Spicy Tomatoes and 4 Other GMOs That Could Save Lives 

100% agree. People need to understand that increased yield means cheaper food, which means less money spent on food and a higher standard of living because of the money saved. It also reduces environmental impact because less land needs to be cleared to produce the same amount of food.

They should put stickers on gmo foods stating they’re more environmentally friendly than organic foods.

I have one simple comentary about this and I completly understand any kind of backlash this can create. As stated in the video GMOs are tools and how they're used is the main thing, it's use that is to blame for any outcome not the technology, that said I will comment some reasons why one might argument against the consuption of GMOs products here in Brazil, this are not problems that necessarly will happen at USA or about disagreements with the scientific community but rather political and social reasons. Here in Brazil we have a huge problem with pesticides, the amount of them in the food we produce is absurdly high, the president of Anvisa (Brazilian equivalent of the FDA) did some capaigns to the public about the problem, I completly understand that is common to countries disagrre about the safe amount of a certain susbstance and about wich pestcides can or not be used, but for historic reasons we have the land in the hands of very few, this with the fact that a lot Brazil exportation consists of farm products, lead to some really powerfull people in the control of our food production, we happen to have here a huge economic pressure and as extent political power with the "Frente Parlamentar Agropecuária" with 207 (checked in 2016) deputies from the 513 of the National Congress, wich uses it's power to (something moraly ok) control the taxes to maximize the profit of these landowners but also to make it easier to them to do some nasty things such as using slave work, deflorestation and excessive use of pesticides. The amount of them in the food we make specialy to the inside market is way higher than the suposedly safe and there isn't much we can do to change it, so unfortunatly one worried with it's health might look for organic alternatives. I've already seen one papper wich says that GMOs lowered the amount pesticides used in some contries but there's a lot of speculation about It here in Brazil. There are some small iniciatives to a less agressive use of pesticides here but most of them have a focus on the organic side of all this, some of them also try to break this almost cartel by using some laws that may give land that is not being used to people in need, making some decentrilized food production without these "crimes" the cartel against the enviroment and the humanity (slavery-like work conditions) but they're too deeply connected with the organic movement. So we as people that have some basic understanding of the importance of science in our lives and the impact they have in the world should not ignore the social and political underliyngs of any context or problem. So it's basically that what I have to say. I understand that the scientific consensus is that pesticides in the correct amounts and GMOs (at least the tested cultivares) are safe to human consuption, I just want to make clear that this is not enough to give complete discredit about the organic movement

@@dorkwell You're completly right, I was talking about the non traditional methods, beyond artificial breeding, but you're right, it's important to make this fact clear.

Unless you already grow all your own food from seeds you inherited from your grandpappy, you are enjoying the fruits of GMO labor

Jonathan Schmidt Green Peace should know better.

What does it taste like?

It tastes like rice.

@@azmanabdula just normal rice

I was infuriated that the golden rice being propagated in the Philippines where pulled out from the ground by a bunch of misinformed farmers lead by greenpeace. As a filipino myself, I now strongly oppose greenpeace and anti-gmo assholes.

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I laughed very hard at this!

The end is nigh.

Look out for the next step, drug dealing chickens

Not yet. They haven't genetically engineered cat girls.

@@TonboIV the legal and moral issues of this would be neverending. Some people want to OWN them. Is that slavery? Are they intelligent? I know what they are up to and i'm pretty sure that its bestiality

It would be so funny if the monster girls from monster musume were real lol hahahha

There are also hypoallergenic cats!

@@limiv5272 omg what?? Tell me more

There's a protein in a cat's saliva that some people are allergic to. Since cats constantly lick their fur, their hair induces allergy in those people. There was some company that found some mutant cats that don't produce it and started breeding and selling them, though I forgot the name and just now couldn't find it in a quick google search. Of course, those cats aren't GMO and some people could be allergic to other feline proteins, but I think they count. Sphinx cats, on the other hand, I wouldn't count, they terrify me.

@@limiv5272 You were thinking of either Allerca, Felix Pets, or Indoor Biotechnologies, none of whom have been able to show results, sadly. Found it using advanced search, super useful for researching! :) www.technologyreview.com/s/611671/dont-hold-your-breath-for-allergy-free-cats/

I am not convinced those are feasible since in their experiments they got more casein in the milk instead, which is also an allergen. If the cow keeps replacing the eliminated proteins with more of others then those could all cause allergies in turn (most allergens are proteins).

I'll take the 99%, thank you

Just tell them edible vaccines balance your chakras and prove Flat Earth, they'll get behind it.

It will definitely lead to conspiracies about the government hiding vaccines in food to "poison/control/etc" people (if they aren't already convinced this is happening).

Bananas cause autism!!! Spread the word.

@@kamikon755 Really though, don't.

@kami kon that would be hilarious if it wasn't for the fact that so many would believe it. Wait...want to do a social media blitz? We could sell bananas short on the commodities market and make a mint!

Isn't that conflating something that happened over thousands of years and something done with more immediate genetic modifications?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pqOFUhP6cWk.html This is true selective bred

ALL DOGS ARE GMO! EVERYBODY KILL ALL YOUR DOGS!

From a scientific standpoint, they're not the same. Selective breeding only uses genetic code a species would have anyway, Genetic Modification adds genes that wouldn't necessarily be there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering

That’s called domestication and selecctive breeding.

Yes, we need more people on the spice train.

Yeah, that sounds delicious

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Hearing about them is fine, excreting is where the pain will be

@@eidolor I've eaten enough Habaneros and novelty hot sauces to be well-acquainted with firehole. I will endure.

ReddFoxx1562 you know now that you mention it, that’s a good point and I agree. Too often other show hosts give a false sense of hope for something really cool and exciting, only to find out said revolutionary science has still long ways to go

@@ezyglide0909 There's another female host that is just disgustingly exuberant.

There's Brit on SciShow Psych and Caitlin on SciShow Space. They are GREAT hosts!

@@KnightRaymund Incorrect; Caitlin is the one I was referring to. Her delivery is so ridiculously over the top that it's distracting.

I don't dislike her tone but I personally I had to turn it to 1.25 speed as she does talk a little slowly

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She really hasn't though. She still presents like she's reading from a screen and her jerky head movements are her feeble attempt to disguise it. Ah but, I must just hate women right? I mean, it's not like Scishow space has a female presenter who is leaps and bounds better than Olivia. Nah, must just be sexism as Olivia has tried to claim a million times.

@@Reinforce_Zwei She is 100% not cut for this type of work.

@@Reinforce_Zwei Oh really? I had no idea. Where exactly she claimed it was sexism?

I thought she did really well also. Miles better than when she started out.

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user255 Yup. The West has forgotten the Green Revolution that saved India.

Great point

Many wild bananas are still found in India. There are two ways that seedless varieties of bananas come into being. One way is a natural mutation in the wild. That can only reproduce by cloning so natural selection would probably eliminate it except if a human farmer discovers it, likes the seedless trait and reproduces it by cloning. The other way is when selective breeding produces a banana with valuable traits like taste, disease immunity, etc., crop scientists can expose it to a chemical called colchicine. The normal wild banana has two of each kind of chromosome and the colchicine causes it to have four of each kind of chromosome. Then a cross between they two types gives a fruit with three of each chromosome, which is sterile, seedless. All bananas we grow are reproduced by cloning.

135 People are apparently not.

I would be if it didn't support super evil corporations (Monsanto).

Similar, it is stupid to think that GMO's are naturally evil. Test and experiment, once it is properly tweaked and safe, then produce.

@@speedy01247its complex. people still dont know if eggs are healthy. And you also have to consider the health of the whole ecosystem with gmo

@@lostpockets2227 Your ignorant comment is proof of your stupidity. Stop being petty and actually learn something. The rays of the sun can cause cancer you going to ban the sun?

They're probably worried they'll drive off some customers. I've always said that a smart grocery chain would have a separate GMO area for enthusiastic supporters (AKA bright people) while letting the silly people feel proud of themselves for buying less healthful variants.

While golden rice was approved by FDA, in order to help valdiate it for other countries, it probably will never be sold here. It also doesn't produce enough beta-caterone to have any affect in America. The counties that need it eat 25 times more rice than the typical American diet. So the levels of beta-caterone are very low.

@Bernadette Emery Although that makes some sense (I live on the gulf coast and maybe we eat more rice than most of you, although certainly not as much as in Africa and SouthEast Asia even so) I wonder if most Americans actually do get enough Vitamin A. I seldom see most people eat carrots or yams here.

@@Blemery1 too low? You can get the beta-carotene DRI in 2 cups of golden rice. Not that hard a hurdle to clear, if the detractors would let it be implemented.

@@TitanUranusOfficial Well I stopped shopping at WFM for a variety of reasons. This may sound crazy but I hear the backstory is that Americans used to give Vit A shots to kids but too many foreigners thought those shots contained trackers so the foreigners stopped accepting the Vit A shots.

I know it seems off topic, but if we made such spicy chickens, they would have to be immune to capsaicin so their immune system didn't kill them. That means if we ever had them, we would have a way to make things immune to capsaicin. Imagine how non lethal weaponry would have to evolve when pepper spray doesn't work anymore

@@kiraPh1234k pepper spray isn't exactly capsaicin

Gonna smoke that tomato pal?

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Watermelon sized mango would be fine too

Im personally waiting for a Watermelon-sized Green Grape

rico anderson walking around with a fat slice of grape would be good

Crossbreeding and genetically modifying are completely different things. The plant makes the decision in breeding, the scientist makes the decision in modifying.

I think something I've seen in the past was it was actually a protection against fungus... But pest-protection sounds familiar too

because the vast majority of people don't understand science, don't want to, and only listen to their friendly neighborhood witch doctor!

WElcome in the life of a vegan Molecularbiologist xD

True

not having to pay a fortune comes to mind too

Nothing in the stores have gone down in prices except ramen noodles and Gatorade. There are still starving people we could just give the extras too, but instead we throw away what we can, force foods on school children who will just throw them away, yes, they call security over refusing a food option I've had it happen to me, keep dreaming, though.

Depends what the wealth hoarders/capital owners/IP owners decide to do. They can literally get people killed through their decisions to line their pockets rather than lower price or pay their workers better

You may not think prices have came down but that's probably because of inflation. In real terms food prices have came down.

Generally speaking: this is the cheapest, most plentiful and supply stable our food has been in human history. It's not adequate; let alone perfect but is has never been better.

@@LENZ5369 yeah, just like every other human advancement, it's not perfect, but it's better then what was before that.

Torlonus specifically the problem is that there aren’t limits because we engineered one plant to resist the poison so we can keep upping the dose on the resistant weeds consequences be damned.

Increased food yields are fine. Its the increased lawsuit yields that are the real problem.

It may sound strange but there isn't a shortage of food globally. We produce more than enough calories to feed everyone on the planet with a comfortable buffer. The problems are distribution, preferences for inefficient food in post-industrial countries, and economic incentives. So while making more food more cheaply might help, it's no guarantee since it doesn't address the underlying problems.

I'm here to set the record straight about herbicide use. I've been involved with sugar beet production since I was 12 or so, and herbicide use is a *very* small fraction of what it used to be. You used to spray your beet ground with 24D and glycophosphate or Landmaster before you planted, then you spray your beets multiple times with Upbeat, Starane, Pyramin, just to name SIX. AND THEN, you still have to hire a crew to go into the field to manually remove weeds, and by the end of the year, your beets are so battered and beaten that they don't yield anything special. Then Roundup ready beets came, you sprayed them once or twice during the year and you're done. The sugar beets literally get sprayed with ounces of herbicide per acre per year as opposed to gallons. The sugar beets my dad and various employers raise yield about double the sugar beets that my grandpa farmed. I don't know why people think we GM crops to use more herbicide. Perhaps someone has a financial interest in world hunger. Herbicide is expensive, you save money by using less.

@@paytyler Interesting. I've never heard that argument before. Usually what I hear is not so much "use more fertilizer," its "use more Round-up," with the not-so-subtle implication that we're selling our food security to one or two massive global companies that care neither about your beets nor about the end consumer, as long as the money keeps flowing in. But I imagine most people (including myself, apparently) had no idea how much chemicals were in use before Round-up to do the same job. Generally speaking, I'm a proponent of GMO research. There's a lot of potential to do a lot of good there and while we certainly shouldn't throw caution to the wind, I think we should be trying to figure out ways to incentivize these big companies to research more things like golden rice (that will help the world) and decentivize things like terminator genes (which is purely negative to everyone other than their investors.)

Yes! She quickly became a fave. They're all good, but Hank and Olivia are my favorites

Olivia's pacing is the best. Hank and Michael race through the script in a way that honestly makes me uncomfortable if not straight up agitated.

I see it.

Mark Keller same

Yaaas

same with the Anti-nuclear energy types

True. Although there are a few real examples of nuclear going wrong, the practice has gotten much safer to the point where it's a very viable source of energy. But there haven't been any big oopsies in the world of GMOs to scare everybody away from them. So what gives? I obviously don't support the fuckery of large companies patenting seeds and sueing farmers who had seeds blown into their field, but I believe that it's a very important tool that could open up so many opportunities for our society.

And gmo supporters are kind of like vegans. Jumping the gun trying to save the world while not considering the whole picture. Im not anti gmo but avoid as much as i can

@@khettel671 Oddly enough, even the "suing farmers" line doesn't ring true. It turns out that, despite the claims from the anti-GMO side, there haven't actually been any lawsuits filed against farmers who had pollen or seed accidentally blown into their field which unintentionally caused GMOs to grow in them. The only actual lawsuits filed have been against a tiny number of farmers who deliberately re-planted entire crops with seed they knew was patented and then tried to lie about it and claimed it was non-GMO to avoid paying royalties they had previously agreed to pay. Not that I wholly agree with being able to patent seeds, either, but that's sort of a different issue; the point is that the only people who've been sued were deliberate cheaters trying to defraud GMO developers, not farmers who just had a few stray GM plants growing through honest unawareness.

I don’t think you fully understand lol

Clean water and sewerage would solve that problem!

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So many completely dumbass REASONS!

Yeah I was watching and thinking, great cheaper food!

Exactly. More food is less price, less pollution, less land footprint, less water necessary and so on. How is anybody could think it's a bad thing?

The problem is not the bigger yield but rather the contracts forcing the farmers to only use those seeds. And to get money to survive they have to buy really expensive GMO seeds (wich aren't adapted to local climate that well). And instead of growing multiple different crops and livestock they now have a single crop and if that fails they are screwed because they have nothing to feed their family. If on a diverse farm one crop fails it isn't so bad because they can still feed their family a diverse nutritional diet.

There's actually a fair amount of testing: grist.org/food/the-gm-safety-dance-whats-rule-and-whats-real/ and there has never been a GMO for sale modified to be sterile. Also most farmers buy new seed every year anyway, GMO or not. Seed saving for a farm is a lot more complex, time consuming, and costly than for your garden, so most farmers just get new seed every year to save themselves the hassle (and have someone to blame if something is wrong with the seed).

John Possum In peppers, the seeds have no heat on their own, its actually the white part that the seeds are on that carries the most heat. Im guessing it should be the same with tomatoes

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Andrew Singleton The probablem with that argument is that even without GMOs, that already happens. Hybrid crops that don’t produce offspring are constantly sold to farmers, domestic and abroad, and it really isnt that big of a deal. On the other hand, there currently arent any “terminator” seeds - meaning that GM crops can have the seeds saved and used for the next crop, as no current commercial GM crop is sterile, unlike the aforementioned hybrid crops.

That's a myth that just won't die. GMO plants are as fertile as any other. Even with your traditional seeds farmers buy seeds every year anyway, because they want a consistent outcome on the yield. Many plants are hybrids (weird thing that people don't rail about that, which is essentially genetic modification that has been used for centuries, but as soon as they hear GMO, everything is going to hell is bad), and if you listened in high school biology, the offspring of hybrids are very unpredictable. No farmer wants that. Collecting seeds for the next year isn't as easy as it sounds anyway. You have to make sure to separate out all the stuff that you don't want (dirt, rocks, seeds of weeds, ...), then store it for month under the right conditions (needs space and climate control -> wastes energy), keep pests away (spray it with fungicides, make sure you kill all insects and mice that could come close) and then hope whatever you have left in spring actually sprouts.

@@robrod7120 Hence the source of my problem isn't GMO foods.

@iamihop everything that isn't spicy needs a revamp, the only thing that would disagree is my butt hole

there's plenty of delicious heirloom tomatoes like brandywine and black krim. But yeah, spicy tomatoes will be cool, I hope it's not a patented GMO and anyone can be able to grow it

paytyler you wouldn’t believe how many anti GMO activist are also pro population control. The most effective way next to war and disease to limit population is famine.

How does being resistant to a substance = containing that substance?

Actually copper sulfate is used in organic food and is a known carcinogen. People have tryed this whole trope of "organic food uses safer or no pesticides" and it is completely false. Sorry but the information you are giving out and have been Givin is incorrect. (Edit) nothing is good without sources. www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifestyle/food/the-truth-about-organic-produce-and-pesticides/2018/05/18/8294296e-5940-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

make it so u do not need any chemicals

@@majesticcactus2244 the substance is heavily sprayed on the plants, in the soil, and it gets absorbed.

@@andreahughes5042 so what you are saying is either way we're consuming carcinogenic food?

@illyounotme the problem tends to be that with the higher & higher levels of urbanization alongside a deteriorating climatic situtation, local production starts lookin mighty unsustainable. though maybe with some advances in agricultural robotics, gmo's, & renewable energy technologies it might be possible to grow things at sufficient density & yields but i wouldn't hold my breath

@illyounotme im not saying its impossible to do just increasingly difficult. one has to take into account the changing environment especially near urban areas. higher temperatures, less rainfall, unstable temperatures. these things are making the less intensive/technological methods of farming less economical. doesn't matter if its doable if it cant compete with industrial methods economically or ecologically.

Herb Wag You need a glass house :)

What are we supposed to understand dear?

Michael's Child what he’s saying is that some people read the word “GMO” and immediately think it’s bad.

@@brandonwiebe2647 Gen tech companies made a bad name for GMO plants by arm forcing farmers not willing to engage. No one asked them to do anything really except not to invade space they were not invited into. Further it is still not clear if the plant properties are actually able to surpass hosts digestive system and influence gene expression in humans. What are potential long term effects of such a process? So before actually claiming something will be beneficial more serious issues should be addressed...

@@brandonwiebe2647 Not to mention that in reply to BNF 000158, FDA on May, 24, 2018, stated that the concentration of beta carotene in golden rice is too low to warrant a nutrient content claim. Someone should do homework first.

@@brandonwiebe2647 Those are old people I know what gmo is And its not good And its not a opinion so you can disagree with me It is what it is

I've never had anything to criticize about her, except that ski cap she's wearing.

Christel Headington The oral vaccine has more potential for side effects and bad reactions including paralysis, since it contains live attenuated (weakened) viruses. The injected vaccine contains dead viruses which is safer. However the injected form costs $25-50 per dose, so in developing countries they still use the oral form which is only $0.25 per dose!

Apparently there was a small chance that it would end up giving you Polio, so now it has mostly been replaced.

Thanks, I kind of figured that,but it's been a long time.

Hmmm...at some point we'll understand genetic programming well enough to transpile javascript to a literal gene based application...let that sink in for a minute

yes, now if only we could convince these idiots to let us use cheats already

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@@justkev633 cheater

Except when you make bugs, you make monsters instead 😲

probably.

No, no you haven't

Not exactly. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bNb5XU51aGc.html

Digitalatom6 The other cool GMO chicken is one where the eggs can be sex differentiated, so all the extra rooster eggs can be used to grow vaccines, and the hens can grow up to give us delicious nutritious eggs.

Honestly, most of that is overblown too.

Most stuff you hear about Monsanto is misinformation, but nice try.

Just to be the boring person, there are white people in underdeveloped countries (and some of them are poor) so pretty possible to see white children with bloated tummies and also Vitamin D deficiency is pretty common on the northern hemisphere so your point is a little bit of a generalization.

Profit and benefit are what drive innovation. Without the desire to be rich or famous these types of things would never happen. Read The Wealth Of Nations,Atlas Shrugged,and Human Action.

@@nicholasneyhart396 well those are some of the things that drive innovation, alonside compassion, personal passion, & just general curiosity. but kinda irrelevant since gmo's benefit anyone who eats food & likes the idea of a functioning ecosystem.

It would gain a benefit in being less likely to be eaten by birds and other animals though.

She totally does! that's some serious skin-goals here

@illyounotme I'm not saying we should just do it and act like there are no consequences. Obviously, any new GMO should be tested to make sure you haven't inadvertently added, modified, or activated a gene that's now producing something you don't want. You also have to consider the risks and consequences of cross-pollination with regards to existing strains of a crop, as well as hybridization risks with native plants in the area. Yes, stuff can go wrong. But simply taking the argument down to "the processes just aren't the same!" is shallow-minded. It's like saying I should only use natural vanilla extract and not artificial vanilla flavoring _(which is based around the same chemical that makes vanilla vanilla-ey)_ when baking a cake. Baking soda (and, by extension, baking powder) is usually manufactured as well; should I also do away with that? That sounds so silly, right? I'm sure you've never considered that your favorite desserts may have been made using a petroleum-derived product that was put through a bunch of chemical reactions you don't know, but hey, we've made sure it's safe and synthesized in facilities designed to produce food-safe ingredients. If we can soundly make assessments that the ingredients we use are safe to consume, and that the livestock we keep and crops we grow (and transport, in both cases) aren't likely to spread disease or cause other problems, then why can we not do the same for GMOs? If we want to produce vitamin A-rich rice, and have made sure it's not producing anything harmful in it, and assessed that the risks of introducing it as a food crop are minimal and unlikely to create major problems... _then why shouldn't we grow it?_

B-b-but everything's a GMO so yer mum's bad for you

@@thepurityofchaos I was being sarcastic btw

@@isamuranable So was I.

I can kinda understand your fear, but these new spice tomatoes are likely to be labeled differently than normal ones. You should still be able to eat a tomato without worry.

@@averyhappynobody8822 assuming these take off, it's another thing I have to ask relatives, friends, and waitstaff at restaurants about. It's another thing pranksters might do thinking they're funny. It's another opportunity to misread a tomato sauce label and end up in the hospital with a $5000 bill for.

We know even CRISPR changes more genes and traits than the target location. 20 years prior to CRISPR they were using gene guns and viral vectors to insert genes and give traits to crop which were even less accurate and more prone to side effects. We don't know the impact that could have to the crops.

You do realize all the anti-GMO hate is really impacting their ability to get funding for this stuff, right? It's like how stem cell research really boomed after people got their heads out of their asses about it.

I'm assuming they won't be sold as snacks, but as a portable, stable, and edible way to deliver the vaccine to people at a specific dosage.

Purple ketchup! Tho without the patents (tm)

I would rather have Ebola than being in the late stage of cancer or even having it at all without knowing

But tell that to the anti-GMO morons!