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who killed those near the children of each college or who killed cubing but you know who to put you know so chill being so mexico tells you that he will do them under the terms. in serbia loosies available in most clubs on the planet regency they are going to. cost five in moscow to be with us here on our t.v. zero headlines european powers turned their backs on obama and supporters after the us president refuses to rule of military intervention in libya he while colonel moammar gadhafi forces continue hammering opposition held cities with air strikes. british p.r. firms under fire for helping whitewash some of the world's most unpopular regimes including it off means. and six spacemen sit down for a stellar exam in the moscow region to prove they got the right stuff to leave the
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next mission to the international space station. more on these stories and more in thirty minutes but up next our special report on the demand and supply of food we take a look at why millions of people die from hunger each year when there's more than enough to feed the entire planet stay with us. god in order to understand how the system works it is necessary to look at the parties involved the producer and the buyer for example the producer and the buyer agree that one will sell and the other will buy a specific amount of weight at a specific price and the products will be delivered in a year from now for that they sign an agreement which is known as a time conflicts. such conflicts ensure producers and buyers against such risks as bad weather and sudden changes in prices. was if you're a farmer you're afraid the prices are going to fall you can lock in the price
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months ahead of when you harvest by selling here and get rid of the risk so you can do the same if you're a full buyer processor like judge general mills or kellogg's or closest and you can lock in the priced of the grain months ahead of when you actually need to buy it so that when you actually do go buy it if prices are much higher you've got it was already at a much lower price a lot of. these contracts do not remain inert they are bought and sold by profiteers and a contract might swap hands dozens of times before it expires for example buyers purchase contracts for wheat at a low price if the price we close up they have made a profit. we're transferring risk whole purpose of the exchange is to transfer risk from people that have it like farmers and don't want it to people like myself
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speculators take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right and make money course if you are wrong you lose money. since two thousand and six big players have begun to appear at the succumb to brain model. now there not only traditional players at the pits but also managers of huge financial institutions that until a few years ago showed no interest in investing in food. the financial markets which had been very greedy in lending money for mortgages in the united states and lost on the mortgage market but some prime crisis as it was called led to a collapse in investments. with the markets crumbling because of the mortgage
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crisis highly investing profiteer saw a new opportunity in food bay invaded the chicago markets and began to buy time contacts in unprecedented quantities causing prices to shoot up. investors sometimes of real estate and housing and jumped on the bandwagon of primary commodities food commodities their money and the monopoly control of every business companies like cargill drove the prices upwards. i totally disagree with that kind of talk at speculators i'm not behind the big rise in prices speculation has very very little to do with it. when bubbles break liquid gets splashed all over the place and yes there's not a question there was some correlates of selling. i don't doubt for
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a moment that speculators move grain prices do i think that they move grain prices by one hundred percent now i think that speculators problem move move the grain prices by. twenty percent fifteen percent. and the prices would have gone up anyway. because of the weather problems on the weak dollar and the export bans tape world strax that's why prices run up the hunger that has become permanent and global is totally own creation of the global food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits for monsanto the seeds of cargill for treat for selling pesticides herbicides fertilizer in the period of two thousand and seven to two thousand names while food
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prices doubled the profits of these companies also doubled. so if you want to understand why prices are going up while people liking less you just have to look at these companies and centers i love every seed company of the world cargill controls about seventy percent of staple food treat in the world and they would like to control hundred percent and they would like the situation with a prayer that says give us this day our daily bread is a prayer not to call the creator but is a pray carville and send. us company monsanto is the world's biggest trader of genetically modified seeds. it began as a small producer of chemicals turning into one of the creators of the infamous agent orange in the sixty's and seventy's a poison that was used in the vietnam war it deforested huge areas and caused cancer and tetra genesis which continues to affect the country even today.
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in two thousand and two the company obtained permission from the government of india to introduce a genetically modified cotton seed in the market known as bt cotton it is genetically enriched in laboratories with the bacteria capable of killing the parasites that threaten this plant. we have been able to develop a technology called border guard a bt cotton technology where we. produce a scene that has in its protection bests thereby helping farmers almost double their cotton production reduce the number of pesticides they've been using in the field to control those bits and really increase their average income in six years after the introduction of. india has become the world's second largest producer and second largest exporter in six the introduction of.
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for centuries the farmers of india cultivated their farms and their seeds which were given to them by mother earth. and. they are a gift from the gods that belong to no one and gave everyone the right to use. their. i'm how much. we would plant our own seeds from what we used for food we would keep a few the following year we would plant those same seeds. would look good they were natural so. if there was a draw they'd come out fine just the same if. we had our own slaves we didn't go to the market we had no separate expenses for that number.
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since it's so. so so so. so. it's. if. we had cotton we had corn we had peppers we had everything. the seeds yours. but they were ours the peppers the corner the cotton were ours. and you want a price for your crop so yes i even won a prize so if your seeds were good why did you take the others the others were also using them we thought we could get a better harvest. and we used them to that's how it happened.
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so. with these seeds we got ourselves into debt. so. they assured us we would get two hundred kilos from each field. the first time we had only a few expenses for the seeds. then we used fertilizers and once or twice. now we used them five times and it's not enough. they thought they gave them you know only the soil has lost its strength because of the bt cotton if we use a different seed nothing grows you don't use your own seeds no we do not.
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you can't imagine their deception they would bring p.t. seeds and say we don't need to use a lot of chemicals. come in for a year it was like that however the following year a new parasite the mill a bug arrived. right at the beginning they said we wouldn't need to spray at all. then they said you must use some for this bug or this for the other bug so what is the situation now. and what does monsanto produce but it also produces chemicals and who is the biggest trader in chemicals monsanto do you think they'll stop bringing their chemicals and pesticides to the market with any company give up on profit know. the people you are the farmers in india cultivate expensive crops they depend on multinationals for seeds and medicine
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fertilizers of which they need more and more dope on the same farmer that spent nothing on seeds before now must spend forty percent on stilts. before there were no expenses and fertilizer now twenty percent goes to that the farmer would not use any pesticides now that amounts to ten percent of all this adds up to seventy percent but they must put on the cost of themselves you know not. it was a very bad day he was going round and round about his mother was sick in bed and he came in sat back there his wife was sleeping there. i didn't see what he did to her but he had so consoled petrol.
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and we saw a very strong fire and then he came in fell here. and we were all here. but i've had. with him and he was burning in front of our eyes he burned very quickly over the. girl's mind in this that. we did everything we could to save him we took him to the hospital but he died two or three hours later. in the jungle and. he would tell us he knew that we told him not to take it too seriously we didn't imagine he'd do something like that he was worked up and sat thinking alone for hours we would tell him the hard days would pass that's what we tell him that with .
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the story that we have suddenly become scandinavians and they won't see the sunlight and they will get into prison of homicide and in their lives it's amazing how heartless i like him and imagination can be when it wants to find excuses to not i understand the real roots of the crisis the government's own data shows that the majority of farmers who've committed suicide were deeply indebted r.v. to assure that the majority of them walked into that because bt comes in.
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mostly sides of the two hundred thousand are in the cotton belt most of them have grown between compton the story of indian farmers is the story of how these depletion is corporations have emerged as criminal corporations i often see as two hundred thousand people have been killed by a dictator we would have called it a genocide. suicides in india or a tragic phenomena and unfortunately have existed we had before the introduction of bt cotton in two thousand and two or this the suicide facility indebtedness and so a few other causes are inadequate infrastructure and we get. on very much even for sort of so-called.
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she would say nothing. she would say nothing about alone i always find humor worried even thought. of. she was always worked up his mind was working all the time. she was never happy she would pretend to be happy outside inside the house he seemed lost. i talked to him i told him god was testing us let's not worry over get through this i said but she said that was impossible because we had debts and knew harvest. how will belief. how we raise our children how. old are two warring team and she wouldn't tell clutch.
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when we. were at school and the girls told me her father drank poison i couldn't understand what he drank and what it was. he will be the late me the seeds they give us that is the main cause of suicide they put in ny leaders and society. in the past any tree that gave seeds if we
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kept them and preserve them for the whole season and planted a tree the next year it would grow just like the one before but it will be if we keep the seeds from this one nothing will grow and no one told the farmers this. eventually the village learns that this person cannot produce anything. but. what why then not even the loner will lend him money the bank won't lend him money . but he gets depressed. the day comes when he will do something. and that is why our situation has become so tragic because of the seeds. but even if the farmers keep the seeds for the following deer they risk being sued by the company the seeds are patent protected which means they are the intellectual
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property of monsanto. as strange as it sounds through this patent consolidates something that is alive has its own invention and has the right to exploit it exclusively for twenty years. each but if a farmer keeps some seeds to plant next year then he is accused of being a criminal. he will be fined with twenty five thousand rupees which is three hundred eighty euros but we can the small farmers pay a twenty five thousand rupee fine. for we would keep our own seeds and use them the following year but if the farmer doesn't do that who have to go all the seeds each year. tell me is that fair on humanity. entered into a contract. stating that they will. use the seed. and then for some reason to use the sea the following season that violates the contract that
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we had with these four was it is a very small number. and in most cases we look thought these differences out of court so when you apply. that you can't save the seed for another growing season first of all you're massively increasing the cost of production for farmers massively. we're borrowing money from everyone to buy seeds we ran out of money. while when they are of course my husband killed himself because of the debts with a neighbor ok i couldn't save anything. for the medical she was depressed that was huge. now i don't know what to do when my husband brought to mommy. the me nobody will lend money to woman
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is a bit something especially here. in this situation. and i feel so sad. for . all of the cottonseed earlier it not have protection against what was. almost had to be best of sides. scientists agriculture scientists around the world was able to find a more sustainable way the protect the blind against those against that war well that was a technology called bt cotton which is inserted into the sea it's a product of the science in the seed. of the. trillion dollar drop only the controls that food supply is in supply and those
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companies now are going beyond the patenting of a single plant for id to say we can patent all plants and we can patent all crops are the single who were claiming traits within those fridays and in those crops that are common to all of them. so we control everything we control the food system . you don't get did they make the seeds know until today nature made the seeds did they create anything living they couldn't. grow as much in seventy's there is no proprietary so you get credit whatsoever not really today eighty two percent of the seeds sold are proprietary they're part of aboriginals. that's an enormous trade. genotyping engineered crops do not produce more food but they tell the light not
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that much it's more discreet does not feed people it least not people hungry because a globalized treat then becomes a trade controlled by five agribusiness corporations who can pick the prices as they want and they want to speculate uplands they speculate upwards when they want to fix the prices downwards to capture markets they think the price of diamonds and as their profits increase people stop. so they've got what they need out of this they've got the control and frankly now because they have that control they don't need biotech anymore they've got the marketplace is to them bacon troll the first week in the food chain. so they want. the were the it was through all the were
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the one. water. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future perhaps sure. i don't know much about it because there is no market to buy and sell water maybe there will be in the future if i have a market where people who need water and a market of people who out of the water can get together and through their own best interest discover and that's an important word the sky over the price of that of that commodity i work how dare our government. how can a government how can. a group of supposed intellectual sit down and say
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this is the price of water everywhere around the world. will there be circumstances where some people will not have water the yes. the that will happen that is the harsh reality of how markets function and the do you sometimes run out of soap yes whose fault is that probably yours if you didn't go to the store to buy any should you blame the government no. it sure felt.
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