the ceo, tom hayes, has brought about new goals by removing antibiotics and cutting greenhouse gases.. thank you so much for being here. good to see you in person after talking about you on air. >> great to be here today. beautiful day here in chicago. david: beautiful city. talk about your business overall. dashboard?your what will drive it to the upside and what will drive it to the downside? >> we are the largest food company, not just largest meat company, largest food company in the u.s. what thrives as is the consumer and certainly a lot of dynamics outside the u.s. with global demand. for us, it is the consumer in the u.s., as well as things that are reallyng that hot in the business right now, and certainly trade is an issue we are dealing with. our overall business is really driven by the consumer, and that has never changed. david: let's talk about trade for a moment. are we overreacting to trade? important thing for everybody to understand is that the u.s. is so incredibly competitive when it relates to when there are issues that are creating uncertainty, that is not good f

they were dealing with some bad pr and tom hayes is a friendly charismatic affable guy. guy to put on the front lines. he brought in all his critics on the first few of the job and he rolled out a big bash to have a conversation about sustainability broadly. he rolled out a big plan and the plan included a lot of, yes, goals that would relate to more humane and sustainable meat production. he said, we are going to cut our carbon emissions 30% by 3030. throughout the supply chain and that is a big deal because they have a carbon footprint on par with the whole of ireland. less water use, better energy usage, removing antibiotics from all of their chicken production. it was part of this suite of sustainability goals they rollout and along with it, we're owing to invest in alternative products. as we begin to accelerate and elevate this new paradigm of meat, we're also going to do conventional meat production better. jason: we are here with editor-in-chief joel weber. we heard an amazing story about tyson. what was the idea behind that? joel: this is a company going through

and our interview with tom hayes and his plans for changing what you eat, while coping with everythingopolitics to trade. harley's new look, an aging consumer base reshaping the eye cannot -- the iconic brand. we discussed the cover story, just ahead. in tworkets closing hours and abigail doolittle has been tracking all of the moves. we are searching for direction. abigail: you are right about that . mixe

tom hayes lit, -- hazlett, your book is called "the and is thisectrum," readable to the layman? hazlett: of course, it andart of our daily life, it is really quite fascinating how we got here, the politics of it, and how the 1927 radioactive basically determined what would get into the market and what haven't, and how reforms let overtime to the amazing new stuff we are dealing with today and we carry in our pockets. >> what is your expertise to write a book like this? prof. hazlett: i am an economist, so i do not hold any patents in the mobile space and just looking at all the great innovation, i look at it from a policy standpoint, i am a chiefsor, i served as economist for the federal communications commission, and i have written and research how we that go radio spectrums into wireless communications for about 30 years now. >> do we do it efficiently? prof. hazlett: that is a good question -- how much time do we have? we are getting some things right a lot more than we used to. the base, which comes from the 1927 radio act, which was the brainchild of herbert hoover -- befor

and our interview with tom hayes and his plans for changing what you eat, while coping with everything from geopolitics to trade. harley's new look, an aging consumer base reshaping the eye cannot -- the iconic brand. we discussed the cover story, just ahead. in tworkets closing hours and abigail doolittle has been tracking all of the moves. we are searching for direction. abigail: you are right about that . mixed action for the averages, fractionally higher. earlier it was up .5%, but a little bit of volatility on the day, some uncertainty around trade, political uncertainty. for the most part, investors in latency mood. the top of the bloomberg here, we have an interesting chart. in white, the index of political uncertainty. we see back in the 1990's at an all-time high, then coming down. in blue, the s&p 500. now we have trade uncertainty on the way back at those highs. do not seemvestors to care that the s&p 500 carves out another new high. and uncertainty around nafta and reaching a deal. this is weighing on car parts makers. the we see some weakness on uncertainty, so uncertainty

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