a swiss agricultural chemical corporation that first wanted to commercialize the miracle rice then changed its mind. and a country where tests are being carried out that would be prohibited in other places. 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. odd to see it. 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 intended to benefit under nourished people not feed the profit of the agricultural industry. the whole through those i hold the 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. this year and it is. the symbolic and this is the poster boy of.

the seeds and genetically engineered in the city and this is something. if the. but is the golden rice a blessing or a curse we went to the philippines in search of the answer. the country is home to nineteen 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. 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 trying to use as lived in 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 to lose and. it becomes not a scientist i'm an engineer 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 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 is calling 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. 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 a 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 to get respiratory diseases and infections are rampant she said you know as well as digestion problems i think the most i'm up with that you know i took. a little earlier and what about vitamin a deficiency. to think it will make i've been very here in the bay 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 white i mean is supplements in a molecule did a mopey schoolchildren and it's

a regular program other 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. five 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. 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 to be it is to engage in the who it is for it so that it's 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 who are as narrowly as possible because they wanted to potentially make money. in addition his 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 nine 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 do block a former employee 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 will say it was contributed to those funds and bill gates dad who is also part of it. i think they

are often doing 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'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 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. what they're trying to do now is sell 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 see pfizer saudi arabia from its own reasons with america becoming but with always in this.

position because this will be already a government whose preferring to try to broker. the rise ok of the future when those groups when. it's quite clear. right from the scene. first strike. and i think picture. on our report. the un since the lead the lead the obligation to lead.

the lives they did leave with economic ups and downs in the final a long stay the longer the deal sang i and the rest look like it's going be a single day every week long slender legs. the legs it was terrible they come up very hard to take the lead to get along here there's a club that are saddled with the hurt risk their lives and the long. list

celebs live. a. 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. hold of him still here during these years. earlier it's worth looking at. this for the first eight spends your sister. and son in the street the

girl. will greenpeace be able to get us there why do you bring us there so that it's happening right now that means that the debates about the safety and he said don't go the nation to me 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. we are turned away at the main gate. that you think 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 one of. the matter

any of. these is certain 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 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 to feel that it's. ok though now you can see try and i. hear this from you which it which never. 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 question on you know without school within the without the public knowing about it like public it's not even get even see the tryouts to get it even a start then certain things. we will be the one taking that risk when go then by scums out so we have to know what that is six are 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 it or in. opposition to the golden rice is increasing in the philippines also in parliament. in the bakken minoa 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 five 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. the mystic. blood the 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 we. believe that. for every free. their frame remotely is profit. not for social justice. but. 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 place be the carroty and any. you know what why would you not want to give bead 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 seemed 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 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 these rags because. i don't.

know. what you are sadly i don't think so. now that i think. he did it right then he said it would break because the father and other night. that people like that would. eat. up and. 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. 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 to think that by it there. will and saw the problem of poverty. completely it all in us. so we in the. very strong position against g.m.o. and even in. the nicest way. about it that we think that. the kinetic anymore the fight products are. released to have we should not sacrifice the help of the people and even though they buy are the men 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 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. 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 an argument that he

could not swythe a 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 them we had to sit down and eat. there were numbers. yes i remember i was number fifty four.

how much how little they want us to see how much we ate has a 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 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 how to watch it. so were you afraid. yes 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.

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