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and retain an influence over egypt. america's unemployment rates risen back over nine percent leaving college graduates learning some harsh lessons about life despite investing fallon's of dollars in their own education just one of five students will find more than. just the headlines here in our next a special report of how genetically modified salmon that danger both our health and the wild fish population. the purpose of this experiment is to determine if genetically engineered fish will outcompete and mate with wild fish and if they do that whether their genes will spread in a wild population or whether they will disappear over a number of generations and we're interested in that because that's one of the me questions about ecological risk if genetically engineered fish are being produced in a fish farm and if they were to escape from the farm and if they were able to make

if they were fertile the question is they skate and if it is based paper into waters where there are wild relatives what will happen if they interbreed with the wild relatives and our experiment is designed to test that question. so this and rico wooden building or do university developed a computer model in which they created a population of sixty thousand wild creatures in which sixty transgenic individuals penetrate a council lot of questions was compiled for instance certain survival strategies or mating advantages and all the mixed offspring stronger or weaker if these phenomena are observed and the results recorded then the computer calculates the possible future results.

we're doing in these types of testers and work for mating adventures of traders journey railroads of the wild type males. training males are larger than wild type males and they could have increased mating success because of that. they could have increased access because either the female prefers to mate with larger males or bit by being larger they can drive away the smaller wild type competitors that are around and as a result of that combined. advantage with other males as well as the female preference we found that the transgenic males get more than seventy

five percent of all the mating so for example one thing that we've also measured is that the young don't survive as well and the mating advantage of tragedy males would drive that trans gene into the population it would be more and more transgenic but the survivorship of the. less and less through time. resulting in a smaller population size. quite likely the population could go extinct. genetic engineering to some extent about a four hundred year old mistake was a mistake and began with a cartesian revolution and this idea that life is a machine. the card said that you know basically animals are better machines that

animals are basically machines and yet they continue to try and treat life as a machine and engineer is it for a machine and the cruelties of the early going to sections are now being repeated by the genetic engineers who are literally change the makeup of the entire living kingdom based on this pathological mistake of thinking that life is a machine that's why they believe in genetic engineering they're engineering life as if they were engineering machines and that's the fundamental mistake of genetic engineering. as a lawyer and author andrew kimbrell battles his way through all the issues raised by the new genetic technology he heads an environmental agency in washington which vigorously campaigns for food safety literally legally as an attorney i find this very important for the very first time in history in the last twenty years we've defined plants animals even humans now as machines and manufacturers under section

one one of our patent law that's what you can patent machines and manufacturers so we've decided as a government as a as a polity and as this pumpkin that a beagle that a human and a primate that these are machines in manufacture is no different than refrigerator to toe straps or any tennis racket they can be patented and commodified is a shocking commodification of life and shocking philosophical development as well as they got a bill. this was a greenhouse that was used for a story and so one year ago. this facility had a lot of things that have been stored over the years which really had to clear out and in construct this entire facility to hold the and for the channel

we have about one hundred fifty tons of water in here right now. only foam buildings converted greenhouses improvise asian and inventiveness this is won't risk assessment research looks like conducted by a handful of ideas around the world one would think that it is the old big asian of industry and government controlling agencies to conduct these tests but some markets and profits are at stake not the mills and food most certainly not our environment that is not in the south of the effects that may even be in grave jeopardy. the research that we're doing here and looking at the transgenic mating advantage so forth is very unique because there we know of no other lab in the world that is looking at the success of transgenic individuals in the wild. and actually one of the reasons why we began this research in the first place is to set

a methodology where industry. regulators could test organisms and see whether they would be safe or safe if they were the environment. ways that transgenic organisms like fish can get into the environment the first place. would most likely be an accidental occurring where there would be there and. or fence. area in the ocean that the fish would it's a problem and then go into the natural. really every year thousands and thousands of fish speak for these types of situations so it's a very common type of event there is a. storm off with both the made a couple years ago that destroyed some of the closure that salmon were being farmed in and that one storm one hundred thousand. they can escape from the situation and the great numbers there are certainly

environmental hazards associated with transgenic animals in particular with fish because they can escape and they're free ranging after that it's real hard to find one after they get out as the as the salmon farming industry has discovered on its own in order to protect against the fish either colonizing new habitat or interbreeding with with wild fish what we're doing is developing a fish that is more boar production line fish that will be sold will be sterile so they can reproduce and they will be all female and the reason why they're all female is because it's sterile female salmon tends not to come back from the ocean they have no reason to come back to the rivers to spawn because they're never mature so they stay out to sea they feed they live their lives there and they die there and one of the things that i find so curious about the argument of the biotechnology companies that often call themselves life sciences. is that when you

talk to them about the environmental threats about all the other threats they say don't worry we're making genetically engineered sterile will make sure they're sterile by the way who checks on this millions of fish being sterile is ridiculous and for some idea don't worry pollution plants we're going to put a terminator technology in these plants will commit suicide after one growing season. and i find it very strange that accompany the causes of life sciences is telling us that their technology only will work if you make all life on earth sterile. with a terrifying concept you know if i was an engineer and i ate an engineer came to me said i have invented a technology about light but the only problem is we have to sterilize all living things so go back to the drawing board you have a failed technology that's what i'd say. because as you can tell you are about to go make it sterile.

in norway not only of the effects of foodstuffs on humans and animals being examined terri or traffic has brought together a group of scientists are numerous different fields to work out a holistic perspective they include molecular biologists geneticists immunologists ecologists and most recently a philosopher. and those christians are both concerned vade the whole ecosystem

disturbances in ecosystems by introducing new foreign possibly different d.n.a. and also directly related to change it at the base in animal organisms and in plants or innocence their concern or both what we call the net pollution and we are concerned of both making everybody understand that bennetta pollution is something totally different from the chemical pollutions we have been stupid enough community shaped over the past fifty years or so because chemicals never replicate themselves and even a huge chemical pollution get over time get smaller. value for d.n.a. it may be a deal of area wrong because d.n.a. is self replicating in principle so it's more pollution may replicate itself and

become a huge pollution in theory and it's all this different types of risk as they are concerned a gold confuting converting answers to so far it's a lot of questions no answers was. was. the. just like their american colleagues the norwegian team wonders about what effect these new forms of life will have side boulevard true experience gathered with

genetically modified farming has shown that there are and will be grave repercussions to the environment. just as pollen fly and the modified plants drift unwelcome fields fish that escape will undo the predictions made by industry and the longer be subject to control. a man is the only one link in the food chain the entire ecosystem is affected. thomas burden's is a member of syria traffics team and sees the matter from an ecological viewpoint. i have been to cuba and we have some cooperation with a group. of scientists from cuba and i think very interesting example of transgenic fish it has some of the traits that it was not expected when they modified the genes of the fish they have found that the fish is

growing about twice as fast as the normal. but that's a side effect of a totally different effect it also tolerate salt water and that may be very important in for example the further spread of that species. so it also shows that the. transgenic or organism may suddenly have some other traits that was not expected and maybe not wanted and just come with a side effect of the case the difference is that. we don't put that first generation of crops or animals out onto the market we observe them as i said in our case we have five generations that have been under cultivation where we have been observing these fish and we've been calling anything that has an unexpected result something that grows continues growing fast or grows too quickly or gets sick or

whatever it is we will we call those fish and we only select the ones that don't have those unintended side effects for for actual production by the time these fish are ready to go on the market they will have been through six generations that's over fifteen years of observation. and we're quite confident that there's enough. occurring there that was unexpected. back to the united states for the past eighty years genetically modified grain has been cultivated as if this were completely normal canola cotton and soya dominate the market the plants have been manipulated so that they produce their own insecticide to kill pests. from humans who of course eat this as well how does such a thing of nature do you demand professor of entomology at the university of

minnesota is attempting to examine just this point is that the bt corn bt cotton and even the cheaper tadros were commercialized before many of the potential effects of these crops on the environment were investigated as to how much gene flow a kind of non-target affects how to whether or not resistance in the target will occur and how to deal with that these things were not figured out before that before the plants were commercialized and it was as they were commercialized people were raising these issues and and frankly what it is is it takes a while it takes a number of years to figure these things out and the. the the people who made these plants knew that they wanted to get them commercialized as fast as possible so you run into a problem where the people who are trying to sell these things who want to sell

them the soon as possible because the sooner they sell them faster they can make their investments back and the same time we need to take the time to evaluate the environmental effects and so in the united states the route that's been taken this to allow them to be commercialized and then sort of play a. game of trying to chase after it and find out whether or not we have any effects and characterize what they might be. too celebratory visit to call a g we are interested in various factors affecting insects in the environment. so many things we do actually work on endangered species problems there's an endangered species butterfly nearby that we work with. i think the importance of monarch so the ecosystem is a pretty interesting thing to think about so probably if monarchs went extinct

tomorrow there probably wouldn't be a big ecological impact in that there are a few parasites and some predators but not nothing that's really they are what we call a keystone species that effects huge numbers of other species. and monarchs because they migrate depend on habitats in many different parts of north america so an individual monarch butterfly that emerges in minnesota or somewhere else in the northern part of its breeding range will migrate through the central part of the united states through texas and into sites in central mexico where they spend about four or five months and then fly back into the southern part of the united states where they start another generation of monarchs. so what we're doing is we're trying to figure out the relative impacts of the genetically

modified crops and all of the other things that might be killing miners in there in . the moment to fly lays its eggs on a wheat new quiett that grew on fields after the industry had developed to supposedly ingenious method of killing all clones except for the desired. useful plant by the calculated use of a certain herbicide it took away diversifies habitat. and the only intentional side effect of gene technology in the culture. we now know through our experience with corn in the united states that the biological pollution of these you know pigeon across is uncontrolled there's no buffer zone you can't control the way insects fly or that rainwater will carry any vector can take this these new genes and spread them to other crops and to we

relatives is happening all of the united states can't control it but the companies are not taking responsibility for that and they're not being held liable for this biological pollution in the future that a company like monsanto is going to go out of business there they're teetering economically months and isn't menace economic problems think of the billions of dollars already out there and biological pollution costs are not going to pay so they're going to be long gone and they will look at our major crops if we're not careful corn soy cotton wheat rice and they're all going to be polluted perhaps indefinitely the future because of these companies actions which they can never pay for that's gross corporate responsibility. now to consider. a field in minnesota and you ask how many species of insects are there in a typical knees field through a growing season. what we can say is that the studies have shown this is a process seven hundred species of insects that visit maize every year and so if

you think about how many cuss there are there's media about. five to ten stacey's a pests so all the rest of those species the other six hundred ninety five or so species would be considered the non-target species so they're far more non-target species than there are target species and so when you try to control the target it's very likely that you're going to affect some of those other species as well the industry attempts to destroy five insect species because loss is worth millions that is understandable what is more difficult to comprehend is that industry does not seem to care that almost seven hundred other animal species are also affected. the scientists of norway and america just at the beginning of their research quite frightening for the grain is already on the market and industry.