protection against genetic contamination of native seeds shortly thereafter legislators awarded m.m.s. you one million dollars aimed at research including developing a genetically engineered chili pepper they were the slap in the face to learn that our state had sponsored the genetic engineering of cheetah that after the year previous they had supporter supported the farmers right to keep their seeds. on contaminated by genetic engineering the genetically engineered chili animists you was developing would reduce reliance on labor at least in the short term by was standing application of the herbicide glyphosate which is in products like been santo's round up and syngenta has touched down i q is. our intent is really to provide a benefit to the chili producers and if we can give them a crop that allows them to far more sustainably. allows on the farm more

productively or predictably and that's our goal the phrases benefiting the farmer and feeding the hungry are used to justify increased input costs in pesticides and machinery to the detriment of agro ecological approaches but since those phrases came into vogue the u.s. farm population has been decimated today there are more prisoners in the us than farmers worldwide more than one billion people are chronically hungry largely due to food price increases the genetically modified organism as that term as it's currently used a really refers to organisms created through genetic engineering and most often it means introducing genes that are not within. the species pool the bacteria shoots genes into the plants the plant grows a big tumor that makes this really weird compound that only agger bacterium can eat . and the sag bacterium sets up its own little food factory so this natural

disease is really the basis for a lot of genetic engineering we do today. people figured out that this process happened. they learned how to take the disease causing genes out of the transferred d.n.a. and learned how to replace them with genes of interest so we still use agro bacteria and we put the genes we want in agro bacterium delivers the d.n.a. into the plant cells where the plant cells go ahead and use. and what's the difference between engineering in the natural disease is we've taken the disease causing genes out and replaced them with genes that were interested in the genetically engineered chili is being made through a process called systemic where researchers isolate and then reintroduce a gene from the same species though at first seemingly less controversial the

process still involves foreign bacteria antibiotics test tubes and has no guarantee of placing the gene or its promoter anywhere near its original place in the d.n.a. chain let's say you want to create a corn planted that produces its own pesticide you take a gene for bacteria that produces a natural talks and call bt for bacillus the range it's you take that gene you put a promoter which is an odd switch a stop signal which says stop reading the gene there is here you make a gene called structed you make millions of copies you load a good literally and shoot those millions of genes into a plate of millions of cells hoping that some of those genes will make their way into the d.n.a. of some of them so they're saying farmers have been doing this for thousands of years farmers haven't crossed species for thousands of years with this genesis is the same species. so there's this there is this thing farmers have not been that putting bacteria in the cotton for thousands of year. they never put bacteria in

the cotton. or bacteria in the corn. it's not possible. that genetic manipulation whether or not the genetically engineered chili is a g.m.o. is a distinction that could cost the new mexico farmers access to many foreign export markets the e.u. is. much more comfortable with the crops generated through a systemic approach dr hansen and the dean at the enemy su school of agriculture as you see in the sea mail are trying to say that there chile will not be considered a g.m.o. in the european union and other countries that ban or curtail their use they make this argument despite laws that clearly say the systemic approach like the one m.m.s. use using is in fact creating a genetically modified organism. doctors sara laney from the university of conn in france has helped to shape european policy towards genetically modified organisms

called the european union and four hundred fifty countries around the world the definition of goods here no is not a matter where the gene comes from it's a matter of gene being modified to vitro in its you know the backbone of the origin of the gene what is clear is that more than one hundred countries around the world may require all chili from new mexico to be tested for genetic engineering or even bar imports from u.s. farmers out right this burgeoning resistance to genetically modified organisms results as much from anger at government and industry economic practices as from the real or imagined health threats of genetically modified products. as that this two thousand and eight investigative report by donald barlett and james steele for vanity fair reveals monsanto goes after farmers farmers co-ops

seed dealers anyone it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds as interviews and reams of court documents reveal to relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents in the american heartland to strike fear into farm country they fanned out into fields and farm towns where they secretly videotaped and photographed farmers store owners and co-ops infiltrate community meetings and gather information from informants about farming activities farmers say that months on tow agents pretend to be surveyors others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to sign papers giving monsanto access to their private records farmers call them the seed police and use such words as fish dapo and mafia to describe their tactics. the international assessment of agricultural knowledge science and technology for

development titled agriculture at a crossroads is a six hundred page global report issued by the world bank the united nations and the walled health organization it is the most comprehensive inclusive agricultural study ever completed that directly addresses and recommend solutions to world hunger you know i think i've kind of had a lifelong appreciation of the population growth versus food production regardless of dr hansen's professed concerns for world hunger he was unaware of the most comprehensive analysis of agricultural science ever undertaken to address hunger. in his secret laboratory to mukherjee was able to build the world's most sophisticated robots which will unfortunately doesn't give

a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in words if this is why you should care only. exactly what happened that day i don't know. piers later is when i got arrested for . for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really so you know in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were taking they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.

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yes t.v. that was just put out by the world. the report is that best indifferent to genetic engineering and at times openly hostile this hostility comes despite the report having been initiated by monsanto syngenta and the world bank for your study that out of two thousand and. started as a discussion with the world a. large producers about transgenders they produced a six other states that haven't had that oh. well it would only hurt you because there's really not that much ok that discusses genetically modified organisms as

publication of the document with its pointed criticism of genetically modified crops true near multinational biotech giants monsanto and syngenta withdrew their support for it first supporting the a t.d. and then abandoning it when biotechnology was not surely did monsanto and syngenta drew a rebuke from the industry friendly journal nature when we asked dr hansen for research supporting his positions on safety crop yield and migration he provided a two thousand and five compendium that sided studies completed as long as a decade ago none were current no independent long term feeding studies no evidence of sustained yield gain it would say well you know it's more profitable for the farmers and what the one thing i would people say is what's he have a higher yield to kill of chili you know with genetically chili but if you look at the studies that have been done that's really not true as the multinational

corporations profit and small farmers disappear not a single genetically modified crops has been marketed for increased yield drought tolerance salt resistance or enhanced nutrition the proponents of genetic engineering have misled the public about its benefits and deliver. and it hasn't lived really lived up to its promise and they haven't increased yields they they haven't decreased pesticide use they haven't solved any hunger problems whatsoever . and so i don't even understand how people with a straight face can defend genetic engineering transgenic crops you know there's several examples that have been their field and both the u.s. and abroad and they've you know demonstrated. they've been able to maintain your old increase returns to farmers.

as noted in the world bank report a relatively small number of huge farming operations have increased land holdings and benefited financially. there has not been any old improvement due to genetically engineered. crops and that's my understanding that it really hasn't solved any major problems it's just made profits for monsanto as far as i can tell months is perhaps a deserved whipping boy but it should be noted that other biotechnology corporations who farmers and that m.m.s. you will likely hold the patent rights to the genetically engineered chili seed. when asked who will breed the chili seed or who will sell it and then miss you could not provide an answer when asked if farmers would have to buy the genetically engineered chili seed for every planting rather than save it and a mess you could not provide an answer one of my main concerns with that with the genetically engineered chilies cvs especially is that it is becoming more and more

difficult to find pure seeds you know seize it and that are that are not content not genetically engineered and certain well certain brides. canola and soybeans i mean it's almost impossible not to find g.m.o. so it means in canola and what is happening is that the u.s.c. company is actually going to other countries you know that the do not have the highest events of genetically engineered crops to grow old with the non g.e. see whether gannett seeds for those types or those types across a small number of biotech chemical companies including monsanto and syngenta have benefited enormously one company now loans one fourth of the world seed suppliers and patent rights on over eighty percent of the g.m. soy and cord seeds sold in the united states. they think that genetically engineered crops are going to feed the world right and

and world hunger those are the very same steamers that being made about the green revolution forty years ago. in fact patenting g.m.o. seeds has allowed for a culture of secrecy around research that threatens the transparency of public programs and reduces access to genetic resources. so very big profits all over the well to how the patents on food because you need to eat each country before you're even communicating or having any army or anything else and they want to have a riot he says soon as somebody you know well so it's a real of the what are genetically modified crops are still confined to a handful of countries with highly industrialized export oriented agricultural sectors. nearly ninety percent of the area planted to g.m. crops in two thousand and seven was found in just six countries. one country alone

the united states plants over fifty percent of the world's g.m. crops they are. car seat around the well that make sixty percent of the market which i'll sell you on my ease rice and wheat. they are already. so young and naive that makes eighty percent of the gym most today if they put their hands. we rides and a couple of orders. which is important to your country then they have the right to say who knows what and who say this was wrong well. patenting severely limits independent research information sharing among land grant institutions and farmers ability to save seeds it drives up prices dramatically and

encourages monocultures that are susceptible to disease in medically engineering is one tool in the toolkit of an industrial food model that moves us toward centralization. and so that's one of the reasons i object to this we need to be moving towards decentralization the food system and more diverse food production. the united nations world bank report estimates that canola farmers in canada and corn farmers in the united states lose a combined six hundred million dollars a year to european g.m.o. free markets conventional farmers may find some markets close to them because their chili is genetically engineered but i think it may ruin all the markets for their ghana growers also the north american free trade act would force and i miss you to share its technology with america's competitors if they develop this chip this connection to their choice seat they don't have to go to mexico they can take the seed and go to mexico mexico peru or china or wherever else and so it's not going

to benefit the new the new mexico farmers it whatever technology they can adopt or competitors can adopt so i'm not sure how this is going to solve their problems. resistance to chemically intensive genetically modified foods is increasing worldwide including bans labeling requirements and companies advertising their foods as g.m.o. free. consumer demand for g.m.o. products fifteen years after their introduction is still virtually nonexistent my particular view is that the industrial model of agriculture is not long for this world that we we can't continue going down this road because it's too energy intensive the stories biodiversity not only while by oliver city but also cultivated biodiversity and it concentrates too much power in the hands of too few

companies most of the farmers that i. was getting methods to try to utilize small plots and we were to develop genetically engineered she'll be much chances are much more amenable to sort of back the former . corporate farming happens in mexico and south america now chile another location so i think we need to do better job care of small farmers mexico what's happened over the years as each new technology has been developed farmers have had to adopt that technology in order to reduce costs and increase eels so that they can still make money in the more of course the more they increase yields the more production goes up which reduces prices which makes it more imperative for them to reduce reduce costs and increase yields so it's

a treadmill they can't get off they have to adopt all these technologies and they have to go into debt to buy all these technologies we can give them a crop that allows them to far more sustainable way the overriding principle of my research program is to. sustainability of production allowed surely growers to maintain high yields do so in a sustainable manner so they can continue that in the future fine for me sustainability. sustainability means being able to maintain production in the future so you're going to visit resistance. which will say we can do everything about we will eventually that's what i heard you say. there are natural selection will encourage development it's how do you call it life is a sewage system. that's a great question people. people often say oh you're still putting your chemical.

sustainability the way we produce our food now is. highly reliant on machines and chemicals and glyphosate resistance is one trait. that can greatly increase sustainability now when you use the glyphosate resistant crop you're still spring in herbicide in the field you're still spraying life to say but what you're not doing is spraying the other herbicides that you used to do life to say it replaces the other herbicides. initially life is a tolerant g.m.o. crops did enable a decrease in herbicide use but is weed resistance grows farmers poor ever morgue life is eight and predictably return to traditional herbicides like paraquat di quat and actress jean herbicides are using the now if you're going to select and

that's if we. manage their use appropriately and get as much as we can out of them and whether it's to save on engineered crops or any other herbicide on a conventional crop. life is a tolerant crops have increased pesticide use by three hundred eighty three million pounds forty six percent of the total increase occurred in the years two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight. i'm not aware of pesticide use going on johnson grass is an extremely damaging perennial and considered one of the worst weeds in the world. life is a resistant johnson grass is nearly impossible to control it's already in new mexico it's one way to look at transfer of resistance into chile as the necessary step in this constant battle that we have to do against pests that's that's based on a particular paradigm in a particular worldview that we're kind of out war with insects and we and. that's

a totally different paradigm than the paradigm of an era ecological pro-choice in which we understand natural systems in the way in which they interact and so we practice various kinds of management strategies to. to manage pests and weeds knowing that will never eliminate them completely but keeping them managed at a level that we can still make a living without having to pour lots of chemicals on the planet herbicide resistance and a naturally occurring weed population is particularly significant because it could threaten the sustainable use of glasses a resistant crop technology from the proceedings of the national academy of sciences december two thousand. in two thousand and eight g.e. crops required over twenty six percent more pounds of pesticides per acre than acres planted to conventional varieties. and i can generic this kind of a distraction i think and it's misleading i think we need to look at research

that's going to reduce application of synthetic chemicals so developing resistance to application of a chemical i think is the last thing we should be doing really honestly. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports and let the players know i will be back stateside to comment on your latter point i say. mr carey yeah a car is on a dock you know. they go no more weasel words when you vain a direct question be prepared for a chase when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech means little down to freedom to cost. zach what happened that day i don't know but

a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is lightman know because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. choose your language. because we know in financial planners they still sometimes. choose to use the consensus you can. choose to defend against the invigorating to.

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