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It's a good initiative but how ethical it will be?

The overproduction of food *drives* population growth. The idea that we have to keep increasing food production to catch up with rising population is both a myth and unscientific. This is Ecology 101! I know the idea is universally popular among civilized people, but please stop promoting it! Things like this make lose faith in your channel. If you're still having a hard time with this, just remember that our biomass is made digesting and converting other biomass. We're not made from thin air, rocks, and rainbows. All the world's hunger and malnutrition are due to inequality, not an overall lack of food. And what seem like contradictions (like slowing birth rates in food-rich countries and rising populations in food-deprived regions) is an extension of this. Also look up something called the "demographic trap" for a deeper understanding.

Grow corn, rice doesn't have much nutritional value. Rice also does not store water uniformly, so two containers with the same volume of rice can weight drastically different. There's a reason people grow corn in the summer and wheat in the winter as rotation food crops. I just can't justify the amount of work required to grow rice when it's nutrition value is so low.

@A Non my response. www.quora.com/Which-is-healthier-corn-or-rice?top_ans=153654695 Then follow that up with heirloom strains. www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/vegetables/heirloom-vegetable-advantages I didn't feel like digging up white papers since most people won't take time to read them.

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But that will only be enough to feed me, what will everyone else eat???

Not gonna lie it took ke longer than it should have

C4 rice? Someone get Jamie Hyneman on the phone. *^_^*

Terrorists Win.

If it doesn't, you're not using enough of it.

Very underrated comment

Jared Maddox all belongs to poaceae family

But does not taste and feel like rice before and after cooking.

@@ricelovingasian69 I love your username

Imagine if instead of making corn go as big as it is we made wheat do it and had big ass bits of wheat to naw on

@@Joeink100 that's really all corn is. Look it up. Before selective breeding, corn looked very much like wheat....large wheat...

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Except for rICE CUBE.. he’s still gangsta

Dumbass

Dumbass.

@@pessimisticpianist582 your right. That bag will feed the band too....😂

Evetchen Brown r/wooosh

Oh no why did you do that.

rice doesnt talk...

well I mean the musician contains more protein and maybe more calories so i dunno about this one

Ummmm.... yeah, I need someone to explain this joke

@@limiv5272 "C3PO" is a character in the Star Wars movies. ;)

@@Master_Therion Thanks (-:

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The asians were already enough!

Inb4 it's the people in asia and india who consume the most rice worldwide and are the highest populated areas on earth.

@@AimlessSavant Exactly. There's a map I saw that drew a circle around India, China, and the rest of SE Asia. The caption was "More people live inside this circle than outside it."

It means more opportunity to trade and make money!

The problem is that GMOs are patented so only some farmers will be able to use it.

This is exactly why culling the population is so important. The rice is fine, as is.

I would agree, but I think the having the full semester encourages procrastination. 3-6 week intervals would be better in my opinion, as it simulates the project deadlines of the real world.

What else would you call randomly using oxygen as a substrate without outputting any useable energy source? If that’s not procrastination, I don’t know what is xD

I've been thinking this! This is absolutely nothing new at all

This video maybe even sponsored by that company..everything is shortage by year 20xx bullcrap

I don't know many farmers personally, but I don't think there's such a pervasive negative emotion among farmers regarding GMOs. First of all, seed companies routinely patent their seeds - whether GMO or non-GMO. Moreover, many farmers simply keep buying new seed every year instead of replanting (google "hybrid vigour"). The majority of corn in the US stems from hybrid seeds which lose their potency after replanting. GMO seeds, in contrast, can simply be reused next planting season. Hence, it might be more profitable for farmers to go for GMO instead of buying new seed every year. Finally, there's many other benefits beside the monetary. GMO crops are, generally, more environmental in that they require smaller amounts of much more efficient pesticides compared to regular crops, or even bio / green farming methods, which use large quantities of less efficient pesticides.

@@patrickgono6043 gmo crops might be able to be replanted, but isn't that ilegal?

Underrated comment!!!!!!!!!!

Monsantos company has too much power

*laughs in Hyneman*

C4: Plants vs. Zombies flashbacks

Lmao

Battlefield C4 buggy FTW!

Suvi-Tuuli Allan M1 Abrams: I fear no man, but that thing *picture of C4 buggy* it scares me.

its almost hilarious how anti GMO alot of people are. During a famine in Africa the US sent a bunch of food and the African country was so panicky about GMOs that they refused to accept any of it. I heard that they even threw away or burned some of the food because they thought GMO's were poisonous and that the US was trying to poison them.

Let's hope a megacorporation doesn't yoink it into their hands.

Salt tolerance is useful too.

@@absalomdraconis - I didn't realize there was any effort to genetically engineer this into any existing crops. But, yeah, that would obviously be incredibly helpful.

@@crackedemerald4930 it's one thing to bully some powerless ethiopian farmers, trying to push China or India around is something altogether different. If a more productive strain of rice exists and china starts having food problems i don't think any foreign company is going to have much luck stopping them from growing it...

Honestly, this seems like a more sensible version of genetic engineering. Convincing one type of grass to act more like another type of grass doesn't raise the same kind of doubts that are voiced about other crops. Especially, if independant research is allowed to be done on it.

Spirulina is healthy but it's still like $10+ per pound or $22+ per kilo whereas rice, wheat, and potatoes are like 10-15% that price. If grain and potato prices get too high I'll stick to something more in my price range, like nice organic, sustainably harvest, free range lawn clippings.

I'm in Thailand just thinking, how do I get my hands on this? lol

@@JWMCMLXXX you can try contacting some local government agriculture department,the one which tests soil of farms.

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C4s ain't gonna cut it, we need nukes, a thousand of them.

Why don't we just start eating people until there's no more food shortages? We can start with the savory, fatty rich people, then the nice, tender children and then the tough, chewy old people and by then we shouldnt have any more food shortages.

Half the planet is starving. It's been that way for over 40 years.

I think they mean hypothetically maybe in the future assuming they are right about environmental changes. I mean they could possibly be right. I don't really care myself. If someone designs new genetically modified plants that are useful that is great.

@A Non yet....lol

Yeah right I have two boxes in the cupboard do I start to horde them.

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Rice has been planted.

True. It would also be more effective if having fewer children were more directly incentivized, but governments want more subjects, not fewer.

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Everyone would start eating beans if rice runs out. So yes it will be in danger

GMO crops will not solve the problem of insects, fungus and diseases which will kill plants on a massive scale if we abandon biodiversity. And besides there are many problems for agriculture in the future. The shortage of fresh water and top soil. Peak oil. Peak phosphorus. The lack of bees, The lack of biodiversity and the increased risk of diseases causing global mass death to the food crops - like the panama disease did to the global banana population during the 1950s.

Kinda hard avoiding GMO, since *all* crops (and cattle) we eat are GMO. Suck on that, hippies.

mikitz diffference is gmo cattle are "genetically modified" by selectively breeding the biggest males with the biggest females (and best tasting ) Many gmo crops are changed in laboratories and many are sprayed with toxins like glyphosate If bugs don't even want to eat the food you eat should you be really eating it

They're currently having a hard time with Golden Rice (rice modified to produce beta carotene) that has the potential to solve hundreds of thousands of vitamin A deficiencies around the world. Hopefully they learn something beneficial from that.

@@RH-ku3ol Review the origin of spices. Peppers, etc. Humans find tasty lots of stuff that insects don't like.

as long as a private company can't patent it and own the exclusive right to grow it and license it.

I think I got 14 of those. I noticed there's one on new year's eve.

Be careful what you wish for. There could always be another company just as bad or worse than Monsanto

The idea is any company owning rights to a seed, especially one as important as this may become, is pretty lame.