Agricultural Transgenics: Science vs. Conspiracy, pt. 1- KazukiSeirei

[theracemixer]

First of all there is nothing wrong with organic.

A) The use verity species can mitigate viral/ fungicidal issue this is also true for environmental problem such as flood/drought .

B) Growing crops without the use of chemical fertilizer will yield the same amount of crops.

[Supralobe]

I love how there are flat earth luddites saying no gmos and flat earth luddites saying no global warming and they're acting like they don't have everything in common with each other.

[wearestarstuffsagan]

genetics is awesome, dont know whether to try to go into genetics or herpotology

[adolthitler]

The only GMO danger is inserting proteins from allergens into other foods, then allergy sufferers will die. I don't know how they can protect against that.

[EvoGenVideos]

@adolthitler That's actually complete crap. They still have to be labelled if they do, but taking the genes from one thing and inserting it into another, given the successive breeding that's done prior to approval, by the time a transgenic organism is ready for market, any contact it had with the allergens is gone. Otherwise, that one gene isn't going to cause an allergic reaction.

[adolthitler]

@EvoGenVideos Maybe I was unclear in how I initially described what I meant. But the gene from a peanut inserted into another plant to confer some benefit, would leave an allergic person at risk.

[EvoGenVideos]

@adolthitler And you apparently didn't understand what I said back. The gene from a peanut doesn't produce the peanut itself, but a protein. Allergic reactions are the product of certain antigens reacting to certain chemicals, which scientists know exactly what they are. Unless the aim was to produce these allergen chemicals, as opposed to another protein, which is unlikely, then no, it wouldn't put anyone at risk.

[kirafan68]

@traog : there are a lot of dumb people over here, too!

[EvoGenVideos]

@traog It has to do with the Mad Cow Scare, but in spite of the higher scientific literacy rates, it's made a legacy of mistrust towards agricultural transgenics as a whole, mostly due to the work of alarmist trash like Jeremy Riffkin.

[traog]

@EvoGenVideos That's too bad, Mad Cow and GMO have little in common.

While cation should be used, IMO, GMOs are far safer than dumping huge quantities of chemicals into the environment to produce food.

[LithodidMan]

Another great video! What kept making me laugh is the guy looks a bit like Michael Weatherly, who played the underground broadcaster ("Eyesonly") exposing the lies of the evil corporate government in the series "Dark Angel". Yes I am a nerd, what of it?

[skinnyjohnsen]

C0nc0rdance has had a few rounds of videos pritty much like this, but it's always nice to have it repeated. GMOs are good as long they don't become used as tools for people to say we shouldn't care about climat change or ground wather overuse.

[TheAtheistPaladin]

I don't know the point of bio-luminescent pigs. Do we actually eat those pigs or they used for something else?

[EvoGenVideos]

@TheAtheistPaladin You know, I don't remember...

[EvoGenVideos]

@TheAtheistPaladin On a quick search, they can apparently be used to detect pollutants, or you can just buy them for aesthetic, as a pet, depending on how the gene is programmed to be expressed.

[TheAtheistPaladin]

@EvoGenVideos

I might buy bio-luminescent Guinea pigs for pets but not bio-luminescent pigs.

[EvoGenVideos]

@TheAtheistPaladin Are you sure? The snouts, edges of their ears, and hooves are the parts that glow. : P

[HConstantine]

@EvoGenVideos There's a warner brothers cartoon about an elephant that stood about 6 inches at the shoulder. Whoever can engineer that for a pet will make a fortune.

[Perggnyd]

@TheAtheistPaladin bio-luminescent pigs and other animals has it's use in science that most people seems to have missed. It's used find out were/when/circumstances a certain proteine is expressed, to follow where a certain cell line go in embryological development or growth kinetics of cancer cells. For most cases when scientist shows bio-luminescent animals it's just to show that they have a method to insert a bio-luminescent it that animal and they can now start to do research on that animal.

[Scarletpooky]

Just can't win sometimes

Make infertile seeds and it's all a conspiracy to make money. Don't do it and it's mad panic about crops gone wild...

[johnnyd101]

great video