It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. It couldnt be more important. [inaudible] food is different from tobacco. Its simple. One product is really bad for health [inaudible] they cant live with it if they dont eat and its not just one product. Its thousands of products but the question dealing with nutrition issues [inaudible] [inaudible] calories available in the food supply every day and the people read about these figures so the Food Industry is competitive and it has to find lots of ways and in doing that as the number of calories increase it is to contain more and more ways to push food on people and it did that very effectively. Host how did it do that . Guest we have to go back into the 70s. Starting in the late 1970s, early 1980s three things happened. First was that the cultural policy is changed so that instead of paying farmers not to grow food, we paid them to grow as much as they can and they do and thats why theres more calories in t
Please join me in thanking walter. [applauding] thursday night on cspan more book tv. New years day on the cspan networks, here are some of our featured programs. For our complete schedule go to cspan. Org. In january the new congress will see the largest house gop majority. Republicans take the senate majority. In the new senate 36 states will have both senators from the same political party, 21 states with two republicans and 15 with two democrats. A record a Record Number of 53 former house members in the senate. Youre watching book tv. Starting now, Craig Detweiler talks about his book kaywun. Igods. This interview is part of book tv College Series from pepperdine university. You are watching book tv on t1. We are on the campus of pepperdine university. We like to visit and talk to professors who are also authors. Authors. Joining us now is Craig Detweiler his book igods how technology shapes our spiritual and social lives. Here is the cover. What do you teach your at pepperdine .
In january the new congress will have the largest gop majority since the 2000 elections. Craig detweiler talks about his book igods in which he looks at the impact of technology and social media in our culture today. This interview is part of booktvs College Series from Pepperdine University. Host you are watching booktv on cspan2. We are on location at Pepperdine University in malibu california as part of our university series. We like to visit universities and colleges and talk to professors who are authors. Joining us now is Craig Detweiler. His book igods how technology shapes our spiritual and social lives. Here is the book cover by professor detweiler before we get into that what do you teach a pepperdine . Guest i am a filmmaker first and so i teach screenwriting and i teach production and help students navigate the entertainment industry. Host you are also director of the center for entertainment. That is part of your professorship here . Guest yes its a bit of a think tank loo
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Together and its not going to look like these old models of lobbying, and i tell you what that looks like inside congress is this tendency to use a Campaign Technology for governing and what its doing is making governing look like campaigning. I think people who look at congress can see this. It cant be petition sites and cant be like the correspondence Management System of congress sorts sentiment, not substance. Unless we figure out a way to privilege certain kinds of information that match institutional functions, like the subcommittee institutionally responsible for . That is the information it needs at the right time for authentic high reputation sources. So its this kind of like my dream is that were going to move toward a future where this community that has largely commercial interests in the space, reserves or helps create some new rules because i feel like every single time its these process rules that are just missing and they really dont exist right now for civic social nor