independent media is the hope these i got a little bit with mine in fact i got a little obsessed with all my stuff have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out i couldn't stop wondering about that so i looked it up and what the textbook said i stuff moves through a system from extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal all together it's called the materials economy well i looked into a little bit more in fact i spent ten years traveling the world tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes you know what i found out that is not the whole story there is a lot missing from this explanation for one thing this is done looks like it's fine no problem but the truth is it's a system in crisis and the reason it's a system in crisis is it's a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely every step along the way this system is interacting with the real world in real life it's not happening on a blank white page it's interacting with societies cultures economies the environment and all along the way it's bumping up against limits limits we don't see here because the diagram is incomplete through let's fill in some of the blanks and see what's missing while one of the most important things that's missing is people yes people people live and work all along this system and some people in this system matter a little more than others some have a little more they well let's start with the government you know my friends tell me i should use a tank to symbolize the government and that's true in many countries and increasingly in our own after all more than fifty percent of our federal tax money is now going to the military but i'm using a person to symbolize the government because i hold true to the vision and values the government should be of the people by the people for the people it's the government's job to watch out for us to take care of us that's their job then along came the corporation now the reason the gratian looks bigger than the government is that the corporation is bigger than the government of the one hundred largest economies on earth now fifty one corporations and as the corporation has grown in size and power we're seeing a little change in the government whether a little more concerned in making sure everything's working out for those guys than for us ok so let's see what else is missing from this picture we'll start with extraction which is a fancy word for natural resource exploitation which is a fancy word for trashing the planet what this looks like is we chop down the trees who blow up mountains to get the metals inside we use of all the water and we wipe out the animals so here we are running up against our first limit we are running out of resources we are using too much stuff and i know this can be hard to hear but it's the truth so we've got to deal with it in the past three decades alone one third of the planet's natural resource base has been consumed gone we are cutting and mining and hauling and trashing the place so fast there were undermining the planet's very ability for people to live here where i live in the united states we have less than four percent of our regional forest left forty percent of the waterways have become un drink and our problem is not just that we're using too much stuff but we're using more than our share we have five percent of the world's population but we're using thirty percent of the world's resources in creating thirty percent of the world's waste if everybody consumed that us rates we would need three to five planets and you know what we've only got one so my country's response to this limitation is simply to go take somebody else's this is the third world which some would say is another word for our stuff that somehow got on somebody else's land so what does that look like the same thing trashing the place seventy five percent of global fisheries now are fished at are beyond capacity eighty percent of the plan original forests are gone in the amazon alone we're losing two thousand trees a minute that is seven football fields a minute and what about the people who live here well according to these guys they don't own these resources even if they've been living there for generations they don't only means of production and they're not buying a lot of stuff and in this system if you don't own or buy a lot of stuff you don't have value so next the materials move to production and what happens there is we use energy to mix toxic chemicals in with the natural resources to make toxic intamin dated products there are over one hundred thousand synthetic chemicals in use in commerce today only a handful of them have even been tested for health impact and not have been tested for synergistic health impacts that means when they interact with all the other chemicals were exposed to every day so we don't know the full impact on health in the environment of all these toxic chemicals but we do know one thing toxics in toxics out is long as we keep putting toxics into our industrial production systems we're going to keep getting toxics in the stuff that we bring into our homes and workplaces and schools and our bodies like the a farce brominated flame retardants there are chemicals that make things more fireproof but they are super toxic there are nerve toxin that means toxic to the brain what are we even doing using a chemical like this yet we put in our computers our pliant says couches mattresses even some pillows in fact we take our pillows we doused them in a neurotoxin we bring them home and put our heads on them for eight hours a night to sleep and i don't know but it seems to me in this country with so much potential we could think of a better way to stop our heads  these toxics build up the food chain and concentrate in our bodies you know what is the food at the top of the food chain with the highest level of many toxic contaminants human breast milk that means that we've reached a point where the smallest  societies our babies are getting the highest lifetime dose of toxic chemicals from breast feeding from their mothers is that not an incredible violation breastfeeding must be the most fundamental human act nurturing it should be sacred and safe no breastfeeding is still best and mother should definitely keep breastfeeding but we should protect it they should protect it i thought they were looking out for us and of course the people who bear the biggest brunt of these toxic chemicals are the factory workers many of whom are women of reproductive age they're working with reproductive toxicants carcinogens and more now i ask you what kind of woman of reproductive age would work in a job exposed to reproductive toxins except for a woman with no other option and that's one of the beauties of this system the erosion of local environments and economies here ensures a constant supply of people with no other option globally two hundred thousand people a day are moving from environments that have sustained them for generations into cities many to live in slums looking for work no matter how toxic that work may be so you see it's not just resources that are wasted along the system but people to whole communities get wasted yes toxics in toxics out a lot of the toxic leave the factories in products but even more leave is by products or pollution and it's a lot of pollution in the us our industry admits to releasing over four billion pounds of toxic chemicals a year and it's probably a lot more because that's only what they admit so that's another limit because yuck who wants to look at and smell four billion pounds of toxic chemicals  so what do they do move the dirty factories overseas pollute someone else's land but surprise a lot of that pollution is coming right back at us carried by wind currents so what happens after all these natural resources are turned into products well  moves here for distribution distribution when selling all the toxic contaminated junk as quickly as possible the goal here is to keep the prices down keep people buying and keep the inventory moving how do they keep the prices down well they don't pay the store workers very much and they skimp on health insurance every time they can it's all about externalizing the cost what that means is that the real costs of making stuff aren't captured in the price in other words we aren't paying for the stuff we buy i was thinking about this the other day i was walking to work and i wanted to listen to the news so i popped into a radio shack to buy a radio i found this cute little green radio for four dollars ninety nine cents i was standing there in line to buy this thing and i was thinking how could four dollars ninety nine cents possibly capture the cost of making this radio and getting it into my hands the metal was probably mined in south africa the petroleum was probably drilled in iraq the plastics were probably produced in china and maybe the whole thing was assembled by some fifteen year old in a macular in mexico four dollars ninety nine cents won't even pay the rent for the shelf space it occupied until i came along let alone part of the staff guy salary who helped me pick it out or the multiple ocean cruises and truck rides pieces of this radio went on that's how i realized i didn't pay for the radio so who did pay well these people paid with the loss of their natural resource space these people paid with the loss of their clean air with increasing asthma and cancer rates kids in the congo paid with their future thirty percent of the kids in part of the congo have dropped out of school to mine called him a metal we need for our cheap and disposable electronics these people even paid by having to cover their own health insurance all along this system people pitched in so i could get this radio for four dollars and ninety nine cents and none of these contributions are recorded in any accounts book that's what i mean by the company owners externalized the true costs of production and that brings us to the golden arrow of consumption this is the heart of the system the engine that drives it is so important that protecting this arrow has become the top priority for both of these guys that's why after nine eleven when our country was in shock and president bush could have suggested any number of appropriate things to grieve to pray to hope no he said to shop to shop we have become a nation of consumers our primary identity has become that of being consumers not mothers teachers farmers but consumers the primary way that our value is measured and demonstrated is by how much we contribute to this arrow how much we consume and do we we shop and shop and shop keep the materials flowing and flow they do guess what percentage of total materials flow through this system is still in product or use six months after the date of sale in north america fifty percent twenty no one percent one in other words ninety nine percent of the stuff we harvest mine process transport ninety nine percent of the stuff we run through this system is trashed within six months now how can we run a planet with that level of materials throughput it wasn't always like this the average us person now consumes twice as much as they did fifty years ago ask your grandma in her day stewardship and resourcefulness and thrift were valued this happen well it didn't just happen it was designed shortly after world war two these guys were figuring out how to ramp up the economy retailing analyst victor lobo articulated the solution that's become the norm for the whole system he said are enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals that we seek our spiritual satisfaction our ego satisfaction in consumption  consumed burned up replaced and discarded at an ever excel learning rate president eisenhower's council of economic advisers chairman said that the american economy is ultimate purpose is to produce more consumer goods more consumer goods our ultimate purpose not provide health care or education or safe transportation or sustainability or justice consumer goods how do they get us to jump on board this program so enthusiastically well two of their most effective strategies are planned obsolescence and perceived obsolescence planned obsolescence is another word for designed for the done it means they actually make stuff to be useless as quickly as possible so we'll chuck it and buy a new one it's obvious with things like plastic bags and coffee cups but now it's even big stuff mops d v d s cameras barbecues even everything even computers have you noticed that when you buy a computer now the technology is changing so fast that in just a couple of years it's actually in pediment communication curious about this so i opened up a big desktop computer to see what was inside and i found out that the piece that changes each year is just a tiny little piece in the corner but you can't just change that one piece because each new version is a different shape so you couldn't shut the whole thing and buy a new one so i was reading industrial design journals in the one nine hundred fifty s when planned obsolescence was really catching on these designers are so open about it they actually discuss how fast can they make stuff break that still leaves the consumer have enough faith in the product to go and buy another one it was so intentional but stuff cannot break fast enough to keep this arrow afloat so there's also perceived obsolescence now perceived obsolescence convinces us to throw away stuff that is still perfectly useful how do they do that while they change the way the stuff looks so if you bought your stuff a couple of years ago everyone can tell that you haven't contributed to this arrow recently and since the way we demonstrate our value is contributing to this arrow it can be embarrassing like i've had the same fat white computer monitor on my desk for five years my coworker just got a new computer she has a flat shiny sleek a monitor and matches are computer matches or phone even a pen stand she looks like she's driving in space ship central and i kind of like going to washing machine on my desk fashion is another prime example of this have you ever wondered why women should go from fat one year to skin is the next to fat to skinny it's not because there's some debate about which he'll structures the most healthy for women's feet it's because wearing fat heels in a skinny heel year shows everybody that you haven't contributed to that era's recently so you're not as valuable as that person and skinny heels next to you or more likely in some ads it's to keep us buying new shoes advertisements and media in general plays a big role in this each of us in the us is targeted with over three thousand advertisements a day we see more advertisements in one year than people fifty years ago saw in a lifetime and if you think about it what's the point of an ad except to make us unhappy with what we have so three thousand times a day we're told our hair is wrong or skin is wrong our clothes are wrong our furniture is wrong or car is wrong we are wrong but it can all be made right if we just go shopping media also helps with hiding all of this and all of this so the only part of the materials economy we see is the the extraction production and disposal all happens outside of our field of vision so in the u s we have more stuff than ever before but polls show that our national happiness is actually declining our national happiness peaked in the one nine hundred fifty s the same time that this consumption mania exploded interesting coincidence i think i know why we have more stuff but we have less time for the things that really make us happy friends family leisure time we're working harder than ever some analysts say we have less leisure time than any time since feudal society and you know what the two main activities are that we do with the scant leisure time we have watch t v and shop in the us we spend three to four times as many our shopping as our counterparts in europe do so we're in this ridiculous situation we go to work maybe two jobs even  come home and work sausage so we plopped on our new couch and watch t v in the commercials tell us you suck so we got to go to the mall to buy something to feel better and then you got to go to work more to pay for the stuff you just bought you come home on your mortgage you sit down and watch more t v until you go to the mall again and we're on this crazy worth watch been treadmill and we could just die so in the end what happens to all the stuff we buy anyway at this rate of consumption it can't fit into our houses even though the average house side has doubled in this country's in the one nine hundred seventy s it all goes out in the garbage and that brings us to disposal this is the part of the materials economy we all know the most because we have to haul the junk out of the curve ourselves each of us in the united states makes four and a half pounds of garbage a day that's twice what we made thirty ago all of this garbage either gets dumped in a landfill which is just a big hole in the ground or if you're really unlucky first it's burned in an incinerator and then dumped in the landfill either way they both pollute the air land water and don't forget change the climate incineration is really bad remember those toxics back in the production stage will burn in the garbage releases the toxics up into the air even worse it makes new super  dioxin is the most toxic manmade substance known to science incinerators are the number one source of dioxin that means that we could stop the number one source of the most toxic manmade substance known just by stopping burning the trash we could stop it today now some companies don't want to deal with building landfills and senators here so they just export the disposal to what about recycling there's recycling help yes recycling help it's recycling reduces the this and it reduces the pressure to mine and harvest new stuff at this end yes yes yes we should all recycle but recycling is not enough recycling will never be enough for a couple of reasons first the waste coming out of our houses is just the tip of the iceberg for everyone garbage can of waste you put out on the curb seventy garbage cans of waste were made upstream just to make the junk in that one garbage can you put out on the curb so even if we could recycle one hundred percent of the waste coming out of our household it doesn't get to the core of the problems also much of the garbage can be recycled either because it contains too many toxic or it's designed not to be recyclable in the first place like those juice packs where they have layers of metal and paper and plastic all smushed together you can never separate those for true recycling so you see it is a system in crisis all along the way we are bumping up against limits from changing climate to declining happiness it's just not working but the good thing about such an all pervasive problem is that there are so many points of intervention there are people working here on saving forests and here on clean production people working on labor rights and fair trade and conscious consuming and blocking landfills and incinerators and very importantly on taking back our government so that it really is by the people and for the people all of this work is critically important but things are really going to start moving when we see the connections when we see the big picture when people along the system get united we can reclaim and transform this linear system into something new a system that doesn't waste resources or people because what we really need to check is that old school throw away mindset there's a new school of thinking on this stuff and it's based on sustainability an equity green chemistry zero waste closed loop production renewable energy local living economies it's already happening now some say it's unrealistic idealistic that it can't happen but i say the ones who are unrealistic are those that want to continue with the old path that streaming remember that old way didn't just happen it's not like gravity that we've just got to live with people created it and we're people too so let's create something jeffrey smith executive director of the institute for responsible technology spoke to over eight hundred health care professionals at the two thousand and eleven nutrition and health conference sponsored by andrew wiles arizona center for integrat medicine his topic was the documented health risks of genetically modified foods mr smith is also the international best selling author of seeds of deception and genetic roulette  so we're going to describe today as a summary of some of the health risks and overview of the things that can go wrong and will reserve the more detailed descriptions for articles etc there is basically has been four major genetically modified crops so i corn cotton seed and camilla and there's also some minor crops hawaiian but pio a little zucchini and crab necks wash and more recently sugar beets a ninety five percent of the sugar beets in united states are engineered now i'd like you to rate yourself personally from a scale one to wandered how vigilant you have been at avoiding genetically modified foods now on a scale of one to twenty most americans are minus six and most americans don't realize that every genetically modified food in their lives so i would ask you to raise your hand if you're low vigilance that should be most of you want to twenty please raise your hand if you love and you and thank you ok twenty to forty that also should be low one to twenty how many people are one to twenty raise your hand twenty to forty forty to sixty sixty to eighty eighty two hundred all right so i've got some work to do the reason why g m o's are on the market is because of a single sentence in the f d a policy that came out in one thousand nine hundred two which is still in force and it was a lie it was a complete fiction it said that the agency is not aware of any information showing that the foods created from these new methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way on the basis of this sentence the f d a policy says no safety testing is necessary no labeling is necessary in fact if you create a g m o in your basement you can put it on the food supply without even telling the f d a this is their process of regulation forty four thousand secret internal memos were made public from f d a files seven years later showing that in reality the scientists had warned over and over again of potential dangers of g m o's allergens toxins new diseases and nutritional problems they had urged their superiors to acquire a long term study and complained vehemently about the policy so what are the policy come from the white house that instructed the f d a to promote biotechnology so they created a new position from michael taylor monsanto's former attorney in charge of f d a policy that became monsanto as vice president now is the u s food safety is our and  the first genetically modified crop to participate in the voluntary consultation process of the f d a was the flavor saver tomato and it's the only company that gave raw feeding study data to the f d a for a rats eating study and it turns out the rats refused to eat the tomato and it's not just rats that seem to have an inherent wisdom about g m o's eye witness reports from all over the world show that animals like pigs cows geese squirrels elk deer a coon mice rats and buffalo are all given when given a choice of void the g m o's so it's our job to get humans up to the level of animal i was in my book seeds of deception in the  every single chapter i have a little vignette wisdom of the animals were describe another example of this and someone tried to repeat the experiment with squirrels and they put bags of g m corn on the cob and non g m corn the cob in their work room waiting for the winter they forgot about it and when they discovered the bags the mice had done the experiment for them breaking in to the non g m corn eating it all and leaving the g m corn untouched so they force fed these rats the world's leading researcher elect and proteins he worked at the rabbit institute one of the leading researchers research institutes for nutritional research and his job was to figure out how to test for the safety of genetically modified foods and the protocols that he was to create were supposed to be implemented into e u law and as part of his research he took a potato engineer to produce an insecticide which he knew to be harmless and he took one group of rats and fed the genetically engineered potato with a complete and balanced act another group was fed non g m potatoes and a third group non g m potatoes plus the insecticide that the g m potato produced so you have g potato non g m potato and non g m but potato plus insecticide only those that ate the g m potato got sick what was the cause of the problem it was not the insecticide it was somehow the process of genetic from the rats that ate the potato it's more dramatic in the stomach lining dr pou style went public with his concerns and was a hero for about two days and then two phone calls were allegedly place from the u k prime minister's forwarded through the receptionist to the director of his institute the next day dr pou style was fired from his job after thirty five years silence with threats of a lawsuit his team was disbanded they remove the data they never implemented the protocols instead they embarked on a campaign designed to destroy his reputation in order to protect the reputation of biotechnology seven months later as gag order was lifted by an order of parliament he got his data back and now this is published in  but what it shows is that the process itself is inherently dangerous i asked dr pou style what was your most shocking moment in all of this can you guess why i asked the question because i was writing a book and i was looking for shocking moments like the u c berkeley professor who said that a senior mexican official threatened him implying we know where your children go to school trying to get him not to publish evidence of contamination of the corn in mexico and i have two fox t reporters in florida who say that we're about to do a four part new series to blow the whistle on bovine growth hormone which has higher levels of pas higher levels of antibiotics higher levels of both bovine growth hormone and higher levels of levels of i g f one which is linked to cancer and fraternal twins but three days before they were to air the show threatening letters for months sent us attorney promising dire consequences to fox and rupert murdoch cancel the series or the fact that a epidemic in the  around l trip to fan the killed about one hundred americans and caused five ten thousand to fall sick when the f d a testified before congress they failed to even mention that the only brand that had cause the disease was from a genetically modified bacteria so i was looking for shocking moments and it turns out the doctor whose tie had one but it wasn't being fired it wasn't discovering the problems with the rats a few months earlier he had been given the opportunity to read the confidential submissions of the bot destry for their products that had been approved he said to me jeffrey that was a turning point in my life i realized what i was doing and what they were doing was diametrically opposed i was doing safety studies they were doing as little as possible to get their foods on the market as quickly as possible and a few months later he realized that if his potatoes had been tested by industry they would have made it to the market but more importantly the soil and corn and tomatoes that already made it to the market had been produced from the same process that he had used to produce the potatoes and it was not the insecticide it was somehow the process that caused the problem now this is the first of five categories that we'll look at today the process itself what is it about the process of genetic engineering that might be unsafe well when you insert a gene through a gene gun or a bacterial infection and then clone that cell into a plant you create massive collateral damage approximately two to four percent of the d n a is different mostly mutations genes can be switched off switched on damaged altered and one study on the human cell found that when they inserted a single gene up to five percent of the active genes change their levels of expression they were shocked about this it's a rare study and when you insert a gene into crops we would expect the same thing where you can have hundreds or possibly a thousand genes up regulated or down regulated significance now this of course changes the r n a in the proteins in the natural compounds so it's a huge variable that's not being accounted for that's not being looked at before the crops go on the market for example in the most popular bt corn that's the corn that's engineered to produce a toxin that kills insects it breaks open their stomach and kills them after it's been on the market they found forty three proteins that were significantly up regulated or down regulated including gamma zene which turns out to have been switched on in the g m corn which is a known allergens but that only elicited an interesting l the fact that g m corn has it a new a new allergen was only interesting to the researchers what was a major concern was that existing seeds had been existing proteins had been truncated and their shape had been changed dramatically which of course can change a harmless protein into a deadly one and no one followed up to see if that was the case in soybean they have a practically doubling of soy lectern which is an anti nutrient trips and an editor was as high as seven times more and cooked a g m so i compared to non g m soy lignin was increased the soy as well as and corn now the metabolic pathway that produces leg then produces wrote known which is linked to parkinson's and no one has checked to see if g m o's will increase risks of parkinson's so those were unpredicted side effects no matter what you introduce to the crop the second cause of problems is very specifically what it is that you're introducing to the crop on purpose which protein now there's two major traits the first is herbicide tolerance here's the backstory monsanto found bacteria growing in a chemical waste dump near their factory in the presence of roundup which normally kills bacteria so they think a great let's put in the food supply so they took the gene out of the bacterium that allowed it to survive round put it into soybeans which are now called roundup ready soybeans so you can spray the field with round up and kill all of the other plant biodiversity but not the soybeans and most of the genetically modified crops in the market are beside tolerance that is the reason the major reason why we have g m o's to sell herbicides the other is this bt bacillus there n g s this is the name of soil bacteria that produces a toxin which kills insects it's used in normal agriculture by gathering up the bacteria and spores spread it on to a plant it kills the insects and it washes off and biodegrades but the bow to acknowledge is take the gene from the bt and put it into corn and cotton so let's take a look at why they think it's safe to put an insecticide directly into every cell of corn and cotton first of all they point to the fact that even organic gardeners use bt spray and has a history of safe use they also claim that it's destroyed during digestion and mammals and there's no receptor cells in humans or mammals so it's completely safe and benign well it turns out that's not true when it was sprayed in washington in vancouver about five hundred people reported allergic and flu like symptoms  some had to go to the hospital farmers mixing the bt had accidents and had to go to the hospital when it was said to my state not only survive digestion but cause tissue damage and immune system responses but the bt th of times more concentrated than the spray form it's designed to be more toxic it even has properties of unknown allergen which the w h o criteria says should not have allowed it to be on the market now when mice eat roundup ready corn had fewer babies and smaller babies and when you look at monsanto's own rats study as was done by french team they found signs of toxicity immune system responses that's after now in india thousands of farm workers who pick the cotton that's genetically engineered to produce this bt toxin are reporting allergic and flu like symptoms and some have to go to the hospital we see pictures over and over again of rashes all over the bodies of these workers on the faces of babies etc and fact when i looked at the doctors reports having analyzed twenty three indian farmworkers with these symptoms and i compare them to the five hundred people reported allergic and flu like symptoms in the pacific northwest the list was nearly identical when they allow sheep to graze on the cotton plants after harvest thousands of sheep died and one small study and n g o s non governmental organisation had pleaded with the government to do a study even though the under protest government acknowledged the sheep deaths and put out warnings they didn't do a study the know offered to pay universities for the cost of doing a study and no one did so they did their own study they tied up three sheep in g m bt bull guard one field three and bull guard two and three by the end of the month all the six eating the bt plants died the three eating the non bt had no symptoms but it was dismissed because it wasn't a government or university study in her yana india report after report shows that when buffalo are fed bt cotton oil seed cake most have reproductive problems also skin problems problems with their milk and many deaths among the adults and the ca third two thousand and eight and within three or four days all thirteen buffalo had died i asked them how many of you personally have experienced etching from working in a bt cotton field and it turns out most raise their hands and they casually mention that they also lost twenty six sheeps and go now in india monsanto has purchased but he could go seed company and has either convinced or forced farmers to plant this bt cotton now all of the pretty unpredicted changes that can occur on the level of the genome and the r n a etc can not only affect the health properties but also the ag nomic properties and the environmental properties and so the cotton it turns out is not reliable when it was planted in the united states for the first year monsanto had to pay out tens of millions of dollars  losses because the cotton failed in india there's a lot of problems with the cotton so many many farmers are unable to even repay the loans that they've taken out for the more expensive seeds and associated chemicals the u k daily mail did a study to see how many of these farmers had committed suicide unable to pay back their loans and they estimated two thousand and eight one hundred twenty five thousand the estimate is now closer to two hundred thousand twelve cows died in a german farm after eating exclusively a variety of bt corn no longer on the market about two dozen farmers in the u s claim the d t corn because their cows are pigs to become sterile in the philippines and held pollen may have caused disease all sorts of symptoms arriving only during the time of pollination as well as unexplained human deaths and deaths among animals were fed the corn the same seeds were planted in for more villages the next year the same symptoms returned during the time of pollination now the third reason why we may see problems with g m most is that the protein that is produced by the inserted gene may be different in the new organis and this can occur in many ways when you insert the trans gene into a crop it could be truncated mutated in fact that manet ten which had that new allergen thirty percent of the tr gene was lopped off truncated and the protein that it produces is kind of a fusion protein between that which is dictated by the trans genes and also the plant genome another one has a point  read differently they can produce multiple proteins and so the amino acid sequence of the protein may be different but even if the amino acid sequence is the same as the original it might be folded differently or have different like oscillation patterns different molecules attached to it which again can turn a harmless protein into a deadly one which appears to be what has happened in australia with some p fortunately never made it to market now they took genes from kidney beans and put them into pieces in order to create an insecticide and the peas had passed all of the studies that are normally done before g m crops get put on the market so they were ready to be introduced grown in australia and shipped to india for consumption but the developers decided to do one more study that had never been done before by any g m food crop developer and never done since it was a mouse model with an immune test five of them actually first they applied the protein in its natural state from the beans to the mice no problem then they took the identical protein with the identical amino acids and applied it to the mice and they had five inflammatory reactions suggesting that the harmless protein has been changed somehow and could now create potentially anaphylaxis shock so they canceled the development of the p s and looked further to find that in fact there was a subtle change in the sugar molecules the gleick oscillation patterns which they then blamed on the change when the monsanto spokesperson in europe was asked to comment on these developers p c s in australia he proudly said this shows that the regulatory system works and actually shows how they spin the information one hundred eighty degrees because the regulatory system never acquired the advanced mouse model in fact none of month santo's products had been submitted to the mouse model and they don't move genes between closely related species they move genes between kingdoms from bacteria and viruses to plant the fourth possible problem is that there's more herbicide residues on herbicide tolerant crops the the plants essentially drink the poison and often store it in the soybeans for example in the part that we eat chickens fed a herbicide tolerant liberty link corn died at twice the rate but this was an industry funded study designed so poorly that even a doubling of the death rate was not statistically significant now in terms of our beside roundup is definitely the one that is most used and in a study of herbicide use in the united states there was an increase in the first thirteen years of three hundred thirty eight three hundred eighty three million pounds and because round up is becoming less effective on these herbicide tolerant weeds farmers are using more and more of it so in the last year of the study the increase was thirty one percent now it's interesting about roundup and i think you'll appreciate the qualities in this in this conference more than other places roundup was not originally patented as an herb aside its original patent was as a broad spectrum key later binding with a wide variety of trace minerals and other minerals keeping them unavailable to the plants and that's how it works it reduces the plant's defenses against disease then it reduces the population of beneficial organisms microorganisms in the soil which normally provide nutrients into the roots and then to also keep the population of the disease creating microorganisms down and then also round up or its active ingredient gleiser say promotes the diseases in the soil and they do the killing of the plants life of say does not directly toxic on a plant sufficient to kill and in sterile soil what it does is it creates a perfect storm to weaken the plant and strengthen disease and it lingers in the soil effecting the nutrient profile and health of plants that are substantive planted in that same field now it's dramatic how much nutrients of this are taken out of our food supply here's an example of the reduction of of nutrients in a plant for iron both the production of uptake and transport very dramatic and i in two thousand and seven one hundred eighty four million pounds of life saved based herbicide was sprayed consider all the nutrients that have been removed from the food supply as a result now alfalfa nutrients dramatic are dramatically reduced when you spray off when you spray it with round and the introduction of roundup ready alfalfa does not bode well for the health of the animals particular the dairy cows will be fed the alfalfa hay the primary ingredient for livestock food in the united states is roundup ready crops soy corn cotton seed products i interviewed veterinarians who say there was a universal reduction in manganese for example which is one of the most serious of the nutrient deficiencies one person sent a liver to or a liver to a laboratory to test no detectable manganese in the stillborn kathlyn or so we eat the animals who are sick and deficient we eat the plants and we in turn may not only  getting the nutrient deficient that pet deficiency this passed on from the round up but also we're getting traces of roundup itself which is linked to birth defects it kills placental cells human percent of cells it's linked to lower sperm counts abnormal sperm and cancer in addition to creating disease to kill the plant it's promoting diseases around the united states over forty plant diseases have been linked to the increase in roundup including diseases linked to fit their e m which in turn creates micro toxins which have been linked to serious outbreaks of disease throughout history as you plant year after year in crops in  sprayed with glass of sait you can see the difference on the right versus the left of the quality of the crop after ten years of applying the life of say there is a new organism that has been identified by a group of scientists and there was a secret letter sent to secretary vilsack describing this new organism that looks like a fungus but it's the size of a virus and it appears to be and high concentrations of roundup ready meal and roundup crops improper and crop sprayed with rounded and in lower concentrations in products that are not sprayed with round it seems to be an eye concentrations of the leaves of plants that are diseased and the obeah the aborted fetal tissue of livestock that had miscarriages in fact koch's postulates has been applied so it's been able to be introduced to animals in the laboratory and do sing a spontaneous abortion and then really extract it and culture so it appears to be linked with spontaneous abortions so it is being evaluated the reason i'm talking about it now even though it's supposed to be secret is that the letter that was sent to secretary vilsack was leaked on to the and that's why we're talking about it normally this type of information would be exposed to a lot more research before it was made public the fifth possible problem is the genes inserted into g m crops my transfer to our gut bacteria or into our own d n a the only human feeding study ever conducted brilliant study took seven human volunteers they had lost me bags they had their lower intestines removed not for the study they fed them a saw a burger and a so i milkshake and looked inside the last the bag and there lo and behold they were surprised to find how much intact genetically modified so i had survive passage through the stomach and small intestine but in three of the seven volunteers before they were fed the meal embedded in the d n a of their gut bacteria was the gene that had been found in the bacteria in the chemical waste dump near month samples factory and other words they had eaten genetically modified soy in some previous time and this was in the u k where they don't eat a lot of g m soy and the gene had jumped into the d n a of their gut bacteria and it was in there on a stable basis with the promoter which is the on switch and they had roundup ready gut bacteria now this of may give a survival advantage to bacteria when we have so much round up in our diet that normally has anti bacterial properties so the roundup in our diet may be stripping us of bacteria except that which has the roundup ready gene so we may be colonizing the gut bacteria of north americans now if you eat a corn chip and the corn chips been made with bt corn which is highly likely and that gene would also transfer and no one is studied to see it bt genes transfer but if it does it might turn our intestinal flora into living pesticide factories and bt is known to break open the stomach of insects and kill them and some people believe it may be linked to leaky gut now let's take a look at g m soy just to see if there's evidence of problems now soon after g m so i was introduced to the u k the york laboratory reported an increase of soy allergies by fifty percent no follow up was done to see if g m soy it was the culprit but there are many reasons why it might be when g m so i said to mice there was a dramatic reduction in enzymes produced in the pancreas if it takes longer to digest protein it gives a longer time to produce an allergic response one study that needs to be repeated with better controls showed a new allergen in g m soy we already discussed the seven fold increase in trips an inhibitor a known so a known allergen in g m soy herbicide residues are increased even the roundup ready protein that's intended to be in the soil has properties of a dust mite allergy and that is the one that's continuously produced inside our gut possibly triggering allergic reactions on a continuous basis here's a picture of the liver of rats on the right that were fed g m soy compared to those on the left testicles change from pink to blue in male rats fed g m so i let that one sink in jim so i had changes in their testicles including damage to the young sperm cells female rats said g m so i changed in the uterus and ovaries and hormonal balance offspring of g m fed mice had changes in the way the d n a functioned in the embryos i gave a talk at the u u parliament a few years ago with arena ermac over senior research of the russian academy of sciences she gave me these slides their russian speaking rats they volunteered for a so i see the experiment in which starting two weeks before they got pregnant they were fed g m soy and it continued through pregnancy and lactation and more than half of their babies died within three weeks compared to a ten percent death rate of the group who was fed not g m so there was also a change in the size many of the g m fed group were quite a bit smaller and in a subsequent study they were unable to reproduce now as is typical of researchers who find adverse findings dr mccall that was attacked victimized and she told me her boss was under pressure from his boss so she couldn't do any more g m o studies one of her colleagues tried to actually comfort her by saying well maybe the gym soil will solve the overpopulation problem one of the appropriate criticisms of her research was that she never did a biochemical analysis of the feed so we don't know if there was some toxin in her particular bag of soy flour that she used that might have caused the astounding results but after doing it three times with similar results coincidentally the entire facility switched to a g challenge so she asked her colleagues after two months what your infant mortality rate and it had skyrocketed to over fifty five percent suggesting it wasn't a particular toxin in her feed in another moscow experiment also russian academy of sciences hampster said g m soy over two years by the third generation most lost the ability to have babies they grew it slower slower growth rate five fold increase i mortality some bad hair growing in their mouths if g m crops are so bad why don't we see more problems well the old trip to famine epidemic gives us a hint why not it took four years to discover the epidemic and yet it was screaming to be discovered the symptoms had three simultaneous characteristics new acute and fast acting all three had to be in place for them to identify the cause of the epidemic what if it was not new symptoms what if it were cancer or heart disease no would check to see if you're taking l trip of what if  mild symptoms like frequent colds or memory loss or memory loss or what it was like the hamsters were took the third generation to show the sterility so what about the g m crops on the market when they were introduced in one thousand nine hundred six seven percent of americans had three or more chronic illnesses nine years later thirteen percent food related illnesses doubled between one thousand ninety four and two thousand and one reproductive problems are on the rise gastrointestinal problems are on the rise autism food allergies inflammation etc we can't responsibly say th modes are the cause or a contributor but we can't responsibly say they're not because there's no post marketing surveillance no human clinical trials no proper evaluation of all the changes that occur approvals are based on assumptions many of which have been proven false an industry research much of which is rigged to avoid finding problems so i now like you to rate yourself for one hundred how vigilant you'll be next week and avoiding genetically modified foods so how many people  vigilance one to twenty raise your hand one to twenty twenty to forty forty to sixty sixty to eighty eighty one hundred some difference there yes how do you know i have a non g m o shopping guide for every one of you at the book table outside and there's also packets of them if you want to give for your patient how active do you wish to be now before i talk about how active you plan to be on educating patients on g m o's i want to share with you since one of the themes today is actually getting people out there and doing something to change the structure of our health it turns month and ten weeks later the tipping point of consumer rejection was achieved and within one week virtually every major food company committed to stop using g m and greedy and in europe but not here we think as little as five percent of us shoppers avoiding g m brands could create a tipping point why because g m o is offer no consumer benefits the same companies that are selling us g m o's here have already taken them out of europe and japan they can replace g m o's not even changing the recipe just going to the non g m corn and soy so we believe that by inspiring as little as five percent maybe we're off in our numbers a little bit but it won't be much we could end the genetic engineering of the food supply so i add that as a extra motivation to participate and i want to ask you now how active you would plan out to be in educating patients about how to avoid g m o so how many people plan to be particularly low one to twenty raise your hand twenty to forty forty sixty sixty to eighty eighty two hundred so we just saw in forty one minutes how to end the genetic engineering of the food supply by telling people the truth and it's not just doctors i asked the same question to farmers to food service directors to parents to lawyers and they all the lawyers have to be paid everyone changes their diet on the spot when they discover the problems so our whole plan has three pillars of messaging one to health dangers to how to avoid g m o's and you can also here's a shopping guide you can get you can also go to i phone application shop know g or go to our website najah moshav and guide dot com how to avoid g m o's and the fact that a tipping point can get rid of g m o's so that's how we think we can end the genetic engineering the food supply and it's already happening with we're part of a coalition that has been educating people about the health dangers bovine growth hormone has been condemned by the american public health association condemned by the american nurses association banned in canada banned in europe and japan and australia new zealand and now it's banned in wal mart's milk and in dan and yo plate in starbucks and most american dairies and it never enjoyed the high profile coverage that occurred in europe it was passed by health care practitioners and health conscious shoppers and parents of young kids so it demonstrates that a tipping point can occur in the united states associated with genetically modified products and in fact it's already happening nielsen survey in two thousand and nine said the fastest growing store brand claim was non g m a year to date it's the third fastest overall health claim on packaging of products sold in grocery stores in fact supermarket news said in two thousand and nine that two thousand and ten would show an unprecedented upsurge of consumer awareness and concern about g m o's and that's what happened i've been traveling around the united states for eight years speaking on the health dangers i have never seen such an upswell of educated concerned active consumers and physicians i go to doctors offices where they prescribe non g m o diets to every patient they give out our audio c d s to every patient they have our techs they have our videos they play videos while people are getting ideas talk about a captive audience the american academy of environmental medicine and may of two thousand and nine ers all doctors to prescribe non gym zero diets to every patient citing reproductive problems immune system problems accelerated ageing dysfunctional regulation of cholesterol and insulin organ damage i talk to doctors like john boyle who said i used to test for so i ologies all the time but now that is genetically engineered it's so dangerous i tell my patients never to eat it unless it's organic we believe that education is the key so we have been strategically designing education to do the reach out so that individuals don't have to become experts so we have the right brain book the left brain book the audio the pod cast the series of articles etc but we're also teaching people to speak on g m o's we've taught four hundred  fifty people in the last twelve months to speak on g m o's in one day workshops and four part webinars and so we would like to invite you to help end the genetic engineering of the food supply simply by helping your patien understand the risks and make healthier non gym or choices so we have non g m o health risks brochures which you're welcome to take a free one at the booth at the bookstore at the end of this lecture and you can also sign up for our free electronic newsletter spilling the beans or leave your business card so we can tell you more information as it comes out and for all the references in this talk i refer you to genetic relay which is written as a two page spread the left side is a summary for the attention deficit politician the right side is the side of detail text so what i see now is an amazing opportunity because g m o is give no consumer benefits because these companies have taken them out already and because we now have sufficient evidence that simply by telling the truth we can change people's diet on the spot we can take back our food supply and together actually it has been damaged by the israelis about to couple of years ago and now as we can see that there are even some men that they are now going to make sure thing that's famous to see sport surfing it's that three men are surfing the scene is very beautiful the waves are getting higher and higher and seems that they are enjoying the job very much and now he goes down the water and you can see that the feels kind of freedom and during surfing and he also liked the sport and he a plays it as a certain how p c s specially during a under or especially under the current situation here in gaza city the difficult situation the siege  only outlet for the palestinians a under such difficult situation so they're trying to make a good use of the sea despite the adding other different kinds of sports like football and other stuff  and so after that i asked them about f them about how did you learn that that surfing will by best pool by certain person he said that i like that sport and i learned it by watching different phones they're reading o so you saying also that there is an american man american surfer whose name is matthew also a pro them a number of surfing boards a number of they especially cussed himself of surfing a talk or took care of the whole stuff here and is that out of many people that come to the see if it's summer to enjoy the scene and to enjoy swimming also so i think i have a chance to speak with one of the families and see why they come to school to do summer and why they come to the beach and what kind of things that they do and here i'll go with one of the family they have that wish that desire to go on life despite all the difficulties despite the siege despite even the danger when they come over here to the see that these are the minute two ships can bomb the shore if they felt it's really dangerous but we still come over you would still want to enjoy the the idea of the of the tent of nations is connected with the land the land has a long story that belongs the land belongs to my family since nine hundred sixty since the ottoman period until sixteen while the ottoman period so my grandfather bought this and so the story started at that time during the ottoman period then you know my grandfather died my father and uncle continued the work he started and they work the land and from the land through four  hundred eighty seven after living all their lives in caves on the property and we are trying thirty years later to realize the dream of my father with the nations but we we face we are facing a lot of difficulties since a couple of years yeah like what we did and i see a lot of settlement around this area yes we are surrounded by five settlements and they land was starting to be confiscated in  we created authentic nations and the idea of that and of nations is to open the farm for people from different nations cultures and religions to come together and build bridges of understanding of the conservation ok this is the idea of a kind of mission i see and some work we do is like we do some accounts with children and we try to do recycling projects with them to encourage them to motivate the children by doing something positive and this international group ok and it's very bold you know bringing people together here for of course for us it's international presence is very important secondly in this area and i really wouldn't be able to come and take it this is not not specifically for the ideas like to keep presence here local and international presence the idea is also to invite people and and show them the real picture of by this time and also like you know  something positive together because always we are connected with bad news but we want to show the other side and the other story of palestine that people are coming together you know we are people who would like to build with people believe in peace and justice and that's why it's very important to empower others to to go on and do what is needed here to be done so i want to show you the cave where the family with to live  support because it's like i admire that people coming from abroad just to stay with us and keep presence here and also help us with the work we are doing wonderful to see people committed like these and how important is it that you keep presence here in this land of course it's like i want a home here we're living here and it's very important to keep presence because it's not like a farm you know we're living on the beginning of this late sixty's and beginning of the seventy's and so that's why we care we could keep them we had a problem with them but you know because of like they were built without permit what we are we you know we won the case  so this was my day attention nation next time i'm bringing my friends who don't want to work and actually maybe stay here for another week wonderful know that i don't will go on and go thank independent media is the hope