then we have monsanto. if you feed so into rats. they have a ninety percent. on birth defects and or stillborn in the ones that are all. or. are infertile and going the same way with the men for twenty seven a g.m. crops. i recall that pretty much by law school were all right so the biological warfare you've got to correct it that was dumped into the gulf by b.p. it got the modified genes that are introduced into the food chain by monsanto by a set of course a big player in all this biological warfare famously monsanto involving the agent orange during the vietnam war they're also involved in the bovine hormone drugs they're involved in of course genetically modified seeds terminators stay south of them or about monsanto and i guess also us and gentle those the two big players in the space right now might center was able to get away with things that they're doing right now basically because they have people who work for months and all that are in the government. is high up as clarence thomas who you know months in a lawyer the marrow oh gross and chief justice

monsanto fell. tech stokes struggled, dragged down by news from research in motion that its playbook tablet won't be on the marketntil early next year. >>> the in, times is reporting that the obama administration is pushing for a deal to unload its stake of aig before noveer's midterm elections. keep an eye on hewlett packard. hp got a boost on after hours trade after a forecast delivered by its interim ceo. >>> finally, you know times are tough when you have to barter for beer. one bar owner has revived the long lost barte system to help locals beat the economic blue peps now he's trading cold ones for fire word and potatoeses. >>> the yanks and braves drink champagne. what has gotten into the kool-aid? your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather, heavy tropical rains moving up the east coast and the heat continues out west. your wednesday forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports

monsanto was the biggest drag on the s&p 500, with worries growing that sales of one of its newest seeds aren't. shares fell more the 8% on seven times its usual volume. this is a two-and-a-half month low for the stock. its newer genetically modified corn seed isn't yielding as much corn as older versions, according to an analyst at jefferies. the company says it's still very early in the harvest season. big merger announcements took the day off, but watch the possible deal in rental cars. dollar thrifty shareholders are scheduled to vote thursday on an offer from hertz to buy the company. dollar actually has two offers on the table. the hertz deal values dollar thrifty at $50.88 based on tonight's closing prices. avis-budget is offering the equivalent of $53.20 per share. each of them is a mix of cash and stock. dollar thrifty stock is trading below both offers as the market is uncertain about a deal getting down. a big dollar thrifty shareholder with more than 7% of the stock says he will vote against the lower priced hertz offer this week. earlier in the program we mentioned the new h

monsanto fell 6% after forecasting layoffs and full year earnings below expectations. >>> saks surged almost 20% after reports a group of equity firms might bid for the luxury department store operator. >>> allergy kpoe ex -- company exelon will pay $900 million for the wind energy assets deere & company. >>> and australian winemakers hoping that a rose by any other name is still a rose. after an agreement volkered with the european union, australia can no longer use the words champagne, port, or sherry for champagne, port, or sherry. >>> a game-winning play at the plate. a game-ending wild pitch and a rookie first game thriller. and blue jays knock the rays, knocking them out of a first-place tie. your early morning sports headlines straight ahead. >>> one more calm day on the east coast before earl begins its impact. it will be hot, too. temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. regional forecast coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, baseball's eccentric outfielder manny ramirez has joined the chicago whit

a warning from monsanto today-- earnings will be at the low end of its forecast. it's share price reflected the disappointment, dropping almost 6% to its lowest price since mid-july. this is a 30-day chart. on this one-year chart, the stock has been in a down trend for some time. the low in june came after it reported a drop in sales and profits due to discounts for its herbicides to competition. the latest trading in gold and oil highlight the market's fear over the direction of the economy. gold jumped $11 today, closing above $1,250 an ounce, its highest price since july 1. as the economic data has weakened lately, investors have taken protection in gold. oil, meantime, continues dropping. petroleum supplies are at their highest levels in almost 27 years, and with a slowing economy possibly hurting demand, prices have fallen. there's just one more month left in the third quarter, and so far this quarter, telecom has been the winning sector. so far this quarter, the telecom services sector is up more than 10%, far out performing the s&p 500 index, which is up le

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fact with when they improved genetically modified crops they specifically said that companies like monsanto which told us that their p c b's agent orange and d.d.t. were safe were responsible for determining if g m o's were safe now on the committee that the f.d.a. has assembled to approve this genetically engineered fish they have a former employee of months center they have a senior scientist of a company that would benefit from a fast approval process of genetically modified animals they have no one that can actually evaluate the allergic potential or the ecological potential of the endocrinology tepper ten show what they've done is they've given only a fifteen day approval or review period for consumers and fast tracked the approval process and we don't know why i've had this data for eleven years and all of a sudden it's like urgent to get it on the market but in reality they're not doing the proper safety evaluations that should be done to protect the public yet seems very fishy pun intended now tomorrow they're actually holding a hearing where the public gets to come in and you know

monsanto plunging 8% on disappoints results.ay on reports that the credit rating might be cut again grew to the growing cost. that's it for cnbc, first in big worldwide. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back. the latest kentucky poll shows a tight senate race from rand paul and jack conway. we're jon by the man himself, jack conway thank you for joining us. you've been hitting this guy in a couple ways that i think are serious business. should he send it back? >> well, good even to you, chris. we called on him a few days ago to return contributions he received from white separatists. it's just too painful, if you're in public life, you all to look at those who are contributing to you. rand paul has had to dismiss in staffers because of the some comments they've made online. everyone seems to remember the 20 painful minutes he made where he rejected fundamental provisions of the civil rights act. i think it's on rand paul to make sure he would return contributions for people who have associations with white separatists organiz

in the case of monsanto, if your normal farm gets contaminated for whatever reason, it is your responsibility. host: we have got to run. almost out of time. guest: the fda right now has said that they will not require labeling, but they have asked for public comments. on our website we do have, it is a special web site, ge-fish.org, you can find more of the studies that our office has done. host: alan, republican line? not much time. let's move on to carl. we have very little time. caller: i hope that c-span does more shows on this, why do we not have labeling? is organic the only way to avoid eating genetically altered food unless you grow your own? guest: currently the only food standard that excludes genetically modified substances is the organic label. unfortunately, that is the only way that we have got right now. but, again, go to our website, let the fda no that in the 10 days from the hearing, which is phenomenal, we would love the sea 1 million of you saying that we want this label. host: what about organic, you know what you are getting when you see that label? guest: you are suppos

monsanto and roundup are in cahoots, genetically modifying stuff to sell their pesticide products that are harming the earth's. if we did sensible planning, but let's talk about safety for a second. we are not sure what this is going to do for the safety of humans when we start to consume these things. we have had 5000 years of experience with canvas and it has killed no one. there is a war on that drug. they are afraid. they cannot profit from it. host: without getting into a debate about drug policy, what about that? guest: whether you are talking about plants or animals, you do need independent testing. from the seed companies to use to be and still are pesticide companies, they are still using them for serious study by other people. the fda, in looking at this, we actually think that the fda should be doing its own tests. crunching some of the numbers again that the company provided , we do not really in any of these products have a way of looking at the plant or the fish as they are being raised commercially and how they will be used by people. host: the next call from -- comes fr