squirrel's you know. what's going on here concrete on the marquee. the latest news in the week's top stories on r.t. this is the weekly to keep hours of asia in the pacific rim agreed to start working on a free trade zone that could revitalize relations the russian and u.s. presidents also use the apec summit for a summit i should say from meeting on the sidelines to discuss missile defense and russia's membership of the world trade organization. you government c.n.n. prime ministers out the part of debt ridden greece and italy as both nations raced to pull back from the financial abyss to prove new austerity measures to steer clear of bankruptcy and avert disaster in the euro zone. plus a u.n.

report claims iran might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon. as a u.s. backed smear campaign raney and all makers are now we considering their country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which they're calling a disappointment. but about with more details on those stories in thirty minutes from now in the meantime as promised we reveal just how toxic the american pharmaceutical industry can get in its pursuit of profit the second part of our special report is next. but 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 and research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and

ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress food and drugs act in the united states and the 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 agrees three of us are to mentally were fired by health care of that four years it took to build up this and ultimately fired us and saying we should pass everything that america passes and we're saying we cannot we are a country we're a sovereign country we have to solve the not none of us refused to conduct our

work if this 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 then that this is what they're fighting us for the companies pressured to get this fired this way the longer the bridge 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 i'm using the health of people to make profit on the backs of people's health that was the insubordinate. to him

. to is the same chemical companies that brought us 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 are some see. they said well yeah we got some but they made that expensive seat so how much salt

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 styling because somebody asked them about about somebody had done bottom and kill them out and bought a mat so i down and plant theirs and you can be as bright glass by the top but as our. as i want at the end of the plant and then i describe them all with brass flake i don't i don't like colorado as most allas. they all. but anyway i saved. and that was where most of the come down on. 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 first had to have you sign a license you just said here's a new vegas even though the slave was brought back by somebody else

somebody does sound out for he want to get rid of because they do want keep him the most well most not a lawyer when you have a deposition or they do you really see as a star. that i don't never read a bag say because i'm big too big to work and stuff like it and then trying to keep it running here is the most grave that was forged by one of most are represented that's not my hand right that's a nice my hand right right there this is not a hand right not right here all day long that's my hand right there is that looking you think it cost me five thousand dollars to prove that that was not my man right and judge right is simple would not allow this debate and the court decisions our justice system clearly sucks. it's just

a corrupt company. mr rolfe was fined over two point nine million dollars infringement in regards to saving seats. the district judge mr ross 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 right he said who was the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto was the plaintiff or defendant eleven cases were ruled in months and 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 trade on the animal from change and the more i researched into this the more i found that three maybe four companies if you include the swifts inventor 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 their pocket lips 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 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 vietnam war and then after and so for. that really set off the alarm bells for me.

i got involved in the g.m. issue because you know it was a new technology and bringing up a team to this is a must still see them as often as. i was the only this is good or that she took part in four years of trawling. they were the monsanto of the grave us against it i mean they were all in this grouping in the green to the father the trial work which paul told there were two hundred sixty all different i mean not just cannot if they did spring and winter and i did both on the farm collector a grab a spring right occasionally when i have to when i have a failure in the winter so i do both of those trials almost alone for three years

the other side did the first year as a winter protocol the overnight decided exactly how they are with us at the trial and. eight they give me long to realize that this wall is a potentially simpler way to fall and therefore it is cheaper therefore we get the benefits that can be seen to be bank of the policy on if he's chasing me to grow and if the price of the end product play down i can still produce it doesn't after the end of that output to make a margin whatever i'm doing as it happened is because of the technology we were also following the g.m. crop yield a bit more with a collection called in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing the. defter what now thirteen years in 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 and b.

tree that will protect farmers are pretty crops from some does some pests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally stage and there's just a constant battle union yang going on between researchers and the companies as to 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 production costs we're not seeing improved on the traditional qualities encounter at our table so there really isn't a clear benefit. everywhere

you go this is seems like a good lewiston well you certainly have to apply for grants. the company. companies are on the the campuses. list students from complaining who can do a ph d. and in what subject and whether they can produce 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. people who want to get a ministry. are not competent or even qualified or educated insides these are accountants these are lawyers these are m.b.a.'s is that anything but scientists this university since i have become part of the uk. what do you think about genetically modified foods and just 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's and regular or not and modified for scholarships and they give us caution oh yeah there's a lot see a loss for me it's how you sound you know. better than yeah

a little funky 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 because when you insert artificial genes anywhere by bombarding an organism the plants general metabolism can be affected it could be terrible. if somebody could prove its g.m. moves are dangerous a really good. horse. would very quickly because he would have arguments that there would be elsewhere but as long. as nobody has the argument. expected to grow up thinking. there is no reason why this should be 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 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 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 that 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 if they're 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's 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 you know 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 go but see that his local organic supplier is it's turned out to be contaminated with g.m.o. those so he filed a complaint to uncover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and one the case was dropped mr because who was then contacted by a group of american farmers to join them in a class action lawsuit against monsanto dupont now chemical astra zeneca and novartis international accusing them of engaging in any trust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidentally the judge was rightly simple the same judge as in mr ross case by case was ruled in favor of the chemical companies. 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 told a they asked questions such as do you know your neighbors names how much tax do you pay and where nothing to do with g.m. seeds. 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 a 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 i make room for those who will feed the world. we were big farmers and i grew managers will feed the world having poisoned it for years it's unbelievable so 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 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. chine 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 but we haven't observed any problems due to g.m. consumption either direct or indirect and this french farmer is completely self-sufficient along with four hundred fifty million other farmers worldwide the practice is organic poly 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. psionics period if you experiment with something without any follow up it's almost criminal off it i ask again as what we are doing isn't very serious of an order so you don't feel it yet 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 of it will be out mis just like when we were told the earth was flat or you could rather than the reality of e.g. here in handy. the. air someone from the european union commission explained it to my wife at the time they did knew that she was my wife she doesn't carry my name is to say

she's a professor broad thoughts not professor post they explained it to her that. if it if they had repeated the study and if had syphilis things that we thought they would be able to hush it up again it's once it was bad enough. twice it's sort most impossible what i got it or so as the most important think of studies is that there is and even the response. and in each case since then whatever the dia was they looked at the indian status of the us they always felt that it was jeopardized when we looked at any rat who had been having a g.m. in the clip 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 we want to open the rule at the sternal tract the lining was growing it was thick and so we thought this was evidence that there was a growth factor work now to apply that to a transition lesion in the human for example with the lower end of the year so for those if you applied a growth factor of vera then you might haste on the development of malignancy of the lure of yourself across and similarly in the stomach thus once again transitioning lesions there who are normally able to time to develop and to counsel the gut and its image system and the guards this as for the two year deal it's almost like an infection it's not an exact science but the immune system just

sees something coming in as strange for it and it has to really act through it i just think that. it was highly irresponsible to foist on us something that was not properly examined. and we are all major. be exposed to it that's how high the is responsible or infact i would say that it's probably criminal but they have this sense to be monsanto p.s.f. they are dupont dow chemical. and astra zeneca declined to be interviewed

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