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Genetic Modification science vs belief
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Understanding GMOs
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Europe’s new approach to GMOs
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Genetically Modified Organisms: the future? [AnyStory]
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GMOs
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The GMO story in only 3 minutes
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An Overview of GMOs Safety. It can be broken down into two categories: studies that show GMOs are safe, and those that show they are not Environmental Impact. Again, the research in this category can be broken down into two categories: studies that show Economic Impact of GMOs. As with all.
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose DNA has been modified in the laboratory in order to favour the expression of desired physiological traits or.A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition of a genetically modified organism and what constitutes genetic engineering varies, with the most common being an organism altered in a way that “does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination”. A wide variety of organisms have been genetically modified (GM), from animals to plants and microorganisms. Genes have been transferred wit.
Summary. GMOs are food items that have been made using genetic engineering techniques. They comprise 90% of soy, cotton, and corn grown.A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic technology.
This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and virus genes that do not occur in nature or.A manufacturer creates GMOs by introducing genetic material, or DNA, from a different organism through a process called genetic engineering.
Most currently available GMO foods are plants, such as.For farmers, access to GMOs is a matter of social and environmental justice. Dr.
David Perlmutter: Genetic modification of agricultural seeds isn’t in the interest of the planet or its inhabitants. Genetically modified (GM) crops are associated with an increased use of chemicals, like glyphosate, that are toxic to the environment and to humans.The process of approving GMOs and products made of GMOs includes protection of consumer interests (the GM product must be suitably labeled to enable the consumer a possibility of choice). A large number of GMOs are already being used in the plant production. The most common GM plants are soy, corn, cotton, and rapeseed.
GMO crops can take a toll on agriculture and surrounding wildlife as well. The environmental effects of GMO crops include intensified agrochemical use and pollution, increased weed and insect resistance to herbicides and pesticides, and gene flow between GMO and non-GMO crops.The pharmaceutical industry is another frontier for the use of GMOs. In 1986, human growth hormone was the first protein pharmaceutical made in plants (Barta et al., 1986), and in 1989, the first.The most important key figures provide you with a compact summary of the topic of “Genetically Modified Crops” and take you straight to the corresponding statistics.
U.S. overview.Summaries Today in the United States, by the simple acts of feeding ourselves, we are unwittingly participating in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Each of us unknowingly consumes genetically engineered food on a daily basis. The risks and effects to our health and the environment are largely unknown.
Summary W ith the advent of genetic-engineering technology in agriculture, the science of crop improvement has evolved into a new realm. Advances in molecular and cellular biology now allow scientists to introduce desirable traits from other species into crop plants.Genetically Modified Food GM foods are the products of plant biotechnology and derived from organisms in which the genetic material has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally by fertilisation or natural recombination.
From: Understanding Consumers of Food Products, 2007.
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93 comments
We have to accept that Monsanto does not have a good record on save products. So I understand the “paranoia”.
The fact that europeans buying into a naturalist fallacy and fear mongering is causing the continuing poverty in africa is infuriating. Man they are so cool and Green when they choose an organic ascetic rather than end hunger in the world. Makes me want to tear my hair out but luckily I have a buzz cut.
I can tell you a dire change.
Real tomatoes you grow from heirloom seeds taste like tomatoes.
Modern store bought tomatoes taste like sugar. As a diabetic, the difference is huge. Even spikes my blood sugar.
On a more serious note, people have had allergic reaction to GMO corn. The particular corn wasn’t “supposed” to be in the human food chain but it was.
Even natural selection can turn previously healthy food poisonous. Happened in texas after the drought. Grass that used to be fine was killing cattle. During the drought grass that was a little toxic was avoided by cattle while non-toxic grass was killed. Then after the drought, the even more toxic variants of that grass outright killed cattle (instead of just making them sick).
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But lookbig picture. You are big on using information to back your claims up. GMO companies strive like hell to deny consumers knowledge that GMO products are in food. They are strongly Anti-Labeling/Anti-Information.
All I’m saying islabel the food. Let consumers decide. Quite frankly, if they got it over their resistance to labeling and put GMO at a 10% discount, then most consumers would shift to GMO food in less than a decade.
(There’s also the problem of GMO seed crowding out sustainable seeds. This includes via lawsuits by the companies against people who’s sustainable seed was corrupted by GMO seed pollen. )
https://e360.yale.edu/features/companies_put_restrictions_on_research_into_gm_crops
“Scientists found their research ultimately subject to seed company approval.”
How can you trust research done this way?
Hi, I’ve recently started watching your videos I I’d like thank you for your outstanding job.
I have 2 questions I’d like to ask you, and that I hope you’ll take the time to address them…if ever you notice my post out of the thousands you may receive on any giving day: )
1) what do you make of this paper, “No scientific consensus on GMO safety”, published in 2015?
2) what do you make of the Séralini study being republished after having been retracted? What about the fact that “they were actually investigating the possible long term toxicity potential of consuming GMO corn and the inherent exposure to Roundup such consumption implies (heir toxicity analysis focused on long term effects on liver and kidney health, where they did find indisputable evidence of gross harm), and that they simply reported the tumors as a side note as any such research is required, by law, to do.”?
Best regards
Rice is definitely not safe. Almost all humans who have eaten rice in the history of the world are dead. Rice must have had something to do with it
My favorite arguments against GMO crops when faced with any and all evidence to the contrary of their danger is “I’m still not eating them and y ou can’t make me”
cool now show my atheist who only eat Genetically Modified food end lets see the results you cant say if this bad when you self dont eat it do you.
haw a nice day
The video says to click a link to see your other video on GM crops but clicking on it doesn’t work and after many searches I can’t find a Fuse School video on GM crops. Does it exist?
people don’t care about facts.
they only care about drama and sport.
misconception is the back-bone of common assumption. and the anti-GMO brigade is founded in wilful misconceived assumption.
in real terms what they’re doing is standing in the way of an end to starvation.
they’re scum.
This is the most comprehensive video on genetic engineering I’ve seen thus far.
Wait… MSG? 16:04 gas two things labeled MSG, MSG is natural in a lot of food, food the person who made this image likely considers healthy, Sardines are quite high and like GMO has been studied to death and for likely for a decade longer I can recall inconclusive studies on it as early as 1995.
I hate how pervasive GMO fears have become in our society. Many food products proudly state that they are GMO-free on their labels. Where possible, I go out of my way to buy the ones that don’t say ‘GMO-free’. What makes this even more frustrating is that so many vegan products are GMO-free.
My problem with GMOs is not the fact that they are genetically modified, hell, I work at a research facility that regularly works with transgenic plants. My concern is rather the ethics of regulation on GMOs, companies like Monsanto are not in the wrong at a scientific standpoint, but an ethics standpoint. They have a the potential to gain a monopoly on GMO seed production that would harm farmers, and reduce genetic diversity. Monsanto does not allow farmers to keep their seed because that would violate their patent (it’s not quite a patent but I don’t have another word for it) which I would support because that is how the company would make its money, through seed sale. What becomes a problem is one field that is a Monsanto GMO cross pollinates with the farmer that has been keeping his seed for generations, that farmer is not allowed to keep his seed because it contains genetic material that Monsanto owns. That farmer had no say over how his crops were pollinated and as a result, the corporation now has him on a treadmill of buying seed each season. Another problem with Monsanto is the monocultures they prefer, where that crop then, through a lack of genetic diversity, are vulnerable to disease that could wipe out the crop as it spreads. The best example of this would be the banana which has reached the point of almost total monoculture. So, in conclusion, Monsanto is not “evil” because of GMOs, but rather is ethically wrong, in my opinion, of how it manages its GMOs and plant breeding as a corporation.
They aren’t putting enough language translation subtitles on the video. I can tell because I can still see the video.
the pig 1 was surprisingly honest of you… not often that an expert takes time to give the layman like us the details. that said this is a young science, were only beginning to name genes based on known behaviors. the range of reactions an organism has is gonna be a mysterious for a long time. gmo is the next logical advancement. meds for seizures stop them for ppl i know, but mental illness seems to be the only area that cant get a working model for meds yet, they’re closer to a placebo effect & thats if your skeptical of stats.
Why is it non scientists have this constant misconception of scientists? They never get the volume of coffee consumed right…
GMOs are dangerous but only because they reduce biodiversity, the danger is that they will displace all other natural varieties sending them extinct. The loss of biodiversity is dangerous as pathogens evolve to attack monocultures so without other varieties of an organism to fall back on all may be lost. Generally GMOs are created to be resistant to the pathogens that attack them among the other modifications performed, not evolving these adaptations naturally may introduce a ticking time bomb of disease that may suddenly and without warning wipeout the entire monoculture.
Not to mention the possibility of exploitation of farmers by the big evil corporations.
And not to mention the possibility of giving everyone a deadly allergy.
Supreme Master Ching Hai is a very popular and highly respected person among the Hong Cong community, your mocking ‘could be’ in rather bad taste. Also she made these comments 10 Years ago, using 2009 Scientific Findings pertaining GMO and Processed Foods.Unfortunately, she was Correct, as I am Processed Food reactive, processed foods: Potato chips, crackers, cheese spreads, instant… Reduce sugar intake: Consuming too much sugar can result in For most people in stage 5, eating becomes a challenge because of uremia,… sources of phosphorus are from phosphate additives in processed foods.
You might like to add a link to GMO Judy Carmen’s study on pigs
https://www.organic-systems.org/journal/81/8106.pdf
You think i shouldn’t be name calling? GMO Judy is what she calls herself
https://gmojudycarman.org/
And surprised you didn’t mention GMO Seralini
https://www.gmoseralini.org/en/
Both these ‘researchers’ get cited by the amti gmo greenies and not for unethical treatment of lab animals.
Btw have you taken a look at roundup / glyphosate? Or council has reduced the use of glyphosate despite the extensive testing showing little cause for concern for a ‘natural’ product of unknown safety.
indeed my mum who is deeply religious is against anything that changes “gods natural design”. though she’s perfectly happy with Norman Borlaug who saved billions of lives with selective breeding of wheat.
gm is like farming. do it responsibly its fine. if you are a chinese scientist using CRISPR-Cas9 to modify human embryos. Maybe not so much.
NO, virtually ALL GMO alterations are to allow the plant to survive a pesticide or herbicide which it is then heavily doused with. The things like vitamin A rice basically propaganda that were commercial flops.
It is the chemical pesticides which are the threat to our health and we DO know that these pesticides are harmful, GMO is a means to increase the pesticide usage in agriculture. The link between increased GMO usage and increased pesticide use is rock solid.
isnt that supposed to be a good sign that the gmo genes are NOT entering the cells?
people who don’t like GMOs dont like them because of the pesticides they use in conjunction to the crops, and because the genetic material contaminates surrounding plants. Turn Up also contaminates the environment. As well as that, Monsanto owns all crops that have their patented DNA. You don’t address many thing but claim that conservatives are afraid of the GMO plants themselves and that they don’t mind pesticides leaching into the water supply. Thats not right
People. We don’t want scientifically advanced agricultural practices and want everything organic and free range. We also don’t want to keep our world birth rate in check. All the while we expect to produce enough food to feed 7 billion people which is a number that is expected to increase. Without things like GMO’s how do you keep up with the demand?
That intro on Monsanto would have been funny, were it not for the fact that they are responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of farmers who are committing suicide in India, not to mention a slew of other things ranging from the questionable to the absolutely atrocious. Making light of the damage they have done, in the name of patenting seeds and, by so doing, life itself, for “efficiency and higher yield”, is inexcusable. As much as I like your other videos potholer54, this one was difficult to get through.
Let me be so bold as to remind the scientific community of Occam’s Razor. Scientifically and technologically speaking, there is already no reason whatsoever why anyone on the planet should go hungry the amount of food the world just throws away for no good reason alone would feed an astonishing amount of people. Shuffling genes around with a gene-gun is an unnecessary and wasteful enterprise, we have what we need already, we’re unfortunately more brilliant at focusing on what doesn’t need to be done rather than focusing on what should be done. What should be done? There are certainly many possibilities, but genetic modification is even more certainly not one of them.
Any chance you’ll add more videos to this singlet on GMOs? There have been a lot of recent advances beyond simple gene insertion, such as RNAi, biofortification and CRISPR. GM salmon has now been approved, and more countries are opening up to golden rice. Sadly, there continues to be a loud & vocal anti crowd, seemingly funded by the wealthy and influential Organic Consumer’s Association, among others. They’ve even started making anti-GM noise in poverty-stricken regions that could benefit immensely from drought-tolerant crops, lifting their populations out of poverty and saving the lives of countless children. There’s a lot of junk science too, from people like Seneff, Séralini and others, not to mention the scandalous Portier affair with the IARC.
They wouldn’t suffer a lack of food if they didn’t suffer a lack of water. We don’t even purchase GMO seeds anymore and we’ve stopped buying a lot of certain food products as well. No one has been able to come forward to the public with proof of how GMOs are harmful to people, animals and plants. That in and of itself makes the industry suspect. It’s the equivalent of someone saying you can stand in sunlight all day long and never have an adverse reaction to it.
you tried too much on this video professor, the GMO plants no longer have any seeds in it, the idea is you need to buy the seeds from the corporation, it’s about power.
I’ll admit I know next to nothing substantial about GMO’S but I will address one means in which you cleverly gloss over one point. You said “we consume DNA all the time” what you fail to realize is that we haven’t consumed radically altered DNA ever in our entire history until recently.
As I said earlier, I’m far from an expert but animals living around Chernobyl also have radically changed DNA. Perhaps a wannabe expert like yourself can shed light on what would happen if you were to consume that DNA.
Just because these individuals may simply be paranoid, this doesn’t leave you any right to deny that further study may be required.
Just a thought experiment. Think about it.
the problem with gmo’s and why most of environmental associations are against them is not only, and mostly it isn’t because of health concerns alone. There are concerns of that nature but it isn’t the centre of the debate. the issue is with monoculture and intensive agriculture that destroys the soil and ecosystems and patent ownership by a small hand of corporations that are making producers dependent of those corporations.
But here’s a list of papers on health:
• Social Human Rights in Argentina Violations of Human Rights as a Result of the Genetic-Modified Soya-Monocultures (2011)
• Report from the 1st National Meeting of Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns (2010)
• Debate on GMOs Health Risks after Statistical Findings in Regulatory Tests (2010) AC
• Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Produce Teratogenic Effects on Vertebrates by Impairing Retinoic Acid Signaling (2010) AC
• GM Soy Sustainable? Responsible? (2010)
• Fate of Transgenic DNA and Evaluation of Metabolic Effects in Goats Fed Genetically Modified Soybean and in Their Offsprings (2010) AC
• The Impact of Dietary Organic and Transgenic Soy on the Reproductive System of Female Adult Rat (2009) AC
• Norway Submission on the Identification of Living Modified Organisms or Specific Traits That May Have Adverse Effects on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity, Taking Also Into Account Risks to Human Health (2009)
• Report on Animals Exposed to GM Ingredients in Animal Feed (2009)
• Glyphosate-based Herbicides are Toxic and Endocrine Disruptors in Human Cell Lines (2009) AC
• A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health (2009) AC
• A Critique of the European Food Safety Authority’s Opinion on Genetically Modified Maize MON810 (2009)
• Roundup – Is it Safe? (2009)
• How Subchronic and Chronic Health Effects can be Neglected for GMOs, Pesticides or Chemicals (2009) AC
• American Academy of Environmental Medicine Position Paper on Genetically Modified Foods (2009)
• Effects on Health and the Environment of Transgenic (or GM) Bt Brinjal (2009)
• Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods (2009) AC
• Potential Human Health Risks from Bt Plants (2009)
• The Hidden Dangers of Roundup (2009)
• Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup (2009)
• Glyphosate Formulations Induce Apoptosis and Necrosis in Human Umbilical, Embryonic, and Placental Cells (2009) AC
• Immunogenicity of GM peas Review of Immune Effects in Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Peas and Wider Impacts for GM Risk Assessment (2008)
• GM crops The Health Effects (2008)
• Intestinal and Peripheral Immune Response to MON810 Maize Ingestion in Weaning and Old Mice (2008) AC
• Characterisation of 30 Transgene Insertion Site and Derived mRNAs in MON810 YieldGard Maize (2008) AC
• Shortcomings in the Assessment of Human Health Effects of GM Maize Mon810 by Monsanto (2008)
• State of the Science on the Health Risks of GM Foods (2008)
• The Problem with Nutritionally Enhanced Plants (2008) AC
• A Three Generation Study with Genetically Modified Bt Corn in Rats Biochemical and Histopathological Investigation (2008) AC
• A Long-term Study on Female Mice Fed on a Genetically Modified Soybean Effects on Liver Ageing (2008) AC
• Genetic Engineering & Omitted Health Research (2008)
• Report on NK 603 GM Maize Produced by Monsanto Company (2007)
• A 90-day safety study in Wistar rats fed genetically modified rice expressing snowdrop lectin Galanthus nivalis (2007) AC
• Evaluation of Stressand Immune-response Biomarkers in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L., Fed Different Levels of Genetically Modified Maize (Bt maize), Compared with its Near-isogenic Parental Line and a Commercial Suprex Maize (2007) AC
• Nutritional Assessment of Genetically Modified Rapeseed Synthesizing High Amounts of Mid-chain Fatty Acids Including Production Responses of Growing-finishing Pigs (2007) AC
• Toxicity Studies of Genetically Modified Plants A Review of the Published Literature (2007) AC
• Glyphosate Toxic & Roundup Worse (2007)
• Effect of Foreign (=Not Self) DNA/RNA on the Human Immune System in Regard to Genetically Modified Plants (2007)
• Timeand Dose-Dependent Effects of Roundup on Human Embryonic and Placental Cells (2007) AC
• New Analysis of a Rat Feeding Study with a Genetically Modified Maize Reveals Signs of Hepatorenal Toxicity (2007) AC
• Could GM Foods Cause Allergies? A Critique of Current Allergenicity Testing in the Light of New Research on Transgenic Peas (2006)
• Detection of Transgenic and Endogenous Plant DNA in Digesta and Tissues of Sheep and Pigs Fed Roundup Ready Canola Meal (2006) AC
• Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research Still No Answers to Ageing Questions (2006)
• GMO in Animal Nutrition Potential Benefits and Risks (2006)
• Genetically modified soya bean in rabbit feeding detection of DNA Fragments and Evaluation of Metabolic Effects by Enzymatic Analysis (2006) AC
• Detection of Genetically Modified DNA Sequences in Milk from the Italian Market (2006) AC
• Relatório das Evidências Científicas com as Últimas Descobertas Sobre as Medidas de Segurança na Áustria para as Linhagens de Milho Geneticamente Modificado MON810 e T25 (2006)
• Temporary Depression of Transcription in Mouse Pre-implantion Embryos from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean (2006) AC
• Genetically Modified Soya Bean in Rabbit Feeding Detection of DNA Fragments and Evaluation of Metabolic Effects by Enzymatic Analysis (2006) AC
• Transgenic Expression of Bean r-Amylase Inhibitor in Peas Results in Altered Structure and Immunogenicity (2005) AC
• Detection of RNA Variants Transcribed from the Transgene in Roundup Ready Soybean (2005) AC
• Differential Effects of Glyphosate and Roundup on Human Placental Cells and Aromatase (2005) AC
• Assessing the Survival of Transgenic Plant DNA in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract (2004) AC
• Ultrastructural Analysis of Testes from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean (2004) AC
• In Vivo Studies on Possible Health Consequences of Genetically Modified Food and Feed With Particular Regard to Ingredients Consisting of Genetically Modified Plant Materials (2003) AC
• Detection of Corn Intrinsic and Recombinant DNA Fragments and Cry1Ab Protein in the Gastrointestinal Contents of Pigs Fed Genetically Modified Corn Bt11 (2003) AC
• Fine Structural Analyses of Pancreatic Acinar Cell Nuclei from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean (2003) AC
• Codex Guidelines for GM Foods Include the Analysis of Unintended Effects (2003)
• Genetically Modified Foods Potential Human Health Effects (2003)
• In Vivo Studies on Possible Health Consequences of Genetically Modified Food and Feed—with Particular Regard to Ingredients Consisting of Genetically Modified Plant Materials (2003) AC
• A Different Perspective on GM Food (2002)
• Can Science Give us the Tools for Recognizing Possible Health Risks of GM Food? (2002) AC
• Ultrastructural Analysis of Pancreatic Acinar Cells from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean (2002) AC
• Ultrastructural Morphometrical and Immunocytochemical Analyses of Hepatocyte Nuclei from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean (2002) AC
• Foreign Dna Integration Genome-Wide Perturbations of Methylation and Transcription in the Recipient Genomes (2001) AC
• An Exploratory Analysis of the Effect of Pesticide Exposure on the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in an Ontario Farm Population (2001) AC
• Great Food Gamble An Assessment of Genetically Modified Food Safety (2001)
• Health Risks of GM Foods Many Opinions but Few Data (2000) AC
• Characterization of the Mucosal and Systemic Immune Response Induced by Cry1Ac Protein from Bacillus thuringiensis HD 73 in Mice (2000) AC
• Cry1Ac Protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis sp. kurstaki HD73 Binds to Surface Proteins in the Mouse Small Intestine (2000) AC
• CaMV 35S Promoter Fragmentation Hotspot Confirmed, and it is Active in Animals (2000) AC
• Effect of Diets Containing Genetically Modified Potatoes Expressing Galanthus nivalis Lectin on Rat Small Intestine (1999) AC
• Bacillus thuringiensisCry1Ac Protoxin is a Potent Systemic and Mucosal Adjuvant (1999) AC
• Effect of Diets Containing Genetically Modified Potatoes Expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on Rat Small Intestine (1999) AC
• Insertion of Foreign DNA into an Established Mammalian Genome Can Alter the Methylation of Cellular DNA Sequences (1999) AC
• Fine Structural Changes in the Ileum of Mice Fed on δ Endotoxin-Treated Potatoes and Transgenic Potatoes (1998) AC
• Manual for Assessing Ecological and Human Health Effects of Genetically Engineered Organisms (1998)
• Integration of Foreign DNA into Mammalian Genome can be Associated with Hypomethylation at Site of Insertion (1988) AC
I feel we’re better off when we try to work with nature, than go against it, by growing and consuming GMO crops. Nature knows best, not man.
Obligatory vegan chime-in: that beginning was cringeworthy. Not afraid of animal DNA tainting the vegetables, just concerned with the ethics of taking DNA from animals in the first place, which can vary.
I googled “I hate tomatoes!” Painting but couldn’t find that image. How did you?
can you do one about nuclear lmao because the same people who are pro-science w/r to climate change are anti-scienxe w/r to nuclear, and vice versa: it breaks the same way as the GMO debate
Unrelated to this video, I’d be interested in hearing your opinions on health concerns of 5G networks. Everyone mocks people who are concerned about the health effects, but when I read a summary of research, it seems that the scientific consensus is basically “it probably doesn’t have effects but we aren’t yet able to say with certainty”.
I am a big fan of yours and a proponent of GMOs. However, this video contains sloppy errors and should be removed or edited.
2:25 you claim that GMOs are not dangerous because we eat nucleotides all the time, and that there is no reason to fear. This is a strawman of the anti GMO argument.
Small changes to genomes can have outsized effects on the resulting proteins. A single nucleotide may result in terrible cancers. Nobody fears the nucleotides, but the resulting unknown proteins.
The key is uncertainty. Food science is the worst science that I can think of. It is near impossible to study scientifically due to the number of uncontrolled variables. Long term effects are unknown, and I see no problem being extra cautious about the food we eat.
Genetic modification encourages mono-cropping and further centralization of food-production, both of which make our food-systems less resilient.
The relentless push towards greater yields and efficiency is exactly what’s causing the destruction of the natural environment that we depend on for life.
A more advanced species would do everything it could to live within its means, since doing anything else would be suicide.
Those who go against nature go against themselves and the nature turns around and kicks their arse, Monsanto loving arse holes!
Supreme Master Ching Hai owned by Supreme Wizard Zealot Archduke Pontiff Lord potholer54
Countries with GMO prohibitions:Algeria: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Austria: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Azerbaijan: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Belize: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Bhutan: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Bulgaria: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Croatia: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Cyprus: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Denmark: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Ecuador: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
France: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Germany: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Greece: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Hungary: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Italy: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Kenya: Cultivation prohibited. Imports banned.
Kyrgyzstan: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Latvia: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Lithuania: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Luxembourg: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Madagascar: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Malta: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Moldova: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Netherlands: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales (United Kingdom): Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Norway: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Peru: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Poland: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Russia: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Saudi Arabia: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Serbia: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Slovenia: Cultivation prohibited. Imports allowed.
Switzerland: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Turkey: Cultivation banned. Imports allowed.
Ukraine: Cultivation banned (though law is widely ignored). Imports allowed.
Venezuela: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
Zimbabwe: Cultivation banned. Imports banned.
I am appalled that you are on the side of GMOs, I am out of here.
Truth is a religious concept? Come on now… I know religious people appropriate the word all the time, but that doesn’t mean that reality isn’t whatever it is. Truth is just a word to describe that reality, whether we are aware of it or not.
The long term go food is unknown, I say have all the top executives of the gmo companies and their family’s eat gmo food for a generation. Even at tax payers expense, free gmo food for executives family! Would they do it?
Go open your eyes and watch on YouTube; GMOS and the Fight to Save our Food Supply (And much more information on YouTube and on the internet and in the books if you all really interested of what is the real truth about the GMOS, and not the unconscious narcissist psychopaths at Monsanto and their cronies disinformation and misinformation crap). Wake up and smell the real wild coffee and make peace and love.
Honestly there GMOs are so rad bro, it really starts up my vibing engines
If you actually knew that bacteria is spliced into some gmo crops you’d understand that GMOs and glyphosate, a proven carcinogen go hand in hand.
Tell me what are the effects of the dna of the Agrobacterium strain CP4 on our bodies according to peer reviewed papers?
What science do you prefer to go with? The tobacco science of the multimillion dollar corporations like Monsanto or the actual science which is being swept under the carpet?
Is there any evidence that theyre safe for human consumption on the long term?
If not, id stick with the precautionary principle.
Monsanto has recently been bought by Bayer… should I be worried about this?
1. I presume you are vegan, and I’m waiting for that video.
2. Supplementing vitamin A thrown GMO is hardly a solution to an economic problem.
3. None of this discusses the problem of patenting food technology and capitalising or inherited genetic wealth of plants or the potential for economic exploitation of farmers, crop contamination, and monopolies.
GMO might be great on communism, but in capitalism it could be slavery.
You are all missing the point. GMO’s mean more ‘probably’ carcinogenic herbicide in our food.
What about increased exposure to glyphosate and other herbicides due to genetically modified herbicide resistant crops?
We don’t know the mechanism by which glyphosate is attributed to causing cancer, and therefore do not know what is an acceptable level of risk.
Don’t forget people. Ordinary rice is gmo rice. Anything that isn’t luca is a gmo.
Humans have been genetically modifying plants and animals since ever.
This video is one of idiotic superiority and irrelevant sophistry. Once I learned how GM can be done at home with a few culture jars and purchased viruses I was totally horrified. The superior voiced viewpoint expressed here is simply one of a small mind that is unable to grasp the potential effect of unknown factors on the GM process, within plants and the animals that eat them. Lack of imagination. I worked at a Nuclear Physics laboratory and pointed out to some top level very superior scientists how a fast breeder reactor, which somprised Plutonium 239, Uranium 235, Uranium 238 core in a stainless steel reactor surrounded by liquid Sodium cooled by superheated steam was a very bad idea.
Sodium + Steam = Explosion
Explosion = Shockwave in Plutonium 239 = Possible Nuclear Explosion = Dirty Bomb
Dirty Bomb = 300 + Miles Contamination for 10,000 years
They argued as the people here do that they were experts on the materials being used and that there was no possibility of a failure as they had done the calculations. I knew about the exotic behaviour of metals exposed to nuclear radiation and rapid rust. Which basically meant that their materials were likely to fail totally within a fairly short period of time.
Lack of imagination + high technology + dangerous materials = megadeath
The presenters of this video and those supporting them are not very bright. Both Lord Baron Rees, UK Astronomer Royal and Stephen Hawking stated that the human race is unlikely to live past the next 100 years because of consistent stupidity in performing dangerous experiments such as GMO, fast breeder reactors, large hadron collider etc.
I usually like your videos just fine but in this case you’re not covering the real issue. It’s not whether or not this gene or that Gene has been taken out of or added to a tomato. It’s what else has been introduced and how is it affected the protein structure of the fruit. Because we don’t know how we’re going to react to these new substances that have been created testing it gets done and even if there is I don’t believe that actually going to be honest about the results. Try to remember that a lot of the times when you’re talking what’s happening with GMO it’s Theory, we don’t actually know what they’re putting in there do we?
This is not a cut & paste job typical of the anti-“GMO” luddite, but was instead written word-by-word by me (with the exception of the URL at the bottom I provide as a citation).
Why do you stand in the way of saving the American Chestnut tree from extinction due to chestnut blight? This blight is a wind-borne fungus that was brought over in 1904 with the importation of chestnut trees from Japan. The blight killed between 4 billion and 5 billion American Chestnut trees by the middle of the 20th century. It has since spread to other parts of the world. These trees from Japan are the product of the vintage breeding methods the anti-biotech crowd hold in such high esteem. Yet here we are with the natural biodivirsity in the American East ruined by trees bred with traditional breeding methods. I make this point because internet keyboard warrior after internet keyboard warior loves to cry about biodiviersity in their misinformed rants.
The The American East was once a vast landscape covered with the American Chestnut. Today the tree is on the verge of extinction living as root balls in isolated areas. The trees try to grow, but they are attacked by the blight and revert to mere root balls hanging on for dear life.
The antiquated breeding methods the misinformed are so fond of are the cause of this worldwide mess. The trees that were brought over from Japan were bred with these very breeding methods the misinformed believe to be inherently safe and inherently good. However the trees from Japan brought with them a fungus that the Japanese trees are themselves immune to. Now we are left with the American Chestnut on the verge of extinction. And as I said before, the problem is spreading to other parts of the world.
There has been developed a transgenic American Chestnut that is resistant to this blight. A gene from wheat was installed into the American Chestnut. This gene is the gene responsible for an enzyme that breaks down the oxalic acid that is secreted by the chestnut blight. In effect, this oxalic acid is a natural herbicide killing the American Chestnut tree. The gene that is installed from the wheat genome makes the trees immune to the toxic effect of the oxalic acid. With this trait, we are nullifying this natural pesticide that is being secreted by the fungus which was imported with the invasive species from Japan.
Traditional methods such as selective breeding are very slow when it comes to trees, taking many years to provide trees mature enough to asses the results. And the clock is ticking for the American Chestnut, with its existence hanging by a thread.
The field trials of this transgenic American Chestnut have proven that the organisms that live in the American East prefer the American Chestnut over the invasive species from Japan.
We have the knowledge to undo the damage that was done when chestnut trees were imported from Japan in 1904, but the misinformed, with with their warped realities stand in the way with their silly superstitions about biotechnology.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wheat-genes-could-save-american-chestnut-180955216/
The argument goes like this Monsanto twisted the arm and leg of the scientists or paid off them off with gag order and threatened death if they did not retract the study. The bio fuel monsanto’s gmo corn is growing and we are eating now. The corn is failing just open a can of corn and you will see the corn falls apart into its peices the corn kernals are very small not like the corn we use to eat before round-up modifications. So now monsanto looses its law suit over round up. causing cancer in humans. In my humble opinion you are as quacky as the mad scientists that promote this crap.
Try more like 10,000 we been changing the DNA of the plants and animals we eat. Breeding and other controlled reproduction has lead to all dog, cattle, and wheat we been enjoying for quite a long time.
Where are the studies showing GMOs are safe? There are very complex biological and physiological systems in the human organism (intestinal lining and associated environment is incredibly complex and not well understood at present)… You might try another approach… perhaps epidemiological studies looking at population health differences between GMO and Non GMO food consumers. PS your statement about vaccine safety is not based on an credible study… But you have my permission to consume as much GMO food as you like and take as much mercury and Al laden vaccines as you like…. But perhaps you should refrain from telling other people that they are safe when you have no studies proving that… Just a suggestion. I did enjoy your creationist videos so please do continue those. Thanks
Ok, I am not saying that GMO is bad for you (or good, I am not really that invested in the issue), but that Monsanto Scientists Laughter is probably a realistic depiction of reality:-)
The only problem with some GMO I see is that it enables growing mono-cultures in artificial soil and promotes unsustainable model of agriculture. Let’s take for example magnesium rich plants like Kale or Tomatoes. You get deficiency of Magnesium, otherwise abundant mineral in natural soil, when you eat produce grown on sterile sponge sprinkled with some nitrogen and potash. I am not against GMO, but the model to produce overabundance of crops that have low nutritional value and the level of soil loss modern farming techniques lead to.
Damn… my new goal inn life is for someone else then myself to call me “supreme master”
Okay. We have this new plant. We have to decide will it cure everything, or cause everything?
Either way, big companies are trying to supress the truth.
>Chiropractor
>Not a doctor
wtf…. That’s like saying a chemist isn’t a scientist.
Or like a saying the Coast Guard isn’t military.
yeah…
Stopped reading there.
Thanks but no thanks.
This just sounds like more Monsanto “everything is fine” propaganda. If y’all wanna eat GMO foods that your prerogative. As for me, I’m gonna buy certified USDA organic/NonGMO labeled foods when ever possible. While “the “actual footage” of Monsanto scientists” was hilarious, it’s not that far from reality.
They don’t eject meat but many of the the genes that they use are from animals even humans..
The original video seems to have been narrated by that annoying text-to-speech female voice, but the subtitles seem like a great tool for polyglots to practice multiple languages at the same time:)
With the nutrients of the soil under threat by the poisons of the mad scientist and there doom’s day menace to society GMO’s. The mother Earth is now at a cross roads with global warming. For the substance that is causing the illness or death of our planet are the living organism introduced to destroy the days of our lives. Never have the American people faced such a foe, with the military complex blood thirst for endless war’s the American People has been under Siege by the enemy within.
“There’s no reason modifying a few nucleotides should harm us at all”?? A relative “few” is all that distinguishes us and other apes. Even fewer can be the difference between healthy tissue and cancer!
Please leave risk and probability assessments to information professionals.
The existence of irrational opposition to GMO technology has no bearing on GMO safety, the epistemic status of any estimate of safety, and is no excuse for false or misleading claims.
Good clip, but there are researches linking GMO to a whole array of health issue in human beings… Yeha, there’s so much emotional knee-jerk gunk in the anti-gmo movement that it makes it lose its credibility.
Yet, one who scratches deeper realises that yes, there is ground to be concerned..
12:53 all the names in that research paper end on “Wang” or “Zhang” are those just incredibly popular names or was this one big family project? xd
Is it really going to be 16 bilion? I’ve learnd the world population Will kind of stop growing and remain in balans around 11bilion. So can you tell you’re sources on that matter?
shitholer 54 your nothing but a statist tool. stop making content your not qualified.
Monsanto is one of the worst corporations I have ever heard of. And they do use genetic modification to make plants sterile to ensure poor farmers must go back every planting season to purchase expensive seeds from Monsanto. And they do make pesticide resistant crops via genetic modification that enables farmers to use bucket-loads of environment harming pesticide. But that has nothing to do with whether GMOs themselves are bad. GMOs are a tool. If the craftsman uses a tool incorrectly, do you ban the tool? Every year, millions of people have their lives ruined because someone hacked their bank account or stole their identity online with a computer. Do we have anti-computer campaigns marching on Washington? Of course not. If someone is misusing a tool, don’t ban the tool, get to that someone. If there was a sudden trend of people hanging themselves, you wouldn’t ban rope! You would focus on suicide prevention. And if Monsanto is misusing GMOs at the expence of the enviorment and the people, regulate them! Don’t ban the medium in which they are doing it!
GM is not a significant risk for food sources it is a purely positive intention to enhance food sources beyond the normal rates of evolution. Sure, ‘companies’ can do anything but is it really in their own interest to have their public consumer base go down the shitter?
I’m not saying they will never prioritise profits, but every time you suggest it’s more harmful than helpful, you are outright wrong.
I think the mistake in this video is having faith in the confidence of people that once they see studies proving beyond 99.99% of doubt that GMOs are in fact safe and beneficial that they will be convinced. This is not happening.
The National Academy of Sciences did a study demonstrating, across an analysis of thousands of other studies, that GMOs are in fact not harmful. The result is that GMO opposition simply doubled down, made spurious claims as to the probity of the analysis, and promoted the likes of Seralini and others as bearers of “truth”.
You literally cannot win when people move the goalposts like that. Every time you meet them at the goal, they simply move it away. More studies. More time. More people. Each and every time raising the cost of proving beyond reasonable doubt to an untenable degree. At some point, this is no longer search for scientific certainty but appeasement. But you cannot appease dishonest actors. You cannot take their claims that once you have the science that they will capitulate in good faith. They will not capitulate. They will not engage on facts. They will not engage on science.
This is why the debate has evolved beyond the science backing the known benefits of GMOs to attacking instead the corporatisation of our food supply. It has become a debate about values instead of science. This is something you cannot win on scientific studies alone.
If something says “well it says this later, there is proof but we won’t show you it” don’t believe it.
Genetics functions as a science so whatever it’s based on must be true.
What is in the genetics exams, secular genetics or creation science genetics?
This video is a GMO makers site and they have a vested interest in the public eating the poison that they have to sell. I won’t eat GMO’s and am really pissed off that Obama promised on the campaign trail that he would label them if he won the White Hous and then never visited the subject again. Great con Obama and I voted for you because of what you said to get elected.
I recommend you check out some videos of the wonderful singing of Supreme Master Cheng Hai. You will not regret it!
I have typed my fingers down to stubs pointing out that criticising pesticides is not the same as producing evidence that GMOs are harmful, but it never seems to get through.
Nearly ever person I’ve met who lives in fear of GMOs, who lives in fear of the chemtrails, and lives in fear of HAARP, and who thinks aliens make crop circles, and who live in fear of vaccines, and whose spirituality is drug induced, who believe psychics, who believe the Esther Hicks channels aliens, who believed in the 2012 conpiracies are also, invariably, supporters of Bernie Sanders. And 911 conspiracy nuts as well.
Think about that for a moment.
Is it, therefore, a big surprise that Bernie’s supporters blame these great grand conspiracies for his defeat in 2016? Or that they invoke great conspiracies to dish up excuses as to why he’s been such an unproductive member of Congress? Or that they embrace memes and blogs, and become incredibly rude and insulting when anyone tries to show them facts?
One interesting argument against GMOs that you might want to tackle is that they might act as an invasive species in some cases.
(I’m not endorsing it, it’s just an argument that I heard some time ago)
The fact that GMO’s are not shown to cause disease does not make them safe. There is the reduced biodiversity of our crops that could be catastrophic if a disease would strike. The increased crop densities make it much easier for a disease to propagate. There is genetic drift outside of the crop itself that is already a problem in some areas. Glyphosate despite being told by scientists for years was harmless is carcinogenic. The increased monoculture resulting from GMO’s in Indian cotton allowed a boll weevil to expand to an extent that the GMO cotton is now necessary to fight it. The patenting of seeds disallows farmers to save seeds, while not necessarily a problem on large agribusiness farms it can be a hardship for smaller farmers further consolidating our food into the hands of fewer and fewer corporations who are legally required to overlook every other consideration in terms of profits.
AntiGMO people………. that’s not how genes work…. that’s not what DNA is….
(And don’t you just love how modern foods are nothing like their naturally evolved wild form? Sure is convenient that AntiGMOers love to ignore the thousands of years of genetic modification we’ve already done before it became easy.)
I didn’t know about the Amish, very interesting! Love all the videos for MRU. Great to get intro videos to economics that don’t treat the audience like children.
“Truth is a religious concept.”
Huh. This makes life much easier to bare.
I’m not against GMOs per-se, but I am fundamentally against any person or country having dealings with the likes of Monsanto, the US and its government.
Noob question-Why would bits of DNA from other people will enter my bloodstream?
The Supreme Masters injecting his beef into her fruit or vegetable? I’ve got this one potholer it’s called pregnancies just trying to get her pregnant it’s the meat going in the vegetable and makes a baby boom high cholesterol
4:36: Most important sentence in the video: “Never trust anyone who tells you, he’ speaking the truth”!
I live in Brazil, I’ve seen the whole package being administred in plantations. I understand it all, regarding GMO. But I also seen what the use of the whole pesticides use, does to our flora and fauna. So, I will stand “Clair Patterson” until more evidence comes up
Necroposting, but why not. What I don’t get is this: humanity has been using genetic modification on plants at least since 1920’s via mutation breeding, where plant seeds are either treated with ionizing radiation or chemicals that promote random mutation (that is, minor DNA damage basically). But only now, when we have a much better understanding of how this stuff works and can induce a controlled change with close to zero unintended side-effects, now it’s suddenly a health risk, a menace to the environment or whatever. From my perspective, radiation and mutagenic chemicals that promote random uncontrolled mutation sound way scarier, and I’m pretty sure I’ve been eating plant species produced by those methods my whole life… as did virtually everyone. For example, I’m pretty sure that some wheat and apple species on the global market today are the product of mutation breeding. And to make things even more interesting, at least to my knowledge, there is precisely zero regulation on “mutation-bred” products in most of the world including US.
so gmo’s are like vapes, there are no studies showing long term effects yet, but one doesn’t contain a carcinogen, while the other actually does.