Clay Higgins Cracks 'Bowtie' Joke While Questioning FDA Chief Robert Califf

At a House Oversight Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) questioned FDA Commissioner Robert Califf about imported seafood.
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[@tedbell4416]

Clay Higgins would make a great president

[@mminlamesa1032]

I love the guy. One of the few solid House members.

[@hulkingcolosussklunnulk2501]

You did it higgins..... follow the yellow brick Rd ... before Google earth scrubs the map further.... remember the island ♾️👁️♾️

[@vegaswoman7020]

Choice Canning - Antibiotic Seafood - imported 24 million pounds of shrimp . Great Question Mr Higgins 🤔

[@wingedinfinity6715]

The fact that we import ANY seafood from other countries is astonishing to me. We are surrounded on 3 sides of our huge country with OCEAN, .... SMH ..... SMH ..... SMH ..... OMG 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@KentoLeoDragon]

We overfished our own waters a long time ago. People eat a lot of fish.

[@martypickens6760]

Wonder why China doesn't have the problem of overfishing their waters, especially when sea food is part of their main stay? Do they have more fish than we do? America has 350M people. Chine has what a billion may be more, I am not sure.How does that work?

[@sbd6]

@@martypickens6760 Most of their seafood comes from aquaculture, or basically farm raising fish to eat. Sounds easy and we certainly do have some in the US but it's not perfect. Have to use a lot of antibiotics and other chemicals. It also has real potential for significant environmental damage. Obviously it's not viable with many types of fish commonly consumed here either. Make your own opinion on it or whatever, but that's what it is.

[@tvtothepoint]

We are importing farmed fish from all over the world, just like we have a lot of farmland with naturally occurring orchards and different food crops in places.. But that's not enough to feed all the people who want to eat fruits and vegetables. You need to farm the oceans, just like you have to farm crops and land animals in order to feed the masses... Mother Nature can't handle the volume of the demand forever. Also, many different parts of the ocean support different kinds of fish. Cold Atlantic waters produce great quality salmon and tuna, along with lobster and blue crab, while more moderate temperatures are favorable to ocean whitefish, marlin, and sea bass, and the tropical zones are where they fish for grouper, shark, and flatfish, along with red fleshed varieties (most of the sushi kinds), and "jumbo shrimp" (my favorite) and long legged crab. Think about it, you can't grow pineapples in the Midwest, but you also can't raise beef cattle in the wetlands of Taiwan, or potatoes in the soils of Bolivia.. So we trade for whatever we need. Import and export is good for the economy, and good for variety in the stores.

[@pegasus5287]

Canned fruits as well and they taste terrible!

[@pascalouellette8516]

Simple random sampling techniques could catch this rather easily...not doing his job

[@danaday7266]

Why are we importing seafood 🦞 when we have oceans, lakes and commercial fishermen

[@LFDNC]

There are a myriad of economic and policy issues. I think it’s a follow the money thing. Someone in government is getting rich. Your point is well made though. I’m rather curious what we (the world) are going to do about over fishing. I’m not at all an environmentalist (I worked as a geologist for a consulting company. Idealism disappears in the face of reality), but we have done a number on all our fisheries.

[@tvtothepoint]

We are importing farmed fish from all over the world, just like we have a lot of farmland with naturally occurring orchards and different food crops in places.. But that's not enough to feed all the people who want to eat fruits and vegetables. You need to farm the oceans, just like you have to farm crops and land animals in order to feed the masses... Mother Nature can't handle the volume of the demand forever. Also, many different parts of the ocean support different kinds of fish. Cold Atlantic waters produce great quality salmon and tuna, along with lobster and blue crab, while more moderate temperatures are favorable to ocean whitefish, marlin, and sea bass, and the tropical zones are where they fish for grouper, shark, and flatfish, along with red fleshed varieties (most of the sushi kinds), "jumbo shrimp" (my favorite) and long legged crab. Think about it, you can't grow pineapples in the Midwest, but you also can't raise beef cattle in the wetlands of Taiwan, or potatoes in the soils of Bolivia.. So we trade for whatever we need. Import and export is good for the economy, and good for variety in the stores.

[@LFDNC]

@@tvtothepoint I don’t disagree with you. My takeaway from your post is that the world’s resources should be properly managed. I agree. Do you take a long term view of that? We have an interesting and concerning convergence of issues. How we utilize our natural resources is important. I also think that the globalization genie is out of the bottle, for good or for ill. There’s no putting it back. I think prioritizing based on short, medium, and long term needs is important. However, the problem is finding individuals who are capable of thinking the problem through and not just feeling. I’m not suggesting that I’m necessarily right for it, but emotion tends to take a lot of air in the room. I don’t want to start a political discussion, but I recently heard a discussion between RFK, Jr. and Ben Shapiro. I am fairly conservative and disagree with RFK, Jr. on some significant cultural issues. However, I like his focus and I’m seriously considering financially supporting him. It’s worth a listen even if you make other choices. He’s going beyond the culture war and into the stuff we’re talking about.

[@pegasus5287]

All the choice foods go to the "choice" people in the world most likely. We don't have USDA choice grade A beef any more either. Those purple stamps disappeared years ago.

[@pascalouellette8516]

Extremely easy to fake any digital oversight, clueless bureaucrat who thinks otherwise...

[@Kayttoson]

Wow that's horrible. Thank You for all you do to Make sure Americans knows the truth.

[@pokerbob2277]

Thanks to rep clay for standing up for an industry plagued with overseas product cutting the profitability of our very own local industries

[@iracer9395]

Ive never trusted anyone who wears a bowtie. Just creepy.

[@mariadorosario8293]

😇💙💙👍🙏🇱🇷🌏

[@markmccord2887]

Mr. Higgins is great.

[@JohnDoe-oj5it]

I get the GOUT 😅😅

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[@TimParker-Chambers]

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[@shannonbattles3379]

Clay Higgins is the man

[@jimshepherd3841]

SEA FOOD 😳What That Is What We ARE Asking The FDA About 💩What About Vaccines or Drugs WTF Higgins 🙄🙄🤪

[@UPyours-q8h]

There it is just give them more authority that they never had before ask him a question why do we allow this to happen in the first place and why don't they just destroy it automatically

[@UPyours-q8h]

We actually shouldn't be important any kind of food from any other country here around the United States of America if our fishermen can't provide us with shrimp or anything else that is caught in the open sea we definitely don't need anything coming from other countries where they're actually using antibiotics in it

[@AnnieBoBannie421]

Ewwww… the ‘farms’ where they get the ‘sea food’… it’s unbelievable… I always check where it originated…. 🤮

[@tvtothepoint]

We are importing farmed fish from all over the world, just like we have a lot of farmland with naturally occurring orchards and different food crops in places.. But that's not enough to feed all the people who want to eat fruits and vegetables. You need to farm the oceans, just like you have to farm crops and land animals in order to feed the masses... Mother Nature can't handle the volume of the demand forever. Also, many different parts of the ocean support different kinds of fish. Cold Atlantic waters produce great quality salmon and tuna, along with lobster and blue crab, while more moderate temperatures are favorable to ocean whitefish, marlin, and sea bass, and the tropical zones are where they fish for grouper, shark, and flatfish, along with red fleshed varieties (most of the sushi kinds), "jumbo shrimp" (my favorite) and long legged crab. Think about it, you can't grow pineapples in the Midwest, but you also can't raise beef cattle in the wetlands of Taiwan, or potatoes in the soils of Bolivia.. So we trade for whatever we need. Import and export is good for the economy, and good for variety in the stores.

[@tvtothepoint]

Oh and antibiotics are heavily in use in the USA. Most of the commercial beef, chicken and pork have low levels of antibiotics put in their feed. It's a consequence of penning so many animals together. Most modern farming methods depend on drugs including antibiotics and hormones in order to produce sufficient quantities of food at a low enough cost to feed us all. Grass fed, antibiotic and hormone free cattle are available, but most people cannot afford to buy it, and it's not available in the quantities needed by commercial packing houses. In my area, local, grass fed beef goes for around $17-19 per lb. Minimum! Good steak is over $24 per lb. Even hamburger is over $12, for the good stuff. For comparison, commercial hamburger is $5-7 per lb.