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doubt right millions of people die from hunger each year when there's more than enough to feed the entire planet. 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 products will be delivered in a year from now for that they sign an agreement which is known as a time conflict was such contracts insure producers and buyers against such risks as bad weather and sudden changes in prices. was if you're a farmer you're afraid that 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 or you

can do the same if you're a fool buyer a processor like general mills or kellogg's or coast 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 bought already at a much lower price a lot of these contracts do not remain in earth 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 to people like myself speculators to take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right to make money course if you're wrong you lose money.

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 in the food. the financial markets which had been very greedy in lending money for mortgages in the united states lost on the mortgage market the sub prime crisis as it was called led to a collapse in investments. with the markets campbell and because of the mortgage crisis highly investing profiteers saw a new opportunity in food they made at 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 from oddities then money and the monopoly control of every business companies like carville drove the prices up puts. i totally disagree with that kind of talk that speculators are not the high end the big rise in prices speculation has 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. of the prices would have gone up anyway. because of the weather problems and the weak dollar and the export bans on tight world stocks perhaps right prices run up the hunger that has become permanent and global is totally a 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 months and all the 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 while be the lighting less you just have to look

at these companies when centers going up 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 go to the creator but is a pray cargill and months and. u.s. 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 deforested huge areas and cause 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 known as bt cotton it is genetically enriched in laboratories with the bacteria will 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 seed that has in its protection bests thereby helping farmers almost double their cotton production reduce the number of pesticides they have been using in the field to control those 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 of introduction of the. first centuries the farmers of india cultivated their farms and their seeds which were given to them by mother earth. they are

a gift from the gods that belong to no one and gave everyone the right to use. them 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. with a good they were natural see. 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 we had no separate expenses for that number. it's. it's. it's it's it's it's it's it's

. we had cotton we had corn we had helpers we had everything. the seeds yours. but they were ours the peppers the corn the cotton were ours. you know it. and you want a price for your crops so yes a even won a prize so if your seats 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. with these seeds we got ourselves into debt. so

that. 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 use them five times and it's not enough. only the soil has lost its strength because of the bt cotton or if we use a different seed nothing grows you don't use your own seeds no we do not. yeah you can't imagine the deception they would bring p.t. seeds and say we don't need to use a lot of chemicals. i'm in for

a year it was like that however the following year a new parasite the abode arrived. right at the beginning they said we wouldn't need to spray at all. then they said you must use some for this bugger this for the other bug so what is the situation now. and what does monsanto produce 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 when any company give up on profit no. the farmers in india cultivate expensive crops they depend on multinationals for seeds and medicine for the allies or of which they need more and more. 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 i mean all this adds up to seventy percent but they must put on the cost of themselves you know not only. it was a very bad day he was going round and round about his mother was sick in bed with you going when he came in sat back there his wife was sleeping there. you didn't see what he did. but he had soaked him self and petrol. and we saw a very strong fire and then he came in fell here. and we were all here. but

i thought i. would give and he was burning in front of our eyes it burned very quickly and i worked as a. girl's mind in the. dark we did everything we could to save him we took him to the hospital but he died two or three hours later. in the dark. so 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 that with. if.

this story that we have suddenly become scandinavians and don't see the sunlight and therefore getting a present of promise ending their lives it's amazing how hard put it out of him and 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've committed suicide with deeply indebted are going to shools that the majority of them got into debt because the two countries. mostly sides of the two hundred thousand are in the cotton belt most of them have grown bt cancian the story of indian farmers is the story of how these debases

corporations have emerged as criminal corporations i often see is two hundred thousand people have been killed by a dictator we would have gone into genocide. suicides in india or tragic phenomena and unfortunately have existed we had before the introduction of bt cotton in two thousand and two the remedy was suicide the city indebtedness and then so often other causes are inadequate infrastructure and education on primary day in fall sort of.

she will say nothing. of the she will say nothing about alone i always find him worry 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 seemed lost. i talked to him i told him got was just in us that's not warry all get through this a sad but she said that was impossible because we had debts and knew harvest. how will belief. how will the raise our children. all the towards him and he wouldn't talk much.

and 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 annihilators inside i think. in the past any tree they 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.

eventually the village learns that this person cannot produce anything. why then not even the loaner will lend him money the bank won't lend him money out . and he gets depressed well everybody's going to be. 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. as strange as it sounds patent to consolidate something that is alive has its own invention and has the right to

exploited 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. before we would keep our own seeds and use them the following year but if a farmer doesn't do that he'll have to go all the cd cheer. tell me is that fair on humanity certain followers have. entered into contracts with us. and then for some reason to use the seed the following season that violates the contract we had with these farmers it is a very small number. and in most cases we look at these differences out of court

so when you apply a patent rule 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. this is a we're borrowing money from everyone to buy seeds and we ran out of money. quite well yeah of course my husband killed himself because of the debts with a neighbor ok i couldn't save anything. medical she was depressed the dad was huge. now i don't know what to do when my husband brought me. nobody will lend money to woman is a bit of something especially here. in this situation. and i feel so sad.

that i'm a. little. bit of. a cottonseed. did not have protection against what's. always had his very best sides. scientists i did it by the scientists around the world what able to find a more sustainable we could protect the plant against those put against that wall one that was but they called bt which is inserted into the sea it's a product of the science in the sea. truly an oligopoly who controls that food supply the seed supply and those 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 with a single work cleaning traits within those fridays and in those crops that are common

to all of them. so we control everything we control the food system. we get on it they make the seeds and they know that until today nature made the seeds did they create anything living they couldn't. score as much in seventy's there is no proprietary see the planet whatsoever not really a eighty two percent of the seeds sold are proprietary they're part of a patent heels. that's an enormous cherry. genotyping engineered crops do not produce enough food but they tell the lie to plot the markets more discreet does not feed people it least not people hungry because a globalized cream then becomes

a trade controlled by five agribusiness corporations who can pick the prices as they want and they want to speculate upwards they 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 because stock. so they've got what they need out of this they've got to control it frankly now because they have that control they don't need biotech anymore they've got the marketplace is to them big control the first make in the future. so they want. the were of the in the the world . 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 water can get together and through their own best interest discover and that's important to discover the price of that of that commodity i of 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 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 as you can go to the store to buy any should you blame the government no. it's your fault.

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