Towards the end of 1989, a great box of documents arrived at my office, without any...
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Samuel Epstein M.D.:
Towards the end of 1989, a great box of documents arrived at my office, without any indication where they came from. And I opened them, and found in it a complete set of Monsanto files, particularly dealing with toxicological testing of cows that'd been given RBGH. And at that time Monsanto was saying, 'There's no evidence whatsoever of any adverse effects. We don't use antibiotics'. And this clearly showed that they had lied through their teeth. The files described areas of chronic inflammation in the heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen, also reproductive effects, also a whole series of other problems.
Jeremy Rifkin:
It is a silly product. The industrial world is awash in milk. We're overproducing milk. We actually have governments around the world who pay farmers not to produce milk. So the first product Monsanto comes up with is a product that produces more of what we don't need.
Steve Wilson:
But the problem was that use of the artificial hormone caused all kinds of problems for the cows. It caused something called mastitis, which is a very painful infection of the udders. When you milk the cow, if the cow has bad mastitis, some of the, and I don't know how to say this in a, you know, I hope people aren't watching at dinnertime but the pus from the infection of the udders ends up in the milk... And the somatic cell count, they call it, the bacteria count, inside your milk goes up.
Jane Akre:
There's a cost to the cows. The cows get sicker when they're infected with RBGH. They're injected with antibiotics. We know that people are consuming antibiotics through their food and we that that's contributing to antibiotic resistant bacteria and diseases. And we know we're at a crisis when somebody can go into a hospital and get a staff infection and it can't be cured and they die. That's a crisis.
Jeremy Rifkin:
Bad for the cow. Bad for the farmer. Bad potentially for the consumer. The jury is out; we see a lot of conflicting evidence about potential health risk. And, of course, as a consumer, my belief is why should I take any risk?
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through their food
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and we know that that's contributing
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to antibiotic resistant bacteria and diseases
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And we know we're at a crisis when somebody can go
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into a hospital and get a staff infection
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and it cant be cured and they die
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That's a crisis
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Bad for the cow
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Bad for the farmer
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Bad potentially for the consumer
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The jury is out
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we see a lot of conflicting evidence
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about potential health risk
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And of course as a consumer
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my belief is why should I take any risk
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 118
Timestamp in movie: 00h 31m 51s
Uploaded: 01 December, 2022
Genres: documentary, history
Summary: Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
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00:49 Factory farm cows have not been the only victims
01:04 There are times when you think about it
01:09 One of the questions that comes up periodically
01:12 It is never a decision that any CEO makes lightly
00:38 The corporation is not a person
00:36 What if it never ran
00:34 It can go back
00:18 The pursuit of profit is an old story
00:45 With deregulation privatization free trade
00:32 Privatization does not mean you take a public institution
00:30 The goal for the corporations is to maximize profit
00:33 About how they feel about things
00:16 In a world economy where information is filtered
00:35 One of the first stories that Jane came up with
00:24 Monsanto sent the second letter
00:36 I said you know this is news
00:37 What Fox neglected to report is this
00:36 Is a product that produces more of what we don t need
00:36 Is the collusion between corporations
00:35 Of their decisions