Of the Obama Administration. Held by the Consumer Federation of america, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas, the director of the Food Policy Institute and Consumer Federation of america and i would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday, so i would like to say happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizatio organizations. We were established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education and advocacy. And with focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics, but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety, nutrition and agricultural policy. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. Opportunity to explore food policy fro
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At this. Lets look and see if the threat you have faced caused by the fear you identified. Very often, it is not, particularly when it faces the issues of undocumented immigrants. You can watch this on our companion network, cspan. The Consumer Federation of america held their annual food policy conference recently here in washington, d. C. Up next, a keynote address from congressman, jim mcgovern here in the u. S. And his suggestions on how to address it. A panel of experts discuss what they thought would be the food policy priorities of the Trump Administration and how they would contrast with past objectives of the obama and bush administration. My name is thomas kremion, the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you p ffor attending our h annual, National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday. I would like to say, happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Feder
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