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Really Kurzgesagt? This video you abandoned two years ago has been completely un-moderated against malicious troll attacks but you come back here to ask us to buy shit from YOU?????? TAKE A LOOK at the mess you left here!!!!!
@@davidmarji9747 Look closer. In every case, without exception, I am responding in defense of our honest hard working farmers and scientists AFTER ignorant genetically illiterate trolls post the insults FIRST. I will never stop defending science truth from those who would prefer to reverse progress. They are all 100% assholes.
oh, I completely understood. I have done my own research and come to the conclusion that a good percent of our population is just scientifically illiterate.
GMO food comes from living things that is also genetically modified. But it stays as a living thing & its not some kind of Fallout monster exposed to radiation.
My grandpa (may he rest in peace) "genetically engineered" a watermelon variety through selective breeding over a couple of decades. Sadly, this variety is gone, it died with him. He spent decades saving seeds from the tastiest and sweetest watermelons from his garden. The end result that I got to see and taste for myself was amazing. So juicy, so sweet, and just the right size for one person to eat. I have never before or since tasted such a delicious watermelon. It's a great shame that the only remaining seeds he had vanished like they did. When I was a kid, I thought those watermelons were what was normal. After his passing, I found out quickly that his watermelons were perfection compared to anything else I have tried. I have given up trying to find a suitable replacement. It has been almost twenty years since his passing.
Regional breeds all over the south vary widely and even more critical is weather and soil. Not sure why you didn't save some of his seeds so you could have proven, not just boasted, about his craft. Also, this is a common delusion of many people who do not grasp that fact that as their taste buds age they are less sensitive. I have seen countless false narratives blaming farmers for less flavor when it is remained exactly the same or better. Professional tasters know about the age loss and compensate with consultant panels.
@@popeyegordon I was a teenager when he died. I ate watermelon every summer until after he died. After he died, I went on the hunt for a replacement watermelon with no luck. I didn't save his seeds because they vanished after he died (probably a family member took them without telling anyone). The comparison was back when I was still young and within two years of his last melon. I gave up because nothing was found anywhere near as good as his.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja Then perhaps sharing it with the community (or finding a way to patent it or smth) so that you can share the process and so that people can taste and have some sort of understanding as to how you felt tasting those selectively bred Watermelons your grandfather engineered?
its the only thing these videos are worth watching for, 99% of the staff works on the animation, fuck the validity of the sources and skeptic research.
Kim yeah, implying this is a one sided issue. Institutionalized science decides whats conclusive and whats not. Like the experiment where mice got fed with GMOs that turned up all fine, unless you find that the same experiment done for a longer time showed increased frequency in diseases and tumors. Guess what study "science" (the government/monsanto) says is the right one?
Bangladesh seems to be used as a positive example a lot on this channel. Yesterday I saw a video about overpopulation where the progress of Bangladesh in that regard was shown. Your country apparently as progressed A LOT in the last decades. Very impressive. Here in Germany most what you hear about Bangladesh is that western clothing corporations like H&M mistreat Bangladeshis for cheap clothing. E.g. several years ago the Rana Plaza collapse was everywhere on the news for weeks including interviews with injured workers. But even then it was said that Bangladeshis are starting to found worker unions and that they will gain strength and power over time to fight for worker's rights.
I was honestly uneducated about this topic. Thank you for enlightening me and other 7 million other people. Spreading this worthy knowledge is seriously saving the planet!
Me too. I sometimes don't understand complex ideas and scientific explanations online but when it is on a video, I can get a greater grasp of what is it and I understand it better.
Yeah. Sadly there are still alot of uneducated people who are blinded by their ignorance and misinformation. I hope this topic will no longer be debated and set as a fact
5:09 and here’s the biggest issue. A lot of people I’ve met that are pro GMO are pro GMO because it saves money, and the reason why a lot of folks I know are pro GMO, and talk about this so much, argue that if we don’t use GMO’s, and use more pesticides instead, it’ll actually cost more, and with the economy going to shit in a lot of places, it’ll actually cost more. I know GMO’s sound scary, but it can actually help save the planet, and help ensure more people get food. It can help a lot. I get being cautious, and I advocate for that, but I also advocate for reading, academic papers especially. I believe in us, we can do this.
@@isabellacatolica5594well we're trying to save the planet's conditions whicb are favorable to us. life will always find a way and the planet keep spinning even if we drop all of the petrol in the world into the ocean. in fact, in the past there was no O2 in the atmosphere and life still thrived. then cyanobacteria pumped ridiculous amounts of O2 into the atmosphere (and that's also how the ozone layer was formed) and 99% of life on the planet died because it wasn't adapted to the highly reactive oxygen that was practically drowning them. yet life still found a way and adapted. its just that we humans think our ideal conditions which we are adapted to survive are what the planet always was and what it should always be and anything else is "killing the planet". we're just trying to save our own asses, but sound ultra virtuous about it.
“Intensifying agriculture instead of expanding it” Also imagine how satisfying it would be to drive a harvester through hyper-dense wheat during harvest
No, because monocultures are horrible for the environment. You see all of the animals that exist in our planet depend on plants, and these plants give them food if you remove this food away you destroy species, like bees for example. I personally love bees, I always make sure on my farm that bees are welcome, they're super important for pollinating other types of plants. Mono culture comes from the greek one, and culture, which is agriculture in modern English. Basically it means cultivating one type of plant, and that destroys the environment. To prevent the world from losing amazingly unique species we have to stop stacking one type of plant near each other. First of all it reduces the total gene pool of a given plant species which is horrible what that means is that you lose things that you don't even know that could exist yet. That's decided by phenotype and genotype of a given seed. The genetics of plants depends on each species and how it distributes chromosomes. Personally I didn't study genetics so I can't tell you exactly how that distribution works, but I studied botany and photosynthesis.
Equals Sign I don’t think GMO is about more yield, i.e more wheat but more energy in the same amount (first priority), coz that will reduce consumption requirement and a small land can feed more!
There is a variety of mint called "chocolate mint" that many (not all) people swear up and down tastes chocolaty. Not even genetically-modified. So it turns the answer is yes, you can make greens taste like chocolate. :D
Actually that quote is more supportive of natural immunity than a shot, if you consider the the role of natural genetic selection in human development.
Bullshit propanganda! GMO's are genetically modified to be doused with 20x concentrated roundup weed killer aka glyphosate without dying. The genes spliced in are from bacteria that were the only living organisms growing in monsantos chemical cesspool dump. Just ask yourself if you'd like to eat food doused in roundup weed killer.....
So many people just see "GMO" on a box and think "Oh my goodness. I've heard that's bad. I don't know what it means, but I've heard it's bad. Better take the Non-GMO one instead, whatever that means."
It's called fear mongering and the organic thugs tried to make labeling of breeding methods even more dishonest to slant sales towards their crappy over priced products. Obama put a stop to it. Look up the new 2020 GMO labeling law, called GE disclosure. Many trace amounts of refined sweeteners and oils will no longer be called GMO and it is illegal to put that on labels.
It's true, but then there's some people actually did the background ressearch before tackling the topic and realized that the matter is a lot more complex than what this highly biaised video would want us to think. Here's an excerpt from a 2017 peer reviewed paper: *_"Effects of Bt toxins on the immune system have been identified in different species and via different routes, including whole food dietary administration. The observations include studies on mice [45, 46], and pigs [47, 48]. Immune system responses have also been shown for fish [49, 50]. Based on data that were provided to the Indian authorities by Monsanto, Gallagher [51] also assumed immunotoxic reactions in rats: Rats fed with Bt aubergine-producing Cry1Ac protein were significantly less healthy than controls as demonstrated by an increased white blood cell count, eosinophils in particular, and enlarged spleens. Further hepatotoxic effects included elevated bilirubin and acetylcholinesterase."_* Curious to read more? here's a nice highlight: *_"In contrast to native Bt toxins, there are several reasons to assess in more detail the potential toxicity of Bt toxins expressed in genetically engineered plants: It is known that there are several differences in the structure of the Cry toxin expressed in the genetically engineered plants and those used in traditional mixtures [5, 6]. Traditionally, the Bt protoxin has been used for spraying as protoxin and in crystallised (inactivated) form. However, the Cry toxins expressed in the genetically engineered plants are already solubilised and activated. It is known that changes in the structure of the protein can have considerable influence on the toxicity of the Bt proteins [7]. Therefore, the risk assessment taken from traditional Bt toxins used in biological pest control can only be applied to a limited extent to the Bt toxins expressed in plants._* *_Further, the Cry toxins are expressed by the plants throughout the whole period of vegetation, while the traditional sprays are used in a time-limited and targeted manner, if necessary. The sprayed proteins can be expected to mostly degrade, while Bt toxins expressed in plants will be present in the harvest and-depending on further processing-will also be present in feed and food._* *_The mode of action of Cry toxins is not fully understood. To some extent it is even a matter of controversial scientific debate [8, 9]. Several authors [10-14] reach different conclusions with regard to the mode of action in target organisms."_* If you want to educate yourself on the topic, the source is "Possible health impacts of Bt toxins and residues from spraying with complementary herbicides in genetically engineered soybeans and risk assessment as performed by the European Food Safety Authority EFSA" (i would have put a link, but if i do youtube will consider it as spam and hide it, you can google this and find the paper easily).
@@popeyegordon Yes, turns out that the laws of physics have changed between 2017 and 2020, now proteins behave entirelly differently than they did 3 years ago... Do you even hear yourself? You sound less coherent and more unhinged everytime i visit this page.
@@loicdeniel8361 No you lying asshole, I prove you wrong every single time I encounter your toxic anti-biotech lies. Any fool can locate outlier studies that confirm a particular bias, this is why consensus is so devastating to activists. Organic farmers have been using Bt for 40 years. The only use of hypodermic needles on farms is by organic farmers injecting the Bt toxin into the bases of their larger plants.
600 HOURS!!!! As a video artist, that really hits me. OMG, I can't thank you enough you guys for putting so much time and effort into education. You are the best, BY FAR ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@lilysantiago679 OMG stands for “oh my GMO” GMO stands for “genetically modified OMG” And OMG stands for “oh my GMO” GMO stands for “genetically modified OMG” …
@@user_rKChwLeBqKYyurEfiSLFmCBNC They said that they finished and that it is due in 9 minutes. They could've started the video a few hours before it was due and finished it right before the due time, coming here to leave the comment
imagine if this was the backstory to the plants in PVZ or, there was a PVZ movie and they genetically engineered these plants to fight against the zombies.
@@grepukun5557 If their was a backstory to it, i'd think it have to be this logically. It could be also cool, if the "zombie virus", that is so lethal to us, is actually harmless to plant considering they dont have brains. Imagine the gov't using the virus to rapidly mutate gmo plants to further speed up their evolution and proliferation. I nerded out right there.
and then release it all back into the atmosphere as soon as they die. swamp & sea plants are actually what is needed as they store all the carbon underwater when they die.
@@nousername8162 hmm, all i remember they indeed release co2 but if they didnt fully photosynthesis it at afternoon, and they did release co2 at some concentration at midnight. Thats why its quite bad keeping plant indoor in night
Knives are great! I love knives. I can use them for camping, cooking or sculpting. But also for murder :(. The knife isn't good or bad, it's all about how I use it. Same goes for GMOs.
A V Great Analogy :D Like knives, we just have to regulate the sale and production of GMO. Like here in the UK, you have to prove you're over 21 to actually buy a knife! That can also include butter knives.
Yes but you can't murder billions of people with a knife, if you drop it you don't destroy an ecosystem, and if you cut yourself with it it doesn't give you cancer.
Oliver Worley GMOs don't cause cancer. There isn't any valid evidence to support you, but there is tons against you. What makes you believe that GMOs cause cancer? Seriously.
My Grandpa grows corn, and he says this whole anti-gmo thing is ridiculous because without it the corn would get wormy quickly and it isn't harmful or dangerous and corn isn't a natural thing, it's been tampered with since the Myans.
Yep, the Mayans altered DNA at the molecular level in laboratories, then refused to label the resulting product and didn't monitor what the effects on their population were ('cos it was unlabelled, so they couldn't tell)..... Hahahaha....is that WHY there are no more MAYANS? Was it caused by MODERN GMO??? Dude, you are clueless, here read some UN Codex....it MIGHT help: “Modern Biotechnology” means the application of: i) In vitro nucleic acid techniques, including recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and *direct injection of nucleic acid into cells or organelles* , or ii) Fusion of cells beyond the taxonomic family, that *overcome natural physiological reproductive or recombinant barriers* and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection4 “Conventional Counterpart” means a related organism/variety, its components and/or products for which there is experience of establishing safety based on common use as food5 " Show your Gramps.....see what he says.
Your Grandpa is correct. Bt gmo technology is now being use in Europe as in all over the world. Organic growers have used Bt for decades even injecting some food with Bt. I am sure you have heard of Bt corn. Bt corn contains naturally occurring Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria, a result of recombinant DNA techniques. that selectively kill caterpillar pest. Organic growers have for decades approved sprays containing Bt, a naturally occurring soil bacterium. Bt produces biotoxins lethal to moths,caterpillars and butterflies when ingested. Because it targets these insects' intestinal membranes(ABSENT in HUMANS and ANIMALS ), the EPA considers it benign to non- caterpillar species, including beneficial insects. When Organic growers spray Bt they kill all moths,caterpillars, and butterflies but we do not do that with gmo corn because only corn bore and corn root worms attacks corn so they are the only insects affected. For 80 years farmers like me used dangerous dangerous pesticides to control theses insects but today we do not have to use them thanks to gmo technology. GMO technology is safer for my children, my Wife, our water, our farm, and our environment. WE and YOU should give thanks to almighty GOD for the wisdom of GMO. Technology.
@@almostbutnotentirelyunreas166 The Mayans did at least slowly, they kept picking the biggest crops to reproduce until we finally got modern corn. In fact if you actually look up pictures of what wild corn looks like you will find it looks nothing like our domesticated corn. Genetic modification just makes it so we don't have to wait millennia to get the traits we want
@@AEE341 GMO technology IS genetic engineering. In agriculture we use the term genetic engineering instead of gmo technology but they mean the same thing.
@@AEE341 Yes gmo technology is genetic engineering. You can pollinate a plant with pollen from a different plant from the same species which is called selective breeding which is totally different from genetic engineering.
"That's one of the most fundamental problems with the GMO debate: Much of the criticism of this technology is actually criticism of modern agriculture and the business practice of the huge corporations that control our food supply." ^This is VITAL.
Keelia Silvis Good job coming to your own conclusions, thinking for your self, having original thoughts, not parroting back things you have been taught by McDonald's sponsored TV.
May I suggest a second part of this video explaining how GMO's are made? From the very first step, from when the Agrobacterium Tumefaciens is modified. And the other options in the market. Thanks for all your videos.
I would like this too. Because chemical names sound scary, or the words "synthetic" and non-natural things, but the more I learn, the more I realise just how nuanced it is.
@@jurisjairus2656 they have get all the people in place, to secure funding, to book distribution contracts, to do the casting, scout locations, hire an editor, get the editor and everyone acquainted with the project, create the 3D models you'll be using and build the sets. That isn't even half of what they do
As a man who works in agriculture, gmo's are a must farming will become unsuitable due to disease. Look at the potato famine of scotland. Diseases, pests and parasites will eradicate crops one by one, the same for livestock. I have been taught about gmo's and I entirely agree with the video. Making a plant take in more nitrogen won't suddenly make it conscious with tentacles and a thirst for human blood. Shared the video, my mates might learn a thing or two.
I legit passed my DSD examination with C1 level thanks to this video,as my PWP presentation was about Grune Gentechnik,these informations helped me a lot.Keep up the good work!
A dangerous ecosystem-destroying tool, or a panacea to all our ecological problems. It makes me excited and worried at the same time. This discovery is similar to the discovery of nuclear energy: Able to generate electricity, or blow up a city. In the end, it's humanity's game.
@@karthiknuti5671 it was the scene when the captain of ship first sees the plant, the auto shows him the video by the president and he says that its been 700 years. Things have changed now. Here, this is the proof. We can have more of these. They,they will grow apples or, or pizzas. We can have pizzas growing on trees. (They are not the exact dialogs, just the one I remember)
potato mochi, Don't wanna over do it tho, too much carbon sucking creates Snowball Earths. The evolution of plant life froze the entire planet several times both by consuming CO2 and by destroying Methane though Oxygen. Just do enough lol.
@@fandomguy8025 dude, another ice age to kill all the idiots that breed over the past centuries is what we actually need... *Now Gimme that chestnut tree, its mine!*
at 5.31 as a Bngladeshi i can say that Bt eggplant from our country is so good for not only farmers but also for the consumers ....who else is from Bangladesh here ???
SOURCES: # GMO sources #What is natural: GM insulin: bit.ly/2ncHaW5 Genetic engineering for thousands of years: bit.ly/2eCHKfi bit.ly/2mLCvPm CRISPR: bit.ly/2ncI2uN # Are GMOs bad for your health GMOs and gene flow: bit.ly/2bKauBe terminator seeds: n.pr/2o0ADSZ bit.ly/2obZ9NS Plants that are destined to be eaten are evaluated by different agencies bit.ly/2mLbU5g bit.ly/2nGPtNy bit.ly/2ncMXf0 GMOs are safe- various studies and reports by respected authorities: National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine: bit.ly/2o0IT55 An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research: bit.ly/2ot8tfH Letter of 110 Nobel laureates vouching for GMOs: bit.ly/295Nvg1 WHO: bit.ly/1slbfSV Various others: bit.ly/1pEOq9T bit.ly/1xq9iGn bit.ly/14XU8yl pewrsr.ch/1LqMLAe bit.ly/2nduCOV bit.ly/20BHOsU Bt crops: bit.ly/2nd9rg8 herbicide-resistant crops: bit.ly/2o5kdJk bit.ly/2o5nSGQ # What good GMOs can do Bt eggplants: bit.ly/2nHbdsW bit.ly/2nvmg89 Gm papaya: bit.ly/2nbN0ab bit.ly/2nvl6cz bit.ly/2ndxPy0 # Look in the crystal ball: drought-resistant crops: bit.ly/2mLmnxf plants that produce more nutrients: bbc.in/1WxsfnJ vitamin-fortified banana: bit.ly/1MKS0sJ nitrogen-fixing crops: bit.ly/2mLN9Wn bit.ly/2nc9mrZ Chestnut tree: bit.ly/1VqkL2D Potential for landsparing: go.nature.com/2oc18Sp bit.ly/1T1J2NX # Further reading: Bt cotton in India: bit.ly/2nH5AdZ bit.ly/1JQKG1u Article on popular science: bit.ly/2o5oVqp Blog series on GMOs: bit.ly/2o18w5X Ecomodernist manifesto: bit.ly/1PSVE6n
As a row-crop producer in the United States, I greatly appreciate your objectivity on this topic. The opposition to GM crops often paint farmers as deliberate abusers of the environment and poisoners of the world. In reality, most farmers are honest, hard-working, and intelligent people-often whose family has taken care of the same parcels of land for multiple generations(even centuries). We utilize modern, data-driven technology to attempt to efficiently feed the growing world in a manner that is both safe and effective, ultimately reducing the overall burden of our practices on the natural landscape. We are far from perfect, though. Modern agriculture and its technology has not been without missteps and shortfalls in the last few decades alone; however, we are continuously learning from these mistakes and evolving our management practices to prevent them from being repeated. I do not speak in certainties, and I hope that some day we do not discover more data that shows harm in our current tools. For now, though, it would be irresponsible for us to overlook GM technology based solely on unproven claims, when it can allow farmers to successfully provide for humanity as it continues to grow. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, and I hope that life brings you all the fulfillment and joy that you deserve.
I'm studying biotechnology and this video is very impressive I can understand what he is talking about. I hope we can make world better than what it is today 💚💚💚
yan zi lets Gm sunflowers so they store sunlight and emit it at night. We would give a new meaning to solar power and people could have sunflower farms that power their houses.
You mentioned the American Chestnut tree, and we're actually already fixing that. The reason American Chestnuts were essentially wiped out and can't be grown where they used to live anymore is a type of fungus. However, there is now a GMO American Chestnut tree that is resistant, and it will slowly be introduced to the forests alongside the very few that remain, and that will hopefully bring the Chestnut back to its former glory (and maybe save a couple of species that depend on the tree from extinction). As mentioned in the video, Chestnut can absorb tons of CO2 so this would be great for the climate as well.
A lot of, or most, of the American chestnuts were killed by the chestnut blight, but not all. There are plenty of American chestnut in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other areas. While they're outside the original range, climate change is pushing everything north. Some of the original chestnut cultivars are immune to the blight, and they're being grown. See New Forest Farm in SW Wisconsin for one example. Also, there's a cross between the Chinese chestnut and the American that are immune to blight. They were proven in Florida and are scattered around the US. I've got some in central Texas, near the bottom of the original oak savannah. No doubt, some corporations will use 'crispr' to modify the chestnut so they can patent and profit from it, but we don't need them to grow chestnut trees. Finally, ALL TREES extract tons of CO2 from the atmosphere - there's nothing special about the Chestnut in that regard. We need more trees - but we don't need more GMO trees.
The GMO blight resistant Chestnut was developed by the American Chestnut Foundation, not by corporations. Also, the Chestnut trees are a little modified as possible, with only a single gene identified as being the most effective being modified (it's the same gene as in the Chinese Chestnut). They are using a combination of Backcross breeding and GMO versions of American Chestnut trees and have been introducing these trees back into the forests for some time now. It is completely patent free, no one owns the plant.
So far Alex you had the most factual information. However since the ACF used traditional breeding techniques to produce the American Chestnut that is 1/16th Chinese Chestnut, it is inherently not a single gene but many that produce the CB resistance. To determine that a single gene transferred occurred one would need a greater level of characterization of each progeny to determine that a single gene was conferred in the cross, which is self defeating for the use of crossing two parent trees to produce a progeny would introduce multiple gene variances. To achieve a single gene transfer one would need more precise techniques (such as the above mentioned CRISPER which still has off target effects) yet the use of such techniques would fall under Genetic Engineering and require more government oversight.
Andrew Gennett They do both backcross breeding and biotechnology: www.acf.org/our-work/biotechnology/ Quote: "This was an intentional decision to use every tool in our toolbox to address the serious problem of chestnut blight. One of those tools, developed at ESF, involves adding new genes to the American chestnut, which allows the tree to withstand blight with almost no damage. Genes being tested come from the Chinese chestnut and other plants." "OxO-containing American chestnuts still have 100% of their native American chestnut genes, and the addition of 2 genes (the OxO and a selectable marker gene) during the transformation process results in a tree that is still >99.999% pure American chestnut." Edit: This is still being extensively tested for safety and adverse effects by the USDA, FDA, and EPA, so none of these have been introduced in the wild yet
@@GabrielV65 That extends to a lot of other topics, meanwhile families with technologically / scientifically illiterate parents are spreading misinformed fears to their children.
The only difference between GMOs and what we have done for thousands of years is that it is faster and easier to control. In the past it was all random chance via selective breeding and it took generations to have pronounce effects. GMOs simply bring genes to the fore that would be very hard to do so via selective breeding, and does so much more quickly.
I don't really agree with this. Selective breeding would have extremely low chances (or nearly impossible) to make changes comparable to what you can do with Genetic engineering. With genetic tools you can get the plant or animal to produce not just variants of proteins they already have or with luck a few new characteristics but you are able to produce structures that would never arise in that organism through natural or artificial selection, that do not relate to the function or fitness of the organism and can even hamper reproduction and other traits that would be necessary in any bred strain...
+19oz: There are MANY peer reviewed, GMO-Food Safety studies that *align* with your statement. In fact, 8.7% of Gov't-funded animal studies using APPROVED GMO-FOOD (per Genetic Literacy Project)flag as 'LESS SAFE' than non-GMO control. In Safety Engineering, 8.7% FAILURE MODE is unacceptably high. GMO Food has HUGE RISKS attached.
Where did i say there are no significant risks in using GMO's? I said they are not completely comparable to traditional breeding methods as people tend to try and say. I think there are significant risks involved with the buildup of new chemicals in different places on the food chain.
I like this channel because I have ADHD and I lose focus easily, but with the cool animation that goes along with the narrative , it has helped me stay entertain and focus on the subject. Keep up the good work!💓
@@simplicityd8703 They are ancient, they adapt to their environment, they communicate, they grow or flower, they produce sexually with others OR with themselves, they give off tasty fruits, they interact with bacteria and fungi,they give are most of our food!
When I see your videos pop out in my subscriptions tab, I always leave a like to them because I know how much effort and time went into each and every one of your fantastic videos. I am a designer/illustrator myself and I know how much time even one simple illustration can take. But doing hundreds of them in one video and animating all of it and narrating it - it's a hell of a job to do. I am very grateful for you that you are putting so much effort into your videos that are free to watch for us, normal people, even though this type of work would cost tens of thousands of dollars. I wish you good luck, Kurzgesagt. I will continue to share your work because you are one of the few UA-cam channels who really deserve that.
when I read "I'm a..." I thought you are one of the ones you talk about them like sugar and then does self advertising (thankfully not you) And tbh: Nicely said!
@@mau345 not really what kind of dumbass inovator wouldnt want an a better production value like making them grow faster....more of an issue would be the people controversies and skepticism
Great video. If you get a degree associated with this you'll learn a lot of this. The problem is that the masses don't have to time or the dedication to spend 4+ years studying this. Videos like this do a good job of properly explaining the details out without being misleading or driven by sensationalism.
@@DukeGMOLOL Insane that after companies like Monsanto spray Agent Orange and give a bunch of birth defects to everyone, people defend their chemically castrated vegetables
...But the scientists who oppose it have better reasons. It is debated for a reason. Actual experts argue against it. Not because they wouldnt want to solve a problem so big and wouldnt want their names to be written into history books and winning awards, but because they have legit concerns.
humans:NOW YOU WHIIL BE ABLE TO ABSORB PLASTIC AND 200X MORE CO2 trees:i sleep humans again: YOU WONT BE ABLE TO DROP YOUR LEAVES trees again: REAL SHIT (sorry my grammar)
Humans: hey Pillbug/woodlouse! Isopod: yeah? Humans: here eat this plastic Isopod: Wut? Humans: let me modify you first Isopod: k Humans: Done! Isopod: this bag is starting to smell good now..(nom nom nom) Humans: yay now we can make nature fix it for us
If you disagree with this video, and you are writing pseudoscience comments, please go to a library and check out a basic chemistry book. Then get into biochemistry to understand why this video is spot on.
I want GMO humans. Too bad current technology only really allows this in artificial insemination cases. Not that we are going to live long enough to actually make this legal as the old farts in government will fearmonger to their last breath.
This reminds of a presentation a kid did in my human geo class about gmo's and he had to show both sides of the argument. After he showed the bad side he promptly apologized for saying false information and disproved every claim and once he finished, half the class clapped and the other was just disappointed/shocked.
Sad for the half whose parents know what the Codex Alimentarius states about GMO.....what Risk Assessment Measures have never been adhered to, what percentage of clincal animal studies on FDA approved GMO crops show HARM....Very SAD.
A thumb up for the kid. I want to make a presentation about GMO crops in my class as well, because I see so many people ( including adults) in my country don't see the potential of GMOS. But they won't let me do that
tanishq sagar, You are the problem. Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case it'll take more than just some spelling and grammatical errors to distinguish that it's a joke.
Yes, we can't trust for-profit private companies with GMOs. But this also applies to pharmaceutical companies, healthcare companies, car manufacturers, etc. etc. etc. It is industry regulations and laws that protect consumers like you and I.
You are too kind, Kurzgesgt. This video, this channel, you, you deserve more than this. So much hard work, and yet get so little... You really are the best.
Correction Guy Authoritarianism will become intranscendental for future societies. Profit consumption and offer and demand erradicate the possibility of technological, biological and humanistic progress.
Watched this video in class and my teacher was very critical towards the positive attitude towards GMOs, she suggested that kurzgesagt may be sponsored behind the scenes by a company like Monsanto in order to promote GMOs or that the sources are not reliable at all since "America is always pro GMOs". I've kinda lost faith in our education system once more.
DeadFishFactory yeah that's what I also thought and it's also due to the bias commonly found for UA-cam videos as opposed to normal documentaries. We've watched numerous content like this and this was the only time we were required to be that critical and questioning the background..
Your teacher is being objective, because he/she cares. When it comes to strictly scientific research such as genetically modified organisms, the studies backed by the very corporations who make and sell GMO's, and pushed by the government that's run by these very chemical/gmo corporations - cannot be a good source of information. Also, it's more of a socio-economic problem, not whether heavily sprayed crops with built-in pesticides are bad for you, even though I think one doesn't need much brain to understand that such mutant engineered crops that produce pesticides even inside your digestive tract are definitely NOT good news...
Simply being alive is bad for your health. How about living in a city though? You take in so many pollutants everyday. Or cigarettes? They are bad but people aren't up in arms about Philip Morris everyday. People just point fingers at what they don'tunderstand because the person beside them is. People pay twice as much for organic food that could possibly at the end of yourlife have been a fraction of a percent better for you, but probably doesn't taste as good or will fill you up as much. GMO's are the future, accept it and realize that there are worse things out there.
@@TheElectreKid Maybe it's scary, but it's also very probably what will happen, along with cyborgs. Want it or not, odds are, eventually, it'll happen as long as there's someone sufficiently interested in it.
Oxygen is unhealthy in amounts smaller (over time) and large (all at once). Has anyone ever thought about the term antioxidant? In a way quite similar to rusting (oxidation) oxygen can damage our tissues, and ultimately alter our DNA: it causes aging and some other diseases. Does that mean we should just stop breathing?
Factual? Yes. Entertaining? Yes. Well-sourced and based on current scientific understanding of the subject? Of course, it's Kurzgesacht. Why did I give a like? Because the phrase "Hawaii papaya" is very fun to say.
It is varieties more than modifications that offer longer shelf life. There are many varieties of every food plant so we find the ones that last longest. But that can be taken too far, flavor must not be sacrificed for shelf life. They are all healthy.
Yes, genetic modification is a great technology, and we should use it to improve food. But we also need to stop corrupt agribusiness and corrupt corporations in general. Corrupt corporations are the biggest problem in today's world. Pretty much all problems stem from it.
Genetic modification isn't just for inserting pesticides into crops. It's an incredibly versatile tool, that can pretty much make whatever modifications you want. It could be used to increase the vitamin and mineral content of food for example. That's why I say that corporate corruption is the real problem. The reason why genetic modification is used for stuff like inserting pesticides is cause it increases the profits of corporations, and that's all they care about. If we get rid of GMOs, the corporations will just find new ways of doing the same nasty stuff. Focus on the real problem, not the GMOs.
Diabetes that runs in families is itself not natural, they used to die young and not pollute the gene pool nearly as much. Same with poor eyesight and many other afflictions that our medical technology allows inferior genes to perpetuate.
So what's the difference between GMO Food & GMO Meds? EASY!!! GMO Meds are clinically safety tested in Humans BEFORE being approved, WHILE GMO Food has NEVER (ever) been clinically tested in Humans at all. EVER. Against UN Codex recommendations.... KZGT forgot to mention this little concern....how DID that happen??? LOLS.
Almost, but not entirely, Unreasonable I hope your comment is satire, as your username suggests. GM food is not innately dangerous; it's just a shortcut to making your crops better rather than selecting the better ones for decades.
Tall stories and glass walls could fix the sunlight issue. It would be insanely expensive to build tall buildings, acres wide, out of glass, and get the dirt needed onto the floors to boot. In some regions of the world, they carve what looks like a massive staircase into hills, to increase space. There's an idea. But I imagine it makes it more difficult to use combines. We could also make taller plants that produce food over their entire height.
the reason why hippys, and the like have been preaching about there fear of GMO's has less to do with health concerns, which are correctly addressed in this video, AND more to do with the fear of food monopolization. THAT IS NEVER ADDRESSED IN THESE PRO GMO VIDEOS.
Quite apart from GMOs companies treat the environment, their workers and even their customers as ultimatly expendable because they only focus on making more money, for which monopolization is great, so that's a problem inherent to our system and not a problem of GMOs specifically.
This was an absolutely AMAZING video and I loved it. There are so many important things in it. YOU CITED YOUR SOURCES AND TOLD US TO NOT JUST TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT THANK YOU!!!! "GMOs could be our strongest weapon to save our biosphere" I completely agree with that, however, it could also be our strongest enemy as GMOs depend on the intention behind it. If scientists want to create poison to take out the earth they could, or they could use it to strengthen the world. It all depends on who has the power.
If you want to eat only organic things, you have to skimp out on the two things that are inorganic but are essential to life: salt and water. (There's more than that, I know, but those are the two biggest ones.) Also, gasoline and plastic. (Let's expand the list of non-food organic substances for the sake of it.)
YT finally released your comment! The UN CODEX ALIMENTARIUS on GMO Safety: *ISBN 978-92-5-105914-2* , cut-paste, google. Some excerpts: Pg 3, “19. Risk management measures may include, as appropriate, food labelling8 conditions for marketing approvals and post-market monitoring.” (sold UNLABELELD in US for over 2 decades, FDA FAIL) 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.
The Minute i saw this video i wanted to become a genetic plant engineer 6 years ago during my Biology Bachelor. At the moment iam finishing my PhD and will start working for a big company to develope new Crops :) Love you Kurzgesagt, Grüße aus Freiburg!
My masters degree in Biophysics. We had a class where each got a topic to do a presentation and we would then try to oppose and support the topics. One student got a topic on GMO. Our professor said that the discussion will most likely be boring and then asked if any of us are against GMO. None of us were, because we did not subscribe to superstition like most anti-GMO and the valid arguments quickly dried out.
Since you seem to be well educated on the subject, couldn't GMO's potentially pose a major threat to biodiversity? If plants get modified to be more resistant to insects for example, I could imagine they'd quickly outcompete most 'natural' plants which do not have that modification.
Most of the plant species out there that we cultivate are hardly "natural" already since they've been selected over and over for hundreds if not thousands of years. This isn't always a good thing as the reduction in inherent diversity has weakened some species considerably - the banana as we know it would be doomed without humans to cultivate it. Precautions to ensure they wouldn't spread too far would need to be put into place, more stringent than we have at the moment. Other than that it seems unlikely there would be huge problems.
@samueldullaart but why should it be a major threat, biodiversities purpose is to eliminate weaker genes am I right? So you could just shorten the way to a more resistant plant by just creating one or modify it. I'm not a biologist, but I think that's the whole point of evolution.
Fantastically condensed, researched and relevant video. It saddens me how much world changing technology is met by a negative gut reaction just for being “artificial” when it’s one of our gateways to protect and preserve our natural world.
What saddens me is the unquestioning acceptance of colourful, fun video's, posing as 'science' communicators. There are HUGE gaps and imbalance in this report.....just scroll through the comment section.....and ask WHY more often than usual. Good luck, Bacon. Look up 'critical thinking' sometime.....
Almost, but not entirely, Unreasonable lmao I think the peer reviewed academic sources from professionals who spend their life studying these fields are gonna be a little more credible than randos in a UA-cam comments section. If there’s one thing UA-cam comments aren’t it’s a source for critical thinking. Not to mention almost all comments I’ve seen trying to argue against these points have been immediately proven wrong easily by the next commenter so why bother?
@@almostbutnotentirelyunreas166 There's sources in the description, buddy. But I guess critical thinking trumps fact checking as long as you're being cynical about it.
@@Graphomite Of course 'there's sources', but they are selected sources. here, get an education, start with REAL SCIENCE, from the Codex Alimentarius: " “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. SHOW ME ONE !! Ooops.....nah?
@@Graphomite More Codex for YOU: Codex is strongly committed to promote safe foods. Amongst safe foods, Codex does not give any preference to certain kinds of foods over others. *Such choice belongs to consumers* . Codex has adopted principles and guidelines to assess food safety of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants, animals and microorganisms. *If a government chooses to build a regulatory mechanism* to address the food safety of so-called GM foods, then they *can use Codex text as a basis* for it. This being said, *each government is free to adopt its own policy* as to the use of GM organisms in the agriculture and other sectors. At the moment, *there are no internationally-agreed recommendations on the food labelling of GM foods. Governments are therefore applying their own regulations* .”
I'm definitely for GMOs and making plants more resistant. I just hope one day we can get to a place where we won't need to use pesticides anymore because of advanced GMOs.
I don't fear GMOs, I fear companies making them. Like you said, some company tried to maximize profits by making terminator seeds. I want tighter regulation on GMOs (sadly GMO's motherland USA isn't well known for regulations).
Counter argument to your comment, Owen, do you want Ma Bell and the other monopolies that crushed competition back? That'd be a great way to see your internet bill skyrocket because they wouldn't have to convince you to buy their service since there'd be no other option. There'd also be absolutely no reason for anyone to try to improve the service as well, so we could all be on dial-up or not even have the internet at all. The correct regulations on business drive them to improve their services to earn our money, they drive them to continue to compete in a market instead of just owning it and enriching their CEOs and boards back into the old days of the robber barons. Note: I did say correct regulations. Regulation for the sake of regulation is just as harmful to progress as not bothering to regulate at all.
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Really Kurzgesagt? This video you abandoned two years ago has been completely un-moderated against malicious troll attacks but you come back here to ask us to buy shit from YOU?????? TAKE A LOOK at the mess you left here!!!!!
@@popeyegordon Dude chill, you've been going around attacking people on this comment section like a maniac.
@@davidmarji9747 Look closer. In every case, without exception, I am responding in defense of our honest hard working farmers and scientists AFTER ignorant genetically illiterate trolls post the insults FIRST. I will never stop defending science truth from those who would prefer to reverse progress. They are all 100% assholes.
Fear is the greatest enemy; knowledge the greatest ally. Do not fear what you do not understand. Learn.
EdricLysharae That is the most epic madlad quote I have ever seen.
Unfortunately we dont know exactly what happens to the gmo food when it's broken down to the molecular level and absorbed by our bodies
oh, I completely understood. I have done my own research and come to the conclusion that a good percent of our population is just scientifically illiterate.
GMO food breaks down the way normal food does.
GMO food comes from living things that is also genetically modified.
But it stays as a living thing & its not some kind of Fallout monster exposed to radiation.
My grandpa (may he rest in peace) "genetically engineered" a watermelon variety through selective breeding over a couple of decades. Sadly, this variety is gone, it died with him. He spent decades saving seeds from the tastiest and sweetest watermelons from his garden. The end result that I got to see and taste for myself was amazing. So juicy, so sweet, and just the right size for one person to eat. I have never before or since tasted such a delicious watermelon. It's a great shame that the only remaining seeds he had vanished like they did. When I was a kid, I thought those watermelons were what was normal. After his passing, I found out quickly that his watermelons were perfection compared to anything else I have tried. I have given up trying to find a suitable replacement. It has been almost twenty years since his passing.
Regional breeds all over the south vary widely and even more critical is weather and soil. Not sure why you didn't save some of his seeds so you could have proven, not just boasted, about his craft. Also, this is a common delusion of many people who do not grasp that fact that as their taste buds age they are less sensitive. I have seen countless false narratives blaming farmers for less flavor when it is remained exactly the same or better. Professional tasters know about the age loss and compensate with consultant panels.
@@popeyegordon I was a teenager when he died. I ate watermelon every summer until after he died. After he died, I went on the hunt for a replacement watermelon with no luck. I didn't save his seeds because they vanished after he died (probably a family member took them without telling anyone). The comparison was back when I was still young and within two years of his last melon. I gave up because nothing was found anywhere near as good as his.
Perhaps you could try and replicate his process so that art stays alive within your family
@@ElementalSerenity I've considered it, but I will probably never had kids to pass it on to if I did end up with anything decent.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja Then perhaps sharing it with the community (or finding a way to patent it or smth) so that you can share the process and so that people can taste and have some sort of understanding as to how you felt tasting those selectively bred Watermelons your grandfather engineered?
The animation makes your videos so satisfying to watch
Don't forget the voice! the voice is great
The animations and voice of the person just blend like magic !
its the only thing these videos are worth watching for, 99% of the staff works on the animation, fuck the validity of the sources and skeptic research.
FuckOffAlready, they do provide sources in the description.
Kim yeah, implying this is a one sided issue. Institutionalized science decides whats conclusive and whats not. Like the experiment where mice got fed with GMOs that turned up all fine, unless you find that the same experiment done for a longer time showed increased frequency in diseases and tumors. Guess what study "science" (the government/monsanto) says is the right one?
I am from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
These examples regarding my country is correct 💗💗
Bangladesh seems to be used as a positive example a lot on this channel. Yesterday I saw a video about overpopulation where the progress of Bangladesh in that regard was shown. Your country apparently as progressed A LOT in the last decades. Very impressive. Here in Germany most what you hear about Bangladesh is that western clothing corporations like H&M mistreat Bangladeshis for cheap clothing. E.g. several years ago the Rana Plaza collapse was everywhere on the news for weeks including interviews with injured workers. But even then it was said that Bangladeshis are starting to found worker unions and that they will gain strength and power over time to fight for worker's rights.
@@solar0wind india freed Bangladesh from noob Pakistan tyranny and slavery in 1971
600 hours to make this video?! Why cant I like the video more than once!!
Create another account :D
how does it take that long?
That's why they ask you to please share it with people who might be interested in the topic.
xBigBossx1000 They need to create all the animations
Thats monstrous. Hory sheet. Insane.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
I'm stealing this.
Thats what ignorance is.
I'm stealing this too!
no it is entitled and anti vax parents
when
I was honestly uneducated about this topic. Thank you for enlightening me and other 7 million other people. Spreading this worthy knowledge is seriously saving the planet!
Me too. I sometimes don't understand complex ideas and scientific explanations online but when it is on a video, I can get a greater grasp of what is it and I understand it better.
I couldn’t agree more with that statement
Yeah. Sadly there are still alot of uneducated people who are blinded by their ignorance and misinformation. I hope this topic will no longer be debated and set as a fact
I could never agree more
If you want more info on this topic I highly recommend the documentary "Food evolution"
5:09 and here’s the biggest issue. A lot of people I’ve met that are pro GMO are pro GMO because it saves money, and the reason why a lot of folks I know are pro GMO, and talk about this so much, argue that if we don’t use GMO’s, and use more pesticides instead, it’ll actually cost more, and with the economy going to shit in a lot of places, it’ll actually cost more. I know GMO’s sound scary, but it can actually help save the planet, and help ensure more people get food. It can help a lot. I get being cautious, and I advocate for that, but I also advocate for reading, academic papers especially. I believe in us, we can do this.
Saving the planet that we put in danger in the first place. HIRONIC
@isabellacatolica5594 the planet will live on long after us, we're just killing ourselves
Only bad side of GMO is...
that it increased production of food so much, too many people are living on Earth 😂
@@isabellacatolica5594well we're trying to save the planet's conditions whicb are favorable to us. life will always find a way and the planet keep spinning even if we drop all of the petrol in the world into the ocean. in fact, in the past there was no O2 in the atmosphere and life still thrived. then cyanobacteria pumped ridiculous amounts of O2 into the atmosphere (and that's also how the ozone layer was formed) and 99% of life on the planet died because it wasn't adapted to the highly reactive oxygen that was practically drowning them. yet life still found a way and adapted. its just that we humans think our ideal conditions which we are adapted to survive are what the planet always was and what it should always be and anything else is "killing the planet". we're just trying to save our own asses, but sound ultra virtuous about it.
@@isabellacatolica5594 so we shouldn't save the world. Gotcha
Customer: is this carrot a gmo?
Staff: does it matter?
Carrot: yeah, does it matter?
spy the buttsecks lol, that’s the best comment here :) very clever
1. Ha. Almost missed who said that last line.
2. Now I can't help but think GMO is a racist term now.
spy the buttsecks haaaaaa xd
In a world we’re carrots can talk
Not sure what made me laugh more, the comment or name.
“Intensifying agriculture instead of expanding it”
Also imagine how satisfying it would be to drive a harvester through hyper-dense wheat during harvest
Work smarter, not harder
Equals Sign
I just did 🤤 .
@@manuelsaavedra8081 roddy ricch "WHY NOT BOTH"
No, because monocultures are horrible for the environment.
You see all of the animals that exist in our planet depend on plants, and these plants give them food if you remove this food away you destroy species, like bees for example.
I personally love bees, I always make sure on my farm that bees are welcome, they're super important for pollinating other types of plants.
Mono culture comes from the greek one, and culture, which is agriculture in modern English.
Basically it means cultivating one type of plant, and that destroys the environment.
To prevent the world from losing amazingly unique species we have to stop stacking one type of plant near each other. First of all it reduces the total gene pool of a given plant species which is horrible what that means is that you lose things that you don't even know that could exist yet.
That's decided by phenotype and genotype of a given seed. The genetics of plants depends on each species and how it distributes chromosomes.
Personally I didn't study genetics so I can't tell you exactly how that distribution works, but I studied botany and photosynthesis.
Equals Sign I don’t think GMO is about more yield, i.e more wheat but more energy in the same amount (first priority), coz that will reduce consumption requirement and a small land can feed more!
the real question is can you make greens taste like chocholate
There is a variety of mint called "chocolate mint" that many (not all) people swear up and down tastes chocolaty. Not even genetically-modified. So it turns the answer is yes, you can make greens taste like chocolate. :D
Chocolate comes from a fruit, doesn't it?
A bean to be exact
I'd fuckin hope not, I love my greens. Even as little kid I loved even broccoli :P
Furlow Torent What??
6:19
Kurzgesagt: "The solution was a papaya genetically modified to be vaccinated"
Karen: *Has a heart attack*
How to assasinate a Karen without legal troubles. Link them this video and your timestamp :-D Their head will implode.
@@ObscuriaDragunAed thx dude
@@nikaelkeanretiza1074 anything I can do to aid in the legal Extinction of the Karen race.
Actually that quote is more supportive of natural immunity than a shot, if you consider the the role of natural genetic selection in human development.
@@kfiralfiavideo depends on the viewpoint imo. Vaccines are the precursor tech to genetic immunity.
so basically we give plants upgrades?
bruh im all in for this.
my tree armies will be unbeatable!
King Treedede plants vs zombie
Hi Brudi I don’t like where this is going
I wonder what the weebs and furries will do with it
"I am Groot"
I just want groot
Drop your studies, drop your work and stop trying to sleep!
There's a Kurzgesagt video in our feed.
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same condition😂😂
It sounds like some sort of epic line you'd see at the start of some action movie with the hero approaching the situation.
Kurzgesagt videos are practically studying anyways
yess
Bullshit propanganda! GMO's are genetically modified to be doused with 20x concentrated roundup weed killer aka glyphosate without dying. The genes spliced in are from bacteria that were the only living organisms growing in monsantos chemical cesspool dump. Just ask yourself if you'd like to eat food doused in roundup weed killer.....
So many people just see "GMO" on a box and think "Oh my goodness. I've heard that's bad. I don't know what it means, but I've heard it's bad. Better take the Non-GMO one instead, whatever that means."
It's called fear mongering and the organic thugs tried to make labeling of breeding methods even more dishonest to slant sales towards their crappy over priced products. Obama put a stop to it. Look up the new 2020 GMO labeling law, called GE disclosure. Many trace amounts of refined sweeteners and oils will no longer be called GMO and it is illegal to put that on labels.
It's true, but then there's some people actually did the background ressearch before tackling the topic and realized that the matter is a lot more complex than what this highly biaised video would want us to think.
Here's an excerpt from a 2017 peer reviewed paper:
*_"Effects of Bt toxins on the immune system have been identified in different species and via different routes, including whole food dietary administration. The observations include studies on mice [45, 46], and pigs [47, 48]. Immune system responses have also been shown for fish [49, 50]. Based on data that were provided to the Indian authorities by Monsanto, Gallagher [51] also assumed immunotoxic reactions in rats: Rats fed with Bt aubergine-producing Cry1Ac protein were significantly less healthy than controls as demonstrated by an increased white blood cell count, eosinophils in particular, and enlarged spleens. Further hepatotoxic effects included elevated bilirubin and acetylcholinesterase."_*
Curious to read more? here's a nice highlight:
*_"In contrast to native Bt toxins, there are several reasons to assess in more detail the potential toxicity of Bt toxins expressed in genetically engineered plants: It is known that there are several differences in the structure of the Cry toxin expressed in the genetically engineered plants and those used in traditional mixtures [5, 6]. Traditionally, the Bt protoxin has been used for spraying as protoxin and in crystallised (inactivated) form. However, the Cry toxins expressed in the genetically engineered plants are already solubilised and activated. It is known that changes in the structure of the protein can have considerable influence on the toxicity of the Bt proteins [7]. Therefore, the risk assessment taken from traditional Bt toxins used in biological pest control can only be applied to a limited extent to the Bt toxins expressed in plants._*
*_Further, the Cry toxins are expressed by the plants throughout the whole period of vegetation, while the traditional sprays are used in a time-limited and targeted manner, if necessary. The sprayed proteins can be expected to mostly degrade, while Bt toxins expressed in plants will be present in the harvest and-depending on further processing-will also be present in feed and food._*
*_The mode of action of Cry toxins is not fully understood. To some extent it is even a matter of controversial scientific debate [8, 9]. Several authors [10-14] reach different conclusions with regard to the mode of action in target organisms."_*
If you want to educate yourself on the topic, the source is "Possible health impacts of Bt toxins and residues from spraying with complementary herbicides in genetically engineered soybeans and risk assessment as performed by the European Food Safety Authority EFSA" (i would have put a link, but if i do youtube will consider it as spam and hide it, you can google this and find the paper easily).
@@popeyegordon Yes, turns out that the laws of physics have changed between 2017 and 2020, now proteins behave entirelly differently than they did 3 years ago... Do you even hear yourself? You sound less coherent and more unhinged everytime i visit this page.
I have see juice wich are not organic but no-gmo !!!
@@loicdeniel8361 No you lying asshole, I prove you wrong every single time I encounter your toxic anti-biotech lies. Any fool can locate outlier studies that confirm a particular bias, this is why consensus is so devastating to activists. Organic farmers have been using Bt for 40 years. The only use of hypodermic needles on farms is by organic farmers injecting the Bt toxin into the bases of their larger plants.
600 HOURS!!!!
As a video artist, that really hits me. OMG, I can't thank you enough you guys for putting so much time and effort into education.
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Have you ever noticed that OMG is spelled like GMO backwards?
@@taraskhan4759 coincidence? I think not.
OMG means GMO.
@@lilysantiago679
OMG stands for “oh my GMO”
GMO stands for “genetically modified OMG”
And OMG stands for “oh my GMO”
GMO stands for “genetically modified OMG”
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This video actually helped me finish an assignment that is due in 3 minutes
Imagine the luck bro that's epic
isn't this video 9 minutes
@@user_rKChwLeBqKYyurEfiSLFmCBNC probably 3 mins due when he finished the vid
@@user_rKChwLeBqKYyurEfiSLFmCBNC They said that they finished and that it is due in 9 minutes. They could've started the video a few hours before it was due and finished it right before the due time, coming here to leave the comment
Nice job, how did you do on it?
So we can now make Peashooters and Magnet Shrooms , just like in Plants vs. Zombies?
imagine if this was the backstory to the plants in PVZ
or, there was a PVZ movie and they genetically engineered these plants to fight against the zombies.
@@Monochrome2004 such a backstory would be awesome and quite deep.
@@grepukun5557 If their was a backstory to it, i'd think it have to be this logically. It could be also cool, if the "zombie virus", that is so lethal to us, is actually harmless to plant considering they dont have brains. Imagine the gov't using the virus to rapidly mutate gmo plants to further speed up their evolution and proliferation. I nerded out right there.
well, yeah
This but instead of fighting zombies we fight world hunger
Honestly this is brilliant, we need trees that suck more carbon
And crops as well
and then release it all back into the atmosphere as soon as they die. swamp & sea plants are actually what is needed as they store all the carbon underwater when they die.
@@nousername8162 wat, they dint store the co2 they catch tho, they process it back to o2. Unless i miss something cause never i heard plant store co2
@@exile_kzk from what I understand they store carbon which turns to co2 when they rot
@@nousername8162 hmm, all i remember they indeed release co2 but if they didnt fully photosynthesis it at afternoon, and they did release co2 at some concentration at midnight. Thats why its quite bad keeping plant indoor in night
We watched this in Science class. Everyone completely understood the material. Good work!
Knives are great! I love knives. I can use them for camping, cooking or sculpting. But also for murder :(. The knife isn't good or bad, it's all about how I use it. Same goes for GMOs.
A V Great Analogy :D
Like knives, we just have to regulate the sale and production of GMO.
Like here in the UK, you have to prove you're over 21 to actually buy a knife! That can also include butter knives.
Yes but you can't murder billions of people with a knife, if you drop it you don't destroy an ecosystem, and if you cut yourself with it it doesn't give you cancer.
Oliver Worley neither do GMOs
Oliver Worley but natural mutations cause cancer though. Genetic editing can ever avoid that.
Oliver Worley GMOs don't cause cancer. There isn't any valid evidence to support you, but there is tons against you. What makes you believe that GMOs cause cancer? Seriously.
My Grandpa grows corn, and he says this whole anti-gmo thing is ridiculous because without it the corn would get wormy quickly and it isn't harmful or dangerous and corn isn't a natural thing, it's been tampered with since the Myans.
Yep, the Mayans altered DNA at the molecular level in laboratories, then refused to label the resulting product and didn't monitor what the effects on their population were ('cos it was unlabelled, so they couldn't tell).....
Hahahaha....is that WHY there are no more MAYANS? Was it caused by MODERN GMO???
Dude, you are clueless, here read some UN Codex....it MIGHT help:
“Modern Biotechnology” means the application of:
i) In vitro nucleic acid techniques, including recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and *direct
injection of nucleic acid into cells or organelles* , or
ii) Fusion of cells beyond the taxonomic family,
that *overcome natural physiological reproductive or recombinant barriers* and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection4
“Conventional Counterpart” means a related organism/variety, its components and/or products for which there is experience of establishing safety based on common use as food5
"
Show your Gramps.....see what he says.
Your Grandpa is correct. Bt gmo technology is now being use in Europe as in all over the world. Organic growers have used Bt for decades even injecting some food with Bt. I am sure you have heard of Bt corn. Bt corn contains naturally occurring Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria, a result of recombinant DNA techniques. that selectively kill caterpillar pest. Organic growers have for decades approved sprays containing Bt, a naturally occurring soil bacterium. Bt produces biotoxins lethal to moths,caterpillars and butterflies when ingested. Because it targets these insects' intestinal membranes(ABSENT in HUMANS and ANIMALS ), the EPA considers it benign to non- caterpillar species, including beneficial insects. When Organic growers spray Bt they kill all moths,caterpillars, and butterflies but we do not do that with gmo corn because only corn bore and corn root worms attacks corn so they are the only insects affected. For 80 years farmers like me used dangerous dangerous pesticides to control theses insects but today we do not have to use them thanks to gmo technology. GMO technology is safer for my children, my Wife, our water, our farm, and our environment. WE and YOU should give thanks to almighty GOD for the wisdom of GMO. Technology.
@@almostbutnotentirelyunreas166 The Mayans did at least slowly, they kept picking the biggest crops to reproduce until we finally got modern corn. In fact if you actually look up pictures of what wild corn looks like you will find it looks nothing like our domesticated corn. Genetic modification just makes it so we don't have to wait millennia to get the traits we want
@@AEE341 GMO technology IS genetic engineering. In agriculture we use the term genetic engineering instead of gmo technology but they mean the same thing.
@@AEE341 Yes gmo technology is genetic engineering. You can pollinate a plant with pollen from a different plant from the same species which is called selective breeding which is totally different from genetic engineering.
"That's one of the most fundamental problems with the GMO debate: Much of the criticism of this technology is actually criticism of modern agriculture and the business practice of the huge corporations that control our food supply."
^This is VITAL.
I wish the vandals that destroyed crops of golden rice understood this.
Yeah, misuse is the problem.
Kudos to Kurzgesagt for doing that in such a respectful manner. Their videos are always a treat to watch.
so who is evil corporations you guys talking about ?
Keelia Silvis Good job coming to your own conclusions, thinking for your self, having original thoughts, not parroting back things you have been taught by McDonald's sponsored TV.
May I suggest a second part of this video explaining how GMO's are made?
From the very first step, from when the Agrobacterium Tumefaciens is modified. And the other options in the market.
Thanks for all your videos.
I would like this too. Because chemical names sound scary, or the words "synthetic" and non-natural things, but the more I learn, the more I realise just how nuanced it is.
GMO, IS BAD PERIOD!!!! HOW MUCH IS HE GETTING PAIED ??????
@@forobia-ss7ye what?
Kurzgeazgt 3 years ago: 600 hours is a Lot
Kurzgeazgt now: Thoose are rookie numbers
They make a regular 5-15m video in 1200 hours
@@jurisjairus2656 they have get all the people in place, to secure funding, to book distribution contracts, to do the casting, scout locations, hire an editor, get the editor and everyone acquainted with the project, create the 3D models you'll be using and build the sets. That isn't even half of what they do
@@silver5630 wow, i never actually realized that
the frames arent even clanky.
props to them.
“Thoose”
As a man who works in agriculture, gmo's are a must farming will become unsuitable due to disease. Look at the potato famine of scotland. Diseases, pests and parasites will eradicate crops one by one, the same for livestock. I have been taught about gmo's and I entirely agree with the video. Making a plant take in more nitrogen won't suddenly make it conscious with tentacles and a thirst for human blood. Shared the video, my mates might learn a thing or two.
Ben Carley 👌
MAY BE GOOD FR FARMERS BUT THEY ARE POISON PEOPLE.
Michele What?
I like your profile picture. :P
The potato famine was Irish, wasn't it?
This is going to be a good comment section with friendly people and well-structured arguments.
dude I just read three comments that said fuck you. so yeah you got to love being an American
@@MsRickyawesome sound racist to your own kind....everyone have toxic side of their community
I legit passed my DSD examination with C1 level thanks to this video,as my PWP presentation was about Grune Gentechnik,these informations helped me a lot.Keep up the good work!
So GMOs are basically yet another tool in our belt. It's effect depends on the wielder.
A dangerous ecosystem-destroying tool, or a panacea to all our ecological problems. It makes me excited and worried at the same time.
This discovery is similar to the discovery of nuclear energy: Able to generate electricity, or blow up a city. In the end, it's humanity's game.
Yeah, its like nuclear science.
It can be one of clean source of power we can have or destruction of species.
@@mrdoormat6809 we'r using it for both causes lol
fuvk meh
Just like a whenche
I would like to see a pizza tree as mentioned in the WALL-E movie
where was that?
Same
Yup me too
I agree
@@karthiknuti5671 it was the scene when the captain of ship first sees the plant, the auto shows him the video by the president and he says that its been 700 years. Things have changed now. Here, this is the proof. We can have more of these. They,they will grow apples or, or pizzas. We can have pizzas growing on trees.
(They are not the exact dialogs, just the one I remember)
Carbon sucking chestnut trees?
*GIMME 20*
potato mochi, Don't wanna over do it tho, too much carbon sucking creates Snowball Earths. The evolution of plant life froze the entire planet several times both by consuming CO2 and by destroying Methane though Oxygen. Just do enough lol.
@@fandomguy8025 dude, another ice age to kill all the idiots that breed over the past centuries is what we actually need...
*Now Gimme that chestnut tree, its mine!*
GIMME SOME TOO :O
Yeah
*I'LL TAKE YOUR WHOLE STOCK.*
at 5.31 as a Bngladeshi i can say that Bt eggplant from our country is so good for not only farmers but also for the consumers ....who else is from Bangladesh here ???
Me
SOURCES:
# GMO sources
#What is natural:
GM insulin:
bit.ly/2ncHaW5
Genetic engineering for thousands of years:
bit.ly/2eCHKfi
bit.ly/2mLCvPm
CRISPR:
bit.ly/2ncI2uN
# Are GMOs bad for your health
GMOs and gene flow:
bit.ly/2bKauBe
terminator seeds:
n.pr/2o0ADSZ
bit.ly/2obZ9NS
Plants that are destined to be eaten are evaluated by different agencies
bit.ly/2mLbU5g
bit.ly/2nGPtNy
bit.ly/2ncMXf0
GMOs are safe- various studies and reports by respected authorities:
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine:
bit.ly/2o0IT55
An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research:
bit.ly/2ot8tfH
Letter of 110 Nobel laureates vouching for GMOs:
bit.ly/295Nvg1
WHO:
bit.ly/1slbfSV
Various others:
bit.ly/1pEOq9T
bit.ly/1xq9iGn
bit.ly/14XU8yl
pewrsr.ch/1LqMLAe
bit.ly/2nduCOV
bit.ly/20BHOsU
Bt crops:
bit.ly/2nd9rg8
herbicide-resistant crops:
bit.ly/2o5kdJk
bit.ly/2o5nSGQ
# What good GMOs can do
Bt eggplants:
bit.ly/2nHbdsW
bit.ly/2nvmg89
Gm papaya:
bit.ly/2nbN0ab
bit.ly/2nvl6cz
bit.ly/2ndxPy0
# Look in the crystal ball:
drought-resistant crops:
bit.ly/2mLmnxf
plants that produce more nutrients:
bbc.in/1WxsfnJ
vitamin-fortified banana:
bit.ly/1MKS0sJ
nitrogen-fixing crops:
bit.ly/2mLN9Wn
bit.ly/2nc9mrZ
Chestnut tree:
bit.ly/1VqkL2D
Potential for landsparing:
go.nature.com/2oc18Sp
bit.ly/1T1J2NX
# Further reading:
Bt cotton in India:
bit.ly/2nH5AdZ
bit.ly/1JQKG1u
Article on popular science:
bit.ly/2o5oVqp
Blog series on GMOs:
bit.ly/2o18w5X
Ecomodernist manifesto:
bit.ly/1PSVE6n
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell FIRST VIEW
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell great job!
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell why the Channel named kurzgesagt when ist englisch?
where is the subtitle?
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell p
gosh damn I wish insight like this was more widely sought. So much misinformation out there
Sadly Nuance isnt a human thing to do in this fast paced dien age.
Josh Crossley
Indeed
How do you know this isn't misinformation?
and it IS misinformation on many many accounts.
Give us 1 misinformation you thought there was!
The plant growing a little umbrella to protect itself from the sun is the cutest flippin' thing I've ever seen
Squiggs 【Glitches - ROM Hacks - Speedrun, it was the eyes that got me
Only because Monsanto wants you to feel warm and fuzzy... Lol
you know groot is just a gmo
Love this channel, helps a lot with school and is generally very fun to watch and use to store up information
Same here in Kenya 🇰🇪💖💖
1:31 The pest shield. *_IT'S OVER 9000_*
Nah, not over 9000 yet.
*Yet.*
*IT'S ONLY 9000*
Hah , I see where you got that from .
*IT'S ONLY 9000*
It says: Pest Shield > 9.000
So its OVER 9000
someone: "GMO food are bad for you"
also that someone: *drinks 3 cups of coffee a day*
Drinking 3 cups of coffee is not bad for you...
@@stephendetomasi1701 except for the high amounts of caffeine and the acidity eating away ate your teeth
also that someone: Eats corn at least once a week.
Nathan A.
So your saying all people that are against GMO's drink three cups of coffee a day.
@@yourmomsasshole7301 What?
As a row-crop producer in the United States, I greatly appreciate your objectivity on this topic. The opposition to GM crops often paint farmers as deliberate abusers of the environment and poisoners of the world. In reality, most farmers are honest, hard-working, and intelligent people-often whose family has taken care of the same parcels of land for multiple generations(even centuries). We utilize modern, data-driven technology to attempt to efficiently feed the growing world in a manner that is both safe and effective, ultimately reducing the overall burden of our practices on the natural landscape. We are far from perfect, though. Modern agriculture and its technology has not been without missteps and shortfalls in the last few decades alone; however, we are continuously learning from these mistakes and evolving our management practices to prevent them from being repeated. I do not speak in certainties, and I hope that some day we do not discover more data that shows harm in our current tools. For now, though, it would be irresponsible for us to overlook GM technology based solely on unproven claims, when it can allow farmers to successfully provide for humanity as it continues to grow.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk, and I hope that life brings you all the fulfillment and joy that you deserve.
This video is not objective at all
Question: How long has your family been taking care of the land you make crops on? As in when did they start farming?
@@franzicoy 173 Years...
@@foryou1324 Agree to disagree!
@@aTrippyFarmer damn
I'm studying biotechnology and this video is very impressive I can understand what he is talking about. I hope we can make world better than what it is today 💚💚💚
Hey I am a student and I am aspiring to get into biotechnology too
@@pratyushsingh3032 all the best and my best wishes with your
This video is made to be understood even if you are a vacuum cleaner salesman. So I HOPE a biotec student understand it…
Me: ”I could start making youtube videos!”
Kurzgesagt: ”This video took 600 hours to make!”
Me: ”Nevermind.”
do it anyways, its really fun!
By the way, 600 hours is very short for a kurzgesagt video; most are at least twice as long.
Gregory Yang Eek!
@@Efflorescentey I think theres a whole team working on the videos too and they are very animated and bouncy which most videos arent
@@AEON. credible proof?
Your hardwork = Our knowledge. Cheers.
Well said sir.
Never seen a comment with a like to reply ratio so high
Monster Book let's ruin it then!!
Oliver Gregory ok
Oliver Gregory ok
So if we GM blueberries to become red, will they become redberries?
yan zi lets gm a strawberry thay actually produces straw
lol
yan zi How about a pineapple that grows a pine tree?
or we GM them to be actually blue and not purple :D
yan zi lets Gm sunflowers so they store sunlight and emit it at night. We would give a new meaning to solar power and people could have sunflower farms that power their houses.
Short, sweet and accurate. That's why I like this channel. Great for recapping on stuff I've forgotten.
You mentioned the American Chestnut tree, and we're actually already fixing that. The reason American Chestnuts were essentially wiped out and can't be grown where they used to live anymore is a type of fungus. However, there is now a GMO American Chestnut tree that is resistant, and it will slowly be introduced to the forests alongside the very few that remain, and that will hopefully bring the Chestnut back to its former glory (and maybe save a couple of species that depend on the tree from extinction). As mentioned in the video, Chestnut can absorb tons of CO2 so this would be great for the climate as well.
A lot of, or most, of the American chestnuts were killed by the chestnut blight, but not all. There are plenty of American chestnut in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other areas. While they're outside the original range, climate change is pushing everything north. Some of the original chestnut cultivars are immune to the blight, and they're being grown. See New Forest Farm in SW Wisconsin for one example. Also, there's a cross between the Chinese chestnut and the American that are immune to blight. They were proven in Florida and are scattered around the US. I've got some in central Texas, near the bottom of the original oak savannah. No doubt, some corporations will use 'crispr' to modify the chestnut so they can patent and profit from it, but we don't need them to grow chestnut trees. Finally, ALL TREES extract tons of CO2 from the atmosphere - there's nothing special about the Chestnut in that regard. We need more trees - but we don't need more GMO trees.
The GMO blight resistant Chestnut was developed by the American Chestnut Foundation, not by corporations. Also, the Chestnut trees are a little modified as possible, with only a single gene identified as being the most effective being modified (it's the same gene as in the Chinese Chestnut). They are using a combination of Backcross breeding and GMO versions of American Chestnut trees and have been introducing these trees back into the forests for some time now. It is completely patent free, no one owns the plant.
So far Alex you had the most factual information. However since the ACF used traditional breeding techniques to produce the American Chestnut that is 1/16th Chinese Chestnut, it is inherently not a single gene but many that produce the CB resistance. To determine that a single gene transferred occurred one would need a greater level of characterization of each progeny to determine that a single gene was conferred in the cross, which is self defeating for the use of crossing two parent trees to produce a progeny would introduce multiple gene variances. To achieve a single gene transfer one would need more precise techniques (such as the above mentioned CRISPER which still has off target effects) yet the use of such techniques would fall under Genetic Engineering and require more government oversight.
Andrew Gennett They do both backcross breeding and biotechnology: www.acf.org/our-work/biotechnology/
Quote: "This was an intentional decision to use every tool in our toolbox to address the serious problem of chestnut blight. One of those tools, developed at ESF, involves adding new genes to the American chestnut, which allows the tree to withstand blight with almost no damage. Genes being tested come from the Chinese chestnut and other plants."
"OxO-containing American chestnuts still have 100% of their native American chestnut genes, and the addition of 2 genes (the OxO and a selectable marker gene) during the transformation process results in a tree that is still >99.999% pure American chestnut."
Edit: This is still being extensively tested for safety and adverse effects by the USDA, FDA, and EPA, so none of these have been introduced in the wild yet
*broomrape*
Why is that all of your videos so good?
500+ hours of work per video could have something to do with it
Maxwell Power quality over amount
This is the only channel I'd turn Adblock off too, and the only educational channel I look forward to watching.
Maxwell Power they have income of 25k$+ because of YT ...
They make 300,000$ a year from generous Patrons on Patreons
0:20 Me, trying to animate like kurzgesagt
LoL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🌈🌈
펭럽유 ねえ、私はビデオを見ます
@@blankblank5409 ? Sorry I don't do ......what is that language???
펭럽유 Japanese
@@blankblank5409 What did you say?
It's just sped up selective breeding, a practice we've done for thousands of years. It's fine. I'm ashamed of our society's science illiteracy.
I blame the education system, in high school only mentioned GMO a couple of times without even going in-depth
@@GabrielV65 That extends to a lot of other topics, meanwhile families with technologically / scientifically illiterate parents are spreading misinformed fears to their children.
Yes, it's very embarrassing, the EU is many times worse.
The only difference between GMOs and what we have done for thousands of years is that it is faster and easier to control. In the past it was all random chance via selective breeding and it took generations to have pronounce effects. GMOs simply bring genes to the fore that would be very hard to do so via selective breeding, and does so much more quickly.
James Dinius well it's hard to do via selective breeding because it's not a natural processes
I don't really agree with this. Selective breeding would have extremely low chances (or nearly impossible) to make changes comparable to what you can do with Genetic engineering. With genetic tools you can get the plant or animal to produce not just variants of proteins they already have or with luck a few new characteristics but you are able to produce structures that would never arise in that organism through natural or artificial selection, that do not relate to the function or fitness of the organism and can even hamper reproduction and other traits that would be necessary in any bred strain...
Finally someone with some sense
+19oz: There are MANY peer reviewed, GMO-Food Safety studies that *align* with your statement.
In fact, 8.7% of Gov't-funded animal studies using APPROVED GMO-FOOD (per Genetic Literacy Project)flag as 'LESS SAFE' than non-GMO control.
In Safety Engineering, 8.7% FAILURE MODE is unacceptably high. GMO Food has HUGE RISKS attached.
Where did i say there are no significant risks in using GMO's? I said they are not completely comparable to traditional breeding methods as people tend to try and say. I think there are significant risks involved with the buildup of new chemicals in different places on the food chain.
“so the fruit can be vaccinated against the virus”
even plants are smarter than Karens
Grammar level:OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me to karens: apply dry ice to burned area
r/murderedbywords
Ewww I don’t wanna eat retarded plants
I could catch the retard from the plant
@@kingtreedede7303 what?
1:31 "pest shield more then 9000" amazing, just amazing.
It's still a dead meme though
"Banana, what does the scouter say about corn's power level?"
"IT'S OVER 9000!!!"
...
It will never die.
It would be "than" not "then." Sorry, I had to.
i saw it too
I didn't see that at first, thanks!
I like this channel because I have ADHD and I lose focus easily, but with the cool animation that goes along with the narrative , it has helped me stay entertain and focus on the subject. Keep up the good work!💓
This is awesome! I have ADHD and I am a plant biologist
@@LA-cm9uomy thoughts on ADHD are prob just wrong but how? Plants are so slow and boring (most of the time)
@@simplicityd8703 It's ok for you to have your opinion!
@@LA-cm9uo No like i kinda wanna know like what do plants do? (i rly do wanna know)
@@simplicityd8703 They are ancient, they adapt to their environment, they communicate, they grow or flower, they produce sexually with others OR with themselves, they give off tasty fruits, they interact with bacteria and fungi,they give are most of our food!
When I see your videos pop out in my subscriptions tab, I always leave a like to them because I know how much effort and time went into each and every one of your fantastic videos.
I am a designer/illustrator myself and I know how much time even one simple illustration can take. But doing hundreds of them in one video and animating all of it and narrating it - it's a hell of a job to do. I am very grateful for you that you are putting so much effort into your videos that are free to watch for us, normal people, even though this type of work would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
I wish you good luck, Kurzgesagt. I will continue to share your work because you are one of the few UA-cam channels who really deserve that.
Beautiful
same, as soon as i clicked on this video i hit the like button
Joey ΛΩΛ the way he said it was better.
when I read "I'm a..." I thought you are one of the ones you talk about them like sugar and then does self advertising (thankfully not you)
And tbh: Nicely said!
You do realize that watching the entire animation helps the video more than just a like.
“with the tools we have today, our imagination is the limit”
no, funding is the limit 🤫😢
Sorry sir, we can't build your house this year, there is a shortage of inches.
@@maplegalindo9308 allan watts reference?
@@mau345 not really what kind of dumbass inovator wouldnt want an a better production value like making them grow faster....more of an issue would be the people controversies and skepticism
@@michaelmagnimedia3331 you gonna bankroll that yourself then?
Lab techs feel your comment.
Could you guys do a behind the scene video showing how you make and produce your videos?
yes please do
+
ZB it would just be a bunch of guys binge animating in adobe lol
Paco i still would watch it tho lol
First they write it. Then they draw it. For a really long time!
Great video. If you get a degree associated with this you'll learn a lot of this. The problem is that the masses don't have to time or the dedication to spend 4+ years studying this. Videos like this do a good job of properly explaining the details out without being misleading or driven by sensationalism.
it tastes bad
@@MrBurgerPal You've never eaten a GM crop item.
@@DukeGMOLOL Maybe he did, that doesn't change the fact that not all GM crops taste the same....
@@yuvalshalgi2289 Huh?
@@DukeGMOLOL Insane that after companies like Monsanto spray Agent Orange and give a bunch of birth defects to everyone, people defend their chemically castrated vegetables
Thank you for this! My mom is against GMOs for no reason other than "it's not natural." It pisses me off so much.
i'm sorry to hear that, this video is unlikely to change her mind. people don't like being proven wrong.
just show her the video
The Queen of Neckbeards I hope she doesn’t ride airplanes or wear polyester.....
...But the scientists who oppose it have better reasons. It is debated for a reason. Actual experts argue against it. Not because they wouldnt want to solve a problem so big and wouldnt want their names to be written into history books and winning awards, but because they have legit concerns.
So it pisses you off that your mom doesn't want you to have a cancer?
Trees: i liek to succ on air
Humans: Carry on
humans:NOW YOU WHIIL BE ABLE TO ABSORB PLASTIC AND 200X MORE CO2
trees:i sleep
humans again: YOU WONT BE ABLE TO DROP YOUR LEAVES
trees again: REAL SHIT
(sorry my grammar)
@@naltlan7651 The grammar doesn't matter here.
Humans: hey Pillbug/woodlouse!
Isopod: yeah?
Humans: here eat this plastic
Isopod: Wut?
Humans: let me modify you first
Isopod: k
Humans: Done!
Isopod: this bag is starting to smell good now..(nom nom nom)
Humans: yay now we can make nature fix it for us
If you disagree with this video, and you are writing pseudoscience comments, please go to a library and check out a basic chemistry book. Then get into biochemistry to understand why this video is spot on.
Or even faster- go online and look up scientific journals
High-tec and Frugal RV Travels with Will Prowse how about monsanto?
Daniel you're right, you don't need science to know that. If you understood science you'd know that your opinion is false.
Daniel this is possibly the most ignorant thing I've ever read
Daniel I highly hope that was sarcasm I wasn't able to detect
I'm all for science. genetic engineering sounds fantastic and I want to see it widespread during my life
I want GMO humans. Too bad current technology only really allows this in artificial insemination cases. Not that we are going to live long enough to actually make this legal as the old farts in government will fearmonger to their last breath.
LOL, thanks to the democratic party we're already on the slope downward after the apex.
I just hope there is enough regulation and research harmful GMOs dont become widespread
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that ducks' talent? 0:20
He did his best am so proud!
Hmmmmmm Yes the next daVinci lol
This reminds of a presentation a kid did in my human geo class about gmo's and he had to show both sides of the argument. After he showed the bad side he promptly apologized for saying false information and disproved every claim and once he finished, half the class clapped and the other was just disappointed/shocked.
Sad for the half whose parents know what the Codex Alimentarius states about GMO.....what Risk Assessment Measures have never been adhered to, what percentage of clincal animal studies on FDA approved GMO crops show HARM....Very SAD.
I need to meet this kid ASAP
That's very clever.
A thumb up for the kid. I want to make a presentation about GMO crops in my class as well, because I see so many people ( including adults) in my country don't see the potential of GMOS. But they won't let me do that
/thathappened
Your artists are truly gifted. I sometimes wish i was living in your world and just stay there forever.
Edit: spelling mistake.
Merp wrong choice. You’d be vaporized by some random gamma burst in 5 seconds.
@@ceciliasalvaleon lol or vaccum decay. or black hole bomb
ceciliasalvaleon fucking worth it
Edit: no one cares
It took more than 25 days? That is some serious dedication to educating the UA-cam community.
yep
60 FPS looks AMAZING
Life of Tom OMG it's the real prosyndicate
Yes!! It started playing and my face did this.... :O
Life of Tom i know
CS:GO Lotto
y now what program did he use for this vid?
The fact that this is on trending,
it gives me a little more faith in humanity.
tanishq sagar, You are the problem.
Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case it'll take more than just some spelling and grammatical errors to distinguish that it's a joke.
tanishq sagar I love your comment, made my day
tanishq sagar lol, I got heart failure by reading your comment.
tanishq sagar fuck off
@Tanishq: Ur guy kill Ursula flag.
“And all crops have to be related to mingle”
*SWEET HOME ALABAMA*
Edit: if anyone needs a time stamp, 2:31 or 2:30. :)
i found like ten of dese comments
Noah BeNa DiSeAsE and I’ve found about a thousand people in these comments who don’t use proper grammar.
ehtna burh mumeent im to lazy to type the rite thing
Noah BeNa DiSeAsE “burh mumeent”
um..... im not going to say what i was thinking about AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT YOU CLODS NEHEEHEHEH
8:11 the building in the background got a bit happy didn't it.
XD
The only issue with GMOs is that we can't always trust for-profit private companies with them. In principle, it's all upsides.
Yes, we can't trust for-profit private companies with GMOs. But this also applies to pharmaceutical companies, healthcare companies, car manufacturers, etc. etc. etc. It is industry regulations and laws that protect consumers like you and I.
Matthias Joseph Thomas van Trigt
The only thing holding GMO's back is the natural greed of the human race
Matthias Joseph Thomas van Trigt Fuck Mosanto and Bayers!!
This is true, and it bothered me slightly that they did not press this issue more in the video.
It's sad how people always look at the negative side of a project not on the good effect.
People usually fear any changes.
Can u blam them tho?
It’s when they try to have an opinion when they don’t know shit is what bothers me
@Kyle Griffin That, and stupidity
yeah unfortunatly every stick has 2 ends
3:55 my man just ate a whole coffee cup
CRØNCH
Tarrare intensifies
he's probably been awake for the past week :D
Preparing for my group discussion on GMOs using this video and all the links in the descriptions. It saved a lot of time and helped. Thank you.
This is one of my favorite you tube channels! They do it so well!
Also one of my favorites
You are too kind, Kurzgesgt. This video, this channel, you, you deserve more than this. So much hard work, and yet get so little... You really are the best.
THANKS MONSANTO!
communists should be shot
Correction Guy
Authoritarianism will become intranscendental for future societies.
Correction Guy
Authoritarianism will become intranscendental for future societies. Profit consumption and offer and demand erradicate the possibility of technological, biological and humanistic progress.
Quite the opposite actually
Watched this video in class and my teacher was very critical towards the positive attitude towards GMOs, she suggested that kurzgesagt may be sponsored behind the scenes by a company like Monsanto in order to promote GMOs or that the sources are not reliable at all since "America is always pro GMOs". I've kinda lost faith in our education system once more.
And she bases this off of nothing. Even if the creator were sponsored by Monsanto, you can't just dismiss the evidence presented.
DeadFishFactory yeah that's what I also thought and it's also due to the bias commonly found for UA-cam videos as opposed to normal documentaries. We've watched numerous content like this and this was the only time we were required to be that critical and questioning the background..
Click 'latest comments', get some balance.
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Your teacher is being objective, because he/she cares. When it comes to strictly scientific research such as genetically modified organisms, the studies backed by the very corporations who make and sell GMO's, and pushed by the government that's run by these very chemical/gmo corporations - cannot be a good source of information. Also, it's more of a socio-economic problem, not whether heavily sprayed crops with built-in pesticides are bad for you, even though I think one doesn't need much brain to understand that such mutant engineered crops that produce pesticides even inside your digestive tract are definitely NOT good news...
1:25 "Go full corn" is now an important part of my vocabulary
Mine too
*_In Soviet Russia, Vegetables, genetically modify YOU._*
Sto gram Wodka!! do svidaniya..... Skoll!
Everywhere else too, joke aside.
This is super dank
That’s true. No GMOs in Russia 🙌🏼
What country is Almost from?
Simply being alive is bad for your health. How about living in a city though? You take in so many pollutants everyday.
Or cigarettes? They are bad but people aren't up in arms about Philip Morris everyday. People just point fingers at what they don'tunderstand because the person beside them is. People pay twice as much for organic food that could possibly at the end of yourlife have been a fraction of a percent better for you, but probably doesn't taste as good or will fill you up as much. GMO's are the future, accept it and realize that there are worse things out there.
Leadguitarman1 I hope it won't be.
It scary....
@@TheElectreKid Maybe it's scary, but it's also very probably what will happen, along with cyborgs. Want it or not, odds are, eventually, it'll happen as long as there's someone sufficiently interested in it.
justshutup.
Oxygen is unhealthy in amounts smaller (over time) and large (all at once). Has anyone ever thought about the term antioxidant? In a way quite similar to rusting (oxidation) oxygen can damage our tissues, and ultimately alter our DNA: it causes aging and some other diseases. Does that mean we should just stop breathing?
@@jacklynncastle9263 Lol did you say aging is a disease?
Factual? Yes. Entertaining? Yes. Well-sourced and based on current scientific understanding of the subject? Of course, it's Kurzgesacht. Why did I give a like? Because the phrase "Hawaii papaya" is very fun to say.
You spelled kurzgesagt
WRONG
The thing i want genatically modified is that vegetables and fruits last longer ib shelf and still be 100% healthy for us
It is varieties more than modifications that offer longer shelf life. There are many varieties of every food plant so we find the ones that last longest. But that can be taken too far, flavor must not be sacrificed for shelf life. They are all healthy.
Yes, genetic modification is a great technology, and we should use it to improve food. But we also need to stop corrupt agribusiness and corrupt corporations in general. Corrupt corporations are the biggest problem in today's world. Pretty much all problems stem from it.
HyperSpify VERY TRUE
that is an oversimplification.
I wouldn't call it improving food, though. Natural selection improves food. Inserting pesticides inside a seed can hardly be called improvement.
Genetic modification isn't just for inserting pesticides into crops. It's an incredibly versatile tool, that can pretty much make whatever modifications you want. It could be used to increase the vitamin and mineral content of food for example.
That's why I say that corporate corruption is the real problem. The reason why genetic modification is used for stuff like inserting pesticides is cause it increases the profits of corporations, and that's all they care about. If we get rid of GMOs, the corporations will just find new ways of doing the same nasty stuff. Focus on the real problem, not the GMOs.
Finally a sane normal person in the comment section
Anti-GMO diabetics be like:
*_I'M NOT TAKING YOUR INSULIN IT'S UNNATURAL_*
Diabetes that runs in families is itself not natural, they used to die young and not pollute the gene pool nearly as much. Same with poor eyesight and many other afflictions that our medical technology allows inferior genes to perpetuate.
@@popeyegordon Hitler much, Popeye?
So what's the difference between GMO Food & GMO Meds? EASY!!!
GMO Meds are clinically safety tested in Humans BEFORE being approved, WHILE
GMO Food has NEVER (ever) been clinically tested in Humans at all. EVER. Against UN Codex recommendations.... KZGT forgot to mention this little concern....how DID that happen??? LOLS.
Almost, but not entirely, Unreasonable
I hope your comment is satire, as your username suggests. GM food is not innately dangerous; it's just a shortcut to making your crops better rather than selecting the better ones for decades.
Popeye Gordon *_eugenics intensifies_*
Farms should also start expanding Up instead of Out.
Louis Arge artificial light
yeah but then we would have to deal withe electricity shit and it would all be a big mess.
artificial light
It is possible to make LEDs that emit the specific frequencies of sunlight.
Tall stories and glass walls could fix the sunlight issue. It would be insanely expensive to build tall buildings, acres wide, out of glass, and get the dirt needed onto the floors to boot.
In some regions of the world, they carve what looks like a massive staircase into hills, to increase space. There's an idea. But I imagine it makes it more difficult to use combines.
We could also make taller plants that produce food over their entire height.
I cringe whenever I see "Non-GMO" on food packaging. I go out of my way to avoid buying things with that label.
Me too.
Beautiful video. You guys never fail at giving me hope for the future.
Doctor Cereal Orrrr scaring you shitless with space stuff.
Or making us feel super depressed about our inevitable destruction.
*A random Niels Bohr Appears*
Earlier CGP, now Kurzgesagt?
This is quite a day.
bg sm thqtnk you so much for making me discover that channel
Thx man me 2.
lol I just found this channel today and then there is you talking about it
I've always hated the stigma against GMO foods. Thank you for validating that opinion.
I still think they should have adressed the issue of the loss of genetic diversity. Bevause of that i'm still not 100% convinced.
the reason why hippys, and the like have been preaching about there fear of GMO's has less to do with health concerns, which are correctly addressed in this video, AND more to do with the fear of food monopolization. THAT IS NEVER ADDRESSED IN THESE PRO GMO VIDEOS.
Quite apart from GMOs companies treat the environment, their workers and even their customers as ultimatly expendable because they only focus on making more money, for which monopolization is great, so that's a problem inherent to our system and not a problem of GMOs specifically.
Jack, the reason most videos dont address that, is because they are meant to discuss GMOs, not the shitty business practices of many companies
they are meant to inform. they fall short.
This was an absolutely AMAZING video and I loved it. There are so many important things in it. YOU CITED YOUR SOURCES AND TOLD US TO NOT JUST TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT THANK YOU!!!! "GMOs could be our strongest weapon to save our biosphere" I completely agree with that, however, it could also be our strongest enemy as GMOs depend on the intention behind it. If scientists want to create poison to take out the earth they could, or they could use it to strengthen the world. It all depends on who has the power.
Kurzgesagt: with GMO the only limit is our imagination
Me about to create a peashooter irl:
Chomper army go brrrr
Doom shroom will be the Best bio weapon
I'm going to plant the nuke corn (i forget the name of the plant)
@@NageGames cannon corn i think
@@giganigga3025 it's the cob cannon
Organic just means "anything with carbon" in it.
Actually, it means anything with a carbon--oxygen bond. But you're mostly right, so don't sweat it.
Well, fossil fuels did come from living things. But I don't know about diamonds though, but they are pretty common than you think.
Actually, its everything with carbon, and hydrogen. CO2 is not considered an organic compound, but CH3 is.
You're conflating "organic food" with "organic chemistry". Two completely different meanings.
If you want to eat only organic things, you have to skimp out on the two things that are inorganic but are essential to life: salt and water. (There's more than that, I know, but those are the two biggest ones.)
Also, gasoline and plastic. (Let's expand the list of non-food organic substances for the sake of it.)
This entire comment thread:
[Citation. Fucking. Needed.]
YT finally released your comment!
The UN CODEX ALIMENTARIUS on GMO Safety: *ISBN 978-92-5-105914-2*
, cut-paste, google.
Some excerpts:
Pg 3, “19. Risk management measures may include, as appropriate, food labelling8 conditions for marketing approvals and post-market monitoring.”
(sold UNLABELELD in US for over 2 decades, FDA FAIL)
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.
And, SUDDENLY, inexplicably (after 3 years of dormancy), the thread comes alive.....
What a JOKE the YT AI algorhythm is turning out to be...
The Minute i saw this video i wanted to become a genetic plant engineer 6 years ago during my Biology Bachelor. At the moment iam finishing my PhD and will start working for a big company to develope new Crops :) Love you Kurzgesagt, Grüße aus Freiburg!
Bravo to you!!
damn congrats
ok
YOOO CONGRATSS!! -an aspiring virologist just learning about biology and kther related stuff
Thank god, I literally just opened youtube, I'm so excited for this new video!
My masters degree in Biophysics. We had a class where each got a topic to do a presentation and we would then try to oppose and support the topics. One student got a topic on GMO. Our professor said that the discussion will most likely be boring and then asked if any of us are against GMO. None of us were, because we did not subscribe to superstition like most anti-GMO and the valid arguments quickly dried out.
Since you seem to be well educated on the subject, couldn't GMO's potentially pose a major threat to biodiversity? If plants get modified to be more resistant to insects for example, I could imagine they'd quickly outcompete most 'natural' plants which do not have that modification.
Most of the plant species out there that we cultivate are hardly "natural" already since they've been selected over and over for hundreds if not thousands of years. This isn't always a good thing as the reduction in inherent diversity has weakened some species considerably - the banana as we know it would be doomed without humans to cultivate it.
Precautions to ensure they wouldn't spread too far would need to be put into place, more stringent than we have at the moment. Other than that it seems unlikely there would be huge problems.
@samueldullaart but why should it be a major threat, biodiversities purpose is to eliminate weaker genes am I right? So you could just shorten the way to a more resistant plant by just creating one or modify it. I'm not a biologist, but I think that's the whole point of evolution.
GMOs are great. The corporations like Monsanto that try to blackmail farmers are the problem
How about the argument, that vermin get resistance?
Fantastically condensed, researched and relevant video. It saddens me how much world changing technology is met by a negative gut reaction just for being “artificial” when it’s one of our gateways to protect and preserve our natural world.
What saddens me is the unquestioning acceptance of colourful, fun video's, posing as 'science' communicators.
There are HUGE gaps and imbalance in this report.....just scroll through the comment section.....and ask WHY more often than usual. Good luck, Bacon. Look up 'critical thinking' sometime.....
Almost, but not entirely, Unreasonable lmao I think the peer reviewed academic sources from professionals who spend their life studying these fields are gonna be a little more credible than randos in a UA-cam comments section. If there’s one thing UA-cam comments aren’t it’s a source for critical thinking. Not to mention almost all comments I’ve seen trying to argue against these points have been immediately proven wrong easily by the next commenter so why bother?
@@almostbutnotentirelyunreas166
There's sources in the description, buddy. But I guess critical thinking trumps fact checking as long as you're being cynical about it.
@@Graphomite Of course 'there's sources', but they are selected sources. here, get an education, start with REAL SCIENCE, from the Codex Alimentarius: " “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. SHOW ME ONE !! Ooops.....nah?
@@Graphomite More Codex for YOU: Codex is strongly committed to promote safe foods. Amongst safe foods, Codex does not give any preference to certain kinds of foods over others. *Such choice belongs to consumers* . Codex has adopted principles and guidelines to assess food safety of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants, animals and microorganisms. *If a government chooses to build a regulatory mechanism* to address the food safety of so-called GM foods, then they *can use Codex text as a basis* for it. This being said, *each government is free to adopt its own policy* as to the use of GM organisms in the agriculture and other sectors. At the moment, *there are no internationally-agreed recommendations on the food labelling of GM foods. Governments are therefore applying their own regulations* .”
I'm definitely for GMOs and making plants more resistant. I just hope one day we can get to a place where we won't need to use pesticides anymore because of advanced GMOs.
I don't fear GMOs, I fear companies making them. Like you said, some company tried to maximize profits by making terminator seeds. I want tighter regulation on GMOs (sadly GMO's motherland USA isn't well known for regulations).
I WANT MUH REGULATIONS!
Fortzon GMO regulations are tight as fuck m8
BlueDiamond That's the main reason for terminator seeds, mah m8.
Counter argument to your comment, Owen, do you want Ma Bell and the other monopolies that crushed competition back?
That'd be a great way to see your internet bill skyrocket because they wouldn't have to convince you to buy their service since there'd be no other option. There'd also be absolutely no reason for anyone to try to improve the service as well, so we could all be on dial-up or not even have the internet at all.
The correct regulations on business drive them to improve their services to earn our money, they drive them to continue to compete in a market instead of just owning it and enriching their CEOs and boards back into the old days of the robber barons.
Note: I did say correct regulations. Regulation for the sake of regulation is just as harmful to progress as not bothering to regulate at all.
XD omg the little bird drawing a DNA molecule at 0:19 is so cute!!
woah I can adopt a cartoon bird!?? I wanna adopt the little crow that draws!! 😂
Oh! my apologies. he might actually be a duck.
You have to be a donator on patreon (in their link in the description I think) and they'll give u a cool bird and put you in a future video
0:20
Karens being like:
"Nooooo GMO bad they put chemicals in the DNA that turns the freaking Corns Gay"
You got me at ''the freaking corns gay''. XD
Atrazine does turn frogs gay, you fucking Karen
tbh i wouldnt be against gay corn lmao
@@BroCactus DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!?!
this is so funny but google monsanto.. they own the rights to the DNA, fucking over everyone.