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birds are struggling to fix technical problems on board the probe launched martian moon with few days ago the ambitious interplanetary mission was aimed at getting us soil sample from the mood of to obtain a better knowledge of how the universe evolved. as we had lines next we report on six major chemical companies producing cancer drugs that are also thought to be behind decades of cancer causing pollution part of that special report is coming your way. do you thousand and two the top ten drug companies in america made more profits than four hundred ninety of america's wealthiest companies combined helping raise profits are cancer drugs which in two thousand and five alone rose nearly sixteen percent compared to three percent for other prescriptions . today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget

on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing in a ministration in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress food and drugs in the united states and the food and drugs and planeta are not being abided by this is a very serious problem this is been the fight that i have fought for now for the last twenty years in canada and together with my colleagues and my union and a lot of other people. as a result agrees three of us i'll timidly were fired by health canada four years the took to build up this case and ultimately fired us and saying we should pass everything that america passes and we think we cannot we are a country with a sovereign country we have to solve the not none of us refused to conduct our

work if we sit insubordination to pass drugs of questionable safety or harmful products then of course we want to be in support if that's the way it is let the canadian government say then that this is what they're fighting us for the companies pressured to get is fired this weary the longer the wood the more time they get to continue doing what they're doing. they have got at least ten years and it may take longer to keep selling the same stuff and damaging the health of people who make profits on the backs of people's health that was the insubordinate. to him

. to it's the same chemical companies the products pesticides chlorine and dioxin i've known worked on a new frontier biotechnology. this new technology has been used to transfer genes from one organism to another and has subsequently enabled companies to patent and own the organisms that they genetically modify that means that seeds plants and even trees which are modified using this technology can be privately owned by corporations for the first time in history. all right i'll sleep then watch that much i want there and as for some c.

they said well yeah we got some but them they're expensive seed as how much all that a lot of got what they was now but they was quite a bit over and. i didn't silo graeme with them they didn't ask me styling because somebody asked them but about somebody had them bottom and kill them out and bought a mat so i'm gonna plant less and you can be white glass by the top but as our you know as i want the end of the plant and then i describe with the last flake i don't i don't like colorado as most of us. but anyway i saved. and that was when most i like on them that. you know they said they got a patent on it there's no you can't have a patent was a mother nature bottom line so the guy that sold you the seed he forgot to have

you sign a license and just said here's a new baby seat and well the slate was brought back by somebody else somebody does sound awful they want to get women because they don't want people in the mode where most not a lawyer but if you have a definition or they do you really see. as a star. that i don't labor rate a bag say because i'm be too busy working and stuff like it and then trying to keep it running here is the most a great that was for watched by one and most are represented that's not my hand right that's plain as my hand. this in my hand right now right here. that's my hand right there is that looking you think it cost me five thousand dollars to prove that that was not on hand right and judge right is simple would not allow this to be and the regions our justice system literally

sucks and really sucks it's just a corrupt company. mr rolfe was fined over two point nine million dollars infringement in regards to say you can see. the district judge mr else case was rodney simple a former attorney who worked at a law firm that represents monsanto and who is listed as one of monsanto's attorneys in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven class action lawsuit. from two thousand two thousand and eight you say it was the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto was the plaintiff or defendant. eleven cases were ruled in monsanto his favor. i found that the original research grants came from the new york foundation and that was the rockefeller foundation and that they had spent over one hundred

million dollars of their foundation money to finance scientists around the world to do research to genetically modify some of the basic food seeds of the human food chain an animal from change and the more i researched into this the more i found that three maybe four companies if you include the swiss think enter but three main companies and one among them was dominant and that's monsanto but these are what i call in the book the four horsemen of the apocalypse these private seed companies they were originally chemical companies stupid poised within five or ten years at the rate they were going to dominate the basic seeds and patent those scenes that much power concentrated in the four corporate entities three of whom have decades long track record of fraud deception lying to the public about the dangers of dioxin the dangers of agent orange and vietnam war after and so for.

that really set off the alarm bells for me. i got involved in the jail issue because you know it was a new technology bringing up a team thousands of us still see them as awful for that. i was the only that this is good that she took part in four years of trawling. they were the monsanto the grave eyes again and i mean they were all in this group thing and agreed to the fall of the trolley work which all told the two hundred sixty all different i mean not just cannot if they did spring and winter knowledge it does say on the farm collector grows spring right occasionally when i have to

when i have a failure in the winter so i did both of those trials almost falling for three years under the sod did the first year as a winter protocol be over they decided exactly how they are with us at the trial and. eight they didn't cite me long to realize at least walls up intentionally simpler way to fall therefore it was cheaper therefore we could double benefits that could be seen to be bad to be passed on if we use j. for me to grow and if the price of the end product tied down and stupid juicy is off to the end of the doubt got to make a margin whatever i'm doing as it happens because of the technology we were also following the g.m. crops yielded a bit more when the convention called in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing the. after what now thirteen years of crops in the field the theory is that. we have a herbicide tolerant trait that will reduce the demand for herbicides and we have.

a trait that will protect farmers herb critic crops from some does some pests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally at this stage and there's a still a constant battle yang and yang going on between researchers and companies does show whether or not this really does work or not. we're not seeing increased food production we're not seeing increased benefits to farmers in terms of their pression costs we're not seeing improved in the traditional qualities in our or our table so there really isn't a clear benefit. everywhere

you go this is the same thing good when we see that issue kids have to apply for grants. the company. companies are on the the campuses. just students from beginning. can do appears to me and on what subject and where little they can publish those materials because they're now owned by the us so it's wherever you go there is this kind of corruption going on

this is not science. people who want to get a ministry. are not competent or even qualified or educated in science these are accountants these are lawyers these are m.b.a.'s is that anything but scientists this room was something to have become part of the uk. what do you think about genetically modified foods interest in general yes i think it's definitely safe but as long as there's regulation there's been research and everything there's. no research showing that it's not safe or that there's any difference between it and regular not faithful and scholarships they give out scholarship yeah there's lots yeah lots from santo. than yeah all the

different chemical companies and everything like that for sure. so yeah they're getting involved in there's definitely have. a presence on campus for sure. it is the first time in the history of mankind that we have been able to engineer the genetic inheritance of living beings a man it would be wise to ask if there are side effects and to check on them when you insert artificial genes anywhere by bombarding an organism or plants general metabolism can be affected it could be terrible. if somebody could prove it is g.m.o. zite dangerous and really good good. for us. would be very positive because he would have arguments that they would be able to have. less long. as nobody has the argument. it's better to go from thinking. there is no reason why this should be going. one time to may p.c.p.

is that they were huge chemical company and they only ninety percent of the biotechnology patents so we took some of those g.m. corn i was part of the commission which was assessing this corn. and we said where are the blood tests firstly the tests on rats didn't go beyond three months which was crazy they conceal the results not from the commission from the public there were effects many others on the commission said no it doesn't matter we said we must at least start over but we didn't so we asked or to be made public we had to go to a court of appeal. monsanto went before the courts to stop the world scientists and the general public from seeing the blood tests on rats they're genetically modified corn for only three months. if you can you imagine that. the world's

largest company which sells the most herbicides and which sells virtually the most g.m. seeds in the world goes to court to prevent disclosing blood test results of rats who ate their g.m.o. foods for only three months that's crazy. so we published the effects that we had observed there was a forty eight percent increase in fat a ten percent increase in sugar in the females an increase in liver with an increase in body which. resembled a pre-diabetic symptom the rats urine samples were abnormal particularly in the male rats the rats lost wit and their livers were affected. in the past thirty years there have been no government tests if. all the world's drugs are only tested by pharmaceutical companies the same goes for pesticides.

in the late one nine hundred ninety s. patrick to go but see that his local organic supplier the seeds turned out to be contaminated with chemos so he filed a complaint to uncover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and one the case was dropped mr pickard school was then contacted by a group of american farmers to join them in a class action lawsuit against monsanto dupont dow chemical astra zeneca and novartis international accusing them of engaging in any trust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidently the judge was right he said the same judge as in mr ross case the case was ruled in favor of the chemical company. gene in my field was a paid intense monsanto gene which was sold to me in seeds by as a girl which is

a monsanto subsidiary i agreed to take part in a class action lawsuit in the united states so in two thousand i went to washington d.c. to testify and to answer the questions asked by monsanto's lawyers all day be asked questions such as do you know your neighbors names how much tax do you pay and where was nothing to do with g.m. seeds. they tended to meetings at the ministry of agriculture recently during which they tried to impose on us a bill for a ministerial order for coexistence determining a twenty five yard distance between two fields of corn. that means that my neighbor g.m. crops twenty five yards away from my field and yet we officially proved in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven plant three hundred yards away was contaminated . maybe there's not much organic corn today. maybe there is someone with five acres

of organic corn surrounded by people with five hundred acres of g.m. corn. so he's not important you can just die out that's the situation if you're small you don't matter any make room for those who will feed the world. big farmers in my group managers will feed the world having poisoned it for years it's unbelievable their objective is obvious they want to sell the seeds in the harbourside with the same company makes them both the objective is to liberate the farmer or to make them independent it isn't to make a better product for the consumer. the problem is pesticides and g.m. owes. what does eating g.m. food do to our d.n.a. chain to ourselves and to our children cells we don't know.

for the past twelve years genetically modified crops have been growing on a large scale around the world they feed both us and our animals we haven't observed any problems due to g.m. consumption or direct or indirect this french farmer is completely self-sufficient along with four hundred fifty million other farmers worldwide the practice is organic probably cultural farming compared to conventional chemical agriculture this type of farming produces soil with three times more earthworms produces eighty percent more yields in developing nations and fruits and vegetables that are up to forty percent more nutritious studies even show that this type of organic farming could feed today's population and more so why do governments still give the majority of subsidies to conventional chemical farming companies claim we need g.m. crops to feed the world. if this is the case then why in america where g.m.

crops have been commercialized the longest are thirty five million americans still food insecure. see on experience if you experiment with something without any follow up it's almost criminal oh fred pascoe can you know because what we're doing isn't very serious very noble set your goals can feel it that's what every government has done because biotechnology is their religion they think it will develop so that it will be goods law but that's just a belief because i would yeah it's just like when we were told the earth was flat or you could rather than the reality of e.g. here in the hannity. there someone from the european union commission explained it to my wife at the time they did nerdish it was my right she does the character names say she's

a professor rather though it's not a professor of history they explained it to had that. effect if they had repeated the study they found similar things that what we thought. they would be able to hush it up again as once it was bad enough. twice is sore most impossible what i had he got it or so as the most important thing your father studies is that that is an even response. and in each case since then whatever the jihad was they looked at the indian status of the us they always felt that it was just when we looked at thing rat who had been having a g.m.

in the pit was illuminated and that we wouldn't have expected if the g.m. is substantially equivalent of that was the same then the length should be the identical but the world so go through all the sternal tract the lining was growing it was thick and so we thought this was evidence that there was a growth factor work if you apply that to a transition lesion in the human for example with a little bit of a surface if you applied a growth factor of their then you might miss them the development of malignancy of a little bit of yourself or those and similarly in the stomach there was once again transitional lesions there which normally will take time to develop in the council the gut and it simply insists the gars this as a three year deal it's almost like an infection it's not an infection

but the immune system just sees something coming again as strange for it and it has to react to it i just think that. it was highly irresponsible to foist on us something that was not properly examined. and we are made to. be exposed to it that's highly irresponsible in fact i would say that it's probably criminal but they have this sense to be. p.s.f. they are dupont dow chemical syngenta and astra zeneca declined to be interviewed

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