that's a pretty stable industry have access to genetics and things like that, if you want to obtain it, nihcm there's not a great ministry in the feed mix or this or that. is that true? >> senator, i think in terms of technology i think essentially what we do, we don't have any patent. it's commercially available. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. and again thank you for having the hearing. i think this is very helpful. >> thank you very much. senator thune. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. i appreciate your coming in and answering our questions. i think one of the issues with this acquisition, we are probably not going to see a month from now or a year from now any visible impacts on the nation's livestock industry for our nation's food supply. or food safety for that matter but i think we need to look at these in terms of what the impact will be five years down the road, 10 years down the road, at the nation's food supply might be impacted, how food safety might be impacted. you have 20% of the world's population living in china so obviously food security is high priority. especially if it's o

crider health center is the safety nihcm mental health center has been doing that for 34 years in missourind for counties around st. louis. seven years ago given a lot of the data that has been described and with some leadership from wonderful individuals like dr. joe parks in our state, and we came to realization that we need to also provide primary health care services and integrate the service. the national council in working with samhsa and other parts of the federal government has done an awful lot around the country in order to promote that. so we became -- six years ago, and just to cover just a few things that we do, we do more than just what state can afford to support us in. and that includes primary prevention. we are anti-bullying in the schools and resiliency promotion, problem solving skills. 51,000 kids go through those courses in our 21 school districts. we also have been able to take advantage of some of the leadership from the federal government in terms of some demonstration grants, and missouri got, we are part of the first system of care grants. this has helped us work