gmo unsafe in the past volumen terry review processes?as, if it, it hasn't been, but is it due to the genetic engineering or is it other factors that you look for when you're inspecting. >> again, i'm not aware of any consultation that has resulted in a finding of lack of safety. wÄphave, the ones we have completed, we obviously have concluded we don't have any questions. there were a handful that did not go to completion. they were either withdrawn or we were asked to stop the review, and i simply don't know the óvz reason. >> what happens when you're asked to stop the review? >> we stop the review, and the products do not go to market. >> okay. so just by stopping the review they don't go to >> so effectively you're doing what a regulator is supposed to do. was with the it rooted in enactments, like the federal fungicide and rodenticide act, and do you think these preempt state requirements? >> it varies enormously across statut statutes.#rn i can't answer that question. from 1906, been instrumental in consumer protection? >> i can spe

jordan's investment in gmo quality fund, a publicly traded mutual fund. the allegation is that because gmo is also an investment manager with retirement system, that that was an improper investment on her part. there are two sections of the statement of incompatible activities that were referred to in the complaint. the first prohibits, both employees and members of the board, from investing -- it says specifically no officer or employee maize invest money with limited partnerships that are doing business was [inaudible]. because the gmo investment was publicly traded at that section was inapplicable. the one that seems to be of concern here is the second one that says no business opportunity, a personal loan, a favor or anything of that value from any public or private entity or firm doing business with spurs. the allegation is that although ms. jordan received this opportunity before she was appointed to the board in august 2010, the fact that she exercised the opportunity after the fact was a violation. >> what year did she exercise this? >> 2011. >> 2

non-gmo.there is a non-gmo certification process that has been put together i the industry. consumers can purchase them and they don't need the labeling. those are the vast majority of the products in grocery stores. guest: you mention some the events on capitol hill. celebrity, there were chefs on capitol hill urging gmo labeling. you mentioned as they, we are expecting some rallies on capitol hill. we are talking with carey gillam --writers about genitally genetically modified foods. we start with our line for independents. caller: i noticed that people are getting more and more overweight and i am wondering if this is something to do with the gmo in food. i am wondering if that has something to do with the genetically modified foods. it has progressed in the last five years considerably. i am questioning the organic food. you go to the places that sell organic food. are they really organic? does the science tell us on gmo's in food? guest: i have not seen much connection or much theory that

>> arising out of this gmo transaction, it's possible. i'm not entirely sure that ms. jordan could have a conflict if in agreement with gmo comes before the retirement board in her the future. i understand the last time the retirement board approved an agreement with gmo was something like 20 years ago. i don't know how many times ms. jordan has recused herself as a board member. i know that supervisor avalos asked for that information a few days ago. this chronicle article referenced other allegations. i don't really have any information to verify that or speak to it. >> and i know that for elected officials and others, the section 1090 of the government codes requires limitations. >> section 1090 would apply to a commissioner. the political reform act would require her to recuse herself if she's making a decision in her role as a board member that would impact her own financial holdings. an as always, my office works with every board member who want to figure out when to recuse themselves. >> i know there are times when recusal may be necessary for any of us, but man

>> arising out of this gmo transaction, it's possible. i'm not entirely sure that ms. jordan could have a conflict if in agreement with gmo comes before the retirement board in her the future. i understand the last time the retirement board approved an agreement with gmo was something like 20 years ago. i don't know

>> arising out of this gmo transaction, it's possible. i'm not entirely sure that ms. jordan could have a conflict if in agreement with gmo comes before the retirement board in her the future. i understand the last time the retirement board approved an agreement with gmo was something like 20 years ago. i don't know how many times ms. jordan has recused herself as a board member. i know that supervisor avalos asked for that information a few days ago. this chronicle article referenced other allegations. i don't really have any information to verify th

over 70% of processed foods contain gmos.wever, they are not labeled as such in the wake of growing concerns from consumers, the food and drug administration issued a policy statement an its regulatory oversight and labeling policies for gm foods in 1992 and in 2001 issued draft guidance on voluntary industry labeling. i fully understand why consumers want to know what goes into the food they serve their families, for people to make informed decisions about what they eat, they need information. and that's why we require food labels to require nutrigss facts, they must use common rather than technical names for ingredients whenever possible so this information is, in fact useful. it's also why several states enacted their own regulations mandating theilabling of these foods. three states put new laws on their books while many more have considered doing so through ballot initiative or state legislation. none of the state label laws have gone into effect yet. while it gives voice to the many who are concerned i'm troubled by the

this company gmo is doing because with so did ms. jordan accept a business opportunity. there is -- as use can hear, the language of the statement of incompatible activity is open to interpretation. mr. huish has interpreted it in a way that he believes most appropriate. there is currently a complaint that's been forwarded of the ethics commission and they e would forward that as an enforcement p matter. the question is, did she accept the business opportunity, the advantage before she was a retirement board member and then just later exercised that opportunity, or did she hold on to it from before and then decide to accept it once she was on the board in 2011? i don't think there's a black and white answer to that that i can give you today. it's a question of interpretation of the statement of incompatible activities based on the facts and as supervisor avalos said, i think ultimately the ethics commission in this case will resolve it. there are a couple different ways the ethics commission resolves issues like this. one is a person can ask for advice, a public request

. >> one of the things i'm concerned about is the gmo investments there is a threshold for people to make investments, which is about $10 million and that she has, through her firm, had a relationship with gmo through mutual funds but hadn't done her own private investment with them until later. i was told she was granted a waiver fwr the $10 million threshold many years ago but she didn't take the waiver until after she was on the retirement board and the retirement board oversees $388 million in investments in gmo and i've been told -- the question is whether receiving -- taking advantage of that waiver after she's been on the retirement board has the investments in gmo, is that something the retirement board would feel comfortable with with a member receiving such a benefit. to me that is not something that i feel comfortable with moving forward with her appointment based on that relationship. i talked to ms. jordan about it. show said it seemed -- from her point of view everything was fine because the intent to do the waiver was given before. show had the opportunity to do it whe

gmos have been a part of the u.s. food supply since the mid-1990s and in fact as much as 90% of our corn, sugar beat and is leading crops are now genetically engineered and about 70% of the processed foods contain such ingredients. the u.s. food and drug administration oversees the safety and labeling of products from plant sources including those from genetically engineered crops. these products must meet the same safety requirements as food from traditionally. the food and drug administration currently has a consultation process in place in which developers of the underlining technologies address any outstanding safety or other regulatory issues with the agency prior to marketing their products. the fda completed approximately 100 of such consultations. no products have gone to market after a safety related questions have been resolved. according to the fda commissioner the fda has not seen evidence of safety risks associated with genetically modified foods. further, the fda has no basis for concluding that the bioe

she was given this task to do a favor to do a different type of investment with gmo and didn't utilize it until she was on the board. her reasons for doing its are not clear, but she is definitely somebody that's accepting a business opportunity from any public or pry separate entity in san francisco employee's retierpt system. she is definitely accepting that. i don't think you have to be an attorney to understand that. it's right in the language. if she didn't know she was in violation of this, then she has really not the competence to be on that board or maybe she perhaps doesn't bother with those minor things such as ethics. there's also -- it was distressing to hear from somebody there was only one ethic violation filed and i know from what i've been reading and the actual documents that were sent to me that there were two and one was filed in april and i guess that was igz norred. ignored. i think the comment that we're the plan members, we're the beneficiaries. we should have -- >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is martha hawthorne. i was a nurse for

gmos vulnerable to legal retaliation from multinationals like monsanto. the latest disclosures from nsa whistleblower edward snowden have revealed the national security agency has spied on communications among employees of major cellphone network operators in order to exploit vulnerabilities in networks. to the intercept, documents reveal a covert operation called auroragold which involved monitoring more than 1200 e-mail accounts associated with the cell firms. in one case before the intervention in libya, the nsa helped an intelligence unit hack into libya and cellphone networks using information obtained by spying on company employees. israel has experienced one of its worst environmental disasters after a ruptured oil pipeline sent millions of gallons of crude gushing into a key nature preserve. the spill heavily damaged the reserve near the jordanian border. or than 80 people in jordan were hospitalized with breathing problems. in nigeria, the niger delta has suffered one of the worst oil spills in years after nearly 4000 barrels of crude poured from

and her thought pattern when it comes to answering some of the questions about her investment with gmo. i think also that it will also allow us an opportunity to also further develop an understanding on what the pathway is with the ethics department. i agree with one of the speakers that we as elected officials, those that serve, any kind of a position head if you're a doctor, lawyer, head of a religious organization, there's a higher standard we have to hold ourselves to and we need to remain above the suspicion of any kind of impropriety so let's give ms. paskin-jordan an opportunity to come, state her position and we will then wait to hear what the ethics commission will find and i hope this body will adhere to what the ethics commission has found. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor breed. >> thank you. i too will be supporting the continuance. i think that it is very rare that this body brings before us any of the mayor's appointments for questioning and it is clear that we have a number of questions when ethics are at kwez in a situation of this nature and magnitude involving our

he claims they're not musical fruit due to the way they're made and non-gmo and gluten free, everything else in right now. one of the investors is ceo dan costello who used to work for frito lay and not revealing sale numbers -- >> gone to 30,000 outlets from 5,000 outlets. >> reporter: they're in half the nation's outlets. not sure if they're in the snack aisle or healthy gluten free foods. >> it's not an easy thing to fill the market where people haven't seen the product before. >> reporter: convincing it's healthy and paying more to do so is the ultimate goal, especially during football season. super bowl ad? >> not yet. it's been discussed and i'll leave it at that. >> stay tuned. for "nightly business report," jane wells. >> we have a weekend for snack foods and rethink what's going on in the market and what to do with your portfolio. >> two more trading weeks. all gains from october wiped away. next week, a fed meeting to look forward to, or not as the case may be but the market paying attention to that and continuing what's going on in oil. >> window dressing in oil. maybe see mo

this yetlike they know they still give us the gmo's. the health of the country is one of the most important things. host: andrew is in new york. upstate new york is one of the hardest hit areas when you look at the map. james c. tankersley writes about the declining middle class. it is even more stoked -- more so in upstate new york. we traveled to lafayette indiana. let's take a look at the life and culture in that community. has a collection on purdue university. >> emilio was on the faculty of her do university from 1935 until the year she disappeared. she would stay on campus only a few weeks or months out of the year. she would come during each semester and be on campus for a month or two. after she had been here for a year or so, the trustees and the president of the university asked her what they could do for her. had always she dreamed of a plane the world. she wanted a plane that was faster, had more endurance and could fly longer ranges. the purdue research foundation agreed that they would provide a fund for her aeronautical

take this cook you know, it is certified by the non-gmo product. there is no chemical engineering.using plants from the open and we make food better. >> why not do genetic engineering and use the best the chemistry has to offer? >> its perception. that is part of the reason. it's important to us we connect deeply to everyone. we don't want to get political about this. we don't need to. we can just use plants. without engineering them, they are good enough. that allows us to what we need to do. >> it's a marketing decision? >> it's both. it's a big perception and also can we do it without doing that, i think it's good to do that as well. >> the most intriguing thing about your business is the product itself. using notions of how to develop product from the technology and math world, that's a different universe. how do you codify that choice how you run your business? >> to your point, let's use data sites. what we do is we screen plants. we get all the data and we put them in a database. we have computational biologists and food scientist that take it and bring it together to make b

we have a project called conscious food, which is about eating food in rejecting the gmo's,tional companiesemicals, trying to eat ensuringnatural foods food set have an environment impact within the committed the kitchen. every day, we have lunch and dinner as a way of bringing people together in our community. >> i am from bolivia. i am from a movement called conscience food. the movement began with a group of us climate change activists realizing the relationship between decisions we made about food and its impact on climate change. around climatesm change, we started to distribute more healthy food and put aside food products that him at war greenhouse gas -- emit more greenhouse gases. it started to evolve with this house and part of the active earth bolivia movement and actions around the cop and the people's summit. the convergent space here in lima, peru. tune in tomorrow for coverage of today's climate march. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. b

we have gluten-free, non-gmo, healthier products, sugar free. >> do you notice specifically a switchd of sweetener? >> no. they want a splurge, a treat. we offer the healthier options and we offer things like dark chocolate covered pomegranate and things. i do think people want a treat. they're not really reading the labels when they come to our store. we provide a little bit of everything. >> you are singing from my hymnbook. dark chocolate covered in anything is a dirty lie. you just need the dark chocolate. >> people are not just ordering one scoop of ice cream. >> are you like the cosmetic comps? dispenser, that is three dollars. are you making $2.98? >> i can tell you our margins. business is good. mentioned moderation. there's a certain former mayor of new york is going after the big slurpees. are you an antidote to slurpees or the threat to the 16 ounce or 32 ounce soda? >> i think in moderation every thing should be ok. >> moderate the dark chocolate over here. few calories a here and there. just a special treat, really. >> i need to say something real quick. much of and watc

first, let me say, no one, no one is seeking a ban on gmo crops. including the national farmers union support mandatory gmo labeling. butq it'sr'÷6dz also worth noti we've run the experiment for the last 20 years, and so far, yields of conventional crops have kept pace with yields of ge crops. i agreey hear from ms. forshe that farmers should have choices, but so should consumers. we need a national gmo labeling system that works for farmers, that works for food companies and consumers. unfortunately, hr 4432 does not provide a national mandatory labeling system. in fact, it narrows fda's ability to work with us, to work with farmers, to work with the food industry to craft such a system. it fails to restrict the misleading things that have fueled confusion. and it also creates state laws. mr. chairman, people simply want to know what's in their food. they want to be able to make choices for their families, and i hope you'll work with us to give consumers the right to know whether or not their food contains genetically modified ingredients. >> now