is our way to connect across united states to families who might not otherwise have access to usda and usda services. i have a quick little, a very popular tweet out there, may the fourth be with you. the social media resonates with the users we talk about collaboration and intersection in this idea that when you get to a crossroad their decision points that need to be made. who is the face of that. who are the faces of our food safety. some of you follow this every month but this is another way we can have our social media accounts resonate with users so they see who we have at the frontlines of food safety and what their backgrounds are. >> i will disclose by saying intersections are important but crossroads can be pivotal. as we look at which direction we are going, we may not agree but we cannot ignore that food production and demand in this country is changing and i do hope that as you attend the session on science and foodborne illness and policy medication, that you are thinking about how you drive that policy through your comments and federal register notices, to the pr campaign, wh

usda. usda and hhs are seeking input on priority topics to be covered under these rules. advisory panel will be appointed and chosen soon. they will want recommendations relative to sugar, sodium, dietary fiber and others you can be sure every interest group in the world is going to want to influence these things. but eating habits are changing and more and more health is becoming a bigger factor in what people are eating. i know there was a french philosopher who said you are what you eat and one trend is the growing relationship of diet, nutrition, medicine and health and here are the facts. obesity among all levels of populations is not coming down. among school-age population there was some leveling off of trends but just recently there are studies that show obesity is going up. the fastest-growing part of the federal budget is healthcare. medicare and medicaid costs with interest on the national debt and the defense budget are driving about 90% of the budget of the united states of america. those healthcare diseases are largely chronic diseases. like type two diabete

our way to connect across the united states to families that might not otherwise have access to usda and usda services. i have a quick little, one of our very, very popular tweets out there, may the fourth be with you. and then we have come our social media really resonates with our users, when we talk about collaboration and intersection and sort of this idea that when you get to a crossroads that our decision points that need to be made. who is the face of that? you know, federal government is this massive bureaucracy. who are the faces of our food safety? some of you follow our food safety we published each month but this is another way we can our social media, our social media accounts really resonate with users so that they see who we have at the frontlines of food safety and what their backgrounds are. and so i'll just close by saying that intersections are important but crossroads can be pivotal. and when we look at which direction we're going we may not always agree but we cannot ignore that food production and demand in this country is changing. i do hope that as you attend the sessi

usda. usda and hhs are beginning to seek input and poverty topics to be covered under these new rules and advisory panels will be appointed, chosen soon into what recommendations relative to sugar, sodium, dietary fibers and other basic nutrition items. you can be sure every interest group, every commodity group in the world is going to want to try to influence these things but people eating habits are changing and more and more health is becoming a bigger factor in what people are eating. i knew it was a french philosopher who said you are what you eat, and one trend as an agent is the growing relationship with the diet, nutrition, and health, and agriculture. and here are the facts. obesity among all levels of populations is not coming down. among school-age populations there was some leveling off of trends towards higher obesity but just recently there were studies that showed obesity is, in fact, going up. the fastest-growing part of the federal budget by far and away as health care costs. medicare and medicaid costs along with interest on the national debt, and it looks like the defense budge

initiative you see as doing measuring the impact of the practices and then using those to inform decisions within usda. we do not want the usda to measure the impact on every farm. we do not want that from a cost perspective and those of her friends don't want the from an ideological perspective. you do need to inform your models better. taking the steps as far as its data to better serve taxpayers and just as important a it's a voluntary conservation and it's going to stay voluntary and it's the best way to conservation to have a voluntary so have to prove to the producers it's worth the time, the resources and their sweat. >> one last question. >> hello. i'm patricia bok and i'm with the center for foodborne illness research and prevention. and this is the first time i've ever even looked at the farm bill as something that maybe we should be interested in. one of the concerns i have is there's not a whole lot of emphasis placed on food safety and some of the challenges presented to the farmers with regard to the food recall and some of these other problems. also with the development of antimicrobial resistance, how does tha

finally came over a month ago and then you were told by the folks in the agency, in this case usda, you were told you were going to have to wait for several more months until usda figures out how to get you the money. no wonder people are fed up with bureaucracy. additionally, many of our cities and counties have yet to see any reimbursements from fema for hurricane irma. in fact, many have yet to be fully reimbursed for hurricane matthew, which was almost two years ago, and it struck an unbelievably -- all those hurricane matthew counties that were devastated up and down on debris removal, all of the counties and the cities front lode loaded -- front loaded, paid for the removal, the state of florida didn't turn it in on time, and of course what we had to do to cover the state of florida's mistake was to plead for fema, forget the mistake, it's the local counties and cities that need the money. and so what's happening of not getting the money out is totally unacceptable. so while we are still waiting for reimbursements from these storms, can we expect these local governments to prepare for the 2018 hurricane season that will start in just a few months, right a