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most of it's non-gmo, we do have a lot of gluten-free options. >> do you guys make the blends?> what we do is get whole, bulk spices, so everything that you see has been jarred by these hands. >> starting their own business was also a way. to allow for more family time. >> with a two year old at home, and looking at. the option of having something where. we have better hours and more flexibility. we thought, hey - why not? >> becoming new proprietors in a longstanding business district. was a decision that seems to be off to a great start. >> you're in a new neighborhood, it's nice to have a business that you own and be received positively. >> the business association and the local businesses. we all patronize each other. t's a really really great community to be a part of. >> they have sage advice for people looking to take leap of entrepreneurship. >> be the best at what you have and don't worry about, if it's a black thing, white thing, indian thing, let your product do the speaking for you. >> coming up on visions 2018. 6abc is >> welcome back to visions 2018 celebrating bl

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secondly, you alluded to the importance of gmos and not being accepted in europe, but how successful are the agricultural-based research products, our products, who are they breaking into other markets? i'm thinking specifically of monsanto, or soon to be bayer, but can you speak to those two points? thank you. >> i'm going the take the easy question. as far as merging ustr and commerce and afts it would be a great idea as long as they were reporting to secretary purdue at usda. when you are talking about agriculture, you know, you need folks who understand agriculture. that's why we need an ag neglector at ustr. one of the things, and when you look at how the structure works, again, when i was at usda, ustr has a relatively small staff but they rely heavily in the ag sector. the folks in the foreign agricultural service as well as economists, the national ag statistics, folks from, you know, the food safety inspection service. you kind of go bing, bing, bing down the list. they bring time and energy to focus on the small details and feed that back into the ag trailed negotiator. sam

how they clean up their ingredients. 99% of hain products today are gmo free, 40 pefrz t% of our pr areanic. 72% of our products have 12 ingredients or less. we're focused on a social mission. we think about natural organic in addition to how hain becomes a b-corp and how we focus on where our products come from is important to investors i think there has to be a lot of consolidation going on in this industry you have every company talking about higher costs, higher freight costs. so with that i think consolidation is something that we'll continuously happen. if hain is a part of it, we'll look to see. >> any food trends, irwin, that you see emerging in 2018 different from previous years that you're capitalizing on? >> so the big food trends today and it's interesting recently just came out, you know, what are the big food trends out there? the biggest things that, you know, we're looking at today and i have a 22-year-old daughter, if i asked letter to open a can of soup, she would say how do i open it? number two, am i going eat soup out of a can you know, i think the big thing today i

chipotle's whole brand and markets was about sustainable foods and no gmos.d it sustainable and no gmos, healthy for you, but very fattening. having said that their whole brand was about how great their food was. then they hit food-borne illness issues, one after another after another. the consumer evacuated. ashley: we wish you good luck with the turn around. good business to you. >> thank you so much. , ashley, appreciate it. ashley: okay. president trump says if teachers were trained to handle guns that would deter school shooters but one small-town school has already started that process. we've got the story next. ashley: in the wake of the park land florida, shooting shooting gun control has become in the debate with you one school in ohio teaching teachers to fire back if there is a shooting. interesting story. matt? >> the district program is not without controversy but today district officials are standing by the decision to arm teachers and staff. >> our staff members are trained to go to the threat and address the threat. not to run away. >> the sid

internationally supports this and the science supports the use of these technologies, whether it's gmos or here morneau nye growing hormones those all safety products going through rig produce testing. ... >> if we are not leading, the europeans will show up with their votes in block and they will restrict technology everywhere. and as our population grows, we need to use technology and we have fewer people producing more food for growing population. we have to be efficient and safe in doing that and the policies of the european union as spouses, especially through kodak's and preaching their doctrine, they take punitive action on countries who will back the use of these technologies and something we have to step up as leaders inthis world to push back against because the last thing we need is more famine . we don't need people facing hunger. we need to be able to use the agricultural production of each of these countries, use it efficientlyand safely so that there's less instability overall . >> if i can ask you about something you brought up, you mentioned the importance of for the un

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