GMOs Aren't the Solution: 5 Up-to-Date Reasons
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GMOs are widely being accepted for their theoretical benefits, not their real-world effect. In this video, 5 reasons that GMOs aren't worth it when you stack up the evidence - even after biased Anti-GMO information is excluded. Failure to Yield: http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/failure-to-yield.pdf German Meta-Study on yield and profits: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0111629&representation=PDF Symbiotic Fungi +37% yields: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389390?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Symbiotic Fungi Greenhouse Yields Study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01490.x/epdf Rodale's Farming System's Trial: http://rodaleinstitute.org/assets/FSTbooklet.pdf GMOs "safe" on animals study: http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nicolia-20131.pdf List of GMO feeding studies: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n9/fig_tab/nbt.2686_T1.html Abnormalities in Mice Intestines with GMOs Study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10533866 Austrian Government Study - Abnormal Mice Generations: http://www.biosicherheit.de/pdf/aktuell/zentek_studie_2008.pdf Differences in Goat Testicles with GMOs: http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FANM%2FANM4_10%2FS1751731110000728a.pdf&code=e1ce9ece5e3e0bc3e051a6bcc1b17fc3 Lower Blood Cell Count in Sows Study: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0047851 90% of soy GMO, 70% of corn and cotton: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all RoundUp on Placenta Study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257596/pdf/ehp0113-000716.pdf RoundUp more Toxic than Glyphosate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955666/ 2-4-D Deforms Sperm CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/96-132/ Leopold Center on GMO profits in US: https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/leopold-letter/1999/fall/does-planting-gmo-seed-boost-farmers-profits Organic +22 to 35% Profitability Meta-Analysis: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/24/7611.abstract USDA Report: GMOs increase herbicide use: http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1282246/err162.pdf
Comments
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thank you for the scientific focus of your educational videos. I appreciate the lack of drama. ( but also enjoy your humor.) keep up the great work.
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There's one problem I want to point out: at the beginning of the video, you said GMO's have only been used for a decade and a half, and that is false. GMO crops have been used since the 60s. Researchers at universities would blast plants with radiation, and see if by chance any useful mutations occurred. Not exactly the same technology, but clearly not close enough to artificial selection to be considered non GMO.
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"round up is okay". okay then go drink some.
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can you do a video about the pesticide use in organic agriculture, and the environmental and health effects of those vs conventional?
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Wow, so much pseudoscience and fear-mongering.
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Unnatural Vegan needs to see this.
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Also it benefits so many people who can't grow certain crops in their land because of salinity or other deficiencies in the soil. Every single tecnological advancement can be used for "evil" purposes (making money in this case) but was initially concieved to make life better for humans. We are not all as evil as you think!
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All plants you eat are genetically modifed by bacteria that live in the soil they are grown in... Us doing changes that benefit the plant's growth is no different
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GMOs have had positive real-world effects, such as saving the livelihoods of farmers in Bangladesh: http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/gmo-eggplants-aubergines-bangladesh/#2186 (and I've made a video about this on my channel as well).
And not everyone has the luxury of being so choosy about the food they eat; a lot of these anti-GMO arguments come off as elitist. -
I wish more people actually cared about this...
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OMG you're anti-GMO. This explains everything: you're a complete crackpot.
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Just a question out of curiosity: How do you feel as a vegan quoting stydies based on research done on lab animals? I've noticed you quote this kind of studies a lot and I partly understand since you are mailnly using the health angle to promote veganism but isn't a bit contrasting to your values? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your videos and I am not judgying you for using them, just want to know how you feel about it.
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For me, organic food tastes so much better ☺
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I knew it, I knew that if I watched enough of your videos I could find something that I agree with you on. People with such similar motives are bound to agree on something. Thanks for the spectacular video even I learned something. Thumbs up and Subscribed :)
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Wow! a pro GMO Commercial played before this video. I know mic has nothing to do with it. But wow I can't even privately watch a video without being contradicted.
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Your videos are awesome but as soon as I clicked on this one there's an advertisement for why GMOs are safe and effective haha =)
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Dude the ad before the video was a pro gmo comercial lol.
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So summary is that GMO foods themselves are not likely to cause harm to humans (that we know of at this time) but the herbicides that we use on GMO foods definitely can?
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There was an ad saying GMOs are safe running at the being of this video! lol
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