they've been purchasing smithfield farms to get the genetics on hogs remember a lot of these g.m.o. these are not for human consumption but for livestock so that is absolutely the long term plan and that's why kemp china bought syngenta the swiss company i want to offer one billion dollars forty three billion dollars on hawgs fred are being they own smithfield build a bunch of hogs here and in canada at least they used to have in canada are they actually doing hard production over there with smithfield of a resteal exporting smithfield this bill pork to the to china. what's happening now is that china is figuring out again the genetics they're figuring out how they're going to implement their livestock production and what they bought from this very old united states connecticut based company what they what they bought was the genetics and now going forward it is their intellectual property it is it's no longer ours i got it that reminds me of the the super cows in california all the genetic splicing that help though those cows produce more milk let's talk a little bit before we go a

there's been a dismal failure on genetically modified cotton now the genetically modified mosquito project can only be assessed. what we have already experienced with the release the 1st thing is that on their own version of target malaria there is no benefits to be accrued to the population or to the american medication as a result of the release the release was intended for 2 purposes one to test the regulator capacity of the regulators of that country and to to by public acceptance not in mosquitoes but for the project's main and that is to release genetically a to release gene tribe organisms in the killer fossil in particular gene dr mosquitoes ok. so regarding that then what are the risks involved so the risks involved in regard to 1st the g.m.o. skeeter let's let's look at what they doing they actually need to clean modifying one species of the nominees mosquito namely and often this can be our where as many and of the species transmitted malaria. 2nd very very little independent by a safety risk assessment has been done many independent by safety scientists have expressed great con

first ever long term experiment with genetically engineered food the result that genetic corn caused tumors the study was conducted by french genetic researcher seven. the tumors appeared as early as four months into the study as you know the earliest a tumor 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.

variety in the human body and in that book you put forward their idea of genetic exploration genetic experiments being a good thing yeah yeah ok now we should be afraid of them so well in your own words tell me what does that mean is it ok to actually maybe change the human race manually. oh. well. let's backtrack a little bit so mutants the book it wasn't really about engine us it was mostly about how we have changed actually about all the variety that humans show. when we look at each other some of it good some of it bad i mean and when i say bad i mean medically bad and so what the book is all about was what is all the variety tell us about how we as humans are constructed how the human body is starts out as a single cell in the multiplies into a walking talking copulating thinking creature when i do all the stuff that humans to that genetic program and it turns out that what all the ferocity those mutations . some of the truck terrible in the way that a flick does once we identify the genes we can reverse engineer the human body as it were we can discover the program that makes u

the seeds of genetic of incident in the city and this is something.

talking about the future this type of genetically. edited organisms in the human species it's going to happen if it doesn't happen today in china is going to happen tomorrow so maria is would you agree with me on that is inevitable it is inevitable we have the tools we have these powerful tools which initially also we can't blame the technology the technology is also useful in many other fields for example we do everything every living thing has a genome editing humans genomes for example has helped us in things like like like crop development we're able to quickly produce plants now by with this very very precise tool that for example drought resistant so that the tool is not only the it's not only about editing human genomes it's about editing d.n.a. we're getting more and more control of it but the problem is that we still don't know enough about the big picture so when we're editing it we might be making mistakes that we're not even aware that we're making which is why all of the researchers are coming out and saying we need to be

reproduction or transferring genetic material. we asked dr.adshaw an evolutionary biologist at the university of washington, so these are some gentleman net i cannily engineered monkey flowers. to simplify things for us on the science side. >> genetic engineering is simply the introduction of dna from one organism to another by an a sexual process. usually some kind of injection. >> reporter: on the political side get ready to decide for yourself. political scientist todd donovan says this is a fight that could be headed your way. >> california was sort of the opening salvo, this is, you know, like the next battle or skirmish, but right now there is legislation in 26 states that the folks advocating labeling want to push. >> reporter: if approved this would be the first law of it's a kind in the u.s. enacted by initiative and a vote of the people. alan, al jazerra seattle. >>> and that initiative in washington state on labeling gametically modifying food will be voted on next month. >>> blackberry looking to make a last-ditch effort to win sup

from berlin, a historic heart to implant and a medical 1st us surgeon successfully transplanted genetically modified big heart into a human patient raising hopes that animal organs could ease a chronic donor shortage. also in the program causing stones president says russian lead troops will withdraw completely from the former soviet republic within 10 days . following up out of violet unrest, he is blaming one. is little miss militants and 10, a star novak joked edge back on court after his legal victory to play in the australian open fans are delighted, but the threat of deportation is not on the table yet. ah hello em terry martin, thanks for joining us. in a medical 1st, us surgeons had successfully implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human patient. the transplant took place last week. the 57 year old man was too ill to be eligible for human heart transplant. he said to be recovering well so far . medical researchers hope such procedures could one day help ease the chronic shortage of human origin donations. this is the heart used to give dave bennett a new lease on life.

evidence any problem with genetic engineering would you make a deal. more. is. the . golden rice. news continues here in r.t. the us administration is in deadlock with congress over raising the debt ceiling with just five days left to strike a deal and avoid a catastrophic default the republicans won't be boring limit extended by six weeks but president obama is calling for a long term solution and here's what the white house had to say earlier we cannot have a situation where we use extended as part of a budget negotiation process for only six weeks which would put us right back in the same position that we are in now meanwhile the government and key institutions remain in shutdown which has put hundreds of thousands of workers on paid leave the crisis response to republican lawmakers refused to sanction the affordable health care program known as obamacare the shutdown has no cut off a vital lifeline for many cancer patients with being denied treatment one of them michelle london summed up her grievances. lives are at stake two hundred people are trying to get into trials at an

on contaminated by genetic engineering the genetically engineered chili animists you is developing would reduce reliance on labor at least in the short term by was standing application of the herbicide glyphosate which is in products like been santo's round up and syngenta has touched down i q is. our intent is really to provide a benefit to the chili producers and if we can give them a crop that allows them to farm or sustainably.

scientists are developing a genetically engineered chili pepper. genetically engineering the new mexico chili pepper has stirred controversy because it is a cultural heirloom and defines new mexican cuisine this is what he mexico is known for and this is what makes this unique.

in the land of supersize approximately eighty five percent of all processed foods contain genetically modified organisms g.m.o. is an acronym that owes its notoriety largely to the agriculture giant monsanto a multinational billion dollar corporation generating global criticism revolving around the safety of its products and growing a monopoly over the world's food supply they are able to patent the genetically modified foods with a very strong patent for farmers can only base the seeds from monsanto each year and they can't save the seeds and farmers who have tried to save seeds or have their farms contaminated months and was gone after them and sued them or only into growing their crops researchers have documented dozens of health risks associated with the consumption of a modified foods and the majority of americans have campaigned for g.m.o. foods to be labeled just like these organic fruits are labeled but so far the will of the people has been silenced by the money of monsanto according to open secrets dot org the company's spent nearly six million dollars last year lobbying fed

into the genetics of non-human seeds. despite global bank of the us senate discovered a bill which would have given american states the authority to decide whether to label genetically modified products the majority of legislators believe that people don't need to know whether they are eating g.m. foods parties making lopez explains why. for years now americans have been concerned about the food in their refrigerators and more importantly the ingredients in those foods the debate over genetically modified crops isn't only playing out in the fields it's being harvested in the courtrooms as well as within the walls of capitol hill and it turns out the u.s. government might have a bigger stake in the biotech industry than anyone could have imagined a report released by the food and water watch group shows that the u.s. state department played a major role in promoting g.m. foods and crops around the world the report examined diplomatic cables from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine revised the first comprehensive

activists from across the globe are being taken to the streets in a worldwide run against genetically modified food john the protesters claim the g.m. crops it produces could be harmful to humans hundreds of cities across more than sixty countries are said to take part in the march. is embodied in the ministry it is all around the world not just here in germany coming out to say no to genetically modified foods people saying that they don't know the dangers that it could pose that they. they on right for human consumption can find out why people are demonstrating against g.m. foods i'm joined by a few guests right now first of all heidi alston who's the founder of the true food foundation heidi thanks very much. sun so you said that they were pulling out of europe apparently that's not the case though is it well peter it does appear that they're pulling out but they're just regrouping in north america and i think they're going to sneak through the back door using the new european north america trade agreement there is going to be a low level presence that's introduced in the past mayb

of genetically modified foods. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average ball garion and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to bulgaria protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the p

from berlin and historic heart to implant and a medical 1st, us surgeon successfully transplanted, genetically modified to take heart into a human patient racing hope that animal organs could ease of chronic donor shortage . also coming up cause it sounds president says russian lead troops will withdraw completely from the former soviet republic within 10 days after violent unrest that he blames on islam militants condemned. ford's failure to uphold human rights. the u. s. detention camp in guantanamo was still open. 20 years after taking on its 1st prisoners, we asked if it will ever be shut down. and tennis star novak brokovich back on court after his legal victory to play in the australian open fans are delighted, but the threat of deportation is not off the table yet. ah, i'm semi someone's gonna glad you could join us in a medical 1st. us surgeons have successfully implanted a genetically modified pink heart into a human patient. the transplant took place last week. the 57 year old man was too ill to be eligible for a human heart transplant, but he is said to be recovering well so far med

then there is the genetic alteration itself. there is the possibility of it being passed on to other species of mosquito putting them at risk when you decide what risk were willing to take it or do something like say, the environment or in the case of malaria, dr. save human lines, wiping out species that cause death and destruction may sound positive, but once they are gone, what next? where do we draw the line? using a technology that's, you know, instruments lies the extinction as a total. that's a new special but human beings that's not crossed before. so mosquitoes could be at the center of another major shifting human history. we need to play that careful line of like really thinking through the 1st use of these things and what that will look like, how the account and take reasonable risks. but it, scientists still don't know so much about the potential consequences of unleashing animals with a genetically modified gene drive. it is hard to evaluate those risks. okay, good to know. so to change the topic, did you know that

testing has been used for women who can't have children i guess they do the genetic modification. and then in that case she's able to have a baby the other hand is what does open it up to and hand spins for you have this concept of designer babies not only does that create a dangerous precedent for motherhood as an example or for parenthood as an example but it's now glorify glorifying and placing his glorification so to speak on and on the baby's appearance at birth what more is that going to create say a parent paid for something in the eye color wasn't quite what the parents wanted and now the child going to be forever shamed or living in shame that on the converse that the parent gets everything they paid for and the qualities of a child how is that child going to raise knowing that to treat others with respect and dignity based on their character and their personality because they're going to have been raised knowing you know we paid for you and we got you exactly the way we wanted you i don't want this issue of designer babies to come to fruition because i feel that would. i

fire, or determine promotions based upon genetic make-up went into effect. the law, supporters say, will give people more peace of mind about using genetic tests for medical treatment without worrying that the results be used against them. it's the most sweeping federal antidiscrimination law in nearly two decades. >>> scientists say they've made a huge breakthrough that could help end food short averages around the world. they've completed sequencing the corn gee nome, meaning they've mapped its genetic structure. it will provide higher yields. cover is the top crop grown in the united states. it's used in everything from breakfast cereal to tooth past to shoe polish, even ethanol. >>> our sister network cnn hosted the annual heroes event. the star-studded event featured the top ten cnn heroes. anderson cooper named the 2009 hero of the year. >> it's my great pleasure to announce the 2009 cnn here of the year. the cnn here of the year is efren pen aflorida. >> he started a push car he uses his classroom as a way to keep kids from joining gangs. >> each pers

the genetically modified products are free 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 the most trying i don't believe. that free. enterprise is profit. for this golden rice barkeep. you're launching the weekly on r.t. welcome back actually it's a hell dozens of ra is as part of a global day i actually gave genetically modified foods with biotech giant santa bearing the brunt of their anger organizers say four hundred cities across the world stretching from australia to the united states who are involved they say crops grown from seeds made by the company it can be dangerous to human health and peta all of the reports now from berlin where hundreds of people turned out to put pressure on the genetically modified food industry. well what we've seen is that demonstrates is all around the world not just here in germany coming out to say no to genetically modified foods people saying that they don't have the dangers that it could pose that they write for human consu

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a look at some of the possible dangers of genetically modified crops our special report on so-called frankenfood coming up. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will allow the u.s. to put a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels this seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel faction al nasra which according to the guardian is an islamist organization with links to al qaeda is quickly becoming the most powerful rebel faction of all of them the b.b.c. even declared that al nasra has been designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. government itself. it started sounding like a bad idea to ship weapons into syria on american taxpayers' dollars yet let's just pretend that somehow all these weapons will magically not fall into the hands of al nasra while the free syrian army is that much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian alawite minorities with great glee to get what they want arming radical groups always has blowbac

new countries could soon decide independently whether to ban the cultivation of genetically old crops despite the u.s. push in brussels to expand their global trade. where the welcome it's nice to have your company you're watching r.t. international. in iraq radical islamist militants linked to al qaida are reportedly planning to take baghdad after successfully advancing in the northeast so-called islamic state in iraq and syria group has already captured the entire province of nineveh which you can see here including its regional capital the extremists then move captured the cities of baiji and to crete and their advance was halted just one hundred kilometers from baghdad it's thought the government's now asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against the insurgents during a port in our explains how that might mean washington engaging against its own military hardware. while leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later. the people america left behind are running away fleeing for their lives put on hold a million people have already escaped fro

genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. on thursday president obama ordered a review of the justice department's investigations of the associated press and fox news the government says it sees journalist records over concerns about the leaking of classified security data this comes amid what seen as washington stepped up persecution of whistleblowers artie's marine important i reports from new york. he's the australian wiki leaks founder holed up in the ecuadorian embassy on u.k. soil and across the atlantic members of the american press corps are learning what it feels like to receive the julian a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed in obtaining the telephone records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice think about the harm done to the a.p. here you know object of interest to intimidate people who talk to reporters the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also went after fox news reporter our very own james rose

genetic editing that would that would improve people's health prospects. absolutely i think further research is is top of the list not just in terms of skipping to the clinic or skipping to health benefits the major benefit that we will see from doing germline genome editing and the research in the us is to understand more about the earliest forms of human development which at the moment we know surprisingly little about. we mentioned there the did the world health organization is going to get together with lots of people whose business it is to to know this kind of stuff and come up with some guidelines some boundaries perhaps on how this this research should be should be done going forward. is it going to make any difference you think particularly when there's no real sort of in force mechanisms well that's a difficult question you're the w.h.o. has a certain amount of clout they don't necessarily have direct legal enforcement across various nations but if they produce guidelines it is very possible that their recommendations will carry on a good amount

in the area of genetics, cancer and rare diseases.loring, personalising the treatment a particular person with a particular cancer will need to deal with their condition and this is the kind of technology that can facilitate that. yes and some people are already benefiting from this so we know that backin benefiting from this so we know that back in 2014 there were over 30,000 of these kinds of genetic tests done for people with different cancers. and that led to some of those people changing their treatment path, it became more personalised and it could mean that they avoided one medicine versus another or it could mean their treatment had fewer side effects for them. of course cost is a big issue and prodded the reason i suspect that the chief medical officer has come up with this now is she can see those costs finally beginning to come down to the point where they can be, this treatment can readily be given to people. we know there are questions, there are pressures on the nhs but this definitely is the direction of travel for canc

still ahead this hour on r t a global day of action against genetically modified crops as biotech giant monsanto faces a major backlash from consumers saying they're scared for their health that's coming your way in about ten minutes. but first edward snowden has returned to the media spotlight this week breaking silence for the first time since july we can leaks released a video where he is seen getting an award for integrity in intelligence work by a group of fellow u.s. whistleblowers in moscow are going off reports. for over two months this footage of edward snowden leaving moscow's sheremetyevo airport was the only evidence he's alive well and in russia since after getting in that cab the only thing we're told about him is that he's somewhere in a safe place well this week america's most wanted man returned so the public snowden appeared on camera and meeting other former u.s. security service officials turned whistleblowers they flew into moscow toward him with the scent adams prize for intelligence and integrity the whistleblower awards . this time snowden leaks his personal view

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and there are genetically engineered products, or not selling them at all. rt, new york. >> they claim that operations like monsanto pressure governments worldwide to get their products on the market. >> these are raising awareness about the issue and bringing awareness not only about monsanto but other chemical companies that have become major agribusiness on capitol hill. we see an overwhelming influence in governments, and that has to do with money. the top 53% of seeds are owned by just a handful of the major agribusiness chemical companies, and they have tremendous influence in politics and millions upon millions of dollars to spend to assure that their products get sped through reviews, and, for instance, not labeling genetially modified foods. >> there is more online, and there is also analysis waiting for you. and still ahead this hour, the panic attack. claim is moved that the deadliest civil war in syria has left people without food and supplies. plus, a new book is published. it lists the worst places in the u.k. and the number one place you do no

the love of science has condemned the chinese doctor who claims to have made the once first genetically edited baby's he says he ordered the d.n.a. of twin girls born earlier this month to try and make them resistant to infection with each i.v. but his claims from to defeat asked backlash from the scientific community including in his native china many cause doubt on the breakthrough and questioned it's more. his study is not yet been published but academics around the world say hey john quain has crossed the line the geneticist is said to have changed the d.n.a. of two babies born earlier this month through regular in vitro fertilization. claims the father of the two babies is a child be positive and that he edited the genes while there were just embryos to make them resistant to the edge of the fires. i feel a strong response be to. god it's not just to make a first but also make good. example there we have some well history in this if it's not of someone else questions i know being asked about the credibility of his urine quiz claims along with his motivations did he simply want to f

hundreds of cities across the world with thousands rally against what they see is the dangers of genetically modified foods and its biggest producer. as budget figuring in the u.s. brings the country closer to default the federal government shutdown stopping millions from getting vital services including this cancer patient. the matter of life or death it's not a matter of convenience or just in your case we need this treatment. five am in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story footage of edward snowden being honored for his contribution to integrity and intelligence work has emerged courtesy of wiki leaks and his first public appearance since august when he was granted asylum in russia the former n.s.a. contractor was presented with the sam adams award by a group from the u.s. at the event snowden spoke out about washington's alleged persecution of fellow whistleblowers or he says he reports. the n.s.a. whistleblower was very passionate in talking about the problem of government surveillance in the united states now he said the issue wasn't with any sp

female monkey for example and and you remove the nucleus which is which is where most of the the genetic material the d.n.a. is contained and then you take a cell from another monkey for example in this in this case they took souls from him a monkey fetus and you insert it into that cell now you can do that as many times as you want if you fuse them correctly the cell will begin to multiply it'll eventually turn into an embryo and eventually then of course a live monkey gosh so can a human speak ill and using this technique just theoretically they possibly could there's obviously a lot of questions these monkeys are only six and eight weeks old respectively for example how are they going to live there have been questions about that in the past with other cloned species but the most difficult aspect of this has been that. the problem is that the cells in the body have been differentiated in embryos completely under friendship. all of the cells in your body so if you want to take a so from a body and turn it into this embryonic cell you have to remove all of these safeguards that have been

fed these are the corn that is genetically modified for their lifetime all animal studies until then have been for ninety days only and usually not much shows in those ninety days even though there are subtle signs of organ damage even in ninety days spike in two years. the lifetime a life time of a rat is shortened they have massive organ damage. to immerse in the female rats and humans see effects will only not show for another twenty years speakers have a much longer life span than iraq so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as a result of the most we've got to wait thank you very much a huge issue and what we're seeing here in berlin as well as around the world is people coming out and saying no to genetically modified foods but one activists are protesting against the use of potentially harmful chemicals in food production monsanto has been saying its products are the only way to feed the world's growing population. takes a closer. in the land of supersize approximately eighty five percent of all processed foods contain genetically modified organisms g.m.o. is an acronym that

countries could soon decide independently whether to ban the cultivation of genetically altered props despite the u.s. pushing brussels to expand their global trade. has to be watching our teacher national with me or even josh welcome to the program in iraq radical islamist militants linked to al qaida are reportedly planning to take baghdad after successfully advancing in the north the so-called islamic state in iraq and syria group has already captured the entire province of the novel which you can see right here on the map including its regional capital extremist them moved south and took the city to crete although recent local media reports say the army has since managed to push the hardest out and it's thought the government asked the u.s. to carry out drone strikes against insurgents were in a fortnight explains how that might mean washington engaging against its own military hardware. when leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq two and a half years later the people of america. left behind are running away fleeing for their lives on hoth a million people have al