amy: we want to thank you, bill hartung. what are you recommending?i think the obama administration should live up to its vegetables on the arms trade treaty and commerce should take a closer look at some of these sales to speak out against them. i think civil society groups, which opposes, should make their voices louder because in many cases, most americans don't even know this is happening. amy: bill hartung, director of the arms and security project at the center for international policy. his latest book is, "prophets of war: lockheed martin and the making of the military-industrial complex." we will link to his bees "the , obama arms bazaar: record sales, troubling results." when we come back, we look at the drought in california. what does it have to do with animal agriculture? what does it have to do with eating meat? stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. aaron: one of the worst droughts in decades continues to ravage california. some 98% of the st