Seeds: Half the Nutrients & Double the Price? | Seeds of Profit: Food Investigation Documentary 

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.

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.

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.

What an eye opener. I am going to stop being lazy and save my own seeds instead of buying from seed companies.

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.

Meat, egg, diary, fish and grain probably share a similar story.

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

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

We live in a world where everybody is after productivity and profit increments at the cost of human lives…Alas!…what a terrible world we are living …

Hybrids bred to last longer is BS! Farming should be decentralised and organic. This is why I grow my own organic heirloom varieties

Mind blown by just how nutrient dense these foods used to be compared to now

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 :(

🌻Grow all your own vegetables to the extent possible to you.

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.

Human greed is the root of all evil.

Indian government should jail the contractors and stop these abuse.

Shocking! Thank you for this production and well done Kokopelli, I will order some seeds:)

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 .👍🤭🤫

Makes hybrids look bad. To clarify, this isn't a result of hybridization, this is a result of selection.

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.

Great documentary! Got to know the Kokopelli group, will be ordering there in the future. Many thanks!

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.

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.

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!

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.

It is getting harder to find on the market heirloom seeds 😕!

Very good job done by your team. All the best to the team.

I live in zone b4-5a and I have heirloom Roma tomatoes that have become invasive. Great for canning and don't have to replant just weed out.

you have good quality documentaries, congrats!

Look at his eyes die when hes told technology that scans for nutrients and compares them to natural grown is released soon.

Thanks for this eye opening documentary ....

very good journalism. keep up the good work. thankyou for sharing this .

Thank You

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.

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.

Thank you.

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.

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

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.

In the u.s. I used to work in fields. One farmer paid us less than minimum wage.

God help us . This tyranny must be stopped . Please pray and share.

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.

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.

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 ! !

Is there a link to this table shown at 2:10 of nutrients losses from 1960 compared to 2017 as the table showed?

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.

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.

Glad he said it "tasteless" lol 🤣

Well seems like i have to become a farmer since city food is becoming more and more like poison.

how about the consistency and accuracy nutrition test back then compare to now, is it different or same?

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 🥴

Probably same story for meat, egg and dairy.

And shame on those who buy the seeds of blood labour, off course expensive at the expense of children of remote areas !!

I am not surprised

We're the nutrient values in the older tables consistent with other samples of the time?

Most breeders won't tell you that they've already stabilized the variety. It's just a money game.

If the French (non hybrid) farmer had 20 different types in the same greenhouse, wouldn’t you get cross pollination anyway? I use heirloom seeds btw

Nutrient depletion is a serious understatement problem! Instigated nonetheless, one has to be very vigilant about this! And no, I feel noshame in supplementing

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.

Buy and grow heirloom seeds only and keep seeds from the best plants year after year! It will produce plants best acclimatized to your area and soils.

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

Isn't consumption tax high in Europe , so it government greed tomato seeds cost more

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.

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.

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!!

Tiny light-weight, portable, collapsible or folding stools may alleviate some of the issues .

Holy s*** no wonder I'm anemic. 50% loss in iron?

I WATCHED THIS ON DISPATCH DOCUMENTARIES

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?

Where can I buy kokopelli seeds?

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

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🤷🏼‍♀️

I remember watching this documentary somewhere else.... Hmm

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 :)

Plantation can change completely in future. No more starvation. Namh shivay.

And, then came the Codex Alimentarius.

I had to fast forward in past that man smacking lips on that tomato. It was invading my earbuds

Need external subtitle.

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.

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.

Unconditional right to stop our own life whenever we want, for all adults

40:30 the supply chain of externalities... not their child labourers...

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

But tasty fruits ..apples,oranges, sweet corn and all that are very sweet now. Does that mean they are very nutritious?

This is all about money. Selling garbage to consumers.

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.

Vielen Dank. Vandana Shiva macht auch 1 Saatgut Bank in Indien

What is evil? This is evil.

I am not hungry anymore.

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.

Consistent. Is not good enough.

These very small nutrients.

You get different results with different tests, was it exactly the same testing process... I doubt

What we eat is then processed and synthesize into chemicals which are required for our body to function imbalance or mutation results in deficiencies and diseases.

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?

Waste!? How? It is biodegradable thus goes back into the environment.

If one can't be sure of practice of its standards why one has gotten engaged in business then?

GROW YOUR OWN FOOD