until i had the chance to interview jeffrey smith who you're going to hear from me shortly that the issue of corporate control became clear five companies with monsanto in the lead are genetically modifying the common foods most of us rely on corn so i can no lawyer sugar beets and four others syngenta bear down and dupont are also there five companies who as you'll hear aren't very familiar with the term full disclosure but before we hear from jeffrey smith we're going to hear from local players who've been working to alert the public and change the marketplace for a long long time i am honored to introduce first for starters goldie kaufman who has worked for nearly thirty years before  retirement as p c s nutrition education manager and from two thousand and one to two thousand and six she also served as one of three federally appointed consumer representatives to the national organic standards board at the u s d a please join me in welcoming goldie thank you thank you very much i feel looking out here as though i am looking at an extended family all of you are extensions of my family and i would like to say that that is how i feel because the serious the incredible serious nature of what we are facing in terms of taking back the means of producing our food from the wall street thieves is nothing less than literally fighting against complete annihilation of humanity if it continues as it shows or has been the intention of monsanto and others and that cannot be seen it there is no such thing as overstatement when we look at these issues when we understand that more than half of all of the seed seeds are literally in the hands of these thieves but we also have good news today we're going to give you a little bit of bad news yes but there is plenty of good news to the good news is just as with all the rest of our ninety nine percenters issues we're not going to take it any some people would say that getting upset about g m o those at a time when the economy is in such a mess as with so many other issues is something that must be looked upon as less or do you think it is less or new because what is most vital is food good nutritious food for your kids for your elders for yourself for your own life and for the life of others to me this is the most important issue that i have dealt with and the most exciting one ok we will persevered but it will take hard work it will take educating yourself dr berenson unless berenson is a medical doctor he is our exceptional co chair of the efforts of g m o free seattle s to be fully manifest as g m o free washington les parents and is board certified in internal medicine twenty five year career focusing on prevention and wellness medicine if you knew your child and your children were being poisoned would you do something to prevent that would you sprinkle rat poisoning on your children's food g m o free seattle is a group that's dedicated to spreading education about g m o foods and our goal is to basically to expand our volunteer base and grow more into a movement today we're actually changing our name from g m o free seattle to g m o free washington how many people here would like to see more g m o free restaurants where you can safely go to eat how many people would like to have more natural food stores labeling their products being genetically modified so we have choices when we go into these stores how many people like to be able to go to health care workers such as myself and be able to to have them more knowledgeable this is what you mostly washington's going to do we're going to be working with restaurants we're going to be working with health care workers we're going to be working with farmers and ranchers and we have a wonderful one here today to share some information and finally like to thank our sponsors help for us nutritionals our state sponsor and united natural foods marlene's natural store in delhi the central co op consumers co op and natural food exposing here the lives of the companies that control the food you eat the food that all of us the jeffrey smith has been a leading consumer advocate promoting just non g m o choices for many many years two of his most popular books include seeds of deception exposing industry and government law is about the safety of the genetically engineered foods you eat and genetic roulette the documented health risk genetically engineered food i think i'm just going to cut to the chase here and introduced mr smith we will come the occupier to the occupie executives describe your ideal future in fifteen to twenty years and executives describe the world in which one hundred percent commercial seeds were genetically engineered and patented they were planning to replace nature and arthur andersen consulting work backwards from that goal to create the strategy and tactics to achieve it and among their tools was their control over this government and they are occupying our food if you think that in only regulated money supply is dangerous you should think how much more dangerous and on regulated food supply it is i don't regulated agriculture co they are loosing genes into the gene pool itself propagate and this pollution of the gene pool we have no technology to clean up today the genes are already released can outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste and who is it affecting now it's affecting everyone who eats and living organisms there has never been a technology deployed with this level of exposure with this level of danger and with this level of our kids these people aren't trying to replace nature fortunately consumers are at the top of the food chain the public is at the top of the food chain when people of your up in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine realized that their health dangers in the foods they were about to be released they got very upset and the food companies listened and in april of one nine hundred ninety nine a tipping point was achieved in about a virtually every major food company committed to stop using g m and gradients because of a very high profile food safety scandal that alerted people to the occupation that was about to happen in their food so the food companies by and large eliminated direct the religious of g m food in europe when we started explaining to people our coalition of educators about the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone injected into cows to increase milk supply and increases the amount of puss in the milk the antibiotics that bo growth hormone and i g f one i g f one is so dangerous someone who used to work for monsanto a scientist told me when he's colleagues discovered how much i g f one was in the milk from kraut from callas treated with bo e growth hormone these three scientists working for monsanto refused to drink milk there after unless it was organic one brought his own cow because they were under willing and willing to eat the food administration only serve organic food they are under willing to eat the genetically engineered food that most of us suffer from every day in fact consider actually is worse on g m o's of the bush administration you know put is the food safety czar michael taylor michael teller was monsanto's former attorney then in one nine hundred ninety one he became the person in charge  policy at the f d a when the gillmor policy was created the policy says we don't know any difference of g m s therefore no safety testing is necessary no labeling is necessary monsanto who brought us p dangerous if they could lead to allergies toxins new diseases and nutritional problems and now years later the american academy of environmental medicine says it's true they say the animal feeding studies show reproductive problems accelerator aging organ damage gastrointestinal problems immune system problems they say every doctor in america should prescribe nagumo diets to everyone so let me give you a run minute summary of some of the things that the peer reviewed published studies or industry studies have found about geo's immune system problems when g lives as i've traveled to thirty three countries hosted by non governmental organizations i see a powerful religious immune system embedded in over a million n jews we have two girls superimposed on each other the corporate part corporatocracy that's driven by profit and those of us that are demanding truth demanding health demanding freedom demanding earth back and we are far more powerful than we know because we don't control the mainstream media they do so they have the reflection but if we look and we see ourselves we are far more powerful and i could tell you this that the g m o issue now is on fire there was a whirl round hundred events like this around the country this month mostly on sunday so absolutely urgent we're going to happening to our children to our batteries is absolutely urgent when you think of a truly asure inadvertent mention see room you've got to stop the bleeding patient the occupy program is brilliant and it was looking for systemic change but in the meantime we have a bleeding patient we're feeding infant formula looking to see but we don't have to wait so here's a few short cuts well a tipping point we saw in europe we saw that inspired by growth hormone in united states and we are starting to see it against you know those the third fastest growing labor claim in america products sold in grocery stores is non g m o this is a very good moves it shows that consumers are the top of the food chain she was well if they see a drop in market share of even a small amount there's no consumer benefits to g m o those there's the poison drinking herbicide tolerant crops and the poison which had the power take industry to try and take over the food supply that same greed will get rid of it because the food companies want to lose sales so about the health dangers sign up for the information get you do same time just by protecting yourself it is powerful activism it is powerful activism to move the market and get involved in g m o free washington and support your brothers and sisters around the country and together just a tiny percentage of us we tell it's not an election kraft food nine years isn't about eight years are not going to wait for a fifty percent drop in market share to say maybe we should remove the five percent should be all that's necessary of us shoppers fifteen million americans that's five point six million households that's easy because twenty eight million americans already bargain account a regular basis and guess what in this case where the majority fifty three percent need to hug you have we to hand our farmers close to us and not let monsanto take over our lands if you want to control people control the food and fun and she says if you want to control the food contrary to see the this is the biggest gamble of our lives  earth they want to eliminate seed saving in the one point four billion farmers so that every farmer on earth buys the limited genetics available in the catalogs at a time of global climate change it's the diversity that is our protection they are willing to risk the entire food security for their profits so less is like waking up and going oh my god this is the his shoe and he hasn't stopped working and he's like he is now creating an organization so everyone who runs to be involved could just go over sign it and plug in and do really important work so thank you l most americans ninety five percent of americans want g m was labeled most american so there would have only jimbo's if label if we need to create a tipping point we could do it without convincing anyone who's resistant when you give someone a shopping guide what if they say they say thank you can i have more it's giving people what they want so don't think about trying to convince someone who's a biotech guy as your activism your activism is helping people do what they want to do and easing the other guy's just out of the picture most americans will never know that they're eating g m o never know we got rid of it for them we don't need to convince those who don't realize that food relates to health we just give information to people that want to know parents of young kids health care professionals people who are sick health conscious shoppers religious groups that think means god move over so here's some excuses to get involved and then we'll wrap up wrong this is the time we have never seen this level of activism with  issue before this was predicted by supermarket nudists they saw the trends it's being now shown by the nielsen survey which shows the fast rapid adoption of g m free labels is being seen in over one hundred events because this is news now every action you take is multiplied it's multiply with leverage because now people are waking up it's in the air ten years ago  about g m o as ten minutes later you got through to them now they're saying oh yeah i got ten things in my email box what is that about oh yeah ok what can i do that's what's happening now another excuse imagine being w in the middle of the night by your great great great grandchild saying what did you do when you found out that they were taken over the food supply which g m owes so you really excuse can be the future generations your excuse can be your current children and your excuse can be your living beings or even the living beings in the gut bacteria inside you as we said the  human feeding study ever produce ever published the only human feeding study ever published shows that part of a gene inserted into soybeans to make up roundup ready transferred into the d n a of the bacteria inside us and the bacteria did not die in the presence of roundup these folks had roundup ready got bacteria it appeared that the gene was functioning this means a long after we stop eating g m o we may have these proteins produced continuously inside of us and let me tell you the other human study that was just published they looked at the blood of ninety of thirty pregnant women in canada and the toxin from monsanto's corn was in their blood bt toxin is an insecticide that breaks up in the stomach of insects and kills them it's produced in the bt corn from monsanto and the regulators said don't worry it's destroyed during digestion it wasn't it was it ninety three percent of the blood of pregnant women and eighty percent of their unborn fetuses now what if the gene from corn chips that produces b transfers to our gut bacteria a scientist raise this point to me and i realize this could turn our intestinal flora into a living pesticide factories producing this bt toxin over and over again maybe that's why it's in ninety three percent of the pregnant women were already colonized in our gut bacteria i gave a talk last week and both valley california and two doctors were there saying they're seeing probably ople guts in the babies in the young kids they're seeing all these problems that may be related to p t and in particular g m o's in general so another excuse that you could have is to protect your gut bacteria because it's crying and saying get away get me away from those  whether it's a personal issue whether it's an environmental issue whether it's a future generation issue whether it's protecting farmers whether it's keeping the freedom of the food supply out of the hands