so the first category is the process itself now the if you change the way the d n a functions you change the r n a and we found out two months ago by eating certain r n a can completely mess up your gene expression so that's not a c thing they can change proteins and proteins can influence all sorts of metabolic processes and it can create changes in the natural compounds i mean people talk about blueberries being healthy for this and different foods because of the natural compounds there's thousands of one plant has five thousand or five thousand so we have no idea even what they do and yet when you make these changes at the d n a level you can change a whole series of things that have no concept no clue whether you've just taken out have the one that it started out as forty three different proteins dramatically change their levels of expression what some proteins had different shapes which was shows dramatic changes in the cell which can turn  harmless protein into a deadly one one protein was switched on it doesn't express itself in regular court and it's an allergy and it's a known our gene so if you eat monsanto's bt cord you may get an allergic reaction which you won't usually think of only one category you're putting in a gene the gene produces a protein is the proteins that let's talk about the two categories of g m o's there's two basic categories the poison drinkers and the poison producers we talked about the poison producers those are the bt core crops and to be cut across they produce a poisonous insecticide now there's another class which is eighty five percent of all g m crops and that's the herbicide tolerant poison drinkers when santos scientists found bacteria surviving in a chemical waste dump near their factory not being killed by around  beside which really kills bacteria so they figured great let's put this in the food supply turns out they say it's completely safe history of safe use only affects certain types of insects is destroyed in the digestive system o mammals and humans they don't test bt crops for safety they assume it away with these three assumptions they're all three wrong and all three completely ignoring peer reviewed published studies hundreds of people who are sprayed with like symptoms so i had to go to the hospital they fed b team attribute of mice it wasn't destroyed or digestion it caused damage to their intestinal track and immune response now the bt that's in the crops is not the same between it's in the spray for some is dramatically different molecular as much as forty percent different so they should never say well we'll just assume that the bt in the crops is safe because the it's very different it's thousands of times more concentrated it's designed to be more toxic it has properties an indoor allergen the spray washes all of the bt and the crops does not now claimed that there was no effect on its rats fed for ninety days but when the raw data was obtained through lawsuits and leaking and reviewed by independent scientists with proper statistics they found side of the toxicity and immune system responses and indicators for serious disorders in months and those rounds i talked to a former scientist for months said to reset he knew that when they fed probably rats genetically modified crops and found such significant problems at the rance instead of withdrawing the crops they rewrote the study to make it look less problematic in india thousands of farm workers who were picking the bt cotton are getting the same allergic and flu like symptoms as those in washington they're getting rations all over their bodies particular here's the symptoms experienced by the only washington who are sprayed with the tea and those in india they allow their animals to graze on cotton plant after harvest and they have for years without incident until bt cut was introduced thousands of sheep died one small study found one hundred percent mortality rate among the sheep eating the g m cars when no symptoms for there was a conundrum buffalo in the state of her yada experiencing reproductive problems milk production problems get problems and th bt cotton plants one day killed all thirteen of their  on the secondary market like low charges and there are able to eat or to repay the debt and many commit suicide the number of suicides is staggering germany eating betake or a couple of dozen farmers in the midwest and they're animals got stuck sterile people in the philippines say that a certain writing when it was pollination caused all sorts of problems on the same seeds were planted for more villages the same symptoms returned they also complained of deaths among animals and some unexplained human deaths now the third reason that things can go wrong is that the when you take a gene from one species and put it into a different species the gina may function differently the protein may function differently may be shaped differently than a lot of there's a lot of variables but they don't take into consideration for example one monsanto's be t corn that produces the most part would be to corn where the gene was put into that gene for the gene got thirty percent of it was locked off they only had seventy percent of the was different the amino acid sequences can be different when they expect it's amino acid sequence to get folded up in the proteins and they're often different now even if they're the same they could be folded up differently or have different molecular attachments which can be very dangerous like peace made and also grow your design to be exported to india to  genetically modified to produce an insecticide past all of the studies that all of the other g m crops have gone through and these passed with flying colors and were about to be introduced and make the developers a lot but for some reason they decided let's do one more test so they exposed mice to the protein that they put into the piece they got the protein from kidney beans so they took a natural kidney bean protein exposed it to mice the mice were fine fabulous it's a safe protein then they took the protein out of the pea and this was the same amino acid serious immune system activation suggesting that this harmless protein had somehow become potentially deadly and if it inserted humans it might cause deadly and of luck to show which is  percent india there's no way in the world they would have been able to trace it to the piece that they had imported from australia to look inside the structure of the protein and from all of the sugar chain molecule and attach themselves to the protein they have a slightly different shape oh this must explain it and want to surprise they thought that there was such a dramatic change by moving the genes from such closely related species between beans and peas a european reporter asked once said those european spokes person to comment on the demise of the australian piece he said this proves that the regulatory system works and actually demonstrates how much santa spends the tree you see the other very products have never been tested on the mites this way no other g m food crop developer had tested their products on mice in this way they had only passed the stuff that the piece had already passed and my standard doesn't move genes between similar species move genes between kingdoms from bacteria and viruses to play and they just assume that it functions the same the fourth possible problem is if there's more of a side residues here's a nervous are tolerant corner where they fed it t chickens and twice the number of chickens die but this industry study was done so poorly that even a doubling of the death rate was not statistically significant now the amount of herbicide use is killer just increasing dramatically how many people have heard of super weeds super way he's not like superman these are not the good guys although ultimately they may be doing some good by helping  these are weeds and no longer and i was sprayed with round and they're in eleven to fourteen million acres of united states and it's devastating farmers because why the farmers use roundup ready crops to weed say another one of those last year monsanto senate they said it's about a great about well they were convicted of false advertising in the new york court but that didn't stop them still they be about degradable in europe and then years later they were convicted by making the plant weak defenseless against a disease then roundup promotes diseases in the soil the soil borne pathogens which kill the plan so it creates a perfect storm weaker player and stronger disease kills the plant it also destroys the beneficial bacteria the soil and it sticks around of the soil for months or years that there's a dramatic reduction in the uptake of these nutrients and in the right an even more dramatic reduction of the movement of these nutrients around the plant so the plants are starved the plants are nutrient efficient and one of the livestock eat in the united states roundup ready crops soil corn cotton meal canola meal sugar alfalfa all around them ready so the adam balls now are experiencing a universal depletion of certain nutrients these minerals are really key for certain metabolic processes that keep the animal safe and without these nutrients there's a lot of diseases that can happen so we are eating nutrient deficient sick livestock they are eating nutrient deficient food we are eating nutrient deficient food and what you spray go round it goes into the plant and then part of it gets accumulated in the food portion of the plant so we're eating round it high quantity and roundup is linked to birth defects cancer had to create destruction placental cell death cetera et cetera et cetera lower sperm count abnormal sperm roundup promotes diseases in the soil some of which had been under proper management but are now going crazy there's over forty plant diseases on the rise because if you surround it accumulates in the soil for months or years the alfalfa which we just approved has dramatic reduction in certain nutrients and that's going to cause a serious problem in our dairy for some start scientists discovered a new type of organism as small as a bios resembling a fungus in high concentrations in crops sprayed with ground in high concentrations in certain plants with diseases that are associated  with roundup and high concentrations in the tissues of aborted foetuses they took this new organism in a laboratory exposed it to a chicken was pregnant killed the embryo within twenty four hours so this organism may be responsible for what's currently being seen as a huge tremendous outbreak of infertility and spontaneous abortions and for certain plant diseases which are happening in great numbers maybe it's related to human infertility we don't know this was not supposed to be made public or it was described in a letter from dr don huber to the secretary of agriculture hundred ninety january seventeenth it was leaked onto the internet somehow and that's why i'm telling you about it but researchers i know want to see if this in fact is a problem and what to do about the fifth potential problem is that genes might trades for from the gene or through into our bacteria living inside our intestines possibly into  used in the transformation process when you make a new g m crop it's only used for that particular process but it remains in every cell of all the crops grown in the hundred sixty million acres already one and one that actually uses about everyone uses it but most disease causing bacteria into bacteria that could not be killed with antibiotics and they were told don't worry genes are destroyed during digestion we heard that  seven volunteers before they were fed the meal inside the d n a of the bacteria living inside their intestines was the gene that had been found by month santos scientists in the chemical waste dump in their factory the roundup ready gene had transferred along with the  the promoter into the d n a of the bacteria inside their intestines and was there on a stable basis there and maybe it was just because the incidence but they couldn't kill the bacteria with roundup they have roundup ready got bacteria suggesting that long after we stop eating g m o's we may have these foreign proteins produced continuously inside of u what if the bt gene transfer is from corn chips we don't know if it does because this was a u k government funded study as soon as they found out genes transferred they stopped the funding so we don't know if we're turning our test of flor a living pesticide factories and this is what the doctors point spoke to last week were particularly concerned about because they're describing symptoms which they believe are related to  there was a study done this year in canada they tested the blood of women pregnant women and fetuses and in ninety three percent of the pregnant women they figured it must come from the meat or milk from adam was fed the bt corn but there's a big question mark whether the protein is going to survive that whole system and end up in an intact form to be might be a better explanation for why ninety three percent of pregnant women have bt toxins in their blood which might also be an explanation for why this current generation of children is undergoing one president at heart it's a huge question tonight there's not enough data to conclude but the american academy of environmental medicine says we don't need to wait for more data there isn't enough data in the animal feeding studies showing reproductive problems and even system problems accelerated e g organ damage gastrointestinal problems this functional regulation of insulin cholesterol they that was not in the not g m soy one study showed a seven fold increase in trips and it had better unknown allergen there's more herbicide residues in the soil which could cause reactions even the roundup ready protein that one which is produced continuously inside of us that has properties of a dust mite allergens here's a picture of the rats livers on the right from those that are for g m soy you can see it's normal that's a technical term normally