The Truth About GMOs

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[13] enveurope.springeropen.com/ar...
[14] www.the-scientist.com/news-op...
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[18] www.ted.com/talks/pamela_rona...
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[@RealEngineering]

This feels like a huge moment! So proud of all the work Stephanie has put into this. She is writing and editing the videos on this channel, so it's only right she narrates them.

[@sean_silvers]

Thanks to you both for such excellent and informative videos. Excited to see more of her videos!

[@ansh6370]

Thanks! just discovered your channel recently and now this! This is a treasure for a curious nerd like me. Thank you for taking your part into educating people and making this world a better place, very cool.

[@mazenmady1136]

Is she Irish aswell

[@jacobtorris3428]

But I prefer your voice

[@vagishsivaramakrishnan4885]

I also really like the second logo, it kept the same core design as the first but changed it up to make it a DNA helix. Im excited for this channel.

[@Wendoverproductions]

This channel seems like it has real promise! I can actually understand the narrator on it (unlike that engineering guy)

[@bloodyglitch1777]

That damn engineering guy

[@rivaledrandom1282]

Roasted

[@Kebab_with_extra_garlic_mayo]

mega oof

[@brendanbruno7024]

I do hope he’s joking. Idk if wendover productions and real engineering are friends or something

[@rivaledrandom1282]

@@brendanbruno7024 they are friends, he's definitely joking

[@ericschoeman6613]

As a farmer I can feed the people but I can't make them smarter

[@M60A3]

I’m a farmer son in Quebec Canada and peoples are dumbs enough to think that gmo are devils product

[@ericschoeman6613]

@@snatchinitback4635 yes make it yourself then

[@ericschoeman6613]

@@snatchinitback4635 I can feed 153 people per hectare for a year you wouldn't be able to feed one of your kids .that is 100m×100m .see you are one of those dum people I get paid shit but I feed thousands what do you do .definitely not math

[@curiousbystander9193]

@@M60A3 no. no..........they are too ignorant to realize that hard to digest insectidal cry1 proteins in their food is what makes them constipated, especially when they eat these proteins with acidic food, and especially when that food has been harvested using gut biome modifying glyphosate as a harvest desiccant. These things should not be in our food.......but you may too dumb to understand the implications of what I wrote.......let me help you understand....it's call chronic illnesses with drugs that don't cure them so you farmers have it easier and more profitable using your no till and harvest desiccation strategies.

[@globalbridges8570]

@@curiousbystander9193 correct, what is the point in eating poisonous toxic food that kills you slowly. Those fungicides are so toxic they’re banned on tobacco and medical marijuana production, as when burnt they release hydrogen cyanide. Only indoctrinated fools eat that toxic food.

[@dougyoung221]

Small veg farmer here. Was just watching this vid before going out to pick my summer squash. Passed my first tomato planting on the way and no surprise, all the leaves are succumbing to disease pressure as a result of recent heavy rains and now high temps and humidity. I'm all for GMOs to fight insects and disease but it certainly needs to be done wisely with best of intentions in mind, not corporate greed running the show. Human consciousness needs to evolve right along with the science. Thanks for an open minded look. I'm so tired of listening to people who've never held a hoe in their life, let alone raised a garden, espouse know it all opinions about growing food.

[@popeyegordon]

"Corporate greed" is the most popular mantra of the millions of consumers duped by the organic farming lobbyists. Organic IS the single largest corporate entity. *Organic industry tyranny for 32 years and counting:* "Although GMOs are regarded as safe as their conventional counterparts by every major food safety authority in the world, the organic industry spends nearly $3 billion a year through over 330 different organizations leading with fear and “information spin” as an industry to sell their products. By creating an unfounded fear that requires tighter regulations on GMO crops, they are hoping to force them out of the food supply, thereby creating a bigger market share to sell more products in their more than $65 billion wheelhouse. The unfortunate consequence of these [non-GMO] labels is that the food companies and lobbyists tend to create an unnecessary “us vs. them” divide. When food companies use fear against competitors to sell a product, farmers take it personally." www.agdaily.com/insights/farm-babe-label-trends-end/ Now why do you suppose organic food is so expensive?? Imagine what 3 billion dollars could do for humanitarian goals - end a different disease forever every year.... End all hunger in at least one country...... Funding nasty propaganda? Really??

[@davidtuchscherer6276]

This! It's tiring to be moralised by people who have no idea about the job, but have a very strong opinion about it all because they read some "totally not biased" articles. I crave for a time when science would be listened more, instead of just being cherrypicked by each person to confirm their own opinion.

[@reginahudzik5533]

Is trute.I am hard working in my practing study.GMO is not bad people need a better plant.😔😔😔😔.

[@halweilbrenner9926]

Yes. Creating GMO plants patenting them & making seeds property of the "creator" seems ruthless & a crime. After all the real creator doesn't charge people.

[@Doctor_Subtilis]

Me too, but I am struck by is how these "fair and balanced" videos never seem to mention is how the vast majority of GMO opponents are peasant farmers in the global south. The people euphemistically refered to as subsistence farmers (they proudly call themselves peasants) are against GMOs because they are dispossessed and suffer political violence so speculators can grow GMOs for biofuels and ingredients in nutritionally poor processed foods for animals. Never do they seem to mention that GMO seeds are only grown to feed corporations and "asset owners" (aka the scum of the earth) many farmers have grown bankrupt and turn to suicide due to the dependency on the external inputs these corporations are forcing on them. Why is this why are there so many videos like this? Why do they talk about Golden rice when the entire thing has been shown to be a contrived PR stunt based on lies from the beginning? Does it have anything to do with the open and shameless corruption of the academic authorities and the science communication media industry by the corporations that are selling these seeds and pesticides? I'll leave that up to you to decide. GMOs are only good for raping the life out of stolen land for four or five years until the practice is no longer profitable, geographers are calling it 'the global land grab' and things far worse than I am able to convey, this shit is DARK.

[@pbkillstrike]

11:42 We live in an era where we've started deploying weaponized memes. Amazing.

[@blackreaper2343]

"Russian bots and trolls" its not like everyone who has some free time does it xD

[@luongmaihunggia]

That's actually a thing. Watch CGP grey's video on the topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaWm5KIfdCkgMU

[@grantlauzon5237]

Yeah... It’s called propaganda. I don’t mean that in a conspiracy way I mean Propaganda is memes. Napoleon was actually 5ft 7in.

[@Dichtsau]

_CAREFUL._ this video is so heavily biased, it counts as "disinformation". BARELY any1 is scared of "direct damage" (as in "can't be digested, goes other ways"). we are scared of LONG TERM DAMAGES, as in "children born with 5 arms". also, BARELY any1 cares if a potato-gene is put into another potato. what we care about, is when u put tulip-genes into wheat - u also wouldn't wanna eat "pig with dolphin-genes" or "jalapeno with elefant-genes" (or, speaking for farmers, they wouldn't wanna raise "cows with shark-genes").

[@PureLogic777]

@@Dichtsau Why not? Adding a gene or two from another species isn't inherently harmful. What about adding beta carotene genes to rice? Would you be scared of eating that? If so, would you also be scared of eating beta-carotene-containing carrots together with rice? People need to understand that GMO products need to be considered on a case by case basis instead of being against GMO in general. It depends on what genes are added to a crop. It's possible to produce harmful GMO crops if we wanted to. For example, we could add a poison ivy gene to a crop. But we can also add a beta carotene gene to a crop for good. So it makes no sense to fear and oppose GMO in general. That type of fear is based on ignorance.

[@MundaneAxiom]

One aspect of this that I think the video failed to cover is the economic and social ramifications of widespread adoption of GMOs, given that companies like Monsanto own the patents to their strains. Not considering this risks creating a sort of "seed monopoly" where the sucess of small farmers is directly linked to giant multinational corporations. Monsanto has a deserved reputation for agressive legal action against those affected by their products, and the sucessful lawsuit mentioned here is far from the norm. All in all GMOs have huge potential for good, but when all this potential rests in the hands of multinational corporations we're likely to see the same uneven and profit-driven distribution of resources that are the reason we fail to prevent so many famines today.

[@Chuppydu21]

There is already is already a seed monopoly :/

[@Nikwldfr]

I agree with your comment. However, the way plant breeding is performed today requires vast amount of resources that only those companies can afford to input. Thus there is already a seed monopoly. What we need to do in order to ameliorate this problem, is to preserve and continue to grow local plant varieties along with the commercially available ones.

[@Asbjoern]

@@Nikwldfr the problem is that Monsanto files lawsuits against farmers that neighbour Monsanta farmers, claiming that since Monsanta plants will spread to their fields they should pay Monsanta for benefitting off their plant even though the farmers harvest their own seeds for next year's use and don't cultivate the Monsanta seeds, only by accident. There are even stories of mobile seed extractor companies being followed and haressed by Monsanta payed goons to force the few farmers not using Monsanta seeds to convert.

[@Nikwldfr]

@@Asbjoern I agree this is a serious problem, but it is an issue that should be solved by legislation. We must push our governments to implement measures protecting independent farmers. I hope you understand though, that we don't have the luxury of turning down life saving science like GM.

[@suryaiyer13]

Well I disagree. Not all countries give patent for modified biological species or drugs

[@raffaelepiccini3405]

"What scares me most about the loud arguments and misinformation about plant genetics is that the poorest people who most need the technology may be denied access because of the vague fears and prejudices of those who have enough to eat" -Pamela Ronald Beautiful quote

[@rodneycox329]

Africa has a good dose of glyphosate in it's food already, I suspect it's playing a roll in the violence taking place there as the lack of tryptophan (from the shikamate pathway) can lead to exactly that.

[@davidadcock3382]

@@rodneycox329 Glyphosate is not in your food but many of the highly toxic pesticides Organic growers are in your food. What an idiot.

[@popeyegordon]

@@rodneycox329 That's a fucking lie. None of the 5 African nations who approved their first GMO crops are using herbicide resistance. They use the Bt trait. The Shikimate cellular path way exists in PLANTS, NOT ANIMALS you moron. Stop repeating unproven unverified conspiracy theories from anti-biotech activists. You will be called on it wherever educated people find your lies. Our farmers deserve more respect than that. That was role, not roll and it does not exist.

[@GenghisDon1970]

for fucks sake, buying that giant corpos do anything for moral or ethical reasons is the most disgusting & dangerous thing that exists today not a one of such cares about any people but themselves, and least of all "poor people"

[@raffaelepiccini3405]

@@GenghisDon1970 it doesnt matter what they care and do not care.. they might care 100% about their own wallet, but GMOs will still be extremely helpful for poor people specifically

[@1337sh337]

I’m interest in the effects on the insects and how it further affects the food chain for animals.

[@popeyegordon]

No change in effect for the last 50 years. geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/06/16/are-we-facing-an-insect-armageddon-caused-by-intensive-industrial-farming-and-agricultural-chemicals-the-media-say-yes-science-says-no/ Part two compares organic to GMO farming insect populations. The GLP is a highly reliable non-profit.

[@ntmn8444]

Exactly. It affects them. People are not thinking about how these plants affect the world in the long run. There are many legitimate concerns.

[@lkke]

They die. This gmo-s are dangerous for them as they are dangerous for us

[@nolsen8616]

that's a valid concern that should be studied. it makes me wonder overall what will their ecological effect be in the long run 🤔

[@tibormalinsky8751]

I was thinking about that too, but... change your view a little. Imagine you have wild nature. Then you simply make a fence around a square, you cultivate it and raise GMO crops there. So now, "no wild worms nor caterpillars" will eat your crop. What it will do? It will stay in the wild nature. So what I'm trying to say is that most of the insects that eat the crop are, actually pests/vermin. But in the wild nature they are balanced out with predators. Simply put, they will stay out of our crop and keep living in their natural environment. Our crops will not influence them and they will not influence us.

[@moboxgraphics]

Awesome job Steph!

[@Dichtsau]

_CAREFUL._ this video is so heavily biased, it counts as "disinformation". BARELY any1 is scared of "direct damage" (as in "can't be digested, goes other ways"). we are scared of LONG TERM DAMAGES, as in "children born with 5 arms". also, BARELY any1 cares if a potato-gene is put into another potato. what we care about, is when u put tulip-genes into wheat - u also wouldn't wanna eat "pig with dolphin-genes" or "jalapeno with elefant-genes" (or, speaking for farmers, they wouldn't wanna raise "cows with shark-genes").

[@smhs9546]

@@Dichtsau If GMOs produce creatures like you then maybe they are a bad thing

[@Dichtsau]

@@smhs9546 i kinda doubt that you read what i wrote, which in fact puts on yourself what you tried to insult me with.

[@smhs9546]

@@Dichtsau I did read it, but I've heard the same arguments time & time again dripping from the chins of other cunts on the internet that think they know more than they actually do. People are going to consider you a failed GMO until you can form a coherent argument.

[@juandavidcelistorres5748]

@Dichtsau that commentary is high biased

[@IamHere2468]

Very nicely done Steph, both sides of the coin. The fears of those with enough to eat really hits. What burns me is the waste. How many tons and tons of food are wasted each year in the name of fall and Halloween decorations.

[@Sarcastic.Activist]

Yup. We are already producing enough food to feed 11 billion people - more if we reduce meat consumption. We need equitable distribution, not Engineered crops that are designed primarily to make corporations rich.

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

WHAAAAT?!? 😮 Americans throw out pumpkins?!? OMG. I've always assumed the pumpkin pulp from the hollowed out fruits for used as pie fillings, pumpkin puree, into cookies, or any other nice food. Color me flabbergasted and deeply disillusioned. 😮‍💨😞

[@naufalfalfal]

I appreciate the effort that went to making this video and bringing up the nuances surrounding GMO. As a biotechnology student I probably have a bias in supporting GMO but then again not all GMO are created equal. The potential is enormous especially in fulfilling food demands we need in the future. Even malnutrition problems we have currently. I think regulation is highly important. But not GMO blanket bans please. This was a great video

[@drakesmith471]

I totally agree, and it’s nice to know we’ve got someone out there fighting a good fight. Thank you.

[@4nativemedicine60]

Genetic Modification is a LIE. GM is a lie because it is IMPOSSIBLE to open up a seed, go through all the layers and into the nucleus, modify that nucleus, then put all the layers of the seed back in perfect condition. Once that impossible task has been completed, now that seed needs to be planted, germinate, grow and PRODUCE new gm seed. . . Absolutely IMPOSSIBLE, but it's not impossible to LIE and LIE and LIE... The folks who promote GMO's are LIARS, children of the devil. Remember Humpty Dumpty, all the kings horses and all the kings men could NOT put humpty dumpty back together again. But those kings men can LIE about doing so. Them same liars never speak of all the deadly poisons they add to ALL the food, but they sure want you afraid of these lies. . .

[@naufalfalfal]

@@4nativemedicine60 Hi there. Im interested in how you came to that understanding. I can assure you thats not how plant GM works. The resources are out there on plant transformation techniques if youre willing to read up on it (agrobacterium, biolistics, etc). Of course im not an expert in it yet. As for all people promoting gmo are liars, im not so sure about that hahah. I can assure you genetic modification in plants and food have been used for good such as fortifying nutrients in rice (e.g golden rice) as well as eliminating allergens from various plants.

[@4nativemedicine60]

@@naufalfalfal Thanks for responding, few folks do. My understanding it the simple fact that is is impossible to open up a seed all the way down to the nucleus, modify it and then put it all back together perfectly and it both grow and reproduce EXACTLY the same. It's simply impossible. Hybridization is not impossible, nor are hybrids gm'd, yet much talk today uses those terms interchangeably. Also, seldom is much said about all the poisons sprayed on the plants, yet it is the chemical companies claiming gmo's. And it's been proven many times over that the heirloom varieties are usually much more nutritious than the cross breeds, but those folks who speak that Truth loudly, often lose their heads, literally. All the best to you as you prove out the TRUTH for yourself by simple easy to prove and understand logic, as the Truth is always simple and logical. Blessings on your search.

[@naufalfalfal]

@@4nativemedicine60 I see. May I ask what proposed method of genetic modification that is involving seed and opening it etc. ? In my understanding any plant cell/tissue can be taken since they have nuclei. The new genes are introduced via different methods (like i mentioned agrobacterium, particle bombardment, etc). These cells are then regenerated in a culture and plant is eventually selected. I do agree with your statement that certain heirloom varieties of plants being more nutritious or healthier. For example some of the hybridized varieties contain unnecessarily high amounts of sugar etc. However biofortification such as golden rice introduces additional vitamin a precursor to rice grains to support communities that are in need of these micronutrients.

[@nikkicedrone9311]

I like that y'all posted references. Back when I wrote papers we weren't allowed to use websites because somehow they were more inclined to be wrong than books, even though anyone can write either.

[@stefancrubs]

Great Video! Although as a physician i have one addition: Whilst there are no reported harms by toxic content in GMO, there are plenty of reports regarding allergies against Epitopes on artificial inbreed proteins. That might not sound like a big problem, but if you are allergic against some of these Proteins, its very difficult to find out or to avoid these. Ceep on the great work!

[@popeyegordon]

All GMOs are fully tested for any allergens before they are approved. Systematic debunking of the myth that GMOs have caused an increase in ALLERGIES : "There is no short list of culprits. Microbiome, Western diet, and socioeconomic status to name a few. A number of groups have also blamed genetically modified food. According to the Organic Consumers Association, the main trade group for the organic food industry. However, of the foods that most frequently cause food allergy, GM versions simply don’t exist. There is no GM peanut (although development of a hypoallergenic GM peanut is ongoing). There is no GM milk. Or consumable GM egg (although there is now that makes medicine). However, a few cases of allergenicity cropped up during early experiments involving genetically engineered foods, which piqued concerns. [this mandatory testing prevented them from being approved] European Union health agencies, and member nation health agencies, as well as the US FDA, EPA and USDA, are all involved in necessary rigorous assessments of GM foods (or any other foods) for allergic potential. The EPA, in fact, maintains an extensive list of foods that could trigger allergies. Another resource used to test for allergens is the University of Nebraska’s Allergen Online, which matches amino acid sequences of possible allergens with reference proteins known to cause allergies. And, so far, no single biotechnology-based protein in food has been found to cause an allergic reaction.The causes behind the increase in food allergies are not known. While anti-GMO groups have pointed to biotechnology, there are other proposed causes, each with a varying degree of data to support each. Allergic reactions are complex. Even though eight foods cause most allergies, many more can cause specific reactions, because everybody’s intestinal, nervous and immune systems are different (not to mention their genetics). While certain genetically engineered experimental foods were found to have allergens, these allergens were known and caught by researchers in early stages, just as a test on organic peanuts would also show a potential allergic reaction in sensitive people. And further studies have shown that transgenics technology does not make a food any more allergenic - but neither does it automatically make it less (unless the target trait is allergenicity)." geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/06/07/why-gmos-arent-responsible-for-a-spike-in-food-allergies/

[@stefancrubs]

@@popeyegordon "Systematic debunking of the myth that GMOs have caused an increase in ALLERGIES" I'm not claiming that GMOs are increasing the incidence of Allergies. They are simply adding a few new epitopes into the plant. Since the same molecules are breeded into different plants but can differ from "manufacturer to manufacturer" (sry for bad translation, native german) it's quite hard to diagnose. If you are allergic to the Corn in a specific brand of Chili, doesn't mean that you are allergic to Corn in a different brand using a different Corn. But maybe you are allergic to tomatoes from containig the same inbreed protein. Same is for phytosanitary, inbreed or not (but the not inbreed is often removed in most parts). "All GMOs are fully tested for any allergens before they are approved." That would basically mean that there were no food allergies with GMOs, only with "wildtype" / "organic". Of course GMOs contain epitomes your Antibodys can detect. Im not making an argument against GMOs, just explainig some incoherent symptoms some people suffer from.

[@stefancrubs]

@@popeyegordon Just an addition to my first answer: GMOs will ultimately reduce the prevalence of food allergies, since it's possible to remove a lot of Epitopes without interfering with the function of the wildtype Protein. Of course the Proteins expressed bei GMO are tested for allergic potential, just like any other ingredient that has to be approved. But that does not mean that the incredible diverse human immune system doesn't find anything.

[@popeyegordon]

@@stefancrubs Any allergies people have to conventional foods may still be present on the GM versions. But no additional allergens will be introduced. In fact we will soon have GM allergen free peanuts and gluten free wheat.

[@stefancrubs]

@@popeyegordon Do you realise that every possible combination of amino acids is a possible Epitope for Antibodies?

[@Klipik12]

Only Real Engineering's second channel would have 100% of its released videos be about how Ireland is disappointing.

[@carso1500]

I mean... Is he wrong

[@mansaruaidhri5602]

@@carso1500 bigoted view?^ my family is pro GMOs, We don’t agree with corrupt politicians forcing these bans along with spreading misinformation to the public. Ireland’s also started building 15 big wind farms.

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

​@@carso1500he is

[@Pulse_nerd72]

11:47 Gordon Ramsay would shout that it's an overcooked egg.

[@kymwilliams8572]

Very impressive video. Love both channels and your work!

[@nooranik21]

Tackles GMO doubters in first video: You've earned a sub.

[@halasimov1362]

nooranik21 Without doubt science can't exist

[@nooranik21]

@@halasimov1362 true, very true.

[@Dichtsau]

_CAREFUL._ this video is so heavily biased, it counts as "disinformation". BARELY any1 is scared of "direct damage" (as in "can't be digested, goes other ways"). we are scared of LONG TERM DAMAGES, as in "children born with 5 arms". also, BARELY any1 cares if a potato-gene is put into another potato. what we care about, is when u put tulip-genes into wheat - u also wouldn't wanna eat "pig with dolphin-genes" or "jalapeno with elefant-genes" (or, speaking for farmers, they wouldn't wanna raise "cows with shark-genes").

[@symmetrygames8142]

@@Dichtsau That's not how any of this works.

[@zachpayne3572]

@@Dichtsau you sound like a boy buddy

[@chaithuchannakesavula6976]

I'm an msc genetics and plant breeding student, seeing this much of hate on our work, I wonder why I am sacrificing my life and time on something whos beneficiaries are primary opposers and accusing us of conspiracies sometimes I even wonder why I have chosen this career.

[@popeyegordon]

Make sure you know your real enemy, the root cause of anti-biotech activism. "Although GMOs are regarded as safe as their conventional counterparts by every major food safety authority in the world, the organic industry spends nearly $3 billion a year through over 330 different organizations leading with fear and “information spin” as an industry to sell their products. By creating an unfounded fear that requires tighter regulations on GMO crops, they are hoping to force them out of the food supply, thereby creating a bigger market share to sell more products in their more than $65 billion wheelhouse. The unfortunate consequence of these [non-GMO] labels is that the food companies and lobbyists tend to create an unnecessary “us vs. them” divide. When food companies use fear against competitors to sell a product, farmers take it personally." www.agdaily.com/insights/farm-babe-label-trends-end/ Now why do you suppose organic food is so expensive?? Imagine what 3 billion dollars could do for humanitarian goals - end a different disease forever every year.... End all hunger in at least one country...... Funding nasty propaganda? Really??

[@dreama8168]

@@why_sr03 Follow your gut, you know you are not doing a clean business. If you think changing genes of nature and causing pesticide and herbicide resistant creatures are fun, go ahead, but you are polluting our world and causing many unborn illnesses to come. Yes, people hate on GMO work, because it really is something that needs to stop, you could do whatever you want as long as it didnt pollute my air, my soil, and end life of many other creatures. There are studies of changing human fetuses. Why many people were so opposed to that but not to GMOs? Its the same thing.

[@jeffvader811]

@@dreama8168 "changing genes of nature" Wrong, modern day crops do not exist in nature, they have been selectively bred (genetically modified) for thousands of years and no longer resemble their original ancestors. "you are polluting our world" Organic food produces 50% more greenhouse emissions than non-organic food. If you really did care about pollution, as you claim, you would be bashing inefficient organic farming, not non-organic farming and GMOs: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0757-z "causing many unborn illnesses" There is zero evidence that GMOs cause any diseases. Actually, GMOs are significantly more healthy than non-GMOs, containing far fewer toxins, and use up to 25% less land as well: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21284-2 "There are studies of changing human fetuses. Why many people were so opposed to that but not to GMOs? Its the same thing." I do hope you're not eating humans, because GMO foods and genetically modified people are very very different things. There has only ever been one documented case of gene editing on human foetuses, which was a study undertaken in China to try and incorporate HIV resistance.

[@adamburling9551]

Because you like playing God and you have a complex that's why

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

​@@jeffvader811 Really? These tired false claims? Selective breeding and GMOs have nothing in common. If they were the same GMO crops wouldn't even exists because they would be unnecessary, redundant. Please apply some critical thinking someone's before believing bs.

[@vx8952]

As an Engineering student it is great to learn about another area of Stem from this channel. This was a great video and really opened my eyes to the issues faced in global food production. Thank you!

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

I wish this video was great.

[@farmerallis]

As someone who's a plant scientist and has worked in agriculture my whole life, this is a phenomenal video. More people need to see this.

[@curiousbystander9193]

problem is .........you are not a biologist, a chemist, a gastroenterologist, a psychologist, or a food scientist.....so your limited point of view and ignorant enthusiasm about this topic may put others at risk of exposure to harmful chemicals and gene alterations in staple crops. FOr example....cry1 glycan binding proteins were approved for consumption based on field application data relate to BT use as competitive organism. Transgene expressed cry1 gmo proteins have not fully studied for their effect on the mammal gi tract biome..... For example.....glyphosate in gmo and non gmo staple crops appears to negatively alter the human gut biome and these changes in food are directly contributing to the rise in autism and chronic disease in western cultures.

[@oliviergrimard3845]

@@curiousbystander9193 and you are any of that?

[@oliviergrimard3845]

@@curiousbystander9193 after reading again what you wrote, there is more chance the person from the first comment actually is a plant scientist than you having finished high school.

[@curiousbystander9193]

@@oliviergrimard3845 After rereading the original posters statement, I have to ask myself, if they are a plant scientist, why would not add to the discussion as opposed to making such a vague statement highlighted with their credentials? You see, because a good plant scientist really should have more to say, especially if they have worked in agriculture their entire life.

[@davidadcock3382]

@@oliviergrimard3845 Curious Bystander are you here telling lies and spreading misinformation again?

[@hendrixschneider1224]

loved the way this topic was approached, here are subscription and all the best wishes for this channel, keep up the great work!

[@kickwriteteach2313]

I love and appreciate this channel's logo! on so many levels

[@majorfallacy5926]

am i stupid or is it just a bogstandard double helix? i cant see any hidden initials or anything?

[@diegosanchez894]

@@majorfallacy5926 it kind of looks like two real engineering logos

[@RyanTaylor2000]

Major Fallacy man it’s 2020, all about simplicity, if you were designing Harley Davidson’s logo no one would say it’s a good design

[@quantumvortex3942]

I love your stuff, and most specifically the way you make the information accessible using proper terminology across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Just a little note, at 1:55 you reference 'pesticide' where you meant 'fungicide'.

[@popeyegordon]

Pesticide is a broad term for a whole list of 'cides.

[@quantumvortex3942]

@@popeyegordon Yes... pesticide, insecticide etc. all relative to fauna. However, herbicides, fungicides etc are all related to flora, completely different life forms, different chemical profiles for different purposes. Just saying...

[@popeyegordon]

@@quantumvortex3942 While you gave this some thought and offer a perspective, I have never heard of any such division in the terminology. My favorite is raticide.

[@HaasGrotesk]

We live in an era where feelings are more important than facts and the fact that this will destroy this world is somewhat pretty sad and amusing at the same time.

[@rambles2727]

What will?

[@HaasGrotesk]

@@rambles2727 Feelings instead of facts.

[@imph1l]

Really cool video! But on "critical" topics like that, I'd really like to know the sources :) I DO NOT mean that the vid was biased, but I stil would like to read all the info on it.

[@jasonbolding3481]

Putting a source on a graph you think would be standard practise

[@woutrobert4402]

They’re in the description (or at least now they are) :)

[@cogspace]

There are 18 sources linked in the description. The bracketed numbers in the video show you which claim is coming from which source.

[@Dichtsau]

_CAREFUL._ this video is so heavily biased, it counts as "disinformation". BARELY any1 is scared of "direct damage" (as in "can't be digested, goes other ways"). we are scared of LONG TERM DAMAGES, as in "children born with 5 arms". also, BARELY any1 cares if a potato-gene is put into another potato. what we care about, is when u put tulip-genes into wheat - u also wouldn't wanna eat "pig with dolphin-genes" or "jalapeno with elefant-genes" (or, speaking for farmers, they wouldn't wanna raise "cows with shark-genes").

[@Runcible2010]

@@Dichtsau Isn't Monsanto modifying crops to withstand agricultural chemicals -- weed killers and pesticides-- that are harmful to humans

[@ryliek6832]

I appreciate all the work stephanie has put into this channel but your narration is like no other channel out there!

[@muskansiddikee2171]

Man I'm in class 12 from India and I studied about all this in an chapter called biotechnology. Wish I found you guys earlier education would have been fun not a burden.

[@eswaribalan164]

But the voice of the reader is real boring and deadening.

[@swilleh_]

@@eswaribalan164 it's their first video. Check the last ones. Also it's not as boring as teacher's way to "teach"

[@dottyman7251]

8:42 as an Irish person I have to say "Hwhat" we do not have a sustainable agriculture sector in fact the agriculture in Ireland is one of our main polluters

[@moayadbassam]

Great video! Looking forward to more videos on the new channel.

[@masochisticmeese3555]

Just wanted to clarify Irish didn't die from the potatoe famine itself, they died because the English took the rest of the food

[@RealEngineering]

While there is a truth to that. It's a severe over simplification.

[@novivi4390]

@@RealEngineering Not Really

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@@novivi4390 well no, other foods were still being exported which is a bad idea but not the cause but a cause. The reason it was so bad was ba use of bad governmental policies.

[@annepower7787]

Absolutely - this is a complete misrepresentation of Irish History - The English owned farms and businesses in Ireland and English laws were changed making some foods too expensive whilst others continued to be exported. The potatoes had a blight - but the blight for the Irish was the English for which Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, and others have apologised. www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine

[@Challender]

new sub, Thank you, nice quality of topics important to us all.

[@jonjones9603]

That video was great and eye opening.Thank you and I'm a subscriber now and look forward to the other channel you were talking.God bless.

[@kdonnellyza]

I came here for a video about Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductors (CMOS)

[@ralanham76]

It's the font I don't recognize it

[@danielhenderson7050]

Me too lol

[@emiledlund9559]

I guess corn is a pretty big component of metaloxide

[@adrianwolmarans]

Cornplementary Metal Oxide ;)

[@ShadowWasntHere8433]

TLDW: GMO good, Monsanto bad

[@TheSunriseAnimation]

GMO a technology, how Monsanto uses it bad. Like knives, they can be used for cooking or killing.

[@popeyegordon]

Well then you should be thrilled that Monsanto shut down over two years ago.

[@jacksonbowns1087]

Thank you. That is exactly it, and I'm tired of people blindly demonizing the technology.

[@LaughterOnWater]

@@popeyegordon Monsanto is getting a brand whitewash. They're dropping the name in the merge with Bayer. Let's not pretend it's shutting down. www.businessinsider.com/monsanto-beyer-merge-drop-monsanto-name-2018-6

[@alphonsusho8962]

@@jacksonbowns1087 Yeah, gmo is honestly a good thing when used properly, just like any technology, there should be regulations but to quickly dismiss it especially in a world wher eclimate change will cause what plants can successfully grow in a certain part of the world, plants that can adapt is quickly needed.

[@hondrta]

This is a great video, and I can hear and feel your passion in it.

[@vikingeyes772]

That was the best video on gmos. I really appreciate this as a producer

[@blooptev]

was looking forward to this for a while, thanks for making this great content!

[@Russell12345789]

This was fantastic! Excellently written and narrated!

[@HumbertoRamosCosta]

The best video i saw about the subject, congratulations. Please consider open your videos CCs for contributions.

[@tobyihli9470]

I never understood how so many people would allow themselves to be convinced of something so stupid as believing GMOs are harmful.

[@DukeGMOLOL]

Happens with every new technology. That's ok, I love progress and the screaming of those it leaves behind.

[@rontgenrays]

Looking forward to have a new informative channel to fill my feed. Lovely video!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Best of luck!

[@Masterhitman935]

Kings and Generals any word of the ongoing battle for science! :)

[@popeyegordon]

My name is Pawan Ramnarain. I want to remind readers of all the huge advantages of GMO crops: 1) The thing about GMOs is that they have been so completely tested clinically and by government safety agencies. 2) All research done is peer reviewed and findings are supported by all legitimate science organizations globally. 3) Companies that produce GMOs are a gift to humanity. NGOs run by the the smartest people on this planet also invest in GMO seed to be given away free to the poorest farmers. Farmers welcome this help graciously. 4) GMOs are the most affordable because they allow us to skip pesticide and herbicide use and avoid personal contamination by pesticides that are not applied thanks to modern crop science. 5) The pros mentioned in this video can not be achieved by conventional breeding so I respect that. We now achieve goals in better seed that was impossible before. 6) People are too poorly educated to understand modern crop science so we rely on our crop scientists to get the seed we desperately need. 7) People have stopped the bogus lawsuits because we learned it was a scam made possible by a huge bribe of organic lobby money delivered to the IARC. I can keep going on with this list to show you why people are embracing GMOs due to all their advantages. But hey, farmers have the right to fail so there is no pressure. I'm glad for the new perfect plant based replacements for meats like beef, this is a sustainable move we have to make.

[@analogdistortion]

Another problem with GM is that Monsanto sells all the seeds which are all clones of the same crop leading to no natural resistance to an insect infestation from genetic diversity.

[@davidadcock3382]

Your post is false. Monsanto was bought out three years ago and does not exist. The seeds are not clones of the same crop. You are clueless about this subject analogdistortion.

[@popeyegordon]

There can't be 'another' problem because there is not even one to begin with you idiot. Monsanto is gone, shut down 3 years ago. GMO seed is not 'cloned'. It is tested for years before approval and resistance is one of the things improved with superior GMO seeds. Farmers don't want a perfect seed to mutate - it already has all the traits they want. Bt crops are so totally insect resistant that no insecticides are needed at all, a huge advantage for everyone but the organic farmer cult.

[@BaRKy]

This was an amazing video and as non-biased as I can tell. Thank you for it, and I mean that genuinely.

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

Not with this "russian bot an troll" thing again. As if russia is resposible for everything you dont like. Like every russian and only russians are online trolls.

[@jashak9291]

not really non biased, but a good video anyway

[@teedsthereaper6287]

11:47 Gordon Ramsay would shout that it's an overcooked egg.

[@danabright3241]

non-biased :DDDDDDDD

[@erwinmoreno23]

Great video. I think people just need to know more and learn to analyze what they learn. So this free videos are great!

[@augurelite]

Im so glad you talked about both the good and the bad. Im very pro GMO but its good to understand the arguments against it so I can have discussions about it without my bias of thinking the technology is perfect lol

[@popeyegordon]

The technology is virtually perfect. No seed technology is 100% perfect, if it was all crop scientists would be out of a job.

[@conradmbugua9098]

GMO is bad

[@lrn_news9171]

Are you pro GMO corn and soy as they're currently grown? which is in almost everything you buy at the grocery store. If so you're very ignorant.

[@shyamalagowri9992]

@@popeyegordontrue

[@BillyBoland]

This is the third video I've watched on this topic. I am thrilled to see the two-sided approach and explanation on GMO foods. Well done on knowledge and presentation.

[@thecivilroad]

This is awesome!!!!! This a well thought out documentary. Thank you for your time! I cannot wait to see the next one!

[@harleytutor]

On the topic of GMOs, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. just about everything you eat has been genetically modified throughout the millennia. Hell, aren't "natural" tomatoes poisonous? Non GMO bananas are seeded, natural corn is bitter, the animals we harvest have been genetically modified to produce more of some something. we have been living with GMOs for centuries. why all the hub bub now? also, on the topic of herbicides, I thought glyphosate worked by destroying a specific part of the plant that humans and animals don't have. On the Bayer website it states, "According to a US News article the Environmental Protection Agency has again reached conclusions that support the long-standing record of safe use for glyphosate, the main active ingredient in many Roundup brand weed killers. The article notes that glyphosate does not (DOES NOT) cause cancer or pose a public health risk when proper application procedures (PROPER APPLICATION PROCEDURES) are followed". In other words, if you don't follow the instructions when you apply the chemical, it can harm you. Bleach is used to purify your water. that doesn't mean go drink bleach. hundreds of millions of people use round up or eat plants that have been sprayed with roundup. if roundup is such a dangerous carcinogen, why are they having such a hard time proving it's harmfulness. especially when hundreds of millions use it.

[@AnonMedic]

You're completely wrong on so many levels. No we have not been eating genetically modified foods for centuries.

[@dariusattebrant7354]

/^\inutemen/^\edia I believe his point was to draw a parallel between selective breeding and gmo:s, in the sense that genetical engineering is just a sped up version of selective breeding, which has been going on at least since the agricultural revolution.

[@harleytutor]

Darius Attebrant you are correct sir. Selective breeding, genetic modification. Same thing with a few differences.

[@harleytutor]

By selectively breeding plants and animals. You are taking the genes from those organisms and produce more ideal offspring. A primitive way of genetically modifying. Granted doing it this way you have to take the bad with the good as well and hope you can breed the negative genes out later on. You dog has been genetically modified by selective breeding over thousands of years.

[@AnonMedic]

@@harleytutor huge difference. Selective breeding uses natural codes already existing in that organisms gene pool. genetic engineering takes code from another organism and mixes it with code from a different organism. That is playing God with the building blocks of life. We are what we eat, and you'd have to be naive to argue genetic technology is 100% safe. What if I bred a plant with an enzyme that attacks the reproductive organ of whoever eats that plant? Then i sent that plant to counties that opposed my companies will to reduce their population. The technology is real. But just like a gun it's only technology. I can be used for good or bad. Sometimes the good intentions have unintended consequences. This Gene editing technology affects everyone on earth, and cannot be undone once the gene edits are circulating on the planet. So we need to think and discuss the good and bad uses. And be proactive in regulation, because being reactivate with Pandora's box is a bad idea. There is a guy in Oakland California trying to sell homemade human gene editing kits. After some conversation on Instagram, is only concern seems to be capitalizing on his gene editing skills and knowledge. He seems completely unconcerned with potential consequences. Now I don't care if he alters his muscular DNA. That edit dies with him. I'm more concerned about embryo editing, or editing your reproductive DNA, and back to food..as i said the concern should be weaponization of gene edits, and maybe more than that, the unintended consequences.

[@ShadyNasties]

The WHO did NOT rule that glyphosate was carcinogenic. The IARC did and that study is heavily disputed. Check out forbes “IARCs glyphosate gate scandal” by Geoffrey Kabat Hopefully you will correct your mistake. Thank you for a good video.

[@popeyegordon]

Organic farmers sent a $160,000 cash bribe to the IARC through a corrupt USRTK lawyer to get them to make the low cancer risk statement about glyphosate. It was the cornerstone of all these shyster lawyer Roundup lawsuits but now that Congress has cut off its $2mill annual finding to the IARC they are in deep doodoo. Five citations for proof: geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/iarc-international-agency-research-cancer-glyphosate-determination-world-consensus/ geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/08/06/congressional-committee-cuts-funding-to-iarc-over-who-agencys-controversial-glyphosate-cancer-finding/ www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/24/glyphosate-gate-iarcs-scientific-fraud-12014 risk-monger.com/2017/10/13/greed-lies-and-glyphosate-the-portier-papers/ www.cameronjenglish.net/single-post/2017/10/22/Episode-18-Exposing-corruption-secrecy-on-IARC-glyphosate-panel-Jon-Entine

[@ShadyNasties]

@@popeyegordon Thank you :)

[@solssun]

Just leave the fact that the potato famine was entirely avoidable but the Irish weren't deemed worth saving by the British Empire in the footnotes

[@MarkPederson]

If you're okay using insulin or getting an antiviral injection and anti-GMO, your views are incongruous. Exogenous DNA is inserted into yeast or eggs respectively which produces the desired protein.

[@curiousbystander9193]

thanks for helping everyone understand what your wife has to put up with daily........... there is quite a difference between insulin made with gmo technologies and stacking staple crops with glyphosate resistance and cry1 protein expression.

[@tmswrs]

@@curiousbystander9193 so the insulin gene is fine but the natural plant genes that provide some species with resistance to the plant hormone mimic glyphosate are bad. Any other bad genes out there?

[@curiousbystander9193]

@@tmswrs excuse me... what are you talking about.....plant genes that produce an analog to gly pho sate? Did I get that right? No such thing.! Expressing cry1 lectins in crops produces ibs through glycan/cry1 binding...yes, there is something wrong with that...especially with acidic diets.

[@Volksgeist]

Amazing video, so excited for this new channel :)

[@RexyVid]

Hello real science, i would like to know where you got the data from the chat at 9:44 or the website in which you go it. Thanks if you do. I really liked the video

[@popeyegordon]

18 reference links are provided under the video when you expand down the description.

[@MrPinguinzz]

how many new technologies need to be created to people understand that no new technology is neither good or bad by itself? the way it is used matters so much more

[@cianmansfield]

STEM, and Irish prominence. My two favorite things.

[@gorge.1155]

Great first video, informational and laid back

[@chikinnunget5231]

Huh very laid back HUUUUHHH Lol nice comment tho

[@Illumas]

This is literally the only balanced video/information I've ever seen on GMOs. Good job.

[@popeyegordon]

Then you have not done a search. 3 educational factual YT videos on GMOs have 1 to 3 million views.

[@nikillus]

Love the work of citing references!

[@nikillus]

citating*

[@popeyegordon]

All videos about science controversy must cite links or they are not legitimate. Most KZbin GMO videos are click bait trash and lies by frauds, organic lobbyists and Russian trolls. Although this one gets a few things wrong she is mostly correct because of her research.

[@_DarkKnight2301_]

That's a sub for me. High quality and well researched videos are a beautiful sight to see. Glad this channel is doing great like Mr. Engineering guy

[@adamhannath1417]

Thanks for the open, balanced analysis. I hope it reaches beyond the choir.

[@kennethjose7159]

This is balanced for you? Huh

[@taktsing4969]

The best way to stop something from happening is to spread fear and rumor among ignorant persons. Ingorance speaks louder than scientific evidence.

[@josephhargrove4319]

Like the old adage (said in so many words in various cultures - I know it from Yiddish culture): "A lie will run around the world before the truth gets its boots on." richard -- MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)

[@tpfrk8977]

It’s shocking how ignorant people are when it comes to the believing that gmo’s are harmful

[@RyanTaylor2000]

Todd P people that are anti-GMO essentially same as the anti-vacs, but more people oppose GMO because it’s easier to lose crops than their loved ones because simply not everyone is farmer. Sadly

[@tpfrk8977]

Ryan Taylor Yes.. and how they are willing to dislike it despite having such little understanding of what it is or how it works... Someone said it’s bad, therefore it is. They don’t understand that their own dog is far more genetically engineered than most of the plants that they are consuming.

[@jayyyzeee6409]

Mistakes were made in the past and corporations aren't getting any less greedy and immoral. Calling people ignorant for being skeptical when trust in governments and corporations is at an all-time low for good reason is just lazy.

[@tpfrk8977]

Jayyy Zeee Mistakes with GMO’s?? Which mistake are you referring to?They are generally just swapping out one gene most of the time for a very specific trait. The use of pesticides and herbicides is a far larger concern to me.

[@currentriver4951]

@@tpfrk8977 you do understand some GMOs make their own pesticides , which you would be eating.

[@nicholasdebs1753]

The proper application of the scientific method provides the means for human beings to better understand, and by extension, better inhabit this world. The abuse of the scientific method, whether through incompetence or by design, provides a quick descent into hell. As the narrator of the video states, Monsanto has been engaging in bad business practice-and bad science, really, really bad science-for years. And as the primary marketer of GMOs-the very aggressive, underhanded and double dealing marketer- for many, if not most people, the products that that corporation invented introduced the entire concept of GMOs to them. So, given Monsanto’s track record vis-a-vis business and community relations, never mind social responsibility, and the outrageously manipulated “studies” that Monsanto used to stifle any inquiry into their methods-to definitively conclude that their products were safe, when that is, indeed, still an open question (what actually happens when a DNA “gun” [charming] shoots genetic material into the genome of the to-be-modified-plant? Is it, to further the unhappy analogy with firearms, a “clean shot”? What happens if other, unwanted material is included in the “bullet”?). Given the track record of deceit, (not very well) sort-of sublimated violence, and good old-fashioned rapacious greed the corporation has evidenced, why in God’s name would anyone with a functioning brain, trust anything Monsanto has to say, about anything, including the safety of their products? And, perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly (as this video makes out), this assessment has been extended to the entire field of GMO research and development. Well, that can be viewed as either a set-back to humankind’s grand march to a happy and productive immortality (no thanks)-to which I say, what’s the rush? Oh, right-stockholders. Silly me. Or, it can be viewed as an application of the figurative brakes to a process which has been slipshod and negligent at best, criminal at worst. And that brake is being applied by people who are not scientists, who are often, but not always operating with a fair amount of incorrect information at their disposal, but who, nevertheless, are exercising their collective power to say-no, you cannot introduce into this world organisms which, in point of fact , have never existed before, because you want to make a fast buck, without real live honest to god studies done on the possible effects that introduction of such organisms might have on the human, and the general environment. And, in this case, to say that this represents a lack of faith in science, is, in my opinion, a gross simplification of matters. What it is, is a rejection of bad science-of science that has been perverted to serve the rather loathsome schemes of an immense, end-game capitalist corporation, rather than the truth. And, I will point out, what has often been trotted out as scientific “fact” by condescending persons in lab coats to an unsuspecting public, generally for purposes of monetary gain or ideology, has often, horribly, turned out to be a big, fat lie. So, for instance-ever heard of the business man in the 1920’s who drank a several-ounce bottle of “Radiothor” every day for several years, assured that it would put vim in his step, only to die a horrific death-because the active ingredient in the compound was Radium? Or indeed, the Radium Girls of World War I, who after years of working painting hour markers on clocks using Radium paint, firstly glowed in the dark and then basically melted from the inside out? Radiation? Not a problem. Or the story of leaded gasoline-perfectly harmless. Well, except for the terrible impact on human health. Or, the , perhaps causally related increase in violent crimes world-wide following exactly the rise in environmental lead in the 20th century. Or the Tuskegee Boys? Bad blood? Come see us-for free, and we’re the guv’ment,, so of course we have your best interests in mind. I’m out of space. You get the idea. The issue is more complicated and nuanced than the video lays out, and it has a long history, not a happy one.

[@DoReMi123acb]

It never ceases to amaze me how sad and narrowminded the anti-GMO crowd is. Literally all the modern crops we humans have eaten since the beginning of agriculture and farming are a result of genetic modification, cross-breeding, and selective breeding. It really is just mind-baffling. I wouldn' expect this from people in the western world!

[@court2379]

There is a difference between crossing plants and selecting those with desired traits, and splicing a gene into a plant that could never naturally occur there.

[@Leena-zh4lj]

Good luck, I am happy to see western idiots kill themselves.

[@jeffvader811]

@@court2379 The only difference is precision. The end result of the process is nearly identical, except an artificially bred crop will have several changed genes, not all of them known or beneficial, whereas a genetically engineered crop will be almost exactly edited to specification.

[@edvardmunch6344]

They are just like anti-nuke people, actually they usually are the same

[@ntmn8444]

@@court2379 this is correct. There is a difference. Our opinion is unpopular here tho.

[@gailhowes9398]

Thank you for I did not know the whole story and now a more positive attitude to learn even more!

[@pretzel2722]

This technology can revolutionize agriculture, have the potential to become one of the most powerful tool to fight climate change, world hunger and dieseases and yet people rejected it just because they think that "genetic modification" is always bad

[@popeyegordon]

That era is almost over. There are now more GM crops overseas than there are in the US. Cultivation bans have been dropping fast. Most are created by experts in their own countries and many of those seeds are given away free. They are more interested in the Bt trait and drought resistance than herbicide resistance. The 30 year long Golden Rice project is also maturing despite the best efforts of anti-biotech activists.

[@abval001]

Great video! Though I would have loved to see a discussion on GMO's effect on biodiversity

[@popeyegordon]

All human activity affects biodiversity. All farming is invasive to nature. ---------------------------- *AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH* -------------------------------- Don’t buy organic food if you want to increase farm yields or seriously address climate change "As we approach the 2020s, many consumers have accepted the marketing/activist narrative that organic farming would be the best option for food safety and to mitigate the most damaging effects of climate change. The inconvenient truth is that organic farming is a terrible option from a climate change perspective. Its dependence on manures and compost involves huge, but rarely recognized, greenhouse gas emissions in the form of very potent methane and nitrous oxide. But perhaps its biggest climate change issue is that organic farms are mostly less productive per unit area than “conventionally” farmed land. With rising food demand driven mostly by rising standards of living in the developing world, there is a need to boost farm production, and that means the very undesirable conversion of forests or grasslands to agriculture in places like Brazil. That leads to major carbon dioxide release from what had been sequestered carbon in the soils, and also the loss of biodiversity and other environmental services provided by those natural lands. In 1990, the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) was charged by Congress with establishing a national organic standard to supersede the fragmented certification systems that had evolved to that time. It was a major struggle because the very science-oriented USDA was at odds with the early organic marketers who had focused entirely on the narrative that what is “natural” is always best. The marketers finally prevailed. When the national organic standards were issued in 2002, they were not based on science but rather on the naturalistic fallacy. So here is the big picture. The only crop category for which organic yields were higher than the 2016 US average was for forage crops for feeding animals. To have produced all of the US agricultural output from 2016 as organic would have required more than 100 million more acres to have been farmed-an area greater than that of the entire state of California, the third largest US state. That amount of new land suitable for farming clearly does not exist in the US, and so that shortfall would induce more conversion of forest and grassland into farming in places like Brazil, leading to major releases of previously sequestered carbon in those soils" This informative article goes on to use eleven charts and graphs from government data to prove in great detail just how inferior organic farming is. geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/10/07/viewpoint-dont-buy-organic-food-if-you-want-to-seriously-address-climate-change/

[@kierancalder8573]

She sounds like a Female version of the guy from Real Engineering

[@YounesLayachi]

Absolutely not

[@mhchoudhurymd]

I appreciate the presentation and the scientists who have done all the hard work and research on these issues. We are absolutely in need of safe secure food resources for the growing population! The poor and the dispossessed people are at a greater risk during the shortage and crisis. We need to be proactive in solving our problems! Thanks

[@italovidigal1990]

The problem is that academia people, myself included, don't reach the people that matters most. Leaving to the journalists to explain the process of delivering the technology such as delivery via agrobacterium. I think every ordinary people would be scared if someone tells them that we edit the genome of plants using plasmids (bacteria DNA) even though they will most likely segregate in subsequent generations. Thank you for the excellent video, i can only hope that it changed someone's mind. Respectfully, Italo.

[@popeyegordon]

This video for kids teaches the basics of GMOs, it has 12 million views. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYXQlIuPpZ2rq5Y "Though much of the controversy around genetically modified crops is driven by the belief that the process of moving genes from one species to another is “unnatural,” new research shows some 1 in 20 flowering plants are naturally transgenic. Dozens of plants, including bananas, peanuts, Surinam cherries, hops, cranberries and tea, contain the Agrobacterium microbe - the very same bacterium that scientists typically use to create GM crops. The research follows on the heels of the 2015 discovery that sweet potatoes are naturally transgenic. Agrobacterium DNA also has been found in tobacco plants.The findings were reported in a paper published Sept. 21 in the journal Plant Molecular Biology. Researchers studied the genomes of some 356 dicot species and found 15 naturally occurring transgenic species. “Thus, HGT [horizontal gene transfer] from Agrobacterium to dicots is remarkably widespread,” the abstract stated. It has also been discovered that the horticultural process of grafting different plants together can lead to the exchange of genes, meaning humans have inadvertently been creating transgenic plants for millennia. From genome studies, we can see that gene swapping has been going on since the dawn of life. allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/10/many-plants-naturally-gmo-research-finds/

[@alrightydave]

Interesting. Even as a fan of educational stuff on KZbin, when I saw this channel I thought it was gonna be a bit too nerdy for me but guess I was wrong but this stuff is just as good as Real Engineering!

[@Chuppydu21]

No mention to the potential harm for biodiversity regarding to the use of GMO's. When you create a plant that can create it's own pesticide, the question is not only how the human will interact with the pesticide in question but also how the ecosystem will interact with it. You don't talk about the potential harm that plant produced pesticide can have on insect like worms or polinator wich are essential to a healthy culture. No mention also to the potential selection pressure that GMO's crops can represent on a population of insect wich can lead to the creation of a toxin-resistant specie, a bit like what's happening with antibiotics. And no mention of the interaction GMO's crops can have with crops outside the fiels and the potential crossings wich can result in the apparition of new traits on species present in nature. I'm not for or against GMO's but if you do a video titled "The Truth About GMOs" you better be factul when showing both side off the debate rather thant just saying "peaple are scared for no reason" and "not doing this would be killing malnourished children" because if the debate is so still, it's because the effects of GMO's in long terms are still unsure and need to be tackeled with more engeneering to avoid the problems mentionned below(cf:2016 report of academy of science of Americam). So again good video on the form but not fair enouth for me I' m open for debate ps: IEnglish is my 2nd language so typo's are certainly present

[@jojoAW101]

thanks man

[@Pyromanemouse]

The point you miss is that not using gmo in most cases translate to the use of roundup or other chem, which could also lead to adaptation. Also using a few types of gmo could easily counter the issue as long as you don’t use one locally too long. They are plenty of possibilities with this tech and we can just stop using it at any point which would reverse any adaptation/ mutation of parasites, as this mutation would now be useless. (English 3rd language)

[@Chuppydu21]

@@Pyromanemouse Yeah as I said I was not trying support or incriminate the GMOs just to point the lack of fair representation in the video.

[@seanhubbard6033]

Why would pesticide effects of the GMOs be any more concerning that the effects of all the pesticides used on conventional produce?

[@popeyegordon]

Watch our for that natural pesticide that is also used to make tear gas - 3 billion people savor hot peppers. PERSPECTIVE, DUDE! The 'negative side' is a bunch of made up propaganda from organic farming lobbyists. The NAS study does not find any concerns with GMO foods. In fact it ended the GMO safety debate forever: allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2016/05/gmo-safety-debate-is-over/

[@markhasenour12]

I'm a farmer and we also use glyphosate to grow non GMO...

[@christopherfranklin3050]

The solution has and always will be variey. If in Ireland they would have planted several different types of species of potatoes, a blight could only damage one type while sparing others. In Peru there are over 1000 different types of potatoes thus spreading the risk of contamination.

[@popeyegordon]

That's the complicated way. The modern way is seed that has built in DNA code immunity to blights. Nothing wrong with variety and no older seeds are ever lost when new ones are developed, they fill seed banks and vaults and remain on hobby farms.

[@michaeldepaul7676]

Question: How did they get the genes from blight resistant wild potatoes into the common potatoes? Don't they have to use a recombinant like HEK293?

[@secullenable]

HEK293 is just a cell line dude

[@terrymcmiller3513]

Love this channel here and on nebula. I subscribed yesterday and am loving it! Thanks for your hard and dedicated work, you all! 😊👍 The only thing which needs some more work is the app for android. It is broken 💔

[@realscience]

Thank you! And we are working on it and trying to make things better all the time

[@popeyegordon]

@@realscience Please block the asshole troll 'Jacinta' who posted a very dangerous lie 14 hours previous to your reply here. I am pretty sure you do not want to tolerate this offense on your thread. Thank you.

[@drgentech4930]

Just a note unrelated to GMOs, Ireland was producing enough food throughout the entire "potato famine" to feed the whole population even with the blight. So why did Ireland starve, if Irish people were hungry and Irish people were producing more than enough food to feed all Irish people? The reason is not potato blight, the reason was colonial British soldiers who enforced forcible exportation of Irish food for profit leading to the starvation of the Irish people. The fundamental cause of a million Irish deaths and 1.5 million refugees was not the potato blight, an interruption to a food security self-defence measure, but British colonisation and theft of Irish wealth for profit which placed Ireland in a food insecure position in the first place, and the fact that the British and their Irish landlord servants continued to export food even as starvation in Ireland magnified thousands of times. British authorities at the time remarked that no "aid" would be sent (aid perhaps meaning some of the food that Ireland produced, given back to Ireland as a "gift"), because there were too many Irish anyway. It was not a famine, the cause was not potato blight, it was a genocide, and the perpetrators were the British colonial authorities who had their footsoldiers shoot starving mothers on the docks as they desperately tried to access the food the British were taking away.

[@dpatts]

The innate potato missed a naming opportunity.... The INNATO!

[@ewerybody]

Super nice video! 👍 I really like the science behind some of this GMO stuff! But the corporate business crap that's been done with it drag it in the dirt. Thats an utter shame for the scientists behind it all. Truly this is one of the stepstones for providing everyone with food. ... but ... Well, if they summon an army of lawyers to sue farmers that have their fields next to GMO ones where plants started to spread by wind or if they fight a huge group of people that try to get compensation for their cancer problems or lobby their way up the behinds of our politicians to suppress studies and labeling: I'm with the ones with the forks and torches! This science should be used to free the poor and hungry and not to make them dependent on the richest that just get richer.

[@popeyegordon]

Stop repeating nasty conspiracy theories fed to you by the organic foods cartel activists. There is no corporate bogeyman. More than half of all GMO seeds being used today (by variety, not tonnage) are not for or from US agribusiness. They are for specific applications in many different parts of the world where climate change is causing additional challenges. Most of them are not patented. Most of them are given away free to struggling farmers by NGOs and govt seed programs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHardqdra9xjhrc

[@popeyegordon]

The science IS primarily being used to help the poorest farmers. You can't prove otherwise. Lawsuits about drifting or stray seeds are a myth, only 11 lawsuits have been prosecuted in the North American continent in the last 30 years with proven criminal intent by farmers: geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/06/01/dissecting-claims-about-monsanto-suing-farmers-for-accidentally-planting-patented-seeds/

[@ntmn8444]

That’s why a lot of people have issues with eating GMO. I’m one of them. I’m concerned with the ethics around it. Call me crazy, but ever since I came back to the Catholic Church 2 years ago, I just find myself questioning things that are billed as good for humanity. Is it? Because we have a way of effing things up. I’m not entirely convinced GMOs are humanity’s gift to the world. What about the ecosystem and its impact to it? What about the business around it? I think the EU did well in banning them.

[@cabo1656]

@@ntmn8444 There are some environmental concerns to GMOs, like the the gene mixing with non-GMO crops(but current papers and studies show not real impact on the real world). The real problem is the Monsanto pestecide-resistance GMO, which how the video states, the overuse of pesticide is the dangerous carcigenous element there(also, reminder that Monsanto is responsible for similar practices like that, many years before GMOs were involved). So yeah, as always, we should heavily regulate sckethy and all companies that use GMOs, or on anyone that produce food, because there containment and poisons(like pesticides) that we actually know and have evidence that kills people. It's true that the narrative that GMOs are the saviors of the planet is kinda over dramatic and understand if it turn you off from that. But it does have more than some true, it's not only in theory that we can modified plants to survive on extreme conditions, some already have been already be done, of course they require of years of research and testing to reach markets to assure safety and that they work properly. It's undeniable the inmense potential of bioengineering, having already clear and successful cases, on times that will get harder with climate change, not using GMOs would be on my opinion foolish. It will not be the final solution on malnutrition, growing crops on climate change, overuse pesticides, etc. Because are big and complex problems, but it should be clear that GMOs can be a big part on the solutions. There is not other technology where is that obvious how much it can help on its own and in conjunction with others(the vertical crops idea becomes much more viable with GMOs). I guess I should state my possible bias saying I did studied Bioengineering for a few years at university, and thou I'm not in that area anymore, I do try to keep up reading some papers once in a while.

[@hahna77]

@@ntmn8444 you need to be questioning the Catholic Church since their lies the true deception. If you pray in sincerity for Jesus to show you truth in His Word, He will I promise you.

[@noticemejisoo446]

I’m learning gmos in class and this can really help me on my test! Thanks Real Science

[@joanbaczek2575]

iiRoseCrystalii learn the difference between hybrid and gmo cuz she has grouped them all as gmo and it’s misleading

[@carso1500]

@@joanbaczek2575 both are the same, since both are genetically modified organisms that are diferent from the base product

[@JohnSmith-ds7oi]

@@carso1500 Which genes are "modified" in a hybrid?

[@teole6364]

GMOs or chemicals? People: I choose death

[@aaronreed8389]

Very informative, well done

[@ingridplata2411]

Thank you for this. I could never understand why people would worsen others' lives by destroying Golden Rice fields because they are worried about Monsanto which has nothing to do with it.

[@TheQueenofNeckbeards]

Can't even begin to say how stupidly excited I got when I found out about this new channel! The super-detailed video style of Real Engineering covering more topics in biology is a dream come true.

[@CorvinRayne]

Nicely done!

[@Healitnow]

GMO's are another example of weigh all the options than pick the worst one. Just go and look at aquaponics and hydroponics sites and watch people making over 100,000.00 dollars per year on less than two acres in the US, growing and selling local organic vegetables. To do this the yield per acre, per year has to be huge, showing vastly better use of space in agriculture. This is how to solve world hunger. Controlled productive enclosed pest inaccessible greenhouses where natural foods can be grown as pests are locked out. This is a better way.

[@davidadcock3382]

It is not a feasible or a better way to grow the crops that can use gmo technology and that is why it is not done.

[@popeyegordon]

Too narrow minded, Harvey. The vast majority of farmers have no fortunes to invest in these facilities which are not suitable for staple crops anyways. The niche for the high tech facilities is in cities. It is for fresh greens, not millions of tons of grains and legumes. You do not have a better way, you have professed a misguided uninformed stance.

[@inpursuitofgoodness4205]

What a balanced view!

[@zaneaqo6084]

To put it simply GMO's are modernized products which are safe to consume. 🤝👏👏👏💯✔️💙

[@galadrael]

Come on people, what do you expect from very low prices? People are pushing for cheaper prices all the time, so they are in large part responsible for the insanity of the production system. They closed their eyes for decades perfectly knowing the whole food production apparatus was built lies. And now they wake up and cry wolf because they're gluten intolerant or blessed with Alzheimer? Nonsense! You want good food, you have to recognize that the value of it has to be paid fairly. And it's not cheap! ISBN 978-92-5-105914-2 Read, learn, loose your YT ignorance Pg 3, “19. Risk management measures may include, as appropriate, food labelling8 conditions for marketing approvals and post-market monitoring.” Pg 18, “56: Gene transfer from plants and their food products to gut micro-organisms or human cells is considered a rare possibility because of the many complex and unlikely events that would need to occur consecutively. Nevertheless, the possibility of such events cannot be completely discounted.6” Pg 10, “ 15: Unintended effects can result from the random insertion of DNA sequences into the plant genome, which may cause disruption or silencing of existing genes, activation of silent genes, or modifications in the expression of existing genes. Unintended effects may also result in the formation of new or changed patterns of metabolites. For example, the expression of enzymes at high levels may give rise to secondary biochemical effects or changes in the regulation of metabolic pathways and/or altered levels of metabolites” Pg 16. "46: ….. consideration should be given to the potential impacts on human health using conventional procedures for establishing the safety of such metabolites (e.g. procedures for assessing the human safety of chemicals in foods) .” i.e. Human Safety Studies, YET: None ever.

[@fil8649]

I read in a book called "Lifespan" by David Sinclair that said, like most new discoveries that were brought to the masses way too early, is that the average person's understanding of these new developments is limited to none, and that alone can inspire fear. Also, the term GMO has been ingrained in a massive part of the world's population, not by years education and slow integration, but by the media, and in a very negative way. I feel like there's a fine line between wanting to push new tech into the world asap vs spending time to slowly educate the world and waiting for these things to become common knowledge in order to avoid misunderstanding and irrational fear. Now we're faced with an even greater problem of having to REeducate the world, which is difficult in and of itself, let alone having to deal with the millions of people who are hell-bent on destroying everything about GMOs.

[@popeyegordon]

The media is not the main problem unless you include social media. *Organic industry tyranny for 32 years and counting:* "Although GMOs are regarded as safe as their conventional counterparts by every major food safety authority in the world, the organic industry spends nearly $3 billion a year through over 330 different organizations leading with fear and “information spin” as an industry to sell their products. By creating an unfounded fear that requires tighter regulations on GMO crops, they are hoping to force them out of the food supply, thereby creating a bigger market share to sell more products in their more than $65 billion wheelhouse. The unfortunate consequence of these [non-GMO] labels is that the food companies and lobbyists tend to create an unnecessary “us vs. them” divide. When food companies use fear against competitors to sell a product, farmers take it personally." www.agdaily.com/insights/farm-babe-label-trends-end/ Now why do you suppose organic food is so expensive?? Imagine what 3 billion dollars could do for humanitarian goals - end a different disease forever every year.... End all hunger in at least one country...... Funding nasty propaganda? Really??

[@earthman4222]

I have some GMO salt that I use all the time. I had to write it on my salt shaker because there are so many salt shakers with "non-GMO" on the label. I am still waiting for someone to sequence the DNA of salt.

[@thewindowsexperience489]

More people need to watch not just this video, but this channel.

[@mac9927]

Depending on how you look at it, humans have been eating GMOs for thousands of years. Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification and we have selectively breed traits into our crops since the rise of agriculture. GMOs are just a modern version of this process. While there are definitely some unknowns and as this video says, it can be abused, but at the end of the day this is just another step in human development. People are just scared of things they don’t understand.

[@boxinghighlight7061]

I actually believe they are trying to kill us off there has been a study on hamsters that were given geneticly modified food and after the 3rd generation they were no longer able to reproduce

[@mac9927]

@@boxinghighlight7061 show me the study Lmaooo, and are hamsters humans? There are hundreds of studies with real science that show the gmos are beneficial.

[@boxinghighlight7061]

@@mac9927 it was a Russian experiment but there was another study in Hawaii on rats and it said it gave the rats diseases like cancer and other illnesses that was actually reported in the n.y times I’ll link it too you when I find it

[@mac9927]

@@boxinghighlight7061 have you ever heard of confirmation bias? When looking to prove yourself right one tends to research specific information that can help their argument regardless of where that info comes from. Once that info is found one will use it to dismiss the data that they don’t agree with and use their unsubstantiated “studies” as irrefutable proof. However, with real science and research, Studies need to be substantiated, pier reviewed, and go through a lot more scrutiny. I HIGHLY recommend that you learn how to conduct your own proper research so you don’t continue to spread pseudoscience and incorrect information. If you would like I can recommend a few reliable scientific journals.

[@boxinghighlight7061]

@@mac9927 ny times are a reputable source I don’t believe in everything they say but food that doesn’t brown or bruise could Lead me to believe they might contain some plastic

[@samo4866]

Potatoes have a carcinogen that forms after its cooked above a specific temperature, which most potato products are.. A group genetically modified a strain of potatoes to have a significantly reduced amount of this carcinogen, and the non-gmo crowd slapped it down.

[@shutterup_flutter8321]

I'm a biotechnologist too and i don't think GMOs are bad the are very necessary, as Due to green revolution in India it saved millions of lives in India Thanks to our great scientist HARGOVIND KHURANA.

[@popeyegordon]

*People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding Of Food Science, Study Finds* Jan 26, 2019 "People who most intensely oppose genetically modified food think they know a lot about food science, but they actually know the least, according to a peer-reviewed paper published in January in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. GMOs are widely considered safe by scientists, but opponents have said they want more science on the potential harm so that subjective arguments aren't part of the equation. However, previous surveys have shown that providing more scientific facts about GMOs to people doesn't change their minds. The survey, conducted by four universities, asked 2,000 people in Europe and the United States how much they knew about genetically modified food, what their opinion was and how intense it was." Read the full coverage at: www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/26/687852367/people-strongly-against-gmos-had-shakier-understanding-of-food-science-study-fin The original peer reviewed study is here: www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/study-people-opposed-gmos-don-t-know-much-about-science-they-think

[@sebastianmuller4649]

Great video! I would love to see a video about Nuclear Power from you; the same irrational fearmongering is going on there as with GMOs, and it too is an important tool against climate change (as well as other forms of pollution).

[@quekumber]

agreed

[@theholypeanut8193]

WHY DOES EVERYONE FEAR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS??? Only Chernobyl and Fukoshima was where accidents happened. Chernobyl because... well, USSR. And Fukoshima because a tsunami. Now nuclear power plants are ABSOLUTELY safe.

[@teamjackedsolutions8465]

Very informative, every single sentence well-phrased, everything backed-up. Excellent video/10.

[@trevorcrowe7571]

Increased glysophate yes, but what did it replace over time? I recall much worse chemicals.

[@popeyegordon]

Thank goodness FDA and EPA testing of foods no longer finds dangerous levels of Atrazine, paraquat, DDT, fludioxonil, metolaclor, acephate and diazinon. Now they find minute traces of the least toxic herbicide ever formulated, glyphosate, which is 43% less toxic than table salt, and Bt, so non-toxic that organic farmers rely on it heavily. WHAT A DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT!!!! Anti-GMO idiots claim they want to go back to that nightmare list of much more toxic pesticides. Why???? I can't imagine. geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/05/01/viewpoint-why-grow-gmo-crops-because-they-cut-pesticide-use-37/