SEGMENT: COMMUNICATIONS & GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

Orion Samuelson>LPL Interviews N-Z>LPL Interviews N-Z, Segment 16

SEGMENT: COMMUNICATIONS & GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS,

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COMMUNICATIONS
Politics
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
National Animal Identification Program. Want all animals registered to the national government so they can trace diseases to the source as quickly as possible. This is best for disease control such as salmonella outbreak with peanuts or Mad Cow Disease. Talks about people who are against it. A lot of people are against it, though Orion is for it. It's a very emotional issues. Farmers feel like Big Brother is watching them and working to tax them more. There are already standards put into place, such as Gerber's carrots have to record everything done with carrots, but livestock producers are against it. Orion's personal mission of Samuelson Says is to stimulate thinking and hopefully lead to discussion. Samuelson Says started thirty years ago as an editorial venue for Orion. It gives him the opportunity to voice his own personal feelings so he doesn't put them in his stories. It is both TV show and then radio and then he started writing for newspaper columns.