three. three. three. three blown in video for your media trial against the free media to argy dot com. news and coming live from moscow parents thank you for joining us we have live pictures we go straight now it's a shot in egypt thousands defiantly remain square for a seventh day of protests egypt's military rulers say that they're sorry for the deaths of almost forty demonstrators killed in the worst clashes since february is reports of public anger shows no sign of decreasing. arab foreign ministers are also in egypt but it's syria that's on their agenda as they threaten damascus with

sanctions while france proposes what it calls a humanitarian intervention. and no plans to stop the reset of ties but moscow says it will pull out of the nuclear disarmament treaty and place rockets on its borders if the u.s. goes ahead with its missile defense shield in europe. now on our t.v. our special report about how the world is producing more food than ever before but still struggles to feed the planet's poorest not least because of the role of big businesses part two of dying in abundance is coming up next. was in order to understand how the system works it is necessary to look at the parties involved the producer and the buyer for example the producer and the buyer agree that one will sell and the other will buy a specific amount of weight at a specific price and that the product will be delivered in a year from now for that they sign an agreement which is known as

a time conflict was such contracts insure producers and buyers against such risks as bad weather and sudden changes in prices. i'm if you're a farmer you're afraid the prices are going to for you can lock in the price months ahead of when you harvest by selling here and get rid of the risk well you can do the same if you're a food buyer a processor like general mills or kellogg's or closest and you can lock in the priced of the grain months ahead of when you actually need to buy it so that when you actually do go buy it if prices are much higher you've got it was already at a much lower price that. these contracts do not remain in nurse they are bought and sold by profiteers and a contract might swap hands dozens of times before it expires for example buyers

purchase contracts for wheat at a low price if the price we close up they have made a profit. we're transferring risk whole purpose of the exchange is to transfer risk from people that have it like farmers and don't want it to people like myself speculators and take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right you make money course if you are wrong you lose money. since two thousand and six they players have begun to appear at the chicago green monster. now they're not only traditional players of the pits but also managers of huge financial institutions that until a few years ago showed no interest in investing in food.

the financial markets which had been very greedy in lending money for mortgages in the united states and lost on the mortgage market the son prime crisis as it was called led to a collapse in investments. but the markets crumbling because of the mortgage crisis highly investing profiteer saw a new opportunity in food they invaded the chicago markets and began to buy time contracts in unprecedented quantities causing prices to shoot up. investors sometimes of real estate and housing and jumped on the bandwagon of primary commodities food from oddities their money and the monopoly control of every business companies like cargill drove the prices upwards. i totally disagree with that kind of talk speculators are not behind the

big rise in prices speculation has very very little to do with it. when bubbles break. liquid gets splashed all over the place and yes there's not a question there was some corroborative so. i don't doubt for a moment that speculators move grain prices do i think that they move grain prices by one hundred percent now i think that speculators problem move move the grain prices by twenty percent fifteen percent. that prices would have gone up anyway. because of the weather problems on the weak dollar and the export bans on tight world stocks that's why prices went up the hunger that has become permanent and global is totally a creation of the global food system the global food system is not

created to feed the people of the world it's created to maximize the profits on one cent of the seeds of cargill for trade for selling guess the sites herbicides fertilizer in the period of two thousand and seven to two thousand and eight while food prices doubled the profits of these companies also doubled. so if you want to understand why the prices that were going up while people liking less you just have to look at these companies when santa is buying up every seed company of the world cargill controls about seventy percent of staple food treat the world and they would like to control hundred percent and they would like the situation with a prayer that seems give us this day our daily bread is a prayer not to call the creator but his appraisal carville and send. us company monsanto is the world's biggest trader of genetically modified seeds.

it began as a small producer of chemicals turning into one of the creators of the infamous agent orange in the sixty's and seventy's a poison that was used in the vietnam war deforested huge areas and caused cancer and tetra genesis which continues to affect the country even today. in two thousand and two the company of ten commission from the government of india to introduce a genetically modified cotton seed in the market no one knows bt cotton it is genetically enriched in laboratories with a bacteria capable of killing the parasite stuck fat in this plant. we have been able to develop a technology called border guard a bt cotton technology where we are. produce a seed that has protection from best's thereby. almost double their cotton

production reduce the number of pesticides they've been using in the field of control. and really increase their average income in six years after the introduction of. india has become the world's second largest producer and the second largest exporter in introduction of bt cotton. for centuries the farmers of india cultivated their farms and their seeds which were given to them by mother earth. and. they are a gift from the gods that belong to no one and give everyone the right to use. them how might it be. we would plant our own seeds from what we used for food we would keep a few the following year we would plant those same seeds. there were natural so. there was

a draw they'd come out fine just the same if. we had our own seeds we didn't go to the market we had no separate expenses for that number. so so so so so. so. we had cotton we had corn we had peppers we had everything. with the seeds your. they were ours the peppers the corner the cotton were ours. and you

want to price for your crops so yes i even won a prize so if your seats were good why did you take the others the others were also using them we thought we could get a better harvest. and we used them to that's how it happened. with the seeds we got ourselves into debt. so. they assured us we would get two hundred kilos from each field. the first time we had only a few expenses for the scenes. then we used fertilizers once or twice. now we used them five times and it's not enough.

i thought. only the soil has lost its strength because of the bt cotton and if we use a different seed nothing grows you don't use your own seeds no we do not. serve you hunt that will not and you can't imagine their deception they would bring p.t. seeds and say we don't need to use a lot of chemicals. come in for a year it was like that however the following year a new parasite the mill abode arrived. well at the beginning they said we wouldn't need to spray at all. then they said you must use some for this bug or this for the other bugger so what is the situation now. about what those months on to produce but it also produces chemicals and who is the biggest

trader in chemicals. you think will start bringing their chemicals and pesticides to the market with any company give up on profit know but that oh yeah if the farmers in india cultivate expensive crops they depend on multinationals for seeds and medicine for the lies there's of which they need more and more though on the same farmer that spent nothing on seeds before now must spend forty percent on stilts. before there were no expenses and fertilizer now twenty percent goes to that the farmer would not use any pesticides now that amounts to ten percent and all this adds up to seventy percent that they must put on the cost of themselves you know not. but i heard there with him it was a very bad day he was going round and round about his mother was sick in bed with

you and when he came in sat back there his wife was sleeping there. he didn't see what he did but he had soaked himself in petrol. and we saw a very strong fire and then he came in fell here. and we were all here. but have as a commodity. and he was burning in front of our eyes he burned very quickly as the. girl's mind in the. dog we did everything we could to save him we took him to the hospital but he died two or three hours later. and so

he would tell us he knew we told him not to take it too seriously we didn't imagine he'd do something like that he was worked up and sat thinking alone for hours we would tell him the hard days would pass that's what we tell him that was. this story that we have suddenly become scandinavians and don't see the sunlight and therefore get into prison of homicide and the lies it's amazing how heartless outlook human imagination can be when it wants to find excuses to not i understand

the real roots of a crisis the government's own data shows that the majority of farmers who've committed suicide with deeply indebted ardita shools the majority of them watching to that because bt country. most suicides of the two hundred thousand are in the cotton belt most of them have brought me to question the story of indian farmers is the story of how these are patients corporations have emerged as criminal corporations i often see is two hundred thousand people had been killed by a dictator we would have gone into genocide. suicides in india or tragic phenomena and unfortunately have existed we before the

introduction of bt cotton in two thousand and two it privately or as a suicide is very indebtedness and then so often other causes are inadequate infrastructure and education. and for all sorts of. she would say nothing. for the she would say nothing about alone i always find humor worry deep in thought. she was always worked up is mind was working all the time. she was never happy she would pretend to be happy outside inside the house he seemed lost. i talk to him i told him god was

testing us that's not warry will get through this i said but she said that was impossible because we had debts and knew harvest. how we will leave how will we raise our children how. old are toward him and he wouldn't talk large. when we. were married school and the girls told me your father drank poison i couldn't understand what he drank and what it was.

will be the late me the seeds they give us that is the main cause of suicide they put annihilators inside i think they said. in the past any tree that gave seeds if we kept them and preserve them for the whole season and planted a tree the next year it would grow just like the one before. if we keep the seeds from this one nothing will grow no one told the farmers this. eventually the village learns that this person cannot produce anything. with the why then not even the loaner will lend him money the bank won't lend him money. and he gets depressed. and it. will be the day comes when he will do something. and that is why our situation has

become so tragic because of the seeds. but even if the farmers keep the seeds for the following year they risk being sued by the company the seeds are patent protected which means they are the intellectual property of monsanto. as strange as it sounds through this patent consolidates something that is a life own invention and has the right to exploited exclusively for twenty years. but if a farmer keeps some seeds to plant next year then he is accused of being a criminal. he will be fined with twenty five thousand rupees which is three hundred eighty euros but we can the small farmers pay a twenty five thousand rupee fine. for we would keep our own seeds and use them the following year but if the farmer doesn't your dad who have to go all the seeds each

year. tell me is that fair on humanity. entered into a contract. in one season and then for some reason. the seed the following season that violates the contract that we had with it is a very small number. and in most cases we sought out these differences out of court so when you apply. that you can see the seed for the growing season first of all your massively increasing the cost of production for farmers massively. we're boring money from everyone to buy seeds we ran out of money. by the way as of course my husband killed himself because of the debts with

a neighbor we couldn't save and his saying. the democrat of she was depressed the dad was huge. so that now i don't know what to do when my husband brought to money. nobody will lend money to woman in the if the someone especially here. in this situation had so many and i feel so sad. to see. it not have protection against. farmers had just repressed a sort of. science i did about the scientists around the world what he would find a more sustainable we protect the plan against against that one that was

a technology called which is uncertain because it's a product of the science in the seat. of the. trillion dollar gobbling that controls that food supply the seed supply and those companies now are going beyond the padding of a single plant for id to say we can patent all plants we can patent all crops with a single part of the work bringing traits within those fridays in those crowds that are common to all of them. so we control everything we control the food system. did they make the seeds know until today nature made the seeds did they create anything living they couldn't. grow as much in seventy's there is no proprietary secret platter whatsoever not really today eighty two percent of the

seeds sold are proprietary they're part of a. best enormous trade. genotyping engineered crops do not produce more fruit but they tell the life that the markets more straight does not feed people if you want people hungrier because a globalized treat then becomes a trade controlled by five agribusiness corporations and the prices they want and they want to speculate outlets they speculate upwards and they want to fix the prices downwards to capture markets they take the prices down lights and as their profits increase people stop. so they got what they need out of this they've got to control and frankly now because they have that control they don't need biotech anymore because the marketplace is to them they control the first link in the future. so they have one of. the

the was it was it with the was in the it were the with the the in the. water. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future perhaps sure but i don't know much about it because there is no market to buy and sell water maybe there will be in the future if i have a market where people who need water and a market of people who out of water can get together and through their own best interest discover and that's an important word discover the price of that of that

commodity the how dare our government how can a government how can. a group of supposed intellectual sit down and say this is the price of water everywhere around the world. will there be circumstances where some people will not have water. yes. that will happen that is the harsh reality of how markets function and the do you sometimes run out of soap yes whose fault is that probably yours because you didn't go to the store to buy any should you blame the government you know. it sure felt.

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