In her view. You know. And she used to tell us, whatever was bothering her all the time wed say like, mom, enough, stop. Shed say to me, no, no, no, no, im getting this off my chest and im getting it off right now, youre going to listen. There will be no deathbed confessions in this family youre hearing it now. And i will tell you that, you know, it forms who you are right . The ethic i was taught is if there was a problem, talk about it now. If theres an issue get it off your chest. If you feel something, let people know it. And so its hard then to get into politics and say, im going to conduct myself completely differently than the way ive conducted myself for the 40plus years before i got involved in politics. My mom used to say to me all the time, christopher, be yourself. Because then tomorrow you dont have to worry about remembering who you pretended to be yesterday. Its great advice. Ill end with this, to give you greater insight to the impact this has on real lives. So i im tal
Ongoing base dis 49. We give them affordable nutrition, the food bill on down is designed around cheap calories and expensive nutrients. Highfructose corn syrup and everything else. It is tough to find ways to have a sustainable system designed around affordable nutrition. So it was designed about the idea we can help try to recover some of this wasted food. By the way sasha and emily heard me say this before, i actually think we would all do ourselves a favor anyone in this fight, never using the word food waste again. Because food waste is, food is modifier of what type of waste is it. This is something sanitation departments are designed to handle. They do a good job of it. No one in america want as second helping of food waste, no one. If you take the two words and flip them, nobody in america thinks it is a good idea to waste food. This is excess. Lettuce the wrong size. Food that is at its sellby date but has another two weeks or week or more. Honey, et cetera that are at its sel
More than that, its encouraging their development of agro ecological practices for the benefit of them and all of us. Of course these practices not only help Climate Change but they produce food and they make themselves more resilient against drought. So its one of these amazing win winwins, but very few of us appreciated. That is what anna is so good at getting across to us. But thanks for that great question. [applause] in this next part of the conference, food activists talk about reducing food waste. Speakers include the former trader joes president can 1. 5 hours. Hi, welcome. Were so glad youre all here today. My name is ona. Im a staff attorney at the food law and policy clinic here at harvard law school. For those of you who dont know clinics provide action based learning opportunitys for law students to get real lawyer experience. Our students are working with nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups to improve the food system in their community. Organizations, advocacy groups
Joe bidens victory. That talks would fail. I stand ready to talk to anybody, ourfriends and partners in the eu, whenever they want. And the sweet sounds of harmony in congress, at the moment i have to tell not a headline i read every day. You, in all candour, the treatys not there yet. Or ever. For many uk businesses, with just three weeks to go before the new arrangements, the uncertainty is overwhelming. Its really hard, because all the time theres that feeling, like, are we doing the right thing, is there something more we should be doing than what we are doing, are we missing out on something, hello, im Laura Trevelyan are we going to be ready . In new york, Christian Fraser is in london. Well be asking how the prime a top Us Government advisory ministers blunt Assessment Panel is meeting now, is going down in brussels. Deciding whether to grant emergency also tonight. Authorisation for the first coronavirus vaccine. Its made by pfizer and biontech. The vaccine is sorely needed her
My name is noel king. Im delighted to be here at the Annapolis Book festival. I am even more delighted that we are seeing each other in person as opposed to overseas. Everyone if your cell phone volume is turned on which you might turn it off. And ill let you know a little bit about the program. Were going to talk about 35 minutes and then were gonna open it up to audience questions. So i know that you are here to see these two gentlemen not to see me. So come with your questions. Well have about 15 minutes for you. We we should have plenty of time. The title of this panel is a reckoning how systematic how systemically excuse me racism has shaped our history policies and education and were really lucky today to be joined by two of the best writers in this country on history and race currently working adam harris is the author of the state must provide why americas colleges have always been unequal and how to set them, right . This book is a history of a Higher Education in this country