it's. the u.n. security council is considering palestine's bid for full state recognition with a vote on the motion expected as early as next week palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was greeted with joy in the territories despite washington promising to be go. 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 and administration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. the members of congress. food and drugs act in the united states and then 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 of breeze three of us automatically were fired by health canada four years that took to build up this case and ultimately fired us and saying we should buy everything that america busses and we're saying we cannot we are

a country we are sovereign country we have a sovereign law none of us refused to conduct our work if it'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 canadian government say then that this is what they're fighting us for the companies pressure to get is fired this way the longer the wit 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.

sked 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 owsley there's a lot there much. i want there and as for some c. they

said well yeah we got some but the image that expensive seat is how much all that a lot got what there was now but they was quite a bit over and. i didn't silo graeme with them they didn't ask me to style it because somebody else had them bottom that somebody had done bottom and get them out and bought a mat. so i'm gonna plant this and you can be white glass bottle top but that's all i need you know and that's i want to end in that plant. and then . 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 bad mother nature bottom line. so the guy that's.

how you sign a license just said here's a new seat in the state was backed by somebody else. somebody done signed off on he want to get rid of because he didn't want people in the mall where most not a lawyer. or they 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. that was flown. by i want to most on a represent that's not my hand right. that's a nice my hand right. in my hand right now right here. that's my hand right as i look in you think it cost me five thousand dollars to prove that that was not my man right and judge ryan is simple would not allow this to be in the.

our justice system legally so. it's just a corrupt company. mr alf was fined over two point nine million dollars for a patent infringement in regards to saving seeds. the district judge in mr else case was rodney simple 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. it was the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto was 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 the more i found that three maybe four companies if you include the swiss sent them to but 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. student 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 jam issue because it was a new technology bringing up the changes in law still see them as alternately. i was the only the to support the that she took in four years of trawling. they were the monsanto the grave us a gentleman they were holding in this grouping and they agreed to the farm the trial was which all told the two hundred sixty all different i mean not

just cannot if they did spring and winter and i did both a on the farm collector a grouse bring right occasionally when i have to when i have a fight in the winter so i did both of those trials almost vom for three as did the first year and when it's a protocol the when they decided to exactly how they're with us at the. eight he 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 policy if it is chiefly made to grow and if the price of the end product came down i could still produce it it's off 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. crop yielded a bit more than the conventional call in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing that. after what now thirteen years of crops in the field the theory is that. we'll have we have

a herbicide tolerant trade that will reduce the demand for herbicides and we have a tree that will protect farmers are pretty crap from some disease some pests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally at this stage there's a still a constant battle yang and yang going on between researchers and the companies as to 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 the worst is that you should just have to apply for grants. to companies. companies on on 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 that. are not competent on even qualified or educated and science accountants these odd lawyers these are m.b.a.'s is that anything but scientists this university center 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 cardio sandow. better 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 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 g.m.o. zaw dangerous and really good. horse. would be very positive because he would have arguments that nobody else has but as long. as nobody has the arguments

expected to go home thinking to do is no reason why does should be good. 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 the 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 weight 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 empty trust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidently the judge was rightly cipel the same judge as in mr rolfs 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 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 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 by 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. g.m. food due to our d.n.a.

to ourselves and to our children. 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 in 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 offit pesca came in there because what we're doing isn't very serious of a move to secure those 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 all but that's just a belief because of 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 she was my wife she does that my name's says she's professor bought a daughter not a professor pushed they explained it to had that. if if they repeated the study as if has symbolising that what we thought. they wouldn't be able to hush it up again as once it was bad enough. twice it's or most impossible what i regarded also as the most important thing studies is that that is an immune response and in each case since then whatever the g.m. was they looked at the even status of the animal or as they always

found that it was jeopardized when we looked at the rats who had been having the g.m. then the clip was illuminated and that we wouldn't have expected if the g.m. is substantially equivalent in other words the same then the links should be the identical but they want to go through the whole just tunnel tract the lining was growing it was thick and so we thought this was evidence that there was a growth factor at work and if you apply that to transition lesion in the human for example with the lower end of yourself because if you apply the growth factor of. then you might haste on the development of malignancy at the lower and of yourself with us and similarly in the stomach this once again transition lesions there which normally will take time to develop into cancer the gut and it's

immune system the gars this as for in 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 even fact i would say that it's probably criminal 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. a. clue.

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