Agricoltura, Waiter, there is a gene in my soup! | Jimmy Botella | TEDxUQ
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Have you ever seen the real banana? Do you know how strawberries come about? It might come as a shock to you, but what you regard as 'natural food' might not be natural at all, and perhaps genetically modified (GM) food is not as bad as you think. At TEDxUQ, Jimmy Botella busted some of the fallacies we have regarding the food we eat every day, and gave us a sneak peak of what GM food actually is, and where it sits in our current society.
Jimmy is the Professor of Plant Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland. He founded the Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory specialising in the fields of tropical and subtropical agricultural biotechnology. Jimmy has eleven international patents in the field of Plant Biotechnology and is a founding member of two biotechnology companies (Coridon Ltd. and Origo Biotech).
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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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So simple. Before gm nonsense the food tasted great with lots of nutrition. Now it's all either tasteless or has a bad taste. You gmo con artists can never trick the instincts and taste buds of the people who know what's good and normal.
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They produce self poisoning vegetables includes self defroster chemicals! Werry healthy???
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I belive that siencetist could help us .....But they will not!! They are part of corrupted lobies!!!
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What this stupid genius forgot to say is that a wild banana ( from Papua for example) wich is 3 times smaller than today supermarket bananas (GMO) contains 10 times more vitamins and minerals.
Mother Nature plays with quality not quantiy.
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Hey guys, The best success that I have ever had was with my magic diet
(just google it) Without a doubt the most helpful diet that I have ever
tried.
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Great talk, addresses many myths and thoroughly explains them. Unfortunately there are many people who are not educated in the diverse sciences to make the conclusion that GMOs are not harmful for human consumption.
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Background
Jimmy Botella, BSc., Ph.D. serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor at Origo Biotech Pty Ltd.
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Too bad it's only a comedy and not science - and not even funny, but really boring!
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Haha, funny! Bananas !
This is the "natural" banana... Actually bananas come in approximately 1000 different types of banana plants in the world . This guy only shows two and the one on the right is the Cavendish banana which is a clone banana designed for the commercial western food market.
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this man speaks the truth, so I think people need to listen to what he has to say.
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transposons
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The attack on vegetarians was fallacious and irrelevant.
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wth!
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I love the title - Mr Botella didn't think that through.
The problem is that there are genes in your soup. And if your soup contains GMO then your soup has anti-biotic resistance genes in it.
These genes are used as marker genes when biotechs create these patented contaminated mimics of healthy food.
It's an easy way to tell if a gene package has randomly inserted "successfully" -
Yes "randomly inserted"... no splicing goes on in GMO currently being commercially grown and marketed in the USA and Canada.
A random insertion has inherent unknown consequences for the plant genome, nutrients it may absorb, growth patterns, photosynthesis processes... if the plant's genes do it, then this random insertion of a package of genes (including anti-biotic resistance) can affect it. Mr Botella should emphasize that in his video.
When hundreds or thousands of seedlings sprout from the altered cells, they are doused with a specific anti-biotic. If they survive they are assumed to have been successfully altered.
Different biotech companies use different anti-biotic marker genes - so they don't have to pay another biotech company licensing fees for using their marker genes.
The big problem for Mr Botella is that the genes in our soup can be assimilated and utilized by bacteria in our guts. Eating a variety of GM foods will end up creating bacteria that are resistant to a wide variety of antibiotics, specific ones and the families of anti-biotics they belong to.
Mr Jimmy should change the title of his biotech-propaganda video.
Watch him carefully folks. Watch his technique, his body language, listen to how he carefully crafts his tale.
As Always,
For the protection of children and our food supply,
In the interests of truth and science,
Michael Polidori
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He talks endlessly about how we've used nature's tools to alter food and then compares that to biotech food... not very helpful.
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Excellent presentation. GE food was a great invention. So many science illiterate people commenting here really concerns me.
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This man is obviously working for the bio-tech industry. Most of what he claims are distortions of the truth. Purposefully designed to spread disinformation for the benefit of their own agenda. Please people, do not believe anything that he says! The fact is, that they want to own the whole world's seed supply! And they will do and say anything that they can to deceive us all, but by the time the whole world wakes up it will be too late. They will have all the power in their hands! Of course he's mocking vegetarians and vegans, because he knows that vegans are the most informed people on this planet.
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Look up "The world according to Monsanto" This is not about feeding the people - it's about patenting life forms. $$$$
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No more GM for me ! Ford , Chevy , maybe Toyota !
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welll everything went fine until the vegetarian part.... what a stuuupid argument
Have you ever seen the real banana? Do you know how strawberries come about? It might come as a shock to you, but what you regard as 'natural food' might not be natural at all, and perhaps genetically modified (GM) food is not as bad as you think. At TEDxUQ, Jimmy Botella busted some of the fallacies we have regarding the food we eat every day, and gave us a sneak peak of what GM food actually is, and where it sits in our current society. Jimmy is the Professor of Plant Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland. He founded the Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory specialising in the fields of tropical and subtropical agricultural biotechnology. Jimmy has eleven international patents in the field of Plant Biotechnology and is a founding member of two biotechnology companies (Coridon Ltd. and Origo Biotech). Brought to you by: The University of Queensland (UQ) UQ Union Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT) ilab Start-up Accelerator UQ School of Psychology UQ Faculty of Science TEDxUQ team: Advisor : Professor Phil Long Licensee & Curator/Director : Lawrence Kurniawan Wong Student Programs Liaison: Dr. Jessica Gallagher Speaker Outreach : Barbara Wronski Partnership & Financial : Ya-Mi Chuang Graphic Designer : Luise Andersen Hartvig Event Coordinator & Marketing : Kristina Iversen Event Coordinator : Sheila Horas MC: Tasman Bain Technical Support : Joel Schofield General Assistance : Joshua Kurniawan In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Commento
Mother Nature plays with quality not quantiy.
(just google it) Without a doubt the most helpful diet that I have ever
tried.
Jimmy Botella, BSc., Ph.D. serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor at Origo Biotech Pty Ltd.
This is the "natural" banana... Actually bananas come in approximately 1000 different types of banana plants in the world . This guy only shows two and the one on the right is the Cavendish banana which is a clone banana designed for the commercial western food market.
The problem is that there are genes in your soup. And if your soup contains GMO then your soup has anti-biotic resistance genes in it.
These genes are used as marker genes when biotechs create these patented contaminated mimics of healthy food.
It's an easy way to tell if a gene package has randomly inserted "successfully" -
Yes "randomly inserted"... no splicing goes on in GMO currently being commercially grown and marketed in the USA and Canada.
A random insertion has inherent unknown consequences for the plant genome, nutrients it may absorb, growth patterns, photosynthesis processes... if the plant's genes do it, then this random insertion of a package of genes (including anti-biotic resistance) can affect it. Mr Botella should emphasize that in his video.
When hundreds or thousands of seedlings sprout from the altered cells, they are doused with a specific anti-biotic. If they survive they are assumed to have been successfully altered.
Different biotech companies use different anti-biotic marker genes - so they don't have to pay another biotech company licensing fees for using their marker genes.
The big problem for Mr Botella is that the genes in our soup can be assimilated and utilized by bacteria in our guts. Eating a variety of GM foods will end up creating bacteria that are resistant to a wide variety of antibiotics, specific ones and the families of anti-biotics they belong to.
Mr Jimmy should change the title of his biotech-propaganda video.
Watch him carefully folks. Watch his technique, his body language, listen to how he carefully crafts his tale.
As Always,
For the protection of children and our food supply,
In the interests of truth and science,
Michael Polidori