On this weeks after Words Program Ellen Silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. Ellen is a pleasure to have you here. Here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs ive ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and Atticus Finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. How did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Guest at something of a story that begins with the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious eruption of a toxic organism in the water that is some kind of a narrow toxin causing fish to die and a lot of reported illness and fishermen. It was never really figured out that one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs from poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going
Endangers workers, animals and consumers, i thought you might talk a little bit about yourself. How do you get into this whole area of analyzing agriculture, especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Well, its something of a story. It begins with syria and the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious irruption of a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of a neurotoxin that caused millions of fishto die and a lot of reported illness in fishermen. They never really figured it out but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrients poultry waste that went into the water so that was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about food borne infections and how these were really big problems and he said it was particularly a problem because many of them were drugresistant and i knew nothing about the subject. So Infectious Diseases li
Conversation with louisa hall about her new book louisa. Thats great. A searching american biography of louisa atoms. Louisa hall is the author of two novels. She examines the clash between conscious objectors and soldiers during world war i. It was called daring by the new york times. Jessica dray ellis said of louisa the extraordinary life of mrs. Adams, for a long time i have been waiting for a biographer with sufficient style and emotional range to tell the quite extraordinary story of Louisa Kaplan Adams in all its splendor and sadness. Louisa the extraordinary life of mrs. Adams has been worth the wait. Please join me in welcoming her. [applause] guest hi everyone, thanks for coming. I am so happy to be here to talkabout this book. Also just happy to be part of this group of louisa. I feel like many other louisas might have been chosen but im honored to be the one. This book also is one of my favorite books that ive read this year, i love this book very deeply, not just because o