty much all we talk about [when we're not talking about electoral politics itself].)

Anyway. My main-writer-crush Tom Philpott has a good column about where McCain and Obama stand on food and farms, to the extent that they stand anywhere at all. The short version: Obama's the clear better-than, but his ethanol pandering is Illannoyin'. But read the long version.

Also, Elanor recently covered a panel of experts discussing what they would do were they made food policy adviser (!) to the new president. What should his priorities be? etc. Good stuff.