well now we. are it's. like. this is our duty for moscow our top stories tonight a decision by the nato allies to send a military team who devised the rebels in libya has been harshly criticized the local government says the actions of britain france and italy will prolong fighting and destroy any chance of a peace deal. with the world bank warning of a new crisis finance experts say it's time for america to step back from its dominant role in the global economy and focus instead on reducing its own colossal day the u.s. is a past fourteen trillion dollars debt and apollo explains it shows no signs of slowing

down. and with more than half the population living from low the poverty line many georgians are finding it hard to put food on the table right now they claim that despite a growing welfare social system very few are actually receiving government money. next when it comes to food and agriculture there was a time when found was ruled the roost these days grows up against the might of giants science firms are eager to get us all to eat genetically modified meals and discover. both controlled by a child no one should control life no one can have that great input patterns and

nature at night as long as my wife and i have fight within us we will always go down to fight for the rights of partners oh yes if you have used her seat from year to year no one should take back right away from anyone. this is why the judge ruled number one if you are contaminated by gates your wishes i might satisfy most you'll no longer all when your seeds are plants baby come the ownership of a corporation in this case months out. he also ruled we were not allowed. to use our seeds were planted again.

he also ruled that all our profit from our ninety ninety eight can all across. the months happened. in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven as a result of a simple discovery life changed dramatically for the seventy year old farmer a power line runs along the edge of percy schmeiser product as usual the power company had the surrounding vegetation controlled by applying to herbicide rhondda but in spite of its powerful chemical. plants continue to thrive among the wheat this can all it was sprayed with poor times their normal rate that you would spray . roundup and yet it has not died so it's a very powerful. resist can all up to round up so it's definitely monsanto's seed that is here we've created our real big frankenstein.

the pesticide roundup produced by the multi-national concern monsanto is the most widely sold spray in the world monsanto made its canola resistant around. this means round up kills every plant without exception only monsanto's genetically modified canola remains alive. it was introduced without really much testing being done and i think even at that time when it was introduced in the middle of the navy's that even the governments were taken in by what these corporations told what it would do like increase fields and less chemicals and more nutritious and i think the government even believed they cooperated. in ninety ninety six the chemical giant monsanto introduced its brand of canola into canada a brand resistance of the pesticide round in smokers region free farmers agreed to

plant monsanto's new g.m.o. canola. due to a heavy storm during the harvest freshly cut g.m.o. canola drifted into percy schmeiser steals his work of fifty years of breeding was destroyed because it's harvest was contaminated by monsanto seed. but on top of that monsanto turned him the victim into a culprit agast nine hundred ninety eight smiter was sued by monsanto for having illegally planted the corporations pay to enter g.m.o. canola. he was to be forced by a court decision to pay damages in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars and all this for a canola seat he did not want in the first place. under the patent law is said to violate a patent you have to use the patent in my case i never use monsanto's patent i never sprayed their chemical roundup on my fields so i never used their patent.

but percy schmeiser would not let himself be intimidated he filed a counter suit against the chemical called grayson and grounds of environmental pollution see destruction and slander. from that time on monsanto how the small wheat farmer spied on a pursuit like a criminal. in summer ninety ninety nine the situation became even more menacing for days detectives with cars were in front of smiters driveway following him on to the fields and observing his every footstep. and that we found out afterwards and they came from license numbers that they were people hired by monsanto and also monsanto representatives from selves they didn't even stop by the people they would even drive into our yard here and i don't know if it was just me or a method of intimidation or whatever but these are things that happen.

and he did everything to bring us down financially elementary and that's what they're doing is to mentally and financially great people. the are totally ruthless they have no ethics they have no morals it's the bottom line. i had a trust fund to pay for some of my legal bills and some time ago i got a phone call from the national chair of the bank saying they were going to close out that account and they wouldn't give me no explanation so i went to see the bank manager which was a lady and i asked her why do you want to close out this account you have to give me a reason even under the bank act you can't disclose somebodies account and she wouldn't

tell me what the reason words and finally i said to her is it because of monsanto and she said yes. and they said why and she said right santa went to the head office and said to the head office at the canadian imperial bank of commerce if you don't count so percy schmeiser is they who pressed find out we will cancel all of our phones with the canadian imperial bank of commerce across canada. in two thousand and one smiles or was ordered in his months on to a trial to be about four hundred thousand dollars in damages and costs the court to take it for granted that smites is canola fields contains ninety five to ninety eight percent of months santo's g.m.o. canola the judgement is a scan of twenty eight test results only for back such a figure the rest varies between sixty nine and zero percent with contradictions and different evaluations most samples were procured behind my suspect not one of

them was taken in his presence the decisive expert witnesses in court were either monsanto employees or paid by months on to the judgment left people stunned worldwide today even canada's government admits that g.m.o. canola is everywhere. and what the crowd judge rules are first trial judge rule is what made the case become internationally known overnight what can happen with farmers when you introduce. and the judge ruled this number one it does not matter how eighth armor is contaminated and he went on to say cross-pollination where colon thrown in the wind by birds. or by direct sea lawn and a win by our farmers transportation if your contaminated against your wishes you no longer own your seeds or plants have become the ownership of monsanto under patent

law for we had about five hundred and fifty characters seated to rate c. in one thousand nine hundred eight he was. ruled because of the contamination all the profit from our crop in one thousand nine hundred eight goes to monsanto another important issue he mentioned he said it does not matter how much of palmer is contaminated if it's half a percent one percent two percent it does not matter you no longer own your seeds or plants. after this decision percy schmeiser and his wife are very demoralized just like many farmers who had been following the case percy decided to appeal the ruling and took the case to the higher court but after two more years of legal battles and no three hundred photos and canadian dollars of legal expenses the judges again ruled

if you were contaminated with months sometimes genes you no longer own your seeds and plants then we only had one avenue left and that was the supreme court of canada first of all we said to the supreme court that a farmer always should have the right to use his seeds from year to year if on his own farm and the most important issue to my wife and myself by that time was that no one no corporation no individual should ever have the right to put a price on higher life forms like a seed or plant. when i use the term higher life form i mean any lifeform whether it's a bird be an animal face or even a human being. if

you have a patent on that gene that's in that colon and i guess in your field you would all longer own your seeds or plants so you could have one plant g.m.o. and all these could be regular organic but true they can claim all of your parts. because you don't know which one is g.m.o. which is not. in one thousand nine hundred six when it was introduced farmers were told three named things there were always be a bigger yield or it would be more nutritious and less chemicals and within three and four years we found out that the total opposite happened we're now using more

chemicals in ever before and more powerful and more toxic chemicals because it has become a super week the other issue is that they quality is much poorer and and more so now we have and also poor eels and to give you an example of that even the united state department of agriculture just a short time ago indicated that a yield on soybeans was down about fifteen percent with the introduction of him or was. monsanto's technology called like virtually turns the former into an accomplice of the agro chemical industry he has to buy new seed every year with the technology surcharge and only them is he allowed to cultivate the seat the natural right of every farmer to replant his harvest seeds is waived by contract. i have a contract here for monsanto and i'll just give us some of the clauses in that

contract. our farmer must always try his seed from monsanto. he must only buy the chemicals from monsanto he can never use is seeds he might speed monsanto about forty dollars a license fee on each packer he owns each year he must provide it might sound his police force to come on his land for three years after the contract even though he may only grow jammu one year and might sound as police could go in your grain reese they can go in your fields they can get your tax records your primary records with or without your permission and if a farmer commit some by lation of the contract might sound or can take all its profit or monsanto can make it destroy its crop and a farmer is not allowed to say anything to anybody about it. you know the multinationals with these contracts are exercising more power than any government

would ever dare to do months saddle india or two thousand and three contracts have another cause out it which states that a farmer can no longer sue wants to rotate monsanto to court or lay a lawsuit against monsanto the matter for what reason it could be whether it's percy or poor props they'd no longer consume us out almost takes their rates away our farm even taken months and record so all their freedom of speech expression is taken away total domination and controlled by a multinational over a problem or it's like stamping their primary into a hole into the ground he has no longer any rights for it and that's basically what the judge ruled in my case against are not sounds he's against me now monsanto's patent is over a new pope farmers rights. and we hope that the supreme court will change that and give the rates back to the partners where they belong not to multinational

corporations. in all of north america there are hundreds of farmers under the same threat as percy schmeiser only a few of them have had the courage to come foolish to talk about. david runyan from indiana is one of the few that is standing up to monsanto but even he took half a year before going public with his story on santa as investigators arrived on my farm it was price of a thirty at night pm they. did not identify themselves i really did not know who they were until about three days later. i was informed from the local feed mill where i have my seat cleaned every year after twenty years

and they inform me that that's who they were that they were investigators for monsanto and investigating me for pat infringement. all they will i want to know the investigators was what kind of class ladies i grow kind of week you i grow what kind of corn do i grow and herbicides i use and also whom do i sell my products to they wanted name and phone numbers. and at that point i refused to cooperate and i ended the conversation. so anyone they investigate they will definitely find will have someplace a positive identification for genetic material.

and i worried after i found out i was contaminated i worried i lost thirty pounds that year just or six or eight months just a timeframe we were going to be worried here i was going to be costly drug in a foreign federal in a federal court never really been in a courtroom before and let alone go to federal court but now i'm not afraid of them i'm not scared of them and i know who i'm fighting and i know their tactics. i contacted an attorney i had to i knew that and i cannot fight them by myself monsanto is too big of a company and i don't have the money too. and i thought after i'd say council he advised me to put some signs up so i did put some signs up to keep people off and

particularly them if i can i don't know i guess time will tell on that. and. well most of the farmers that have that have relations with monsanto yes they are afraid of them and a lot of them have either settled and signed gag orders so they cannot speak about anything so you only find a handful of farmers out here that can actually talk about this i told no one i talked to no one until i found out whom turned me in and advised by my counsel i just didn't talk about it i probably didn't talk to anyone about it for six months .

and they're. just try had one of the person go talk to that i knew had been through it already and fortunate i could prove to him that day that i was a farmer and i needed help and he helped me. and i'm thankful for him call the vet yeah i'm in a field ok here's my location you come to me so i drove one hundred twenty miles just to talk to him and i love the way up north in a state pen and i talk to him and he help me out and then it wasn't quite as bad as i thought it would be but he helped me out a lot he had nothing else just to say help settle my nerves. and he survived it and i came to conclusion that i can possibly survive it too.

also from indiana troy rush was wrongly accused of having reuse months santo's g.m.o. seat without paying license fees much like percy schmeiser his family had to come up with four hundred thousand dollars in legal expenses and finally after several years of legal battles agreed to settle with monsanto including a provision to keep silent about his case he is now advising farmers threatened by months like david runyan the first thing i advise a farmer who has non g.m.o. soybeans is you must have third party sampling and testing of your crop because monsoreau is going falsify the results of your soybeans. the farmer actually most at risk in the situations is the farmer not growing the g.m.o. so it. because now he has to in fact prove his innocence that's the opposite of what people think you know our legal system does here in america innocent till proven guilty well maybe so in

a criminal situation i don't know but i can tell you when you're a civil thought with a company like monsanto it is up to you to prove you did not in fact do with their accusing you of. a majority of farmers i speak with. they don't have the financial wherewithal to fight these battles. a lot of them. you know i can recall one particular farmer is working with you know he and they had to file bankruptcy and they they couldn't hire an attorney it's just terrible it's hard when you've got this multinational corporation spending millions of dollars they can they can. prove whatever they want i often say that after a night experience with the coarsest and lady justice holding the skills of balances and in the way the court system seems to work in america at least from

soaps the end point is the power money on the balance and the one who puts the most money on once our core system is just that was that was a dismal experience and i'm just just appalled but that's a lot to go on in america. if a farmer felt his neighbor was grown genetically altered or a month or a monsanto's at roundup ready canola that they should inform underneath her and they should wrap a suit squeal underneath and we can return farmers tell me that if they did that they would get a leather jacket from monsanto. if a farmer would squeal a rap on his neighbor and what monsanto would do is send out one of these or two of

these x. r.c.m.p. or detectives syrian best to gators what every one to call them and they would go to a farm form and pm this is what the farmers would tell me they would come into this farm home and say put a party worth so we have a tip or a rumor that you've been grown wrote up already can all of without a license and if you don't come clean we'll get you you won't have a farm left when we're through with you know with you and we know if you tell us that you're not your lion. farmers begin know not to trust one another because if you had a visit from an ex or c.m.p.d. or amounts that are representative the first person. you would think well it wasn't my neighbor that turned me in rose made me wear that said this about me so it was destroying that social fabric and i think this is one of the worst things that

could happen the breakdown of our communities by this policy. they wanted to introduce when i see one hundred two i mean like monsanto another company's wheat rice flax out thousand and no permission was given. and it can aged people and the farmers and the current to me are said we have seen the damage it has done to health environment more chemicals the park rocks we do not want any more new homes. the i've heard not only in your country but also in my country and united states scientists say and some government people say we must be part of this new cake knology.

this new technology is crazy science it's unsafe science and it's not proven science. and if we've had in north america eleven years of g.m.o. so how come we don't have lots of food now that the gun hungry world. the corporations want total total control of the seed supply which will then give them total control of the pollute the park that's what you most are all about not more food peter hungry world control of the seeds of.

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