"A laboratory somewhere in Europe" "On that day, the film crew had no idea that the lab door would open onto a ground-breaking experiment with unimaginable consequences." "ALL OF US GUINEA-PIGS NOW?" "Founder of CRIIGEN Euro-MP" "I think this study is really historical." "Genetically modified organisms are not just a matter of worldwide concern, as they concern all human beings, they're making history too." "It's the first time a technology has had the potential to change the whole world and to give those who own the technology power over the rest of the world." "June 1944." "Thousands of young Americans give their lives on the beaches of Normandy for what they hope will be a better, more human world." "At the end of the Second World War, a minority of wheelendealers, predators greedy for profit, launched a third world war of a kind never seen." "For over 50 years it's been the deadliest war our planet has ever known, killing people, wildlife, vegetation and bacteria" " life in all its diversity, beauty and richness." "Every three seconds a child dies of hunger." "Every year eight million people die of cancer." "We're victims of environmental diseases with consequences on our hormones and nervous and immune systems." "Thousands of animal and plant species are going extinct, massacred by this cannibalistic minority." "So much young blood shed here, to bring an end to a war which culminated with that immense nuclear explosion at Hiroshima." "Two major 20th-century technologies continue to disrupt the world." "One is nuclear energy, the other is genetics." "Genetic transformation." "They're inextricably linked, part of the same network." "What happened was that, after the Hiroshima bomb, the U.S. Department of Energy, which had so much money and staff for making that bomb, didn't know what to do with them." "So they built huge computers." "Thus was born the project for sequencing the human genome, and that led to GMOs." "There's a continuity from those products used for war, those technologies used for waging war..." "The very companies that developed them are the same consortiums." "There's a network of 250 financial families" "Professor of molecular biology Caen University in control of half the world's GDP, half of the world's financial riches." "This system naturally leads to a sense of domination, where the little people can be sacrificed, as was done here, as was done with the Japanese in Hiroshima, and as is being done today with the people of Fukushima..." "All sacrificed for the profit of the few who produce chemical products, GMOs, pesticides and nuclear energy." "A few kilometres from the landing beaches is Caen." "In this historical city, capital of Normandy, is Caen University and Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini." "Surrounded by scientists and doctors, he's been fighting for years to reveal the truth." "The testicles contain an impressively large quantity of pollutants." "In all living species, from the crocodile to the bird... in fish, oysters... and in mammals... there's a decreased sperm count." "There's a 20 to 30% fall in biodiversity across all species." "Testicles are an excellent environmental indicator." "The question often asked is:" ""What is a GMO?"" "Never before has a species, at industrial speed, modified the genetic inheritance of life around it." "We've become a vector in the modification of evolution." "The terrible thing is that agricultural, edible GMOs, the commercialised ones, are plants which contain pesticides, either because they absorb them or produce them." "Palace of Nations" "The world's children eat GMOs in 80% of processed products" " a huge figure - in the shape of the residue of two GM plants: soya and corn." "In this way, they consume them in dairy products, soda, biscuits, ready meals, sauces... even in minced meat." "GMOs..." "in the American vision of the world," "Member of Advisory Committee UN Council of Human Rights are the main weapon for the economic disarmament of the Third World." "IMF International Monetary Fund I mean that the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank" "VVTO World Trade Organisation are mercenary organisations working for America and the oligarchies and financial muscle of the food-processing industry." "Their job is to force open the markets of Third World countries." "The USA, by means of guile and conferences and, very often..." "I'm sorry to say this but I've seen it a lot." "Through the corruption of ministers of agriculture, and the corruption of sub-Saharan heads of state..." "Burkina Faso is an example." "By these means, the USA manages to impose the use of GMOs on peasants, and this leads to catastrophe." "As regards public health, whatever people say, we do not know the long-term consequences" "of genetically modifying the food we consume." "There is a real danger, which frightens me, for myself and for my children." "And even worse than this, it's financial slavery." "Keep in QTOUPS!" "Today what we want, at last, is for independent laboratories" "Euro-MP to analyse the long-term effects on human health of GMOs." "A few tests have been done on rats." "Monsanto did one study but tried to hide the results." "We got the German court to make them publish it, and it showed that there were serious modifications in a number of the rat's organs." "So it's clear there are dangers, serious and imminent dangers." "It's time for citizens to put an end to it." "You're hurting!" "Committee for Research Er Independent Information on Genetic Engineering" "Hello, everyone." "Thanks for coming to this meeting of CRllGEN's scientific council." "CRIIGEN initiated" "President of GRIIGEN a long-term study on a GMO, and today we'll show you the preliminary results." "I'll let Gilles-Eric give us the results of this world first, a study on GMOs plus Roundup carried out over two years on healthy adult rats." "Gilles-Eric, over to you." "First I'd like to thank you all, because without the support, the friendly but above all scientific, legal and administrative support of CRIIGEN, initiated by Corinne," "then with Jean-Marie Pelt, and now with you, we couldn't have done this study." "TWO YEARS EARLIER" "Experiment carried out on 200 animals" "The animals are quite calm." "This is the heart of the experiment, which took over three years to set up." "It's already the world's longest-lasting experiment on animals eating GMOs, including the herbicide which goes with them." "It's an experiment which will give an answer to the question:" "are this GMO and this pesticide," "Roundup, which we've studied in relation to human cells..." "Are they toxic in the long term to human health?" "Up until today we've always thought it scandalous that the world's governments authorise GMOs without doing tests beyond three months." "Three months isn't very long in the life of an animal." "It's not long enough to demonstrate chronic effects, long-term effects." "At this moment the study is still confidential." "It'll be made public when the international scientific paper is published." "When that comes out." "This biological experiment is one of the world's most expensive." "It has cost us, as you know, almost 3 million euros." "Once again, CRIIGEN and Caen University have been able to manage the finances through an accountancy practice and an auditor, and thanks mainly, but not solely, to a foundation and an association which have supported this work." "So it's totally independent of the authorities and of the suppliers of GMOs and biotechnologies." "We have no choice." "Meeting We have to complete a toxicological study over two years." "Because..." "There are studies that have been done, but they've been too short-lived." "I'd like to draw attention to the fact of what this association is all about." "It's summed up by our name," "CERES: responsible Consumers and Entrepreneurs." "What we want..." "We're neither for nor against." "What we want is to know, scientifically, what the effects are on the human body." "I realised that there are scientists... defending contradictory positions." "That's to be expected." "So..." "The phrase that occurred to me, which I'd like to quote here, is:" ""When theories disagree, experimentation is the only way."" "I often feel, sitting at the table, that I don't know what I'm eating." "I have doubts about the pesticides on the vegetables." "My children, my daughters, are still young." "I'd like, somewhat idealistically, to bequeath them a cleaner world." "A safer world." "What we're doing is almost revolutionary." "We're saying that there are consumers, there are entrepreneurs, there are people, who are saying, "We're going to finance a study," ""and, whether the results are good or bad," ""we are going to make them public."" "Good health, everyone!" "And... may our projects come to fruition." "Experiment: 10th month" "We'll start with rat 92-54." "It's a controlled environment." "We're practically in spacesuits!" "So that we can't transmit any diseases." "Each rat is monitored twice a week." "Right." "Each one has a chip." "There are nascent tumours, which are detected very early." "Here, look, by the throat." "The tumours appeared after the third month, in the fourth and fifth months." "There's one variant between these groups of cages, and that's the food and drink." "We're confident that the effects are due to the food because the other parameters are always strictly controlled." "The rats have several types of tumour." "There are renal tumours in the males, mammary fibroadenomas in the females, and then skin tumours called keratoacanthomas, which we've also identified." "Plus, in the sick rats, we've also had pancreatic lesions." "I've just found out about these in the histiopathologisfs reports." "These are life experiments." "I couldn't discuss them in front of the personnel because the experiments are done blind." "They don't know what the rats are being given." "What are they being given?" "They're being fed a GMO which grows in the presence of Roundup." "It's transgenic corn, which is grown everywhere, over 98% of the American continent." "This transgenic corn containing Roundup" "NK603 GM corn is given in three doses, 11%, 22% and 33% of a perfectly balanced diet." "Some rats get corn which hasn't been treated with Roundup, some get Roundup-treated corn, and some get only Roundup." "So we can find out, for the first time, where the side effects come from." "We'll know the effects of this weed-killer at concentrations you find in tap water, at higher concentrations, like in rivers, and at slightly lower concentrations than what farmers use." "Genetic pollution!" "That's enough!" "SUPPORT FOR THE 58 SCYTHERS ON TRIAL IN VERSAILLES" "Release all GMO scythers!" "There's symbolism to this appeal hearing in beautiful Versailles, because the defendants were all acquitted once." "This would be the first imprisonment of peasants for scything fields since the Middle Ages and the kings." "Soldiers, our conscience is clear" "We humans each other do not kill..." "The absolutely staggering thing is that the government hasn't even checked whether these GMOs contaminate neighbouring fields." "But 100% of the experts agree that contamination is inevitable." "Do you know what GMOs are?" " So you're against them too?" " Yes." " You don't want them?" " Like José Bové." "Bravo!" "Us too." "Have a nice day." "Doctor of biology I'm proud." "It's not my first time in court." "I've been called as a witness by the defence because I'm a scientist who uses GMO technology." "And it's because I use that technology in my research on an almost daily basis that I know how totally haphazard GM technology is, and how it's completely irresponsible today to put GMOs in fields and on our plates." "It's thanks to these scythers that society is debating the problem." "The Monsanto lawyer is trying to portray us as vandals." "But to counter that, there are all these people coming along and speaking about their concerns, saying what they think." "That makes us strong." "We don't yet know... what will happen." "We'll see." "We haven't spoken yet." "When they've heard us..." "Come on, let's eat!" "See you, friends!" "The verdict: for 54 scyihers, suspended sentences and a 7000-eur0 fine." "For 4 repeal' offenders, a 3600- euro fine." "Acquiflal for 23 scythers who refused to give DNA samples." "Monsanto was granted 14,000 euros in damages, 1000 of which was for "moral harm"." "A big, big problem for the researchers is that seed manufacturers refuse to hand over their GM seeds for testing around the world." "We had to travel the world to find a Canadian agricultural college, which didn't want to be named..." "If I remember right, there was a petition by American scientists demanding the right to carry out research." "I think this is an argument we should use more when we're accused of being obscurantist and anti-research." "Theyd0n't want research!" "The courts are behind us." "We're not heading that way." "We're going to a barge on our right." "Private research scorns our health!" "For 30 years the law has only allowed pesticides to be tested by the industrialists selling them." "You see what sort of a society we're in!" "No filming, please." "GMOs, like nuclear power, cause more problems over the generations." "We're fighting for your children." "I hope you remember." "For your children." "There'll be no limit to GMOs." "None!" "You eat them every day." "Have you eaten meat today?" "Then you've eaten GMOs." "They're in eggs, ham, chicken..." "Any meat you eat contains GMOs." "So this fight is for you too." "Rebel against it!" "There were 27 vans of police and gendarmes to arrest the demonstrators who'd come to support me." "I felt like I was in a movie." "I didn't understand what was happening." "But I realised that these people feel trampled on by this system that's poisoning their children." "They saw that someone who speaks up about it gets set upon." "It's not right at all." "It's the first time that a scientist has rebelled and decided that he won't simply accept criticism of his competence." "I think this is fundamental because the fight for independent testing, for scientific debate, for research..." "Because what we're fighting for is research." "This fight, it seems to me, is one of the main democratic fights of today." "The problem is that the experts to whom the authorities refer are not those that society really needs." "Consequently, there's a general avoidance of any awkward findings." "So it's open season on whistle-blowers, who, if successful, could convince the public of the need for further research, which would force a more responsible approach from those who think of us as guinea-pigs." "It's no coincidence that the latest Eurobarometer concerning GMOs shows, once again, an increase in Europeans opposed to them." "For those raising alarms about the health effects of GMOs, a great deal is at stake democratically and politically." "I'd like to thank not only everyone who's here, but..." "There's been a turn-around because 1300 scientists from 30 countries have pledged their support for me." "We're here because at 1:30 today, in courtroom 17 of the District Court," "I'm bringing an action for libel against Marc Fellous, who was president of the commission for evaluating, advising on and authorising GMOs in France, for nine years, and against the French Plant Biotechnology Association, of which he's president, for libelling me." "That's the real debate." "One defends the people, one defends the multinationals." "It'll be the death of us!" "No, it's not that." "Mr Séralini is defending his interests..." "His interests?" "What interests?" "You're an advertiser." "You need the multinationals' cash..." "No, I don't have a single multinational client." "You're here to defend Monsanto's interests." "The Post Office is a client... a university..." "Yes, I'm playing up for the cameras." "For the cameras..." "Come and tell us who you are." "Explain who you are to the cameras." "Let go or I'll smack you one!" "That's physical aggression!" "The multinationals..." "Are you one of their capos?" "I can tell you what the debate is about." "There's a combat that no one wants to talk about, between organic and non-organic farming." "That's why we're here!" "Dominique Marion, organic farmer from Poitou-Charentes," "President of the Organic Federation..." "Yours is a fine profession." "I represent 10,000 peasants." "I think the work done by Gilles-Eric Séralini..." "I'm for organic farming..." " May I finish?" " But not exclusively." "French Biotech High Council He's opened doors which the HCB closed..." "We organic farmers are very happy this trial is taking place." "He used inappropriate language, saying I was "a militant first, a researcher second"," ""a militant researcher", "a fear merchant", and saying that I'm "supposedly independent"..." "What these words are saying is that people like me shouldn't speak out in public or be taken seriously." "I think these are low blows, dishonest attacks, aimed at research which could prove to show the truth in this domain." "Experiment: 13th month" "By the 13th month, the mammary tumours had increased." "From 10 to 30% of females treated were affected." "There were fewer tumours in treated males." "On the other hand, they developed more renal pathologies." "You can clearly see this isn't normal." "It's an abnormal growth." "According to international norms, when the tumour exceeds 25% of body weight, or when the animal is suffering, we have to put it down." "It's anaesthetised and we identify the exact nature of the tumour, using histiopathologists who don't know the protocol." "So we get a certificate regarding the rat's pathology." "Scary, isn't it?" "It gives us a clear visual picture of what industrial food can do" "to animals." "What really disgusts me is that governments don't force companies to test, at least at this time, the food being given to all the world's children." "The worst thing is the waiting." "We're waiting for the coffins, for the people to start dying." "When I got to the hospital" "I saw that the same companies made the medicines." "I thought, "First they poison me..."" "Or so I suppose." ""Now they're treating me!"" "And now, in January 2011," "I've been moved" "Priest of Saint-Porchaire by the death, in Charente-Maritime, of a farmer, a victim of the intensive use of pesticides." "How is it possible for a man who devotes his life to working the soil in order to feed people, to die from his work through the use of the so-called "advances" of our millennium?" "I'm getting lots of letters of that sort." "From women who have lost their husbands, but who didn't get the diseases recognised as occupational ones because it's something you don't talk about." "Yannick had the courage to speak up, to get out there..." "I've realised how brave he was." "Lots of people keep quiet, under pressure from cooperatives or from..." "He understood that the only alternative is organic." "But that wasn't his fight." "He wanted to prevent people getting sick in the future." "I hope that, in the future, wanting people and farmers to be..." "The sacred aspect of farming." "Writers have written about the sacred aspect of working to feed the world." "To feed people." "Every Sunday in church I say," ""The fruit of the earth and of people's labour."" "That's full of meaning." "It shows how sacred it is." "But it's becoming utopian." "There's no rhyme or reason to it!" "Yannick... hated the idea that people are poisoning farmers for money." "That disgusted him more than anything." "And it's what killed him." "The number of farmers has fallen." "There are now fewer than 400,000 in France." "Organic farmer And in 2009 almost 900 committed suicide." "We've been talking about pesticides for a while, but GMOs are just as much a threat as..." "Because they're pesticide pumps." "GMOs pump out pesticides." "People don't make the link." "They're sold by big companies who are great communicators." "They fool us with their spin." "They're even sold as an alternative to pesticides, a way of reducing pesticide use." "But, today, countries in the grip of GMOs are realising that a lot more pesticides are being used than before GMOs." "Besides the pesticide issue, they're patenting living things, which is highly questionable." "They're threatening organic farming's freedom to innovate because the debate is couched in those terms." "The adoption of GMOs makes organic farming impossible because the basis of organic farming is "no GMOs"." "I feel like there's a boot grinding children's faces into the earth, into these fields of corn, which are full of new genes and pesticides." "So, of course, when the verdict was announced," "I was relieved." "Justice had been done." "On 78 January 2077," "Marc Fellous was found guilty of libel." "It was a big "thank you"" "to the tens of thousands who'd supported me." "My heart went out to them." "Fear of losing?" "I didn't care for my own sake." "I felt like the result wasn't for me, but was for society." "We must all stand up and say whether we want these products." "It's with immense pleasure that I welcome you to Le Thor, a town without GMOs..." "Mayor of Thor to this general meeting of the GMO scythers." "These GMOs are mostly pesticide plants." "General practitioner Scyther We're starting t0 get results about the toxicity of the pesticides, about pathology rates, about endocrine disruptors, which are why we have sterility problems, miscarriages, foetal abnormalities..." "We have women of 30 having trouble getting pregnant, more in vitro fertilisation..." "This is where I think our leaders aren't thinking clearly." "We're told that spending on health is going up... but no one's pointing out the cause of these diseases." "Soon we'll have no money to treat people." "It's time to face facts." "We have effective treatment for certain cancers, but the numbers keep increasing." "People get regular treatment, people who have metastasised..." "Their spreading cancers are treated, often successfully." "Not all, but there's been huge progress." "At a huge cost, though." "They only talk about money." "I'm talking about the human cost." "I have customers in the south who've said to me," ""Send me a petition." "I don't want GM wine."" "There's a worldwide genetic racket by firms controlling the seeds." "This gives them the power of life and death over people." "You have to pay to eat, and with seeds in our pockets we can eat." "But if we, the people, no longer have sovereignty over food, then we're slaves to a financial system." "This is a power struggle." "It's a power struggle because there are economic interests and scientistic interests behind it." "Up against all that, non-violent civic disobedience creates this power struggle." "When Jean-Baptiste launched the scything movement, each time we carried out actions we did so to win a battle." "We're trying to go forward, we're not scything for its own sake." "No one wants to do that." "We've always said this." "I don't want the scythers to be the armed wing of the anti-GMO movement." "That's not what they're about." "It's a citizens' disobedience movement because we don't believe any other action is possible." "As his action," "Bruno Joly, farmer in the Poitoufiharentes, is standing up for life by every year replanting heirloom corn, thereby refusing the diktats of the financial lobbies." "This is the beginning of a peasant reappropriation of corn farming, finding out how it works" "Farmer converting t0 organic and how we can optimise and best adapt these strains t0 our farrns." "The funny thing is, with these strains that we've got from peasants all over the countryside," "we're managing, without much know-how and without much selection, to get yields more or less the same as with hybrids." "On the one hand, we still have a lotto learn, but we can already see the huge potential in these varieties." "Brussels" " BELGIUM European Parliament Our goal today is both simple and complex." "It's a question of risk assessment." "It was the first time such a debate had been organised, publicly, in the European Parliament, which is a place that's both symbolic and strategic." "The debate was between the EFSA" "European Food Safety Authority and scientists independent of the seed companies." " Is there a traffic jam?" " It'll be OK after this red light." "It'd be nice to catch the train." "A very positive thing was the quality of the questions." "There were pro-GMO people, lobbyists for the seed companies, and then there were people from NGOs..." "Questions were asked quite aggressively, but politely." "And then the commissioner's words..." "That was a revolution." "We've been waiting for ten years." "The seed manufacturers today are surfing on the idea that there's no problem." "That's because there are no studies." "In countries with crops where no studies have been done there are problems." "And these problems are quite impossible to hide." "What's happened in India, in South Africa... in Australia..." "That's all in the open." "Even the problems American farmers are facing are in the open." "That's why, when I heard that first participant..." "She was a very nice lady, financed by the Bill Gates Foundation to sell GMOs around the world." "If GMOs really do have the impact we fear, then in ten years we'll see who's ahead and who's behind." "Palace of Nations" "A GMO is a patent." "You pay for the right to plant this patent once." "And every year from then on lawyers from Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta come along and tell you that you have to pay every year for the license fee to use this patent." "I'll say it again because I don't want to be sued." "With the legal systems existing in these countries today, this way of doing things is perfectly legal, but it makes financial slaves of millions of peasants." "For this report, I read studies published over the last five years on the impact of different agricultural models." "I was amazed to see that many experiments based on agro-ecology have produced remarkable results, even on a large scale." "Investing, for agriculture, in people also means investing in the transmission of know-how, in particular by favouring the horizontal transmission of know-how, like with the Campesino a Campesino movement in South America and Cuba, or with the development of farm schools in Senegal." "I therefore invite all nations committed to the people's right to food to explore how to get the most benefit from agro-ecology's considerable potential, in order to reduce hunger and poverty, especially where their impact is strongest," "in disadvantaged Zones, and to help the poorest farmers." "KAYDARA AGRQECOLOGICAL FARM SCHOOL" "Every dfiY you have to eat." "And what you eat is provided by farmers." "Agro-ecology teacher If the youngsters of the villages and countryside don't work the land," "the old people have no strength left, so the land is left untended." "The land that feeds us is neglected." "There are no trees here." "No trees, nothing." "It used to be a football pitch." "In four years we've transformed it." "So it is possible to transform this environment." "When people come in this garden they say," ""You can have a coconut garden like this in Samba Dia?"" "With a coconut grove you're there all the time." "You can grow crops under the palms because you've created a micro-climate." "It's a king of a tree." "This tree gives you fruit," "lets you thatch your roofs, your tree nurseries..." "Then there are all the possibilities of the coconut:" "coconut milk, grated coconut, coconut cake..." "And it's a tree that's always clean, always beautiful to look at." "You are hereto learn." "You must seek out knowledge, build up a vegetable capital for tomorrow, an animal capital for tomorrow..." "Keep that in mind." "Do you understand?" "Why do we mix the crops?" "Lettuce and onions." "It's a protection system." "You see, you have lettuce here..." "Well, the onions next to the lettuce protect the lettuce from nematode worms." "The lettuce is nicely surrounded by a barrier of onions, which are natural repellents." "But you don't mix just any crops." "You have to know the plant's needs because some pairings don't work well." "Today we're going to look at the neem, or Azadirachta ind/ca, which originally comes from South Asia." "By using the neem, you don't have to use what we call synthetic products, dimethoates like Systoate..." "Chemical products." "This plant answers the needs of our type of agriculture, which is ecological." "Is the neem harmful?" "Is it a danger to your health?" "You can drink neem." "You can make neem soap and wash with it." "We use neem oil to protect our seeds." "So it isn't a toxic product, it isn't harmful." "It doesn't kill the insects on the crops." "Insects smell the product and go elsewhere." "Bela, don't squeeze the strawberry." "To pick the fruit, give it a little twist." "Nature has wonderful solutions." "To start off, I handed you seeds marked "organic seeds"." "These crops must be taken great care of because we're going to collect our own seeds, which we'll hold onto and multiply among us, so as not to be overrun by GMOs." "You know what they are?" "Genetically modified organisms." "This means that if..." "Make sure you understand this." "If you get overrun by GMOs, you'll no longer be ecological farmers." "You'll be losing your lives." "Understand?" "If you let yourselves get overrun by those seeds called GMOs, which are manufactured by multinationals to overrun underdeveloped countries, then it'll be over." "The noose will be around your neck." "Chains around their necks, manacles on their feet, thousands of Africans lefi for {he American colonies from {he Slave House on Gorée Island, Senegal." "Millions of men, women and children today say no to misery and shame because people who yesterday were treated as slaves by the powerful affirmed in their hearts that they were people." "So many died over three centuries that no one must ever forget." "The Chinese government thanks Mr de Schutter for his work." "The Chinese government is very committed to the protection of the right to food." "We thank the special rapporteur on the right to food for the completeness and fullness of his report." "The world food crisis of 2007/8, which led to rioting in certain poor countries, has forced nations to take a new interest in agriculture." "Mr de Schutter, do you think that an innovation such as GMOs can help developing countries?" "There are GMOs which make it possible to use pesticides sold by the company which produces the seeds, which are resistant to its pesticides..." "This company is Monsanto." "The major problem we've encountered with the spread of these GMOs in the countries adopting them is a very strong dependence..." "One week later, 14 March 2011, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station:" "NUCLEAR EXPLOSION" "The police will give you a sign." "Please wait before crossing." "No to nuclear power!" "No to nuclear power!" "Go back!" "Stop the nuclear power stations!" "Stop the nuclear power stations!" "Once at the arrival point, please disperse." "Do not linger." "Disperse." "Shut up!" "All together now!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Let us demonstrate!" "Shut up!" "Quiet!" "WE DON'T NEED NUCLEAR POWER!" "Comrade" "We'll be rewarded" "That day will come" "The dawn is close" "Comrade" "Behind this darkness" "A brighter day will come..." "Thank you." "The inhabitants of Minamisoma in Fukushima do not only worry about the future." "Every day they have to live with the fear of radioactivity." "Ten thousand tonnes of radioactive material are still stored at Brennilis, still being dismantled after 20 years." "IT'S NOT JUST THE ATOM OR THE CANDLE LET'S USE OUR BRAINS!" "NUCLEAR POWER KILLS THE FUTURE!" "Reading of a letter wriflen by Nina, a teacher from Chernobyl." ""I teach Russian literature to children" ""who are different from those in my class ten years ago." ""They're always going to funerals." ""They also bury houses and trees." ""If the children stand in line" "'To!" "75 or 20 minutes," ""they drop in a faint, bleeding from the nose." ""You can neither surprise them nor make them happy." ""They are always drowsy, tired." ""They're pale." "Grey, even." ""They don't play." "They don?" "have fun." ""If they fight or break a window without meaning to," ""the teachers are pleased." ""They don't scold them." ""Because these children are not like other children." ""They grow so slowly." ""If I ask them to repeat something during class," ""they can't." ""Sometimes I say just one phrase" ""and ask them to repeat it." ""Impossible." ""They can?" "remember."" "Don't kill us!" "Don't kill our children!" "I'm begging you!" "Who is this flag meant for?" "Don't kill our children!" "I'm begging you!" "France and Japan are 2 countries very much alike because they have a huge number of nuclear reactors," "Euro-MP but the decision to adopt nuclear power was not a democratic one." "An elite decides for everyone else." "In Europe, the country with the biggest anti-nuclear demonstration has been Germany." "In France, polls have shown that 77% no longer want nuclear power." "You have to understand that nuclear power means a lack of transparency, means secrecy, means lies!" "There's no way through from here to the station's east exit." "Please go through the Bic Camera store." "All those going to the east exit will go faster through Bic Camera." "WHO headquarters" "From Hiroshima to Fukushima:" "what was bound to happen" "According to activists of the Independent WHO movement, the number of deaths due i0 Chernobyl is not 50, but 985,000." "They denounce the agreement which the WHO, the World Health Organisation, signed with the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency." "We've been here from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every working day since 26 April 2007." "It'll be exactly five years on 26 April 2012." "There are 300 of us, more or less, taking it in turns." "On average there are one or two of us, three in winter, because the weather makes it harder to bear..." "And we take it in turns, every hour or so, depending on the weather." "We'd like to hold a minute of silence in front of the power station, to remind us that there have been deaths from contamination here, that the deaths still continue at Chernobyl, that they're starting in Fukushima, and will continue for decades..." "15,689 dead, 4,744 missing after the tsunami of 11 March 2011" "Bags of rice..." "This place was full of them." "In a moment it was all gone." "President of the Fukushima Farmers Association" "Daily pulling himself at risk since the Fukushima explosion to help farmers who are victims of radioactivity," "Satoshi Nemoto is now very severely irradiated." "Our association..." "We'll finally clear all the debris and reduce the salinity." "Organic rice farmer" "But as regards the radioactivity, we have no way of knowing what the future will bring." "That is our biggest concern." "Evacuation was inevitable, not just because of the tsunami, but also because of the nuclear power station." "I can no longer do organic rice farming using ducks." "I want full compensation from TEPCO for the losses sustained." "This is the land of my birth." "In the midst of its mountains, rivers and ricefields, we lived a peaceful life." "But now this peaceful region has lost all its value." "I'm filled with bitterness and sadness." "I feel we're being used as guinea-pigs." "NO THROUGH ROAD" "Some sick ones?" "Experiment: 15th month" "This one's ill." "You can see the lump on its side." "There are two rats per cage." "Except for those that have lost their co-tenant, for some reason or other." "They're used to our visits, from being handled all the time." "When they see us they're inquisitive." "At least our visits don't hurt them." "We've taken every precaution to make sure the side effects are due to the treatment." "It's alarming, isn't it?" "Horrible." "There, it has three lumps." "Poor creature!" "It's horrible." "They're along the mammary ganglion chain." "Yes, they're clearly mammary." "Maybe here, by the shoulder." "The poor thing has three." "They're like pigeon eggs!" "It's... what?" "Five, six centimetres across?" "Yes, the biggest one..." "This is animal 93-38." "Is she suffering?" " She's not in pain?" " No." "There are no signs of prostration." "She's eating, gaining weight, so... 15%." "So if that were a person weighing 60 kilos, there'd be 10 kilos of tumours." "With growths like that..." "In a way I feel responsible." "Even though it's just a rat." "We can't know in advance." "We have to do the experiment." "The criminal thing is to be opposed to these experiments." "It's criminal to babies..." "They're opposed to these experiments because they know very well!" "Some people are against animal experiments in principle..." "That's another subject." "But those people don't realise that it's for animals too." "These experiments are also helping animals." "Otherwise, all pets and farm animals will be directly exposed." "All animals in general." "There are wild animals that could eat... the GMOs that remain..." "Or the pesticides." "The rat is a model for effects on human health but also a model of the effects on the environments of small mammals." "Wild fauna includes many small mammals." "So this research is useful for evaluating both environmental and health risks." "DIRTY CORRIDOR" "I'm stunned." "Even though I don't yet have the results of the tests." "But from what I've seen..." "Seeing those enormous tumours on those creatures makes a big impression." "It shows me that" "I'd never imagined..." " at my age I shouldn't be so naive - ...that our political, scientific and economic leaders," "whose duty it is, because they have the means and the information," "to be responsible for everyone else, for our health and well-being..." "That they could behave thus, knowing what they know." "I've won some battles in my life." "I've won battles against the oil companies." "I won the Louron valley battle." "As a minister I managed to get Alain Juppé, the PM, to guarantee the conservation of this wonderful valley." "They wanted to put high-tension pylons across the valley." "Then, as a minister, I had the valley listed so no one can later go back on the decision." "No one can ever go back on that decision." "Does this augur a new victory?" "I hope so with all my heart." "My fingers are crossed." "Deep in the Pyrenees, a highiension line would have disfigured the Louron valley, taking electricity from Golfech nuclear power station to Spain." "Imported from South America, thousands of tonnes of GM soya are unloaded in European ports every year." "Frangois, how many tonnes per year?" "About a million." "At one time it was a million." "Now it's about 400,000." "400,000 per year, for one company." "800,000 or 900,000 for us." "I don't say this in front of the kids, but I tell my wife," ""Enjoy it while you can." Because, with all I've heard..." "My dad died at 63." "He retired and had one year." "There's too much gas." "What gas?" "Which comes off from the soya." "The pesticides and so on." "It ferments for 3 weeks in the hold, all squashed in and closed up." "My problem with GMOs..." "Why have they modified all these crops?" "To make them resistant to pesticides." "So they no longer skimp." "Rather than spraying a litre per plant, they spray 30 litres." "Everything around the plant dies." "The plant's soaked in it, and we eat it." "That's what scares me." "Some of the sick dockers are gone, some daren't talk about their sickness..." "Docker We hear from their kids that their dads are sick." "When you see them they won't talk about it." "They're ashamed, sad to say." "One of the main activities of Nantes port is white timber from the north." "President of Association for Dock Workers' Health" "This white timber usually comes from northern Europe, from Finland, Norway, Sweden and also Russia." "And it turns out that..." "well, my case is that I've got kidney cancer and thyroid cancer." "Diagnosed together." "And I'm not the only one in Nantes." "Several dockers have thyroid problems." "And now we're starting to wonder if Chernobyl affected the wood." "And I remember something from the 1990s." "These people showed up, we didn't know who, but they must have been authorised to enter the port." "And they had Geiger counters." "And I know that we..." "Well, it made an impression on me." "If you're asking whether we and our colleagues stopped to think about it..." "No, we didn't." "Association treasurer We had our faces in the dust, but that was part of the job." "Get indignant!" "That's the word." "Get indignant!" "We're indignant and we're resisting." "We're absolutely not letting this drop." "I've got a kid who's eight years old." "I don't know what'll happen to me." "If something should happen to me..." "Just a second." "It's tough." "I don't like talking about it." "If something happens to me, I want my son, when he's old enough to understand, to know why." "3 months later, Jean-Luc Chagnolleau died of cancer" "Some sicknesses are the same as the farmers get." "Cancer from pesticides and so on." "They never got them before." "We get two hits." "Pesticides on the plants, then there's more added to the soya in the ships." "We, the dockers, are unionised." "But the guys who work in the Zone just behind have nothing." "Those who work on the conveyor belts, or in the closed warehouses..." "It's the same product." "Then there's the truck driver taking it to a co-op." "He has no protection either." "The whole chain is exposed." "Faced with the opacity and lies of the food-processing lobby, we were unable to get the exact figures of the millions of tonnes of GM corn and soya imported into Europe as fodder for livestock." "Industrial fodder alone makes the animals sick." "GMOs make it worse." "We're certain from our research that it can make mammals sick because they have more tumours, and their livers and kidneys are affected." "We know that eating sick animals can give us infections and metabolism problems." "And this is quite apart from the DNA and GMOs we're taking in." "Who hasn't had anything to eat?" "Is she being nice?" "What's he up to?" "Look..." "Salad, chicory..." "They're not too keen on oranges." "But all the greens, the apples..." "Lovely apples." "Good for the pigs." "Not so fast!" "Not so fast..." "Nice fresh straw." "We change their bedding on Sunday." "Who wants some lovely beetroot?" "Lovely beetroot." "Who wants some?" "The daddy is quite a stud." "A hard worker." "When the sows are impregnated, they cam] to: three months, three weeks, three days and three tides!" "Jean-Luc!" "You can stop now." "Why learn to speak American?" "Tomorrow everyone will speak Breton!" "What are the health risks of GMOs for animals and humans?" "No one knows." "Organic farmers And that's the scary thing." "Not knowing." "I know a lot of sick farmers, and lots of peasants who died too young." "Far too young." "There have been lots of cases of cancer linked, quite probably, definitely even, to the use of products which are not harmless." "We have no regrets." "We're selling direct, so we get immediate feedback, and that's priceless." "In the year 1470 a child was born" "In noble and valiant Pouarzel" "Your mother and father taught you well" "That Brittany was your home" "Very early, Herve, you wanted to sail" "The oceans called out to you" "In the royal duchy of the Bretons" "Everyone knows your name..." "In Saint-Hanan it's been going for a year." "We sell about 50 litres a day." "People show up with a smile." "Lots of them fetched their milk from the farm when they were kids." "Things have changed." "Now the farm comes to them." "They're happy to get fresh milk every morning." "They get to see me too on market day." "We can talk about our farming methods." "War is over, now we're hand in hand" "Everyone reveres those sailors" "Who gave themselves to the wind and the sea" "Who gave their lives for liberty" "Such a pretty vessel" "The beauiifulCordefiére" "And you, Hervé de Porizmoguer" "At war on the sea..." "It's a lovely walk, in the sun and through the wheat." "There are no insects anyway!" "No insects, no wasps, no butterflies..." "No frogs croaking, no bees." "It has to be the pesticides." "It's nature that's been... regimented." "I'm here on this demonstration for peace and against nuclear power because I'm all for grouping the struggles." "I've done a lot of work against GMOs and chemicals in agriculture." "In 1984 I was poisoned by an insecticide." "I was in hospital for three days with terrible rashes, internal and external." "Since that time" "I've been impotent." "Retired farmer It took rne 25 years to dare say it in public." "But I dare say it now because I've realised that the first victims of these chemicals are the peasants." "The problem is that they won't testify, especially when it's a sexual problem." "A peasant who's impotent can't admit it to a camera because it's his honour..." "The peasant is in direct contact with these molecules." "They pass through the skin, they enter with each breath, they're everywhere when you work with them." "From that point on I tried to change my working methods." "I got interested in auxiliary insects, auxiliary birds..." "And I rediscovered the beauty of farming." "When you work with the blue tit, which is an extraordinary bird, all you need is three couples per hectare and you no longer need chemicals." "I'm also on this march for peace and against nuclear power because on my farm, where I have cows and pigs..." "Well, among my dairy cows in 1987, the year after Chernobyl," "50% of my calves died at birth." "A 50% mortality on a farm is catastrophic, financially." "The worst thing about these calves that died was that I had two calves born with five legs," "I had one with two heads, and the worst of all was one calf that was born without a hide, as if flayed." "When you experience that, when you're a peasant and you put all your heart into this work, trying to do your job well, and then that happens..." "Well, the state's lies had a direct consequence on my farm." "13 March 1980." "At Saintiaurent power station a cooling system became blocked." "There was fusion of 20 kg of uranium, and partial fusion of the core:" "the most serious possible accident." "The reactor was off-line for nearly .3' years." "Eight years later researchers discovered plutonium waste in the Loire." "If there were a nuclear explosion a1' Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux... decades of radioactivity, about a million people evacuated, the Beauce farming plain and Loire chéieaux, all radioactive." "14 April 1984, Le Bugey." "Two years before Chernobyl." "A cooling system started to boil, resulting in fusion of the reactor core." "A catastrophe was narrowly avoided." "It was back on-line one week later." "If {here were a nuclear explosion at Le Bugey... decades of radioactivity, about 5 million people evacuated, all farmland and vineyards, radioactive, all the mountain resorts, radioactive," "all of Geneva k hanks... radioactive." "27 December 1999, Le Blayais." "A millennium storm." "9O million litres of water poured into the complex." "The electricity supply t0 reactors 2 and 4 failed." "Two diesel generators took over." "The access road was flooded." "Reactor number one's cooling system failed, with no backup cooling system in place." "The evacuation of Bordeaux was considered." "If there were a nuclear explosion at Le Blayais... decades of radioactivity, about 2 million people evacuated," "Arcachon Bay, Marennes-Oléron Bay and the He de Ré, radioactive." "The Landes forest and Atlantic coast, radioactive." "All the Bordeaux vineyards, radioactive." "Japanese Parliament" "What happened was exactly the tragic accident predicted by the anti-nuclear protesters!" "Throughout the world radioactivity never disperses." "I am furious." "Tell your bosses we must evacuate the people." "We are determined." "Nuclear power is dangerous." "It's true." "Human beings shouldn't use it." "Don't forget that." "We suffered Hiroshima and Nagasaki." "Why is the government maintaining a ZO-millisievert threshold?" "DOSE TOLERATED AT FUKUSHIMA before catastrophe I 1 mSv/year after catastrophe I 20 mSv/year" "20 mSv/year being the annual dose tolerated for a nuclear worker" "This is a very real problem." "The government's afraid of the consequences if the threshold is lowered to 10 millisieverts." "Today, we are detecting levels above 10 millisieverts in several town centres, such as Fukushima and Koriyama." "Fixing the threshold at 10 mSv would require lots of measures." "The government is blowing hot air trying to avoid the problem, yet it's a very serious problem." "Sorry to have to repeat myself." "At the moment the government is maintaining the threshold at 20 millisieverts." "Why are you obstinately sticking to that figure?" "Why?" "You should show more obstinacy about the health of our children." "It seems to me that already at 10 millisieverts you should tell people to leave." "Young couples with children must leave, but the government has to pay!" "The person in charge of compensation isn't present." "I'm not in a position to answer that." "I refuse to let my children live in a ZO-millisievert Zone." "That's understandable, isn't it?" "We're continuing to do all we can to try to reduce radioactivity levels." "But you're not actually doing anything!" "As a result, the government's asking us to live in ZO-millisievert Zones." "We have seen today that what you're saying is totally contradictory." "There has been no distribution of potassium iodine tablets, which could protect..." "These are iodine tablets." "Which could protect the children's thyroids." "The French agency has done simulations in Japan." "There were over 10 million becquerels per square metre." "Thai generates a dose to the thyroid of one sievert." "Not a millisievert, but one sieveri." "This means that you weren't prepared for an accident, that you haven'!" "distributed potassium iodine tablets, and that you'll bear the responsibility for increased infant thyroid cancers." "What's really serious here isn't just the lying, it's the incompetence." "The Japanese people are definitely angry, but most of them just resign themselves to thinking nothing can be done." "The government, since the accident happened, has been consistently lying." "I can't forgive the country for not protecting its children." "If you don't say no, then you're accepting things as they are." "I should have made a more forceful protest against nuclear power." "Every day now I feel stressed by everything because of the nuclear situation." "Just a minute, sweetheart." "When I think about my children, of course I'm afraid." "As a result," "I'm now buying organic produce and I'm avoiding GMOs." "GMOs are dangerous but more important still is not to give irradiated food to my children." "At the supermarket," "I try to buy vegetables from western Japan." "Look, it's swollen." "Did you get bitten?" "Thank you for using the shinkansen bullet train." "This train will be terminating at Yamagata, stopping at the following stations:" "Ueno," "Omiya," "Utsunomiya," "Fukushima and Yonezawa." "We're at the height of a child here, and we're at a level of up to 1 microsievert per hour." "1.26 pSv/h I 11.03 mSv/year" "That's a high dose for a child, because it means they're getting over 10 millisieverts per year." "Tolerated dose I 1mSv/year" "So this really is a Zone from which children should be evacuated." "The younger you are, the more your cells are dividing, hence more chance of mutation and getting cancer." "These are beautiful ricefields." "Farmer-breeder" "It's Japan's staple food." "I do my best to produce quality rice." "The nuclear accident was terrible." "It's discouraged me." "I do my best but it's not worth the trouble." "I can't manage to work as well as before." "It's such a shame." "We're at 0.45 microsieverts per hour." "0.45 pSv/h I 3.94 mSv/year tolerated dose I 1 mSv/year" "It's three times more than in Tokyo." "We took readings there." "This means that when you cut the grass, you removed the radioactivity." "The radioactive particles which landed on the leaves, which contaminated the plants, are now all in those bags." "Don't stand there too long." "It's irradiating." "These ones, less so." "There's less radioactivity in this more recent hay." "Of course." "When next spring comes, we won't be allowed to use the hay." "And yet the first crop is the best fodder for our cows." "The nuclear disaster has had an impact even up in the mountains where we are." "It really is terrible." "Radioactivity is a real monster." "Mankind created it." "Radioactivity is an uncontrollable monster." "Mankind has used it but not taken it seriously enough, thereby provoking the m0nster's anger." "Now it's angry and we can't restrain it." "I decided to slaughter all our cows." "That was my decision." "We lived with those cows, they were a part of the family." "They provided us with our livelihood." "But we had to carry out a purification." "So I took that decision." "You're in the evacuation Zone." "How do you see your future?" "What will you do?" "We won't be able to come back here." "President of Fukushima Breeders Association Even if they let us come back, even if one day they authorise it, our children, the youngsters, won't come back." "This is why" "I feel this great anger against TEPCO and the government." "We must rise up against nuclear power, rather than wait for them to decide." "I am absolutely convinced that we have to act for ourselves." "NO THROUGH ROAD" "5 December 2011, in Nogeni-sur-Seine, 6 women and 3 men, nonviolent Greenpeace activists, reached a reactor in 15 minutes, raising serious questions about the security of French nuclear sites." "We are now facing the reactor." "We've been here for a few minutes now." "There's no sign of anyone." "Here we are... on the dome of the nuclear reactor of Nogent power station." "And ii was a bil TOO EASY!" "If {here were a nuclear explosion at Nogenf... decades of radioactivity, the greater Paris area, evacuated, or over 1O million people... all the region's agriculture, radioactive, the Champagne vineyards, radioactive... for centuries." "WHO headquarters" "I've always been against atomic weapons, but also against nuclear power." "I think it's absolutely outrageous that we're given no information about the real damage done by each accident." "That's why I'm demonstrating with this placard." "'Uapan: the risk i0 public heaiih is minimal." WHO, 15 March 2011." "1,522nd day of this protest by the Independent WHO movement." "I'm here for future generations." "I feel concerned." "For these little children walking past us now." "Can we start off with a view of all the archives as you organised them?" "As this will go public, we're not doing it like Monsanto and hiding the raw data." "I thank you for coming hereto me, because interpreting such data, from a big lab, with lots of people involved... it's safer to keep it among ourselves for now." "And also, right up to the publication date we have to be very attentive, because the closer it gets to publication in the scientific review, the more we'll tend to discuss it and exchange e-mails." "We want to show why these are the best tests in the world, and what the risks are." "That's corn grown in the United States and Argentina, which is imported in taco chips, in corn-based products... that you can eat in Europe." "That's the first thing." "So we compare our test to what Monsanto did." "These results are confidential and unique." "Each time you go up a stage, up a step, a rat dies." "On the left are the males, on the right, the females." "The other studies stop right here." "Monsanto's studies." "In the white Zones no rat has died yet." "Because three months is just before the second step." "The first rat dies after that, and then it keeps increasing." "There are 3 diets." "GMO on its own, GMO with Roundup and Roundup on its own." "In three different doses." "So here, for example, the dotted line represents the control rats which got normal food." "The solid lines are the treated rats, with the thicker lines for the higher doses." "The thinnest is GMOs at 11%, the next, GMOs at 22%, and the thickest, GMOs at 33%." "The control rats got standard food." "Like you and I, who don't eat GMOs all the time." "21 months into the experiment, the treated rats gm' 3104 times more tumours." "By the end of the experiment, 80% of the treated females had mammary tumours." "Rats usually live 24 months." "The treated males started dying from the 4th month on, but the control males, not until the 17th month." "The treated females started dying from the 10th month on, but the control females, not until the 18th month." "The amazing thing is how quiet it is." "There's no one around." "It's very contaminated." "That's the trouble with radioactivity." "It's invisible, odourless..." "You can have very high levels of irradiation, and no one knows, unless you have a way of measuring it." "At this level, above 2.2 microsieverts, we've gone over 20 millisieverts per year." "So this should be a compulsory evacuation Zone." "There, at 4.26, the risk of getting cancer in 10 to 20 years is very high." "We shouldn't stay here very long." "I'm wearing protection because the contamination is very high here, and this protects me from external contamination by all the particles in the air carried by the wind." "6.84 microsieverts per hour." "This is very, very contaminated." "6.84 pSv/hour I 59.91 mSv/year tolerated dose I 1 mSv/year" "That's a lot." "With contamination this high, why are you still here?" "We need a bit more time." "We'll be leaving soon." "People are gradually leaving." "In any case, we don't have a choice." "Thank you for coming." "You're wearing masks, but not us." "We're already irradiated." "We've had from 30 to 50 millisieverts." "Suits are no use to us any more." "Translate that well!" "Iassure you." "We can walk about naked." "Or in swimming costumes." "Don't overdo it!" "This level of..." "If you're making a documentary about this, film the small children for the next ten years." "Film them over the years." "Show how many irradiated children will be hospitalised for cancer of the thyroid ten years from now." "They're from France." "They have lots of nuclear power stations." "It's got them worried." "I have this authorisation to stay here." "I'm one of the irradiated of litate." "Your documentary won't change anything." "Filming in litate is controlled." "You need authorisation." "To film in litate, you have to get authorisation from the mayor." "He refuses all filming." "He tells us we have to enforce the restrictions." "My friend Mr Suzuki is irradiated, just like me." "Why don't you leave?" "I have property here, land, a house..." "I want to protect my property." "Like Mr Suzuki." "Would he bring his grandchildren here?" "No." "Why?" "I'm afraid of the radioactivity." "I'm afraid of the radioactivity." "I'll leave you to film." "I won't say anything." "I won't make a report." "Thank you, anyway." "When you look at the brains of cows with mad cow disease, you get these holes, these gaps, among the cells." "These livers look the same." "They're like "mad livers"." "You have to point out that a lot of the rats had tumours which were over 25% of body weight." "That's really important." "You can't imagine a human being with a mammary tumour that's 25% of body weight." "The rats fed with Roundup had lots of tumours, even at the tap dose." "Yes, the weakest dose." "The same as children in Brittany sometimes drink." "I thought GMO plus Roundup would be the same as Roundup alone, but not that GMO without Roundup would be like GMO plus Roundup." "So GMO effects exist independently of pesticides." "That surprises rne." "These effects must be investigated." "In our opinion, there must be a total ban of these GMOs and research into the link between the consumption of this corn and breast cancer." "In fact, a team from Sherbrooke found residue from these GMOs in the blood of mothers and babies." "And in the placenta." "And Ana S0t0's team in the U.S." "found that breast cancer can be triggered in the foetus." "So there could be even more problems in the effects on reproduction." "We have to say that it will be an outrage if regulatory bodies or independent labs don't do further experiments along this line." "That would be plain wrong." "Because we can't exclude a risk to humans." "We're the first to show it, but others have to confirm it." "If you wonder what the link is between these two technologies," "GMOs and nuclear power, there are three things which fundamentally unite them." "The first is irreversibility." "It's the first time ever that we've had a pollution, GMOs, which can multiply in time." "It's a living pollution." "In the same way, nuclear residue will last for millennia." "Longer than the pyramids." "The second thing is this omnipresent contamination." "We find residue of GMOs in the food in Japan, the United States, Europe," "China, India and Australia." "And the third, very clear thing is the bioaccumulation of chemicals inside food, like pesticides inside GMOs, which require long-term tests." "This is why the WHO says Chernobyl only killed 50 people." "That was in the short-term." "They've ignored the contamination in the bodies of children, which will have consequences for generations." "It's the first time ever that a species, mankind, has knowingly poisoned its young." ""Knowingly"..." "Mothers on the small island of lwaishima have been fighting a project for a nuclear plant for 30 years." "Wind, don't blow" "Let the bubbles float away" "The soap bubbles have floated away" "Up to the rooftops..." "Every Monday, in all weather, they demonstrate peacefully." "We cannot live with a nuclear power station." "This is why we are carrying on with this fight." "Maintain your determination." "For all kinds of reasons it's a good thing to have this activity on the island." "We will carry on with our fight." "This is our 1100th demonstration." "Let us keep demonstrating in order to improve things and be proved right." "No to nuclear power!" "No to nuclear power!" "This nuclear project from another century, 3 km from their island, has advanced n0 further than a landing stage." "The 500 inhabitants of Iwaishima are winning their fight." "Let us protect our beautiful homeland!" "Let us protect our beautiful homeland!" "Let us protect our beautiful homeland!" "Let's fig ht!" "Can you imagine the tears we have shed over the last three months, we, the people of Fukushima?" "We don't want others to suffer the same fate." "Let us have no more victims of nuclear power," "I beg you!" "Fukushima region" "Watching the news, my husband said that it was the end for farmers here in Fukushima, and that our daughter would never get married." "My husband... represented the 7th generation in a family of farmers." "He always took great care to nourish the earth." "But he didn't think he'd be able to continue in his profession." "He was in absolute despair and nothing could console him." "His friends told me that he took his own life in order to express his opposition to the nuclear power station." "In Japan, samurai used to show their disapproval by committing hara-kiri." "His friends also told me that he said, "Why has Japan built" ""all these power stations?"" "Lots of different people told me the things he said." "Our friends have been a great help to me." "My son too." "They're always there, ready to help me." "No one can believe that my husband is dead." "They don't understand why he did what he did." "If he'd stayed alive, we'd have managed." "Without the nuclear power station, none of this would have happened." "We could have coped with just the earthquake by itself, but with the nuclear accident as well," "that was too much for him." "We have to get rid of nuclear power quickly." "We have to stop it all." "We'll have to get by, living less comfortably." "Otherwise, it's the end of the world." "Japan isn't the only country concerned." "Even if we wanted to leave there's nowhere we could take refuge." "All countries are joined by sea and land." "They form a whole." "The whole world must rise up against nuclear power." "As of May 2012 all 54 reactors in Japan were off-line" "ALL OF US GUINEA-PIGS NOW?" "Every year our ecosystem provides us with around $50,000 billion worth of water, photosynthesis, pollination..." "Let us preserve our true wealth." "Subtitles by Howard Bonsor" "Subtitling by CMC"