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two 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 and research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and in ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. the numbers of congress food and drugs act in the united states and them food and drugs act and canada 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 and as a result of these three of us alchemically were fired by health canada four years the took to build up this careers and ultimately fired us and saying we should pass everything that american arses and loosing we cannot we are a country with

a sovereign country we have to solve or not none of us refused to conduct our work if this insubordination to 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 creation government see them that this is what they're fighting us for the companies pressured to get is fired this way 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 for people to make profit on the backs of people's health that was the insubordinate. to him

. to escape the same chemical companies that produce pesticides chlorine and dioxins 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 a lot better much i will up there are some see. they

said well yeah we got some but them that expensive seed is how much all that a lot got what it was now but they was quite a bit over and. i didn't silo graeme wood and they didn't ask me to style it because somebody asked them bottom that somebody had done bottom and plant them out and bought a mat so i'm gonna plant this and he can give us his plate glass by the top but as our. as i want the end of the plant and then i describe him on the top with brass flake i don't like colorado that's past most solace. but anyway i asked i did see and that was where most i like on them donald you know they said they got a patent on it there's no you can't have a patent was the cause mother nature bottom line so the guy that sold you the seed

you forgot to have you sign a license just said here's a new bag of feed and well the slave was brought back by somebody else somebody done sound out phone he want to get rid of because he didn't want people know me well most not a lawyer but i got a deposition or they do you really get back to sleep as a star. that i don't never read a back seat because i'm be too busy working and stuff like it and then trying to keep it running here he's the most agreement that was forward but i want to most on a represent his that's not my hand right that's a nice my hand right right there this is my hand right now right here. that's my hand right here is that looking you think it cost me five thousand dollars to prove that that was not my man. and judge wright is simple would not allow this debate

in the court decisions our justice system lately sucks a lily sucks it's just a corrupt company heard of a clue. mr alf was fined over two point nine million dollars per can infringement in regards to stay concedes. the district judge mr ross case was rightly simple a former attorney who worked at the law firm that represents monsanto and who is listed as one of month sanders attorneys in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven class action lawsuit. from two thousand to two thousand and eight rodney said who was the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto was the plaintiff or defendant 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 modified some of the basic food seeds and they're going to trade on the animal subject and the more i researched and of this the more i found that three maybe four companies if you include the swiss i'm going to go up to 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. stude poised within five or ten years at the rate they were going to dominate the basic seeds and patents of the scenes that much power concentrated into four corporate entities three of whom have a decades long track record of fraud deception lying to the public about the dangers

of the dangers of agent orange and if you know more 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 we're bringing up it seems is a must still see them as or completely. i was the only to support her that she took part in four years of trawling. they were the signs of a great vice in general and they were all in this group in the greens to the father the trial work which all told the two hundred sixty all different i mean not just conniving with me did spring and winter nodded both day on the farm

collector a gross 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 did the first year as a winter protocol eleven i decided exactly how i was going to set the trial and. eight he didn't take me long to realize that these walls potentially simpler way to fall therefore it was cheaper therefore we could the benefits that could be seen to be bad to be tossed on before he was chasing me to grow and if the price of the embroidery paid down our stupid juicy things after the end of the day i got to make of knowledge in whatever i'm doing as it happened because of the technology we were also following the g.m. crop yielded a bit more when the collection called in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing a little. defter what now thirteen years of crops in the field the theory is that. we'll have we have

a herbicide tolerant tree that will reduce the demand for herbicides and we have a be a trait that will protect farmers predict props from some does some tests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally at this stage or there's a still a constant battle looming in yang going on between researchers and the companies just show whether or not this really does work or not. we're not seeing increase from production we're not seeing increased benefits to farmers in terms of their pression costs we're not seeing improved nutritional qualities in our or in our table so there really isn't a clear benefit. the .

everywhere you go this is simply good rumors to get the surgeons have to apply for grants. the company. companies are on the the campuses. just students from beginning. can do a ph d.

and in what subject and whether they can publish those materials because they're not owned by the companies 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 park are not competent or even qualified or educated and sides these are accountants these are lawyers these are m.b.a.'s is that anything but scientists this universe and since i have become part of the uk. what do you think about genetically modified food it's interesting john yeah i think it's definitely safe but as long as there's a 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 modified for scholarships they give us gosh oh yeah there's lots yeah lots for me because

your thoughts on joe. the yeah i'll be 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 to come and 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 plant's general metabolism can be affected it could be terrible. if somebody could prove it if g.m. moves are dangerous really good. for us. very quickly because he would have arguments that nobody else has but as long. as nobody has the argument. it's better to go from thinking to. there is no reason why the should be.

months until may 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 are 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 effects many others on the commission said no it doesn't matter what 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 scientists and the general public from seeing the blood tests on rats who ate their genetically modified corn for only three months. because you can you imagine. 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 and 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 for it 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. cutter to costco but see that his local organic supplier seeds turned out to be contaminated with g.m. oath so he filed a complaint when cover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and one the case was dropped mr pickard who was then contacted by a group of american farmers to join them in a class action lawsuit against months until 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 rightly simple the same judge as in mr ross case by case was ruled in favor of the chemical company. 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 and 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. 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 yes we officially proved in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven that land 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 eight hundred acres of g.m. corn. so he's not important even to stay out that's the situation if you're small you don't matter that make room for those who will feed the world. big farmers and i grew 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 him a dependent it isn't to make a better product for the consumer. pesticides and g.m. knows. 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 a direct or indirect this french farmer is completely self-sufficient along with four hundred fifty million other farmers worldwide the practices are again it 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 next thing you can't you experiment with something without any follow up it's almost criminal off it pesca keen enough because what we're doing isn't very serious very modest you don't feel it yet that's what every government has done because biotechnology is their religion sheet they think it will develop so that it will be goods law but that's just a belief because it would yeah it's just like when we were told the earth was flat or you could rather than the reality of e.g. in a reality. there's someone from the european union commission explained it to my wife

at the time they didn't know that she was my right she doesn't carry my name so she's a professor god though it's not professor push the way they explained it to had that. if it if they had repeated the study they found similar things that we thought. they wouldn't be able to hush it up again it's once it was bad enough. twice is sort most impossible what i got it was so as the most important thing for a father studies is that there is an even response. and in each case since then whatever the jihad was they looked at the indian status of the other oss they always felt that it was jeopardized when

we looked at the rat who had been having a go at g.m. then the clip was illuminated and that we wouldn't have expected if the g.m. is substantially equivalent and there was the same then the length of the should be identical but they weren't so overall at the sternal tract the lining was growing it was thick and so we thought this was evidence of there was a growth factor at work if you're applying that to a transition lesion in the human for example with a lower amount of area so fabulous if you apply the growth factor of vera then you might hist the development of malignancy at the lower end of your sofa goes and similarly in the stomach first once again transitioning lesions there which normally will take time to develop into cancer the gut and its image system the

guards this as a foreign material it's almost like an infection it's not an infection but if the immune system just sees something coming in as strange for it and it has to be active during it i just think that. it was highly irresponsible to foist on us something that was not properly examined. and we are all made to be exposed to it that's highly irresponsible or infact i would say that it's probably criminal but they have this sense to be monsanto.

bayer dupont dow chemical and gentile and astra zeneca declined to be interviewed for this film. with. a. six. six. six. six. six.

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