In Search of Balance Page #5

Last Sunday we told you

about a WHO report

that listed several chemicals

as potentially cancer causing

including glyphosate found in

the popular weed-killer Roundup.

Now in an interview for an

upcoming French documentary,

a Canadian scientist has been

caught in an Erin Brockovich

like moment when he

is asked to defend

that chemical against links

to cancer rates in Argentina.

Take a look.

Do not believe glyphosate,

in Argentina it's causing

increases in cancer.

You can drink a whole quart

of it and it won't hurt you.

Yes, do you want to drink

some, we have some here?

I would be happy to actually,

not really, but --

Not really?

I know it

wouldn't hurt me.

If you say so,

I have some glyphosate.

No, I am not stupid.

Uh okay, so it's

dangerous, right?

No, but I know people

try to commit suicide

with it fairly regularly.

Tell the truth,

it's dangerous.

It's not dangerous

to humans, no, it's not.

So, are ready to drink

one glass of glyphosate?

No, I am not an idiot.

Even though this may look

disgusting to most people

because this is really

kind of dirty looking,

I know that the microorganism

living in here

is the most

beneficial on earth,

and so, I am not afraid

to take a big drink of it,

and super-probiotic,

had a little bite to it too.

And this is essentially the

food for the microorganisms

when I put

them out there,

and this one

is much better.

For two years I was trying

to grow taro in these fields

and I have been growing

taro for about 40 years

and I never had a problem.

I couldn't get a crop

to really grow.

I was getting

really discouraged,

and then I heard about Master

Cho and Korean Natural Framing.

It's kind of designed

for peasants like myself.

And all these

different things

when combine in

the right proportions

make the microorganisms thrive

and bring them back to life.

Microorganisms

are inside of us.

They are on our skin,

they are in our lungs.

They are really what connect

us to the world around us.

Nothing was growing, there

wasn't an earthworm here

and he had almost reintroduced

that fungal network

into his soil here and the

results have spoken themselves.

Indigenous microorganisms

are basically probiotics

for agriculture.

IMOs are made by farmers using

the materials from that land

and then fermenting it and

putting it back into the land

where it can help the plants and

the fungi and all the above --

soil and everything

that's there thrive.

Nice! If you have totally

white mole like this,

it's an excellent IMO-1

that we cultivated.

From this stage you would

collect all this into a jar

and add equal amount

of sugar to the rice

and so that way

we will move it to IMO-2.

We planted

the red lettuces,

I was spraying them with

the Korean Natural Farming,

and then I guess,

when I wasn't paying attention

I forgot the one at the end.

Then I came back and

the other red lettuces

are four times the size

of the other red lettuce

and they were all

planted on the same day

except for the front

half of the row

received Korean

Natural Farming nutrients.

Four inches deep that this

tester can get into the ground,

so this is a

conventional practice.

So this is six inches,

I have about eight inches

deep in an organic plot.

So I have scattered

IMO for last season

before we planted

tomato in here.

You can see that

I get to a deeper level

in this soil compaction.

Now we can see

how deep it gets.

So this is 12 inches,

I have it about 14 inches.

So from four inches in

the conventional practice,

eight inches in the organic,

now we have 14 inches

in Korean Natural Farming.

When you have a

commercial plant,

you have a very

small root system

because they

are drug-dependent

so the roots don't

have to travel.

There is nothing for them to

go out there for, it's dead,

it's a dead zone and they are

just living on these chemicals

that have been fed them.

If you're farming

with microorganisms

you're doing

a biological farming

and you have a good population

of microbes in the soil,

the root systems will grow

very far out hundreds of feet.

Korean Natural Farming, what

farmers are doing is recognizing

that the microbes that are there

on that farm and in that soil

are really critical

to the lifecycle of the farm

and to the health

of the plants,

and to the health of the

people who eat those plants.

I have a degree

in Computer Science

and decided

to learn how to farm.

With all the techniques

you can pick,

Korean Natural Farming is

like right on with the kids

because every single

thing you use is edible,

and so with the kids I don't

have to worry about them

getting poison on them

and eating it or like getting

in dangerous situations.

They just -- everything they

can eat if they spill it,

it's not a problem you know,

it just goes into the ground

and makes things better.

Now right here you

are probably looking

at 6 billion microorganisms

in this little chunk here.

What Ginger

John is practicing

is basically

complexity medicine,

you know,

or complexity farming.

Can you see that

white on your film?

Yeah.

That's the microorganisms

going to work here.

The ones with the

microorganisms were flourishing,

they were twice

as large, very green,

the cups are full of roots,

so right then we knew,

wow, what is this magic?

In here is an IMO pile here.

The first time that I started

applying my IMO to the land

and I am dumping it out,

I had this incredible

feeling of sovereignty

that I was

free in myself

from the need of spending

hard-earned money on anything

that was being shipped

over across the ocean

from the mainland.

A plant will put

out a stress signal

that it's lacking

some kind of nutrient.

It can be like boron

or magnesium or calcium.

The fungus that is attached

to the roots of the plant

will sense that imbalance,

it can actually send a signal

to an area that's rich and

it will bring that to the plant.

Some of them live

in the rhizosphere,

in the root

of plants.

Root of plants is extremely

complex environment

because there are many,

many organisms living there.

Some of them can operate,

some of them compete,

so they have to develop

in order to survive

extremely sophisticated

social intelligence.

Very much like human

in social intelligence,

just more advanced.

So it gave us an idea

what are the features

that characterize

social intelligence.

Then I found that

our own bacteria,

the bacteria that

I discovered fall in this list

under a deviation

above the average.

So they are like Einstein.

They have special circuits

to process the information

and even engage in decision

making, looking at the desert,

the social bacteria

like enormous soil

on the integrity of else

because all these bushes

that you see here are

connected underneath,

so all these things that you see

around has its one big natural.

It's super fun, it's almost --

like I am way too scientific,

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