The demand is high because everybody wants it on their plates the Chinese golden kiwi is like 2$us per piece while normal kiwi is just like 0.35$. it's a bit very bit like 10% bigger , yellowish skin cut its yellow brown , taste just a little different but still kiwi. Normal kiwi is brown skin , cut green. If you ask me for like 8% difference in taste and 10% size increase for 572% price increase its not worth it honestly it's not worth it. It's just bought by restaurant to give beautiful design on the plate or cocktail cup.
Fun fact and the most Canadian thing you'll ever hear: the largest heist in Canadian history is called the great Canadian maple syrup heist when 3,000 tons of syrup was stolen 😂
Then they couldn't actually sell it because they didn't really have a plan to sell that much maple syrup. Most buyers of large quantities are not going to buy from some rando who can't explain where he got his stock from.
Right? All I heard was "the food is so expensive because a few companies have a monopoly, and they do everything in their power to maintain that monopoly so they can continue to hold the population in an expensive chokehold." Lets hear it for the smugglers!
It's like medicine. The golden kiwi strains took a lot of money to develop. That agricultural industry is a huge part of New Zealand's economy too, and China would undercut it, just like they did with American garlic (not saying this justifies the monopoly, just explains it).
So long story short, if your going to do something illegal, make sure you put a chunk of that money up for the government cuz they'll want half of it! So pretty much, you can do anything you want as long as it's large enough scale to benefit the government also!
Congratulations, you just discovered taxes.... If you're not in a 3rd world country, almost all of that gets spent on you, if you're in a 3rd world corrupt country, then still the vast majority of it gets spent on you, a few billions stolen through public projects
I doubt their smuggled food is that much cheaper than what comes in legally. If they are going to the trouble of smuggling, it is because there is opportunity for a huge markup. And being that they are operating illegally, what they're selling is very likely adulterated to further increase their profits (and oil all the cogs in the wheel required to run the enterprise).
Just like piracy... illegality doesn't mean it's immoral. Smuggling is just another form of good ol' monopoly busting, and is fighting against unjust violations of freedom.
Environmental regulations are designed to limit harvesting of natural resources so there will be the members of a species left to reproduce for future generations to exploit. It is named, resource management.
Not really. It’s stealing industry. No doubt it will be connected to chinas government. These things aren’t just a group of smugglers cutting corners. This no doubt will be wrapped up with the Chinese government who is absolutely pillaging everyone’s IP and They are trying to steal everyone’s industries to establish it for themselves and disrupt those countries economies, to ultimately shift the product away from its country of origin. That’s why they are going for the trademarked stuff. They want to make the product themselves and undercut the economy of that country, obliterating their market and establishing themselves in their place creating the flow of money away from the country of origin towards China. Wherever your country is or whatever it produces, I can guarantee you that China will be making efforts to take it. And knowing the quality of produce from China we will get complete garbage in its place. But by that time the market is destabilised and the product has been mass produced and the market becomes oversaturated with product drowning out the original, which will be worth nada. You’re country and economy taking the loss.
With the lobster situation, just over hunting and poaching..possible wild life endagerment/endangerment. Though the maple syrup? Nah, let's undermine that monopoly. Those maple syrup monarch are ruthless. Seriously. Food companies are seriously demons.
Did you know that maple trees don't stop growing at the Canadian border? My cousin has one of the biggest sugar shacks in Vermont and I don't think even the biggest maple sugar aficionado could tell the difference between Vermont maple sugar and Canadian maple sugar.
Fake syrup is always just flavored corn syrup. Folks who prefer it, cite the thick viscosity over the more watery Maple syrup. I agree that once you taste the difference, it's hard to go back.
@@BarbaraRay-m4rYour ethnicity is probably indigenous to the Global South. When I hear SE Asians or S Americans say "I don't really like cow's milk." I think, 'Yeah, because your ancestors didn't develop a gene to process it as well as Europeans'. In short, you aren't special for being a contrarian.
Are you 10 years old? Surely you've seen injustice before? Would you call a mother stealing bread to feed her family a "bad" criminal? I really hope you're not this dense.
The golden kiwi is like a 'national brand' cause it originates from New Zealand. All they would have to do is slap 'Grow in X country.", on the them and people wouldn't mind.
I can understand how it’s bad to smuggle potentially invasive species around, but if these products require specific things to grow, then I don’t think that’s a problem. The only reason I can see to ban the “smuggling” of such resources is because it will hurt the profits of the companies that transport and sell the products to consumers. The people harvesting and growing don’t get the big bucks from expensive products, the people distributing them do. It’s nothing more than the middleman forcing a spot for himself at our expense.
The problem is that life finds a way, even if it needs something specific to grow, what if it finds an alternative? No predators will stop them. That's why they have that specific law.
You should look up how many thousands of pacific island people come to New Zealand every year to help harvest our kiwi fruit. They would love to teach you how ignorant of the world you are.
@@taico3868 no that’s poachers. If the organisms were endangered, then how would you justify allowing locals to harvest them but not allowing smugglers to take live specimens? It would actually help increase their numbers and resiliency because there would be more of the organisms in more places thanks to smugglers.
Simple. Buy a politician or two and your smuggling challenges are dramatically lessened. Saw this on a documentary last night, ‘Whitehouse Years of Contemporary Democrats’.
@@christopappageorge827 It’s what godless societies do. ‘Elitists’ employ indentured servants style slavery using immigrants. Remarkable tricks these crafty commie democrats come up with. Wait, the handbook is recorded world history!
These "smugglers" are often the ones whose countries are exploited for these high end foods, while reaping none of the benefits from the "legal" markets.
No, these smugglers are almost entirely gang, mafia, and cartel members. Organized crime, basically. People who are also running drugs and weapons and people. There's been a rise in food faking and smuggling not because of inequality but because of potential profits rising and making it worth it for terrible people to smuggle not just drugs and ivory and other awful things, but now olive oil, parmesan and avocados. It usually involves stealing the goods from hardworking farmers and laborers, you know, the locals, and selling it. It also involves faking it or adulterating it, meaning now people have no idea what they're eating, because it turns out the cartels don't care about food safety regulations. Stop trying to use ignorance to turn this into some kind of colonizing, anti-whoever you're thinking of shitaake. It's a problem for everyone, especially the endangered species that are being wiped out by the same people. Some random disadvantaged local doesn't have the international connections or transport to move tons of produce much less sell it. People need to start thinking a little harder
@@nolongerblocked6210 ai could become borderline sentient and inject thoughts into peoples heads, but simpletons like you will still come running to youtube comments to ask people to manually fact check and list references for you. Even for shit that is common sense.
@@suhailsiraj3580 after a quick google it seems you are correct, but so did sony ericson, mercedes etc. Many muslims groups were part of nazi regime. It's all history now i suppose, but do those inherent beliefs continue?
@@braxtonvestal777 none, actually amazon fucked up several orders for me back during the pandemic that I downright dropped them, specially after they gave me an email threatening me for my constant returns when they kept sending me preowned merch when it supposed to be new or get a damaged package
@braxtonvestal777 I don't care about monopolies. I care about expensive monopolies. As long as Bezos keeps the prices low, he can grow as much as he wants and ride into space all he wants.
@@rickydee5863Genetic modification is not lab creation per say. They took original kiwi and altered some genes. Essentially all farming food we have today has been GMO. People think that genetic modification = lab DNA alterations. No. Crossbreeding is also GMO. Good example would be different breeds of dogs. Through years of breeding and selection particular breeds have been created. Now there are standards for each of them, and so on but no one actually own right to them. Now if some tech company would be able to create something from the "scratch" they can literally own it. For example if someone will create fully synthetic cell and will use it to grow anything, he will literally own it.
@nieczerwony you say they took the kiwi fruit and altered its genetic make up.i am sure that was done in a lab .that make the kiwifruit gold geneticly modified. And just try growing kiwi fruit gold in newzealand without the parent company's consent and accompanying fee and you will feel the full force of their lawyers in court. I rest my case.
The original fruit is from the Far East, having been grown in what is now modern-day China for many centuries. It was only at the turn of the 20th Century, in 1904, that it arrived on New Zealand shores, when New Zealand school principal Isabel Fraser brought some kiwifruit seeds back from her travels.
I dont believe that at all. Kiwis love to grow in new nealand its a tropical fruit its not going to be growing happily in place like china unless its in a sealed container woth fresh air shipped from new zealand freeding into it to keep the smog out
Yes and then tens of thousands of hours of careful husbandry and scientific study latter New Zealand owns a completely different organism. Feel free to grow Chinese Gosse berry and see if anyone wants to buy it. Just keep your hands of our brand.
@Bob-h3n maybe other countries should be free to import New Zealand kiwis to perform "tens of thousands of careful husbandry" too, eh? Or is smuggling only illegal _after_ your country has already profited from it?
@Bob-h3n the same country that obsesses on travellers declaring any plant material they might be bringing into the country, dismissing the invasive "wild plant from a ditch" that they themselves imported and now tout as a national treasure? Mate, you should be a politician.
Yes but the golden kiwi has been cross bred meaning it’s a new kiwi unique to NZ. They are trying to protect the years of work creating that specific kiwi.
@@Just-SomeGuyThis is simply a joke. For example loads of apple kinds has been obtained from "primal" spiecies and they are now grown globally. Many other fruits and veggies are the same. Hard to think what will happen if eventually science will be advanced enough to create synthetic genes. Can you imagine for example in Scandinavia you will have all these tall, blue eyed people and gov will say they can't leave the country? The worst that could happen to humans is corporations and govs creating sindicates.
@Just-SomeGuy New Zealand keeps their kiwi to themselves, no one bats an eye. Monsanto patents their GMO and keeps it to themselves and the world loses its mind.
@@stansman5461 No, people are mad at Monsanto because of ridiculous practices like when a farmer's crop blows seeds into your neighbouring farm, Monsanto sues the life out of you because their IP started sprouting on your property through no effort, cultivation, or interest of your own. They expect _you_ to magically know that the sprouts are theirs and then pay out of your own pocket to negate the "theft" you didn't even know about. Zespri took action because people were intentionally stealing their products and then monetising the hell out of them. There is no equivalence between Monsanto and Zespri.
When large corporations do more morally dubious business practices, it's just good business. When smugglers do the same thing to work around local and international laws, it's a terrible crime.
Corporations aremt who takes the peoples land bro no one takes more of the peoples land than the ungreatful canadians and the governments of north america who owns mosy of nevada
They said the same thing about weed now the government controlls that too, its not about habitats when most countries have oil running in the oceans and rivers its about supply and demand the supplier demands they be the only ones supplying
Weed actually sucks if you ask me we are better off putting it into that golden vape liquid thats a real liquid gold right there because it doesnt dry out and you get.a shitload of thc so you spend 70 bucks on a vape its worth it. A better exportable item.
@@keiz2lifedont talk about weed if you want ppl to stay on point😂 were like vegans you cant go through dinnr without us telling you what and how we smoke
First of all I think golden kiwis taste like trash second of all there shouldn't be restrictions on growing things and harvesting things like plants and syrup.
canadian here, i've never heard of any regulations about growing maple trees and collecting their sap but there might be if you start growing them for commercial use. i would have thought most of the issue came from the amount that can be produced by a single tree and the equipment needed to convert the maple water into syrup. (consider the fact that you need like 40 liters of sap for each liter of maple syrup.)
Uhh... Yeah some things are actually massive biosecurity risks that can destroy ecosystems, this is the reason we have diseases that are killing out native trees and old growth forests here in New Zealand so naturally we take that kind of thing pretty seriously.
Am I the only one who didn’t realise that they were talking about smugglers in general, so I was envisioning some jacked up smuggler smuggling heaps of different things and somehow evading the authorities.😂
I think the main takeaway was, to keep prices high on everyday household goods, governments limit who can produce and market those goods which prices those goods out of the budget of working class peasants like me.😅
Wrong mostly. Bananas dont actually grow optimally in most places of earth its very few optimal areas. The same happens with peppers with kiwis with oranges. Berries grow in different places than mangos. Smugglers steal other peoples crop or livestock etc and they take them to places theyre not meant for to make extra money. If you try to plant a pineapple in the wrong place its not going to make a pineapple as good as ones that comes from hawaii. Usa grows the most corm we have the most farmable land and population. Its more complicated the government has little control because if you tru to plamt a pineapple in arizona its going to fuckin die bro pineapples love to grow up in hawaii and be eaten everywhere else. Us in usa we do not grow most bananas florida grows a lot of the oranges but bananas there is few small areas where bananas can prosper. Most of the world cant grow bananas. Theyre shipped from the few places that can grow them best to all over the world before they ripen so you can buy one for 25 cents.
We spent a bundle of New Zealand taxpayers money to research the Gold kiwifruit actually. It's not your property it's ours. Trademark and not just because it is three times as much vitamin c as other fruit it's also resistant to PSA virus. And all without using genetic interference. Just plain hard work and tens of thousands of hours of government subsidies. Breed your own super food don't steal ours.
China be like: so how about my tea tree? South America: what about my chilli’s? Exploitation has been going on ever since mankind created roads and shipping lanes
"they can't be grown by just anyone, anywhere"... Take note that sprouts and larvae are the export, both elements of the first stages of growth, and as such this tells you that is not that they just can't be grown by anyone anywhere, but rather they "can't".
There is also a "Grey Market" where it mimics the Black Market but not as illegal. Black Markets usually exist because laws or beuracracy can't keep up with demand.
Information unclear. Do these smugglers steal/loot from the companies? Or are they importing products that are restricted within those countries and selling them with a high mark-up? It doesn’t make sense since demand within these 3rd world countries would be low to begin with.
Not necessarily. If you can't even begin to afford the real thing, of course you'd have low demand. Nobody can buy it to drive the demand up. It's not like people who live poorer than the rest of us, just don't "want" these products. In the case of trees and other productive "sources" it's even more lucrative. Unlike a fish which, once caught, can only be sold the Once, these seedlings and sprouts could hypothetically go on to bear multiple harvests, closer to the communities that want said product but otherwise don't have access to it. In theory, having your own supply close to home would drive local prices of that luxury down, making it more affordable for the people who otherwise never could get it. Of course, you can also control the supply at that point too, and I don't think smugglers are interested in long-term returns as much as offloading their product quickly.
So get taxes a bit down, make company registration easier, remove unneeded paperwork and extremely long waiting time for documents and you’ll get little to no smugglers. Fight the root cause, not aftereffects.
Quebec’s pure maple syrup??? SMFH No what you meant to say was the indigenous people’s pure maple syrup, whom as a matter of fact were using maple syrup prior to french/european contact! “Turtle Island”
Fun fact, smugglers have made many things we take for granted today as cheap as they are. Its because of a Dutch smuggler that coffee is so widespread and relatively cheap.
Smugglers have a business for one of two reasons 1. The product from legitimate channels is too highly taxed and thus too expensive or of poor quality 2. The product has been outlawed in the region. Smuggling doesnt keep the prices high, the whole business works by UNDERCUTTING the legitimate market. Which means the price has to go down to stay competitive.
Those importation cannot be prevented sooner or later they will find a way. Like pineapple grown in Europe Or silk grown in southeast Asia. It's either increase the production or someone will increase the production for you. Keeping production low for high price will attract more people to get in the business because less labor more profit very attractive to those who want to get rich quick.
In other words, smuggling can actually help when there is a chokehold in place around a particular product creating more accessibility. The downside is, however, that smuggling cannot be regulated for obvious reasons however, not all forms of smuggling are bad.
"environmental protections meant to limit supply" should be all you need to hear to know that this is a spectrum. Some just want money, some just want a plentiful food source available on their side of the planet so it can be affordable.
"environmental protections meant to limit supply" - Anything environment-related should be purely to improve the ecosystems involved, like preventing overfishing or deforestation (not logging in general, which helps to maintain forests and to keep them healthy). If "protections" are MEANT specifically to limit supply, it is a misuse of regulatory power to exploit customers for profit.
I'm cool with it. Artifically keeping prices high in any regard is disgusting. It's food. A human right. Although called a right, I've never been able to live with my rights without paying for them. Food, water, and shelter are all rights and no one can HAVE it for the sake of the "economy" because that matters more than making sure people can survive.
I find it hard to believe China would enforce international anti smuggling laws. If every business is owned by the Chinese state, wouldn't the state benefit by having a piece of the golden kiwi industry?
Most government regulations are intended to protect the existing producers, not to protect the consumers. It's always the lobbyists/ex-insiders that draft the regulations.
Nowadays i dont think anyone knows how to bargain anymore. The big corporations have made it common for things to become final price and the discounted percentages are now overpriced items being sold at its original amount.
Theres no reason why these "smugglers" are considered bad. They intentionally keep prices high so ...let these people grow the product elsewhere and lower the prices.
Imagine going to jail by smuggling food to different parts of the world where organizations and politicians control the price on that food to make sure that if you eat them, you will not have enough money to survive. It's disgusting.
Just because it’s rare doesn’t mean it is good food. The marketers make us think it is okay to buy their overpriced products 💡
You know before you expose your ignorance you could always Google things.
Bro NZ's overall food is the best food I've ever tasted.
The demand is high because everybody wants it on their plates the Chinese golden kiwi is like 2$us per piece while normal kiwi is just like 0.35$. it's a bit very bit like 10% bigger , yellowish skin cut its yellow brown , taste just a little different but still kiwi.
Normal kiwi is brown skin , cut green.
If you ask me for like 8% difference in taste and 10% size increase for 572% price increase its not worth it honestly it's not worth it. It's just bought by restaurant to give beautiful design on the plate or cocktail cup.
@@ansonang7810
It's not Chinese it is from New Zealand and it's got twice as much vitamin C and one and a half as much fiber as other kiwifruit.
@@Bob-h3n there is golden kiwi imported from China, dont know where they got it own or resale
You forget #4. The people in power lose money. That’s the only real factor at play here.
Fun fact and the most Canadian thing you'll ever hear: the largest heist in Canadian history is called the great Canadian maple syrup heist when 3,000 tons of syrup was stolen 😂
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Was it an inside job?
It'll be something else if that much worth of Canada Dry was stolen 😂🤣😂
Then they couldn't actually sell it because they didn't really have a plan to sell that much maple syrup. Most buyers of large quantities are not going to buy from some rando who can't explain where he got his stock from.
Funny thing technically Canadian syrup isn't Canadian it's Mohawk My ancestors are the ones who planted and took care of all of the maple trees
“They can’t be grown anywhere by anyone. Because we won’t even let them try. Food is for profit, not for nourishment.”
Right? All I heard was "the food is so expensive because a few companies have a monopoly, and they do everything in their power to maintain that monopoly so they can continue to hold the population in an expensive chokehold." Lets hear it for the smugglers!
monopolies need to be broken up. as soon as the seeds get out, 'rare' super expensive fruits are worth no more than any other common fruit.
Dang you guys are dense. I'm not denying most of what you said but there's obviously a lot more to it than that.
@@nikki1400The smugglers are going to charge just as much. Business is for profit, not generosity.
It's like medicine. The golden kiwi strains took a lot of money to develop. That agricultural industry is a huge part of New Zealand's economy too, and China would undercut it, just like they did with American garlic (not saying this justifies the monopoly, just explains it).
So long story short, if your going to do something illegal, make sure you put a chunk of that money up for the government cuz they'll want half of it! So pretty much, you can do anything you want as long as it's large enough scale to benefit the government also!
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Congratulations, you just discovered taxes.... If you're not in a 3rd world country, almost all of that gets spent on you, if you're in a 3rd world corrupt country, then still the vast majority of it gets spent on you, a few billions stolen through public projects
That’s not what the video said or suggested at all.
@@MikeySkywalkerbecause you need to listen to what is not said.. or said between the lines
Stop telling the truth
I would like to thank all of the smugglers for helping in the fight to make food more affordable.
These are luxury foods. They’re not helping the average person.
I doubt their smuggled food is that much cheaper than what comes in legally. If they are going to the trouble of smuggling, it is because there is opportunity for a huge markup. And being that they are operating illegally, what they're selling is very likely adulterated to further increase their profits (and oil all the cogs in the wheel required to run the enterprise).
And cause mass extinctions from both overhunting and introducing foreign species to local areas for easier farming.
Oh the sarcasm 😂😂😂
@@evilsharkey8954they are no longer luxury foods if they are more accessible as a result of smuggling.
so basically these people are gate keeping these foods because they want all the money
money power 🔥
The craziest part is that Kiwi fruit isn't even native to New Zealand. It's from China and was originally named the Chinese Gooseberry.
So they're breaking the law themselves....hypocrites @@Tommyaka
No. You're imagining things. This is a serious subject. Please don't dilute the discussion of it with nonsense.
Yes.
Were... Were we just given a justification for smuggling?
I can't say I feel worse about it now... lol
Just like piracy... illegality doesn't mean it's immoral. Smuggling is just another form of good ol' monopoly busting, and is fighting against unjust violations of freedom.
I mean if it’s harvested properly who cares? It’s food. If they are over fishing or just destroying endangered plant habitat then that’s different
Piracy is justified.
@@mindnova7850 I'm just saying it's weird for Businesses insiders to do this.
Environmental protections meant to limit supply and keep prices high.... What?! Lol
Total nonsense doublespeak
Said the quiet part out loud.
Environmental regulations are designed to limit harvesting of natural resources so there will be the members of a species left to reproduce for future generations to exploit.
It is named, resource management.
In other words. Support your local smugglers. Doing gods work
Most environmental policies regarding food production are evidently in place to keep prices high
In other words. Support your local smugglers. Doing gods work
Hear hear!
Yes.
😂indeed
Not really. It’s stealing industry. No doubt it will be connected to chinas government.
These things aren’t just a group of smugglers cutting corners. This no doubt will be wrapped up with the Chinese government who is absolutely pillaging everyone’s IP and They are trying to steal everyone’s industries to establish it for themselves and disrupt those countries economies, to ultimately shift the product away from its country of origin.
That’s why they are going for the trademarked stuff.
They want to make the product themselves and undercut the economy of that country, obliterating their market and establishing themselves in their place creating the flow of money away from the country of origin towards China.
Wherever your country is or whatever it produces, I can guarantee you that China will be making efforts to take it.
And knowing the quality of produce from China we will get complete garbage in its place. But by that time the market is destabilised and the product has been mass produced and the market becomes oversaturated with product drowning out the original, which will be worth nada. You’re country and economy taking the loss.
That's how I get my smexual victims. 😉
So they're essentially international shippers that just don't pay taxes. and the problem with this is...
Uncle Sam wants also a piece of the profit 😂
@@christiantomsaturninoexactly! I can’t stand our gvnt
With the lobster situation, just over hunting and poaching..possible wild life endagerment/endangerment.
Though the maple syrup? Nah, let's undermine that monopoly. Those maple syrup monarch are ruthless. Seriously. Food companies are seriously demons.
...the problem with this is that the common people have no problem with it.
@christiantomsaturnino3284 all governments not just usa. Basiclly all long nose people have an issue with their monopolies getting undermined
Thank you smugglers for helping us keep food costs low! We should have international smugglers day!
Yea, and you trust them😢 to grow those foods, that they'll export, in clean environ with clean food and unpoluted water 🙄
@@KMacleod-lo8gl Sure don't disagree with you but I also don't agree with monopolies either
I don't know about that, but the most beautiful lobster that I've ever seen.
No. You need a Darwin Award for suicidal stupidity.
I'd get my maple syrup off the black market if I had to. Imitation syrup is trash.
Maple Syrup is kinda trash...Not good on pancakes and waffles anyway.
@@BarbaraRay-m4r wow look he's so different
Did you know that maple trees don't stop growing at the Canadian border? My cousin has one of the biggest sugar shacks in Vermont and I don't think even the biggest maple sugar aficionado could tell the difference between Vermont maple sugar and Canadian maple sugar.
Fake syrup is always just flavored corn syrup.
Folks who prefer it, cite the thick viscosity over the more watery Maple syrup.
I agree that once you taste the difference, it's hard to go back.
@@BarbaraRay-m4rYour ethnicity is probably indigenous to the Global South. When I hear SE Asians or S Americans say "I don't really like cow's milk." I think, 'Yeah, because your ancestors didn't develop a gene to process it as well as Europeans'. In short, you aren't special for being a contrarian.
Today i learned that not all criminals are bad
Smugglers of food that people eat to live are not criminals. They are saints. 😇
How did you not know that already?
@@user-lt2zu4qo8z
Robin Hood and his merry men were good guys.
Are you 10 years old? Surely you've seen injustice before? Would you call a mother stealing bread to feed her family a "bad" criminal? I really hope you're not this dense.
@@crabato001this doesn’t happen, in almost every state most people don’t go hungry and when they steal food it’s rarely treated as criminal
Corp Capitalist: Capitalism is the best!
Smugglers: Let's do capitalism!
Corp Capitalist: Not like that!
None of that is what capitalism is
And why exactly can’t they be grown by anyone?
The golden kiwi is like a 'national brand' cause it originates from New Zealand.
All they would have to do is slap 'Grow in X country.", on the them and people wouldn't mind.
Because producers in certain regions want to monopolize production and keep the price artificially high.
Exactly! They’re saying it can’t grow anywhere else as if the plant itself won’t grow, no it’s just greedy people.
Maple syrup requires winter and maple trees. They cant be grown in hot climates.
@GazB85 all kiwis originate from China. Property is theftm
Yes, controling those items keeps those items expensive
"New Zealand's golden kiwis can't be grown by just anyone anywhere"
I think if the smugglers weren't caught you would have learned otherwise.
What's hilarious is that the first kiwis introduced to New Zealand, were in fact from China
Ya betting the Chinese cant find a way?,😂.
I can understand how it’s bad to smuggle potentially invasive species around, but if these products require specific things to grow, then I don’t think that’s a problem. The only reason I can see to ban the “smuggling” of such resources is because it will hurt the profits of the companies that transport and sell the products to consumers. The people harvesting and growing don’t get the big bucks from expensive products, the people distributing them do. It’s nothing more than the middleman forcing a spot for himself at our expense.
The problem is that life finds a way, even if it needs something specific to grow, what if it finds an alternative? No predators will stop them. That's why they have that specific law.
You should look up how many thousands of pacific island people come to New Zealand every year to help harvest our kiwi fruit.
They would love to teach you how ignorant of the world you are.
What about conservation? Smugglers are directly responsible for destroying many plant and animal populations
Exactly. To hell with regional monopolies.
@@taico3868 no that’s poachers. If the organisms were endangered, then how would you justify allowing locals to harvest them but not allowing smugglers to take live specimens? It would actually help increase their numbers and resiliency because there would be more of the organisms in more places thanks to smugglers.
Simple. Buy a politician or two and your smuggling challenges are dramatically lessened. Saw this on a documentary last night, ‘Whitehouse Years of Contemporary Democrats’.
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You think only Democrats can be bought? The guy on the red ticket would sell out the entire country if it made him richer and more popular.
Have to see this documentary😮
“How to get by when slavery becomes illegal”
@@christopappageorge827 It’s what godless societies do. ‘Elitists’ employ indentured servants style slavery using immigrants. Remarkable tricks these crafty commie democrats come up with. Wait, the handbook is recorded world history!
These "smugglers" are often the ones whose countries are exploited for these high end foods, while reaping none of the benefits from the "legal" markets.
No, these smugglers are almost entirely gang, mafia, and cartel members. Organized crime, basically. People who are also running drugs and weapons and people. There's been a rise in food faking and smuggling not because of inequality but because of potential profits rising and making it worth it for terrible people to smuggle not just drugs and ivory and other awful things, but now olive oil, parmesan and avocados. It usually involves stealing the goods from hardworking farmers and laborers, you know, the locals, and selling it. It also involves faking it or adulterating it, meaning now people have no idea what they're eating, because it turns out the cartels don't care about food safety regulations. Stop trying to use ignorance to turn this into some kind of colonizing, anti-whoever you're thinking of shitaake. It's a problem for everyone, especially the endangered species that are being wiped out by the same people. Some random disadvantaged local doesn't have the international connections or transport to move tons of produce much less sell it. People need to start thinking a little harder
Garbage.
Don't make assumptions & give generalities... give some examples & facts
@@nolongerblocked6210 ai could become borderline sentient and inject thoughts into peoples heads, but simpletons like you will still come running to youtube comments to ask people to manually fact check and list references for you. Even for shit that is common sense.
@@nolongerblocked6210watch the video, there are your facts and examples.
We act like smugglers are the bad guys yet we eat Monsanto foods
Exactly.
Monsanto doesn't exist anymore. They went bankrupt because they couldn't monetize their seeds well.
@@gljames24 yeah now known as bayer. And i think it was roundup lawsuits that sealed the deal
@lukexr125 Bayer also used to make Nazi Concentration Camps. From what I remember. Yet the shareholders still reap the rewards.
@@suhailsiraj3580 after a quick google it seems you are correct, but so did sony ericson, mercedes etc. Many muslims groups were part of nazi regime. It's all history now i suppose, but do those inherent beliefs continue?
There is enough food for everyone's need... Not for everyone's greed.
A poet, and didn’t know it
You're really making the smugglers sound like the good guys
Because in most cases, they actually are. Diamonds for example, are monopolised by a company keeping them very very expensive artificially.
Thank goodness for smugglers or we wouldn't be able to afford our favorite items. 😂😂
So sad people have to go through just so we can afford food what’s hoot on food cost as much ss as a vet payment in some cases
“Smuggling kiwi trees”. What a joke
real
that's what monopolies cause
And how many things did you order from Amazon over the past year?
Drivel
@@braxtonvestal777 none, actually
amazon fucked up several orders for me back during the pandemic that I downright dropped them, specially after they gave me an email threatening me for my constant returns when they kept sending me preowned merch when it supposed to be new or get a damaged package
Yep. Capitalists love free markets until they undercut their bottom line.
@braxtonvestal777 I don't care about monopolies. I care about expensive monopolies. As long as Bezos keeps the prices low, he can grow as much as he wants and ride into space all he wants.
It should be illegal to have a monopoly on a food product unless it's created genetically in the lab.
and even then! plenty of lifesaving GMOs have potential to be locked behind patents.
The gold kiwi fruit was made that way by genetic modification.
@@rickydee5863Genetic modification is not lab creation per say.
They took original kiwi and altered some genes.
Essentially all farming food we have today has been GMO.
People think that genetic modification = lab DNA alterations.
No. Crossbreeding is also GMO. Good example would be different breeds of dogs. Through years of breeding and selection particular breeds have been created.
Now there are standards for each of them, and so on but no one actually own right to them.
Now if some tech company would be able to create something from the "scratch" they can literally own it.
For example if someone will create fully synthetic cell and will use it to grow anything, he will literally own it.
@nieczerwony you say they took the kiwi fruit and altered its genetic make up.i am sure that was done in a lab .that make the kiwifruit gold geneticly modified. And just try growing kiwi fruit gold in newzealand without the parent company's consent and accompanying fee and you will feel the full force of their lawyers in court. I rest my case.
*Goes into back alley*
"Hey you got the stuff"
"Yeah man, here"
*Exchanges lobster larvae for cash*
The original fruit is from the Far East, having been grown in what is now modern-day China for many centuries. It was only at the turn of the 20th Century, in 1904, that it arrived on New Zealand shores, when New Zealand school principal Isabel Fraser brought some kiwifruit seeds back from her travels.
I dont believe that at all. Kiwis love to grow in new nealand its a tropical fruit its not going to be growing happily in place like china unless its in a sealed container woth fresh air shipped from new zealand freeding into it to keep the smog out
Yes and then tens of thousands of hours of careful husbandry and scientific study latter New Zealand owns a completely different organism.
Feel free to grow Chinese Gosse berry and see if anyone wants to buy it.
Just keep your hands of our brand.
@Bob-h3n maybe other countries should be free to import New Zealand kiwis to perform "tens of thousands of careful husbandry" too, eh? Or is smuggling only illegal _after_ your country has already profited from it?
@@DarkArcz
A wild plant from a ditch?
You should be in stand up comedy.
@Bob-h3n the same country that obsesses on travellers declaring any plant material they might be bringing into the country, dismissing the invasive "wild plant from a ditch" that they themselves imported and now tout as a national treasure? Mate, you should be a politician.
Didn't Kiwis start off in China? damn 😂
Yes but the golden kiwi has been cross bred meaning it’s a new kiwi unique to NZ. They are trying to protect the years of work creating that specific kiwi.
@@Just-SomeGuyThis is simply a joke. For example loads of apple kinds has been obtained from "primal" spiecies and they are now grown globally. Many other fruits and veggies are the same.
Hard to think what will happen if eventually science will be advanced enough to create synthetic genes.
Can you imagine for example in Scandinavia you will have all these tall, blue eyed people and gov will say they can't leave the country?
The worst that could happen to humans is corporations and govs creating sindicates.
@Just-SomeGuy New Zealand keeps their kiwi to themselves, no one bats an eye. Monsanto patents their GMO and keeps it to themselves and the world loses its mind.
@@Just-SomeGuy Once Pandora is out the box, she can’t go back in
@@stansman5461 No, people are mad at Monsanto because of ridiculous practices like when a farmer's crop blows seeds into your neighbouring farm, Monsanto sues the life out of you because their IP started sprouting on your property through no effort, cultivation, or interest of your own. They expect _you_ to magically know that the sprouts are theirs and then pay out of your own pocket to negate the "theft" you didn't even know about. Zespri took action because people were intentionally stealing their products and then monetising the hell out of them. There is no equivalence between Monsanto and Zespri.
When large corporations do more morally dubious business practices, it's just good business. When smugglers do the same thing to work around local and international laws, it's a terrible crime.
What's with the fish heads in the beginning of the video?
it's about tuna smuggler
Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads.
Fish heads, fish heads, eat 'em up, yum.
Are the smugglers just people that are excluded due to mass corporations robbing their native land?
Corporations aremt who takes the peoples land bro no one takes more of the peoples land than the ungreatful canadians and the governments of north america who owns mosy of nevada
They said the same thing about weed now the government controlls that too, its not about habitats when most countries have oil running in the oceans and rivers its about supply and demand the supplier demands they be the only ones supplying
Weed actually sucks if you ask me we are better off putting it into that golden vape liquid thats a real liquid gold right there because it doesnt dry out and you get.a shitload of thc so you spend 70 bucks on a vape its worth it. A better exportable item.
@@TheAnnoyingBosseh, id rather not smoke the garbage in vape pens, heavy metals and such.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss missed my point by a mile bud
@@keiz2lifedont talk about weed if you want ppl to stay on point😂 were like vegans you cant go through dinnr without us telling you what and how we smoke
First of all I think golden kiwis taste like trash second of all there shouldn't be restrictions on growing things and harvesting things like plants and syrup.
Would you spend years and millions of dollars in development and then just give it away ?
canadian here, i've never heard of any regulations about growing maple trees and collecting their sap but there might be if you start growing them for commercial use. i would have thought most of the issue came from the amount that can be produced by a single tree and the equipment needed to convert the maple water into syrup.
(consider the fact that you need like 40 liters of sap for each liter of maple syrup.)
Uhh... Yeah some things are actually massive biosecurity risks that can destroy ecosystems, this is the reason we have diseases that are killing out native trees and old growth forests here in New Zealand so naturally we take that kind of thing pretty seriously.
I am sorry they got caught.
Am I the only one who didn’t realise that they were talking about smugglers in general, so I was envisioning some jacked up smuggler smuggling heaps of different things and somehow evading the authorities.😂
Leave it up to corporations to decrease supply and artificially increase prices while lobbying the government to keep wages low.
Interesting 🤔
I think the main takeaway was, to keep prices high on everyday household goods, governments limit who can produce and market those goods which prices those goods out of the budget of working class peasants like me.😅
Facts!!
Government doesn't do that, business cartels do. Stop voting for people bought out by someone. Government just does whatever we vote for.
Wrong mostly. Bananas dont actually grow optimally in most places of earth its very few optimal areas. The same happens with peppers with kiwis with oranges. Berries grow in different places than mangos. Smugglers steal other peoples crop or livestock etc and they take them to places theyre not meant for to make extra money. If you try to plant a pineapple in the wrong place its not going to make a pineapple as good as ones that comes from hawaii. Usa grows the most corm we have the most farmable land and population. Its more complicated the government has little control because if you tru to plamt a pineapple in arizona its going to fuckin die bro pineapples love to grow up in hawaii and be eaten everywhere else. Us in usa we do not grow most bananas florida grows a lot of the oranges but bananas there is few small areas where bananas can prosper. Most of the world cant grow bananas. Theyre shipped from the few places that can grow them best to all over the world before they ripen so you can buy one for 25 cents.
We spent a bundle of New Zealand taxpayers money to research the Gold kiwifruit actually.
It's not your property it's ours.
Trademark and not just because it is three times as much vitamin c as other fruit it's also resistant to PSA virus.
And all without using genetic interference.
Just plain hard work and tens of thousands of hours of government subsidies.
Breed your own super food don't steal ours.
@@TheAnnoyingBossso there’s a banana mafia is what you’re saying
Taxes. No one wants to pay taxes. Smugglers just have more balls than the rest of us.
I smuggle food to end world hunger
The whistle is strong on this one jeez stop whistling in my ears lol.
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I heard somewhere the kiwi business in New Zealand is over a billion dollar business
Real irony is that a New Zealand Missonary smuggled the seeds from China in 1904. The fruit was originally called Chinese Gooseberry.
If you’re going to smuggle, at least focus on smuggling normal stuff, the things here are an embarrassment.
Baby lobsters are way too cute! 😮☺️
As a Canadian, the fact they are smuggling maple syrup...😂😂😂
China be like: so how about my tea tree?
South America: what about my chilli’s?
Exploitation has been going on ever since mankind created roads and shipping lanes
In the end it doesnt matter bro pineapples grown in hawaii are the best oranges from florida is the best corn from the midwest is the best
"they can't be grown by just anyone, anywhere"...
Take note that sprouts and larvae are the export, both elements of the first stages of growth, and as such this tells you that is not that they just can't be grown by anyone anywhere, but rather they "can't".
Thats a pretty lobster! Cute lil guys😂
There is also a "Grey Market" where it mimics the Black Market but not as illegal. Black Markets usually exist because laws or beuracracy can't keep up with demand.
Information unclear. Do these smugglers steal/loot from the companies? Or are they importing products that are restricted within those countries and selling them with a high mark-up? It doesn’t make sense since demand within these 3rd world countries would be low to begin with.
Not necessarily.
If you can't even begin to afford the real thing, of course you'd have low demand. Nobody can buy it to drive the demand up.
It's not like people who live poorer than the rest of us, just don't "want" these products.
In the case of trees and other productive "sources" it's even more lucrative. Unlike a fish which, once caught, can only be sold the Once, these seedlings and sprouts could hypothetically go on to bear multiple harvests, closer to the communities that want said product but otherwise don't have access to it.
In theory, having your own supply close to home would drive local prices of that luxury down, making it more affordable for the people who otherwise never could get it.
Of course, you can also control the supply at that point too, and I don't think smugglers are interested in long-term returns as much as offloading their product quickly.
I think it was talking about the reasoning from the POV of the smugglers. The prices of those products was too high, so they smuggled it in instead
I am all for it. And I will do everything in my power to support it.
Well good.
In other words, it's okay if it's nation-level cartel to do it and it's illegal for the common folks to do it. Got it.
In other words, the same type of people who destroy environments just at the entry level because they aren't strong enough to lobby yet.
Hold up, they stole our maple syrup?
So get taxes a bit down, make company registration easier, remove unneeded paperwork and extremely long waiting time for documents and you’ll get little to no smugglers. Fight the root cause, not aftereffects.
Legitimate reasons for cashing in 😂 “I can explain, it was really valuable”
Quebec’s pure maple syrup??? SMFH
No what you meant to say was the indigenous people’s pure maple syrup, whom as a matter of fact were using maple syrup prior to french/european contact!
“Turtle Island”
That's not black market, but free tax market that avoid bringing back tax to dollar Which is controlled by america.
Fun fact, smugglers have made many things we take for granted today as cheap as they are. Its because of a Dutch smuggler that coffee is so widespread and relatively cheap.
Smugglers have a business for one of two reasons
1. The product from legitimate channels is too highly taxed and thus too expensive or of poor quality
2. The product has been outlawed in the region.
Smuggling doesnt keep the prices high, the whole business works by UNDERCUTTING the legitimate market. Which means the price has to go down to stay competitive.
Them smugglers got that good good!!! LMAO🤣✌️🤠
So businesses want monopoly by artificially scarcity, and some people are scaming these scammers. I don't see a problem.
I love ur voice .. english.. calmness . Beause i wanna speak like u
the government should have no say. i’m sorry, but they shouldn’t unless it disrupts ecosystems
Those importation cannot be prevented sooner or later they will find a way. Like pineapple grown in Europe Or silk grown in southeast Asia.
It's either increase the production or someone will increase the production for you.
Keeping production low for high price will attract more people to get in the business because less labor more profit very attractive to those who want to get rich quick.
In other words, smuggling can actually help when there is a chokehold in place around a particular product creating more accessibility. The downside is, however, that smuggling cannot be regulated for obvious reasons however, not all forms of smuggling are bad.
Did anyone else’s brain start singing “fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads…”
This ain't violent crime...😅 They just making a living selling food without giving the government their cut.... All power to them....❤
The black market is the most humane way to treat the merchandise in the economy who’s main consumers are humans
Environmental protections aren't "meant to limit supply." They're meant to PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT
"exploiting environmental protections, meant to limit supply" In any other industry this is called a monopoly.
“Smuggled 18 million worth, fined 9 million.. I’m in the wrong business
"Did you smuggle these protected goods?"
"Yes, but for a good reason!"
"What's the reason?"
"Money!"
Screw all the household brands.
"environmental protections meant to limit supply" should be all you need to hear to know that this is a spectrum. Some just want money, some just want a plentiful food source available on their side of the planet so it can be affordable.
Free enterprise!
The only reason it's outlawed is because the real criminals don't like competition!!
"environmental protections meant to limit supply" - Anything environment-related should be purely to improve the ecosystems involved, like preventing overfishing or deforestation (not logging in general, which helps to maintain forests and to keep them healthy). If "protections" are MEANT specifically to limit supply, it is a misuse of regulatory power to exploit customers for profit.
Smuggling animals and food is way safer than Smuggling drugs
I'm cool with it. Artifically keeping prices high in any regard is disgusting. It's food. A human right. Although called a right, I've never been able to live with my rights without paying for them. Food, water, and shelter are all rights and no one can HAVE it for the sake of the "economy" because that matters more than making sure people can survive.
Thank you smugglers. Keeping supply artificially low is a form of exploitation similar to price gouging
the artificial inflation of food prices via limitation of supply should be entirely illegal
We all need to just eat plants and leave the animals alone they wanna live too. Ez to say right!! But it’s true
Oh smugglers you're doing great work 😂😂
I find it hard to believe China would enforce international anti smuggling laws. If every business is owned by the Chinese state, wouldn't the state benefit by having a piece of the golden kiwi industry?
Most government regulations are intended to protect the existing producers, not to protect the consumers. It's always the lobbyists/ex-insiders that draft the regulations.
I'm in love with her voice
Nowadays i dont think anyone knows how to bargain anymore. The big corporations have made it common for things to become final price and the discounted percentages are now overpriced items being sold at its original amount.
The principal driver of smuggling has always been high taxation!
God forbid people exploit companies that exploit people!!! We don’t want that, do we?!
Not just smugglers every industrialists every businessman has been doing this since the dawn of economy
Beautifully colored lobsters! I’ve never seen a lobster in the color variety here. Lovely! Just lovely! 🎉
Theres no reason why these "smugglers" are considered bad. They intentionally keep prices high so ...let these people grow the product elsewhere and lower the prices.
So smugglers make Kiwis and Maple Syrup cheaper but combating against price fixing bs?
Imagine going to jail by smuggling food to different parts of the world where organizations and politicians control the price on that food to make sure that if you eat them, you will not have enough money to survive. It's disgusting.