GMO: The Status Quo - Max Planck Institute Version

I'm back! :D
I took a much needed break from video editing this summer. It was fully my intention to post more, but I developed a slight KZbin aversion over the summer. I think it was my mental health screaming at me to not burn out.
So... I did A LOT of cool stuff over the summer! I have a mountain of footage I gathered this summer, and I think it'll be really good for all of us to release those sunny happy videos as we move into winter.
So this is a speech that I spent all summer working on. It's my Magnum Opus. GMO: The Status Quo is a talk that brings together everything I've learned in the last 5 years. I try to address the complexities that make meaningful conversations about food difficult. I also talk about the various aspects of our food system that benefit from things staying exactly the way they are.
This particular version of this talk was filmed at the Max Planck Institute in Potsdam Germany at the beginning of September, 2019
Special thanks to Cornell Alliance for Science and Patricia Nanteza for their contributions to this talk!
Enjoy, and most importantly: SHARE!

[@thequietknitter9107]

sent here by Myles. You are amazing! Thank you for taking your time to educate consumers like me. Before I saw this video, I'd go to the supermarket and see the HIGH price of organic, and I'd slink over to the "normie" food and say to myself. . . "Guess it's gonna be the dirty food". I'd feel like I was doing something horribly wrong by not sacrificing my grocery dollars and supporting 'clean' food. My slinking days are over!

[@suzanneszarai]

In Hungary, my parents had the most beautiful vegetable garden for many years until they sold it because they became too old to cultivate it. They fed the whole family....... and they NEVER used a drop of chemicals. Mind you........... they knew tricks how to repel certain bugs by planting certain flowers or what to plant next to each other to be effective. We already screwed up the soil, the air, the water system. Chemicals only add to the problem.

[@ornokur6315]

I appreciate you putting so much effort and information in to your videos teaching people about these issues. You really deserve many more views and subscriptions than you have now.

[@mosqke]

Once again you have nailed! The analogy of the colours is powerful.

[@TalladegaTom]

That was excellent. +1

[@jonathanjarry]

As always, your videos are informative, respectful, and esthetically on point. Keep it up!

[@Parapraxis1980]

Great job Nick.

[@freddosbookshelf3142]

Great presentation, man. A fine work indeed

[@kilorat]

So other than avoiding buying "GMO free" products, I don't know what else we can do as consumers to help.

[@popeyegordon]

Contact those sellers. Use the number on the package, a web search, their Facebook page or their websites.

[@KNOWIDEASMEDIA]

basically, help spread farmer's messages. The best you can do is pass it on. If every consumer with your POV got one of their friends on board... The pay it forward model.

[@B2Ttrolling]

Millennial sent me

[@joshuabondurant456]

If you don't diversify your crops. There's a higher risk for infectious diseases.

[@popeyegordon]

That's one way. The other is to use GM seed that resists persistent blights without chemicals.

[@mosqke]

Do you think African farmers don't know it? Are you saying that from a country that has choices?)

[@joshuabondurant456]

There's so many different types of plants in this world that are technically edible and we just don't eat them because of lack of knowledge about said plant.

[@mosqke]

@@joshuabondurant456 you seem to know more than African farmers and scientists. It's easy to talk from privilege.

[@mosqke]

@@popeyegordon I'm with you. I was addressing comment from someone else.