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HUMAN HEALTH DEBATE SERIES June/July 2010 Live Debate Session | Aug 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM PST Controversy on the Grill - An open debate about the US Meat, Poultry, and Dairy Food Supply
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Dr Margaret Mellon / Union of Concerned Scientists: KEEP ANTIBIOTICS WORKING campaign
An expert on antibiotic resistance, Dr Mellon will address her work on the KEEP ANTIBIOTICS WORKING campaign, including discussion of the effects of antibiotics in the US meat, dairy and poultry supplies. Writes Dr Mellon: “Please contact members of Congress today and tell them to put an end to the dangerous overuse of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are not sick.” Dr. Mellon testified before the House Committee on Rules of the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, H.R. 1549, in July of 2009, and is an outspoken advocate of food safety. She is the co-author of The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops, with Jane Rissler.
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| Moderator: |
Leesa Stanion |
What's in Your Gullet?
DEBATE TOPICS FROM EPISODE 1
- Antibiotics & Drugs given to healthy food animals to fatten them up
- Antibiotic-resistance in humans,
- Heavy Metals (Arsenic) in chickens,
- Cloning technologies and the FDA's No Labeling Law;
- Estrogen-mimicking compounds and synthetic GE Hormones;
- Ammonium & Carbon Monoxide-based meat packaging;
- Nitrites and cancer;
- Mad Cow Disease Loopholes: FDA ban on feeding cows to cows, chicken and pigs allows feeding blood and fat to cows, chicken and pigs
- Genetically engineered organisms in livestock feeds, drugs, pesticides, and in milk;
- BST and Hormone Disruption in humans;
- Irradiation technologies;
- Using the American population as guinea pigs;
- Lobbyists vs Grassroots influence
| Date |
INVITED DEBATE GUEST / INTERVIEWEE |
| Aug 25, 2010 |
SUPERBUGS & ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN HUMANS VS ANTIBIOTICS FED TO HEALTHY FOOD ANIMALS |
| June/July 2010 |
Caroline Smith Dewaal / Center for Science in the Public Interest |
| June/July 2010 |
Eldon Roth |
| June/July 2010 |
Robert Misvin (FDA & whistleblowing) |
| June/July 2010 |
US Rep Bart Stupak (FDA Overhaul) |
| June/July 2010 |
Christopher Waldrop |
| June/July 2010 |
US Rep Lynn Woolsey (Cloning Labeling) |
| June/July 2010 |
White House Office Science & Technology (Cloning) |
| June/July 2010 |
David Graham (former FDA) |
| June/July 2010 |
Dave Heeney (pro FDA) |
| June/July 2010 |
Matthew McGlone (misinformation) |
| June/July 2010 |
Mark McClellan |
| June/July 2010 |
FDA / USDA No Labeling Law spokesmen, Michael Herndon & Siobhan Delancy |
| June/July 2010 |
Alec Baldwin (Anti Cloning Advocate) |
| June/July 2010 |
Brooks Jackson & Kathleen Hall Jamieson director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an experts on political communication and disinformation |
| June/July 2010 |
Dr Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner |
| June/July 2010 |
ELDON ROTH, CEO of Beef Products Inc in Sioux City Neb re: carbon monoxide and ammonium in meat packaging |
| June/July 2010 |
Susan Davison, Director of Kraft Foods corporate affairs, re: considering NOT using cloned animals in their products |
| June/July 2010 |
David Ross (FDA) |
| June/July 2010 |
Nicholas Kristof (food safety) |
| June/July 2010 |
David Kessler (former FDA) |
FINANCIAL CRISIS DEBATE SERIES June/July 2010 What's in Your Wallet?
DEBATE TOPICS FROM EPISODE 2
- Federal Reserve system - successes vs failures since 1913
- Is it possible to reform an entrenched fractional reserves banking system
- Should we end the fed, why or why not?
- How is globalized banking good or bad for the US economy
- If the federal reserve is a nonprofit organization how is it that the federal reserve banks are allowed to profit?
- What does it mean to have 200+ bank failures since the meltdown when the federal reserve banks continue to profit
- Is Goldman Sachs being unfairly scrutinized
- Is it possible to manage a risk-based industry?
- How will Wall Street's undue influence (in key government and Treasury positions and via an army of lobbyists) affect financial overhaul
- Are the leveraged buyouts of American companies the next credit tsunami
- Is pitchfork politics an overkill reaction?
| Date |
INVITED DEBATE GUEST / INTERVIEWEE |
| June/July 2010 |
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stones magazine, Goldman Sachs Investigator |
| June/July 2010 |
Sally Zelokovsky (Tea Party) |
| June/July 2010 |
Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone) |
| June/July 2010 |
Andrew Sorkin |
| June/July 2010 |
US Rep Ron Paul |
| June/July 2010 |
Sarah Palin |
| June/July 2010 |
Chuck Norris |
| June/July 2010 |
Getchen Morgensen |
| June/July 2010 |
Michael Moore |
| June/July 2010 |
Gretchen Morgensen, economist -- re: the gold standard |
| June/July 2010 |
G Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island |
| June/July 2010 |
Andrew Sorkin, author of Too Big to Fail |
| June/July 2010 |
Dr Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, current US Senate candidate (Kentucky) re: End the Fed movement |
| June/July 2010 |
Alec Jones, from infowars.com |
| June/July 2010 |
William Grieder, author Secrets of the Temple |
| June/July 2010 |
Alec Jones (infowars) |
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