they really have to be basically indistinguishable except for the transgenic trait the concept of g m o's being substantially equivalent to comes from the first bush administration when under heavy industry lobbying it was decided that g m o's would be generally regarded as safe and not need testing as would befit a novel food or drug product this designation was given without a single long term food safety study backing it dmoz are on our plates because of a single sentence of the f.d.a. policy would says that the agency is not aware of any information showing that humans are significantly different and because of this sentence they say no safety testing is necessary they say that monsanto can put a g.m. crop on your plate without even telling the f.d.a. . because they say they want syria to tell if the foods are say. you know you might say i'm talking about blood santo the same covertly that swore p.c.b. were safe and got fired seven hundred million dollars for quietly poisoning the town in anniston alabama next the p.c.b. factory the monsanto the told us all know d.d.t. is safe it's go

g. m o's approved for food and feed were unsafe he published the results in the peer reviewed international journal of biological sciences three knows if g m o's are safe for people to eat or do we not know that yet well at least we know that they are unsafe only tested and they present signs of consistent you we don't the marriage or variance our test are. actually around that she is feeling with her on the it is not it is not excluding rhonda they have a side contains a lot more of michael's ache which makes it a lot more toxic geisel said itself the active principle of front up is not herbicide by itself it needs to chance it needs adjutants it needs all of the products inside the bottle in order to be really active. also coasters most of genetic engineering is for herbicide resistant it's spring. and that kills all the weeds except killed all the plants except for the crops that were genetically engineered while the life was saved itself can get into the water and this herbicide but not only the sea but the other chemicals they use there surf and other chemicals in the mix of the herbic

they really have to be basically indistinguishable except for the transgenic trait the concept of g m o's being substantially equivalent to comes from the first bush administration when under heavy industry lobbying it was decided that g m o's would be generally regarded as safe and not need testing as would befit a novel food or drug product this designation was given without a single long term food safety study backing it dmoz are on our plates because of a single sentence of the f.d.a. policy would says that the agency is not aware of any information showing that humans are significantly different and because of this sentence they say no safety testing is necessary they say that monsanto could put a g.m. crop on your plate without even telling the f.d.a. . because they say months here to tell if the foods are say. you know your blood santo talking about blood santo the same covert.

well i was joined earlier by the executive producer of g m o m g elisabeth consented and she filled me on on genetically modified foods and their safety. just exact produced e m o m d a which is a documentary that premiered at the been an international film festival eddie a base here and hopefully will be set to take america by storm later they see it. when you wrote that article for mother's day calling for mothers of pure food how i was a rebirth movement explain to me what that is and what you meant by it ok so back at the turn of the last century actually sort of the late eighteenth hundreds of women got together they understood that food was really being polluted by some of the processes that people's health was being compromised and that something needed to be done this was a time when there wasn't any labeling there wasn't any ingredients labeling on products and basically companies could put whatever they wanted to do include into their products so after about a hundred years. well now is one hundred years but then it took about seventy years for this for a piece of legislation

of the equation and your husband congressman and that is going to introduce legislation to label g m o's of course it was knocked down i mean this was a long time ago and everything. voter effort to label g m o's has been knocked down consistently and overshadowed by this giant propaganda effort on the far part of the biotech what do you advocate for consumers who are just looking at this and saying how do we fight this giant machine well first of all really get to get to know your food and the way that we get to know food is really through labels and that's what we're fighting for at the moment we really know that the only standard that's out there that really guarantee safety is the organic stand it is a very very high standard but i would say that maybe consumers are actually starting to win this argument though there was a ballot initiative in california that didn't win this is cause an enormous national conversation to start and this is sort of part of the food movement that really i'm hoping that people will join and we see now that washington state has its own ballot initiative wh

being against you most and monsanto they do have the more narrow goals of pushing through liebling g m o's in the united states they're also asking for things like further scientific research on the health consequences of genetically engineered engine ethically modified food so we're not just talking about monsanto particularly they're talking about these particular steps that the u.s. for example is yet to implement but also the more broader scale of bringing these issues to the attention of masses throughout the world and promoting not just with this march as planned throughout the weekend but also promoting a better food culture throughout throughout the world ok so i want to talk to you briefly about the power that months has in terms of congress and how they affect it so considering the lobbying power that corporations like months and to have here in washington do you think that this global market is going to achieve any tangible results. margaret that's you know a very good question because certainly monsanto does have immense immense lobbying powers immense powers in general when it

criticized for turning a blind eye on potential health consequences from g m o's to consumers around the world how many people you point to that and using immense lobbying powers to resist food labeling legislation in the u.s. and pushing through bills protecting its own interests you have seen the police protect the crime bosses you see that's why you see all these laws out there protecting the big companies like research so the wall street care i mean us i mean it's all of the services all about profits i mean nothing is going to change the monsanto protection act freeing the corporation from government oversight even when consumers take legal action continues to be under heavy skin much sanjo in the government or one how could how could we all get together and change it i don't know what happens tonight when we go home. got to pass some laws write the senators people tell me that still works i need to see it to believe it standing up against a century old biotech giant these protesters demands are simple most importantly labeling modified food in the u.s. countries around the worl

couldn't pull it off the shelf fast enough so you know while the jury is out as to whether or not g m o's are actually going to be bad for us i can't imagine they're going to be good. have a mentor here love rich food poor food why that title well does that mean expensive food richard means as rich in vitamins and minerals as essential things that we need in our food every single day to keep us healthy and poor food is poor food has poor food ingredients there's things like g.m.o. those in the band bad boys and sinister sugar substitutes all of those things that we want to leave out and we got you in everything i like i said to find those foods and tell you exactly which ones are safe to purchase and in fact i understand there's now an app out although they may ask you to join their group and all those things. bike ride app that tells you about those. exactly but that appendix in the back of our book is a great companion for that because again we tell you the companies that are not putting the g m o's in the food so regular consumers can use it right now today before labeling laws go into

starving will there is a healthy middle ground out there somewhere but if we only worry about just the g m o's have only won that battle then we'll still be eating food loaded with bad stuff just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion. visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was nightmare. children with two heads toomas of commissions missing limbs. i'm a cabin on bearable little they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. who has a. get away and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i deeply affected i leave the city with its new born monsters. we had for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms supplied by the us the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concre

natural food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mr chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are intro starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in a high school graduates had besides reading writing arithmetic that homeschooling might be for you as art sports and music and science programs all across the nation bad due to lack of funding is ron paul's libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids hey i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d. minus quality of public education nowadays but that's just my opinion. i dream of becoming a famous ballerina. still with the crowd initiative thing to say. it's just right now i really want to dance t

the initial goal really is to bring as much attention as possible to the fact that g m o liebling does not take place in the united states in particular and people want to act as much attention to the g e produced and agriculture that the that monsanto is really has really monopolized throughout the world but what they're hoping to achieve is labeling off to mars as well as further scientific research into possible health consequences office genetically engineered food being sold and consumed throughout the work out so also the goal is not to just win these events to kickstart a major global conversation about what it is that corporations are doing in influencing people's everyday decisions but i was does it thank you very much indeed well no doubt we'll return to a little later as the demonstration gets underway there in new york but for the moment thanks very much indeed and the stars of chicken are reporting that well despite global anger the u.s. senate has scuppered a bill which would have given american states the authority to decide whether to label genetically modified products

food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mystery chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are in droves starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in a high school graduates had besides reading writing and arithmetic that homeschooling might be for you as art sports and music and science programs all across the nation to the lack of funding is ron paul's libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d. minus quality of public education holidays but that's just my opinion. i am from. the war in syria i like to. just i can go to see my fans and. my name is. i came here because i want for my children to

starving will there is a healthy middle ground out there somewhere but if we only worry about just the g m o's and only won that battle then we'll still be eating food loaded with bad stuff just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean the town i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's. the worst you're going to see in the white house or the. radio guy minestrone. what clothes for a politician to do never seen anything like this i'm told. what is going on guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set remember the mysterious story about the f.b.i. killing a young chechen man in florida over fresher memory in the wake of the boston bombings the f.b.i. began to investigate him but i deem twenty seven year old man who had been in the same social circles as the main suspect tamerlan sign a corner to initial reports the f.b.i. want to question to dodge of about his association with the bomb plot that's wh

any scientists who tells you they know that g m o's are safe and not to worry about it is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying nobody knows what the long term effects will be geneticists dr david suzuki.

any scientists who tells you they know that g m o's are safe and not to worry about it is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying nobody knows what the long term effects will be geneticists dr david suzuki genetically engineered foods go through a rigorous review before they're approved the review includes analysis of the transgenic plant versus its parent and there's a standard that you have to meet called substantial equivalence they have to be equivalent in terms of.

protesting this weekend in global marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling of g m o's and also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered genetically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to understand what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators and so i see churkin as r.t. new york. and the u.s. senate this week oh well when the labor chanted a bill that would allow states to require the labeling of genetically modified products and that william and dol wrote a book researching the political side of the jamb debate. has used its immense government influence to push its products on to the market and suppress their criticism. this is a. strategic interest of the us the agribusiness lobby which lobby the bush sr as president i think ninety two monsanto went to the white house a

protesting this weekend in the local marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling of g m o'sand also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered genetically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to. what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators. on the eve of the day of action against monsanto the u.s. senate scrapped a bill allowing states to decide whether to put labels on genetically modified products or he's making lopez explains why these lawmakers think people don't need to know whether or not they're eating g.m. foods. 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

protection act very controversial extremely criticized but also block any acts that would allow labeling g m o's in the united states so certainly all of these issues but just more generally also people want to bring more attention to what it is that they're putting into themselves what they're eating and how they can prevent huge corporations such as monsanto from creating health consequences for people throughout the world we're definitely expecting to see plenty of occupy wall street activists at the monsanto anti monsanto protest throughout the weekend because many of the issues that are going to be addressed are certainly similar we're still talking about the ninety nine percent versus the one percent we're talking about corporations having great influence on politicians as well as wealth inequality that continues to remain in countries throughout the world in the united states but also when it comes to the situation with monsanto all of these issues continue to apply whereas the march against monsanto is against specific corporation that continues to refuse to listen to the voice of the pe

starving will there is a healthy middle ground out there somewhere but if we only worry about just the g m o's and only won that battle then we'll still be eating food loaded with bad stuff just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean family and the town i know that i'm still feeling really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize it's. worse for the loop through the white house or the. radio guy and four minutes from the. closure of a good did you never seen anything like this unfold. how do you folks i'm at a martin and this is breaking this sets wal-mart stores have pleaded guilty this week on federal charges of violating the clean water act in california and waste management missouri company raked in one hundred twenty eight billion dollars in revenue last year were they not a grand sum of one hundred ten million dollars as punishment yeah that should teach them a lesson you guys we're talking about the largest retailer in the world i thi