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Civics 101

The USDA

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Marion Nestle and Jennifer Ifft take us through the department that does much, much more than we ever thought possible.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hannah, there's a game people play who have worked at the United States Department of Agriculture

0:06.4

and it's called, Does the USDA do it?

0:10.2

How do you play?

0:12.2

I read about it in the fifth risk, a book by Michael Lewis.

0:15.3

It's not dissimilar from two truths in a lie.

0:18.2

One person says a thing, right?

0:20.8

A far out, strange thing.

0:24.2

And the other person has to guess whether or not it's something the USDA does.

0:28.1

All right, hit me.

0:30.8

Fire a 106 millimeter recoilless rifle to control avalanches at man with mountain.

0:35.3

If you're alone to buy a house, maintain a fleet of aircraft.

0:38.8

Inspect every single piece of meat and poultry in the United States.

0:42.2

Manage and dispose of mule deer corpses infected with chronic wasting disease.

0:45.5

Provide hot lunch for over 30 million school children.

0:47.8

Shoot fireworks at geese near airport runway.

0:50.7

Research improving algorithms in the wind erosion protection system model for temporal changes

0:54.6

in the state of surface conditions.

0:56.4

They do it all, don't they?

0:58.8

They do it all, Hannah.

1:00.5

I wouldn't be surprised if they hosted this podcast.

1:06.0

You're listening to Civics 101.

1:07.0

I'm the Capitite J.

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