and perhaps there's a voice that at biotech fund would take a look at the genetically modified crops the corporations say can save the world from hunger crisis that's out of the brain. 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 is 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.

this genetically modified plant is up to. center of a controversy a controversy about how we deal with one of the most powerful technologies mankind has ever created. a technology that is polarizing society. the protagonists include a now retired professor at e.t.h. who believes his golden rice will save children throughout the entire world. are swiss agricultural chemical corporation that first wanted to commercialize the miracle rice and changed its mind. and a country where tests are being carried out that would be prohibited in other places. and. researchers who

manipulate crops are demanding more freedom the freedom to conduct their research free of political constraints they feel the moratorium that has been imposed on genetic technology for years unfairly hinders them in their efforts but public distrust of genetic manipulation has been immense for many years. artificially modifying the genetic structure of plants and animals scares people also because researchers are hesitant to reveal their secrets and explain exactly what it is they are doing and. they say. in this tense and polarized atmosphere professor engel put try kosovo eighty eight zero and 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 in

ten. the benefit undernourished people not feed the profit of the agricultural industry. i hope that mothers in families where vitamin a deficiency is a problem have understood that eating this rice will be good for them because we expect to finally start delivering this golden rice to farmers in the philippines by the end of this year and it is. symbolic and this is the poster boy of. the genetically 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 the basic food state it's part of the culture. this is where people are being asked to

abandon their custom ways and switch to the new golden yellow type of rice. we travel 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 stuff.

we're 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. the 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 they hear e won't tell us why where perplexed. the inventor of this miracle rice ingle portray because as 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 i had to do this ever since i first started working i've tried to ensure that my words benefits the world's poorest people use it as and. it's become is not a scientist i'm an engineer it is my desire to solve practical problems as i do

science as a way to solve real world problem is. they are at the heart of his efforts malnourished or 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 you will like 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 in the much sum up what. do you. call it what on earth and what

about vitamin a deficiency would. think it will make i've been there here you can play at this part 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 spike i mean is supplements in a most children a mopey school children and it's are regular pools our mother read from department of health. 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. i've 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. king and 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 via it is just. it is for. but a sensitive issue remained 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 the golden rice that was still considered humanitarian assistance 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 is also part of it. i think they are often ending 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 powerful from anthropos 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 handing out the checks. the 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 bible but unmodified basic foodstuff something no other camera team had ever been allowed to film although our invitation was subsequently rescinded we decided to give it a try anyway. and .

these. were the economic ups and downs in the final couple months they belong to the deal and the rest because it's a neat take it will be a briefly long sleep. and it was a. very hard take. to get along here is a life that that would make their lives so that. if. if.

if. if. if. if. what if. the people. write the scene. first rate. and i think that your. reporters twitter. and instagram. would be enough. 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. hold. and still. hear. your words we're looking for. us for our fate 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 not been. said that debates about the safety and he said don't go the nation much might. be experimental rice field is on the premises so phil rice the national rice research institute phil rice and eerie have collaborated closely on golden rice and maybe. we are turned away at the main gate.

to get it 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. what it can we may have very few. beers from my server normal b.g. no filming please no cameras no information sounds like a well kept secret we're only allowed to see the golden rice on an advertising poster but wasn't this rice supposed to go to market within the current year again were perplexed. 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 don't know you can see trials i. hear this from you which it which means that. it's as 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 box up or genetically engineered crops and our food system and just accept that this at this without quest song you know without school within the without the public knowing about it like it's not even look at even see the tryouts to get even a start then so. we will be the one taking that risk when all the nice comes out so

we have to know what that is our really the risks are and whether we have really the capacity or not. and that will be the basis for a decision whether to approve or in. opposition to the golden rice is increasing in the philippines also in parliament. money back in manila 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 binged province s. . when he finally peace and but on guys that passed their respective ordinance s. binding the three commercial 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 want. blood golden age and consequently be controlled by a few transnational corporations obgyn dianne's. and i know but they want to keep it for free for free i don't believe that. for every free. their frame remotely is profit. not for social justice. but. in equalities the project has a lot of opposition no doubt about it. not really no because. this rises just like only rice except the can be carroty

and any. you know what why would you not want to give beat accounting to somebody who needed it 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're all you have a romantic attachment to smallholder farming going to be a small the fama in a developing country try being poor for a year and see then what you think. we went to a typical marketplace to find out 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. and i but i think. he did it so i know he said it would break the stepfather and the other night. that people like that would.

identify. the catholic church is very important to the people of the philippines ninety percent of whom marc. affleck's. the church is a very powerful force in the country the. los. lobos. in an interview we learned of the catholic church has come out against genetically manipulated products like golden rice. the vatican to saying through these compare that to think that by it there. and saw the problem of poverty. completely. so we in the take in the very strong position against g.m.o. and even in. a nice way. about it that we think that. the genetic anymore the fate products are.

released to have we should not sacrifice the health of the people and even though they had byron meant 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 right does not surprise you. as a citizen of switzerland you must have had plenty of opportunity to recognize how unpopular trends genetic plans 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 this but to help the poor for the public good and to improve public health is

that no one is making any profit from it. the steam 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 the g.m.o. opponents like to use really are not valid anymore to guns 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 this school where u.s. 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 them are we had to sit down and eat. there were numbers. yes i remember i was number fifty four. does look how much how little they want us to see how much we ate hesitated and when something was left over they wrote it down zero six that i had to shout at. the rice thought it was disgusting i couldn't eat them. if i 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 hundred yet. so were you afraid michael morris very much.

who took the blood samples just like 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. may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. yes we can. make. cancer.

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