genetically modified food shows that it damages organs it causes infertility it causes immune system kalia it causes holes in the g tract it causes multiple organ system failure the whole concept of genetically modified organisms destroying a monkey wrench in the life on this planet what if we could produce more yield in that same amount of land squeeze regular salmon there has not been sufficient animal health testing human health testing or environmental impact testing of these new transgenic fish basically they've taken agriculture and built in a dust real model which doesn't fit nature so instead of changing their agricultural bottle to accommodate what is natural they're changing nature to accommodate him dust robot if you have an organic corn  has no interest in having you well because they don't make any money if you're well and the pharmaceutical industry is the biotech industry some people think that g m o really means god move over we are heading downhill at a rapid rate of speed there's been no long term research on the concept or consequences of what this genetic modification does not just to us but to the environment and right now from all the research that showing up and says this has a very negative and profound effect on destroying the environment in which we live so therefore i find it senseless that the government would support and condone genetically modified foods without even having the basic research to understand the liabilities involved in creating these monster organisms and putting them into our world the conversation in europe and in countries in south america and in asia is much more sophisticated in terms of its understanding of science the importance of independent peer reviewed science that isn't contaminated or corrupted by corporate influence here in the united states you know the birth place the bedrock of the free market system and democracy we're having our rights corrupted by corporate influence the major impact that monsanto has their ability to get their products approved with minimal scientific oversight and minimal review of these products for human health testing is really an abomination the entire scientific foundation underneath genetically modified organisms is false because organisms are not genetically determined and when we understand that we recognize that the only way to create crops that will benefit humanity is to understand nature herself and learn to live in harmony with it and this is a completely different approach than humans have had for the last couple hundred years where we always thought oh humans job was to control and dominate nature in that process we are now leading the world into the six mass extinction of life on this planet five times in the history this planet life essentially got wiped out and started all over again the five previous mass extinctions are tributed to things like comets or asteroids hitting the earth and destroying the environment we are now deep into the six mass extinction of life on this planet we are losing species of organism faster than even in the previous five mass extinctions but the source of the problem is much closer to home than a comet or an asteroid scientists recognize that it's human behavior that is undermining the web of life earth that trying to control nature our mission is actually how to learn to live in harmony with nature the f d a which treats the american people as flames knows that if people knew the truth about how healing their foods can be and how dangerous the processed foods really are with all their chemical contaminants in their genetic modification if people knew the truth they would demand food freedom they would demand access to healing herbal therapies and healing dietary supplements they would demand that the f d a back down from its intimidation campaigns that have been let levelled against producers of dietary supplements and herbal remedies and raw dairy products and so on people would demand that if they knew and that is why they are kept ignorant under this campaign of dissent from ation currently being waged by the f been bigger in my opposition to the strategies that these large corporations use to use their influence for their benefit and as a result of that my position  frequently criticised by their own local networks the skeptic network and they're also their ability because they are so politically connected to use the federal regulatory agency to come after me personally to file claims against statements against my company and also to criticize me such that it can be viewed in most of the traditional media to skew the information the truth what we're saying they twist the table looks like we're that the bad guys when actually nothing could be further from the truth we're just seeking to do to help people understand what with the true reality here is give them the tools to  make that distinction and make give them the right to know in the early two thousand montana the biotech industry vilified a scientist for his linking of bt corn to a decrease in monarch then the application of high doses of these of these we kill or destroys the weeds upon which other organisms normally would be consuming so the insect population is reduced and then there isn't the insect population upon which the bode's are also consuming so there could be a knock on effect on the body of a city within the fields where hopi saw tolerant crops are being grown and indeed large scale field trials sponsored by the u k government several years ago now did indeed find that in fields that were growing herbicide tolerant sugar beet and canola that the by diversity in the field was markedly reduced there is a lot of information now on b colony collapse and it's now length to certain of the chemicals that are sold by certain of the major companies so there's a lot of concern and know about that bees dying because now we lose a and chemicals more toxic chemicals than we ever ever had before and that's why we have a many of our beneficial and sex are being killed by the new types of chemicals g m carries novel health and environmental risks which we are now beginning to measure both in terms of environmental impact and also outcome in feeding trials controlled feeding trials in animals cover up no genetically modified crop can grow unless it's attached to some kind of a pesticide those pesticides more and more are in these plants they may have killed the it causes cancer it also causes endocrine disruption that's a technical term for change of hormones they don't even wrong to label that this is genetically modified the a genetically modified other crop is genetically modified they say relabeled that we won't be able to sell it because people won't buy it of course people won't buy it because people don't want it we have thousands of different varieties of any given food our food needs without having to resort to the risky procedure is associated with with g m what is in our beside resist crop it's a crop that you can spray the hell out of it with a toxic chemical and i won't die kills everything except that particular crop and and so you have the ability not only to sell the seeds to the farm you're going to sell in the companion passed society so you get to sales for  is economically difficult the most comprehensive analysis of g of those shows that they actually reduce yield but sustainable technology they can increase you know by an average of seventy nine percent but of and what roundup ready is it decreases labor it's labor saving as if we need less farmers in this country and we have a limited planet so more people forming will be is the key to hi conventional chemical and tat's of genetically engineered crops these herbicides are actually having a major impact in killing the beneficial soil microorganisms in the soil which actually not only add to the yield gains but also th have completely blown out conventional breeding in the ark land grant colleges and we only in this country have ten percent of the vegetable seeds that were available to our forebears one hundred years ago our  stock is going down the toilet and we can't even use our lack of this to breed in the standard way because there's no money for it and that is a huge huge huge threat to the future of agriculture to lose the skill of breeding microorganisms only have a year has gone down but there has been a dramatic increase in the rise of crop diseases which are in fact corn and soybeans in the us we're sacrificing you know our soil just because it's an easier way to farm and trying to convince yourself that it's more economical but it's not you know i'm seeing neighbors fields who've been doing this stuff for fifteen plus years they can't get rid of a lot of weeds now these weeds are getting resistant to the glaive phosphate herbicides so farmers are upping rates more herbicide and then all the sudden that's not doing it anymore and so you have to switch herbicides so now the soul is just more more more full of poison so there's going to be more sickness in that field it's going to be more susceptible to diseases and six it will make it through drought periods as long as same crops side by side right across from each other the natural plants are going to make more over time and you have a soil that you continue to poison nature's going to win in two thousand and six cornell university released a study on seoul degradation that stated by the year twenty fifty that thirty percent of the land it's already cultivated will be on farmable now the thing about round up the gleick to say is that it stays in the soil for buds or years and it continues to cause the reduction of available to tree it's the promotion of these disease and herbicides now it pulls these nutrients out of the food supply for months or years according to reuters of two thousand and seven there was about one hundred eighty four billion pounds of  united states now that's one of many many years hundreds of billions of pounds which means hundreds of millions of pounds of nutrients have been tied up and take it out of the food supply when we have a company like monsanto that says i don't care what nature says or create the crops that i want and we look at what happens we see another step another process in our own demise this is a very powerful enemy a david classic david versus goliath until we change that we are heading downhill at a rapid rate of speed toward our own extinction genetically modified organisms are living beings where genetics or d n a of one species is taken out and transported into artificially into another organism and in other words some sort of genetic manipulation genetic engineering has occurred nature god if you like does not permit that you cannot take the gene for bacteria and put it into a feathers you there's a genetic about a fight salmon that was created by canadian researchers that was tested up in canada they put these frankenfish into tanks and they fed them sufficient food there was no problem where they reduced the about the food the frankenfish freaked they started killing eating their neighbors so what happens if you have to approve these frankenfish and let's say they escape into the ocean i don't know what's worse the extinction of natural salmon or the ro take genes from one species and force it into the d n a of other species now the process itself creates massive collateral damage in the plant around a bull but they don't test for those changes and the side effects before they introduce say the crop into our food supply d n a is the inherited material of life and it is where genes are structured so we an architect has a blueprint for a building the d n a is the blueprint for all the structures of the body so when the gene is switched on to function the information within that  used to manufacture a protein and that protein is then builds the structure of the body and then proteins in the form of enzymes carry out all of the chemical reactions of the body that splices into the d n a of the plant and the effect of this is that the g m transformation process as a whole actually is very disruptive on the d n a structure and function of the as a result of very unpredictable and potentially hazardous outcomes because if you disturb the balance of gene function remember the gene function is controlling the structure and the by chemistry of the if you disrupt the balance of gene function you disrupt the by chemistry and if you destruct the by chemistry you run the risks of creating novel toxins novel allergies as well as a disturbance to control our genes were introduced into the chemistry of where the signals come from that select the jains and modify our genetic activity well we used to say everything was due to the genes but now we find there's a class of molecules call micro r n a they're very small r n a molecules and they're found in all the cells and these micro r n a molecules are molecules that adjust the reading of our genes and well a new understanding has been found about the when we eat food the micro r n a s from the food is picked up by the digestive system and not broken down the micro r n a is taken into our own body intact and now what they followed is the from food ends up in our own cells like in our liver and other cells in our body and these marker are and they still have the same function they change our genetics and they change our readout of our in the significan it says when you eat genetically modified foods we are eating a new class of micro r n a s they have never really been in the world before and yet these micro r n a s were picked up by our biology and adjust our own genetics so in a sense the old story we are what we eat actually now has a biochemical foundation and then all of a sudden says if that's true then why would you risk your life eating a genetically modified food containing micro r  s that can told we distort our own biology and cause great problems in our lives the process of modification is a completely irreversible process once it has been it's affects the reproductive cells of the organism so any effect you have for good or for bad is then pos down through the subsequent generations of that particular organism and that's truthful plants and animals indeed for any genetically modified organism and this now has to be understood because when we each unethically modified food not only does it affect our own cells like that but we also know that the bacteria in our gut that are required for our survival we need these bacteria the bacteria also pick up the genetic engineer james and we modified the gut bacteria he said well why is that relevant well not only do we need the gut bacteria for survival but the gut bacteria change our genetics information from the bacteria is picked up by the digestive cells and adjusts the digestive system cells to be compatible with the bacteria in our gut there is a dialogue in the communication if you alter the genetics of the gut bacteria by definition you completely altered the development and genetics of our own cells way back in the seventies the they developed this grand vision of being able to splice in  high yield and drought resistance and all sorts of pest resistance and they dreamt of patenting those chines and having proprietary ownership of these genes and during the eighty's that indeed came  about from a number of court decisions that they believe they could make billions of dollars problem the proprietary gene transfers into to make crude do certain things or crops do certain things when the evidence came out that there were fundamental flaws in the genetics they just did not want to know they didn't didn't want to do the research into these issues of food safety and they went ahead with their development yet they weren't doing the based research  is caused or promoted by these g m o if bonds had to happen on a gene that if that patent didn't get into any and i'll use the term higher life forms so what does that mean birds be animals and the question i have to ask what about human life if they if my status patents gene get into you get into me is that say they own me do they own you these are all questions that are very farmers including in those farmers who wanted nothing to do with monsanto genetically modified but when you asked monsanto whether genetically modified seed is natural they have two answers yes and no and  depends on which side of washington d c they're talking if they're at the f d a or the u s d a they say genetically modified it is absolutely no different than natural food doesn't need to be tested doesn't need to be labeled the public doesn't need to that their food been genetically modified because it's no different then moron when they're on the other side of washington d c at the patent office and the patent office is saying well you don't deserve a patent because your scene is no different than natural food they say oh no it's not it's completely different we've invented something brand new it's radically different and it's so inventive we deserve not just one patent we deserve entire portfolios of dozens and dozens of that because the united states was the only country in the world still i have a book called corrupt to the core in that book i described by quoting from a published speech by a monsanto executive saying how they're going to control the whole world not just by genetic modification but they're going to take charge of the whole can whole world by influencing the white house the whitehall the french parliament and canadian parliament and the japanese parliament this is published information how they're going to control the whole wor american people are beginning to become more aware and wake up to the fact that their government has been corrupted by corporations and the food that they're feeding themselves has possibly serious human in the european union where labeling is required there's almost no generically engineered food on store shelves in restaurants because almost none of it planted today more than fifty countries around the world allow labeling of genetically has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of g m o as ninety percent of americans agree so why no labeling i'll give you one reason the influence and the corruption of the political process by monsanto if you have an organic corn crop that sits next to a genetically engineered corn field and it happens to tasseled the same time that it happens to be downwind you're going to get your crop contaminated in fact even the seed stocks are harm your become a gmo farmer whether you like it or not an expert in air pollution calculated how far corn pollen could travel in twenty four hours which is the maximum time they can remain viable to cross pollinat it could travel under certain weather conditions over five hundred miles they want the public to sit down and not think about what happened before this this piece of meat got on my plate what happened before this glass of milk sat on the table we have an ethical responsibility i believe not just to other humans and to the future generations we have an ethical responsibility to all living creatures we have increasing numbers of retarded autistic and genetically damaged people among us we have increasing numbers of lethal allergies some potentially lethal allergies that coincide with the introduction of genetically modified food we have increasing amounts of want to noon problems we have increasing amounts of pretty much everything the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in having you well because they don't make any money if you're well and the pharmaceutical industry is the biotech industry and it is the ag of chemical industry thousands of doctors are now prescribing non g m o diets to every patient in fact the american academy of environmental medicine urges all doctors to do so they evaluated the animal feeding studies and said that there's a causal relationship between g m feed and disorders and they urged the government to put a moratorium in place m g m o's and of course they're for labeling by god we are the sickest of the major countries in the world and we're also becoming the dumbest of the major countries in the world and the significance about that is what a coincidence this is the motivation of our government and this is exactly where we are a country like brazil united states has twenty percent off is g d p spent on health care cost on trying to cure chronic disease we're giving vaccines in children we're giving all these other drugs bad food best asides hormones everything getting into the systems in animals and people this is going to drive countries back but we're talking about people whose lives are either terminated through preventab diseases which were not prevented through the toxic the cation of their bodies by toxic food total population of the ward is about seven billion now they're saying by two thousand and  promising to feed the world with crops that have higher yields even though it's not the amount of food right now that's the critical issue it's access to the food and access to the food is largely an economic issue there's no shortage of food this is purely to do corruption because corrupt people people in power one let poor people have their share now since g m o is reduced there has been a dramatic increase in infertility in the united states but there's significant evidence both in laboratory animal feeding studies as well as livestock experience to point a finger at around a pretty crops as  suggestions that they produce long term imbalances in fertility rates hormone levels and the ability to just lose big agricultural and chemical companies don't want to label g m o but these corporations zwilling crease our food bills what i say is if they're so concerned about our bills and they need to focus on a bigger price tag and that's our health care costs and we're not just talking about the cost of medications here how about the cost of missed work and lost productivity when parents have to rush their child to the emergency room or to a doctor's office and for the children how about the missed school and summer camp we're talking  emotional and societal cost played out over and over again hundreds of thousands and millions of times over these companies that are promising us to have abundant food bring prosperity  and the government with them i think if you really want to know the the true story about what corporations are doing and in our society about the various harm and dangers that they present you can't rely on mainstream media you have to go deeper and you have to go further that's going to be a very important piece in us moving forward the fact that we do have those sources of television and programming in the news media receive that information alone constant to what you might call the no cboe information that negative information about the world is causing us to become sick the food eat exacerbates that same problem we are living in a situation where we must take back our own power it can surround the congress they can surround the congressional offices back in their district they can surround the month santo's in the city groups and that's what they got to realize that that's the first stage because people showing up in mass and together with that with agendas and with good artwork and signs in music scares the hell out of these  politicians and their corporate let's use the power of government to support what we want which is to know have choices stand up that you should have the right a human right to grow the foods and crops that you want americans have a right to know if their food is genetically engineered it's time for labeling it's time for people to know how their food is being produced it is completely pro capitalist to have things labeled that's where you know what you're getting and it's the consumer and the consumer over and over and over again since they want to know they want to know they want the choice of producers of freaked out because the choice is not going to be for them they have to chemical use and more danger to the environment and all of us are very concerned about human health and the environment what's going to get your children through this and your grandchildren generation what are we handing off to them what are we passing down to them if the earth is us and it's our greatest legacy what are they inheriting and if you care about what you put in your body you know create as much of your own food supply as you can while you still can save se grow heirloom foods without any chemicals and there's dozens if not hundreds of of methods and ways that we can go about correcting this and and preventing this but we have to start making those changes now it's very important to be an organic farm for the future of our children and our grandchildren and our and even ourselves in the food that we don't give up your rights are human rights to this if what's important to you is what goes into your body and put your health is now and will be then you have to become activated but to do that we have to recognize there's a new science and that new science completely poles the foundation out under the conventional science of genetics and g m most that science is false and destructive and the wake up call is knowledge knowledge is power lack of knowledge lack of power and what this world is suffering from now as a lack of knowledge because we do have knowledge we have knowledge that says how we can thrive live to a ripe old age of over one hundred very easily and enjoy the experience of being on this beautiful planet and most native american culture their their beliefs or their concepts were based on will this last for seven generations whereas we're asking what can get me through this year economically one year twelve months that's one of our where people learn about each other people learn about each of the religions to tolerate each other's spirituality work together work in nature work with god because it's time for us to re empower for ten thousand years humans grew crops without chemicals you know it's time that we get mandatory labeling it's time we cut down the biotech mollies to size and then now let's have that discussion again about chemical agriculture versus or gaelic or traditional agriculture the overwhelming majority of the public want us to produce food and to raise animals in the natural healthy humane way in a way that doesn't destroy the environment public health and the climate and we're going to get to that point but it's going to require as i often put it the food fight of our lives but i do want to point this out folks this movement and tonights of that was not covered by corporate media at all right but i do want to give a big shout out to any of you who are watching me right now let's just acknowledge you're watching it on people's media wherever it is that you're watching me right now some unpaid volunteer took the time to record it thank you some unpaid volunteer took the time to upload this to create the infrastructure for you to watch it so we support eagles media yes to the local cable access program that this is going to be played on and also can we get a big shot up to your community radio station it is a people's own people's operated radio station so the point i'm making is this ma'am let's build alternative people's media so that we can talk to each other and let's have those kind of conversations and let's build political power that is serious that takes ourselves seriously because we have to because a just world is at stake and frankly not only a peaceful and just world but we know that the ecology that we depend upon for life itself is in the balance so let's do our work joyously but let's also be serious about it peace friends and i i think of those friends along the way as i sing this song of course but i also say i think about this experience i had back in one nine hundred seventy six i was just finishing up a year and a half five thousand plus mile walk from the lot of goshen out to the pacific ocean and it was all through the northern states and part of canada and back country too until i got out to the puget sound area a night for four or five days i walks walked these little dirt dirt lanes around the sound and this one day as i was  passing a farmhouse i couldn't help but notice this beautiful elderly woman standing in the front yard she was out there tending her garden and she greeted me and soon i found myself on one side of the fence a young man of twenty one twenty two years old and her on the other side of the fence early eighties and boy we just hit it off we just started trading the stories and swapping lies and telling adventures and it was a lot of fun we had this good connection and it and we gabbed really get haven't talked and talked and talkin i don't know if you've ever noticed this but sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger about the things that are really going on honey in your life rather than talk to somebody that's actually close to you and it's a whole slowly her story kind of came out of and i had wandered by i wandered by just at the right time i had wandered by just as she was out there saying goodbye to that home that she lived in for forty five years in the garden that she attended all those years the place had just gotten to be too much upkeep for them and they were moving into the big city the following week and my heart went out to er and remember we talked longer and after about an hour and a half or so it was time for me to go and i remember it i research process fan so i gave her a little squeeze and started walking down that dusty lane i don't mean made it about twenty feet or so when she called out to me and i  stopped i turned and said what i'll never ever forget this she said isn't it nice to find a friend once in awhile help me sing this last c when i'm the fire that never die let me hear you live why are all in this together this together oh i d until we extend the circle of our compassion to all of ng things we will not ourselves find peace dr