if contracts were allegedly promised to countries in exchange for assisting the rebels topple colonel gadhafi. next we report on the claims major pharmaceutical manufacturers who make cancer fighting drugs are also thought to be responsible for producing over decades pollution that causes cancer. 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.

than members of congress. food and drugs in the united states and the food and drugs in canada are not being a budget buy 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 and as a result a breeze three of us automatically were fired by health canada that for years that took to build up this and ultimately fired us and saying we should buy everything that america buses and we're seeing we cannot we are a country that is sovereign country we have a sovereign law none of us refused to conduct our work. if there's 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 community in government say that that this is what they're fighting us for the companies pressure to get us fired this where the longer the weird the more time they get to continue doing what they're doing they have got at least ten years it may take longer to keep selling the same stuff and damaging the health of people who make profit on the backs of people's health that was the insubordinate.

period the same chemical companies that brought us pesticides chlorine and dioxins have known barked 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 very much. i want to. see. they said well yeah we got some but they're expensive seat as how much all that a lot got what there was now but they was quite a bit over and. i didn't sign an agreement with them they didn't ask me

to sign it because somebody else had them by somebody had done bottom and carry them out and bought a mat. so i got an implant and they said you can. glass bottle top but that's how you know and this i want to and in the plant and then i did. with glass feet i don't i don't like colorado as most honest. but anyway. and that was where most of the come down on me you know they said they got a patent on it there's no you can't have a. mother nature bottom line. so the guys at the seed. have you sign a license and just said here's a new thank you seed and the state was brought back by somebody else. somebody does sound out phone he want to get rid of because they didn't want to

keep him the most well most not a lawyer. or they do you really did see as a star. that i don't never rate a bag. because i'm too busy working and stuff like it and then trying to keep it running here is the most sour grape that was forced by one of most on a representatives that's not my hand right now. i say now is my hand right. 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 my time and right. and judge wright is simple would not allow this debate and the court decisions on our justice system lately so. it's just a corrupt company. mr alf was fined over two point nine

million dollars infringement in regards to saving seeds. the district judge mr ailes case was. a former attorney who worked at the 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 . the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto is the plaintiff or defendant the eleven cases were ruled in monsanto's 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 in the animal food chain and the more i researched into this more i found

that three maybe four companies if you include the swiss and but the three main companies and one among them was dominant and that's monsanto that these what i call in the book the four horsemen of the apocalypse these private seed companies they were originally chemical companies. stude poised within five or ten years at the rate they were going to dominate the basic seeds and patent those seeds that much power concentrated into 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 the vietnam war and after and so forth. that really set off the alarm bells for me.

i got involved in the jail issue because it was a new technology bringing opportunities and still see them as often seen that. i was the only the to support that she took in four years of trawling. and were the monsanto the great of us and gentlemen they were rolled in in this grouping and agreed to to fund the trial work which all told the two hundred sixty all different i mean not just cannot if they did spring and winter and i did but it's a on the farm collector a grouse spring right occasionally when i have to when i have a failure in the winter so i did both of those trials almost mom for three as did the first year when it's a protocol the when they decided to exactly how they are with us at the trial. it

didn't take me long to realize that these walls a potentially simpler way to farm therefore it was cheaper therefore we could double benefits that could be seen to be bad to be pasta almost as if it is chiefly made to grow then if the price of the end product came down i could still produce it it's up to the end of the dow got to make a margin whatever i'm doing as it happens it's because of the technology we were also finding that the g.m. crops yielded a bit more than the conventional call in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing little. after what now thirteen years of crops in the field the theory is that. we'll have we have a herbicide tolerant trait that will reduce the demand for herbicides and we have to be cheery a tree that will protect farmers are pretty crap from some does some pests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally at this stage there's a still

a constant battle being in yang going on between researchers and the 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 production costs we're not seeing improved nutritional qualities in our in our on our table so there really isn't a clear benefit. everywhere

you go this is seem to be good when we see that you should just have to apply for grants. to companies. companies on the campuses the enlist students from beginning. can do a ph d. and what subject and whether they can publish those materials because they're now in by the computers so it's wherever you go there is this kind of corruption going on this is not science. the people who want to administer the patents are not competent on even qualified or educated in science accountants these odd lawyers

these are m.b.a.'s is that anything but scientists this universities and have become part of the uk. what do you think about genetically modified foods. just in general yeah i think it's definitely safe 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 or not and modified food and scholarships they give us gosh oh yeah there's lots yeah lots from it cardio sandow. better than all the different chemical companies and everything like that for sure. so yeah they're getting involved in theirs they 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 and 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 the plants general metabolism can be affected it could be terrible but if somebody could prove that moves are dangerous a really good. course. would be very positive because he would have arguments that nobody else has but as long. as nobody has the arguments expected to go on thinking to do is no reason why the should be doing that monsanto made p.c.p. is that they were a huge chemical company and they own 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 the blood tests firstly tests on rats didn't go beyond three months which was crazy they concealed the results not from the commission but from the public there were affects 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 it to be made public we had to go to a court of appeal. monsanto went before the court to stop the world's scientists and the general public from seeing the blood tests on rats they're genetically modified corn for only three months. can you imagine that. the world's largest company which sells the most herbicide 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 weight it 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. 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 see that his local organic supplier. turned out to be contaminated with g.m. oath so he filed a complaint to uncover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and

one the case was dropped mr dick 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 antitrust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidently the judge was rightly cipel the same judge as in mr ralph's case the case was ruled in favor of the chemical companies. resent. the gene in my field was a patient and 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 to answer the questions asked by monsanto's lawyers all day they asked

questions such as do you know your neighbors names i much tax do you pay and where nothing to do with g.m. seeds. i attended 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 yes we officially proved in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven that 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 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 and the herbicide with the same company makes them both the objective is to liberate the farmer or to make a mint dependent it isn't to make a better product for the consumer. pesticides and g.m. owes. what does eating g.m. food do to our d.n.a. chain to our cells and to our children cells we don't know. for the past twelve years genetically modified crops have been grown 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 he practices are again a public culture of 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 only experience and you experiment with something

without any follow up it's almost criminal pesca came in there because what we're doing isn't very serious of your bills coffee yet that's what every government has done because biotechnology is their religion they think it will develop so that it will be good to all but that's just a belief it would be you know it's just like when we were told the earth was flat or you get rather than the reality of e.g. . someone from the european union commission explained it to my wife at the time they did know that sure as my wife she does that teddy my name's say she's professor bought a daw it's not professor pushed they explained it to had that.

if if they repeated the study a this has similar things that what we thought. they wouldn't be able to hush it up again as once it was bad enough. twice is sore most impossible what i regarded also as the most important thing studies is that that is an invalid response and in each case since then whatever the g.m. was they looked at the even status of the animal was they always found that it was jeopardized when we looked at the rats who had been having the g.m. then the clip was ill in cases that we wouldn't have expected if the g.m. is substantially equivalent in other words the same then the length should be the

identical but it wasn't so both the whole and the steinle tracked the lining was growing it was thickened so we thought this was evidence that there was a growth factor at work and if you're applying that to transition lesion in the human for example with the lower end of your sofa goes if you apply the growth factor of. then you might hist on the development of malignancy at the lower and of yourself with us and similarly in the stomach as once again transition lesions there which no more it will take time to develop into council the gut and its immune system the god is this as for it material it's almost like an infection it's not an infection but if the immune system just sees something coming in as strange foreign and it has to react to it i just

think that. it was highly it is possible to foist on us something that was not properly examine and we are all baited to be exposed to it is highly irresponsible or infact i would say that it's probably craven the more but who the hell listens to me monsanto b.s.f. bayer dupont dow chemical syngenta and astra zeneca declined to be interviewed for this film.

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alex thanks. thank. you.

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