Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?
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Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up to the expectations or is it just baloney?
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Did you forgot the immune system explanation
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"Seasonal is the true organic!" Truer words have never been said!!
@Mince Verlot did you even watch the video? People are way too worried about pesticides when the true environmental impact comes from having to produce more all year long just to maintain 'organic' products. Focusing on seasonal produce reduces the needs thus production of out-of-season products, leading to a far better environmental impact that any organic labels ever could.
@Mince Verlot u r an idiot 🙄 resort to belittling sentence structure and grammar when you realize you know nothing of farming in general, either that or you're just an angry gardener worried ur going to lose CSA's this year 😢
@Mince Verlot the amount of Pesticides in non organic crops is negligible in most cases. Dose make the poison. There is no real reason for buying organic but being a Esnob one
Mince Verlot Have you ever really looked at scientific data? Or just hit-pieces? You keep dismissing serious concerns and discussions without providing counter-arguments. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your opinion, but I AM disagreeing with the way you present it.
@Mince Verlot Children eating organic over inorganic removes mental illness? *looks up high anxiety rates* Edit: You called bs immediately after watching 2 minutes. You are intellectually lazy like the rest of us. Because most of us probably watched this for our confirmation bias
Marketing 101: It doesn't matter if it's better, they just have to believe that it is - and then they will pay what ever you ask.
Correct, it's all about perception. I once worked for Campbells/Arnotts and we had a meeting about a new product and they were talking about how it was healthier, I looked at the sugar content and it was as high as soft drink but they were saying because it contained 'natural sugars' it was healthy. I argued it didn't matter, sugar is sugar. They didn't like that, I was just supposed to shut my mouth and go along with it, even though I knew better. Just because I wear the uniform it doesn't mean I can't call out bullshit when you're trying to feed it to me.
Welcome to the world. Where you can’t trust anything said by corporate.
It worked for Apple and Starbucks.
You have read not a single study have you? This is shite video with many falsities
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 Natural sugar is actually healthier though. That's why shit like raisins aren't awful for you, despite having insane amounts of sugar. Most likely still not healthy though, and i'm not expert.
My biggest problem with "organic" is that plenty of things that claim to be organic aren't, which is blatant false advertising but yet the brands aren't held accountable for it at all. And that's even before you get into the murky consensus of what is and isn't organic.
Whats an example of this? Or how do you find out which is and isnt true
@@GooseCeeidk how you know
An important detail that's missed is that soil isn't just dead matter, it's full of fungus. Healthy soil requires a connection to these deeper mycelial networks in order to access the full range of nutrients. It could be that our farming techniques sever this connection and prevent the soil from replenishing. If we solve this issue, we could get more nutrition with less food.
Folic acid content on top of that..
Poly culture the process, and now you get more nutrition and more food
I came down looking for this comment. ✊🏻 impact on the soil is a big and important missing part in this video.
@@thegreenroomorganic yes!
exactly. I used to date a horticulturist and she said the same thing. Now each year I replenish my garden soil with compost to ensure more nutrients. They need to do a better job to give the soil all the minerals and bacteria it needs. Growing vegetable on low nutrient soil...organic or not...will have an impact on your crops nutrients and taste.
*Can we appreciate on how they place sponsorship in the back so you aren't interrupted while learning?*
@Bel H Ignorance is a disease. I can agree on that. Such as the fools who continue to deny the impacts of climate change and the disastrous impacts that will come with it. But I quite frankly side with most people who view this channel as highly informative and educational. Of course there’s people that are gonna go on and on that everything they say is bullshit and false. Even if this video was incorrect, that doesn’t condemn every single video they make on this channel to be garbage. Each of their videos shows the effort they put in to make. It takes 1200 hours to make a video. Which I don’t believe is far fetched. Gathering information, sending it to have it looked over by others sources, re writing, recording the narration and animating the video and making music. All that adds up. And don’t throw the “I do x” and I have “x” qualification. How does that relate to the accusations you’re throwing at them?
@Bel H just admit that you’re wrong and can’t handle it dude. i’m sorry that you’re offended by the scientific facts that this video presents, but “facts don’t care about your feelings”, as some would say.
@Bel H lmao i was making fun of all yall that get so pressed about scientific facts :/ chill the fuck out dude you’re the one throwing the tantrum
@Bel H give some sources then maybe we’ll listen
@Bel H somebodies opinions about something they're uneducated about never defines what kind of person they are. thats something to learn about
As a farmer it's refreshing to see an honest look at this topic instead of something loaded with all of the popular BS that typically goes along with anything organic.
What do you farm? You got me interested.
@@dylanger1015 Citrus. Juice oranges, grapefruit, lemons.
@@flatbg1 cool!
No till methods don’t release carbon into the air for example? What other bs?
Mountain Rider Somebody clearly didn’t watch the video. Also, it seems to me that organic food only fuels your superiority complex, not your diet.
A discussion on Regenerative agriculture would be very interesting to see how it compares with conventional and organic agriculture.
It cant keep up. There simply isnt enough land for it. All land that can be easily used for farming already is. Most of whats left is either national reserves or rocky ground that dont produce crops without significant terraforming. The figures are a bit outdated, but some poeple calculated how much we could produce on regenerative basis and it would be enough to feed around 500 million people in the world. There are currently more than 7000 million. Without conventional farming most of us would starve.
@Strazdas Everything you've stated is categorically wrong. Not all land is being used, "conventional" farming only started in the 1930s when there were already 2 billion people on the planet. "Conventional" isn't sustainable because the soil nutrients is declining over time and if we continue the current trends, the soil will be completely dead by 2080 so regenerative is the Only long term solution because it focuses on the soil health which also in turn increases the nutrients of the plants
@@jackdanielson1997 Conventional farming started in the 15th century when we invented crop rotation. We are using pretty much all land that is easily arable. Whats left is either a) forests, b) rocky land not good for agriculture or c) national parks. We could kill the C option and expand the cropland a bit but i doubt we will. Regenerative farming cannot sustain more than a billion people on the planet. Good luck convincing the other 6 billion they need to die.
@@jackdanielson1997 what about fertilizers?
@@deri1942 Good question! Yes, farms definitely need fertilizer. Manufactured fertilizers won't be around forever, unfortunately. Phosporous mines will run out in 50-100 years, and phosporous runoff into waterways isn't recoverable (yet...maybe someone will find out how to do it). Using farm animal manure instead for fertilizer (by purchasing manure or having more mixed-use farms) would solve the fertilizer problem.
I wished this video had discussed the health effects of organic vs conventional on the workers. This is the angle on organic products that sold me.
Workers must follow REI's whether they are spraying pesticides on an organic field or a non-organic crop. Follow the law which means follow the label and the REI's and everyone is gold.
The solution of this video happens to be the solution to every problem ever. Explore all possibilities and compromise. Ideas don’t have to fight each other. They often can add to one another.
That and remembering the *hard facts* of a situation.
Have you ever tasted a tomato that was home grown? After you eat one of those, a regulat supermarket tomato is like a 3d printed imitation with a poor excuse of a taste in comparison. If conventional can get to the necessary level and actually produce material that doesn't taste like plastic, this discussion wouldn't even be necessary, as we can wash our veggies, effectively destroying the pesticide problem. I'd say, swap synthetic fertilisers with compost and all will be gucci.
@@Hr1s7i have you even watched the video? They clearly say that organic doesn’t use synthetic pesticide, so at the end of the day, organic is already doing what you said. (By the way… I can’t believe you just used gucci…)
@@Didagg The video didn't say that.
@@Hr1s7i Organic, conventional, home grown or in test tube, compost or synthetic fertiliser, none of that makes any difference to the taste of a tomato if it's picked too early. Commercially grown tomatoes, no matter how they're farmed, are picked before they are ripe so they will survive long transportation and storage. They ripen in transit, but no longer being attached to the plant, they don't receive all the sugars and nutrients that make it taste great. Grow it at home, or buy locally grown, and that problem is eliminated, the tomatoes can be picked when they're properly ripe, have received all the sugars and nutrients from the plant at the end of ripening, and will taste fantastic.
8:20 "Production is very important for our animations though. We make them with a lot of love and care." * furiously slapping animate button *
Vegetable Feces *Slapping intensifies*
Stomping on*
@AdamGameToons This isn't being a grammar nazi.
Yeah thats how it works I think
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You missed out concerns about the people working on the farms I think. My understanding is that often organic certification also includes minimum labour standards that are not necessarily law in the country where the food is produced. With bananas for example, buying Fairtrade or organic means the workers don’t have to handle the conventional chemicals that can severely damage their fertility, because the Fairtrade and organic certifications only allow the safer chemicals.
Well fair-trade means the farmers get paid fairly
Would be interesting to include analysis of biodiversity, animal welfare and political economy of GMO in the comparison.
On the animal welfare front conventionally farmed plants are clearly better since they use much less manure.
In most of which conventionally farmed plants tend to come out on top.
@@cheer90099 sources?
Wtf is “political economy of gmo”?🤦♂️🤡
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"Seasonal is the true organic." Why do I feel like this should have been a bigger part of the video - if not a significant portion?
yet everything is genetically modified in some way.
@404 Limit Pesticides already have been proven in this video to be a non-health issue, due to regulations keeping their levels in check. Besides, there are much more prominent concerns, like fungi and bacteria. Secondly, you are taking that "Seasonal is the true organic" bit out of context. The narrator meant eating vegetables in season is most certainly eco-friendly. Though, I wish more is to be said on that particular claim.
Lance Wang lol proven, by this video? Do you understand what the word proven, means?
@@lancewang4923 "Pesticides already have been proven in this video to be a non-health issue, due to regulations keeping their levels in check." IS THE MOST IDIOTIC thing i've read today. Believe 404 Limit: there is a skull on every bottle of liquid that is sprayed on your food my dear.
Because this video is there to inform you, not to tell you what to do.
i imagine that all your videos are made by a bird just furiously stomping on a button
He IS the bird stomping on the button
@@neptune.2566 you mean Kurzgesagt is cute and still a little kiddo? Aww man
@@SKtheMage ikr
@@neptune.2566 lol
That must be a really smart bird then.
I found that there is a huge difference in organic chicken and non organic, you can taste and smell the difference. However, there are lots of scams on the 'organic' label for products.
U want organic chicken u need to goto a farm or get live chickens
I think this has nothing to do with it being organic or not chickens smell and taste is usually related to what they are being fed.
@@SalamanderBattleBrother being organic certified is probably why there is a difference in what the chickens are being fed
@@geenskeen if you feed your chicken fish remains (which is also organic) it will taste like fish i don't think you want that.
We watched this video in my Outdoor Education class and it sparked really interesting discussions about our preconceptions and things we take for granted. Brilliant!!!!!
High school : Level 1 Crook University : Level 35 Boss Kurzgesagt : Level 100 Godfather *_That's how education works_*
xD im still waiting for the memes
I love mafia city memes lmao
cant wait for this meme to die in about 4 minutes
This dude is a genius
@@thecanadianfuhrer8602 only 2 minutes sir we can do it
Organic = less efficient. With earth's population expected to rise to 11 billion, should we really be promoting something that uses more land and produces less food? This seems so counter-intuitive.
*-that’s how capitalism works-*
Thats how mafia works.
Agree, it's stupid fashion, farms have to be efficient with keeping nutricious and health standards for us
The plus side is we probably will never have more than around 12 billion people on earth at any time.
We already produce enough food to feed the world, but a lot is thrown away or fed to livestock. A UN report found that we could feed the world with organic food.
thank you for this. because honestly, the organic stuff was working tf out of my brain and wallet. this video, along with some other research i did, helped me understand that i dont need all my food to be 100% organic. i more so need functional/healthy liver and kidneys.
How SAD SAP of you. Standard American Diet, Standard American Person.
So happy that I found this page. Thanks for helping me understand this organic v conventional food debate. Great stuff!
So you just believe this channel vs others with different claims why?
I just came to hear the cool voice kurzgesagt man say “organic”
“Cool voice kurgesagt man”
Why was this the first comment I saw
@@kemisolaakk cuz the guy is ur moms friends fathers friends daughters son and ur friend
@@urdadafra9189 And kemi is your cousin
@@SuperMTF nyehhh
Please make avocado man a recurring character My life cannot go on without him
Holly Shi* it's a mallerien. Tell me are you vegan as well?
Bacon is so yummy wummy in my tummy eat meat meat meat
Jesus these toxic fucks in the comments! Anyways, yes I also like the avacado man
@@coriumjunkiezephan4779 Im pretty sure xseth1 isnt even a vegan so you just said that for no reason. Which makes you look really awkward.
He's not the hero the supermarket asked for. But he's the hero the supermarket needs...
I see that the true message of this video is buy local and seasonal...in my experience, no matter if i buy organic or "non-organic" veggies from the supermarket, none of them taste as good as the ones i buy from the local peasant market🤷♀️
exactly. Buy local, buy seasonal and eat more fruits and vegetables in general.
at 4:14, the study actually says: "The hazard index for pesticides for a Danish adult was on level with the hazard quotient for alcohol for a person consuming the equivalent of 1 glass of wine every seventh year".
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It subverted our expectations.
*Hitler wants to know your location*
“ What is the carbs in this? I need to count it for my Keto diet.”
prince will be poisoned if kissed tho
*looks at Witch* Whos mans is this?
Buy Organic (Small Brain) Buy Either one since there is not much difference (Big Brain) Buy Seasonal/Local Produce (Woke) Growing your own produce the way you want (Ascended)
Not everyone has the luxury of growing their own produce (Small brain)
Jastin Byeber (No brain - *er* )
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 it's way easier than you think. You can grow your own veggies on your NYC apartment window
Not eating at all (Nirvana)
That's the exact opposite of how that meme works.
Nice video! Regarding meat and dairy products, I think a lot of people buy organic for the animal welfare. Would have been nice to consider that aspect 😊
I never heard of organic food has anything to do with animal welfare. Can you explain, please?
Isn't it worse though because it uses more land
@@PrivateMcPrivate in Florida if cows aren’t on the land then mass maundactured neighborhood pops up. Here perserving ranch land is preserving the wildlife corridor.
Good info presented in a balanced way. I try to grow my own but it’s good to know my options. My budget can prevent buying organic so I’m feeling relieved.
Organic is a marketing term. Crude oil is 100% organic as it is formed naturally through organic chemistry...
Signs Of Bias 🤔
@@thejay8963 It's a joke...
Scientifically, Organic simply means "has Carbon atoms in its molecules." Carbon Dioxide not included.
Stop it! Or the oil industry is going to start calling it organic oil! LOL
@@geocyo8835 Well, some scientists HAVE successfully synthesized crude oil in a lab now. And they Hypothesize that it is formed from hyper-compressed organic matter. Note, they STILL say it takes "millions of years, normally" despite making it in a matter of days in a lab. XD
Ok but the avocado in the thumbnail was so cute
I think the eggplant is cuter tbh
I want that avocado as my next tattoo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
yay dood
The left is hot. Right, right! I meant right!
Tewi The BunBun true
The art is SO gorgeous, and using it for education is a plus. New sub!
Loved thus video. Such necessary information provided in such a beautiful way ♡
I love the “seasonal is most organic” part, it’s not only best for the production, it’s also best for you, having varieties in life!
But some regions are always or mostly winter. Only small parts of the earth have different seasons.
@@abcd-kz9vw for real, here in canada for example, buying seasonal would just mean starving to death lol
ok but if you live in the Caribbean where its basically summer all year there's no variety 😭😭 and I love grapes so much
It's best for your community and region as well.
@@kimaya.3563wdym there’s plenty of fruit in the carribean
Local + seasonal = real organic
True. This is what people should do if they want to eat ethically.
Yeah people, this.
So basicly saying. If you wanna safe yourself and the world. Don't buy exotic food made in other countries. Stick to local stuff. But i absolutely hate Sprouts tho :(
Markus Brorson Jajebox!
So eating something from somewhere else is not organic but living there and eating it makes it organic...yep your definition make total sense
I think we like the idea of organic, but at the moment the high demand for extra land, deforestation, cheap labour, supply chain issues and exorbitant prices means that 'organic ' food production still has a lot of problems to solve. Seasonal eating and supporting local growers would definately be a good habit for all of us to learn.
Well, pesticides are one of the main contributors of deforestation due to the killing soil microbes… Organic is still better for the planet in the long run.
The thing is, a lot of regions where human population is concentrated do not have suitable seasons to grow crops and arable land. There is a gap between ideal places for human living and the ideal places for farming. Look at the recent news of tomato shortage in the UK. People in the UK want tomatoes but tomatoes are ideally grown in warmer climate like Spain or North Africa. If they are to eat seasonally and locally, they would be left with turnips.
Omg what a great video!❤ thank you for being so nuanced!
A video a month and still not 10 mins just to squeeze out more ads. Much respect 🙏
I think why they did that is because... stretching the animations to 10 mins+ is much harder... and the extra ad revenue will probably not be worth it at that point
Taqi I haven’t gotten a single ad on KZhead in YEARS. KZhead premium is so worth buying
Ever seen a kurzgesagt video with ads? They dont monetise them, that's why Also technically it's two videos a month since they produce for their german channel with the same team
They also get money from the german government, because they are part of "Funk", an online network of the german public broadcast.
This channel earned ten of thousands of dollars a month through Patreon, so ads are unnecessary. If viewers contributed more to their favorite channel, there'll be less incentive for the creators to place the ad.
I think a lot of the stigma originated with “organic” being seen as synonymous with “healthy” while GMO is seen as artificial, and therefore toxic and/or harmful, when that isn’t necessarily the case.
What isn't addressed is the additional resources (land area, manpower, cost) that is required for "organic" production. If 100% of all world-wide food production abandoned GMO, antibiotics, pesticides, fertilizers, and such, the production of food would fall dramatically and the poor would starve.
@@earthwormscrawl they already starve while we produce enough food. Some chemicals are also highly polluting and damage the land they are used on. I don't say organic is THE solution, but it has advantages too, especially if you want something tasty (basic fruits and vegetables from supermarkets are pretty terrible)
Humans have been genetically modifying organisms for thousands of years. It's the main reason why we're the dominant species, we learned how to farm crops and make them produce higher yield through selective breeding.
@Ephraim Bane We have not been "genetically modifying organisms" for thousands of years. I'm sure you know that "GMOs" refers to artificially altering a species' DNA through laboratory techniques that do not happen naturally i.e. genetic engineering, not selective breeding i.e. evolution. The long-term safety of selective breeding has been undeniably proven while there are still unknowns regarding GMOs, not only their effect on human health but also their effect on wildlife and the surrounding environment, both direct and indirect, such as GMOs that are modified to be used with a specific pesticide that's more dangerous than other pesticides. More research is needed. Saying that selective breeding is the same thing as GMOs is like saying that CRISPR designer babies are no different than conceiving kids naturally because we've been "genetically modifying" humans for millions of years by selectively choosing our partners.
@@flyaround312 So TL;DR science touched it so it's tainted. Also, we spray pesticides on plants, so why not our children?
Thanks for this. My Dr put me on a diet (due to health reasons) that stresses the importance of everything being organic. However, I don't have the economy to buy anything organic at all. So I'm following the diet with conventional food, and after 2 months my health has never been better! This video comes to prove that if I did it in "organic version" it would only drain my wallet.
If your doctor told you that, get a new doctor. That one's either gullible or corrupt. an honest doctor would have said the trace amounts of pesticides and whatnot are impacting your health, and that you should wash your produce carefully. Organic doesn't affect the food itself at all, just takes away some of the more dangerous tools we've developed for agriculture over the years. If you wash a regular apple, it is nutritionally and chemically indistinguishable from an organic one. Organic is just how some greedy hippies coopted a fairly reasonable and safe paradigm for agriculture and turned it into a way to sell bullshit to imbeciles.
@@jeffhoward162 Well, after tons of studies, 15+ doctors and 6 years, she's the only one who has correctly diagnosed my illness. With her treatment, I started improving after day 2. So I'm not letting her go. I just research and/or ask for a second opinion if something seems off to me, like this topic.
@@zmnicvander Well, if it's working for you, keep it up! Glad you found relief for your illness.
@@zmnicvander Organic might be, from her perspective, to add a little placebo effect or marketing to make patients more likely to follow her advice.
It‘s a very general and relative term anyway. You can say, for example, steak and veggies are organic compared to fast and processed food. Difference between the two is way larger than the debated difference between “organic” and conventional plants.
Hi! I love your drawing style! It's beautiful!! I love it ❤
This is crazy relevant to my day. I work at a grocery store and we were having a conversation about "organic" foods (I was arguing there's little to no difference between the two). My customer argued "Well there's fewer GMO ingredients". I asked "What does GMO stand for?" The both of us went silent and I have a feeling that customer won't be coming back... >~>
HAHAHA. Rekt
GMO = Genetically Modified Organism
Well if she does come back you can show her this video and she can see that she's largely wasting her money. I've learned a lot about this subject by watching this and have made the decision that I won't be paying extra for organic at all now as it's really a marketing ploy. It appears that the health and environmental benefits are negligible if non existent so I'll be sticking to regular fruit and veg from now on!
All dogs are a GMO, its my favorite way of poking fun at anti GMO fanatics. I also love pointing out how Banana's are a GMO by nature, as the only edible ones are genetically created to be sterile and incapable of reproducing. But they can claim its organic and non GMO because their splicing is done in the shed out back with little scientific oversight, apparently doing scientific research on the subject of genetics suddenly goes too far.
Sherrif it’s quite interesting as the first bananas had lots of large seeds in them, they were small and had a green hard skin. And then through selection of better yield from certain specimens -basically more organic modifying of an organism- they became the current product we see today
If your concern is environmental, buy local. The greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles transporting distant or out of season foodgoods (for many Americans this includes sugar, coffee, chocolate, oranges, seafood) far outweighs the impact on the environment of the foodgoods themselves. As usual exercise moderation erring on temperance wherever possible.
^^^ THIS!!! ^^^ Something i want to add though. If you can, grow your own veggies and fruits!! You don’t have to even grow them outside if you don’t have the space. Use big tubs and fill them with dirt. You can grow things like herbs, tomatoes, beans, peas, strawberries, blueberries, etc. Also aeroponics which is growing food out of dirt and spraying the bare roots with water, aka having them suspended in the air. And there’s hydroponics big towers with tiny pockets of spongey-stuff that the roots are in that cycles the water around in an evaporation cycle. Both of these have lots of online tutorials on how to make them. But if you don’t feel like making a fancy holder for your plants, just use big tubs with dirt in them. Oh!! And another plus of growing your own is that it’s cheaper than buying them. Once you get going it’s nice to have a constant supply of veggies and fruits. I recommend growing plants that give more than one yield. Root vegetables also are plantable but give less yield than planting say, peas which grow more pods like every day. And if you can’t put them outside to be pollenated, you can find tutorials to hand pollenate.
buy local AND crops that are in season.
Do you really think organic food is not as impactful to the environment as the pollution from transporting the food
@@pintailee7077 Yes.
@@pintailee7077 It really depends on how extreme you’re thinking. Unsustainable in the short term farming can be really efficient because it’s so lazy while high quality organic can be quite consumptive of resources. It’s worth saying transportation makes up a massive amount of the world’s CO2 emissions; however, your typical commuters make up a tiny amount of that compared to the transport of goods. Agriculture is pretty small compared to transport. Local is better, whichever way you have it, but specific practices are the most efficient while being sustainable that almost nobody uses in conjunction with one another.
It is really interesting. I love all your videos, so keep trying your best to make more value of life
Your videos are very meaningful. It widen my knowledge and I really love it
I grow both organic and conventional. Farmers grow what the market wants! Educating consumers on the difference is a massive challenge that most farmers would rather avoid. Organic also sells for more so farmers have an incentive to grow organically to make more money! Thank you for the awesome video!!!
Yeah but organic is still a pain compared to conventional though. Take oats for example.
I wounder where antibiotics fit into the organic vs conventional argument. If there is antibiotics in my meat than that scares me. How can we limit use of antibiotics?
@Yoshiyahoo By eating less meat overall.
@yoshiyahoo Antibiotics are not fed to animals that are certified organic at least in the United States.
Do farmers actually make more on organic crops? I thought all of the extra profit was lost on lower yields and grubby packaging companies.
#1 on Trending! Hope lots of people who don't understand organic foods completely see this video! Edit: yay people see this more
Justin B. ... this is not the place to learn about organic foods. I bet this is a Monsanto paid video.
@@oakjim206 buying seasonal and local is about as anti monsanto as you can get. as a fan of organic farming methods, i thought this video was incredibly fair. we should always be striving to make all parts of life better. updating sound old methods with sound new ones is just plain smart!
*In 'Murica, We Sell Cheap, Processed, Crappy Food For Low Class People for lower Prices While The Higher Class Eat Healthy and More Naturally for Higher Prices.*
@@oakjim206 the stupids are out and commenting
Fruits with exoskeletons like oranges, bananas, and avocados are safe to eat non organic because you peel the skeleton off before you eat it
This is straight up the best channel on KZhead. They're 100% putting in the most work.
As someone who has been plant based for 19 years this was great because I was frankly clueless. I never understood what organic meant other than assuming it was a marketing scam so I've never bought into it. Glad to know I haven't been making a mistake all this time per sae.
This video is so misinformed. Organic means NO glyphosate! .
@@SublimeGemini From what I can see from a quick look phosphates are generally found in meats, fish, nuts, beans, and dairy. This means that meat organic or not is going to have phosphates, therefore I think you are incorrect in your assumption?
@@xCriticalStrikex I’m sorry I think it autocorrected what I was saying, I meant to say glyphosate. Glyphosate is the main compound in roundup. The food absorbs it and we eat it. Organic means no round up. It’s not a scam, a lot of people do not want that in their body and rightfully so. “Inorganic” has only been a thing since the late 60’s and farmers started using it in the 70’s. We’ve been farming organic for thousands of years there’s no reason to use glyphosate other than it’s cheap and companies just want to make as much money as they can. They don’t care about your health, that’s why there’s such a debate about organic. It’s propaganda big corporation farms pushing “inorganic” and makes organic seem like it’s crazy.
You got fooled. Organic still uses less pesticides, pesticides that don't kill microbiome and every living insect in a radius of a lightyear, including the extreme extiction of bees due to synthetic substances. Also no overuse of synthetic fertilizers (another issue because production is very co2 heavy and again destroys rainforests) that end up in rivers and drinking water.
Hmm, whom to believe? Random KZhead commenters or a KZhead video with sources referred to thoughout, from a channel with a diligent team of fact-checkers?
THANK YOU! I’ve been saying this for years. Did a paper on it in college. It’s all marketing. However- we can all agree that Monsanto was one of the most evil fucking companies on the planet. But yes, buy local, buy seasonal ❤️.
in Egypt you are forced to buy seasonal anyway ,lol
We have no idea yet if it really makes a difference. So many conventional pesticides haven't been around long enough to know the long term effects. These companies have trained to think they are doing us a favor by Not Sprinkling Chemicals on our FOOD
I disagree about Monsanto. Monsanto, just like all companies, are driven by economics and politics. That is how we have structured the system, and the structure leads to certain almost unavoidable results. Therefore, like all giant multinational companies, Monsanto has done some shitty things. That is inevitable. However, they're not special and they also do a lot of good. For example, they give tens of millions of dollars to charity every year, not to mention that their products (which have made them one of the largest agricultural companies for a reason) are very useful and preferred by the people who buy them. Again, clearly not perfect like every other company- but also not even close to being "one of the most evil fucking companies on the planet". I'd reserve that title to companies that deal with pseudoscience/alternative medicine and scams like amway.
Could I ask you to explain what you mean about the Monsanto thing, please? I'd really love to understand what you're trying to say!
Monsanto is not the evil bogeyman nitwits on the internet claim it to be. It's all half truths or out of context bullshit the gullible drink up.
I’ve been to a Dole banana farm in Guatemala before. When we asked why the pesticide plane turned around in a certain area, they responded, “oh those are the organic ones” and I promise, they were getting sprayed indirectly by being in proximity.
Jonathan Bryant Yh unless your country grows bananas, real organic bananas are hard to find... For banana importing countries, there’s little to no difference between organic and normal bananas :/
@@kuyaleinad4195 there's no such thing as organic bananas ( at least in the countries that don't grow them). All the bananas we eat are clones of the cavendish. Here's a rule of thumb- if there are seeds in the banana the size of your thumb, it's organic. If not, it's a genetically modified clone.
There is no such a thing as an organic banana, pesticides or not... Well, there is, but nobody would want to eat that.
Ethan Lam Yeah I knew that XD But I still see ‘Organic Bananas’ at my local supermarket here in the UK even though they’re cavendish bananas :/ And there are seedless varieties of wild bananas but they’re not really edible
The symptoms that bugs have (neurological damage) when dying of pesticides are also some of the symptoms of dementia and Parkinson's. In many instances, the bug's nervous system is so disrupted that its motor skills begin to get violently shakey, and the autonomic system that keeps it breathing and other systems alive shut down. KEEP in mind that washing grapes (or anything) doesn't "completely" help with the use of pesticides. ** When pesticides are used, they eventually are rained or watered into the soil that the plant ROOTs drink from. The plant grows from what comes up out of the soil into the roots, into the plant, and into the food it produces. ** Think of it this way - - Put a white daisy into the water with green / red / OR blue food color....IN a few days the white daisy has become another color. Having nothing sprayed on it -- It has pulled up what was in the moisture in the soil - - OR in this case, just from the water.
sooo... trendy scam? Got it.
Moral of the story is to simply eat more fruits and vegetables rather than worrying if the food you're eating is organic or not.
@MonkFish - "time to start growing my own fruit/vegetables" That's exactly what I was saying in my video!!!
@MonkFish Gunna need a source on that.
You just saved 8 minutes of my life thank you...oops make that 7 now
@@myself2noone _"The glyphosate-based herbicide disrupts aromatase activity and mRNA levels and interacts with the active site of the purified enzyme, but the effects of glyphosate are facilitated by the Roundup formulation in microsomes or in cell culture. We conclude that endocrine and toxic effects of Roundup, not just glyphosate, can be observed in mammals. We suggest that the presence of Roundup adjuvants enhances glyphosate bioavailability and/or bioaccumulation."_ - *Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Jun;113(6):716-20*
@@myself2noone Also, glyphosate usage was 38% of all pesticide use in 2008. It was indeed the MOST prevelant! - *DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2502986*
my (partial) solution to this problem is to grow my own vegetable garden. I have about 100 square feet that I grow an entire summer's worth of meals in, and I'm thinking of replacing some ornamental trees with apple trees in the near future.
Sorry I know this is irrelevant but I think it would be great if we replaced ALL of the ornamental trees with fruit trees. At least in big cities, it would feed the poor and homeless everywhere...
There is no guarantee that this is actually better though. Possibly the resources put in to the garden would have a greater environmental benefit if used to say ... donate to climate change and energy research. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it though. I recon it makes you happy and that is also worth spending resources on.
Question though: How the hell can a summers worth of meals be grown in a roughly 100 ft^2? Surely 10ft by 10ft or 3m by 3m is no where near a summers worth of meals.
I wish people would stop growing so much grass in their yard and instead grew food for humans. All that grass is mostly useless at best and a huge waste at worst.
@@heinenrby7600 Slight exaggeration on my part; I grow almost all the fruits and all of the vegetables I eat for about a third of the year. I still buy flour/bread/such, meat, most herbs, and citrus products throughout the year. Some of my plants--notably tomatoes--will produce fruit from May well into November. Every year I grow more than my own weight in produce.
I find it very interesting that (unless I missed it) FLAVOR wasn’t mentioned. There is an enormous difference in flavor between organic and non-organic produce and other food products. I understand this video is more about the environment, but flavor is also a huge motivation to buy organic. I can definitely tell the difference in taste and quality. I do love the idea of buying non-organic produce in season however. That makes sense.
There isn't really any consistent difference in flavor though. Sure, the specific organic apples that your supermarket sells might taste better than the specific non-organic apples your supermarket sells, but that's not true across the board. Confirmation bias might make you think that there is, though. If someone gave you two pieces of banana and told you that one is organic and the other isn't then you will probably say the organic piece tastes better, even if it turns out that they're both from the same banana.
@@sidarthurgortimer355 Banana is a poor example since most Westerners only know a few types of bananas. Flavor can come from variety, soil and weather. Cavendish is just.. bland.
@@sidarthurgortimer355 and also don't forget harvesting/ ripening methods, but point taken there will always be bias coz we are humans
By my experience flavor is a huge motivation to NOT buy organic. Fresher fruits are the ones that taste better. If you buy only fresh organic fruits you have the illusion than they taste better. But trust me, convencional fresh taste the same thing, if not better. All the worse flavored fruits and veggies I've ate were organic.
I've noticed not only the flavor is better but the food is more colorful - or tends to be. I wish people would consider the spiritual aspect though... That's when you really get considered "crazy". The fact is, the major companies producing the non organic foods are producing them with a negative energy of fear which fuels greed. The food is not only nearly dead, it reduces liveliness in the body too. And this is reflecting on the environment of the whole ecosystem; everything is dying and becoming dead because of this violent taking. Most of us don't recognize it because we are mostly dissociated from ourselves and our bodies. We don't recognize the food's effects or what it reflects about our lives. Yep. This is the real crazy territory right here... And it gets you lumped up as a conspiracy theorist when you point out there are interests backing up these view points that are against organic farming. Gotta love it.
All of these points are super accurate and important! Very informative. Was hoping you would have talked more about how buying local and seasonal (if you have the means to do so!!) Is truly the best way to consume produce and veggies.
7:16 Finn’s Grads Sword and Jake’s Sword reference? Nice one! UPD: And Lemongrab at the beginning!
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How did you get that reference but not see the lemon grab at 0:11
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I thought I was overthinking, but wow
"Most people don't eat enough fruit and veg anyway" I feel personally attacked.
frostydowns same☹️😂
Don’t be. Nothing inherently required in eating enough fruits and veggies. Especially modern fruit “candy”
Most people in the US also don't eat enough protein so that's a bit funny xD
Try using a blender and just smoothie your fruits in. Since I began ingesting fruit this way it truly feels like a cheat code!
Who cares
this woulda helped with my organic persuasive essay I had written a few weeks ago
One thing for sure and it's that you guys are very very good and give us a LOT of things to learn so I'm saying thank you
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@@ragestuffin Kots is something else and is written kotz (Kotze, kotzen), meaning vomit(ing). Like: ich kotz gleich - I will vomit soon. You need to spell it with an u followed by an r an then ts, not ots
Kuyts ger ZAKT. ("r" in this combination is like "y", "er" like in British English "her")
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Buy local folks! It helps your local economy, and tastes better!
"Tastes better"
Frick the economy
Tried it, turns out folks don't taste so good.
Local and seasonal. Keeping local produce fresh out of season is often worse for the environment than importing produce from where it is in season.
I only eat imported folks... for legal reasons.
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3:48 Well people who buy organic stuff tend to eat healthier in general. It makes perfect sense that they have a lower cancer rate overall. It's caused by correlation, not causation; that is, people who eat organic food also eat less hamburgers and more apples, and as a result have less cancer. Not that the organic apples actually help them avoid cancer. Meaning that the study is simply misleading, if you think about it from a logical standpoint.
People who eat organic are wealthier, and poor people get more cancer for a host of reasons beyond just diet.
great point
Yeap. Richer people tend to be more healthier, and since organic cost more, richer people are more likely to buy organic.
And there's a reason why the rich can only get their hands on such >_>
Your logic is impeccable. I salute you good sir. And award you two logics.
I refreshed my subscriptions just in time
I saw an Instagram post about how non organic foods "produce chemicals that turn into cancer cells when you eat them". It was also promoting eating apples that had worms in them.
They both have pros and cons like most things in live, the better option is a combination of the best of both. Truly lovely animation
Organic interests will not stand for any combination from anywhere.
Me: I ate 5 tubs of ice cream Friend: so un healthy Me:it's organic Friend: you legend
All natural too.
Edwinradcliff Alabas my friends would’ve called me fat and unhealthy lmao
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technically, because its just frozen yogurt and yogurt is just milk without bacteria
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If school was like this.... I’d go everyday
Me too
Go anyway Learning is important Discipline and routine as a good habit, even more important.
@@BirdRaiserE Learning is important but forcing to learning something you don't wonder or want isn't good and school just teaches useless facts
@@katilcivciv6314 Your grammar shows that you need to go to school more.
@@existentialreader5323 and your words shows that you are dumb
I love how inventive and humourous Kurzgesagt's videos are... this video contains some information I did not know until now but it does confirm my overall suspicion that SOME fruit and vegetable crops are healthier to eat when grown organically but NOT all of them
This channel is full of fun science, I am so happy to check it out from time to time..🌟🌺
I'll just buy one of each.
Genius.
I'll buy conventional then sell them as organic
@@zglrd8938 that is illegal
@@poo655622 you can't even tell the difference so what is the point of labelling anything as 'organic'. EVERYTHING we eat is 'organic' as in carbon-based :)
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0:52 "I love Food & Stuff, it's where i buy all of my food.... And most of my stuff"
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I was hoping i wasn’t the only one that noticed
Conventional large scale mono-crop agriculture does not produce as nutritious food as traditionally and naturally grown organic produce. Some studies only look at the "macro" nutrients but not other aspects. Also, there is often bias in some of these studies. Much of the funding and study design is in such a way to promote a certain agenda. It's known that food nowadays is less nutritious than in the past. Part of the problem is with soil health. Plants can't uptake some of these nutrients. There is more to it than alluded to in this video. Current agricultural methods are also detrimental to the soil.
You forgot to mention that, from a consumer's perspective, it's impossible to distinguish organic from non-organic food. You could be simply paying more money for the same food, which is organic only in its labeling.
Ive a friend who's farm is organic in every metric required, but her farm is not large enough to justify paying the several thousand dollars a year to get it certified. Most only get it for marketing and to charge more for the produce they already made. It's very silly.
Actually he did state that in the video at 6:45
@@manicasion736 He did mention the possibility of fraud from producers, but not the fact that it's impossible to know for sure if you're buying organic or not. This is not something you can solve with regulation.
What do you mean you can't solve it? You can send inspectors to randomly inspect the Farms
I discovered organic food by mistake. I bought a organic not knowing it was organic Apple …. Could not believe how much better it was. I made the switch and since than the flavor and quality in organic food, is so much better. Also this isn’t a good video to watch about organic food. The German DW does a much better job testing the food and has better information. I would t be surprised if this is made by someone who benefits from non organic.
If we went only organic the real problem would be the avocado prices
I think Del Taco will still have their FRE SHA VOCA DO at the same price
Avocado consumption supports exploitation
@@brokkrep why?
It’s literally two for one avo
@@josias1540 I hlove my FRE SHA VOCA DO
If you ask me if it's got carbon atoms then it's organic.
CO2 isn't organic, but in general you're right.
Nobody knows about GMO roundup resistant crops eh? Glyphosphates?
mmm organic steel.
@@jacobchristensen6235 This. Organic requires both carbon and hydrogen.
Jacob Christensen Yes and no. It is produced my cellular respiration It is also produced artificially
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I am trying to grow more and more of my own food. Not only do I get tasty produce that I have overseen the growth of, but I also get to try new and exciting varieties beyond what is on store shelves.
Bold of you to assume I have the money to buy Organic.
@Mountain Rider Uh. I dunno if you've ever been in a grocery store, but the markup for organic foods is often 100% or more. Cheerios and other cereals are horribly unhealthy. Glysophate is not harmful at the incredibly small amounts required by regulatory agencies in Europe and North America.
bold of you to assume i have money
@Mountain Rider did you watch the video? and for you saying its expensive, have you ever bought organic food?
@@lameduck1690 And often Whole Foods will have organic strawberries at much cheaper prices than conventional strawberries. You just need to keep your eyes open for a thing called "sales". It's when prices go down for a short time.
@@olive4naito The smartest thing to do would be to buy the less attractive looking strawberries at a farmer's market if you want a good price, but generally people without money to spare don't shop at Whole Foods or farmer's markets. The markup for simply shopping there is pretty high.
Organic is almost meaningless because there is no official definition. We need established standards for organic goods so that the label isn’t just feel good marketing jargon.
Non-GMO project has great standards. But I agree with you, if you don't know and trust it, don't buy it.-
This is basically the continuum fallacy. Just because there is no universally accepted definition doesn't mean that there is no use for organic products. The vagueness surrounding the word doesn't make the word invalid. There are plenty of words in the scientific community that have no official, 100% accepted definition. "Species" has no real 100% accepted official definition, that doesn't mean that the concept of "species" is totally useless.
Yes/No. Organic has a scientific meaning. However, as used by anti-science groups, it is meaningless.
@@MK-hs9ck There is a strict scientific definition. However, just because scammers do not abide by it, doesn't mean it is vague.
Carbon-based?
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From what I've gathered after looking heavily into this for the past many months. In general yeah, Organic doesn't matter much. But there are some specifics where they matter a lot. This video doesn't touch on animal products, which is one of the few areas where organic actually means the most. There are some specifics fruits and veggies that benefit a lot too, but most of them are a toss up, or don't really matter at all. But I would say: look into the Argentinian soy problem. Pesticides may not do a ton to those who eat the food it was put on, they usually clean that food. but those pesticides get into the air and water supply, and the local people around them suffer because of it. Still an excellent video, to cover every specific would take hours.
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Remember how in the video it said that organic farming is actually worse for the environment. “Organic” pesticides are worse, requiring farmers to use more, which puts more in the soil. 🙄
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@@j.tizzyy No, the video claimed that "organic" pesticides CAN be worse, it depends on the specific pesticide being used, and the video did also imply that organic food uses less pesticides.
There is simply not enough farmland to produce food for the world if everyone eats organic (fruits/veggies). "GMO"s *literally* help solve world hunger. I'll stick to my perfectly healthy GMOs, thank you very much.
GMO vs Organic doesn't really matter from an environmental standpoint, the real problem is with mono-culturing across the agriculture industry as a whole, both organic and non-organic. The extremely high demand for certain foods all year round (corn, tomatoes, strawberries, you name it) results in both farmers and growing companies to plant massive fields of the same crop over and over and over again. You see, the way farming used to be more commonly practiced is with a methodology called crop rotation. When you plant something in the ground, be it anything from potatoes to pineapples, they take nutrients from the soil (which gives them their flavor) and leaves nutrients behind when they're harvested (which enriches the soil). This is pretty much how all farming of any kind was done for a majority of our history, because each time a crop is harvested it leaves better and better soil for the next crop to be grown and harvested in. However... when industrialization took the agriculture industry by storm and year-round demand for certain crops increased, a lot of growers stopped rotating crops all together and focused their entire operations on one crop specifically as opposed to several in a year, which is called mono-culturing. From a business perspective this may seem like it makes sense, as you'd want to grow, sell, and specialize in whatever crop is in highest demand or at highest market price, but what happens from an agriculture perspective is actually counter-intuitive. When you make one field grow the same crop over and over again you're putting too many nutrients from one kind of crop in the soil while starving it of nutrients from other sources or kinds of produce... so gradually, over time, the fertility of the field (which is its ability to grow large yields of crops) diminishes, as does the natural flavors of produce grown in those fields, which often leads to a more bland tasting product. This is why many people complain about GMO produce not being as flavorful as "organic", because GMO crops and monocultures are the predominant choice for corporate growing companies who specialize in one or two products on a massive scale, companies like the Dole Pineapple company for example.
I don't think just switching crops works. I mean theyre all plants needing the same nutrients. What makes the difference is type or size of the root. People here (i live near farmland and we dont use pesticides) usually make a break year where they just plant clovers or smth that doesn't really bring any value, thus wasting valuable land that could've been used for growing crops. It just makes farming more inefficient which causes deforestation cause u need more land
Red Hiding Hood see, you have gotten a fact wrong. they leave nutrition in the soil behind. and plants need different amounts of different resources. and that can make a huge difference as if you plant only one type of crop. that will drain one type of nutrients and leave one other type. and that can a huge disbenifit to trying to grow them again, and clovers are not picky and leave behind essential nutrients. and you didnt explain how the size of the root helps/doesnt and the type of the root absolutely does not matter in any way, shape, or form. plus the nutrition from planting clovers helps the crops taste better. and that means better sales and reputation in the growing industry. therefore your entire point is off
@@mr.beanman9816 theyre all plant so idk how can they need diff nutrients and for the roots planting just small roots can create more erosion of the soil where as tree roots keep the soil in place and can reach nutrients that are lower in the ground. But planting trees inside wheat fields is impractical so yeah.. And what reputation? Sales? Its not about making money its about using the least ammount of land to produce the most ammount of crops so we slow deforestation and climate change. GMOs are much more efficient and artificial fertilizers when regulated well can be extremely helpful with much less disadvantages than natural ones.
Red Hiding Hood how would they not? there biological structure is much different and uses different nutrients and how do you think that switching crops is bad even though it reaches better nutritional content and brings it up 😂. you are laughable dude, and i agree that deforestation is terrible but if you plant as much as you can in a small area. it produces more greenhouse gas and is worse for your health. So therefore. bing bong your opinion is wrong. and if you think smaller space is better for animals then you are a bad human
Red Hiding Hood also i was talking about the reputation that you are biologically friendly. you are the human equivalent of a participation award
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@Miles Doyle I don't think meth is the right medication for you. Maintain your medication schedule rigorously. Incidentally, your 'prophesies' are a type of con called cold reading, very useful for priests, psychics, mediums, and other assorted frauds and charlatans.
It seems as tho organic is just a method of price discrimination to increase profits. A way for Supermarkets to sieve out the customers who are more willing to pay slightly more
Miles well it costs much more to produce. I worked for a potato company in Wisconsin and the profit margin is about the same.
@@aaronsoto1346 That's interesting! I did mean more from a supermarket's perspective than producer tho. Coffee places do it a lot, pay 10p more for fair-trade coffee when it only costs them 2p more to produce etc. A way of making more money from those who are willing to pay more by slightly differentiating the product
This video might as well be sponsored by big agricultural companies just to lead people away from organic and family markets. This video has only one intention, to show that organic isn't better than conventional foods. But here are facts: There are thousands of different antioxidants and there are thousands of studies that prove the benefits of them on human body, remember that Vitamins C and E are antioxidants as well and also chemicals like l-theanine and anthocyanins, and this guy is telling that there is no proof. Wtf? There are hundreds of studies proving link between conventional pesticides and herbicides and cancer, infertility and other serious diseases. Also herbicides are killing bee population like plague and there are a very large concern in the world about pollinators. And conventional agriculture methods are ones which are depleting ground from any nutrients, they just grow one kind of crop one year after another depleting all the minerals from ground. But organic farmers use methods like rotating, using manure, lime to keep ground healthy and we have farmed like that for thousands of years and never had faced problems with ground depletion but since conventional farming suddenly ground depletion is a problem. Funny heh? There are also a lot of different and smaller aspects but this is already too long. And my parents are big scale farmers so I know my shit. So yeah. I'm unsubbing this channel and suggesting you to do the same.
Well you have also to pay the 25% of crop loose
Toms Tukmanis you have already made up your mind about being pro organic which makes any evidence to the contrary false in your eyes. It’s the exact same with climate change deniers. Your response is based on some good points mixed with ignorance, conjecture and anecdotal evidence. A lot of the big farms do both organic and conventional farming. And they do rotate crops to keep the nutrients from being depleted in both ways. You come off as a crazy conspiracy science denier and why the hell would anybody reading your response look at it and think, “wow, this is a reasonable guy.”
thanks for your video, this is really helpful.
I find that I lean more toward local vs organic. I'm more willing to pay the same price or a bit more from a local farm than I am to buy industrialized produce.
This video needs to be played in a continuous loop at the entrance of EVERY Sprouts grocery store!!
Employees gonna go insane :P and after like 2 loops the customers are gonna be annoyed too
@@notjacobwilliams8311 As badly as Sprouts treats its employees, the employees "go insane" anyway. Hence Sprouts' 98% turnover rate. (Turnover rate = what percentage of employees are not there one year after hire date?)
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That title alone is enough to start a flame war in the comments
Organic food is a scam
What is a flame war? Did you mean shit storm? 🍄
naah its pretty chill down here to be honest
Nathan Zheng *No, thanks, I only eat *organic*, not your chemical shit*(joke)
A real advantage of organic farming is probably, that most organic farming pesticides (copper is a real problem) don't contaminate large areas or water bodies for long times, like neonicotinoids or, some decades ago, DDT. The recent insect and bird decline was, apart from pesticides themselves, largely caused by farmland becoming too tidy, all wild herbs killed, pesticides shedding away from the fields, and seams and hedges being removed.
That is more a problem resulting from massive industrial farming practices. Like the video says; eat seasonally and eat local.
DDT is banned and there are regulations and limits on pesticide use whether organic or not. Organic or not, weeds and predators need to be removed anyway. If not, crops would lose commercial value.
One of the key important things left out on this video is the impact on soil. That was the MAIN reason for me to go/grow organic. Conventional farming kills the micro biology in the soil. While, organic farming nurtures the soil. And the soil keeps the plant healthy. Which gets rid of the need for pesticides.
this video wasn't about soil it was about the organic vs conventional, and they aren't that different, the type of growing you are talking about is not even on the same level as these two topics, I wish we could get to that type of growing. but i agree our soil is treated so poorly its disgusting. i live in Ontario and the way the oil is abused is disturbing
Healthy plants doesn’t lessen the need for pesticide in any way?
Healthy plants are still attacked by pests, weeds and microbial infections. Pests would want to eat healthy plants, wouldn't they? Healthy plants produce their own pesticides to kill enemies, which could create more harms and side effects than conventional pesticides.
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@Kyrill Huet yeah that's the problem Yuugen discussed in the main comment
I would be very interesting if there was information about how the microbiology is affected by organic vs conventional farming. How does the small ecosystems in our fields and plantations get affected and pollinators, insects and so on.
Your head's in the right place, kudos vippen. Soil health is essential. There are more organisms in one shovelful of healthy soil than the number of humans living right now. These microorganisms are crucial for clean food, air, water and medicine. It doesn't get more foolish than to destroy them.
Less tillage is more better for microbes in the soil. There is lots of research on it.
I agree, I noticed it was left out completely. I guess an issue with only using scientific papers as evidence is, if there are no studies on it, then it doesn't become part of the discussion, and for a lot of these topics, we just haven't research it enough. Either that, or the video would have been too long.
Right. That ecosystem is affected by farming in general. Conventional or otherwise. Its more to do with the types of crops we grow on a land and how frequently we do it. Crop rotation is generally a good practice, crops don't have to be organic for it. And ig you want to change something in your diet to improve the environment: BUY LOCAL AND BUY SEASONAL
organic just let mortal diseases develop, also conventional, if we don't use pesticide too much, is the best for the environment
Thank you for such an important and relevant video!! 🙏