Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore

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When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happily munching on lush, living green plants. But this idyllic image leaves out a huge (and slightly less appetizing) source of nourishment: dead stuff. John C. Moore details the "brown food chain," explaining how such unlikely delicacies as pond scum and animal poop contribute enormous amounts of energy to our ecosystems.
Lesson by John C. Moore, animation by TED-Ed.

[@aWinkler2010]

How clever that they used leaves to create all of the living things in this video, even humans!

[@AsianMassageTeacher]

Even the cartoon Hitler at 1:16.

[@xck]

And they used pineapple for the sun!!

[@wonjaechoi4714]

@@xck I thought the sun was kiwi

[@Snak3Y]

Who

[@Marii_isweird]

Yeah

[@pmtclock]

Ted Ed: dead stuff, it’s what’s for dinner. Me: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[@jazzy364]

The graphics are so pretty. Thanks for making these videos with such attention to detail.

[@EasterWitch]

The animation was so beautiful and creative!

[@nemo_is_real]

i got ur heart. i got ur lungs. boom. blood soup. i have ur brain. i have ur eyeballs. boom. blood explosion. blood explosion + blood soup = death death death of animals!!!! (odnt copy and paste this.)

[@xirtam1970]

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[@Wetnapkin69]

@@xirtam1970 you bored?

[@Wetnapkin69]

@@nemo_is_real what?

[@Snak3Y]

Who

[@bobhope4288]

I always knew everyone was full of crap, It spews out of a lot of them.

[@martybuehler4525]

John C. Moore is a genius! Love using his stuff in class. Thanks big john!

[@Emmer2p9]

I agree he is also a great scientist in general!

[@Moonfrog11]

this artstyle is awesome!

[@dorothypham3191]

They used to make some children's books in this style (in my day), but sorry I can't give any further information as I was never really into picture books when I was a kid. It's a curious style now that I can appreciate it though.

[@BBQhenry]

Ted Ed always have a witty or meaningful closing line in their every single video.

[@UPlayNetwork]

Well, at least nothing goes to waste, and plants that grow on manure are tastier than those that don't

[@Prose_cc0]

Hell yes!

[@dertythegrower]

It's not all about manure, its what the manure does to your soil. This topic definitely brings up HUMIC ACID..... one of the best things for gardens (far more important than just weak manure from cows)

[@lysergiinhape]

qwerty42 Actually the most important aspect of a soil is the microflora. They can make a crappy soil better and without them the soil is useless.

[@10peil]

My classes love watching these videos, very informative and clear. Thanks!

[@pickledcardigan7923]

I laughed so hard at this. Not because I thought it was stupid or incorrect, but the name of the restaurant. If you rearrange the words around (but keep the pronunciation) you get the french word 'Poubelle', which means trash or to throw away.

[@rumbim]

"This entire jungle is a jungle of death!" - Horton Hears a Who!

[@Noukz37]

XD

[@Vivek-cw3zu]

Really like the efforts you guys put in to make your videos more interesting.

[@vvsk4918]

Thank you for this beautifully animated video! Keep on doing what you do ❤

[@hamidkarim9148]

You are right

[@dave5194]

the way they used leaves in this animation is so beautiful

[@yumibro8121]

I reallt liked the art style in this one, good work guys!

[@andresantosid]

What a beautiful animation with leaves and flowers!

[@ENGELSProductions]

I juste love this video for it´s animation and visual design !! Also, it was very interesting ! Good Job !

[@kaellancaster]

Leaves everywhere! I love educational videos like this. People who don't know about this can learn more

[@garylin1999]

TED teach me more things. Great channel!

[@mohammedtayyebi8282]

The way they incorporated leaves in making the picture was a nice little touch

[@oakenshadow6763]

I love this leaf art style.

[@s_nuka]

Guys, this is a video about how dead animals help to create food made with dead food which just helped us to understand and appreciate dead stuff basically making us appreciate the video

[@user-ux9le3qe8u]

gorgeous animation!!

[@leodaza2151]

You will live on in the animals and plants that digest your remains

[@madhurimachaudhuri7045]

Effective and creative explanation!

[@californiadream3069]

good pun about the name of the french restaurant !

[@mathetesolei7961]

In Indonesia, some rural homes have an outdoor traditional toilet which hovers right above a catfish pond.

[@carloscastiano]

You. Sir. Have just gotten one more subscriber my friend. Bravo my buddy. It takes quite a feat to keep me watching through a whole video. I like 👍

[@carloscastiano]

And a like.

[@skywrss]

finally a video with good quality

[@martybuehler7617]

Nice work John! It should go into the MSP units if you can put it in there!

[@zenowing]

And if you think about it, all dead stuff comes from living stuff. Crazy.

[@baroonono]

wow love that ending!! great video!!

[@HienNguyenHMN]

Loving the "leaf" animation.

[@thanniestarc1390]

That makes so much sense why everything is drawn with leaves.

[@brain.in.a.body.]

I loved the leaf figurines :)

[@AimeeIsAUnicorn]

Love the leaves for animals and people

[@Dhyuksh]

beautiful animation , really !!!

[@Trans909]

Remember that when you step in poop. It's all organic, baby, and it feeds something.

[@purple8990]

lol

[@charleshurleysdung]

knowledge is increasing

[@TessyWessyOWO]

so lovely i learn a lot from this channel;

[@ashishnain3852]

nice thought on food for food :)

[@YtubeUserr]

0:58 he says glucose is transformed into other stuff like proteins. What?

[@aaronwest2522]

OMG EVERYTHING WAS MADE OF LEAVES!!!!!! THAT'S SO COOL

[@c3pfett]

Jorgensen penus. And just what do you think plants use? Dead matter, including animals, as food. And plants are "alive" as well. And you "kill" them when you pick them/eat them

[@velenity7286]

“Dead stuff- it’s what we eat!”

[@brighterthansunshine4355]

I LOVE the animation! But how did they make the pill bug?

[@anunfortunatehammerheadsha6784]

Ted Ed: dead stuff, it's what's for dinner. Me: leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves leaves

[@neilbennett9281]

Brilliant thanks

[@DanielYellsAtPeople]

Mushrooms are so good, and shrimp too, I think I might like the taste of those fed by detritus, hell I'd be lying if I said the smell of cut grass, that's got mushrooms or manure used on it, didn't remind me of food, and make me hungry.

[@Achiever92]

..............this has deep meaning....

[@user-sb6os]

Dead stuff? I’m stuff Noooooo!

[@kimmycassie]

pretty art style now...how do i use this for my paper

[@ramennight]

i guess living on a ranch made me more familiar with this concept, as my level of surprise was about 0, it just seemed to bring concepts together than weren't really stuck together fully.

[@mrthunt5770]

I had mushrooms for tea yesterday :)

[@buiai4081]

Is this video have glosbe? Can i use this vid for my teach.

[@starwbh1]

Wonderful animation!

[@SAsgarters]

Oh no, not dead stuff. Anything but dead stuff.

[@xwhateva]

That was one groan-inducing pun.

[@hanniballecter7385]

How fascinating.

[@Krommandant]

The big problem of the ecosystems around the world is the debt of brown waste retired from circulation because humans contaminate it beyond reusability and put it in landfills where it cannot feed the bottom feeders of the food chain. Things definitely need to change in order to restore equilibrium to our ecosystems around the world. More composting areas and less toxic waste (oil byproducts, plastics, etc.) would be a good start!

[@Krommandant]

Why do we chase away scavergers from landfills anyways? Nature is trying to reclaim what is rightfully hers but we chase away birds and rodents from the landfills because we humans consider them dirty. So much facepalm humanity!

[@susannagomes1405]

Oi pessoal q está aqui pela atividade do SAS em ciências

[@zmateusb]

TBM

[@giovannanagao9022]

hashaushau mas olha só

[@anaximenesjoaquim3557]

Eu

[@talitamarys3243]

Oii

[@matheusbgr]

'-'

[@anikapage8324]

It's clever and all, but as the only chain they show that leads from detritus to humans is the one with mushrooms in it, my students are likely to say "doesn't apply to me, I don't eat mushrooms" and ignore it. I'd like some of the sequence to show where the detritus goes into the food that a picky 12 year old would eat.

[@Awe.someness]

Macklemore more was right when he said "One man's trash, that's another man's come up" :D

[@eliseo4045]

The beginning was the roast of the century!

[@ownterms49]

Awesome

[@SindongSamsaraSamsalibab]

Nice!

[@amirulhafiznorhan]

To say, is it similar to what is called the law by newton? Energy cant neither be created or destroyed? It just changing state or its form to another weew is it true

[@Orical001]

Circle of life

[@juniorlinares2473]

Me having to watch this for homework in 2020

[@389jn]

Yhe animation is amazing!! Sooo beautiful 🥹

[@chloe_plays_games4178]

thanks for teaching me that everything is made out of leaves

[@user-go8gi4kb1q]

Does poultry actually directly eat detritus?

[@simonelewis8276]

I highly doubt that chickens who end up in the grocery store eat anything from the ground.

[@itsmealoon8073]

Bok Bok Bok Bok Bok

[@AngryDuck79]

I don't quite get the distinction that's trying to be made here. Everything we eat is dead. Unless one is chewing on a living, breathing, squawking chicken, it's likely been killed, processed, and cooked prior to ingestion. Unless the distinction being made is between fresh kills and carrion, in which case, "dead stuff" is an inaccurate term.

[@dertythegrower]

All things derive from plants or animals in the foodchain --- and THOSE things need dead matter (like humic acid from compost) to live. basically, the start of the food chain is not fungus or pleynkton in the ocean ---- the start is the stuff that FEEDS the fungus and the pleynkton(sp). That is, the stuff the algae eats to make algae. It is explaining the first step most people do not get, and how we the aminstream people think the 2nd step is the 1st step.... the microbes feed us, the scum.

[@tutoriasdoale8613]

Vim pelo QR CODE no meu livro escolar. Muito legal, ainda não sabia da cadeia alimentar marrom, vídeo mto bom.

[@mlqzico]

Sas neh?

[@danillosantos4706]

Opa eu tambem

[@russbilzing5348]

So, what you're saying is that science is just now discovering what farmers have known for many, many thousands of years> Good on you.

[@averygatewood6879]

please make a youtube video about parts of a flower

[@mariamadalenaaguiarsarment9376]

Cria um canal em português explicando isso

[@forregom]

2:42 Are there people who actually eat deer

[@bailey5935]

yes

[@mallowmarsh420]

Death. Providing Life For All. haha, great video

[@ComputingAsh]

Circle of life...? Learned this when I was 6.

[@lopsered]

i am eating while watching this and it made me want to eat more

[@mohammadalotaibi9197]

From Life comes Death and from Death comes life.

[@ultravioletcanary]

clever outro!

[@prfm_setya95]

Thanks

[@atanusaha1017]

Creative, using leaves for the video huh? Its awesome😎

[@ShireNomad]

Detritus is also good for defending Ankh-Morpork. I wouldn't eat it in that form either.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

And people get all worked up about society wasting food.

[@l0vablelinda]

how does your comment relate to the video?

[@Point.Aveugle]

He's saying you can't waste food because no mater what you're going to eat it, a worm or a microbe picks up where you left off.

[@jameskeelinggaming2319]

hes not saying anything. hes a fool

[@RealCottonCandyKid]

De een z'n dood is de ander z'n brood.

[@TickedOffPriest]

Carcasses, yum.

[@RoyalBlood1985]

But in the end, we all eat stardust.

[@amazinginspiration]

so we all EAT POOP!

[@SnoopyDoofie]

I'm doing my part for a greener ecosystem: Converting zombies to vegetarians.

[@Chadlite]

Yet you are on the internet which means you're utilizing energy from dirty industry that pollutes on a mass scale, and if you are working you're driving c02 emitting vehicles or using public transportation that pollutes. Stop acting so righteous.

[@trace8891]

***** tried raw vegan?

[@tinhornname4117]

+SnoopyDoo ha

[@rdococ]

remkin: Zombies don't even exist so I don't see why you're being so serious :P EDIT: Oh. Ohhhhh. Very clever. But you do realise that you could even eat other humans and not be a zombie? They're called cannibals.

[@cloroxbleach4918]

Lovely

[@tranducdung471]

is so good

great! subtitle in portuguese would help me so much :/

[@kwalish]

now that's some ... deep shit (I expected the narrator to say at the end)

[@mileshardin6906]

the fact that we are just c02 and water that grew into a meat sack that thinks is kinda unsettling tbh

[@viniciusbrasilbrasil6759]

nice!