that is they are doing. it. in this tense and polarized atmosphere professor ingle put trike as. an engineering science technology mathematics and management university has created in a greenhouse a strain of genetically engineered rice that contains pro vitamin a the rice is intended to benefit undernourished people not feed the profit of the agricultural industry. i hold the bad mothers in families where vitamin a deficiency is a problem have understood that eating this rice will be good for them because if we expect to finally start delivering this golden rice to farmers in the philippines by the end of this year and it is. a symbolic and this is the poster boy. for the genetic incident in the city and this is something. if that. is

the golden rice a blessing or a curse we went to the philippines in search of the answer. the country is home to ninety million rice eaters here rice is not just a basic food state it's part of the culture. this is where people are being asked to abandon their accustom ways and switch to the new golden yellow type of rice. we traveled to the philippines to find out how this idea is being implemented we were told the authorities would decide within the year whether to approve the rice. at the international rice research institute preparations are well underway the erie wants to bring the new strain of rice to market. our quest began in the capital city of manila a metropolis with a population of twelve million. do the people of the philippines want this kind of

product have all the respect identified or are people afraid of unforeseen side effects that might occur when store shelves are filled with a genetically modified version of their most important basic food stuffs. were stuck in our hotel for weeks we've been in touch with the authorities but now that we're here they don't want to see us why not are they afraid we'll ask unpleasant questions. to erie also stops communicating with us while we're still in switzerland we had arranged to film the next harvest of the golden rice but one month before the appointed time our request was rejected the hearing won't tell us why where perplexed. the inventor of this miracle rice ingle portray case has lived and worked in switzerland for many years he is dedicated to the idea of harnessing unpopular genetic technology and using it to help people so

that there is ever since i first started working i've tried to ensure that my work benefits the world's poorest people who do lose and. it becomes not a scientist i'm an engineer it is my desire to solve practical problems i use science as a way to solve real world problem is that. they are at the heart of his efforts malnourished are undernourished children and pregnant women acute vitamin a deficiency usually results in blindness or even death the world health organization estimates that two hundred million children around the world suffer from a lack of vitamin a. since the one nine hundred eighty s. ingle put try case has concentrated his efforts exclusively on rice the staple food of the poor for thirteen years his research produced no visible success.

then he teamed up with peter bya a cellular biologist from fribourg together they finally achieved the unthinkable in favor one evening in february of one nine hundred ninety nine peter buyer called me in my laboratory and it was long after dark i was still there and he called me and said turn on your computer i'm going to send a picture and you will like it and of course we were thrilled after all this time to see it not only white through it also a few yellow grains of rice because that told us we had finally really done it all tongue because in comes to us it is your soft. the world's media praised trike is and his colleague for their breakthrough. they were also on by the scientific community. they were even given an audience with the pope.

but the golden rice engineers were still a long way from achieving their real goal. we set out to find people in the philippines who are suffering from vitamin a deficiency. yes a village on the outskirts of the citie of manilla. tens of thousands of people live off what they can find in the trash. if they find anything that can be reused they try to resell it for a few pesos but that's hardly enough to buy healthy food. we accompany the community dr m i read dyson on her rounds through the village life is tough here she said many had just one or at the most two meals per day for a new phone. dr dyson

examines the children for all kinds of problems at regular intervals respiratory diseases and infections are rampant she said you know as well as digestion problems i think you know much come up with that logic do you. call it what you already have and what about vitamin a deficiency that it would. think it will make i've been very here in play at this for about three years now and so far i have not seen any vitamin a deficiency in this yes. this is probably because of that are they. giving off white i mean is supplements in a most children a mopey school children and it's articular program other reading from the fire the self help. the government distributes vitamin e. and health centers like this one children between the ages of six months and five

years receive two doses per year free of charge. the program is very successful. according to national statistics forty percent of the population was not getting enough vitamin a as recently as ten years ago. so. five years ago that figured had decreased to fifteen percent. it is not clear how many still suffer from vitamin a deficiency today. the prove vitamin a rice would be less expensive for the government the inventors of the project are sure of it but first the golden rice must make the transition from the laboratory to the rice paddies the researchers set out on a quest for money and power and found both in the world's largest agricultural chemistry corporation in basel. england is soon going to responded to an offer we made. as we proposed giving the company the commercial rights to our product. lines and if in the. the company would support our

humanitarian project to be it is to engage the who it is for its own digits but a sensitive issue remains where is the borderline between commercial and humanitarian use. our goal was to allow all poor farmers to take part free of charge and of course it was in single interest to define as a poor as narrowly as possible because they wanted to potentially make money. in addition its own we agreed upon a definition and if the rice farmer was making less than ten thousand dollars a year with a golden rice that was still considered humanitarian assistance we had to give it up to. sink in to improve the genetic technology the number of foreign genes in golden rice was reduced from nothing to two a corn gene and a gene from

a bacteria. has founded the golden rice humanitarian board which was to guide golden rice to world wide success. adrian to block a former employee he was named executive secretary he explained where the financial backing for golden rice came from today the golden eyes project is being financed in the philippines and bangladesh by the gates foundation for the last. couple of years. it's being financed by a little bit a little residue of rockefeller foundation money. and a little bit of usa id money in asia and warren buffett who also has contributed to those funds and bill gates dad who's also part of it. i think they are funding this project as part of a portfolio of potential health interventions. to try genuinely to improve the

lot of the impoverished of society and improve their life expectancy and improve the quality of life illustrious names. as financial sponsors adrian do block implied that the money from the super rich donors was not just a blessing but also brought risk still without it we would be nowhere so we're extremely pleased to have it. whenever you accept funds from an organization the organization wants to involve itself in the management that's understandable and can be refused as the handing out the checks. think gates foundation wanted to distribute the miracle rice to the philippines first we wanted to go there just in time for the harvest of the vital but genetically unmodified basic food stuff something no other camera team had ever been allowed to film although our invitation was subsequently rescinded we decided to give it

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a lot of road spots ability to pay through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children for our future. actually nothing very good is happening now afghanistan the last twelve years and that's something western media and political leaders don't want to talk about anymore well there's really no actual practicing democracy to speak of in afghanistan what you have is a cleft craddick corrupt. state but we should reframe the question so i was only just stays there there will be violence there will be chaos because as an occupying power it began you know the u.s. wants to keep a footprint there but the longer its footprint is there. the more well with lin had to say the violence will continue because of occupation you know just the fact that the afghan government has not yet been able to convince the afghan people that it

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and. i. if we met the local representatives of greenpeace they have been monitoring the activities regarding golden rice with

a skeptical eye and are familiar with the exact locations of the golden rice fields . a group of observers operating in secret has already checked out the area you're going to be able to get. old. and still here during these years. earlier that's where the secret. was for good or for hate spends your sense for. the sun in the streets of. the city. will greenpeace be able to get us there why do you bring us there so that it's happening that means. that the debates about the safety and he said don't go that they should be made much more on. the experimental rice field is on the premises of phil rice the national rice research institute they feel rice and erie have collaborated closely on golden rice and maybe if. we are turned away

at the main gate. if it is right your names and the official reason for your visit here. it won't be easy to get in an employee refers us tour bus. we ask him whether we can film the golden rice harvest is not what it can. any of. these. series normal be doing no filming please no cameras no information sounds like a well kept secret we're only allowed to see the golden rice on an advert. poster but wasn't this rice supposed to go to market within the current year again we're

pre-placed. we try to catch a glimpse of the test field from the back you know. this is not nice don't buy to feel that it's. ok though you can see trials i. hear this from you which in which never. stop. it says close as we can get. the experimental field is fenced in but that's all we can tell you from our vantage point. why is the public being kept in the dark about what's happening there this is used by the industry as a poster boy for a doc sept or genetically engineered crops and our food system and and just accepted this at this without question on you know without school within the without the public knowing about it like it's not even get even see the child to

get it even asserted then certain things that. we will be the one taking that risk when golden rice comes out so we have to know what that is six are really the risks are and whether we have really the capacity or not. and that will be the basis for decision whether to approve it or in. opposition to the golden rice is increasing in the philippines also in parliament. money back in minoan but we met up with rafael marianna a member of the philippine house of representatives and he is critical of genetic modification. he made a combative impression. now. more than fibro binge province s. . when he finally peace and but on guys that passed their respective ordinance s. binding the entry commission field testing and commercialization of. pride

containing genetically modified organisms including god and ice in their respective . or jurisdiction and it's the number is still increasing we don't one. of the mystic. blooded the golden age and consequently be controlled by a few transnational corporations. election and i know but they want to keep it for free. i don't believe that. for every three. their primary motive is profit. not for social justice. but. we inequalities the project has a lot of opposition no doubt about it. not

really no because. this rises just like all arise except be the carroty and in the. you know what why would you not want to give b. the counting to somebody you needed to stay alive or continue to be able to see. for an ideology because you don't like globalization because you don't like capitalism which seem to be the underlying trends because you all you have a romantic attachment to smallholder farming go and be a small the farmer in a developing country try being poor for a year and see then what you think. we went to a typical marketplace to find what the local residents think of the miracle rice. as is often the case with a new product there is a lot of skepticism still we were interested to see people's spontaneous reactions when they suddenly encountered yellow rice in place of the usual white or red

grains we brought along a small can of golden rice to show to vendors and consumers what do you think about . the. i don't. know. what you assembly i don't think so. banana and like that i think. if i had it right then he said it would break the stepfather and the. night. that people like that would.

i think. the catholic church is very important to the people of the philippines ninety percent of whom are key. affleck's. the church is a very powerful force in the country the. load. in an interview we learned of the catholic church has come out against genetically manipulated products like golden rice. about going to saying through these complaints that the think that by it the. problem of poverty is. completely. so. they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and even. the nice. about it that

we think that. the more they fight products are. due to have we should not sacrifice to help with the people than even though they'd vironment for the sake of short term propping up the corporations the miracle race from switzerland is up against a great deal of opposition and mistrust. you get the feeling you want to help these people but they don't want your help. you know exactly rights does not surprise you. as a citizen of switzerland you must have had plenty of opportunity to recognize how unpopular trends genetic plants are this golden rice is considered a dangerous plant by professional opponents of genetic engineering because it simultaneously shows that the technology is not only being used to benefit months until but to help the poor for the public good and to improve public health is

that no one is making any profit from it. this demon in my entire life i've never received a penny for our work the entire humanitarian board has invested its own time but never received any money for it so that means the entire arguments that g.m.o. opponents like to use really are not valid anymore to guns an argument that's why they fight against our golden rice with all the means and resources they can muster to go in the eyes. and takes. china. a small city in hunan province the date is october two thousand and twelve. our research into golden rice has brought us to the school where us researchers have been testing the product on six to eight year old children according to greenpeace

and scientists critical of genetic technology the testing was carried out without telling the parents that their children were being fed genetic modified rice we have come here to find out what really happened we succeed in meeting with some of the children and their families and asked them about the experiment draws us i'm a o.p.m. hog there were tables with numbers on the margin we had to sit down and eat. there were numbers. yes i remember i was number fifty four. does tell us how little they want us to see how much we ate hesitated and when something was left over they wrote it down zero six added to that. the rice thought it was disgusting i couldn't eat them. if you didn't finish it all you didn't get any notebooks or colored pencils if you didn't eat right they didn't let you go out

hundreds yet. so why are you afraid now bill morris very much. who took the blood samples just the man who brought us the food along with the few doctors. the u.s. researchers gave the school free meals. but they didn't tell the parents that their children were eating genetically modified rice. i'm talking about obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he's a hero all they really feel is a criminal what he's done i believe he's a hero i'm i believe he's coming directly from his heart that he feels some goodness that he wants to be truthful to the american people that he believes in and loves his country america so strongly and i wish that somebody five in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing.

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