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There is a saying that dr. King had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. We know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. Walmart committed 2 billion to fighting hunger in the u. S. As we work together, we can stamp hunger out. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. [applause] tavis let me start with the first and ill work ...

[applause] there is a saying that dr. King had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. We know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. Walmart committed 2 billion to fighting hunger in the u. S. As we work together, we can stamp hunger out. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. [applause] tavis let me start with the first an...

Money with Dennis Kneale is next. David homes for heroes. Im Dennis Kneale in for the irrepressable melissa francis. Here is what is money tonight. It is code red for the meat industry. Possible widespread beef shortage. Are the fears overblown . Secretary of agriculture tom vilsack joins to us respond. President obama wants 50 billion in fresh stimulus. Completely missing out though on 100 billion stimulus already coming, from the private sector. It is an economic boost almost no one has heard ...

Im mapper raoe ya leclair, ive been in this position for 19 and a half years and i also supervise on the wic program director, wic is the women, infant and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program for lowincome women, infants and children up to the age of 5. I have been a wic director for different agencies, i was in san mateo and i also worked in the Central Valley at a federally qualified Health Center for 35 years now, and my passion has always been nutrition and how to get food to those in ne...

[inaudible]. So, i just wanted to say thank you for accepting the nomination. When i found out that i had the ability to appoint someone to this committee, you were the first person that i thought of because of your activity in the district and evenbacker everything that you do centers around the Bicycle Community, and so having someone whos so involved in not only riding a bicycle but also doing the kind of things that youve done to really change the culture of how we treat the Bicycle Communit...

Lane off of market to mission because ive been saying for the last couple of months, the bicyclists are becoming the new automobile for the pedestrians at least because just like the gentleman was saying, on Market Street, its so bad and i love living downtown because its close to everything i need and i can cross Market Street at any given time and just like the gentleman said, the bus would be there, the bus would be here, and then the bicyclists will come screaming through, dont stop, dont st...

President obama and our great leader, tom vilsack has an opportunity to share with us visions for were going in the second term. It seems like a sequester come to sequester come to sequester and that certainly does weigh heavily on our shoulders, but nevertheless come were applied rumor going to do some incredibly great things in the second turned and im sure hes very excited to share that with you. I also want to recognize that we have a lot of young people in the audience from the Outlook Foru...

All of them can break down barriers to Food Security. It can allow us to allow new paths of progress. Plow entirely new pass to progress. We need those new pathways forward. Take a look at a few recent headlines. Drought and mississippi impacts everything from livestock to deer. Food shortages could force the world into vegetarians. Patent endings raises new biotech issues. Global Crop Production shows signs of stagnant. Could Climate Change be al qaedas best friend in africa . I could go on. Wh...

Thousand cases representing over 40 thousand San Francisco residents served by this program. Upwards of 7 Million Dollars in cal fresh benefits are issued each month in San Francisco, mostly trance transacted by large retailers, now a third of our monthly applications come in online, during my tenure with cal fresh, we established a Restaurant Meal Program where lowincome, homeless or disabled individuals can eat hot meals, now 7 other california counties operate such a program. Yet theres still...

Forum Student Diversity program , now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates, and for the first time, 10 graduate students, are here to gain insights into food and agriculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. If you see them in the sessions , congratulate them for being here. Mentor them a little over the course of a couple days. That would be great. I know how important these young people are, because i have an alumnus of this program, johnnie jones, who works in my office. These...