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:55:00
Only he really knows that this
isn't really the WTO.

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Everybody else will think
that it's the WTO.

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But another good thing is
that it will be a hungry audience,

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so there's a good chance
they are going to eat those hamburgers,

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which we weren't sure
was actually gonna happen

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with the accountants in Australia.
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I think, for look,
I should probably carry these in.

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Okay. Can you do it?
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I'm thinking that you probably shouldn't
be associated with the hamburgers.

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Okay.
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I'd like to thank everybody for coming.
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You have many education choices,
and we're all grateful at the WTO

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that you have chosen
to listen to us for an hour

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and to our messages about things
that will impact everyone.

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I'd like to say that,
by joining us here,

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you're essentially embarking
with us on a mission.

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I'd like to start right at the beginning.
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As I was saying,
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trade liberalization is a project of faith;
it's a crusade.

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And in any crusade,
there are problems.

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There are invading armies,
there are big blockades.

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And one of the problems
that we run into in this crusade

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is starvation in the Third World.
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You may recognize that symbol
from those green bins you see...

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where cans, bottles, blah, blah.
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The kind of recycling I'm talking about
that we have developed at the WTO

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is...not-not really
this irrelevant kind of recycling

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where the target-
individual consumers like you and me

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or of non-edible industrial products-
is such a tiny part of the problem.

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Rather, we're talking about really
recycling what counts where it counts.

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To begin to understand
the theory behind this,

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you must first realize that the human body
is not really very efficient.

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When ingesting heavy foods,
only about 20% of the nutrients

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are absorbed
by the alimentary passageway

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while the other 80% finds itself
expelled in post-consumer byproducts.

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Already 20 years ago,
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NASA scientists began
to tap into this nutritional gold mine

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by developing filters that could
transform their astronauts' waste


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