Schatzker. I want to say that i have missed you, but it has been an extraordinary week in if you have not heard of this, youre going to. This is the conference that brings together technology, media, and advertising. At a time when digital and innovation, you know i hate saying it, this is the time when our these need to figure the right way to reach the consumers and consumers have more control over what they want to buy and how they buy it. The changes that time is bringing is pretty extraordinary. It take a quick look. We took that away. We said this is not working for the business side of the equation. People are more excited about. We are not asking ourselves the question of where violating church and state. We are asking if we are violating our trust with our consumers. We are never going to do that. I also talked to jonah parenti. He says he knows how to go viral. Announcements of his coo leaving to go to the daily mail. There is an intense amount of interest in what were doing.
Provide stable platform for those discussions. The pride that many things stood in their way, did anybody else is how much after is there to optin to embrace the kind for template . How much enthusiasm and thered be in the rps . Everyone has their own little wiggle and circumstances. Had he imagine that that playing out . With a uniform, tradable, flexible framework or retrain to reckon ill . I too am sick. I hope that iraq will be a little too infirm that price is whether were able to find a happy medium place, the truth is we are a very Diverse Group of states. You just made a statement that everyone liked and rps now some of my colleagues may not so much and some of my colleagues might see a few other name about being optimistic. Our were is aimed at not only educating our mom errs, with a consensus. They bring together states like colorado, maine, west kentucky, virginia. Its incredible to me that we were able to come up with upon which we would all agree enough for that to the epa
Directed there. That will be after this is announced and we get more data. There are still a lot of rumors out there about whats actually happening and we want to get the facts and make policy based on good data. Mr. President , i was sure administration addressing the comorbidity that secretary azar said it is responsible for a lot of the coronavirus deaths, obesity and hypertension and diabetes which is obviously very connected to our food supply . President trump well i think we want people in this country to be healthy. We want them to be happy and we want them to have all the benefits that you could have including gat great health care. That includes preexisting conditions and we have done a terrific job on health care. Then we got hit by a plague like no one has ever seen before outside of maybe 1917 and i think we have done an incredible job in producing ventilators and producing testing right now. We probably saw the number is growing, 12 million tests. Thats three times more o
President obama and our great leader, tom vilsack has an opportunity to share with us visions for were going in the second term. It seems like a sequester come to sequester come to sequester and that certainly does weigh heavily on our shoulders, but nevertheless come were applied rumor going to do some incredibly great things in the second turned and im sure hes very excited to share that with you. I also want to recognize that we have a lot of young people in the audience from the Outlook Forum Student Diversity program, now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates and for the first time, 10 graduate students are here to gain insights into food monoculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. Congratulate them for being here, mentor them over the course of a couple of days. That would be great. I know how these people are because i have an alumnus of this program who works in my office and these are the people who are going to beat american agriculture in the future. Many th
All of them can break down barriers to Food Security. It can allow us to allow new paths of progress. Plow entirely new pass to progress. We need those new pathways forward. Take a look at a few recent headlines. Drought and mississippi impacts everything from livestock to deer. Food shortages could force the world into vegetarians. Patent endings raises new biotech issues. Global Crop Production shows signs of stagnant. Could Climate Change be al qaedas best friend in africa . I could go on. When i think of the factors that make up the perfect storm, im reminded of what mark twain reportedly observed. By land, theyre not making it anymore. I wish twain was right. The truth is, Global Warming is making less. We need to do more land that we still have. Every year 7 billion of us on earth use the equivalent of a planet and a half of resources. Yet 870 Million People worldwide still today go to bed hungry. By the year 2050, there will be over 2 billion more mouths to feed, many in the dev