photo of the golden circle search old. cringe in the stupendous reticence this is convinced you might go to egypt to look you google scholar for you. know sort of. welcome back you're watching our you live from moscow a reminder of the top stories libya is locked in fierce battles with thousands fleeing the unrest and u.s. and u.k. forces remain on standby and many fear international involvement could become another form of oppression. hundreds are still out on the streets in egypt saying they'll stay on till all their demands are met in one of the first arab states to call for democracy it's the empty businesses which are now feeling the bitter aftertaste of revolution. and almost six decades after joe stalin's death as you

know where his legacy is still out and clear in russia the controversial saudis leader is idolized and demonized him before measures. at times when there's no shortage of food and on this planet millions of people are still starving every day next we investigate who's winning from the world around. i was 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 fire agree that one will sell and the other will buy a specific amount of weight at a specific price and the product will be delivered in a year from now for that they sign an agreement which is known as a time conflict was such contracts 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 months ahead of when you harvest by selling here and get rid of the risk well you can do the same if you're a full buyer a processor like the general mills or kellogg's or post and you can lock in the preist 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 bought already at a much lower price not. these conflicts 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 transferrin risk whole purpose of the exchange is to transfer risk from people that have it like farmers and don't want it for people like myself

speculators to take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right to make money course if you are wrong you lose money i. since two thousand and six big players have begun to appear at the chicago brain model. now there not only traditional players of the pits but also managers of huge financial institutions that until a few years ago showed no interest in investing and filled. the financial markets which had been very greedy in lending money for mortgages in the united states lost on the mortgage market the son prime crisis as it was called led to a collapse in investments. with the markets crumbling because of the mortgage crisis

highly investing profiteer saw a new opportunity in food they invaded the chicago markets and began to buy time contracts in unprecedented quantities causing prices to shoot up. investors jumped out of real estate and housing and jumped on the bandwagon of primary commodities food commodities then money and the monopoly control of every business companies like cargill drove the prices upwards. i totally disagree with that kind of talk that speculators are not the high end the big rise in prices speculation has a very very little to do with it. when bubbles break liquid gets flashed all over the place and yes there's not a question there was some correlates of selling. i don't doubt for

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. prices would have gone up anyway. because of the weather problems on the weak dollar and the export bans on tight world stocks that's right prices went up the hunger that has become permanent and global is totally the creation of the global food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world it's created to maximize the profits for monsanto for seeds of cargill for treat for selling pesticides herbicides fertilizer in the period of two thousand and seven to two thousand and eight while

food prices doubled the profits of these companies also doubled. so if you want to understand why prices are going up well be polite unless 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 street in the world and they would like to control hundred percent and they would like the situation where the prayer that seems to give us this day our daily bread is a prayer not to call the creator but is a pray to cargill and months and. us company monsanto is the world's biggest trader of genetically modified seat. 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 deforested huge areas and caused cancer and tetra genesis which continues to affect the country even today.

in two thousand and two the company obtained permission from the government of india to introduce a genetically modified cotton seed in the markets no one has bt called it is genetically enriched in laboratories with a bacteria capable of killing the parasites that threaten this plant. we have been able to develop a technology called border guard cotton technology where we. produce seed that has in bits 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 and really increase their average income in six years after the introduction of. the world's second largest producer and second largest exporter in six years of introduction.

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 give everyone the right to use. them how might it be that. 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. with liquid they were natural said. if there was a drugs they'd come out fine just the same if. we had our own seeds we didn't go to the market and we had no separate expenses for that number.

it's. so it's so it's so. we had caught we had corn we had purse we had everything. the seeds yours. they were ours the peppers the corn the cotton were ours. and you want a price for your crop yes a 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. so.

with these seeds we got ourselves into debt. so. they assured us we would get two hundred kilos from each field for. the first time we had only a few expenses for the seeds. then we used fertilizers once or twice. now we use them five times and it's not enough. they know me not only the soil has lost its strength because of the bt cotton if you use a different seed nothing grows you don't use your own seeds no we do not. see

. you can't imagine there deception they would bring p.t. seeds and say we don't need to use a lot of chemicals. for a year it was like that however the following year a new parasite. arrived. well at the beginning they said we wouldn't need to spray at all. then they said you must use some for this bug 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 will any company give up on profit no. yes the farmers in india cultivate expensive crops they depend on multinationals

for seeds and medicine for the laws there's of which they need more and more focus on the same farmer that spent nothing on seeds before now must spend forty percent on stilts. before there were no expenses on fertilizer now twenty percent goes to that a farmer would not use any pesticides now that amounts to ten percent all this adds up to seventy percent but they must put on the cost of themselves you know and i don't. care i had gone with. it was a very bad day he was going round and round about his mother was sick in bed with you can when he came in sat back there his wife was sleeping there. he didn't see what he did but he had soaked in self and petrol.

and we saw a very strong fire and then he came in fell here. and we were all here. but i've had a. good look and he was burning in front of our eyes he burned very quickly and i worked as a. girl's mind in the. door we did everything we could to save him we took him to the hospital but he died two or three hours later. in the fog and. he would tell us he knew 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 but that.

the story that we have suddenly become scandinavians and don't see the sunlight and therefore getting the press and obama's aiming their lights it's amazing how hotfoot out the human imagination can be when it wants to find excuses to not i understand the real roots of a crisis the government's own data shows that the majority of farmers who have committed suicide with deeply indebted argy shills the majority of them walk into debt because the country.

mostly sides of the two hundred thousand are in the cotton belt most of them have grown to take option the story of indian farmers is the story of how these depletion is corporations have emotions as criminal corporations i often see is two hundred thousand people had been killed by a dictator we would have gone into genocide. some the size of india or tragic phenomena and unfortunately have existed we had before the introduction of bt cotton in two thousand and two it was suicide the city indebtedness and then so often other causes are inadequate infrastructure and education and they may even fall short and so.

press honorable man. she will say nothing. of the she will say nothing about alone i always find him worried deep in thought. 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's in the last. i talked to him i told him god was testing us that's not true ari will get through this i said but she said that was impossible because we had debts and knew harvest. how will belief. how we will raise our children how. all that's war

a team and she wouldn't talk much. 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 mc the seeds they give us that is the main cause of suicide they put annihilators inside i can place it. in the past any tree that gave seeds

if we 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 no one told the farmers this will go eventually the village learns that this person cannot produce anything. why then not even the loner will lend him money the bank won't lend him money. but if he gets depressed well if you place on a bit there. 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 year they risk being sued by the company the seeds are patent protected which means they are the intellectual

property of monsanto says. a strange as it sounds through this patent to consolidate something that is alive has its own invention and has the right to exploited exclusively for twenty years. 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 certain followers have. entered into contracts with us stating that they will. use the seed for these and then for some reason. the following season that violates the contract we had with

these four was it is a very small number. and in most cases we look at these differences out of court so when you apply a patent that you can't see the seed for the 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 and we ran out of money. to. buy that when they asked us credit my husband killed himself because of the debts with neva well gap we couldn't say anything. medical she was depressed the dad was huge. monitor that now i don't know what to do when my husband brought me. nobody will lend money to

woman is a bit something especially here. in this situation hurts me and i feel so sad. for the. cotton see. it not have protection against war but. always had his three best friends. scientists i can about decided to sit on the board what able to find a more sustainable way to protect the plant against those put against that war that was but ecology called bt got which is inserted into the sea it's a product of the science in the sea. and. truly in all of godly controls that food supply the seeds of life and those

companies now are going beyond the paddling it was a look right over i mean to say we can patent all plants and we can patent all crops with a single work laming traits within those varieties and in those crops they are common to all of them. so we control everything we control the filesystem. did they make the seeds know that until today nature made the scene it's did they create anything living they couldn't. or as much in the seventy's there is no proprietary secret plan of whatsoever not really today eighty two percent of the sea salt are proprietary they're part of a patent. that's an enormous chair. janet

ek engineered crops do not produce enough food but they tell the lie that the markets more straight does not feed people at least want people hungry because a globalized street then becomes a trade controlled by five agribusiness corporations who can get the prices they want and they want to speculate upwards the speculate upwards when they want to fix the prices downwards to capture markets they take the prices down let's and as their profits increase people stop. so they've got what they need out of this they've got to control and frankly now because they have that control they don't need biotech anymore they've got the marketplace is to them they control the first week in the future. so they want. the it was it were the it with was the

were the they were the. water. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future perhaps or. 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 have water can get together and through their own best interest discover and that's important or discover the price of that of that commodity. how dare our government how can a government how can. a group of supposed intellectual sit down and say

this is the price of water everywhere around the world. will there be circumstances where some people will not have water. yes. 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's your fault.

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