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women this weekend on the w i o it is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better and that they were healthier. but were they really? they couldn't meet africa appeal to schools in paris is a balance of knowledge regarding old plan for ah, between the old agronomy publications. referring something special ah, nutritional composition table for fruits and vegetables. it is the list, the vision and mineral content of each and every variety. ah,

and indeed over the last 60 years, many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost some of the nutritional value. so how does the, ah, does there can biochemist donald davis lectures on the subject. the, i'm here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of. nutritional declines in foods davis works at the university of austin, texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 950-1999. i think that most of these declines are caused by increases in yield. when you go up,

there's last nutrients per weight of the food. a lot of agricultural scientists may not know about how big these effects are. this is kind of an embarrassing of their, they're always wanting to increase yield is modern breeding was causing increases in flavor and increases in nutrients. i think they would talk about a lot more victim. melissa is one of the food that has lost the loss of nutrients looking back and it is clear that this has to do with the varieties, as well as the farmers all over the world's shoes. bases from russia like this. the suppliers, agricultural groups such as syngenta, b, s f, and down arguments based on size, shape, color. behind you

radiation h f one f. one is important here. it means 1st generation hybrid the breathing of hybrid works. it's funny. take the challenge, is that right? he does, for example, has lunch, but you pale to cross it with another variety. his fruits of beautifully red, but much too small. from this cross pollination, a hybrid is create a plant that contains genes from both the large pale tomato and the small red one. from as early as the 900 twenty's sciences around the world have been using this technology, then they go to produce an indestructible tomato. we know about crash for cars,

but food the only with the help of genetic engineering was this possible. in 1990 through the slavery saver tomato was launched in the usa one of the trojans listed only 2 movie varieties split. picking scientists began looking for the eternal tomato. oh, i led them to israel for more than 70 years. farmers here have managed to grow fruit and vegetables. in the middle of the me

i see eva, university of jerusalem. we need one of the creators of the almost immortal tomato human being of each 79 year old professor emeritus continues to develop perfect hybrid chance. this is a breathing greenhouse. so each plant is different. and i say, well, this blunder looks stronger than this one, for instance, and definitely more than this one. we look for these differences in order to develop something which is better than the existing material. ah, the researcher and his team work at the university, but on behalf of private companies, they work is currently funded by the french, the producer. ah, it's owned by them. i cannot, i cannot give it to anybody else. this is exclusively too expensive to them. you are the only one that got into these agree decide, you know, i'm going to get it to me. then i'll creation tomorrow for southern europe.

there is a big one. really moreno looking to have a winning eyebrow in the balcony market, which has a full size rounds round with rounds tomorrow as big as a great for not. and it should grow horizontally, glove each of the lower organized. usually the cluster has 3 dimensions of fruit growing every possible direction. people like to do what we call a fish bone cluster, from pecking point of view. if you have 3 dimensions, very difficult to pick in a box. when you have a 2 dimension, you can put one on top of the other and it's much easier. i, for the desired hybrid to single variety across the flower of one is made with the pollen of the other. is the way stuck pulling. you need to come to the office flora

. this is what we call our fish and be actually in order to let us just move the brass and put the hook over into the bottom. you can see yellow, yellow dust. any day we come with the pollen and i will make it up for the nation and how many crossing you make for to have one i v and to make a commission. probably $400.00 or 100 like that. every year. sometimes coming on, if on the 30 or so we, you can go to a you know, this is how high you, of in a bitch and his team of thousands of cross pollination created the eternal tomato in the late 19 seventy's. their invention revolutionized the world market when you

begin to work on the long shelf life, because because of this waste, the 4 percent of the youth before this mutation. oh the limited to 3 days, full days at the most. when we export it to mothers to europe and we expose the lot them off to you, we used to fly by all things because if it has to go by boat from israel to mos save, the mother will be motion nobody. nobody will touch it. to extend the shelf life, the scientist uses the mutation he discovered by chance. the purpose of this model is to disseminate the seed from the human race. and so the moment the seats are right, it will fall off the bush bump into the ground, explode, and all these juice will, will run all over as far away from the mother plant as possible. in order to

conquer multi tally. we don't want it, it's an desired tray for human beings. and here we have a mutation the seemingly can provide the solution for the new hybrid. the israeli research has crossed plans for the classic tomato variety. his friends rose after 3 days with mutated plans, his jeans prevented fruit from ripening. the result hybrid that decomposes much more slowly to harvesting. ah, yeah, we're going to do is simple experiment on the right at perfect leslie, beautiful hybrid feet. ah. on the left, a traditional psalm is tomato. it is anything but perfect with yellow spotted skin and small flow. ah no,

we just have to wait. of the 3 days, both to monitors are still firm and presentable. after one week the farmer's tomato is unsuitable. the black spots indicates a deterioration and the hybrid unchanged, even after 2 weeks, the sim has come loose, but that's not only after $25.00 days is the hybrid tomato deemed not fit to be sold as it developed movie and loose skin the normal martyr. know, looks like this on the supermarket shelf, only the hybrid is able to be displayed for 3 weeks. the

bus eternal youth. this price you can this to in the genes for inhibition. i've been going to be shown carry with them. some negative traits are for instance flavor. the taste deteriorates and less no tree in. but i don't know because we know that never measure only later and ninety's in the early 2 solvents we started looking into the quality traits. i offered a project like that too many companies. i even gave it a name. i called it a stomach y a sleeping an ac. and they said it would be much healthy. the model, we don't have it in supermarkets is starting to take the industries,

they don't care the industry, the seed produces the israeli company. his era is one of the heavy weights in the seed market era and millions of the eternal tomorrow. in 2003, his ear was bought out by the multinational. lemme with an annual turnover of several 1000000000 years. following the acquisition of his era, lima became one of the largest sea producers in the world. in the middle of the negative desert, the company is experimenting with new hybrids. right. your own us is the product manager responsible for the worldwide marketing of tomato seats. the yell rosenfeld is the price officer for you and the for

the calling for some patients. the charge for $120.00 has 0 varieties growing in this greenhouse the going to show you for example, a tomatoes that we call it. um, you know, he's a very famous a tomato into a key today. is the green part of the tomato. it's like a moustache. you know, there is a green flores. it's melissa. yes, yes. so you see very, very nice color, very from tomato, it's coming from the long shelf life family also. and you mean it has the launch of the genus into that there's some digital audio verity, but i didn't calculate what i assume today around 5050

long shelf life prevents all the days long, shall scifi in the, in the fall for a long time. we saw that the was influence to reduce the taste of the tomato and now we are going back and try to increase that this again of the tomato jeroen, she. russ once to prove to us that durable tomatoes can also be delicious. taste. ok. like we said, not all the time. i don't need to have the days because if you read all the voice and assault you don't need me. i tell you, i know what to make to make this is ok. ok. there is the worse the amount in full what the ones this is. ok. what we look more and more is it to have a good color? a good firmness and a good taste and the nutrients intimate or steal. it's

a small player in the market for cooking, and it is hybrid reading. the main reason for the loss of nutrients and tomatoes to meet me, southern france, they're gonna do one of the last traditional feed produces and from lives there. john luc pool does not produce hybrid tomorrow. has he creates what he calls old varieties. this is how we obtain the seats. and he said stay on the bottom. and the skin that floats to the tongue was still floating to everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves . after psychiatry to farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds notes. and they were very careful when producing them for the next one. company,

a few, a tomatoes yourself, but the seats were always the most important thing. most. today, no farmer produces them any more. yeah, the, the big companies do that from blue, dying tradition. yes. almost on orthodoxy. i teach. the in this greenhouse was only cultivates only the old phone varieties 100 percent nature if it all sample, but it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work for it to make the most of the space and it's um, i squeezed the tomatoes in close together, only working with soil and without chemical simple you that you known i don't use

any 3rd party products at all in this greenhouse. i grow about 20 different varieties of tomatoes on that. what do they all have in common so that i know hybrid by, you know, cross pollination by cosmo. i thought, but do these old varieties contain more nutrients for modern hybrid? we decide to analyze them both. these really looks tomatoes and here is a similar looking hybrid from the supermarket. we sent both off on the same day to state laboratory to evaluate the ingredients was me 3 weeks later the results are available. in the case of the hybrid tomato, all 5 values, they compared

a much lower the hybrid contain 63 percent less calcium, 29 percent less magnesium and 72 percent less bittman. see the hybrid contains less than half of the anti oxidant like a pain. and less than half the health promoting secondary plant compounds of poly females. then the pharmacy martin is consistent with the idea that there is a relationship between taste and nutrient content. and this was published by professor clay at the university of florida. and he made the observation in his paper that many of the flavor components of tomatoes are derived from human nutrients. when you eat a tomato that has good flavor, that means that it probably also had good amounts of the nutrients that were used to make that flavor. it's

a consequence of bridges nation. it's consistent with all of the other evidence breeders select for you is, but they're also looking for other economic traits and in the process of making that change, they also cause to change in the chemistry of the tomato, lima, the parent company of his era is a global play in the seat business. paris, the journalist, a lease leasing, meets the vice president for the more calls international affairs. you are part of the management of a globally operating producer. have you ever analyzed the nutrient content of your tomatoes? don't vote on that. so it depends on the growing conditions, not on the variety of value t as so this problem is not a concern of yours, or shall i didn't say that like the nutritional quality of our product was

a very important issue for us. the value didn't come in. i said it was at the ice on the side in israel we met professor robina, you know him, we say it's connected, you know, he invented a tomato that last 3 week messages and we're yes, news. i think he explained to us that the longevity gene blocks the ripening process of the proved affects the development of the nutrients. you look monday neutral. i stand by watch. i told you post. i think the tomato growers have the greatest influence on the ines, the tomato, and the responsibility of dealing with this is, as they have the most significant impact. because if you want to back the f one, hybrid have another huge advantage. we'll see suppliers seeds can only be used one me if you can see from the freezer hybrid to the next 2 genes becomes

a game of chance. the next gen ration may produce tiny small or rapidly busing fruit. this is why farmers have to buy new tomato seats every year. the profit of all market for produces like his era in israel. and the small seats are incredibly expensive. how much one kilowatt seats. so the sign of for me to just kind of tomato today can reach 400000 euro. what's 4 kilogram seats? what? 400000 euro or more? yes, you can buy a house with this. i've heard that the to me to do more capital gain of all of the yes their margin or our margins the highest. we can get into middle one because it's expensive, expensive seats as a result of demands. so way. yeah, it's

a good business for us if it's not, we don't hear full 100000 heroes for one killer of these hilo cherry tomato seats. normal tomatoes, cost around $60000.00 euros per kilo more even than gold. and when you produce the, like we told you today in 22 different countries all over the world and the light switch kind of country like israel in thailand like and chilling with spain in india in many places. ready seeds that are more valuable than go. ready produced in no way to countries with labor costs little ah, the next call is in the in the. ready this is the reason for the loan to see an investigation by the dutch human rights organization. a reason they claim that 16 percent of the

work is in the seat business, our children under 14 years of age. ah, for example, in the indian state of canada tucker, the remote villages are among the poorest in the country. the climate in south india is perfect for growing vegetable. every year, 160000 kilos of tomato seats are supported from here. the full global play is in the seed, markets have a presence in india. b a says dupel bio monsanto. syngenta and lima robbie ranch works on behalf of reason in this region and fights against the exploitation of child labor. i took

the day before yesterday around 12000000 children in india work under the condition since 2016. it has been forbidden for children under 14 to work now that we observe from a distance and count worker to see how big or small they are. randy says that the seeds of hybrid tomatoes are mostly collected by children. many children were working, but now the harvest was over, getting into the fields are almost empty. but in the greenhouse, we can see humans silly with this company works for the multinational corporation syngenta faced in switzerland

about 10 women and girls are pruning tomato plants when the smallest of the girls sees us and other workers signals that she should squat down how long we went up to the 5th grade news. i know you don't go to school anymore. no. how old are you? she's 17 and you. i'm 18. why don't you go to school? there are none here. only the primary school. how long have you been working? for 3 years, she started before me. it

was in the market. i mean, since when do you work? since she left school at 11, this school is supposed to be 17. we all find it hard to believe. the content of purchases that seeds from around $25000.00, mostly small hold firm is through india wheels. this was multinational how it feels about child labor. the answer sounds good, but it's non specific. syngenta compliance with all the laws. this and gentle fair labor program promotes decent working conditions under poses child labor. children not cheap labor, but there is another reason why they are so often used in see production as the

author of the report. soiled seeds knows too well. cavalry then cat. this is an independent research and has been researching child labor in the hybrid see production for 15 years. the hybridization act would be where the, where the delicate it request. a lot of the children are preferred or because it, they can do this is a pretty to actually reduce this really fast and then and also there will be and we can see who children can do the work for 3 or does that is the kind of calculation far, much house and v d and and fun. the farm is depend on child labor because they are poorly paid by the corporations. the father struggling it will lead to have

a good job with margin the. it's the how to have the labor and be good at mandation to diverse. good. the margin will be ready, nominal or something that would be a new margin for divide. with that, not any children are exploited on what is evidence incoming tucker, only women work in the seed producing tomato feels the farmer tillman explains this to us on his farm. go with the other, go down to 4 who h included. we have 3 varieties. h m, close is a subsidiary of lima because the french c producer has hundreds of farms under

contract in the region. she cross pollinating the plans right now bent 8 hours a day. the women pluck pollen from the flowers with tweezers beneath the scorching sun. why are there no men working under the amount of the credit a minimum or expensive? we only hire them for cutting and to carry loads. they called $300.00 rupees per day. women work for $200.00 the daily ways of less than 2 years. 50 is illegal, even in india. think i'm not the minimum wage and agriculture is $330.00 rupees around full us a day. these women only received 60 percent of the legal minimum wage. jackie, why do you work here?

because there is no other work right now. normally we work in the rice fields and harvest, right. but at the moment there is nothing except pollination. i mean, is this work difficult? and i couldn't hear yes, i mean my eyes are so or because we are so concentrated and i have a bad back out there. it's hard work, but we also have to live in one get we get 102 euros kilo of tomato. see if we on 260 is more, we could pay the women what they're asking, phil, and still have a profit. now whatever the thumb is breaking the law because they don't get an additional $26.00 euros per kilos. limit because cells proceed in europe for an average of $60000.00 euros per kito. all the companies

aware of this illegal practice. we visit an indian location belonging to h m. close with a hidden camera. at 1st it doesn't look good to god stop when you're looking for see what's the office office, but we make a documentary about the seat in the it's telling me it's going to particularly offense all what fun as we come from france like the parent company. lemme growl, it seems to open doors were not to talk to a manager. oh, good man. the man phones his head office. okay. we got ready to do

it, but the team is surprised with a sudden offer of famous indian hospitality. that was a view and you know, 1st question. okay, well we're in this is where the c drive before they are exposed to me during the interview, the manager at mit. he knows that his contract farmers are paying their workers below the legal minimum wage. voices the salary for

one worker to look for it. sometimes it has no less than 2 years 50. the manager goes on to reveal that the company doesn't even pay its own people the minimum wage. how much out they are in the gym clothes from doing just over 3 years. no one has a now to know how much the seats are worth in europe. what's the name of it to make it a good number? should not be in life. they be back in paris. does limit because those are these practices and i'm going to say, are you familiar with this record soil seeds?

i have it here. yes, i don't think it was written in 2015 and examined the problems of child labor and the exploitation of women. and here on page 6, it says the proportion of children under 14 years of age is between 10.5 and 16.3 percent of all field workers are working fully mcgloid home upon your shoes. because 1st of all, i can assure you clearly and unequivocally, there is no child labor at the lima grand sites to sit during my god. what about the subcontracted farmers who work for you in india? can you assure us that there is no child labor there either? probably some procedure. we've reduced these from 10 or 15 percent to less than one percent. all measures are being taken to achieve. the goal is to create what's measured contractual contractual measures to ban child labor. i do for we continue to educate, inform, raise awareness, and if necessary,

impose sanctions to prevent child labor, lima grant, as much as possible. thank if you're supposed to hide this awful negative too. much as possible. hi, this child labor is a very serious issue. we have a 0 tolerance level of hong kong, 0. let me see. can we ever be 100 percent? certain in a country like india and probably not of every month, but our determination is unwavering. madame only some game companies that work for you. we have med women who are paid below the minimum wage against $200.00 rupees per day instead of $330.00. what do you say to that? come up there. so i don't agree with this assertion. it's with that car to come up with something else. you claim that the indian lima guy, and he's received the legal minimum wage of a $330.00 rupees per day. in reality,

lima pay that's workers. $300.00 a month manager has actually confirmed this. lisa le, wherever we operate, lima grant employees are paid according to the legal minimum wage. ohio. and i take issue with your allegation is sort of summer. so i it is almost impossible to avoid hybrid plans. i in 202060 percent of the world's commercial feeds were owned by full chemical giant bio monsanto del do po syngenta and lima. biodiversity is not an issue for these corporations in 2009 and

exit wounds. the world about this development alleviated chatelle, who until 2014 was the us visual ref. what's her on the right to 75 percent of whatever has been as a result of the pressure edge was good option of uniform improved, right? we visit tissue to in brussel me works in an international team of experts for sustainable food systems. his message, the wolf suffers less from hunger than from malnutrition. if it moves, the figure is alarming on the bank. we have already lost 75 percent and plan for writing i luke's bio diversity is not just a luxury for bought national. yeah. that also helps to secure global food supplies . keep that we don't know what the future and climate change will bring to you,

which are harmful insects and diseases willing bessler plants. when i was, when we need the natural reserves of a diverse plant world, where to cope with unforeseeable threat on the want, your marquee should be the clone business goes hand in hand with a pesticide business. 3 of the 4 world lead is producing seeds also produce pesticides, bio monsanto. del depole and syngenta on the farmers are always offered a complete package deal. they are told that they will only get a good harvest with this pesticide or in that fertilizer. for example, some seats are develop that are resistant to certain active substances. he was at home some seeds unlike the trojan horse for agro chemicals. more than $4000000.00 tons of pesticides afraid on the every year. at

some point we will all eat the same thing from dakar to miami, from paris to banker is that tomorrow's world funded for thousands of years. we had a large quantity and variety of c d values and the seeds in year after year with the harvest and by farmers that were using methods a goal. danielle plenty that would now be considered today as being traditional issues will need another poet, him all fragile specialist companies have begun to perform this process of selection and reproduction, which in turn has put seeds on the market that can produce large quantities of genetically modified agricultural produce equal genetic more, you don't take that if your distribution of commercial sales and which all rights are owned by a handful of major trans national companies, which means that agriculture will no longer be sustainable for many small farmers in developing countries and therefore to something we're going to see a gradual worldwide destruction of small scale foreigner for like you to be an

initial will get the increasingly, consumers and firm is protesting. they demand pre thieves, natural scenes that are not owned for the not a group. chemical corporations in the sense of firms, resistance movement is gaining popularity as socio still cocoa. p lee is situated in a remote unknown case, the nonprofit organization. the aim is to protect traditional plans and forgotten vegetable varieties. the seat collection includes over $2400.00 vegetable varieties from bays. cucumbers to orange with chart will continue on quite a range of colors is amazing. due to the standardization of agriculture and species

have fallen down in genetic funnels. most people, for example, thinks we charge the green and white and rolling galaxy. but there's an incredible diversity of swiss chance all of the colors of the rainbow that we don't c, normally to do. the cookie lee has also started a seats without frontiers initiative. me. so this is where we have the parcel for the solar terrace. he campaign seeds without frontiers once. every year we spend hundreds of packages worldwide. this is feedback from some of the projects we supported from where virtually everywhere india, central and south america, asia shared countries where the population is dominated by the agro chemical and food industry. multi nationalism. as a result, they sometimes quickly lose all their natural varieties and sometimes in just one

or 2, growing things in the awe. by saving the old arrive. and by rubbing traditional plans, the farmers and consumers have chose to choose an alternative to standardized fruits and vegetables and can choose food that is good for us as well as l t. i the, what's going on here. house of your very own from the printer. computer games that are healing my dog needs electricity, just explains, delivers facts and shows what the future whole living and the digital

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