tv The Price of Progress Al Jazeera May 18, 2021 3:00pm-4:01pm +03
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the desperate situation of the indian government set up a new commission to monitor success of evolution across 5 nobody and states health experts and mention the same thing warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because the 19. 0 or the world. and how his scene in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera a general strike in the occupied west bank has led to confrontations between protesters and police in multiple different locations have been a number of injuries at this checkpoints in ramallah police of far tear gas to disperse protesters in bethlehem ant's there are crowds gathered in that close and hebron just to name a few as anger grows worldwide over the israeli occupation and its own going bombardment of gaza 212 palestinians have been killed including 61 children
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since the bombing began 8 days ago it april him has more. this is why are the largest week since we started reporting on the belief of the nation it's true but also even if i compare it to the past few years we have those large numbers take to the street many palestinians are telling us that they are empowered by the sense of who needs all that was the occupied west bank those occupied after the as well as those that israel for that she was many of them have told us that the whole . palestinian factions have far more rockets into israel when soldiered was injured in the latest attacks israel says when 3000 rockets have been loaned since the offensive began at least 10 people in israel have been killed including 2 children . a powerful cycle and has was swept ashore in western india killing at least
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$21.00 people cycling talked a is now weakening after making landfall in the state of gujarat on monday and it's also caused damage in state's rights along the coast from 2 carola severe winds and heavy rain her forced more than 200000 people from their homes sea level swelled as high as 3 meters and winds reach more than 185 kilometers per hour at the same time the search is underway for $127.00 people missing after a barge sank off india's calls you know the $180.00 people have been rescued faulty vessel to other vessels drifts in rough seas india's daily coronavirus death toll has reached a record high with 4300 deaths reported on tuesday that's despite the number of new covered 1000 and factions continuing to fall across the country around $260000.00 cases reported on choose day and 30 thousands from the previous day we will report
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suggests india is not likely to resume major exports of vaccines until at least october elizabeth promise in new delhi with more on why the export of vaccines has been delayed. it was about 2 months ago that the indian government decided to considerably slow down exports because they realize that they don't have enough at home and about a month ago they halted them india was the biggest contributor to the un's kovacs program which provides about things to no income countries and because it's had to stop that low income countries such as india's neighbors in need of a stronger many in africa are scrambling to find alternative sources but despite stopping the export something like 66000000 they either donated all sold before realizing realizing that they didn't have enough even though they've stopped the exports they still don't have enough vaccinations have fallen by 50 percent over the past month and states have been left now to try and make deals with foreign
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vaccine manufacturers none have been able to so far because the government even though it made everyone over the age of 18 eligible for vaccine from the start of may it hasn't brand up production to meet that increase in demand when india has the capacity to produce the 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world. the hong kong government says it's temporarily closing its office in taiwan but it hasn't provided a reason to ones government says it regrets the decision tensions between the 2 reasons is pro-democracy protests started in hong kong in 2019 and spain is facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis suff to more than 6000 people cross from morocco into the spanish suter marja single influx ensuite the area. and so that sits for me it's the price of progress is next.
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a regulation so we don't do. crazy things because maybe sometimes we would do crazy things i don't know but i'll accept that we have regulation we want to regulation i was in this. and if we don't behave then the aspinall to that's fine. obviously the the industry makes money of course it does if the industry did not make money how many people would be out of work. or sort of the last concern the public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking precedent corporate interests corporate profits have been getting priority with the regulator so that needs to change and one of the big ways to do that is just to require transparency. we as we left transparency we would like to publish everything we use. it's just not allowed
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and we use if so cannot say we don't keer there's intellect or property rights but we are if so we publish everything's it would just be breaking the law. they prefer intellectual property. to the health of children. if you make money out of selling pesticides how much incentive. does these companies do these companies have to get us off pesticides will they make sure that we get to use less pesticides or will they make sure that we use always more pesticides. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in not being to deal. regulations instead of researching substitutes and how to make these things differently.
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it's in the industry's interests to bring food to the tables that a safe high quality. that is reasonably priced so that you and i and all of those people working in food industry can also sit down and eat good nutritious food every day as a way to help. goals risk you are referring to or to accidents industrial incidents writers or people who are injured or who people died every time this happens for industry in general it's a defeat. however those incidents also allows to improve to do it better next time and to progress and there is no progress without an analysis of risk versus going for. the fast what is progress
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in its progress moving forward whatever and using any technology we are capable of inventing but it's not because we know how to do something that it's useful and that it's good for the people we put some intelligence on what the technology and what progress is i don't think that progress is ruining the future generations house by using tons of chemicals that that can that can create disease and if cancer to. to someone who's 20 years old that's not promised me.
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if we were it today was a precautionary principle probably would not have airplanes would not exist because airplanes sometimes they fall down so there is a risk we would not have automobiles because every year in europe 5060000 people die we do it will be a. precautionary principle i think is a disaster. and yet what we are now more and more advocating. and you replace these 2 i would go to church we are farming in europe we have less substances north americans or south americans with less you know with seeds because
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we don't use g.m.o. foods we don't use technology. i mean it doesn't make sense we want to participate and be competitive on a global scene or not. and in europe we have this romantic idea of. business people. they would never cultivate something that is dangerous and they would never cultivate something they don't need. just business people and we should get them to the business and. i. and we can't expect them to act in any other way except as business.
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the only way that would change is if there is a root and branch revolution in the way that we do business and that would need to involve all corporations all over the world because as long as we treat food like a global commodity. we have a very big problem. and part of that problem is that food will go to the highest bidder and the highest bidder may not be someone that wants to feed the highest bidder maybe someone wants to feed your car this is entirely the wrong way to look at food food should be sued .
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i will be. all about making money. and profits it's about because. it's about an informative. big uniform lannes with one group action. it's about corporate control. and it's mostly also economically it's about international markets import export it's all about companies controlling in far way places lands to explore commodities is not about food production it's not about feeding people. industrial agriculture is
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a form of mining. and it produces raw materials and then you subject raw materials to various uses and the most of the uses go into animal food and textiles fiber a few or whatever you have the the rest of it can't be sold more expensive to some other use will go into processed in food processing. so it's food and i says that she always food by a business transaction food is both so we all need to eat that's for sure but in europe we have a very comfortable full stomach conversation. we haven't had a famine in europe hundreds of years so we have no idea what it means to have the choice between one tomato and no tomato we have tend to want doesn't really matter
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to us if we have a chimo to mount on and you know and i think we are. unaware of the impact our decisions here have on countries where there is no food no days there's a big confusion between. general interest and in the interest of industry because the priority is jobs and growth and it's like growth and jobs are more important that people's lives. if the so food industry is successful it will create more jobs it will create more value added it will create more quotes so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interests of the industry but this should be a communal fight. modern i recall sure relies on site the rights relies on proceeding from mean which is
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a connection between satellites digital machinery and then all of the tools which are available for farmers. unfortunately i think europe is losing its edge as far as food production and agriculture because of overly. conservative restrictive regulation and these trade off between progress and risk is not what i understood and. i think europe is the best potential to be easy leading agricultural region in the world we should be the ones with the best jobs and the most investment in seeds in
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hybridization genetic space the size chemicals machinery we should be because we have everything we need to succeed and my fear is that we are not using this potential to its maximum. what we want to see is something very different is a model built on diversity on biological diversity that is you know. different crops planted together crop rotations. do we get as humanity our act together to change and reconfiguring together how we operate on this planet. we will make ourselves obsolete. that's defining moment and we have to put the technologies in place where they belong they have to be then assistant to our goals well many
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people if i say that would say yes yes of course makes sense but. i have not understood that this is not where we are now we are now defining future visions through technology advances but i want to turn it around i want that we have a collective vision where we want to be and how we want to design our environment and our food system that operates within the planetary boundaries as scientists so if in defining where it respects the rules of the planet. and not vice versa that we manipulate our planet to the point where it meets our needs in economic terms. what progress do we want are we willing to trade. so most year benefits for some
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of the risk because we're facing a world. which is more and more globalized so we are up against. other parts of the world which do not always play with the same growth. there are geopolitical issues and boss of the world where there is less food and we need to find ways to get food to those parts of the world either through and through producing it themselves and to produce more food on the same amount of land and as we told you as more because use more resources.
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no i can say you know the momentum. to support the commander of the for the muscles are really yes the cuban economy come in and say no to the side of militias that don't allow us the place you ask your plow guy but remember we were on. a $1000000000.00 you may think oh. do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are in every family today. it is not due to new viruses or new microbes that have been found in all breast cancers and that's not true so it is due to environment and to chronic
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poisons that outnumber what our chronic poisons this time to be toxic initially and spread all over the place. pesticide. going to you're going to come in on your side initiated it because his mom i know booklet i work and i'm critical dissident to your choice on your continuum enough. to notice 11 is he also merely go know what i said in my life. the older and more credited to beatrice how your community can consider the mama inflow model. you mean just as he could in a medium of polls among other 80 q.e. in the but to in the silesian. in this is it the best thing i feel and so to doxy course so look.
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scare people it's easy to to use fear as a strong emotional driver for a change in policy and for influencing policy that sometimes it's in the interests of the. anti industry groups to do that of course because achatz their network brings in money for them as well so i think we should look at this from both sides we sometimes have visits from them recently they invaded this building and they have done so before and threw manure and threatening letters and stuff but ok that's part of the game i suppose we do not want you know when we fight against and we fight against when we try and dialogue with people either we don't have the same weapons i sometimes have the feeling that we have bows and arrows and they have atom bombs as soon as there's an engineer or
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a group of people who are against something maybe maybe the bandits maybe they stop using it in place of importing so in terms of development and trust i think we risk losing a lot of trust as a region when i say industry has the truth we know what's in our products for example that if i if i make a product i mean you can go home this evening and make a buy area in your kitchen and you know what's in there and you write it down that is the truth sorry but you know we are an industry we know we put in our products we can tell you this is the truth this is what we put record in our products when i say we have the truth i'm talking about not talking about philosophically the truth i'm talking about what we do we know what we do and we can talk about it. thank.
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from moscow earth 11000 people who were arrested for the listening post covers lou . the news is covered on a jersey you know. when we move forward. i'm having a hit in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera a general strike in the occupied west bank has led to confrontations between protesters and police across the territory have been a number of injuries at this checkpoints in ramallah and crowds have gathered in nablus and hebron that's as anger grows worldwide over the israeli occupation and its bombardment of gaza $212.00 palestinians have been killed including $61.00 children since the bowman began 8 days ago it even him has more.
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was the largest week since we started reporting on the belief of the nation in the district but also even if i compare it to the past few years we have heard those large numbers of paper this week many companies are telling us that they are empowered by the fence and when it's all that was the occupied west bank goes up by the was one of the it was well for that she was many of them have told us that because the whole. palestinian factions are far more rockets into israel one soldier was injured usual says more than 3000 rockets have been launched since the offensive began at least 10 people in israel have been killed including 2 children a cycle and has for the shore in western india killing at least $21.00 people cycling is now weakening after making landfall in the state of gujarat on monday it's also caused damage in states along the coast from maharashtra to kerala the
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winds and heavy rain have force within 200000 people in their homes and the same time a search is underway for 127 people missing after a barge sank off india's coast nearly 180 people have been rescued while 2 other vessels are drifts in rough seas on kong says it is temporarily causing its office in taiwan but hasn't provided a reason. my time was government says it regrets the decision tensions between the city have risen since pro-democracy protests in hong kong in 2019 beijing sees taiwan as part of china and spain is facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis after more than $6000.00 people crossed from morocco into the spanish enclave of sweater many of them swam more nefarious since our children and now it's back to the price of progress.
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that is that companies have to submit studies to the european commission they do the studies themselves. they have to submit it's to the european commission and to f. so so the european food safety authority and they have the tenor of experts that looks at the studies and then they say ok safe or not. so what we have found is that within these expert panel she has a lot of people with ties with the food industry so that means a conflict of interest.
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so if someone wants to authorize a product in europe let's say a plant protection product this person because this person or this company the applicant has to provide data that allows us as the risk assessors to judge whether this product is safe or not and this information comes from the applicant and the studies that are commissioned by the applicant to allow us to assess the safety are paid by the applicant obviously so it's the intellectual property of the applicant and we can publish parts of these studies in the current legal framework but we also have to respect the business confidentiality claims of the applicants so there's a balance to be found between transparency as much as possible but also to protect the investment of companies into their product innovations.
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exactly like in the middle ages you were asking to the priest what is the truth in the whole you ask to these scientists in regular to religion sees what is the truth and they act in the same manner as a magician you know because they work in secret compounds we secretly effects they say that you cannot publish that however they say they have the truth. if you spend a huge amount of money doing a study a study on something where there's a lot of confidential information that you don't want. another company to copy paste of course not i mean you might have spent years all over sources so people time a lot of time
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a lot of money on doing this research. what if the does it analyzes all of that or publish the results so it will publish it will come out with a statement at the end. and it will publish the results but it won't publish all the details of what a lot of people want to see because there are a lot of people for our relative eyes all of us because it's not actually a lot of people but some people. want to see everything that's fine i think now it's actually open published but you're talking about several thousands of pages i don't know who in his right mind would sit down and read through all of those pages i think is some parts can be blacked out but i would insist that that's to do with privacy so the relationship between our companies and research institutes and universities is quite strong as i mentioned before in many parts of the world it tends to be the public sector developing the products thanks to a relationship with the company maybe the company donated the technology the problem in europe for example is that in f. so that you mentioned before they have scientists assessing the products and the
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scientists have a obligation to have no conflict of interest that means they have to have had no relationship whatsoever with industry ever so if you're a scientist in europe. having any kind of dealing with a company closes a number of avenues of work later so again we are really champions in creating difficulties for ourselves in europe but the rest of the world is doing fine. but rather to how it's worked for monsanto and with me as my partner and why after . 2. who's right who's john kerry with and next to john is me why why no.
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thank you very much you know your college to the 2nd panel which look. at the transparency and use of scientific studies and yes this month of life est in the united states and the hopefully will provide insight into the so-called monsanto papers thank you very much for inviting me to be here today as a journalist for some 30 years now i'm someone who has spent most of my life focusing on facts pursuing the truth i spent roughly 20 of those 30 years delving into the dealings of monsanto and i can confidently tell you that the story of the company's top selling chemical gleick to say is not one of truth but one of deceit
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it's sort of a treasure trove a look inside a very big and powerful company that has been very secretive you know for decades and a lot of the information is quite alarming when it comes to public health and safety associated with the use of their popular product life the same around it another way in which monsanto has manipulated regulators in the public by establishing networks of scientists around the world to support its agenda and its message about the safety of this chemical months and no end or the months in a back life is a task force pays them they lobby regulators they are their papers sensually to push this message that the chemical is safe there are many individuals and there are many types of different relationships that we've seen in these documents you can see here that professor david kirk a. as one such paid expert monsanto has relied on.
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in 2012 months and was very worried about gino toxicity questions arising from life as a research led to gauge kirkland monsanto needed someone to help counter these concerns that were persisting what bill haden's wrote in that email i think i was just naive and it clearly did not lead to any policy decision we all have decades of experience in the industry and then a full we have reputations to maintain and that means that there is no point in us being responding to the influence of of one stakeholder over another because those reputations would be destroyed i can say absolutely and categorically categorically this paper was not ghost written we all imports our own sections
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to the paper there was no import involvement or influence of the review on months and thinking well it seems apparent that monsanto actually fears real independent authentic science monsanto said itself it feared the i.r. preview when it found n n 2014 this is before down before the classification monsanto says it fears this it says internally that it knew it had vulnerability in epidemiology toxicology geno talks and officials even predicted the glyphosate would warrant a possible or probable rating with respect to f.'s in echo. you know absence of process is defined as a peer review and i understand that and that's i. i don't have a problem with that peer review problem in this case is that's not was done nobody went back and verified the findings on the original studies and by failing to
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verify those findings it cascaded through the entire review process such that you don't have the answer which is based on the best science i think that these important to mention that we have doing in the proper independent assessment. accordingly we do so so that we have enough so according to the regulation that focus on the use of the active sessions and based on the rate there will be sustenance regarding the independence from industry is clear in the legislation i will say these is the basic principle big company that once to market something the e.u. must pay for the assessment so the studies have conducted by industry there is no doubt the current process is scientifically flawed it is time to have an independent panel of scientists to evaluate the way in which the science is reviewed there is a need for the regulatory agencies to really analyze the data and there is a need to publicly publicly release all of the analyses and data to improve the
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transparency of this process these are not the actions of a company that has nothing to hide this is not how you promote a product this is that's actually proven safe this is how you whitewash unfortunate and unprofitable facts. this is not by accident but by design and it serves monsanto very well but it does not seem that it serves the public interest thank you. monsanto prepared certain documents for the registration and the f so report if you look at it has taken directly certain language from the monsanto documents and just placed it in the report so there's a lot of concern about whether f. they really did an independent analysis or whether they just took the position to be against. monsanto's request so that is not an independent assessment how can we therefore expect that on the basis of such robust science and i'm quoting industry
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we can make a decision politicians in that you can make a decision to protect their people that if somebody you know has said hello to the industry at some stage in his life that should not mean that that particular scientist should be banned from a panel or. research has been funded by someone and many of the scientists that have a lot of them have now left the. organization and their science panels because they have been accused of having worked with the industry but since when does that make a scientist dishonest. why having worked with the industry some years ago on a small project at some stage i did i'm a scientist by training and when i was in university of course i was looking for a grant to do my research because some research can cost a lot of money i was helped by industry i haven't spoken to that particular
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industry now for many many years it's been a long time since i was in call it. but that doesn't mean i'm dishonest as a scientist. now europe tends to be a region where influence is very high and those are regions look at europe for for regulation. and that's why it's so important that europe keeps the regulation which is scientific which is database and which as much as possible besides
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without being influenced by. by i would say by minorities or by just emotions and fear. when science meets value and it's becoming complicated. we come with science with evidence we do scientific process of risk assessment but then this evidence is given on another stage on the policy level where beliefs emotions values come in and what we see is if politicians don't like the outcome of our risk assessment they don't question their belief they question the validity of the process so basically if succumbs with an opinion let's continue it's insecticides.
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politicians love if so they wonder food if so you are protecting the bees you're doing the right thing really good work than i have so we all applaud to you and if the same process with the same people with the same scrutiny comes with a conclusion let's say your life is it people say i'm sorry i don't like this outcome if so should not say that to say it is relatively safe so if so must be corrupt i find this very bizarre you know regulations is independent of corporate influence and. everything is a test. actually tested. with a lot of money and authorities are looking at it independently. i don't know where these people have been living. even in some of the mainstream if you do
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find reports that clearly explained that this is not happening we are seen corporate capture not only in the sciences sciences is one of the fields we see corporate capture in every walk of life. i'd like to say it seems to be very highly charged not because of the safety of classes but because of g.m. because of monsanto because of international trade maybe even because of inequality with global trade. ins of health statistics each. 2 for such a book about that in that oprah. must just pick. up
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the checks to meet you. searching for mr van impe you feel sad for both. of course if the scientists works for the company that's a different story but i think we need to be a little bit more. realistic about what it is we want do we want the best scientists to assess the products the gas to make sure they're safe all do we want to make sure there's no conflict of interest what is the objective is that the safety of the product because of the conflict of interests of the of the scientist i think we need to be a bit more. honest and trustworthy without falling into the mistakes and so that's not something that we're looking for. the experts we use are as independent as possible but i think also here it's not black or white
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it's not seer or one that's not the binary approach we have to find the right balance between the best expertise which means people that have done research the people that are with both their feet in the scientific endeavor and on the other hand to make sure that there is no conflict of interest and if i may say also but i think europe needs to make a decision whether we know i think or stop you. yes i thought leads to far. out of what i've seen this done nothing only from watching mice but they don't suffer the impulse to cut off he got there then their best one last $101.00 telephone anything is a total of an even less than they left on my mission is what i am plump and think
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is that i 100 buy in from here in the last are going to you know one thing like that i live in nothingness when enough like on t.v. i pass when i can often put a compliment to sell us but if we have like a machine open it but i'm into opium in a country folk like anti gun oppression of can put a hand in the oh yeah to know of is that i list but if we. do not come to that economy that of the mother. so yes precautionary principle is and by scientific n.e.t.'s i think. a big issue for european economy in general because it reduces. the willingness of. investment. there is a risk even the trigger new pressures and. this is a risk. this is
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a benefit i'm i willing to take this risk yes or no and the regulation today. gives us an answer. if you look at the car of today it is much safer than the car yesterday you know the 1st car that i drove in when i was a boy and my friends i was riding had no safety belt and i was no i had no airbag and i knew a.b.s. and and yet the a car maker was not murder. the car was like this and it was a very safe car for the time and i'm not saying that basically says of 150. you know where fantastic but by then they were very good night and then we discover that they have some side effects and then the regulation evolves and regulation becomes more demanding and especially sides are banned or always drawn from the company and that's normal that's normal evolution of any industry the power of
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innovation doesn't come from the big companies the big companies are too big to be innovative anymore they just want to preserve the privileges but they're not innovating anymore i mean look at look at the g.m. and the pesticides we're dealing with g.m. plants that were developed 30 years ago nothing has changed it's another side resistance since the beginning it's all chemicals are something of a shift in. the innovation is that we now have in addition to round up ready and run a business to plant we have become resistant plants and to for day resistant plants so we're getting an even more cocked toxic cocktail that's innovation. has to get it's just has to get a. benefit versus risk right what is a risk you're willing to accept on the environment even if it's very small in order
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to have a safe and affordable. food supply. to me the defining battle in the future will also be around our crowfoot system if we manage to get our in my view dysfunctional agra food system on a sound and vironment economic social and economic basis. then we solve everything else will come from. even climate change and these things health issues and marketplace use social issues they're collateral they're all part of the of the soul thing that is connected and the connect the connecting the centerpiece is is food. and how you produce it. because we see. the world as it is.
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we are in fact at the border edge of the roof aleutian. because human kind is able to do that but it's all much time that will take. how much. misery. that will create i don't know but that's i'm only you know there is a french writer called peer hobbyist so this is a colibri affair so i'm just a little bird in the system doing my job as much as i can. in europe we're not going to give up when i open there are lots of other technology
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and it's not just about g.m.o. there are lots of other technologies coming out and the companies are committed to invest in europe as well despite it being sold. uncomfortable is a euphemism going to work here. johnny. qatar airways hello there northern parts of the south america have seen some pretty wet weather and that's going to continue as we go into choose day we've got heavy showers expected across southern parts of
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venezuela and colombia extending down into northern parts of brazil we have seen flooding in the amazonas states and we could see more of that with that rain to cysts that many of the rivers across the amazon rain forest are reaching record levels and that's juta that heavy rainfall for the dry unsettled weather we have to head to the eastern coast of brazil 24 degrees in rio plenty of sunshine coming through and it's a similar story for argentina 18 degrees and when i said it lots of sunshine there it's further south as we go to chile that we've got a weather system pushing in and by the time we get to wednesday we'll have wet and windy weather and some snow there across the andes mountains for central america it's also a wet picture panama seeing some of those heavy a showers as well as guatemala and pots of the yucatan peninsula seeing a shower too across parts of cancun $28.00 degrees though so the heat is there the
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caribbean is seeing a lot of rain and that's the tail end of these storms from the u.s. but have bene at 30 degrees. qatar airways. killing the debate you don't see this action and on your voice your only issue of merit is the media will miss when true story no topic is off the table why in the world would we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just a store in the street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera i was. working in asia and africa very few days where i'd be choosing editing my own stories in a refugee camp with no electricity and right now we're confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise because out the
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only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together that's why al-jazeera is so important we make those connections. think. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. to find him back in green palestinians across occupied territories protest against israeli balloons. remains of a home are usually ariel.
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