abby martin r.t. washington and i'll be joined us earlier today to discuss more about monsanto and g.m.o. foods take a look. well unlike other countries we have deemed g.m.o. foods to be substantially equivalent bush sr passed this through in one thousand nine hundred two with the f.d.a. and what it says is that g.m.o. foods are substantially equivalent to non g.m.o. foods so they're pretty much equal and that's completely different than any other country really. knows what the other well there are both a parent way according to the f.d.a. there is no proof and the like other unlike other countries the u.s. does not require their own independent tests of verify whether these foods are safe or not what they do is have these firms and agricultural giants conduct their own research and tests and when the f.d.a. passes the substantially equivalent there was internal documents released later from f.d.a. scientists that said hey this isn't true and we completely disagree with this but it's kind of been sucked under th

a scary thought for the powers that be abby martin r.t. washington so what exactly as a citizen journalists will our i spoke to luke rick koski and independent journalists who broke down this unique form of journalism take a lesson many different names for independent journalists citizen journalist i like to call them organic journalists that are not corporately modified to the corporations liking it's pretty much as people taking responsibility and power and seeing the failures of the mainstream media not concentrating not harping on them but actually being the mainstream media and driving that. we're going out to events press conferences and other conferences that are happening all around the country and asking the questions that need to be asked and you say that a citizen journalist can cover stories that are overlooked by the mainstream media can you give some examples of where where you are fellow citizen journalists have served this function well there's many issues that are not talked about in the mainstream press because there's a conflict of

abby martin r.t. washington. and abby joined us earlier today to talk more monsanto and g.m.o. foods i first asked her about monsanto is history of scandals here's her take. yeah there so much scandal it's hard to put it all in one package but going back to aspartame it's an artificial sweetener that's two hundred times we were the sugar first owned by cyril who the c.e.o. was donald rumsfeld at the time and then when he joined reagan's cabinet they passed through aspartame when the national association of soft drink association said we do not want this passed all the tests that cyril have presented to us are full of holes shoddy at best so that was passed through santa later acquired cyril and then you see the f.d.a. commissioner who was appointed during that time that passed aspartame later joined the public relations firm for monsanto and cyril so there's just a revolving door that goes back decades with these companies also d.d.t. it was a pesticide that was produced by monsanto that was banned in one thousand nine hundred eighty two and since that ban we've seen a ten fold

a scary thought for the powers that be abby martin r.t. washington and i talked more about the crackdown on citizen journalist luke read koski and append a journalist joins us now welcome luke thank you nice to have you in the studio first want to talk about since this is a fairly new. part of the media. what exactly is a citizen journalist and what function do they serve well there's many different names for it independent journalists citizen journalist i like to call them organic journalists that are not corporately modified to the corporations liking it's pretty much people taking responsibility and power and seeing the failures of the mainstream media not concentrating not harping on them but actually being the mainstream media and driving that video camera going out to events press conferences and other conferences that are happening all around the country and asking the questions that need to be asked and you say that citizen journalist can cover stories that are overlooked by the mainstream media can you give some examples of where where you a