in this video I'm gonna explore why GMOs
themselves aren't bad for you yet may
still poison you GMO or genetically
modified organism is a term applied
mostly to the produce from the mega
farms of Canada and the USA and some
form of genetically modified organism is
in most of the processed food we buy any
today in North America many countries
especially in Europe have placed bats on
the cultivation and sale of GMO products
and products nations like France Germany
Austria Hungary Greece and Luxembourg
all prohibit the sale and use of GMOs
there are large groups of people in most
every nation on earth that are against
the use of GMOs so why are our
governments allowing farmers and
ranchers to grow and sell GMO food if so
many people are against it consider the
size of the agriculture industry most
everything we eat is either grown or
raised and that which is raised is also
fed food which we grow growing and
selling food is a larger business than
oil think about it many people drive
cars but everyone has to eat and every
day the dollars at stake are ginormous
in North America farmers want to produce
as much produce as possible per acre and
profit is the driving factor behind
everything but with public health
potentially at risk why does the
government continue to allow GMOs in
commercial agriculture and actually
promote their use if some say they are
bad for us
it comes down to accredited testing a
GMO plant has to pass all kinds of
rigorous testing to make it to market
so if GMO plants are passing all the
safety tests why is there so much
resistance to GMOs shouldn't science
always trump intuition let's take a look
at these tests as they're the main
reason the government regulatory
agencies pass and support GMO crop
production genetic analysis is a GMO
testing method that detects the presence
of a trans gene in a plant cells genome
the specific GMO test used in this
method is called the polymerase chain
reaction PCR test this test works and
the results are often the basis for
proof that the final GMO plant poses no
risk to humans if eaten and this is
where the system breaks down yes the GMO
plants that pass this and other
extensive tests are not harmful to
humans the repeated results of this kind
of testing on specific GMO plants allows
for the government approval of
commercialization of genetically
modified crops
there's one thing that keeps getting
ignored though and that's the actual
reason for the vast majority of genetic
modification we've all heard that GMOs
create larger vegetables disease
resistance improve climate adaptability
and insect resistance all things that
sound great if genetic modification was
the solution to these problems and it
can be but the problem is that's not the
basis for the vast majority of GMO
research the real reason our food is
being genetically modified right now is
to increase sales of glyphosate yes the
majority of implemented GMO crops exist
for one reason increased resistance to
glyphosate for better weed control now
what the heck is glyphosate glyphosate
is a herbicide so what's a herbicide a
herbicide is a substance that is toxic
to plants used to kill unwanted
vegetation it's applied to the leaves of
plants to kill both broadleaf plants and
grasses once glyphosate is absorbed into
the leaves of a plant
glyphosate cannot be broken down in one
word glyphosate is poison pure poison
cancer-causing poison that accumulates
over time in living cells you might know
it by another name roundup oh wait isn't
that the stuff poisoning people giving
them cancer and Monsanto and bear are
now involved in major lawsuits on
roundup certainly a scary stuff but
what's that got to do with GMOs the vast
majority of GMOs were created not for
bigger crops not for insect and harsh
climate resistance not for flavor
improvement or better shelf-life don't
believe the hype the reality is the vast
majority of GMO crops were created so
the crop would be roundup resistant
that's it roundup resistant weed control
the overwhelming majority of GMO
research implemented into crop
production is for one main purpose and
that purpose is to spray more roundup on
a field to kill more weeds round up
kills almost all plant life but
genetically modified roundup resistant
plants survive the problem is roundup
resistant GMO plants absorb more roundup
a lot more than non GMO crops so you end
up eating more glyphosate absorbed by
those crops
remember glyphosate cannot be broken
down it ends up in you and roundup isn't
something most GMO lab tests look for
they test plants grown in greenhouses
with no Roundup sprayed on them they're
looking for genetic issues not poison so
that's the big conspiracy
GMOs themselves aren't bad for you but
ingesting more glyphosate which is
Roundup well look at the lawsuits around
roundup now and cancer I believe our
governments have been the victims of
misinformation and data manipulation
regarding the safety of GMO food
I believe companies that produce GMOs
played a shell game with the health
risks showing that GMOs themselves are
harmless which for the most part is true
while hiding the real danger which has
increased glyphosate absorption which
gets passed along to humans does using
roundup on weeds increase crop
production yes is it worth the health
risks most of Europe says no what do
they seem to know that we don't
there's one more issue with GMOs that's
just starting to take light seed when a
research company spends millions to
develop a plant that's roundup resistant
they want to protect their investment
the real profit is in selling the seed
and reselling the seed to the same
client
year after year this is done legally by
banning the practice of saving the seeds
on your genetically modified plant now
farmers since the dawn of time have
saved a portion of the crop to replant
the next year GMO plants come with legal
restrictions on replanting the research
companies that develop the genetically
modified plants own a patent on the
modified DNA of the plant and legally
you must buy new seed from them every
year and are legally banned from
replanting seed via the contract you
have to sign when you buy the seed that
seems to make sense people need to get
paid for their work but this is gone so
far out of control now that farmers who
find GMO crops in their non-gmo fields
from seed blown in by the wind from
neighboring crops are now liable and
have been successfully sued wiping out
their business even if they win the
legal battle the lawyer fees cripple and
crush their business at what point are
we as a society going to allow mega
corporations to crush their competition
in court because their product blew into
the competitors feel something has to
change here
personally I think the solution lies
more with small farmers and less with
mega corporations if we empower more
people to grow food it creates jobs and
we end up with better food not just
organic but more local produce new
greenhouse technology is emerging that
is ROI return on investment sensitive
and geared for small to medium-sized
farmers there's a whole movement
beginning on reinventing our food and
it's driven not just by profit but by
quality and taste GMO isn't the only
solution but mega corporations want you
to believe it's the only way and the
world will starve without GMOs nothing
could be further from the truth it's
just about their profit with no concern
for the small farmers and no concern for
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If you get a chance check out "Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food on  Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell's channel. or Vandana Shiva 's Ted Talk on GMOs or Shefan Chin's Sci Show channel.
