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situation in libya. and also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for bank robbery sparking massive protests against tougher cuts in the country there's outrage too in germany work critics say they're tired of paying for people's debts calling in greece to leave the eurozone. and people here in moscow and nationwide prepare a celebrated russia today it's twenty years since a country staves its first free presidential elections just one year after declaring independence from the song which you can. see the top stories of the week i'll be alarming impact of genetically modified food is explored in our special report that's coming your way next.

you know these slides are very interesting. and this is this is an interesting slide with what you have here and one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph mainstreet university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. and he did just that he actually was successful as you can see though the very large mouse here is the one that's successfully been engineer with human growth genes to make a huge and you see the sibling next to it and this made

a huge fear it was on the front page of these magazines new york times and then a few months later people said well this is interesting but what you can really do with a really huge amounts i mean you can scare people you know there's a few things you can do with it it's not a very practical thing to have a really huge mouse so then what happened is. you know this is the part of agriculture said well what happens if we were to use the same experiment but to use it with pigs. and. so i went out to the u.s.d.a. here. and this what they did they took the human growth gene dr vern purcell with taxpayer dollars and i know that many taxpayers knew this actually took taxpayer dollars and took human genes close genes and put them into this pick as you can see there's a problem instead of like the mouse that with human genes it was so big that genes were different in human growth genes were different a mistake it was cross-eyed bowl a good important musculature had overwhelmed it. and i can only photograph

against the plywood board because that's the only only way it could stand up and you can imagine the suffering and how terrible this was for this particular animal and this is another experiment is what would happen they were interested in taking the skin of the of a cow and see if they could genetically have a pig produce that skin apparently be more beneficial for slaughtering and so this is literally a pig. that has a cal's skin researchers are very proud of that. one

of the. most important to understand about genetic engineering is that. it is really attempts to say listen no matter how unsustainable our technologies we're not going to change the technology to fit the natural living systems we're going to change living systems so they fit the technology we all know how horrible factory farming is and one of the problems they have with egg laying chickens with hands is they have another me instinct they want to brute and here you see one of the brain experiments jenny. engineering chickens to take out the mothering instinct from these brooding chickens so they won't groom or they won't have the mothering instinct any more so offset the factory farm system this is one of the came near of birds there working with the take away the mothering instinct so we don't change our factory farm system we actually take the mothering instinct out of animals so that they will fit the technology. in the mid eighty's once again

a new supposedly golden age dawned for scientists genetic technology appeared to be the key to subordinating the earth and in particular its living creatures all of a sudden everything seemed possible they experimented with chickens without feathers she put out pelts to alleviate work after slaughtering with cows producing more milk and goods making silk they even imagined animals in the role of living organ donors.

yet most of the experiments ended in failure and never found their way out of the laboratories. not only did the animals fail to conform to the scientists visions they were also deformed and incapable of survival. only research on fish made progress here scientists could put their knowledge into practice more quickly as the animals have shorter generation times and the hundreds of thousands of eggs developed by themselves outside the mother. that can. indian company by the name of aqua bounty is in the process of obtaining market approval for its genetically manipulated giant salmon it has developed a salmon that is six times larger than the other members of its species it needs only half the time to grow. up on a farms is a small development stage research and development stage company we don't have

a product on the market yet but we are researching of riding different applications of biotechnology to fish farming and we're pretty much the only company in the in the field today. this is a picture of three related fish brothers and sisters that we developed this is a fish that inherited the translation and these are its siblings that did not this this fish is about a year old as these fish are as well and as you can see there is a incredible excel aeration in the early life stages these fish are are just barely ready to go into salt water this fish is almost ready to harvest after a year they want. to. go for. the one point three billion. dollars. that. this is the same salmon that you know eighteen months ago here you see the enormous

difference here and base this is the same as it exists is not big enough it's not profitable enough doesn't grow fast enough to fundamentally change it with foreign genes so that we can make more money off it so they can be more profit on it but an extraordinary an extraordinary picture obviously there's a there's a financial consideration for the farmer i mean it's much more profitable to grow the salmon in a shorter time but there's a significant environmental impact it reduces the amount of time they're using the site so you get less fecal material that builds up on the bottom less on eat and feed their in the water for shorter period of time so they're exposed to native pathogens in the marine waters they're less exposed to disease less less likely for that to occur it's a technology that cannot exist with nature it's a technology that invades pollutes contaminates and ultimately destroys the natural species and this is fundamental to be crops or fish or animals that's the fundamental nature of biological pollution it cannot co-exist and invasive destroys

we need to understand that as we debate this issue but the real key here is not the sand on the salmon it's just the first product what we're really interested in what we're. now back in the lab is happier and a carp which are really important. fish in the third world in china in africa for food security we are going to have difficulty supplying the aquatic protein to people worldwide enlarges the high end kind of products like trout and salmon but the really important products for food security like carp and those are what we're working on we should have those on the market by the end of the decade. that is the real point of the whole matter the focus is on conquering the huge market in southeastern asia aqua bounty farms is getting ready to breed and sell eggs manipulated with growth genes in huge amounts. the company conducts the scanty

tests required for approval itself and neither independent scientists nor consumers have insights into the approval process it is confidential. occasional reports that the modified fish are more aggressive suffer from internal as well as external deformities and die earlier the same results reached in earlier experiments on pigs cows and sheep give due cause for skepticism. regardless of any fear harbored by consumers the genetically modified fish are soon to land in our pots and frying pans earlier than with genetically modified plants resistance is already building up among the populace genetically modified grain such as canola maison soy or introduced eighty years ago continues to turn up on

our plates unrecognized and unlabeled which means that when shopping or eating in a restaurant we have no chance to identify these foods. ok well i'm going into this boycott because to be a seafood restaurant in this time and age is is saying something because we've been here for six years we sell a hell of a lot of fish we do about twelve million dollars a year so when we make a decision effects a lot of things and the decisions we make a fact markets you know we buy a lot of fish so if we decide not to buy a particular fish we're not just selling fish that means a lot. genetically engineering fish it just seems frightening we don't know whole lot about it now but from what i understand from what i've. is the lot of questions we don't know what

a fix it's going to have on the human population but we also don't know what if it's going to come on the ocean. way you ask whether transgenic fish is available in the marketplace as far as i understand right now the f.d.a. is considering whether to approve it or not the food and drug administration they're having a great deal of difficulty because there is not a lot of science that says transgenic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there's a lot of concern about the environmental impact if the transgenic fish escapes and they all escape these animals are born to escape if this vicious cage what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population these fish are bred to grow faster or be stronger and they have a tremendous advantage over the wild fish population. i don't know what this might

do to us or our children or our children's children and the government needs to become more active and at the very least label it so we know what we're the. it's just so unfair for people to work in ignorance even though they care even though they want to know if the government doesn't cooperate. we're all victims of big one of the major problems we see with labeling people labeling isn't just a right to know issue. labeling is the only way you get traceability of the health effects of genetically engineered foods so labeling isn't just a right you know it's absolutely critical if we want health professionals to be able to trace the health of acts of genetic engineering and hold those corporations liable for those of acts so the corporations hate labeling because they don't want to consumers to know but they also know it saves them from liability and from anyone tracing potential health effects that's the trouble importance of labeling.

hardly any research has been done only effects of genetically modified foods on humans although at least in america these have been on supermarket shelves for the past eighty years and are being consumed. only a few researches undertake the tedious and difficult task of conducting tests interims four hundred kilometers north of the arctic circle telia traffic one of the few scientists worldwide who is not only industry payroll does research on the effects of genetically modified food on the health of humans and animals. then organised like fish is eating nifty modified feet. then they don't know what happens when there's been a next. consumer comes in that the fish is eating their commodified bird

you really eat the fish no provision extend the dinette the modified food has changed the fish to both the basic center is still going at a modified d.n.a. present in the fish division if then you will be exposed to this in the next instant there is no. experimental data to indicate what happens in the case. we are no go into the experiment and in all departments there are doing feeding studies in rats at the mall the five ingredients food and d.n.a. construct. this is a very unique experiment in the sense that it's a first experiment you know very you have these scientists told that you can

detect any difference between these rats groups and then you can go backwards and find all this difference means in terms of health or in terms of the functions of the organs or whatever. the back room for this is that. many places in the. people. are already eating then after all the for food or feed or originating internet you know the fact that. in addition to that the intended use in humans and the mystic calls us to really know only survey from the soil and through the table. holes lot of different species and animals in and consume all the plants and we don't know anything about both what effects this should have on any organism.

no way after the rats are sacred forest in the department of experimental animals the organs have been frozen tone at the very low temperature and then we'll keep going to do is to analyze the organs and see there are foreign d.n.a. has every right in those organs. d.n.a. can be found there in the organs. right in experiments in the german. nice. i mean there are led by dr walter they're for. we're demonstrating that some types of foreign d.n.a. cleared from the organisers. from the mice and then threw in the

internal organs and were even so entrenched in all the lies if that is the case if that happens then it starts off in high. regard to health. it seems like a wide scale experiment on humans in view of the fact the genetically modified food has been on the market for eighty years and already eaten by millions of americans however it is an experiment being conducted without test groups and no knowledge can be gained as to whether and in what form our health is affected if one group eats genetically modified foods but a test group is lacking the entire population is simply subjected to the same potentially harmful substances. a few scientists suspect that there might be a connection to the increase of chronic illnesses and the weakening of the immune system and the consumer might wonder if he may not have any children if he'd still

fish in the future. do we at least know what repercussions this has on our environment and purdue university in indiana. and recovered up of forming tests and doing pioneer research work to determine what actually happens when genetically modified fish soon to be introduced on the market and into the food chain lingle with wild fish for this purpose they are breeding their own transgenic fish to remain independent of the food industry. a number of animals have been major as jake including commercially important. one group that has been studied quite a bit in terms of making. ensure that. individuals are fish and fish for commercial purposes so fifteen twenty different species like salmon like to laugh the

like carp have been made transgenic and so we have the facilities and also the expertise to investigate problem in fish. but also through made our approach to answering those questions such that they could be used and pigs could be used in cattle what can be used in any other type of board or plants. any type of organism because they get it all the general features of biology that it's common to any organism. to make the transgenic fish to get the recently fertilized eggs and they usually within five minutes of them being fertilized we bring them over to this room and go through a procedure called micro injection to literally inject into the egg thousands of copies of a small segments of d.n.a. . those segments of d.n.a. include the gene that we're after in this case of salmon growth hormone gene as

well as a promoter that turns a gene on. and we're started inserting that into a class that has just been fertilized. so what our student has here is eggs on a small strip with a very last needle that contains the d.n.a. . and hope that needle right up to the a membrane and then with air pressure. shoot the d.n.a. into the bay. and from there on it's a matter of chance as to what happens if the. segment of d.n.a. happens to be in the right place and it gets incorporated into the chromosomes of the organism and we're successful making it raise any fish but that may only have about ten percent or five percent of the time so you go through really looking for

years processes of injecting. we have this extraordinary situation where we're taking human genes and put them in a fish and we're mixing and matching the genetic makeup of the entire living kingdom and the whole community and who's deciding who you know we're changing the permanent genetic makeup permanently the entire animal kingdom and who's deciding you know in our congress here in the united states or our legislatures throughout the world we've got all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent genetic future of life on earth. but we don't vote on that very few scientists and regulators and corporations impose that on us so there's no referendum and there's no elections and this is one of the fundamental issues i think we have democracy democracy is legislation. technologist is legislation technology actually is the basis for almost all major

social change we don't vote on it when everything else whether the nuclear bomb or the automobile or now taking human genes and putting them in the other animals and mixing imagine all of you we don't vote on that i don't know that we let a few corporations scientists and railways decide and there's a fundamental question we need to answer about technology today is that we no longer can lead just a few decide these questions that will last for millennia we need to say technology is legislation technology is a law that will determine our future and we need to vote on that we need to be able to decide we need to become informed and we need to make a choice. this is the heart of why. he is fighting for single handedly at the university of minnesota bothered by the fact that the approval process is so secretive she began to conduct her own experiments with grants for independent research she examines the behavior of the

transgenic fish bred by bill moore and recovered. in an old farm building she tries to reproduce a simulated ecosystem in many tanks and aquariums in order to conduct experiments resembling a real life situation oh reputation isn't independent scientists reaches all the way to thailand the industry is especially anxious to capture the southeastern asian market with genetically modified to love here a popular fish on asian menus for this reason it is pressing the governments with patients for approval to be able to sell its transgenic fish earlier than in america and the government of thailand became quite worried because they felt that they were not well equipped to review an application and even know what questions to ask and how do we do a risk assessment and be able to make a good decision about whether they should allow the patient of a country so they told the researchers please don't even apply formally

to introduce these fish because we don't know what to do. under great time pressure and is compiling a risk assessment report together with tariq ali concerning the possible dangers to the environment should transgenic fish be approved for commercial purposes for just as with food stocks the potential consequences to the environment have so far not been thoroughly explored. one of the things we want to know is if in the future the thai government approved genetically engineer to apia and if they were to escape from the fish farms and we know they will since the regular farm swap you have with that cause most more harm are would be equal to the possible harm that that. foreign swap you know that everybody escaped i am proposing. to explore the possible risk factors and is working with a small fast reproducing fish species from japan many thousands of fish are

measured photographed the eggs counted and their meeting behavior observed. think. transgenic male wild female wild mayo wild female. two males one female. which one asserts itself which offspring a stronger. none of it sounds like create three more profit more like hard work at weekends over time.

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