the. little. little. little little. welcome back you're watching archie live from moscow and these are the top stories of the week as well as the latest news international pressure on colonel gadhafi to stop the french down and people mounts with the u.n. imposing sanctions on him the confrontation between. forces plunges the country deeper into bloodshed and chaos. also in this week's top stories your fears turmoil in the arab world will lead to a surge in uncontrolled immigration from the region was italy the first to feel the effects of wind and flux of refugees. costs as the u.k.

force rules julian assange must be extradited to sweden over sex crondall cations the weekly founder says it's a step towards his prosecution in the u.s. . and three of a kind of trio characters are chosen as mascots for the sochi twenty fourth the winter olympics after the results of the live t.v. vote of cross russia. well next we'll bring you the second part of our report on the battle between scientific and corporate factions over genetically modified food and pesticides in the u.s. . course here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varieties of corn and most importantly

ficos of information of transgenic we know that they are strengthening corn here we don't know how much and we want to be able to tell over the years over time whether there is more or less what kind of tension materials are here because the transgenic when you can ration is invisible people around here don't even know what they are receiving different and they are growing them and they're passing them on to the children and the neighbors and so on.

once we were sure that we had found transgenic material seen what we wanted to have a publication that would be very visible so we sent it for publication to nature nature sent this article off to experts to be reviewed five times around and then nature said yes we will publish it by that time however the news that these information was coming out made very many people within the industry very narrows and very unhappy. so they themselves started a discredit taishan campaign for the paper they did not want to be published and published people not to believe it was saying. now we know industry professionals public relations companies. companies

who have the time we're experimenting for the first time with something called viral marketing which. a p.r. company a public relations company will go into the internet and start spreading ideas around. on behalf of the companies that hire them. telling people that. companies. these company called the group. create the two fictitious characters. and. i forget they made up two names and these two. went. and started spreading rumors that what we had. paper was flawed. and. that people really respond to each other's opinions and the.

spreading around our paper was. maybe illegal conditions. whatever the case is because we don't really know to the. nature. print. criticizing our paper. very confusing. or they say. we don't want to take positions. based on what we know now we we should have published the paper back then. completely against the way we do science. and nature itself recognizes that they have never done anything like this in a hundred and thirty years the whole history of the magazine so there was something seriously important happening that they do not want to talk about but i believe i am convinced it was pressure from this industrial arcturus industrial activists who

wanted to change the nature of position towards this problem. the industry said you don't need to worry about this because we have it under control but control is really the question and they have been telling the world that they really had control over these crops that if they planted it planted corn transgenic corn in one field that treasury corn would not go anywhere else so our discovery that we were finding transgenic corn maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn field was a huge problem for them because he really showed very simply and with real evidence

that they really did not have control so they lost the claim to having control over these over these materials and from that point on the start to talking about coexistence. with cards. will disappear. for himself the. reason.

norman okla. closer in their fields. of . love but i worked to get there from ninety nine to continuously under same told checked and we've worked together on the g.m. project as well the only reason that he is to talk about it that he has been given permission by the holders of common the parliament and the technology and say it's going to be of the british parliament or the others in the group including me and you're talking about people be very forbidden to talk about what has happened to their art what sort of experiments did we carry though what was going on at the

time at the. act and all gag is for lifestyle even the secret service they get people for twenty five years if i happen to leave to my seventh it will be foul over there and they still won't be able to.

but on the ground. it is going in the wrong direction now and let's assume that and we have seen a few examples that anymore was sad or wrong g.m. material or they had very considerable physiology changes now when you are eating that animal fat there on g.m. you would be eating at and any more that had already been changed into different a name and the there is new safety risk assessment done on this and if this is a policy decision by the governments and by the biotechnology industry that that they would just simply go on the basis that if you don't do they cannot be held just sponsible she remembered that the animal that

has been fed on g.m. has been changed. you always will find scientists who are diametrically opposed for one reason or another but frankly you have to look at the bulk of the evidence and the bulk of the evidence is very simply this these products have been out virtually every food that you consume including you in germany has some genetically modified product in a case whether it's soybeans or corn. there has not been a single documented analyzed case of even a headache attributable to genetic modification.

yes. scientists carried out long term studies that showed genetically modified maize to my significantly reduce. the number of offspring with less compared to normal g.m. my family also developed more slowly. i haven't read the study yet it came out today i can immediately called my office and asked them to get me a hold of the study so she saw my assistant called into austria and spoke to someone and they're going to get me to study as soon as possible but the finding is consistent for till the problems with animals for genetically engineered crops we saw that with soybeans and we're in farmers report of that with corn as well. it's very difficult to do proper studies because monsanto doesn't allow people to use their products for studies and they also don't allow access to the parent light so

that you can compare the exact same soybean with the only difference being that one is genetically engineered one is not. one example is this russian scientist dr reiner mccolgan she said genetically engineered soil flower to rats and more than half of the offspring died within three weeks now one of the criticisms was that she didn't use carefully controlled genetically engineered so i along with it's nearly identical not g.m. so i counterpart what monsanto didn't allow that soil to be released into the into the public so she didn't have access to a doctor or produced a wants to repeat their study but he also can't get that story for his research.

with global sales in the billions of dollars millions of farmers and backyard gardeners have come to rely on the we kill or harm around our roundup extended control. challenged. but this project a fact of its life a face a synthesised compound discovered by john friends over thirty years ago. ascended a young boy going on board a mitzvah. them that's their game in there's

a we have. the power and i knew when genetic engineering technology was first used in saudi production the local farmers were invited to parties with free beer. and they were asked to bring along their farming hold after a good meal and some drinks and they then did a ritual putting all the holes into was circle and burning them are simple but so does my need me as a symbol of that one when you have to home anymore and as a gift each farmer was then given a litter of life a strange side and they were told this would be technical progress and again see original idea was to produce a genetically modified soy that was resistant that life was limited to life so it is a herbicide whose famous around roundup is produced by monsanto now after a couple of years you can see that more and more weeds are resistant of life was saved.

for. their marriages roofs growth of search this is created you know the brain a new kind of weed which is horrible now it grows to be higher than the soil and so it is. further because that my father just said that the co-operative here tried hard to fight it with the life of satan at a high dosage normally one little break to resolve loud legally he used to eat meat as behavior and still that wasn't enough when they start the experiment everything here is completely resistant of life or so yet other then didn't before. thank

you remember the saudis are on the start yeah real grounded also a federal state here has used eighty five percent in old life in state over the past four years since g.m. is fully cultivation was started this is an ecological catastrophe so the argument that with g.m. saw it one uses fewer pesticides is simply not true the place that like a man does. in so you have you know it's a. new york official statistics reveal that in the past ten years food related illnesses have practically doubled in the u.s. the introduction of g.m. to the american toilet. we've got a sort of new feudalism in nature's resources are being privatized and the others

who also own these natural resources for pay their own need to be able to use parts of these resources and a part of that is knowledge of what's been produced before and get a new lead patented i mean see pilots on these are sort of the nuts and can compile a funny sort of obvious and verse four here are we have to get up in the event nature is getting patented so in the nato feudalist times we live in it is so obvious to me that we're going back to times when a king said this river is mine or this land is like that and farmers have to pay in order to use it back then they had religion to authorize and justify that strangely enough fuel to date it's the scientists suresh that the white america really go by them and it isn't shot.

below us we can see the whole of the public campus of berkeley the university of california berkeley and we're standing at a boundary where that campus meets the private and military part of the research machine this is a big research machine one side of it has public the other side is private corporate and military so that in closing of the knowledge that used to be public and becomes private or becomes corporate or becomes militarized secret that enclosure of knowledge is something that i consider to be very damaging for the movement of science and the movement of knowledge so it is a very strong battle that is happening here and you know other places in the world to try and protect that they versity of knowledge that diversity of culture

the latest development in this battle has been the arrival here on this campus of b.p. british petroleum. who would like to be called beyond petroleum b.p. came here offering five hundred million dollars five hundred million dollars which is much more than anybody had ever offered the university supposedly for research. administrators for the university find it very difficult to say no to money and it doesn't matter where the money comes from they want the money so they try to pass these contract with b.p. without people noticing but we have been able to find out a few things about it we know that b.p. wants new buildings in the canyon they want buildings that are built behind the fences of the national lab so that nobody can access them they want access to our

students they want access to our seminar so that they can find out which i.d.'s are useful for them they want to have control over probably patients what gets published what gets said publicly or not but more importantly they also want access to the curriculum to what will be taught in the university and because this is a this is a public university we also determine the curriculum of children from kindergarten all the way to high school and b.p. now has access to deciding what is called science and what is not called science so now they can say whoever is on our site is a scientist and whoever is not on our side is not a scientist so the power that they gain from that is extraordinary. they closed the door shut to any public view of what's happening behind good was behind the fences and this streams of academic research.

work unfortunately we are in a minority of people who oppose it and i have been very vocal in trying to post these as well as other advances of these corporate kind of science this privatized kind of science because i believe that the main problem is that people don't realize what's happening and by the time they will wake up it will be too late the possibility of having a public university doing public research and developing public understanding of humanity is going to be gone. and we are very far from free speech at this university you're not allowed to ask

many questions and you're not on to saying anything and if you do you get into serious trouble. and i am just one of many examples where people are con ish by what they say and or what they research. in my case i was pushed out of the university at least three times every time i fought back and we managed to keep my job but it's been very difficult. we are manipulating life in a way that we really do not understand we cannot control and then we're letting it go into the environment. so it's

a change that is radical that peace unprecedented that is. beyond anything we can understand and it's own retrievable you we cannot get it back that's my concern. to you. and. it's very true that the power that technocrats in experts have developed in these years is saw large and so out of control that it has become much more of a religion. and it's a religion that has so many dog must and one of those dogmas is that humans have the power to change nature they way they want it's complete holders because we

catch. i've always said you only defend that which you love so people say what should i do how should i defend environment go on from life. fall of the river fall of the farm fall in love with a species just fall in love the same believe me when you do think of the found it.

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