SCOOP: What's Happening Overhead and On Your Plate (And Why It Matters)
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
If you could create a federal holiday ... what would it be and when would it be?
And what we learned from the maker of Fruit Loops about the company's ingredients here at home and abroad.
✓ 0:00 Some quick context on the history of federal holidays.
✓ 4:00 SpaceX’s Starship Rocket.
✓ 7:00 Space innovation and national security.
✓ 11:00 The recent arrest of an Afghan national for an alleged Election Day terror plot.
✓ 18:00 Battleground states and the Electoral College.
✓ 23:00 A new major meat recall by BrucePac affects many brands and many retailers.
✓ 27:00 Food safety and healthy eating in America.
✓ 29:00 We hear from Food Safety advocate,Vani Hari about food additives and Kellogg’s.
✓ 35:00 Kellogg’s response to SmartHER News.
✓ 41:00 California sets a trend on Red No. 3.
✓ 46:00 A heads up (quite literally): this week’s Supermoon to be the biggest and brightest of the year. *A Hunter's Moon - not a Harvest moon (which is in September! My bad!)
SHOW NOTES
FAA clears SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 rocket launches (Space.com)
SpaceX with Historic First Returns Rocket to Launch Pad (SmartHER News)
FBI Makes Arrests in Alleged Election Day Terror Plot (SmartHER News)
2024 Presidential Election Interactive Map
As Harris Visits Detroit, Some Democrats See Ground To Be Made Up (The New York Times)
Major Meat Recall Impacts Products At Target, Walmart, Aldi, & More (SmartHER News)
FD&C Red No. 3 (FDA)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is |
| 0:07.0 | Smarter News. Welcome, everybody, to a special edition of Scoop on Tuesday. We normally do our scoops on Monday to get you ready for the week ahead, but we had that longer weekend. At least some of us did. I know some of corporate America was continuing to work through Columbus Day slash Indigenous People's Day slash what depends on your state slash slash slash, what's something |
| 0:39.7 | kind of interesting to note is that on the federal calendar, it is Columbus Day still. |
| 0:45.4 | President Biden, by way of presidential proclamation, also included Indigenous People's Day |
| 0:52.0 | into the same holiday. |
| 0:56.6 | In order for the federal holiday to change, |
| 1:01.4 | it would need an active Congress. So right now, if you look at federal calendars, you might see one name. And if you look at your state, you may see another name. And that's true of a lot of federal |
| 1:05.9 | holidays, including, for example, George Washington's birthday, which is often referred to as |
| 1:10.4 | President's Day. Officially, it's George Washington's birthday, which is often referred to as President's Day. |
| 1:11.8 | Officially is George Washington's birthday for a federal holiday, but we commonly refer to it as |
| 1:16.5 | President's Day because that's how many of our own states refer to it. |
| 1:19.6 | So it's kind of interesting when you look at holidays and some of the history behind it. |
| 1:24.6 | And Columbus Day, like many, has an interesting history to it. And as we've seen |
| 1:29.4 | with the addition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, we can add them. We can't add them and we |
| 1:35.8 | can't change them. So I'd be curious, if you had an option for one more federal holiday, |
| 1:43.0 | when would it be and what would it be? I feel like we need one more federal holiday. When would it be and what would it be? |
| 1:46.7 | I feel like we need one more good like three-day holiday somewhere in the mix. |
| 1:52.6 | And I'm not quite sure where I would place it. |
| 1:56.2 | But they're so nice to look forward to if you actually can take it. |
| 1:59.9 | Often on Smarter News, we still broadcast on Mondays because we know that's what many people |
| 2:04.6 | depend on us for. |
| 2:06.4 | This was a good time to take a little bit of a breather because guess what? |
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