but today, us agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. >> i know most kids come out here to help their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. >> it's just another day on the fields of america. >> hi, can you tell me your name? >> gabriella. workers like gabriella are not uncommon. >> how old are you? >> nine. >> how old were you when you first started working out here? >> seven. >> seven! >> the us government estimates that nearly 10 percent of hired field workers in this country are children. >> when it comes to children, it is a big deal. young children that we heard about, collecting blueberries, 3 and 5 years old, 7 years old, and the rationale was, because their hands are so tender and small, that they would not crush the blueberries. >> what they're doing is noble, and helping the family, but they need to break the cycle. >> if the public were more aware, i think they'd be outraged. >> this week on fault lines investigates children at work in agriculture, america's hidden harvest. it's saturday morning at mariana higareda's house. she's taking her daughter and gr

but today, us agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. >> i know most kids come out here to help their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. >> it's just another day on the fields of america.

but today, us agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. >> i know most kids come out here to help their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. >> it's just another day on the fields of america. >> hi, can you tell me your name? >> gabriella. workers like gabriella are not uncommon. >> how old are you?

but today, us agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. >> i know most kids come out here toelp their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. >> it's just a

neonicotinoids manufactured by the german chemical giants bayer are widely used in agriculture as well as home gardens. they are engineered to be easier to use than older generation pesticides, and they are also longer lasting and a thought to be less toxic to wildlife. some scientists say that neo nictinoids are more toxic to bees and the leader in soil and water for years. in 2009.e banned it it has also been banned in slovenia and italy. what we saw was a rebound of the bees in those countries. >> charles annenberg weingarten -- clothianidin is not banned in the united states. however, is that epa has cited a provision in our federal pesticide law that allows us to conditionally registered pesticides. it is that discretion to allow pesticides on the market prior to having a full battery of tests to make safety determinations that is problematic. >> this loophole allows companies to sell a pesticide before epa gets all the safety data, and that is precisely what happens with clothianidin. >> epa registered chemical without having full knowledge of what its impacts on bees would be, a

> > you talked about it's useful in agriculture... it's useful in any kind of a business. give me some examples. > > again on the road paving side, as an example, so folks are out there paving the road today, they at the end of the day someone's got to pull out a laptop and enter paperwork for two hours on that lap top. instead we can put a tablet in that person's hands, they can edit that data during the day and get home to see their family. industrial processes like that: a huge fit. also out there for people selling cars. working with organizations that are reinventing industries around selling vehicles so that a sales person, they've got and ipad in their hands and they can do a whole process from appraise your vehicle to sign the paperwork. > > a company says ok i buy into this, i want to build an app. is that the poin?t do have to build it yourself? or is there and off the shelf variety? > > off the shelf stuff really hasn't arrived to solve the typical business problems because all those business processes are very different across companies. step one is understandi

but today, us agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. >> i know most kids come out here to help their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. >>

use. agriculture is the background of my central washington district and it is estimated that these and other similar imposed lands set-aside guidelines by noaa could restrict the use of vital crop protection tools on as much as 50 acres of farm land per mile. i'm not alone in my concern about noaa's use of unverifiable salmon recovery -- buffer requirements. last year the fourth circuit court of appeals found similar noaa salmon buffer requirements in a biological opinion that were based on scientific standings that, and i want to quote directly, did not always appear to be logical, obvious or even rational, end quote. in my home state of washington, over two dozen agriculture associations strongly oppose noaa's recommendation of large buffers on agriculture lands. and one local recovery board that has successfully used these funds to improve salmon survival in the upper columbia river opposes mandatory buffers tied to these important salmon grant funds. now, mr. chairman, let me be very clear. this amendment won't cut pacific coast salmon recovery funds, nor will it prohibit repairing buffe

depending on what numbers you use, agriculture is either the first and second biggest contributor of d states, so it's a huge deal. but this sort of low focus of -- junction of food, agriculture, health, the environment, it's just -- it's just huge. but the interesting thing is what you do for yourself is good for the environment and what you do for the environment is good for yourself. >> right. it's a virtuous cycle. >> it is a virtuous cycle. >> you also talk, and you've been outspoken on this really important issue of sustainability not just in terms of food sourcings and food chain but also in terms of the workers and the people who make the food. i've got to ask you, the president today did a big environmental sort of green energy announcement at walmart, which is, i think for a lot of us who have been focused on economic inequality and looking at a livable wage, there's some real questions to be asked about the role of walmart, which is the country's largest retailer. >> the world's. >> the world's, and has the capacity to create massive change across the sector. at the same ti

use frackish water. and you can improve the water in terms of agriculture perspective. from a policy perspective you have to look across the board. there is not a single silver bullet that will solve all the problems, and it probably has to be a combination of a lot of things. >> agriculture uses far more water for fracking, but a good portion of what farmers use goes back into the land. help explain what the long term picture may look like in long term aquifers in this case. >> well, if you continue to have water diverted for fracking the problem basically is that there is no infiltration back to the aquifer from that water. what you're going to start to do you're been to mine the aquifer rather than using the it and having it go back into the aquifer. if you continue to mine the aquifer, the size of the aquifer decreases, depletes, and in some points there may not be water left for fracking or agriculture. >> how bad is this in the southwest, and what kind of an affect is it having on that region. >> i think the drought has been very severe. we're starting into our fo

epa to take them off the market and we would like to see farmers use integrated pest management and transition to the sustainable agriculture. >> so there are alternatives. jay, i think a lot of public might be surprised that you can use something out there in the environment before it's been tested. but how long does this take before the review that tiffany is talking about is done? >> tiffany is referring to a technical term regarding the stages of the product approval. the registration can be essentially permanent. it is a technical term. let's go back to a real world example. there is no known existence of colony collapse disorder on the entire continent of australia. big agricultural market. lots of pollination demanding crops, lots of honey produced. neonicitinoids had been used by australian farmers for over two decades, and no colony collapse disorder. they have put out much greater control on the importation of bees, and they limited the production, and hence the disease investigator for transmitting all of the diseases which are at the root of a lot of bee problems have been taken off the table in australia. we ag

they are in our furniture, our children's toys, and the products we use in gardening and agriculture. and almost all of us have them inside our bodies. >> chemicals, right now, according to the best evidence we have, are contributing to the chronic disease burden in this country in ways that are substantial. >> we are seeing increases, clearly, in certain kinds of illnesses. asthma is one. autism is another. adhd is a third. >> one out of every third child born today is going to have diabetes. and if you're a minority, it's one out of two. >> chemicals contribute to the incidence of leukemia. >> breast cancer, infertility. >> alzheimer's, parkinson's. >> people are more obese or higher weight than they were 10 to 20 years ago. >> childhood cancers are going up. >> we're seeing effects on sperm count in men. um, the catch line is, you know, men today are not the men their grandfathers were. >> there are more of these bizarre birth defects, particularly around male reproductive development. >> if i were a parent... i would be very concerned. >> they were meant to make life easier, and t

some estimates as much as 80% of the drones used commercially over the next decade will be used in agriculturealready using drones for much of its crop dusting. david and liz. liz: that would make sense. you're not exposed to chemicals. commercial drones are not even legal. that is always a question, is it not? they're still proceeding in making them? >> that's right. the technology is way ahead of the legislation at this point. a couple of real concerns. we saw some small drones with cameras on them which can be used really by your ipad to move about a mile away. some concerns about invasion of privacy with these smaller flying drones. and also, bigger concerns about safety in the airwaves. in the last three years, there have been six separate incidents where pilots have reported they may have had a close call with a drone. so even though a lot of these gadgets are currently illegal, it doesn't mean people aren't already buying them on the internet and using them. david and liz. liz: paparazzi will be first in line. david: that's right. liz: trying to fly drones. david: alec baldwin. watch ou

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i think it's our obligation to improve agriculture, use the knowledge we have help each other. >> thisiterally the fruits of monsanta's labour. we get to test it. what are you going to try? >> i want a pepper. >> i want a pepper. >> i did a great test test. it tasted fantastic. >> this is really good. >> i know. monsanta typically doesn't develop or isn't known for developing with consumers, they are developing for retailers, growers and shippers. in this case they are taking a wholistic approach and consumers are at the forefront. >> why did they take a shift towards looking at the consumer. >> they are in the business of getting people to eat more fruits and vem tables. they know in order to do that they need to put products on the market that are nutritious and delicious and convenient. that's what they are aiming for. >> you mentioned that monsanta was embroiled in controversy. i'm not even sure if controversy is a strong enough word. there are a lot of consumers that don't trust monsanta. somewhat because of their g.m. technology, and they think there are business practices they d

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. >> as much as 80% of the drones will be used for agricultural. e countries like japan already using them for crop dusting. gretchen. >> commercial growns not even legal yet. there was an incident with an airplane last week. are they going to be legal, these types of things down there? >> reporter: a lot of lobbyists for different businesses are pushing the legalization. some real concerns. we've seen some tiny drones you can fly with your ipad up to a mile away. real concerns about potential invasion of privacy and as you mentioned concerns about safety of the airspace. there's actually been six incidents over the last three years where pilots thought they had a close call with a drone. even though they may be illegal it doesn't stop people right now from already buying and flying the them. >> i don't know, if i had that one standing next to me in my house, a little scary to be roaming around in your house. cool and look into the future. >>> alec baldwin tweeting back to the new york police department after his dust-up with new york's finest. his

use less of each. the game and accor culture is we want to increase output -- the game in agriculture is increase output and using fewer resources to produce the same amount of food. commercial use of drones is something the faa is looking into to making rules about, correct? guest: that's right but below a certain height ceiling, it's perfectly legal. they fly less than 1000 feet and hover over a field and can come back with information that says here is where the soil is dry and here is actually where there is a light or something that needs to be addressed. andget a much finer picture apply your resources much more carefully. host: we will keep going through the breakthrough technologies of 2014. let's bring in our callers. let's go to roger in illinois, on our line for independents. are you with us? he might've stepped away. line go to our independent from oakland, california. caller: hi, i was noticing on your list of technologies you mentioned wind and solar. i have been puzzled for some time white tidal energy has not been exploited. it is available at most people in the united states or within 2

in the idea being that ideally, you can use less of each very as the game and agriculture is obviously, we want to increase output while keeping input the same or hopefully reduce it. using fewer resources to produce the same amount of food. >> a commercial use of drones is something that the faa is looking into. they're making rules about it right now, correct? >> that's right or it even now, the lowest certain height ceiling it is perfectly legal. if a flap less than 1000 feet and hover over a field, they come back with information that says here's where the soil is dry or there is delight or something that needs to be addressed. the idea is you get a much finer picture and apply your resources much more carefully. >> we will keep going through the breakthrough technologies of 2014. we want to bring in collars as we discussed this issue with rgstein of m.i.t. technology review. we have roger from naperville, illinois on the line for independence. independents. nick is waiting in oakland california. nic, good morning. i was noticing on your list of technologies, you mentioned wind and

when they started using fertilizer, started stepping out of agriculture and the runoff that's what killed you all the grasses. >> will baker of the environmental group chesapeake bay foundation says the same. >> we are talking about fin fish, shellfish, wetlands, the water clarity, the dissolved oxygen in the water, the way the bay supports recreation, tourism even property values. so the system is degraded. it's a system dangerously out of balance. >> the polluted waters of the chesapeake bay are polluting more than the fish. they are also changing local fishing communities, rock hall, on maryland's eastern shore. >> rock haul is changing from a acquaint fishing villages, all the businesses used to revolve around the water business. when the water is in the decline the other business is in the decline. >> since 1972 the clean water act has governed the integrity of u.s. waters. the act requires that american waters be fishable and swimmable swimmable. >> the clean water act requires states to monitor all their waters and determine which ones are meeting clean water criteria, which ones d

>> i think we can look to different industries that are implementing and using robots now. the agricultural one where there's a push towards automation, and a concern that it will displace the workforce and take the place of human workers. it's not really what is happening. the robots are designed to work along with humans, designed to, in some cases, help them. they are requiring that workers expand skill sets to work alongside the robot. >> i understand that these robots were designed to work alongside people. i am not sure that i'm completely sold on the need to put a safe on the robot. do we need to be amfer more fizzing the machines. >> if someone with a ph.d. - you can look at robotics in a different way than somebody who has never been around a robot before. if there's a warmth to the workplace. they are scary to a lot of people. hollywood made them scary. if we make them more approachable, human like, it may be easy to adapt. >> what you are saying is not everywhere is standing in a line with a robot, buying lunch for itself. >> probably not. >> that's amazing. >> there is something

using crustacean agriculture.kinds of things can -- what we are really trying to say is take the land do already have, and what can you do to get more out of it? and without also damaging water, air. host: how do we, in the united states, produce food versus other countries? guest: in the u.s., we produce food in a myriad of ways. what we try to get out -- get added the article as we have huge scale agriculture that dominates huge parts of the landscape, and we also have, as we have had traditionally in america, before world war ii there was a much higher percentage of smaller scale, diversified, family-oriented farms that reduce day friday of crops. ofthat produced a variety crops. there is a spectrum between large individual crops and smaller scale, much more diversified farming. is producedod that in the united states and around the world, what is it being used for? guest: that is one of the interesting points we try to make in the article. if you look, what you realize is only about 55% of the landscapes that

using rules? >> absolutely, otherwise this would be an easy issue. take a look at the agriculturegroups that want to use drugs for agriculture and you have manned these planes that dump fertilizer and chemicals on agricultural products, they are concerned about the safety issue. within that industry you have a split and you have privacy concerns him a defense lawyers groups are getting involved and how police are using drones. pilot groups that are concerned about safety and the airspace -- a lot of different issues to be looked at here aside from just the commercial potential. >> thank you so much>> manoming up, secret agent -- producer brian grazer helps to bring back the hits by show "24." ♪ this is "market makers." did you watch the season opener of the new "24?" the executive producer is brian grazer and we sat down with him to talk about jack bauer and whether we will see any more seasons of one of their other shows, "arrested development." >> we will absolutely try to do more episodes of " arrested" and i would like to do more work at netflix but the most eminent would be a

. >> they're endangered for many reasons -- increasing deforestation, use of the land for agriculture, hunting and illegal trapping for the pet trade. human activity has hit this species especially hard. >> the cloud forest is the breeding habitat of this rare species of parrot. the conservationists have hung out more than als 50 nesting boxes. the rangers check regularly to see if the artificial nests have been used. santa marta parakeets prefer to nest in 20-metre tall wax palms. to their delight, the rangers find three parakeet chicks -- though they belong to another species, the scarlet-fronted parakeet. >> we hang up the boxes where the santa marta parakeets are usually spotted and where they roost. if that doesn't work, we move them elsewhere. >> it's doubtful whether that will save the species. just 15% of the original mountain rainforest remains. livestock farming is on the advance. the colombian government is doing hardly anything stop people clearing the forests to create pastureland. economic interests are given priority. but there are more environmentally friendly alternat

many times on agriculture groups about the importance of market access for agriculture to the japanese market. for those of us from farm country, making sure that tpp results significant new market access opportunities for years agriculture will be critical and i'm wondering maybe if you could elaborate on the president's discussion on the topic with japanese prime minister last week? how detector is market access negotiations following the president trip to asia? >> thank you. as you point out access to japan's market is a critical part of our overall tpp initiative. we made clear we have products we can sell into japan and we need to address their historic barriers. we made progress in our discussions. we didn't reach an agreement but we made a milestone in terms of getting to sort out the parameters of how we would deal with market access and send more sensitive areas. we have further work to do certainly, but we think that there was enough progress there to give further momentum to the tpp negotiations overall. >> my time has expired. >> senator menendez. >> thank you, ambassador, for your service. i want

. >>> unfit for human food, that's how the us department of agriculture classified millions of pounds of bad meat processed at a bay area slaughterhouse. kron4 learned new allegations that some of the employees in petaluma knowingly processed and distributed diseased cow moot. >>> the new allegations are disturbing. cnn reports that federal investigators now believe that rancho feeding corporation was was buying cancerous daily house dairy cows and processing them when inspectors were not around. >> once a cows were slaughtered, their employees with high the warning signs of cancer. they did so by turning off the deceased art sed part and using fake stamp of approval or replacing the head of the sick cows with those of healthy ones, this all stems from the start of the year when the federal government started monitoring all activities at the petaluma plant. after the employee tipped him off -- them off about what was going on. in january federal marshals raided the plant and sees the company's records. days later, the first recall notice went out. and all some 9 million pounds of bad

to americans in a different way of how we fit into the food equation, use less of these products. >> can you reimagine agriculture in this country to a sustainable food system. one being the majority of the crops in this country are pre-treated. so 94% of 99% of corn secedes are pre-treated with neo-nici neo-nicitinoids. we need to shift away from mono cultures that are heavily dependent on the chemical industry so we shift our system to a more sustainable and organic way of practicing farming. >> and randy, before we go, can we do without your bees? we're getting to a point where this has reached crisis levels. when do we start to notice it in the check outline? when do we start to notice it in the produce section? well, we're probably noticing it pretty quick here. sustainability is key. basically the whole midwest is turning into a green dessert which is basically corn and soybeans and our natural habitat, the clover, the legumes are being plowed up and going away. we have to look at things in the long hall and look at what is stainabl sustainable, and we have to look at the whole environment as a whole. bees

when they used fertilisers, systeming up agriculture and the run off.it killed off the grasses. >> will baker of the environmental group says the same. >> we are talking about fish, shellfish, wetlands, the water clarity, the dissolved oxygen in the water, the way the bay supports recreation, tourism and property values. so the system is degraded. it's a system dangerously out of balance. >> the populated waters of the bay are depleting more than the fish. it is changing local fishing communities, places like rock hall, kir win's home town on the eastern somehow. >> rock hall is changing from a quapt fishing -- quaint fishing village. all the people used to revolve around water business, it entered decline and other businesses are entering decline. >> the clean water act has governed the integrity of waters sunses 1972 -- since 172678. >> the clean water act roars states to -- rears states to monitor -- requires states to monitor their waters. once that don't go on a dirty water list. >> it includes the bay, home to 17.5 million people in six states. th

us. >> the problem is that agriculture is creeping too close to the conservation area. there's no money to enforce laws and compensate local residents. but schlÖnvoigt has an idea. >> we've found out that up to 400 tons of co2 per hectare can be absorbed. and here, we have a total of 16,000 hectares of connected rainforest or mangrove swamp. so, there's a huge capacity for absorbing co2. we're now conducting a study to see if we can get the mangrove swamp into a redd process. we're very optimistic that it will happen. >> redd stands for "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" and is a kind of co2 offset scheme. the credits could be used to preserve the mangrove swamp. businesses are also being asked to do their part. the hotels depend on tourists who also come for the natural beauty. so here, an international hotel chain is sponsoring an initiative where children help reforest a section of the coastline. the trees will give shade and help fight erosion. it's an exemplary project, but many more are needed. >> we assume that currently, under-financi