On this weeks after Words Program Ellen Silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. Ellen is a pleasure to have you here. Here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs ive ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and Atticus Finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. How did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Guest at something of a story that begins with the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious eruption of a toxic organism in the water that is some kind of a narrow toxin causing fish to die and a lot of reported illness and fishermen. It was never really figured out that one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs from poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going
Endangers workers, animals and consumers, i thought you might talk a little bit about yourself. How do you get into this whole area of analyzing agriculture, especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Well, its something of a story. It begins with syria and the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious irruption of a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of a neurotoxin that caused millions of fishto die and a lot of reported illness in fishermen. They never really figured it out but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrients poultry waste that went into the water so that was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about food borne infections and how these were really big problems and he said it was particularly a problem because many of them were drugresistant and i knew nothing about the subject. So Infectious Diseases li
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Me straight with the state of our political system. And when you look at polls about threequarters of americans are unhappy with the direction their country is going in with government, and i as a constitutional conservative, count myself as one of those, and i believe that comes from the fact that our founders set up this system where the individual has the starring role and government plays a supporting role, but its sort of flipped on its head, and that led me to the title of the book government this problem because i believe our government has gotten way too big and i believe both political parties, career politics on politicians on beat size of the aisle, facilitate that and youre seeing that play out right no in the republican primary in the fact that so much of the conservative base is rallying around someone with no political experience, completely outside of the republican establishment. Host is that a good thing . Guest i think its a very good thing. Think the Republican Part