for those of you don't know monsanto is a company in this our college of
business and they're known for pat mean uh... different types of seeds out
they've done so without cotton seeds they've done so with corn seeds uh... so
it's something that they have identifies take over the food industry right
and they've been in the middle of a lot of different controversy but
there also known for a genetically modified flutes writing that we modified
seeds and uh...
a lot of our court is genetically modified pinky pinks hw monsanto
now as scientists in france just recently did a study to see what the
effects of genetically modified corn are on rats
uh... now this is really interesting because there has been um... a lack of
scientific evidence
that would indicate whether or not genetically modified foo
moods like genetically modified corn are safe
you know okay for human consumption
so what they found was that these rats develops
uh... mammary tumors and they also had severe damage on some of their organs
including the liver and kidney citizens those are pictures indicating how what
happens in the rats that were fed genetically modified porn
you do not appear to be okay
it's not the picture of what i would call sick
of chorus monsanto is patented you know completely debating of the findings of
the study and they're very very aggressive in ab fighting anyone that
says anything negative about them right
but there was an excellent documentary done i was called the world according to
monsanto
and uh... you know they talked about the lack of oversight with the f_d_a_ when
it came to you at you medically modified a seed so
let's take a look at a part of that documentary that explains it in greater
detail
the reason why
g_m_ crops are here
is based on the deception that occurred in the f_d_a_
they said that these foods are not
different
they use the word substantially equivalent use the word not meaning
freer uniformly different
and with that turned into was dictate terminology call generally recognized as
safe
or grass
typically if something is to be considered generally recognized as safe
it needs lots of peer reviewed published studies and overwhelming consensus among
the scientific community
with g_m_ crops they had need
so you know of course monsanto will come back in singel we have a bunch of
studies okay these are our studies indicate that these foods are completely
safe
however if you do a little research into these studies you'll find that they were
in the middle controversy because a lot of those studies were falsified
okay
and i'm sure that it was a scientist of a son who was paid for but do those
studies go they wouldn
and should lose people don't know but it is also a not during the reagan
administration of monsanto which trying to you know put out these genetically
modified foods for human consumption
and it's really interesting because george was seen here
went to one of their factories and look at this exchange i think it's very
luster to the what happens in politics
when george bush senior tour the company's headquarters
he was ronald reagan's vice president
and deregulation was this republican administrations watchword
the intention was to boost industry by eliminating what white house hardliners
called
bureaucratic hurdles like health and environmental safety testing
which were monsanto ski problems
we have or usb right dog bust
first this first
slippery
privately
referral system with these new things then
overweight was generalization replacing david hanna and ruby red com you were in
the directives
may cigars on the streets
saying hey listen man
door about festive in rats et cetera so you just call us the republican party
will make that they have it for you
what they also do is you know they have these genetically modified seeds and
what they're doing is first of all that you got a patent for the seeds okay
because they do a lot of scientific research and put a lot of money into
doing it so i can understand the patents
but at the same time they are taking conventional seeds off the market
they're striking deals
uh... with different farmers throughout the world this is a multinational
corporation
and uh... what they're doing is they're promising that these genetically
modified seeds will have a higher yields so they go into countries like india and
they say hey look
we have this genetically modified cottonseed it's known as bt cotton
and what it'll do
chiles it'll i've not only out produce a higher yield but it is basically
resistant to any type of you know
uh... weeds pads any type of thing that would ruin your crops so these farmers
in india
started saying the contracts and they started buying the seeds
now understand why they would do that they're going to increase their output
there told then they said well that's great and i'm not gonna lose more my
probs
all these problems that have in the past
so it's very enticing
but then
the second part
what happens is base slowly but surely start taking conventional cotton seeds
off the market
so these farmers in india become dependent on buying the genetically
modified cottonseed well what happens then
uh... months also what mark up the prices to four times the price
okay that's the part they didn't tell you in the beginning
so then and his partners in india have no choice but to take out these loans
that later on they cannot pay back so what is the result of that
well it's not watch the video
dresses
cities are down to fifty percent
suffers here defended his life
from storm bulldog on file
reports of
seventieth
fit for this
within six months
see for the first
service off
physically abusive
artistic talent
identity g_m_ marked by the time of the
that for the
making that farmers completely dependent on the
because
not only that the u_n_
more for the c programming but do you have a for delays
and the date of the visited delivered as rules but it is worth no facilities or
so forth
when the from cocaine in advertising
de-emphasize officials have found a twenty-fifth politics that is so that is
repeats
cell anti mention when you're there at six hundred farmers who committed
suicide because they simply couldn't pay back their loans they filed for
bankruptcy they lost everything and
they just hadn't nothing else to turn to
and at by the way i just wanna be crystal clear that uh... suicides among
farmers in india is is you know it happens for other reasons as well
because of extreme poverty but in that documentary there were specifically
focusing on of farmers who had to file for bankruptcy because they couldn't pay
back those loans
now people are so concerned that in norway they've started here
new holding center that's here partly bird on the ground partly above ground
and i couldn't stand almost anything
keep or original sees ones that have not been genetically modified
possessed so were the genetically modified seizing the takeover
and then perhaps even cross pollinate and destroy some of the original sees
and then god knows will be
have after that
there may be should they could protect
at least original seized in norway so
it's the worst thing you realize and one on forcing when u dive into a lot of
these multinational corporate stories
it gets worse it doesn't get better
and i know you know we gave you about you know quickly rundown of what's
happening with months on till in this is by no means new news
but that study with the tumors is important
right because this is the kind of stuff that
are f_d_a_ should have been doing not researchers in france and happy
researchers in france and doing it
but it's it's rediculous the lack of oversight we have in our own country
especially when it comes to the food that we consume now thing about all the
stories we've told you on the outskirts where
politicians get
influenced by the money that they take
anything so that it was
isn't going to affect the f_d_a_
or other government agencies
it's affected almost every government agency
so you think that
perhaps of these yet uh... authorize when they should be
also of course they do
so this is one of those cases well what the silver time but this new research
from friends
has not occurred
and us spokesperson for months on towed it have to be have replied to this study
and he says numerous peer reviewed scientific studies performed on biotech
clark's uh... to date including more than a hundred feeding studies have
continuously confirm their safety as reflected in the our respective safety
assessments by regulatory authorities around the world
shocking that they would say that now
if that they will do we know it