Some of these huge seed corporations are also huge pesticide producers. DuPont, Monsanto. Scary to think what these companies are really doing to our foods.
If I write the word directly RU-vid will delete my comment. Seno (Then you would add) Myx This, dear ones, is what they’re adding to our foods. Please spread the info. The more people that know, the more will hopefully grow food themselves.
Vegan4life1 - not to forget Syngenta. Activists fought for years for example in Germany, to stop them from turning all fruit and veg into genetically modified stuff. They used to seed out their produce next to the national seed banks.
Very disturbing that a handful of companies are controlling food like this. No wonder people seem to be so hungry nowadays. It’s because their bodies aren’t getting the proper nutrients.
Reduction of nutrients in food may come from modern agricultural practices. We have destroyed the soil with pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers Without the healthy microbial activity in the soil, plants are less able to access the nutrients in the soil, not to mention commercial fertilizers aren't as bioavalable to plants as manure and compost.
@@OJesusX3 I like my diversity. Have you ever tried sea buckthorn its a very good fruit 😋. Yes it grows on a tree on land and is very drought tolerant and cold tolerant down to -50f.
Best to find a Heritage Seed company , that way , you get the choice of the crop , from which seeds can then be saved . All of my fruit & vegetables are from Heritage varieties , inclodeing tomatoes , and potatoes , zucchini and more . Seeds are shared around the neighbourhood , with other Gardner's , and friends further afeild . Happy & Plentiful Harvesting to you . Namaste 🙏👍
Look for the old heritage seeds for more flavor and probably more nutrients. I think if tomatoes are left on the vine you should get more nutrients in them from the plant. The ones picked green and ripened with gas probably dont get of a chance of developing nutrients as much. But part of the nutrients in vegetables and fruits come directly from the ground. Calcium, iron, zinc, and other minerals etc are absorbed by roots. If the ground is constantly being planted and these nutrients aren't replaced there will be less for the plants. Then less for the people who eat them. I heard that some areas of the US the soil is deficient in zinc. And zinc is something people need in their diet.
Some of my favorite sites are MI Gardener, San Diego Seed Company, and Baker Creek. They all have ethics and give back to their communities. They all have RU-vid channels you can check out as well.
I grew up on a dairy farm. We grew fruits and vegetables. We had the perfect fertilizer. I remember them being so juicy and fresh. My mom would make strawberry jam and freeze it. Omg it was so good. I would love to have my own garden. I just don't have the space for one. I would also have to remember how we got the seeds from the fruits and vegetables. Things definitely don't taste like they used to. I grew up in the 70s so times have changed very much. Definitely an eye opener.
Check out container gardening. You don’t need a huge piece of land, just a few flower pots and you can grow many of the staples. Another thing to look at is a tower garden. Lots of innovative ways to allow anyone the ability to grow. Best of luck!
It's not only hybrid varieties are the problem, also where we grow them.. As we grow them more in control condition (green house) and they are not exposed to insect pests and stress plants don't produce those secondary metabolites which are important for human health.. this is just one reason why our immune system is in decline
The bacteria in the soil also has a significant role to play when it comes to nutrients and taste. Unfortunately some of the pesticides target those same pathways necessary to creat those essential nutrients like the b vitamins and amino acids.
About the influence of soil I knew, but never heard that exposure to pests etc can influence nutrient levels. Do you have any studies, lectures etc to recommend on this?
Strawberries are the same. I remember as a kid picking strawberries with my mom right on the farm. They tasted better than candy. So sweet and juicy. Nothing like what I buy now 40 yrs later. Today strawberries have no taste at all. Cardboard tasting.Nothing tastes good Ann
Why not grow your own? I have a small plot of land and I grow as much of my food as possible. I grow flowers for their beauty and for the pollinators that help my vegetables. The flavor is incredible. My mother lives next door and when she tastes my vegetables and fruit she is amazed at how delicious they are.
Welcome to Marden farming were its all chemicals pesticides and over water the living hell out of every crop. Yes I went to school for this and my only thoughts were why the fact are you still watering why are you adding more chemical fertilizer we did that last month but no fertilizer again 🥺. The biggest problem is 90% of are fruit and vegetables are geneticly identical.
🍅🍅🍅 Absolutely. Which is one main reason why food doesn't fill people up. You have to eat a whole lot more to get your nutrients today, as compared to a hundred years ago, or further back. Family farms and homesteads took great care of their land and bettered their soil. Very different from these giant industrialized operations. Unfortunately. Convenience comes with a very steep price tag.
There is a huge increase in low-level thyroid disorder since soils are so depleted in iodine. Check what sub-clinical thyroid disorder looks like - fatigue, low energy, weight gain, bad sleep patterns...modern life.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 Not only are mixed farms no longer using livestock manure, farming in general does not use humanure like we did for millenia. Instead our human waste is expensively and carbon-intensively processed with the use of many harmful chemicals. It's completely crazy.
A lot of the reduction in nutrition can be also tracked back to how most monoculture farming kills the good bacteria in the soil. Modern agriculture is highly destructive to the environment and even surrounding areas can be poisioned with pesticide and chemical fertilizer concentrations turning the environment toxic to plants, animals and future gardening :(
Buy local from farmers. Farmer markets aren't always selling things they grow btw, sometimes they buy from the same suppliers as grocery stores. Learned this when a stand was selling cucumbers out of season.
Where do you get your seeds? I don't have time to watch the whole video so is it about what you buy at the store or can is your own grown stuff better? If I use seeds from stuff I buy at the store am I getting the same thing they're selling? What about the seeds that you buy at the store and those any good?
That annoying CEO guy who refused to acknowledge the child labourers reminds me of a child sticking his fingers in his years and yelling LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU!
So all they care about is colour and texture and no focus on nutrients. Fruits tastes better in some nations, I’m worried they will buy the same seedlings as well and we get bland food and fruits all over the world.
Incredible documentary! This is really great work. I would like to have seen more solutions that we as individuals can implement to address this problem though. I'll delve more into this topic.
A reminder that many of of what we now think of as OP or heirlooms are in fact naturally occurring hybrids from long ago. Bees & other insects don't care as they flit from plant to plant. Humans have been selecting plants for propagation for eons.
Tomatoes , I stopped eating in the 1980's , when the skin was made thicker for traveling . Something also altered the flavour profile . I used to help my Grandparents with their gardens , and learned a lot from them - taught them some new tricks as well . The home garden , was mostly a waste of time , as it was often walked on , by siblings while playing , which didn't help with the harvest - their gullets , didn't help much either , as that stopped a lot of produce from getting to the table . Recently , I've started to grow seedlings of various sorts , to give to the local Community Gardner's for their use , along with some advice on how to stop the pilfering of the produce , by free-loaders .👍🤭🤫
Thank you for your work! This is mind-blowing and eye-opening. No surprise, as we already know these corporate giants are capable of anything for maintaining their astronomical profits.
While I agree that this is devastating, I don't believe we can hold agricultural scientists or farmers accountable for this alone. They increased yield because there was an increase in demand. And as consumers we continued to purchase convenience versus home gardens because we also had jobs to do and families to raise. I love that now it's becoming almost fashionable to eat organic or grow your own food, but can't blame anyone.
It's what happens when populations aggregate into cities and become dependent on the food industry. Now that more than 50 percent of the world's population lives in cities in order to chase 'increased living standards' there is a commensurate decrease in living quality together with a dangerous dependency on fossil fuels, the just-in-time supply chain and a sharp drop-off in food security. This is especially scary when we look at the accompanying drop in water security, encapsulated by the fact that 1 bottle of bottled water takes 10 times the amount of clean water to produce.
@@ninamartin1084 I could not agree more! But what I find most disturbing is those living in these metropolis cities making laws for those who don't. Regulating the people who feed them right out of business due to some false sense of entitlement. I fear it will not end well.
One of my favourite books of all time The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker, goes into great detail about this. It's actually a pretty entertaining read too. Highly recommend!
I saw a documentary on youtube years ago, but it has been removed. Farmers can't sell real heirloom seeds, they make it hard for them. But, you can trade them
I don't know about where you life but in my country there's an organization that specifically looks after rarae seeds and breeds, maybe you can find something similar where you live
Trace minerals in the soil is what gives vegetables and fruits much of their flavor. Depleted farmlands and harvesting green before it rippens, result in tasteless "food like products "..... in my own opinion.
Yes! You're very right! 😊🌎☀️ We can never beat the taste that comes from the fresh mulch and soil that our trees bring up from the ground. We displace most of ours by sending out waste into the oceans, but also, ocean life is one of the very best ways of reclaiming those trace minerals! Trace minerals, as well as fully ripened and fully developed fruit, really does make for the best health and best tasting food. 😊🌎❤️
The danger of global crop failures is REAL. For instance there was a rice blight in Indonesia that caused a famine because they were using a single variety a hybrid that yielded more per acre. They went to their bank of seeds and only 35 varieties were left. Out of those 35, only one variety was found to be resistant to the blight. The chances of there being a global famine due to capitalist monopoly and sale of hybrid seeds is a MATHEMATUCAL CERTAINTY. It is INEVITABLE.
i saw a youtube clip the other day with some dude showing how he made his own potting mix. it was basically compost and perlite. IMy question was, where's the dirt, how do you get the minerals etc. To think that you can grow things in this and expect nutrition because the plant looks good and grows quick.
If you mean 'dirt' like the mix of clay and sand... that only controls how much water stays in the soil. The compost of rotting wood, leaves, veggies or animal poop is the part that provides the minerals and vitamins for the plant to use and convert to the nutrients that are good for humans ;)
@@melindawolfUS Thanks melinda, I read a book by Charles Dowding the 'no dig' guy who uses compost. He says he uses compost to feed the soil. Feed the soil life that is, in the soil. I should go back and read again
You guys have good minds! ☀️ Accumulation of minerals is usually a process that takes many years as a result of trees which reaching below and depositing minerals that they uptake and deposit from their leaves as topsoil, and later into our oceans to settle into seabeds, clay formations, and in our ponds, rivers, and lakes. Minerals start out within the formation of magma, so the best sources of minerals that we have available are from: volcanic rock dust, ocean life, (kelp, meal powders, and sea salt) and from what comes from the ground beneath our feet in the form of leaves, mulch, and garden clippings. These will generally be your best and most balanced sources of minerals and nutrients. Recycle back to your soil when you can to continue the process. Trace minerals make for some of the best tasting food and most vibrant health! 😊🌎☀️
Very good film, many have no idea about it. Just note that the use of "hybrid " development is just a description of what humanity has done for millenia (ie heirloom development) or nature had done eversince. The historical difference is the stabilisation of the variety to move beyond f1.
I just said the same thing in reply to a different post. F1 hybrids can lend some mighty advantage to disease & pest resistance depending on your location-zone-weather.
However.....hybridizing is one thing.....Gmo is quite another.....huge corporations owning all seed making billions while paying pennies to those doing all the work in developing countries (while they lie to them ) is also a bit more evil than simple hybridizing (shown at beginning of video)
In my opinion, the issue is that fruits and vegetables are sold by weight. So modern supermarket produce is bloated with water diluting the nutrients. Yield is measured by weight not nutrient content. All the rest follows. Home grown produce hybrid or not does not suffer this problem since we don't over water them.
True that hybrids bred for yield and shelf life have inferior nutrient profiles. Also, the widely adopted practise of fertigation (fertiliser in the irrigation), force feeds basic nutrients. The resulting produce is likely deficient in minor and micro nutrients essential for the production of vitamins and enzymes for us, not the crop. The modern consumer does their shopping at a supermarket for convenience. The small fruit shop purchased produce from small non-factory farms. Buying your food from genuine farmers markets is a taste and nutrition revolution. What extra you spend on your food you'll save in pharmaceuticals.
higher shelf life will increase carbon footprint also with longer distance travel of food from farm to fork hence instead of fresh hybrid veg better to have original veg in dried/fermented/smoked form
Wonderful documentary...thank you! We must all spread the word on these evils...destroying our food, small farmers, developing countries, ultimately humanity as we know it ! !
The subject calls for an understanding of soil health , fungal interactions help to break down and deliver micronutrients. Organic farming is important to restore soil health. Do you want your family's food with poison, or without poison?
Yes it probably would. The issue here is cross pollination by nature more likely produces more quality product in terms of nutrients, and at the expense of pretty much no one. Cross pollination by humans is to produce quality bank accounts at the expense of many other people including those eating the food.
Yep, iirc Boar Seed was started because of some neat crosses that happened. Purple humble bee is another cross that nutrient dense and beautiful. The creator signed a safe seed pledge so that the genetics is free to the public for food safety. To be clear, using genetics of the same species doesn't mean hybrid. If I crossed a capsicum fluxuosum to an capsicum anuum, that would be.
Nutrients is essential to our body biochemistry activities. Plants do not make nutrients, it is from the soil. And introduce chemical & GMO into plants, eating natural plants may be not good. Supplementation are necessary to fill the nutrients gap that our body need without undesirable chemicals.
Nutrients also come from a layer of Fungal Mycelium in the soil. This layer works symbiotically with the plant roots. Fungi cannot manufacture the sugars they need. Fungi absorbs minerals from decomposing matter. So, the plants root system provides sugars to the fungi and the fungi trades minerals to the plant. Hydroponic gardening disallows this symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi. Overworking or disruption on the soil also destroys the layer of Fungal Mycelium.
i eat mostly what I grow and only buy food when necessary.. I can firmly assert that fertilizers are the main problem regarding nutrition. Sure, genetics play a role, but soil health is the foundation. Soil health is literally EVERYTHING. Fertilizers force a plant to grow regardless if there are adequate nutrients in the soil. Using fertilizers yields plants which are less able to fend off pests/disease AND are bigger and more watered down. The problem for big ag is when u don't use fertilizers u actually need to know how to work the land. U have to still work the land when there are no cash crops growing. U have to let certain weeds and symbiotic plants to grow. Most importantly u have to wait until the soil biology creates the nutrients. At first glance it seems like fertilizers can fix these things caz the plants appear to grow >> but yea,, as we have been discovering >> it's a cheap trick. To grow healthy plants >> U need the right genetics, the right soil and the right weather. > the other way to live on Earth healthily, is to eat the plants which grow naturally. The plants which grow without human intervention. If people were more open to discovering edible native plants we would be soooooo much better off. I know I am. When I started to eat from the land, it felt like the first time I had ever eaten food in my life. It was an unbelievable spark of life which made me wonder what i had been eating ! Was the stuff I had been eating even food?? My grey's started vanishing and I feel younger everyday. It's been over 10 years now. Most of the food problems merely arise from insisting on 'flavor' and eating foods which are not native. I have discovered numerous plants which have almost NO flavor but are very nutritious. Flavor does not equate to nutrition. awww crap, I just remembered long comments might be filtered ... -blessings, love & light :)
I am %100 with you but how can you tell if they have right nutrients ?aren’t we suppose to check it in the lab ?from may to October I put my own kitchen scraps in my back yard garden but it is not doing any good ! I get little bit of thing not full and big . I don’t use any kind of fertilizer just my scraps 🤷🏼♀️ I’m so discourage . I live in Minneapolis not hot at all 🤷🏼♀️
I don't want to bash the documentary, but telling the exact details of their sources like names, location,photos, and etc. it endangers the livelihood of their sources. Being professional doesn't mean that you don't offer protection. The content is very good I commend the work, but pls when doing this next time pls hide the faces of those indirectly dependent of their livelihoods with the subject of scrutiny.
Not a fan of how hybrids are portrayed. Hybridization is something that happens naturally too. Selection for preservation and soil health in growing plants are greater culprits here.
OK, my first question would be how are these numbers obtained ... then and now, and does that account for any difference? And what exact varieties are they using now compared to back then?
Good thing I watched till the end, this is posted 2 weeks ago but filmed in 2019 of course I’ve seen it before nevertheless this is a good documentary however not complete perhaps you should show the public how wild tomatoes looks like and the deference between them and heirloom tomatoes now this is something interesting here, even wild apples and what you can find in store nowadays. Amelioration in agriculture has a long history also we must not forget how the costumer behaviour impacts the market or is it the market that changes the costumer behaviour when it comes to fresh vegetables availability.
lol a friend of mine plucked seeds out of a random supermarket hybrid tomato and planted them as an experiment. I lost the bet that nothing at all would grow, now I have 11 strong looking plants in my backyard bc friend has no space.... now I'm curious about the random/striped/misshapen freaktomatoes that might or might not emerge one day 🥴
To whoever reads this: if you have a garden you will never regret to create a vegetable plot or grow any kind of fruit or vegetables in your garden. Get started. Just do it! Charles Dowding has terrific instructions here on RU-vid on how to get started with no-dig gardening! Easy and rewarding! Get to it now!!
So many simplistic claims like this one - blaming "HFCS", "USDA guidelines", "seed oils", individual macronutrients - especially "carbs" ... The elephant in the room is millions not eating any vegetables at all. The "5 servings a day" is ludicrously conservative - I'm lucky in that I hve adequate income and only need to walk a few hundred metres to Aldi and am able to eat as many veggies on a daily basis as I can get down my neck - and I don't worry that they may be sub-par... There was research once done that improved obese people's metrics by feeding them white bread and sugar. I have always maintained that boiled-to-death school cabbage would fix western diets - if it's lost some nutrients just eat more - the bulk and fibre is a benefit in itself.
Yes, we should all have organically grown vegetables. Just be prepared to pay twice as much. Me? I'll take Walmart tomatoes for half the price along with a vitamin pill! We had organic farmers a hundred years ago and people were starving.
I have asked for Syngenta's morals on their facebook page. Please contact them and hear what level their morale is? We can not boycott everyone, but we can start somewhere. Consumer power is big and strong if we stand together! And here we can show our disgust at the exploitation of the poor, children and greed.
MAN that french fellow saying that the CONSUMER asked for long shelf life No My avocados don't last long either and I don't cry about them breaking down AND I refuse to buy tasteless tomatoes at the store
Marketable Shelflife is proportional to market price realisation, that's the reason Demand for high Shelflife seed is in demand by retailers across the globe.
Nutrient depletion is a serious understatement problem! Instigated nonetheless, one has to be very vigilant about this! And no, I feel noshame in supplementing
So if we use our own seed because the originally came from bad seed would be not good ?i collect some seed from my garden , plans piece of tomatoes with seed in it ? But it would be still from grocery tomatoes🤷🏼♀️
He is so open-minded. He said the nutrient part of the tomatoes is not a requirement as such in the market. We are focused on looks and taste. RIP food nutrition.
The professor is not defying any laws of nature by doing so he has only increased multiple times health and development of humans and at the same time difficult for any group to try back the environment for the seeds to grow crops which supply the required nutrient for humans without causing any harm.
SEEDS OF CHANGE are in the natural state. I buy my seeds from that place only. Soil is of equal importance. Use what you have available. My cats eat natural and fertilize my yard. The birds and occasionally dear do as well.
Wow! The humans and their hunger! The resistance is not for no hybrid or higher yield seeds but is for free seeds amazing. What is the difference then they are the same as those taking advantage of cheap labour to make profit probably worst then them want something without investing in at all
This is an unfair comparison of hybrid vs. heirloom tomatos. An honest comparison would compare fruit from plants that are grown in the same soil with the same fertilizers. How much of the amount of nutrients is because of hybridization and how much is because of growing conditions?
i just started watching but i sure hope they accounted for growing methods and the terrible modern soil condition from non sustainable agricultural methods? we will see
Nothing of this sort would happen if we control our population, as sequentially food production cannot keep up and have to resort to these shortcuts to keep the world population from going hungry. From 1800's - till date, world population has grown from 1 billion to nearly 8 billion.
You are wrong. The problem is big corporations taking over everything and driving small scale farms out of business. Nature provides for all of us. This is the Agricultural Industrial Complex. They are created starvation and nutrient defiency around the world. Leave people alone so they can grow. They can and will provide for themselves and their families.
well it is obvious when they grow much in just water and chemical fertilizers and not in mineral rich soil with a healthy microbiome(forgot the name) of microorganisms and fungi in the soil... the chemical fertilizers also KILL the soil instead of improving it's health, which leads to worse and worse yields which is negated with even more chemical fertilizers ... there are some people around the world that tries to change this and avoid monocrops and use compost and mulching which improves the soil and the fungi growing there 24:00 he says eat more veggies... why? they are worthless with no nutrients...
