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if you have a baby this year, you can expect to spend $221,000 raising that child until he or she turns 18. that's want estimate from the usda of what a middle income two-parent household will spend in today's dollars. if you're high income, expect to spend nearly $367,000. by the way, none of this includes college costs. this is daunting. alfred, we were talking to a group in harlem a few months ago, and the thing that was crushing thing was the idea of college expenses. we're talking about a quarter million dollars almost before college. >> that quarter million dollars is the nonoptional portion. >> that's right. you have to feed your child and have a place to sleep. >> i always say to my kids, i need to give you the bill. none of my kids have children yet. think when you have a child, because it's daunting. >> i'm on the homestretch, man. my youngest is 17. >> one of the things is it depends on where you are, what your income is. the northeast urban centers like we all live in are amongst the most expensive. >> the usda will run them into an online tool. that be the most useful. you tell them where you live, is it urban o

what is the usdas position on the double standard that it prescribes specific, if not always scientificallypportable requirements on farmers while it condones questionable processing protocols that benefit the processing companies like according lettuce in the field? >> we do not have a position on the current national leafy greens market progress poles. that's before the public. it's at the very beginning of the process. the hearings will begin in september. >> what do you think? >> what do i think? >> what do you think? >> what do you think? >> i think at the end of the day the program needs to work for small producers and it needs to work for different cultural practices regional differences. i think at the end of the day that's the only way you'll have the best national program. >> at the end of the day do you think the processing companies ought to have protocols that are protective of the consumers? >> processors, yes, should. everyone has to play a part in food safety. >> including the processers. not just the farmers. >> yeah, of course. >> if they become nationalized, there will li

if the numbers are on target it will be a bin buster harvest in farm country. the usda called for soy beans to hit a record high. they also raised estimates for corn, wheat and duram and although it was below the ag department did peg cotton production well ahead of last year's output. read all about the report at agweb.com. >>> also this week, a clear sign of these difficult economic times according to the latest government figures, the number of americans receiving food stamps has reached a new high. for the first time nearly 400 million americans received food stamp inside may, a 2% jump according to roiters. this marks the sixth month in a row that people looking for food stamps increased. to put this into perfect officer sieve 1-9 is now covered by the program. the number of food stamps will not combat the obesity especially for the female population. results of a study done out had a the ohio university say women who use food stamp versus a higher body mass index than those who don't. researchers believe the benefits promote binge eating. on average recipients get

usda experts. goat is lower in fat, cholesterol, and higher in protein than beef, chicken, pork, or lamb. ifmediterranean countries, but in those cases, it might be dairy goats. these goats are actually raised for their meat, and it is quite good. bill: william? what does it taste like? >> it tastes really good. what i had was not greasy, not gamey. the rancher has now turned his attention to these goats. we went to a high end restaurant the other night, we have go, and here is what they had to say. >> it tastes like red meat, but more lean. >> everything i love about land, but without the gaminess. >> it taste very mild and tender. >> you could have been raised, guerrilla, steamed, in stew, and it is good for you. bill: that is a good looking billy goat. you got through the entire segment without saying, it tastes like chicken. >> it does not taste like chicken. megyn: don't set they're putting that -- petting that goat and talk about how good it is. >> well, we are the help of a species here, so someday it may happen. bill: tag that one under your left arm, and serve us dinner. thank you.

so the usda says you have to check with your grocery store if you have any questions about the beef that've already purchased. >>> new this morning, veflt o investigators working on the disappearance of madeleine mccann are looking into a woman who may have clues on the case. remember the three who disappeared in porlt gallon in 1997? a new witness said he talked to a mysterious woman around the time of madeleine's disappearance and she may have some info. they describe her as a victoria beckham look-alike. >>> the man who police say opened fire on an aerobics class tuesday talked about being rejected by women in his blog. he said even though his victims were random, he wanted young women to pay. >> mr. sodini had this intent to do this harm to these individuals. he had no relationship with anybody in that club that we know of. he went in the club and just opened up firing and ultimately shot 12 people. >> well, pliolice say sodini committed suicide after killing three people in the l.a. fitness club in pittsburgh. nine others were injured. the instructor's baby was not hamp harmed. she

. >> if you have any questions please speak into the microphone here. >> i am with the usda.trying to set up the best practices and notices, for what you are talking about. this is a waste of time because everyone else has done this. is there some way to share the information on the work that you have already done? >> we will give you the web site. >> have you been looking at second life as a possible -- a social network? >> actually i did this and i signed in, and i have not done this to much. i understand that there is a significant opportunity for that, and i will tell you this. the notion of expanding the technology beyond what i talked about and moving to spacial representation, three- dimensional representation, i think that there is a potential benefit, but we have not extended the journey that far. i looked at this as an individual. where i see the potential is visualizing the space, where we have the operations going on. we stimuli -- we simulate the offshore situations and we have very serious computer models so if someone makes a distress call -- we can do a drift

usda what patentor brag which is devoted to plant etiology. >> ver very toxic to horses ands and other species, including humans. >> so toxic that he says don't flag dog trees if you have children or pets but again there is a flip side. >> this contains a compound called taxol, and taxol has been used for cancer chemotherapy for a number of years. >> fox glove produces digitalis, a heart medication. >> this is lupin, it has good nutrients. >> animals love eating it, the only trouble if they happen to be pregnant their babies will be born with serious deformities, a condition called crooked calf syndrome in cattle. in goats it causes cleft palate. >> the goats turn out to be a real good model because they are small enough we can do ultra sound on the mothers. >> which led to an amazing and promising discovery. >> all because of a plant that can be poisonous. >> researchers from the utah lab and plastic surgeons from the leahy clinic in boston found they could fix cleft palate by operating on the fetus inside the womb. >> what we have learned is that the fetus has the ability to repair without scar tisch formation. >> so the baby goat is born completely normal,

officials have worked side-by-side with usda officials to test the infected herd as well as several neighboring herds which is the process. based on the latest reports ife, 8,900 cattle have been tested and all have, thankfully, testified negative for t.b. that's great news. i commend the efforts of the veterinarians and the government officials on the ground in nebraska. i thank the efforts of those officials. i thank those officials for their efforts. they have been aguessively dealing with this issue every day since the initial discovery. and i would like to thank the usda specifically for providing significant expertise and personnel to assist with the ongoing testing. the department's assistance has been sound. it's been steady. we greatly appreciate. but the work has not yet done. the testing is not quite complete of the hopefully the results keep coming back negative. but regardless, we're going to remain vigilant. we must make sure that the usda, though, has the resources on hand to spend in the event that further cases of t.b. are discovered. that would be anywhere in this country. t.b. can have a crippling impact on a state's beef industry. i

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what is the usdas position on the double standard that it prescribes specific, if not always scientifically supportable requirements on farmers while it condones questionable processing protocols that benefit the processing companies like according lettuce in the field? >> we do not have a position on the current national leafy greens market progress poles. that's before the public. it's at the very beginning of the process. the hearings will begin in september. >> what do you think? >> what do i think? >> what do you think? >> what do you think? >> i think at the end of the day the program needs to work for small producers and it needs to work for different cultural practices regional differences. i think at the end of the day that's the only way you'll have the best national program. >> at the end of the day do you think the processing companies ought to have protocols that are protective of the consumers? >> processors, yes, should. everyone has to play a part in food safety. >> including the processers. not just the farmers. >> yeah, of course. >> if they become nationalized, there will