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stopped by police move that moscow says is a clear sign of the e.u. exceeding its authority in the region. so there's your headlines here on r.t. i'll be back with more on those stories in full in about thirty minutes from now meanwhile as ninety five percent of research into genetic engineering is paid for by industry interests interests we explore if the scientific community is in danger of losing its objectivity in the face of pressure from the commercial sector stay with us for that special report next here on r.t. . we're here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted over the years corn has changed and more recently it has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varieties of corn and most importantly because of the

interpretation of transgenic we know that they are stretching the corn here we don't know how much and we want to be able to tell over the years over time whether there is more or less what kind of materials are here because the transgenic manipulation is invisible people around here don't even know that they are receiving the trash and they are growing them and they're passing them on to their children and to the neighbors and so on.

once we were sure. we had. we wanted to have a publication that would be very visible so we sent it for publication to nature nature sent. off to experts to be reviewed five times around and then. publish it by that time however the news that these information was coming out made very many people within the industry very very. unhappy so they themselves started . paying for the paper they did not want the paper to be published and published people not to believe. the industry professional public relations companies companies who at the time were

experimenting for the first time with something called viral marketing which. a p.r. company a public relations company will go into the internet and start spreading around in . the companies that hire them. telling people. companies these company called the group. created to fictitious characters. are for. they made up two names and these two moved. on the internet and started spreading rumors. that the paper was flawed. and. that people really respond to each other's opinions. spreading around. maybe.

whatever the case is because we don't really. need. to print. criticizing a paper. very confusing. or they say. we don't want to take positions. based on what we know we. publish the paper then. that is completely against the way we do science. and nature itself recognizes that they had never done anything like this in one hundred thirty years the whole history of the magazine so there was something seriously important happening that they do not want to talk about but i believe i'm convinced it was pressure from this industrial arcturus industrial activists who wanted to

change the nature of position towards this problem. the industry said you don't need to worry about these because we have it under control the control is really the question and they have been telling the world that they've really had control over these crops that if they planted it planted corn transgenic corn in one field that trench any corn would not go anywhere else so our discovery that we were finding transgenic or maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn fields was a huge problem for them because he really showed very simply and with real evidence that they really did not have control so they lost the claim to having control over

these over these materials and from that point on the start to talking about co-exists. current. politics i'm going to three. hundred five hundred girls disappeared within days. you're craig's. story himself he still. has research.

on the look that we're going to be proof on there's a death in. the life and that i work to get there from nine hundred ninety continuously on the same project and revert to get on the g.m. project as well the only reason that he is to talk about it that he has been given permission by the holders of common parliament and. the british parliament or the others in the group including me and you have talking about twenty people be very forbidden to talk about what has happened to their art what sort of experiment. what was going on at that time at the gag and all

gag it's for lifestyle even the secret service they get people for twenty five is if i happen to leave to my seventy's it will be foul over there and they still will be able to look at both.

but i'm just on. it is all going in that on that action now and let's assume that and we have seen a few examples that anymore was sad on the g.m. material or they had very considered a war physiology changes now when you are eating that animal fadder on g.m. you would be eating and many more that had already been changed. into diffident anymore and there is new safety assessment done on this and it is a policy decision by the governments and by the biotechnology industry that they just simply go on the basis that if you don't do they cannot be had just bought support you remember that the animal that

has been the fed on g.m. has been changed. you always will find scientists who are diametrically opposed for one reason or another but frankly you have to look at the bulk of the evidence and the bulk of the evidence is very simply this these products have been out virtually every food that you. consume including you in germany has some genetically modified product in it whether it's soybeans or corn. there has not been a single documented analyzed case of even a headache attributable to genetic modification.

yanna austrian scientists carried out long term studies that showed genetically modified maize to mine significantly reduce the. number of offspring with less compared to normal g.m. but my family also developed more slowly. i haven't read the study yet it came out today i can immediately called my office and asked them to get me a hold of the study so she saw my assistant called into austria and spoke to someone and they're going to get me the study as soon as possible but the finding is consistent fertility problems with animals for genetically engineered crops we saw that with soybeans and we were in farmers report of that with corn as well. it's very difficult to do proper studies because monsanto doesn't allow people to use their products for studies and they also don't allow access to the parent light

so that you can compare the exact same soybean with the only difference being that one is genetically engineered and one is not. one example is this russian scientist dr reiner mccolgan she fed genetically engineered soy flour to rats and more than half of the offspring died within three weeks now one of the criticisms was that she didn't use carefully controlled genetically engineered so i along with it's nearly identical not g.m. so i counterpart but monsanto didn't allow that soil to be released into the into the public so she didn't have access to a doctor or produced a wants to repeat their study but he also can't get that story for his research.

with formal sales in the billions of dollars millions of farmers and backyard gardeners have come to rely on that we can work hard around our roundup extended control. pills to. this project affect its life a face a synthesised heart held discovered by john friends over thirty years ago. sam better go on by going on board amid their them that's their game thursday making

there's only a part of its own happened on the bar and i knew lads when genetic engineering technology was first used in soil productions the local farmers were invited to parties with three beer and meat and they were asked to bring along their farming hoe after a good meal and some drinks they then did a ritual putting the hose into a circle and burning them out symbol that so that's money made as a symbol of that one when you have to her anymore and as a gift each farmer was then given a liter of life was eight sided and they were told this would be technical progress and again so we had some of the original idea was to produce a genetically modified soy if that was resistant to it life was going to have its life a sage is a herbicide whose famous brand roundup these produced by monsanto and now after a couple of years you can see that more and more weeds are resistant of life was saved.

these are going to. church. this is canadian flea brain a new kind of weed which is horrible now it grows to be higher than the soyuz so it is fixed. but you have exactly my father just said that the corporative here tried hard to fight it with life of sage or at a high dosage normally one liter per hectare result loud legally they used eight meters per head and still that wasn't enough and then they stopped the experiment everything here is completely resistant of life are so huge. that.

at the end of the saudis of on the start yeah had real grounded or soon a federal state here has used eighty five percent malls life of state over the past four years since g.m. soy cultivation was started and this is an ecological catastrophe so the argument that with g.m. soy one uses fewer pesticides is simply not true and honest as a woman. doing so you have in a city tonight. new york official statistics reveal that in the past ten years food related illnesses have practically doubled in the u.s. since the introduction of g.m. food to the american diet. we've got a sort of new feudalism nature's resources are being privatized and the others who

also own these natural resources for pay their own need to be able to use parts of these resources and a part of that is knowledge of what's been produced before and getting newly planted mitzi baila from these are the source of the nuts and compile the finest gravis and of us for here. we're here to beat up and even nature is getting wrapped into it so in the nato feudalist times we live in it is so obvious to me that we're going back to times when a king said this river is mine or this land is my life and farmers have to pay that in order to use it back then they had religion to authorize and justify that strangely enough you want to date it's the scientists so rich fat white america guys are mad it isn't shufflers.

below us we can see the whole of the public campus of berkeley the university of california berkeley and we're standing at a boundary where that campus meets the private and military part of the research machine this is a big research machine one side of it has public the other side is private corporate and military so that in closing of the knowledge that used to be public and becomes private or becomes corporate or becomes militarized secret that enclosure of knowledge is something that i consider to be very damaging for the movement of science and the movement of knowledge so it is a very strong battle that is happening here and you know other places in the world to try and protect that they versity of knowledge that diversity of culture.

the latest development in this battle has been the arrival here on this campus of b.p. british petroleum. who would like to be called beyond petroleum b.p. came here offering five hundred million dollars five hundred million dollars which is much more than anybody had ever offered the university supposedly for research. administrators for the university find it very difficult to say no to money and doesn't matter where the money comes from they want the money so they tried to pass these contract with b.p. without people noticing but we have been able to find out a few things about it we know that b.p. wants new buildings in the canyon they want buildings that are built behind the fences of the national lab so that nobody can access them they want access to our

students they want access to our seminar so that they can find out which i.d.'s are useful for them they want to have control over publication what gets published what gets said publicly or not but more importantly they also want access to the curriculum to what will be taught in the university and because this is a this is a public university we also the term in the curriculum of the children from kindergarten all the way to high school and b.p. now has access to deciding what is called science and what is not called science so now they can say whoever is on our site is a scientist and whoever is not on our side is not a scientist so the power that they gain from that is extraordinary and. they've closed the door shut to any public view of what's happening behind the walls behind the fences and this screams of academic research.

unfortunately we are in a minority of people who oppose it and i have been very involved in trying to post these as well as other advances of these corporate kind of science this privatized kind of science because i believe that the main problem is that people don't realize what's happening and by the time they will wake up it will be too late the possibility of having a public university doing public research and developing public understanding of humanity is going to be gone. we are very far from free speech at this university you're not allowed to ask many

questions and you're not to say many things and if you do you get into serious trouble. and i am just one of many examples where people are punished by what they say and what they research. in my case i was pushed out of the university at least three times every time i fought back and we managed to keep my job. but it's been very difficult. we are manipulating life in a way that we really do not understand we cannot control and then we're letting it go into the environment. so it's

a change the least radical that is unprecedented that is. beyond anything we can understand and it's an retrievable you we cannot get it back that's my concern. is very true that the power that technocrats one experts have to develop in these two years is soul large and so out of control that it has become much more of a religion. and it's a religion and has many dog mess and one of those dogmas is that humans have the power to change nature the way they want it's complete homers because we can't.

i've always said you only defend that which you love so people say what should i do how shall i defend the environment go out and fall in love. fall of the river fall of the farm fall in love with a species just follow the same believe me when you do then you'll defend it.

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