Food safety. Cluded the federation of america posted this event. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas. I am the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. 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 and so i would like to say happy passover. You know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizations. We were established in 1962 advance the form through advocacy. We focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference is food safety, and agriculture policy. This Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. And opportunity to explore food policy from a diverse range of perspectives. I hope you will agree we have a really Great Program for the shares
Justice sotomayor spoke to law students at stanford university. See her remarks tonight on cspan. Consumer of america later, experts on food policy priorities of the Trump Administrations. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas today is the second day of the jewish pass over holiday. I would like to say happy pass over. Many of you know Consumer Federation of america is an association of 300 profit organizations. We expand our research and advocacies. We focus on a lot of Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety and nutrition and agriculture policies. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policiymakers and playes and opportunity to explore policies from a diverse range of perspective. I hope that you will agree that we have a Great Program for this years conference and that program reflects the work of our Advisory Committee. I dont have the packet with me but if you look of our packet y
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
Colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, well head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. It is a thrill for me, my names andy brennan, im with par nasties books, and when i got an advance copy of spain in our heart, i thought it was a fantastic and important book, and i told adam a little while ago that that wasnt the case with King Leopolds ghost. In that case his writing and the subject matter was so powerful that i found myself having to put it down regularly and take a breath before i could come back to it. But spain many our hearts in our hearts is an incredible book, and were very, very excited to have adam here. Without further ado, adam hochschild. Okay. Thank you, andy. [applause] and its good to see all of you here in nashville and to know that more of you are watching this on cspan. So my book is about the spanish civil war, and i want to set the context for it by rolling back the clock to the 1930s which was a grim time. As you kn
At issue was simply the difficulty in identifying it. Many would believe that innocents had died in 1692, but most also believed that guilty witches had escaped. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And now booktvs live coverage of the southern festival of books continues with historian adam hoax child and the hopings child and hoax child and the hocks child and the spanish civil war. A couple of quick announcements before he get started. As most of you know, the southern festival of books is free, and we are very thankful to our sponsors for that, but we also encourage all the participants to, please, donate to humanities tennessee, and you can do that at our web site or on our facebook page. The other thing i want you to know is that after the session, adam will be over in the colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, well head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. It is a thrill for me, my names andy brennan, im with