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[inaudible conversations] may i have your attention, please. Please take your seats, the presentations about to begin. Before we get started, id like you to be aware there will be, most likely, a question and answer period at the end of the presentation. When its time, youll be able to go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage. Id like to introduce a tv critic for npr. [applause] how you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. We really appreciate it. As was said, my names eric, and im tv critic for National Public radio so, of course, i should be talking to an author. [...

Tweet us, twitter. Com. book tv or post a comment on her facebook page, facebook. Com. book tv. Man have your attention please. Please take your seats. The presentation is about to begin. Be aware there will most likely be a question and answer time at the end of the presentation and when its time you can go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage and lineup. To begin i would like to introduce eric dagan, tv critic for npr. Tvpplause]. How are you doing. Thank you for joining us here. We appreciate itwe and as was said my name is eric dagan. I have written a lot about race an...

On this weeks after Words Program Ellen Silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. Ellen is a pleasure to have you here. Here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs ive ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and Atticus Finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. How did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Guest at something of a story that begins with the Chesapeake Bay and this was...

Surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards. The condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadnt been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9 11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events. And it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after. To rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you wer...

Endangers workers, animals and consumers, i thought you might talk a little bit about yourself. How do you get into this whole area of analyzing agriculture, especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Well, its something of a story. It begins with syria and the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious irruption of a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of a neurotoxin that caused millions of fishto die and a lot of reported illness in fishermen. They never really figured it out but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of input...