scott gobble it was eight years in the making and was mandated by the affordable care act obamacare the implementation of the rule also is a rare example of an initiative that began under president obama but was implemented under the trumpet ministration many fast food companies including domino's pizza had claim that labeling would be just too tough and difficult or expensive but ultimately they lost the political argument some consultants say the rule could even help fast food chains with brand consistency across states as the nutritional content of various items will have to be reliably in line with the information on the menu. as a u.s. threatens tariffs around the globe on products like steel china is ready to respond with tariffs of their own beijing has released a list detailing more than fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods to be hit with a twenty five percent tariff including soybeans u.s. soybeans sales have shown noticeable losses in less than a month data at the beginning of april showed more than two hundred fifty five

thousand metric tons of beans being shipped fast forward to the week of the twenty six last week of april and that number dropped to just under eight thousand because of long shipping cycles u.s. soybeans currently en route to china could be hit with pending tariffs upon a rival welcome you pay a tariff while china does not import soybeans from watching it does important so i mean from other countries the u.s. is still a major supplier with more than thirty five million tons shipped every year. the wall street journal reports that china is venturing to become the world leader in plant gene splicing an area dominated by u.s. based companies syngenta a g months santo and others syngenta the seed can chemical giant now owned by state owned china national chemical corp is reportedly constructing a laboratory hub to do gene editing research and development the other big names are monsanto and of course dupont dow dupont now the chinese move raises concerns among the. those in the u.s.

who fear that large scale agriculture production could also believed to be from the u.s. to china which has been acquiring massive holdings in water rich central africa and is on the verge of instituting advanced agribusiness if successful chinese does the mystic product production of ag commodities could replace u.s. exports to china in many instances china is the largest export market for u.s. commodities as we spoke about a moment ago including soybeans here discuss the spread kaufman the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred thank you for joining us let's get these basics done first we talk about gene splicing and people think it's you know this futuristic stuff but it's been done for years you know what are genetically modified organisms g m o's and how big a business is g.m.o. patterning do a little explainer for us. well thank you bart i mean you're absolutely right this technology in some way shape or form has been around for a while it's recombinant d.n.a.

and the idea is you if you can move and shift the d.n.a. of some sort of biologic then you've actually created a new biologic you've created intellectual property and you can patent it i think maybe the easiest example is is something like insulin which has been around since the one nine hundred seventy s. it is a genetically modified product and with the growth of global obesity it looks as though just the market for that single drug is going to be worth about forty billion dollars a year or so in big pharma in big ag g.m.o. is really bringing and bring in a lot of money so is it is this syngenta deal now that it's owned by state owned china corporation etc is that really going to move a majority share of the work that's been done to business and the related businesses that's been done in the u.s. so i'm going to shift this to china are we still going to have a big piece here in the us well you have to remember a bar at that as you know for the agricultural industry in america is about one

hundred fifty years in development so these things do not shift immediately and abruptly but the fact is that the chinese are very focused on long term planning and there is no doubt that that is what they have in mind that's why they are acquiring such land masses in africa that's why they're getting the water rights that's why they're getting the genetics the d.n.a. they've been purchasing smithfield farms to get the genetics on hogs remember a lot of these g.m.o. these are not for human consumption but for livestock so that is absolutely the long term plan and that's why kemp china bought syngenta the swiss company i want to offer one billion dollars forty three billion dollars on hawgs fred are being they own smithfield build a bunch of hogs here and in canada at least they used to have in canada are they actually doing hard production over there with smithfield of a resteal exporting smithfield this bill pork to the to china.

what's happening now is that china is figuring out again the genetics they're figuring out how they're going to implement their livestock production and what they bought from this very old united states connecticut based company what they what they bought was the genetics and now going forward it is their intellectual property it is it's no longer ours i got it that reminds me of the the super cows in california all the genetic splicing that help though those cows produce more milk let's talk a little bit before we go about production ag moving to china you know we produce all the stuff we've got a lot of land but they've got a lot of land and if they are developing these really high tech if you were will gene splice commodities and livestock do we run the risk in the us of losing out alternately to things being produced whether it's livestock or commodities in china . there is no doubt that that is where this is heading and that's why the united

states really has to gird itself when china when china buys a company like syngenta they're buying the genetics they're buying the seeds but they're also buying the herbicides and the fungicides and all the techniques of large agribusiness and china has an issue china's problem is water you're absolutely right they got a lot of land they do not have a lot of water but like i say once again the united states is neglecting africa central africa the great lakes a check a central africa one of the most water rich regions of the earth and both china and india are making massive land and water grabs there the united states again through hubris through overconfidence is being completely left in the dust fred we sure appreciate it i know you noticed we talked about that headline earlier but it's something that you and i have talked about before on the calories being included in the menu items i know you've actually called for that and you talk about that in your book the book which happens to be bet the farm when how food stop being food

author fred kaufman thank you so much for being with us. thank you. smartphones have changed the way we live and work and most of it most of it is for the better we are more efficient more effective and smarter because of the devices but we also never seem to get away from them some seem addicted checking phones in secret like closet smokers google officials contend that seventy percent of users want a better balance in life that isn't as dependent upon smartphone devices entered the google digital wellbeing app which is a collection of features that will make users more aware of the time they spend with their phone among the features you'll be able to see a summary of your smartphone abbots in a periodic hourly daily or weekly report you wonder how much time you spend responding to emails done deal with this app users can even set time limits on how long an app can be used only ten minutes more for candy crush argh among the tens of thousands of apps this one seems like

a winner which just might assist in creating a better life work and technology balance and we need that. thanks for watching we sure to catch boom bust on you tube youtube dot com slash boom bust archie see you next time. thank you thank you. thank you you.

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may the tenth and just off to eleven am here in moscow this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to the. u.s. president donald trump's controversial pick for cia director has been grilled at a senate confirmation hearing of a pledge to involvement in the torturing of political prisoners the session though was interrupted by protesters denouncing the nominee. that was. was. was. was. was going to. write. a second person in the video right there who was wrestled to the ground by

security and then escorted out is seventy nine year old cia veteran wright mcgovern he served at the agency for twenty seven years but then became a political activist protesting the use of torture programs mcgovern is a staunch critic of juno hospital we contacted his lawyer who told us the activist spent the night in prison now the cia's and honked interrogation program was the main focus of agency head nominee hospital senate grilling as she's been accused of being directly involved and told her practices in the past on the house bill promised the leadership the agency wouldn't restart the controversial program certainly was ducking and diving at the hearing. you believe the program in terms that you can interrogate program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standards are they consistent with american values senator i

believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to answer the question. and i think i've answered the question i have not torture and morality were the main topics of discussion. and at today's hearing there was some very clear opposition to haskell but those who were skeptical were concerned about her prior involvement with the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques which many describe as a torture program first some background on the controversy has will reportedly ran a cia prison in thailand where these techniques were used and she's accused of destroying tapes that documented these interrogations human rights organizations have even called upon the public to reach out to their representatives and oppose her nomination but president trump seems to have no qualms with her questionable

history in fact he's even praised her for being quote tough on terror so it's unclear whether or not trump's support will be enough for an easy confirmation but one just have to see what happens it jeanne has bill has had practically every senior position in the cia's headquarters she's currently the acting director of the cia i knew her when she was the chief of staff in the counterterrorism center she's been in the senior intelligence service for decades but i think that she's not qualified to lead the cia because the actions that she took during the dark period of the cia's torture program disqualify her she has been doing literally everything she can think to do other than telling the truth about the cia's torture program.