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Talking about the politics of food, our food system, how we get the food that we eat, pink slime, et cetera. the agricultural department's food safety and inspection service has proposed a new inspection system for poultry slaughter. it's known for critical control points. what that means is they plan to eliminate 800 poultry inspector positions and allow companies to speed up processing from 140 chickens per minute to 200 and also remove the external usda government employee inspectors who are now in the plants and allow the processing facilities to monitor themselves. >> what could possibly ...

Now it's virtue testing, thanks to the world's lampest laser at lawrence livermore national laboratory. it generates temperatures and pressures found only in stars and in nuclear weapons. >> this is an actual target and it's actual size. >> reporter: that little red thing. >> and little red thing in the smild where the isotopes of hydrogen sit there and get ready to be blown to bits. >> reporter: so how does this little tiny target explain how a nuclear weapon is functioning or isn't? >> we can model different parts of the physical processes that go on inside a nuclear weapon without testing. ...

>> reporter: that little red thing? >> the little red thing in the middle and that's where the isotopes get ready to be blown to bits. >> reporter: so how does this little tiny target explain how a nuclear weapon is functioning or isn't? >> because we can model different parts of the physical processes that go on inside a nuclear weapon, without testing. >> reporter: this is the heart of the operation, it's the control room. and right now, this team is getting ready for a laser experiment later on tonight, from this room they use 2,000 computers and 60,000 control points. >> this is the purple...