you know it's getting old trying to beat the war drums to invade iran i think the let's invade iran talk has been going on since i was in college to keep the saber rattling rolling israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declared in front of the un that iran is building nuclear weapons that could hit new york in three to four years no he said new york obviously he was trying to spook a certain country with nuclear destruction the delegates from namibia were probably unmoved sadly this time netanyahu failed to bring a funny cartoon bomb picture with him like in his two thousand and twelve un speech in which he also warned the world about the threat of a nuclear iran you know i might be more optimistic about israel accusing other countries of being nuclear threats if they had a better track record themselves although israel is a bit candid with their arsenal according to a b.b.c. article the federation of american scientists believes that israel's arsenal has

grown to about two hundred nukes based on their surveillance of ever expanding facilities inside the country also let's not forget that israel has plenty of ways to deliver those two hundred nuclear bombs if the need be so my question is why should we automatically trust israel with a lot of nuclear weapons but not iran is it because they're bureaucrats where european suits and shave i don't know it just seems to me that disarmed countries are better advocates for nuclear disarmament but that's just my opinion. did you give consent for your child to eat golden rice. we didn't know it at the time they didn't tell us it was g.m. food not me if i had known it at the time i wouldn't have allowed it and. many of the parents now regret that. for the tanit they said

the food was very healthy for the kids they said something about spirulina or something we didn't really understand they only said it was very good that's why we signed the consent form and let our children eat the meals. so the rich i'm furious my daughter in law and i sung were not aware that they left their child in my care the day. you lot if anything happens i'm the one who's responsible this is coming i don't know what will happen didn't it we are we a cult. it's just very frightening. these people feel betrayed what were the responsible authorities thinking the study was financed by the national health office of the united states and conducted by tufts university

they made no official comment only that the research project was the subject of an ongoing investigation how does this story fit in with the inventor's humanitarian ideals veers into fantasy and we assumed that everything was being done properly and i'm still assume that. i don't know the chinese partners but i know the partners from the us i actually still believe that they did everything correctly. why do they need to know why and how was the spanish produce that was used in the trial how was the gelatine produced that was in the capsule that surrounded each of the doses of the b. the counting that was given in oil where did the oil come from there is no. evidence that there's any problem with genetic engineering is genetic engineering of plants harmless an experiment involving rats raises

a few doubts at the university of colorado friends rats were fed genetically modified corn for two years it was the first ever long term experiment with genetically engineered food the result that genetic corn caused tumors the study was conducted by french genetic researcher seventy. the tumors appeared as early as four months into the study as you know the earliest a tumor can develop is after ninety days they exploded in quantity as well as the number of kidney and liver diseases that resulted in the death of the rats beginning around the end of the first year that means after about half of the normal life time for these animals than any human. several leamy interprets the development of tumors like this the genetic manipulation change the chemical composition of the feed corn that may have depressed the animals immune defense against cancer. if the results show that all the genetically engineered projects

already being distributed really should be stopped this study elicited very controversial reactions in the scientific community genetic research is a highly charged topic politically and illogically several eenie calls for close examination of the risks also those of golden rice see only if you take it seriously and don't want to play with the health of the public it's absolutely necessary to conduct a long term tests like this one before putting the rights on the market. and rice would hardly be approved for the swiss market without prior animal testing according to the federal health office but no such tests have been conducted for the philippines. you've got the study by the swiss national research programme dish which states explicitly that from everything we know so far there is no danger and that there is no theoretical danger to be expected in golden rice we have the same

substance where in jesting every day when we eat carrots of which we've already consumed hundreds of kilograms without any adverse effects they're exactly the same molecules as has been scientifically clearly proven to and now with golden rice which could protect children from going blind or dying we're expected to conduct long term studies for potentially fifty years before we accept that this rice is safe to eat that sound a little crazy. but do genetically engineered plants have a known side effects should we really take that risk the island a boy a province in the central part of the philippines doesn't want to take the risk the island's government has banned genetically modified plants so there won't be any golden rice here but according to national statistics the. people suffer from

vitamin a deficiency how will they solve the problem. it's sunday morning we are visiting the family a typical family a rice farmers. cooking rice is one of the first things they do every day. the family is self-sufficient living from what they grow they have little opportunity to make any money to buy food in a store they have to depend on what nature provides a daughter ratio breaks off a few twigs from a tree its leaves are especially rich and vitamins and minerals including pro vitamin a. and

a few blades of women grass for taste. the family usually eats red rice is more nutritious than the white kind we are told. along with the rice there's a little fish and decided balloon guy leaves from the family garden. you know. we always have rice what we eat with it depends on what we can harvest from the garden and what we can afford to buy that. meat is rare once in a while there's an ache depends on what their modest farm can produce. fruits

provide important nutrients coconut mango bananas and. this one. i was one of. the well. you know one of the books were surprised how much the family is able to get out of the scarce ingredients available to them but it. shows us his rice fields he owns just a quarter of a hector of land most of the time there's not even enough rice to feed the six members of the family. in its current stage of growth the rice has to be flooded every two days that allows him to combat the main pest a snail using biological methods it isn't much but it works without the use of chemical additives he assures us that this method has proven successful on his

small farm. we learn that the farming families on this island are organized into so-called poor ox units of ten to fifteen households that are trained in agricultural issues if necessary they may even receive seedlings free of charge in addition the island's government also trains local health workers and that after you know everyone. at the book is good and that all of these courses they learn for example which vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamin a that they. said but they get better and i'm i said no you ought to have the the main goal the big man give up by the egg and become home so that we take advantage of the opportunity to ask whether there are currently cases of vitamin a deficiency on the island. and baby ava this is. to somebody would be nice is not one. way or the off case

i hate seeing before that let's say a cell was illegal e.t.c. that was it back and be sure that. this is an amazing claim according to national statistics the island is considered a region deficient in vitamin a but the local health workers have not documented any cases they don't know where and how the national statistics are compiled. our visit to the island raised a lot of new questions we saw a population that while poor enjoys a well balanced diet and contrast to the official national statistics there's no sun in a vitamin a deficiency here. what does the inventor of golden rice have to say about what we have observed. does is for me that doesn't surprise me because it is

not very easy to document it is although statistically it is certain that these cases exist. the philippines are not a very good example because in the philippines vitamin a deficiency is a problem for only about ten percent of the population with and for other countries provide better perspectives for girls and i was recently in india where i visited a village of traditional farmers i wasn't there for thirty minutes before i had seen two cases so the cases do exist as it is you just have to look out for them in the right segments of the population. for evolution in the us and. although vitamin a deficiency is said to be more prevalent in india the miracle rice is planned for introduction in the philippines first we contacted innumerable organisations and authorities charged with document ing vitamin a deficiency without success. we would like to have spoken with the national authorities again

no success instead they sent us an e-mail referring us to another office once again we were perplexed they were referring us to an office we had already tried to contact namely the national rice research institute phill rice. in other words to the same people who are working with the erie to bring golden rice to market as quickly as possible. and suddenly doors begin opening. them up and then you have an appointment with them we have an appointment with antonio they did indeed let go of him and.

i'm talking about edward snowden. you know that some americans believe. i believe he's a hero and 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 in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. to least be told language.

programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on the. scene from the we'll talk spots the v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see when troy. visit. was the top man in the golden rice project we asked him why we weren't allowed to film the golden rice harvest. what was wrong with us well. yes yes we received your. requests and our communications team waited it

out we did start with the process of requesting them the and the project the side that it's not the right thing it's that it's not the proper time to do it and for what reason i cannot tell you that we got all the same some golden rice where did you get this that's the secret i'm sure it did not come from the philippines because the philippines is this really god in their eyes you don't believe it i don't believe it because there's no way for somebody like you in the media to be holding things like this because our policy is it's very clear in the philippians access the world denies should only be limited to authorize special mail and i'm not sure they don't have the authorization to have access the gold in the us. well can you explain

what's going on with a golden rice after you harvest and then i just have. all those regulatory data those coming from the field is just one part of it there will be day that i mean from the lab you know protein analyses positional analyses all these things all those will be form part of that the regulatory set of data that will be submitted to the regulator and that's the department of agriculture bureau plant industry so based on those data they will make an evaluation. it's gold in the days safe the. basic by safety requirements when we philippine people eat golden rice so when. golden rice become available from samsung for planting iris i can tell you that i guess i can have a definite answer to your question but i can't because it will depend on the

us if and when they would approve god based on that they that he will submit to them if this group had its way the people of the philippines would never eat golden rice this is the rice cultivation center of the pot an organization made up of small farmers it is a nationwide network with thirty five thousand members farmers who cultivate their fields using traditional equipment and who raise traditional types of rice which. in this at the moment. i saw but i think the plant bed but they know it all. but some of them had been planted in the with the saw we have. two thousand six hundred. an enormous variety cheetah medina and his team document each and every strain with all their individual characteristics

farmers can acquire tried and tested traditional seeds and multiply them on their own free of charge. sheet to medina takes us to the treasury of the organization. this is a presentation on. this book to decide and must be progress on the other side all of this important to me because. most of them would be put in a mental conditions they should have to claim it jane. events so just the sort of why and in the world that only an order to have something to eat they need to have this they but it's about a this in the show on having this seeds into the hands of divine what is this send out of the words. the element and the bottoming because at this time the scenes that are being but then they needed to be bought by a us citizen at least there's

a sport a bottom a space on subsistence in their own hand for them to do and for them to sort of buy golden rice is not essential for survival he believes a specialist in different strains of rice insists we take one more rice sample from his own collection and give it a try. who in this country really wants the golden miracle writes the government the researchers the international race research institute erie. ultimately even the erie opened its doors to us after all the reason for this change of heart remains a mystery they even offered to show us real golden rice growing in philippine soil it wasn't outdoors in an open field as originally agreed but at a heavily guarded experimental field at the organization's headquarters.

this bruce tolentino led us to research most well guarded treasure so this building . this is called worth. access to this greenhouse is controlled you have to log in and we ensure that no animals birds or rats get into that we notice and spread the seeds around because we want to make sure that the research being done here follows all the protocols far more credible science. that golden rice growing in a hermetically sealed greenhouse. is the security intended to protect animals. what would happen if burris started eating vs beta carotene grains. the answer to

this question has yet to be investigated. eerie demonstrates how the genetically modified plants are harvested one by one. well this varieties are being planted and we are testing a range of varieties to find out which of the varieties can yield the great this level of beta carotene and we try to improve the varieties each step of the way and at this stage it's been an improvement from the varieties that are planted out in the field but we keep working because the beta carotene conte that needs to be improved so that it needs some benchmark standards that have been set. apparently the rice is still in its test face still the authorities are expected to consider approving it for the market within the current year. once again we are perplexed the authorities have already approved several genetically

engineered plants. a magical moment the yellow green first appears when the show has been removed the authorities seem confident that the success of these greens will start soon half the world's population it's rice every day so if you can enrich rice if you can fortify your rice with white them in a beta carotene you can help a lot of people with no additional expense we've been hoping that this race could be available this year i would not be surprised if in fifty years. people look at white rice and think what this is that anemic stuff and when their grandfathers tell them it's what we're used to we. they will hardly believe that. initially golden rice was planned to be marketed only in the philippines and in bangladesh. that was the plan set

out by the gates foundation. as the principal donor and gets to make the decisions but the inventor patroclus wants his miracle rice to be introduced worldwide preferably sooner than later he is irritated at the dictatorship of money and i think they came into the project at the end just as we were almost finished and we worked for twenty years to develop this rice without any help from the gates foundation and then in the end gates comes in with his riches and takes the entire project over for turning it into a gates project single into forwarded its research material to erie and later in collaboration with the gates foundation also relinquished rights and responsibilities regarding golden rice to the erie. the inventor did not approve of this agreement made in two thousand and ten. but his objections were ignored today

to try because feels he was booted out. that ice mckayla rice they are working with in the philippines today doesn't it belong to you anymore in the good ones morally and legally it still belongs to us but on the basis of the material transfer agreement which is an agreement between the gates foundation eerie and sing get into we were circumvented as a good. that means at the moment we have no direct influence on what has been going on at the erie for the past two years. it isn't if we are not happy about these developments we consider it not only unfair but also legally improper. of the we don't intend to take. over as it is and. saying they claim that the contemporarily determine what happens with golden rice

is incorrect they went on to say we would like to state that our interest in golden rice is of a purely humanitarian nature. a noble motivation but one that was unwilling to state on camera we are perplexed for weeks we tried to persuade to participate in this film without success. and what about the disappointed inventor put frankness he is still optimistic. i will have achieved my goal when the rice is being eaten by the people we mated for that is to save the poor people in developing countries who are in danger of developing serious medical conditions due to a lock of like i'm in a safe zone i'm now seventy nine years old i don't know whether i'll still be here in a year or two or three i hope i will still be alive when golden rice is finally in

use in the philippines maybe in bangladesh dish. with a genetically modify golden rice created by. actually benefit the people in developing countries the way its inventor hopes it will why are the authorities hiding behind closed doors if golden rice is approved in the philippines the floodgates will open and there will be worldwide consequences once a genetically engineered version of people's most important basic food stuff has been approved it will be easier to gain approval for additional genetically modified foods.

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