switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out thousands of dollars in cash to every adult citizen in the country you heard me right there's a grassroots campaign that is trying to get the government to give out to every adult citizen two thousand five hundred swiss francs approximately two thousand eight hundred dollars per month the motivation for the project is that many in switzerland fear that the financial crisis has caused wealth inequality to skyrocket you know i'm not an expert at swiss culture so maybe people there are different but if they gave out thousands of free dollars per month anywhere i've lived you would see the majority of people going into early retirement and not working at all and sort of like how they tell people not to feed the bears at parks because then the bears lose their instincts and will go hunt because getting a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go through the effort of auditing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates law according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this plan is making headlines

it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealthy quality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve p. ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just my opinion. as afghanistan prepares for a presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak with the country's first democratic transition but it's less talked about is the dire security situation on the ground where the karzai is angling to succeed him so the powerful presence of the taliban and whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan. modified plant is at the 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. a 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 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 under nourished people not feed prime the. it of the

agricultural industry. the whole food i hold the bed 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. the symbolic 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 a basic food state it's part of the culture. this is where people are being asked to abandon their a custom 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. 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 the harry won't tell us why where perplexed. the inventor of this miracle rice ingle put frankness 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 words benefits the world's poorest people use it to lose and. he's become is not a scientist i'm an engineer engineer it is my desire to solve practical problems i use 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 and you will like it and of course we were thrilled after all this time to see it not only white it also a few yellow grains of rice because that told us we had finally really done it all tongue is in the arms to us it is your soft. the world's media praised trike is and his colleagues for their breakthrough. they were also on heard 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. s. 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 morning 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'd be thinking about some up what. do you. call it on their love life and what about vitamin a deficiency would. think it will make i've been very here in 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 chilled and a more peaceful chill it's articular 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 pro 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. singh and is seen getting 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 to engage in the who it is for. 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 used for 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. 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 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't be refused as the 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 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 a try anyway. disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. if we can.

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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 in deep. it will get. old. and still your years. earlier that's we're looking at. this for good for bates fans just for. the fun in the streets of. pussy. will greenpeace be able to get us there why do you bring us there so that somebody would know 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 so phil rice the national rice research institute phil rice and erie have collaborated closely on golden rice and maybe. we are turned away at the main gate. to. read 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 what it can be made it made any of. these is certain normal video 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 preplanned. and we try to catch a glimpse of the test field from the back you know. this is not nice to feel that it's. ok that now you can see. yes i knew which it would have. stopped. 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 box up or genetically engineered crops and our food system and and just accepted

this at this without quests on you know without school within the without the public knowing about it like public it's not even get even see the child to get even a cert then so. we will be the one taking that risk when golden rice comes out so we have to know what that is really the risks are and whether we have reviewed 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 minoan 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 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 want. blood the golden age and consequently be controlled by a few transnational corporations obgyn dianne's 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 social inequalities the project has

a lot of opposition no doubt about it. not really no because. this rises just like the only rights 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 all you have a romantic attachment to smallholder farming go and be a small to follow 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 first. thing. i did. with you assembly i don't think so. and i like that i think. he did it right then he sent me one day because the father and the other night.

people. get really. hot and. 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 to get a saying through these compare that think that by it the. problem of poverty is. completely it all in us. so we in the cherry side taken the very strong position against g.m.o.

and even in. the nicest way to. about it that we think that. the genetic anymore the fate products are. released to have we should not sacrifice the help of the the people and 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 really 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 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. 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 the g.m.o. opponents like to use really are not valid anymore guns an argument it is you can dance why they fight against our golden rice with all the means and resources they can muster the glow in the eyes. 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 the margin we had to sit down and eat. there were numbers. yes i remember i was number fifty four going to amanda shelley. 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 that i had to share that. the rice thought it was disgusting i couldn't eat them. should

aha 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 at harvard yet. were you afraid michael moore very much. who took the blood samples. 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. at the gaza strip should not be a launching side for rocket attacks on israeli women children and civilians yet to palestinian leadership is responsible for this but this is why israel is not willing to repeat this experiment but in judea and samaria so israel is not willing

to be the sucker of the middle east and to make long term concessions sacrificing the security of its own citizens only to find out in the end the conflict isn't over or it is going on as before except that israel is now in a much worse position. real damage and complexity of this oil spill is not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c.

it's a step forward. carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying and. it was it was not a big. either the government or b.p. really wanted to have i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this girl's. economic down in the final. and the rest. will be if we asked me.

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