is confusing they're spending more money than ever spend on labeling telling people that labeling is too expensive they're pretending that the labeling bill has been created by trial lawyers to force lawsuits and that it's going to be bad for farmers and small businesses and it's going to cost a huge amount of money for california bureaucracy in reality all of these are manufactured lies and this is very simply a right to new orleans will be affixed to a a package indicating whether a product is genetically engineer. and some of the opponents of prop thirty seven jeffrey say that the food choices will decrease and prices will increase our how do you respond to that. there are sixty one countries that have labeling requirements for genetically engineered toots and not one has increased the cost of foods to consumers in fact the same companies that sell g m o's in the united states kraft nestle as hershey's have either labeled it overseas or removed it entirely at no cost to consumers if they wanted to thrust the entire cost of hiring an artist to place the actual label would cost abou

labeling. a lot of questions or as a wife a lot of companies we lobby on behalf of our parmer customers to make sure that the that you know the their issues are understood and appreciated i don't think there's anything unusual or atypical about about our lobbying efforts in terms of the of the food labeling i think those numbers are are very clear in terms of what the industry and what monsanto contributed you know both in california and by how much can house how much of an both cases because you didn't answer my first question i don't really have the specifics but it is important to be happy to follow up with wow ok i got it so why don't you kid that's like a missouri man if you like her politician a sly arson or rob what's wrong. if they label it. not a big thing in fact you know that it's a great starting point for the conversation because a lot of people think that we're against lately the reality of it is we've been very supportive of the voluntary labeling approaches that i think are real

labeling will debate the economic and health impacts of labeling these food. bowl and. it's not completely accurate but arguably getting there and it's not just social media companies either the government is getting into the mix as well paying private companies to follow you around you may have heard a lot about a certain company as of late called trap wire though not much has been confirmed about the program we do know this that the quote sophisticated predictive software used to predict terrorist attacks is already in place in cities such as los angeles new york los vegas and d.c. with a limitless data bank with who knows what or who well there you have it it seems the days of anonymity are gone and it's not just the camera but the data bank you should also be afraid of so is a picture really worth a thousand words well as we found out today it might be worth much much more reporting from washington imagine a set of artsy and with most programs involving high tech cameras and an f.b.i. database the need for these programs is often said system from the need for greate

labeling all genetically modified foods out in california there's a renewed effort to label g.m.o. foods california state senator norine evans has introduced a new g.m.o. food labeling bill in that state it would mandate that all genetically engineered foods the label for bill would also allow foods that only contains some genetically engineered greens to be labeled produced with genetic engineering or partially produced with genetic engineering while big agriculture may not want you or me to know about genetically modified foods an overwhelming majority ninety three percent of americans according to a recent new york times poll an overwhelming majority of us want to know what foods contain genetically modified organisms and there's a good reason for that despite what companies like monsanto are going to try to tell you g.m.a. g.m.o. foods may have some problems as the institute for responsible technology points so even before the f.d.a. decided to let g.m.o. foods go unlabeled the f.d.a. a's own scientists were warning the g.m.o. foods could create unpredictable hard to detect sid

labels are fine but that this bill won't give the voters the labels that voters want the no side has focused on perceived to have probably made up exemptions and loopholes that don't actually exist in the law and they also kind of focus on extra costs that will burn these companies us right so you take the cost of what it would cost for every company to take the g.m.o. ingredients out of their products and they say that's what it would cost to label the product labels are virtually cost less so most of the most of the money that's coming from the opposition side is is funneling misinformation base oh yeah this issue because they can't win by thing they don't support consumers right now and as a result of the citizens united and other elections that have allowed all this money to flow into these elections it's really hard to kind of speak through a lot of the misinformation that's coming out california tried to become the first state last year to to require g.m.o. labeling washington now is trying to become the first state to do it how important is it for that first state to break thr

labeling will debate the economic and health impacts of labeling because. it's wednesday august fifteenth of four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out and you are watching our t.v. we begin today with a look into surveillance and how it affects our daily lives we all know about domestic drones and we know about wiretaps but there's something else on the horizon when it comes to the ever expanding surveillance state facial recognition it's hardly a novel concept but it's one that is gaining steam and it's already implemented in washington d.c. l.a. last vegas new york city and texas possibly also michigan hawaii and maryland are two producer adriano seto explains how the software works and how you were actually helping to build that database. every minute of every day whether you're out on the street working in the office or sneaking into the kitchen chances are someone's watching facial recognition technology was once something only side five flicks could dream up but now it's beginning to look a lot stranger than fiction the f.b.i. is planning on

don't have to be labeled o. m.g. if it is bad to help answer that question we're joined her lior by elizabeth you finished the she's the executive producer of g m a o m g a new documentary highlighting the very issues i first asked her. what message the film is trying to convey. the films i see a very very beautiful film that follows the journey of a father who of three children and it's really his exploration of the food supply and we want to raise awareness of the fact that g.m.o. does exist and what they are and how they are produced and the questions that surround them and give people the opportunity to make their own conclusions now there's been many states most recently in colorado who've been struggling with legislation for labeling it g.m.o. foods and very few have been successful in this and for why is it so difficult to get g.m.o. labeling on our food well there's a big big companies and organizations like the grocery manufacturers association that are really pushing back to try to keep consumers in the dar

labeling mostly these g.m.o. companies like monsanto and dupont have spent twenty thirty million dollars in this race to defeat it they did the same thing in california what's behind this why are they so adamantly opposed to something just as innocuous as labeling their products well i think it goes to that question of whether g.m. us are safe to eat if they're not safe to eat based and feeding us poison essentially and they're not going to want to admit that. the money is having a profound effect though i mean in i remember last year we value on to talk about this issue in california and the polls show that this was going to pass overwhelmingly and then monsanto into part of the rest and coming down tens of million dollars and in the polls just suddenly shipped like that you know what i just mentioned in the in the intro today here that the polls were similar. overwhelmingly people supporting jim are labeling all this money gets dumped and in the polls change why why is money having such an impact on this issue

so we correct the label. by the way, if anyone at twitter wants getting deeper, de learned that the canadian media is largely government funded and subsidized to an extent, far greater than meets the eye. but canadian prime minister justin trudeau hysterically played the class warfare card in defense of the public broadcaster accusing conservative party opposition leader. yes. why? yeah. law of cozying up to us billionaires. an obvious reference to must by the evelyn written the letter to twitter, drawing attention to the fact that the c, b, c, which canadian conservatives have long accused of cow towing to the left leaning establishment agenda. shouldn't be left out of there is who labeling spree which also hit other western outlets like britain's b b c. now label is publicly funded and and p r. so national public radio in the u . s, which has outright quit twitter in protest. but hey, must be $44000000000.00 for twitter so he can do what he wants with his own private company, right? that's the argue that wa

those labels for guidance. to propose changes captured the most up to date science in a way that's easy to read and understand the new labeling is supposed to reflect the changes in nutrition science that have occurred since food labeling and nutrition facts were first rolled out two decades ago all fats were the focus back in the eighty's nutritionists today are concerned more with overall calorie intake and added sugars they've added that to the label now added sugars speaking about the new labels first lady michelle obama said that our guiding principle here is very simple you as a parent and a consumer should be able to walk into your local grocery store pick up an item off the shelf and be able to tell whether it's good for your family. and this is obama is absolutely right we have the right to know what's in the food we eat and if it's actually healthy for us but to achieve that goal we need to go beyond the new nutrition facts label and start labeling all of the important things that are in the foods tha

labeling can down the road. i think the reality is that maine is a small state connecticut is a small state remonde also is. working on g.m.o. labeling legislation and we're all small states the idea has been if we're able to band together and compact it's going to make it more practical for us to create enough of a critical mass to make this so that we're not going to be penalized by manufacturers from out of state that are using g.m.o. products and are absolutely opposed to having to tell the consumers the truth about that now on the other hand will g.m.o. labeling hurt that businesses in that region in the states is it an all or nothing kind of thing where either the entire country signs on to this g.m.o. labeling or the individual states will suffer. no i don't think so at all in fact i think that we're going to see a benefit to states like maine and connecticut and vermont and then this fall in washington state there's an initiative called five twenty two and the citizens of washington will vote on that to

again facebook's brought in a new label to some users pages to clearly highlight who it considers to be state controlled media including r.t. it plans to also ban them from buying ads in the u.s. head of the forthcoming november presidential election but there's a bit of selective it seems as to who gets flagged up as a senior correspondent more guest he explains next a new day a new facebook scandal they start it isn't about them selling out their users or allowing opposition activists to be tracked to establishing another censorship well it kind of actually is the start it's about facebook deciding for you who you should trust. several months ago we announced our plans to label media outlets that are wholly or partially under the editorial control of the government and today we're starting to apply labels to those state controlled media outlets were providing greater transparency into these publishers because they combined the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of the state and we believe people should know if the news they read is coming from a publicatio

labeling will debate the economic and health impacts of labeling these three. and a federal judge in california has thrown out a lawsuit filed against the f.b.i. for spying on the muslim community meanwhile violence against muslims is spreading nearly a dozen cases of harassment and attacks in the last two weeks alone r.t. asks what it's like to be a muslim in america. it is wednesday august fifteenth ten pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching r t well we begin this evening with a look into surveillance how it affects our daily lives most of us have heard about domestic drones and of course we all know about wiretaps but there is something else on the horizon when it comes to the ever expanding surveillance state facial recognition now this is hardly a novel concept but it's one that is gaining steam it's already being implemented in washington d.c. los angeles las vegas new york city and possibly also michigan hawaii and maryland producer adriano seto explains how the software works and how you are actually helping to build up this database. e

to label or announce a label to that we modified foods food producers and anti g.m.o. advocates are hashing it out with regulators in states like colorado we'll tell you how that fight turned out in just a moment. the chance for success. in the finish line at the marathon. hearing. we welcome erin made an abby martin to have a terrific ocean on the our t.v. network. it's going to give you a different perspective give you one star never i'll give you the information you make the decision to me both bring you the work it's a revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness and frustrated with the system extremely produce would be described as angry i think in a strong you know under single. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. today where it's not story. if this guy like me or that guy stead of working for the people most issues the beach or preacher ribozymes vision. for the rest of the world. colorado lawmakers rejected a voluntary measure on thursday to give food producers the option of labeling products that do not include genetically modif

label. so that the chance has come. up with. a. lot. more there see transfer. to the major scientific equipment to determine whether or not this translates into probably what you're supposed to do take the equipment to a restaurant with you and test the food to see if it's got transcribed and if zero doesn't mean zero that food companies might be lying when they put zero grams of trans person on the front of packages. i had to spend a weekend at the university of maryland chemistry lab to find out. i have been presented with these five samples of. films and they've asked me to analyze them or transfer content. first one is a margarine and it has zero trans on the label and the new christo has zero trans on the label. so will take the sample and homogenize that. and that's what will be analyzed for the trans fatty acids. and. every food sample that we had tested was labeled as out in zero grams of trans fat person. unfortunately all of these foods contain the deadly grade in the most surprisi

the label. so will take a sample and how modularize that. and that's what will be analyzed with the trans fatty acids. every food sample that we had tested was labeled as having zero grams of trans fat person. unfortunately all of these foods contain the deadly grade and the most surprising promise margarine which contains zero point four six grams of trans fat person. and so if the consumer looks at the ingredients partially hydrogenated vegetable all of that means trance fats so how can it say zero and still be containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oils confusion is not a good thing i think we really probably should not be allowing zero there unless there is no partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in a product after i started really reading labels i noticed some truly disturbing processed foods. bars are designed specifically for people with diabetes. you know those two harvard researchers just told us how transplant them hydrogenated oils insulin resistance and lead to diabetes. why wou

and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier but regardless like organic milk it comes from same cow the cows are labeled organic regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no low evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's on the label you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's the difference if you think that somehow we are not. so it makes no sands you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have the label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is that if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. the spotlight is just moments away here on our two year the focus of spotlight today being that of the ongoing apec summit in of light of boston they'll be right after a recap of the headlines in just a second.

labeling it's very difficult to get the right labeling stand on to the packaging is big pushback with. producers who do not want to label what really is going into a food supply whole foods market our grocery chain with three hundred thirty nine stores recently announced that it will begin labeling on all g.m.o. foods within the next five years it will be the first and only u.s. retail store to require the food labeling on the other hand when it comes to soda regulation is off limits new york city mayor michael bloomberg recently lost his fight to limits the extra large serving sizes of sweet beverages in an effort to fight obesity. i i. am very day and so to lovers like v.p. want to be sarah pailin have celebrated the fact that americans can continue consuming and alarming amount of high fructose corn syrup and empty calories in one giant cup not sure if miss palin knows about the medical warnings indicating that if the country's health trend continues at its current pace nearly half of all americans will be obese by twenty thirty marina portnoy r.t. new york now take a look at some

you read those labels and you don't trust them don't trust any labels. find out what people in the big apple think the great debate surrounding what we are told about g.m. products. plus a future is free lance the super smart indian of workforce that's happy to sign a steady salaries bod is blamed for jeopardizing jobs in the west. childhood was overshadowed by this tragedy. these two feel the fear they faced. and remember every second of the slightness. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. anything so. innocent. a little. one or two. i fit in execution dates in believe me oh just table one of the execution date isn't enough for anybody to go through more life to. you know more than fifty percent of the people here if you didn't texas are not. why you know living on death row is like. this it's like you know we execute our convicted capital murder we have the highest execution rate in america we're not afraid to do it we do it well this becomes a point where death becomes. our avenue i hope. our get a letter your dad is due to be executed

and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier but regardless like organic milk comes from the same cow the cows are labeled or again. regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no low evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's on the label you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's the difference if you think it's probably or not or it makes no sense you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is if you live in the united states you are probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes from now this is all to life in moscow. well for the. science technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it any

and the new christo has to zero fans on the label. so will take the sample and homogenize that. and that's what will be analyzed for the trans fatty acids. from. eat. more. meat. on. every food sample that we had. asked it was labeled as having zero grams of trans fat per cent of it unfortunately all of the streets containing the deadly agree and the most surprising the strongest margarine which contains zero point four six grams of trans fat person. and so if the saturday consumer looks at the ingredients they see partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in a know if that means trance fats so how can it say zero and still contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils confusion is not a good thing i think we really probably should not be allowing zero there unless there is no partially hydrogenated vegetable product after i started really reading labels i noticed some truly disturbing processed foods. to sort of ours are designed specifically for people with diabetes walter willett near stampfer you know those two harvard researchers just

dangers almost every newspaper in the state is against labeling there is no need for a label i agree completely with the f.d.a. the no set also has the backing of doctors who promote the safety of g.m.o. foods congressman dennis kucinich has been calling for a national food labeling in trying to fight the influence of big corporate stakeholders there is a chance that monsanto is grip will be broken in california across the nation u.s. consumers regularly buy food produced in california with a population of nearly forty million people last year have a nationwide effect on manufacturers the ballot initiative could determine whether the future of our food supply favors smaller again that food producers like monsanto window shouldn't be able to hide that they are genetically engineering our food or could allow for the continued expansion of large corporate agribusiness science in los angeles ramon bilin though r t. and joining me now to talk more about california's proposition thirty seven is our correspondent. linda hi there i'm on so i want to ask you just how influential monsanto and

labeling problem and i'm going to happen. even though ninety three percent of people want it and i don't agree with that at all that's the basis i have different statistics that when you and i have he'll have those you know your i don't ninety three percent what kind of us to be legal is what consumers are for and i'm not if you get age make a statement or disagree that you want to say take about a minute look i think there is ups and downs to absolutely everything you've spoken a lot about the world food shortage in america and we throw away nearly fifty percent of what we produce so you know the price of food gone up i actually don't think it's a bad thing i think that there's more responsibility that comes with higher price foods i think that you know this is of course positives admonishes to both sides of the argument all i state is that we should be given the choice we absolutely should be given the choice and the only way you can be given the choice is by been given the information merely absolutely i agree that there s

and it has zero trance on the label and the new christos has zero chance on the label. so we'll take a sample and homogenize it. and that's what will be analyzed for the transparency efforts. from. the. summer. months and. from. every food sample that we had. asked it was labeled us i mean zero grams of trans fat per cent of it unfortunately all of these foods contain the deadly gradient the most surprising the strongest margarine which contains zero point four six grams of trans fat person serving. and so if the savvy consumer looks at the ingredients they see it partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and i know that that means trance fats so how can it say zero and still contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils computers and it's not a good thing i think we really probably should not be allowing zero there i'm less there is no partially hydrogenated vegetable product after i started really reading labels i noticed some truly disturbing processed foods. to sort of ours are designed specifically for people with diabetes. or will it near stampfer you know those two ha

on it much like we have warning labels here in this country cigarettes a warning label on processed foods it says warning to be harmful to your health in sweden and norway all advertising to children has actually been and in ireland you cannot advertise for fast food or candy and celebrities are not allowed to endorse bad while european countries require genetically modified foods to be labeled in the u.s. the biotech industry and corporations like pepsi co and coca-cola spent millions last year to defeat a california ballot initiative for g.m.o. labeling we have a very big problem in the united states in that even the questioning of labeling of what we have and the origin of our food and whether it's organic or whether it's genetically modified it's very difficult to get the right labeling standards on to the packaging big push pack with the industrial food producers who do not want to label what really is going into our food supply whole foods market our grocery chain with three hundred thirty nine stores recently announced that it will begin labeling all g.m.o. foods within the n

labeling on food products but not in the u.s. is it fair to consumers to not have that information this week let's talk about that you would like to see the labels that absolutely why do you think we don't have them here oh i'm a big conspiracy theorist and i'm sure that like the government you know because they're getting paid by the pharmaceutical companies that own the g.m. most they don't it's all that's what i think it comes down to money like everything out right exactly and it's all about big corporations making the seeds that are genetically modified i don't know i mean i've got a daughter who's really really particular about what she said no i mean i guess in our generation we do see what it has been there it is it a younger generation concern is i think a lot of people say there's no direct link to it in terms of what it does to your how but then again they said that about smoking a decade this is. greens in a way whether they're good for you or not so maybe there's a bit on there are you ok with it i'm ok with it you d

and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier regardless like organic milk because i'm the same cow the cows are in label or gay. i make regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's unbelievable you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's a different if you think it's about me or not or it makes no sense you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is that if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. headlines in a couple of minutes stay with us. tomorrow . well. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered. if it to an execution dates in believe me. just a one to two the execution date is enough for anybody to go through life and. no more than thirty percent of the peop

and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels or you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier but regardless like organic milk because i'm the same cow the cows are in label or again. regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no law evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's under the label you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's a different if you think it's probably or not or it makes no sands you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have the label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is that if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. headlines in a couple of minutes stay with us. there are clouds childhood was overshadowed by this tragedy. these two feel the fear they faced. don't remember every second of the slightness. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. anything so. innocent. a little angel one or two. look. more news today violence is

several months ago we announced our plans to label media outlets that are wholly or partially under the editorial control of the government and today we're starting to apply labels to those state controlled media outlets were providing greater transparency into these publishers because they combined the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of the state and we believe people should know if the news they read is coming from a publication that may be under the influence of the government so we'll skip over the irony here of someone who is under the influence of a government which is facebook which regularly censors what the us government tells it to censor telling everyone else that you shouldn't trust those who are under the influence of the government you following and facebook takes great pride in making sure that what you read is approved by censors in the u.s. only 53 percent of americans trust the news sources that use so we're making it easier to learn more about an article right in your facebook news feed what it has done this start is remarkable even by its

and you don't trust them and also some new labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier but regardless like organic milk because i'm the same cow the cows are labeled or again. regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no evidence that they're bad for your house. so but. you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that says if you think it's. makes no sense you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. now while much of the world is getting dragged ever deeper into recession and unemployment. finding ways to innovate and expand in india many workers are now moving out of offices and staying at home or part of a flexible approach which has seen a boom in the highly skilled freelance sector has all his previous shrewder reports the shift is actually blamed for a knock on effect in the west. it's

new proposed labels not only would it make the calories in serving size larger it also would separate out the added sugar from the naturally occurring sugars current laws only require food makers to list the total amount of sugar contained in a product not what is added some doctors activists and health groups contend that the amount of added sugars in foods have directly contributed to the diabetes and obesity epidemic affecting our nation however food companies and sugar manufacturers argue that there is no evidence that added sugars are any more responsible for these health issues than the sugar already found in most foods joining me to help peel back the lady on this issue is gretchen goldman a lead analyst for the union of concerned scientists question thanks so much for joining us and so much for having me of course first of all just break down the actual risks of this added sugar increasingly we're seeing public health studies show that sugar consumption is linked to obesity and it's linked to metabolic disease and this rise in metabolic disease that we're seeing which includes

and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier regardless like organic milk because i'm the same cow the cows are in label or again. regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no evidence that g m o's are bad for your health. so but when it's on the label you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's a different if you think it's probably or not or makes no sense you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. twenty six minutes past the hour in the russian capital all but with a recap of our top stories in about four minutes from. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't k

you read the label and you don't trust that i don't trust any labels. find out what people in the big apple think for a debate surrounding what we're told about g.m. products. plus the future is free lance the super smart in work force that says happy to shun study salaries but is blind for jeopardizing jobs in the last. line motion to be soo much brighter if you knew all about song from phones to impression so. please friends don't talk t.v. don't come. wealthy british style. that's not on the telephone. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. on. well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge area covered. with our canada has severed diplomatic ties with iran closing its embassy in tehran and kicking iranian diplomats out of the country explaining the surprise move official said that tehran represents the biggest threat to global security with its nuclear activities support fo