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 capsules that surround it each of the doses of the beta carotene that was given in oil where did the oil come from there is no evidence that there's any problem with. is genetic engineering of plants harmless an experiment involving rats raises a few doubts at the university of colorado in france rats were fed genetically modified corn for two years it was the first ever long term experiment with genetically engineered food the result the 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 tumour 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 leni 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 a result 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. any 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 rice 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 program which is 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 just being every day when we ate carrots of which we've already consumed hundreds of kilograms without any adverse effects they were 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 of 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 rage in vitamins and minerals including pro vitamin a. and a few blades of lemon 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 decided guy leaves from the family garden. this year we. keep what 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 it 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 come back 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 pub is good i look at all of these courses they learn for

example which vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamin a i mean he 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 so that we take advantage of the opportunity to ask whether there are currently cases of vitamin a deficiency on the island. and maybe atheists. do similarly would be nice is not what you just wait for the on off case i had seen before the let's say a cell was illegal e.t.c. that last bit back in the hearing of the child. 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 and be frugal she's dimness 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 documenting 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 subway doors begin opening. them up and i have an appointment with them we have an appointment with antonio they did indeed let that happen in. i think that the fact that these weapons can fly semi autonomous lead for seven

thousand miles to you know the locations where unfortunately my military and the cia are attacking people in countries with which we are not at war to me is simply horrifying and as many you know already argue it's a violation of international law it's assassination i do not support the sasa nation by my government period. wealthy british soil it's time to try to split. the. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. right to see.

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to picture. from around the globe. to me. 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. quests and our communication. we did start with. the side that it's not the right thing it's not the proper time to do it. i can tell you that we got all the same some golden rice.

that's the secret did not come from the us the philippine. you don't believe it. because there's no way for somebody. like our policies it's very clear in the philippians access the only be limited by special sure they don't have. so well. can you explain what's going on with a golden rice after you harvest and then i just get the compile all those regulatory data those coming from the field is just one part of it there will be a date that i mean from the lab you know protein analysis 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 in the story 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 one golden rice become available for on 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 that. 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 park 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. in this at the moment. and i said but i this plant bed but they know it all. but some of them have 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. because. most of them would be put in a mental conditions they should have. events so just the sort of why and in the world that only an order to have something to eat they need to this day but it's about i this in the show i'm having this seeds into the hands of divine what is this sent out of the words of the element and bottoming because at this time the scenes that a being but instead and needed to be bought by a us service at least this is poor but i'm a space on subsistence in their own land for them to do and for them to sort of buy golden rice is not essential for survival he believes the specialist in different strains of rice insists we take one more rice sample from his own collection and

give it a try. ok. who in this country really wants the golden miracle rice the government the researchers the international rice 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 reynosa and spread the seeds around because we want to make sure that the research being done here follows all the protocols for credible sounds. to me. 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 greens. the answer to this question has yet to be investigated. so. eerie demonstrates how the genetically modified plants are harvested one by one. ok 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 content needs to be improved sort of the need 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 engineer 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 iterates every day so if you can enrich rice if you can

fortify your rice with vitamin 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 nurse 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 the 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. the 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 and it's. really for us 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 it is a good one. to send us a letter saying they claim that the erie 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 patroclus he is still optimistic. i will have achieved my goal when the rice is being eaten by the people we made it 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 vitamin a. i know 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 it's. 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. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against

g.m.o. and we think that. the. to have there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap. free. enterprise is profit. these golden rice monarchy. previously peacekeepers for a president who are concerned with. peace to those of you that post conflict environment nowadays there are only asked to operate in a high risk of violence while the only bottles are still available to stay.

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what they're trying to do now it's still another myth to us which is that one group of slightly less radical fundamentalists are now attacking the i.s.i. yes and. taking care of them who is the major supporter of these groups i mean they have to get money and arms and training from somewhere and the country that's been named so far in this program is saudi arabia what is their role in all this i think it's a. misinterpretation of reality i don't be fighting the fact that saudi arabia for me it's own reasons with american baking but with all reason this is supposed being. a position because the saudi arabian government is preferring now to try to. rise ok take care of the future. those who. have it it's quite clear. the

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