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a difference b.r.d. investigated the. growth development at the immunity and they were supposed to have been. it's that ice of chimes that's running out the scientists as well they say g.m. food is being rushed on to the market about it on time without adequate safety tests that we have a lot of want years experience. sixty thousand pages of internal documents and in these internal documents it was very clear that the scientists inside the agency said we need to test these foods for toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination page after page of study they said we need none of this was done.

today around a third of the soil from the u.s. is genetically altered i'm when it gets to the factory it's mixed together with ordinary soil and you never know which is which. in precautionary science of genetic engineering it means one question means one career you ask one question you get the answer and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. what's i think very unique in my case is that i survived. the attack on scientists is very well structured by the vatican history it's systematic it's worldwide it's very coordinated it's part of the way that they do

business so anywhere in the world at any time if someone finds a problem they're jumped on if the problem is really severe they get jumped on even more whenever there is something that comes up that can threaten this biotechnology empire. companies exist to make money they don't exist to. entirely for the public good they are exist to. to give profit back to their shareholders what.

missouri great has been a very good genes with them on the ground chemical company would point five billion dollars profit in two thousand and seven. in its report to shareholders money from to be a profit would double in the next five years or more to the nine point five billion i is this tom. this is jefferson if. you know you're one of the more than two dozen farmers that gave him a call describing problems with pigs. they could get pregnant big. because of the g.m. corn is that right. so. what i may do another time when i'm on my cell phone you know but i might actually have to we talk a bit i might actually email you and tell you exactly what i've written down about what we've talked about to make sure it's accurate. all right. thank you very much about. so that is good news he

said that he was willing to talk his cell phone was going on the battery and he said first thing he said was is my name going to be in your article you write it so i had to put him at ease and tell him no it's not if you don't want to be in the article it will be in there. that's that's the truth that's why we don't have a lot of whistleblowers if farmers farmers are not interested in a lot of scientists are scared about it and that's the whole state of the art right now where almost all scientists focused on kinetically engineering research are funded directly or indirectly by industry so we're going to very dangerous situation because there's no real there's no real independent science. about to industry says all we're doing is adding a gene into the d.n.a. it's like a lego where they snap into place but that's very untrue when the single process of

insertion can change the natural d.n.a. in many ways that are unpredictable and they could lead to toxins and allergens and new diseases and antibiotic resistant diseases and attritional problems most of the soil grow in the united states is santos rounds are pretty soybeans where they take the soybeans and they put into the d.n.a. a gene allows the plant to be sprayed with monsanto's roundup herbicide. and it will kill all of the weeds around the plant but the soybean plant will survive so eighty six percent of the soybeans in united states are genetically engineered to withstand those herbicides. miracle of science or frankenstein food how safe is the new in gradient in your

diet or better push ties labs at scotland's rabbit institute one of the leading food research centers in europe scientists here are trying to find out whether long term consumption of g.m. foods may affect health the professor is so concerned about the implications of his discovery he's decided to publicize his findings early as a scientist looking at it actively working on the field. i find that. it's very very fair to use. it big. drugs the first experimenting and because whether we started it i get the idea five

there was not a single publication or the potential or the real effects of genetically modified. bettine or was with any species rats mice. or humans. even good at the humans for all of the eat it. this is the same idea of potato this is that we used for genetic engineering get thank you thank you for life. and this is the i think are potato variety which is one of the easiest to genetically engineer and.

the point of the whole genetic what if acacia experiment was to protect the potato gates the eight feeds which are one of the major pests it's scotland of they attack there the potato they could eat parts of the potato at the rio observed that that could pick of elected which we used which we take to cross. the snowdrop. they did protect the snowdrop. against all sorts of pests attacks and we had hoped that if we had take the that particular gene that transferred it educated it to the potatoes that would also be protecting the potato against insect attacks which in fact it did.

after the end it was were killed at dissected we found out that it compatible with the dog genetically modified potatoes their internal organs developed differently some of the internal wall gets such as for example good got increased in size. even. that itself was not growing as fast or some of the other issues for example. is were not developing as well as the controls at the core of. this is it. they found those data thirty six thirty six very significant differences via the gear fed.

at the fed. philadelphia us physicians criticize that and while been ten years there are still no long term studies concerning the consumption of generic modified food due to the fact that there is no emission experimental data recorded and labeling has not emitted. so. even though i'm not a scientist i worked with more than thirty scientists over two years to document the known health risks of genetically engineered foods and the first part of the book is the documented health risks and there are sixty five different health risks divided into sections now the first one that i chose to highlight with an evidence of reactions is dr pou styles were and the reason why is that our part pointed out

that it was basically the process itself of genetic engineering because the significant damage so only the genetically engineer potatoes caused the problem the rats they were fed the natural potatoes all warm with the same insecticide did not have the same problems so his brilliant design showed that it wasn't the insect aside that caused the problems it was somehow the process of creating the genetically engineered potato and he used the same process that's used to create the other genetically engineered crops on the market if i had the choice i would certainly go to eat it till i see at least how to pull experimental evidence which we producing genetically modified potatoes those one hundred fifty seconds where. they got everybody got the

message everybody got the message he they asked me would you eat it i said no certainly not that is we worked on it if i could avoid it i would certainly avoid it. the the other piece of the message was that so what to do we want and i said that what we want is to be more testing more biological testing and we should not use that they that this is this message originated from us. that they should not refuse our fellow citizens as human it depicts what he was as to speak on television he had enormous pressure he was one of the few people on earth that realized that the g.m. crops on the market might be causing all that damage in the garden in the brain and organs of the entire population and so with permission from his director he was interviewed and then he was

a hero for about two days at the route institute the director praised his work took over all the press work put out his own press release praising it as world class research. and then the two phone calls allegedly place from the u.k. prime minister's office for to the through the receptionist to the director. the next morning our part was to i was fired after thirty five years and silenced with threats of a lawsuit and. if this only when that with think there was political pressure coming from the top that the whole situation changed and then the director to save his own skin then decided that the best way to deal with the situation is to destroy b b to make can be shut up so they they invoked a contract to do it that i whatever they did see on t.v.

radio when they get through to the newspapers i could not deny it i could not connect it i couldn't see what was the video situation. and then we looked at the submissions of applications by the by tech companies produce products which were already eating and we found that that they were flimsy they were not church scientifically well founded and certainly not the the work which was reported and that did not compare. well. with our very extensive studies. he said it was a turning point in my life he said jeffrey i realized what i was doing and what

they were doing was diametrically opposed i was doing safety studies they were doing as little as possible to get their foods on the market as quickly as possible so the turning point in his life was realizing that there were other scientists in the world who were not. taking care of the health of the world we're not treating science properly as he is he's on the top level of the world he expects other scientists to do so so more than being fired from his job more than these shocking moments in his life his greatest shock was to discover that there was this whole world of scientists and it would basically allow foods on the market for economic purposes.

so we have here is sixty thousand pages of documents of internal documents of the f.d.a. . in these boxes here donna what happened when they suppress the science about g m o's you know there's one guy came in here that i think is especially important really shows this history probably better than any other and this had to do with their compliance in looking at the studies and here's what the f.d.a. scientists their own scientists said and i think some paid eighteen thousand seven hundred seventy seven are right here and they say you know what we need to look at how these crops change how much can i go chemicals how much pesticides you put in here we need to see how they change while you see how much water they need our long term studies that were needed down here we need to see what about the loss of nutrients in the food what about loss of nutrition none of that was done about loss of diversity in seeds long term studies recommended by the scientists never done

here look at this the changes in toxin or chemicals in the foods. study recommended long term study never done so the scientists asked for the study so let us do them we think there's a problem here we've taken a preliminary look we there's a problem but the politicians at the f.d.a. and in the administration of that time said no they suppress the science and these questions these studies have never been up there and. the flavor saver tomato was the first genetically engineered food to reach the public cal gene the corporation that produced the tomato had done three voluntary feeding studies on rats and found lesions in some other rats stomachs. the question that you're asking is. about the flavor saver tomato and what went into that curiously enough i was actually one of the outside consultants that was

in the last meeting on the flavor saver tomato which wasn't terribly successful commercially but the f.d.a. scientist went through a long present haitian about all the analyses they had done and her concluding slide was the flavor saver tomato is a tomato so they had not found any substantial differences except for the addition of the one extra gene that actually decreased the rate at which they went soft so they extended the shelf life and indeed that was the conclusion so they had no reason to regulate it on the basis of safety. no one gets up in the morning saying i want to go buy a genetically engineered food they offer no benefits no more nutrition no more flavor no nothing they only offer risks. that's of the office of the consumer and

so the average person of course rational person would say why would i buy a food that offers me no new benefits but only risks so it was critical critical for the industry to get these foods out without anyone knowing because if they knew they were obviously choose not to buy them. i don't know how many years of testing you would feel comfortable with but if i told you it was twenty five years would you feel comfortable if i told you it was twelve years would you feel comfortable sixty years at what point how many years of testing and how many different kinds of tests would make you feel comfortable i will tell you as as i've said before that because these foods are tested more than any others any other new kinds of foods that have come on the market i am more confident about these than i am about picking up a new package of something. the ingredients of which i don't know.

i hired a long term relationship with. indigenous communities. we developed the. transgenic. materials would come to make sure.

the problem was that. they cause nobody was there to tell them so that's when we started thinking we should really prepare a lot of oratory with capacity to detect the presence of transgenic organisms and that's what i was helping them. the set up. and the person who came to train them was my student david quist. we were just training to train you would have to have a positive control and a negative control for the positive control he brought corn from the us and from the negative control we thought we should just use the local corn which of course is going to be clean and. wonderful. surprise came when the negative control started coming out. that means we started finding transgenic materials were they were not supposed to be.

the reason why our findings were saw astounding was because it was thought that there was no trans unicorn being planted in mexico at all. and people wanted it that way the government the local communities the people who lived in the city they all wanted to have it that way that there would be no tristrem it in mexico why because mexico is the center of origins of thorns and they with mexican government was worried about montagne the integrity of the land raises the national generosity so it was illegal to plant corn it is still illegal today.

mr bones. it's essentially a very very large seed library. cd collection graves like libraries show. twenty four thousand samples. examples of these seeds. most of this is landry says the right is that were developed by farms for thousands of years this selection. and they're quite diverse. these collections are also a source of useful traits for breeders who are looking for things like insect

resistance drought tolerance grain quality all kinds of other characteristics and so sometimes these can these almost lantry says can be sourced genes from those kinds of those kinds of characteristics these things are slowly disappearing from the countryside it's farmers adapt who are proved right these and also as farmers leave the countryside because now as you know there is a big problem of rural migration people from africa going to try to get people from latin america going to cities or states looking for work so as these farmers leave the countryside right is that they grow less. wealthy british style rolls. right.

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