On the upper right side of the page. New York University professor Marion Nestle sat down with booktv to talk about her book, food politics, about the power and influence of the Food Industry in the u. S. This 30minute interview, recorded in new york city, as part of booktvs college series. The book is called food politics how the Food Industry influences nutrition and health. The author, marian nestle, who is a professor of Public Health at new York University. Professor nestle, how big is the u. S. Food industry . Guest oh, its more than a trillion dollars a year. Its enormous. It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. It couldnt be more important. Host in your book you compare it to the tobacco industry. Guest only in certain ways. Food is very different from tobacco. Tobacco is really simple one product, really bad for health, clearly responsible for a terrible form of cancer and deaths, and theres one message, dont smoke. Food is much more compl
Little boys buried by a plow. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. The black friday shopping frenzy is underway this morning, unlike previous years, there were no customer stampedes overnight and no major reports of that was not the case however in london where the americans experience was taking on a new meaning. Shoppers there did knock each other over in the rush to get to items. Police were called to stores at things got out of hand. Normally wed be seeing that in the u. S. But that was not the case yesterday. Theyre calling it a gray thursday, and it is gaining in popularity as more retailers than ever are opening on thanksgiving day, including macys, just hours after the parade ended yesterday, it opened its doors at 6 00 p. M. It has never closed its doors. Retailers are jukeying for shoppers cash. Its the post thanksgiving holiday tradition that keeps coming earlier and earlier. They have cheaper stuff and its better to shop on thanksgiving day. Black friday creeping in
And we begin with ferguson, while protests have thinned out there, demonstrations have grown in other parts of the country. In new york city demonstrators tried to disrupt the macys thanksgiving day parade today. Police arrested several people who were protesting a grand jurys decision. Hundreds of protesters blocked streets in los angeles and cleveland, california last night. Some broken windows reported in the cleveland demonstration. And in ferguson, the National Guard remains in watch. John terrett has more from ferguson. Reporter rodney is a jock of all trades, sawing ply woods for the windows of his antique store. The way it is going right now, i dont see it stopping. I mean this is going on all over the country, you know . People rioting everywhere. Chicago, atlanta. Reporter before and especially after monday and tuesdays rioting, store owners all over ferguson have done the same. If rodney is a jack of all trades, antonio is the jack of trades. His auto repair business is just
Boundaries of a town and presented it to the Territorial Legislature and said that this is a band we really had to convince a lot of people and so i think that that has a lot to do with how with how madison grew and there were other places in the state that have more People Living in them, larger industries, so the processor actually selecting a state or territorial capital is really just about convincing other legislators. Put forth a good case as white as should be the center of the government and at the time a major center of population in wisconsin was in the southwest part of the state where people were doing lead mining. So some people have suggested that that is where the capital should be because that is where the people are. And there are also quite a number of people in the green bay area, a lot of for traders along the great lakes and so, there was a heavy concentration of people there as well. In one of his arguments was that madison was centrally located and it will be eas
In the last 50 years we have seen increasing consolidation but what we are facing to import or export. But the population needs on that basis is about 4,000 calories available in the food supply every day. These are ballpark figures. So it has to find lots of ways as a number of calories and supply increases to be more competitive more ways to push food on people. We have to go back to the seven days to the early 80s the first is Agricultural Policy change we pay farmers to grow as much as they cant that is why there are more calories and the food supply. And wall street in the early 80s changed the shareholder value and insisted instead of the lovely blue chip stocks that gave long and slow returns on investing forget about that we want high return right now. Soul Food Companies trying to sell food now they have additional pressure to produce evidence of growth every 90 days this put them under enormous pressure looking for ways to sell more feared after reagan was elected with the re