As a farmer I know how difficult it is to become profitable. This video is nothing more than a PR piece. Maybe they should have more accurately named it "License to farm with GMO's". Hey I like canola oil but to assume we HAVE to have roundup ready canola is a joke. We need better crop rotations, smaller or narrower size fields, intercropping, windbreaks (even better profit alleys), gps guided auto-steered SMALLER tractors that are electric, more wildlife and wildlife habitats on farms, more beneficial insects and insect habitats on farms, more ponds, sloughs, swales, more diversity NOT LESS. Get me started!!! The industry wants to be able to do more, bigger, faster, cheaper. I want to also but not in a more monoculture, more bigger machinery, more simplified fields way. I've worked in western Canada and the scale of agriculture dwarfs anything in the east. Individual fields are so large there in no way for beneficials and wildlife to help control pests. It is WAY too far for them to reach the inside of fields. The hedgerows have mostly been ripped out (like in most places), many of the shallow ponds have been filled in since they get in the way of the big equipment. ARGHHH!!
+Stefan Sobkowiak Thanks for taking the time to offer a thoughtful response. It's important to keep the dialogue going, so we find the common ground. I don't think anyone wakes up every morning wanting to do bad, but if we are not well informed our actions might result in unintended consequences.
Stefan Sobkowiak We do not want any Gmo here in Europe either. roundup should be used with caution and as with antibiotics, we make the weed resistant to spraying agents. how much do you spend per hectare ?? over 4 liters ?? 2-3 liters and everything is dead and is used every 4 years.
Stefan Sobkowiak ❤️💕💛❤️ 4 mins in I called BS! Everything you said is bang on! I live in The city, & buy local & non-gmo as often as possible. Bigger is not better!
Stefan Sobkowiak - I completely agree. Round-Up Ready allows the corporation to claim, Monsanto, to file lawsuits against the farmers because of cross pollination. Shouldn't Round-Up be banned, since it's a poison that genetically modifies the organism? Way to go Jimmy Carter for allowing Monsanto to create patents for Monsanto seed. 🤔
Amen. Came to the comments 11 mins in to say the same thing. They are pushing a square rock down the road instead of fixing the root problem. Which is lack of biodiversity and design.
And indigenous peasant agriculture around the world, were it survives, is still by far the most advanced and sophisticated like has always been the case.
"Farmers face a new challenge" at minute 00:56 we cut to a Non GMO Label. Yes. A new challenge. Transparency... I have to pause to get a note book, this 30 minute journey will require some note - taking, and some time from my work to address some of the statements that I am about the hear. It looks lovely, very professional. Please see the COABC, OCO, COTA and Think Before You Eat campaign to hear another perspective - from the pioneers - of sustaining food production systems and new economies.
+Jodi Koberinski Firstly, Thank You for your respectful dialogue. It is a breath of fresh air. From your perspective, could you help me understand what damage is being done by the GMO canola I might choose to grow on my farm. To myself, my family, the land we manage or to our customers?
+Jodi Koberinski So I google "Think before you eat" to find the website. The first thing I notice in the feature picture is a four tine tillage fork. This, to me, represents the most destructive force to soil health and promotes wind and soil erosion. While I respect the ideals of organic production, what I see is a reversion to tillage for primary weed control in organic production models and that alone gives me pause both from an efficacy and soil erosion standpoint.
There also needs to be strict labeling laws which let people who are buying food and beverages know what is in their beverages so that they can make informed choices and avoid toxins
This is an excellent video that provides a strong dose of reality from the farm in response to the alarmist non-scientific messages that dominate the internet. Well done SaskCanola!
I do think however, another one should be made! obviously you can't touch on everything in 30 minutes... but I think adding in the effectiveness of cover crops, crop rotations, livestock rotations... We test our soil and we are putting fences back up around our fields that have no been used for years. We graze our cattle on a covercrop planted right after wheat is taken off. Our fields are never bare! Helping minimize soil erosion, decreasing soil temperatures and improving the bugs within the soil (there are many many more good bugs than bad IF the conditions are right... but this takes time. spraying is not eliminated, but very minimized).
Not neccesarily hate,but when waterways,runoff,pesticides,herbicides,Fenceline pushbacks,deforestation,monoculture wipe and spray your feet due to diesease put on your tyvek suit is required,it aint farming.Its sad,but true.Its a corporate agenda and greed from the top.ALL short term thinking in todays world and Fu&*^ the next generation .Being more informed does not mean hate.Chemical induced soil on life support,it aint long term.Can't possibly last.
+Erin Davis I'm not sure what you mean by "mega bucks funding". Although I don't know exact numbers, I do know that for the amount of time they put into this, they were paid a very very low rate - certainly much lower than they would normally charge for corporate work. My understanding is that 3/4 of the funding for this came from farmers. Also, "mega" usually refers to "million". Their personal take-home from this was much much much much less than a million. Finally, I'm never proud of someone for making money. That's crass. Perhaps that is your value system, although I suspect you simply were being sarcastic (hard to tell in comments) and actually you thought I was proud of them for making money. No - I'm proud of them for a different reason. I'm proud of them for helping an important, largely unheard voice, the voice of the farmers, to be brought into the discourse about food. Do you think that farmers should be silent? Would you censor farmers from speaking about food? Seems unfair to me... surely you didn't mean that.
+Mishkin Berteig Uh $200,000.00 of tax payers money funded this project. I'm sorry, but it looks like they were had too. And I mean that... I really am sorry that they were paid so little seen as just more people to be fooled. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/government-funds-video-combat-anti-gmo-1.3410802
This video is a chance to share our side of the argument when it comes to GM canola. In the past only the anti-Gm were represented. Thanks to the Berteig's and Sask. Canola for giving FARMERS a voice. Well Done!
+John Kowalchuk since the non-GM market for canola was all but obliterated after the introduction of GE canola on a wide scale in the late 1990s, there is hardly a peep from them because we abandoned the crop. Grateful for independent seslf-sustaining enterprises like Highwood Crossing, but they are a rare farm with no GMO in their seed stock.
The market wasn't obliterated for non-gm canola. It has always been sold into the same markets as gm canola. I applaud those farmers as well. Allowing consumers to have an option is great. I was stating that I was glad that it was something other than ANTI-Gmo not Non-Gmo.
The use of chemicals is a genuine concern but the documentary is undermining these concerns. I think the dependence on technology is adding to this view.
GREAT to see a CANADIAN made documentary pushing out clear statements that the average Canadian can understand!! THANK-YOU for making this!!! We need to speak up ... especially since there's only 2% of us farming, we could be easily bullied by anti-farmers!!
Breeding plants and animals through selection works with natue. Genetically modifying plants and animals goes against natural selection. The DNA of any one organism is vast and genes are linked in a myriad of ways. Shifting selected genes around from one organism to another is just asking for trouble in the long term.
This video is a) obviously promoted and financed by Bayer and b) extremely biased on the affirmations. It is true that GM technology can/could provide solutions to climate change adaptation and food security, but it is also true that it has been and still often is extremely devastating to the environment due to the unsustainable, large scale, intensive agricultural practices it induces. In addition it has been driving many farmers into large debts due to prohibitions on re-using seeds, the enforcement of certain farming techniques, etc. both in the global north and the south, and all this is also scientifically proven by many MANY articles you can readily find on platforms such as the Web of Science or PLOS One.
As someone who is both a scientist and passionate about farming, this was an excellent video and you packed a lot into 30 min. If consumers would watch this with an open logical mind, that would be a real bonus.
+William Enright if you are a true scientist, and truly did watch with an open mind I find it an oxymoron . Having watched this myself - open-minded, skeptical, .... a leaked video of Hilary Clinton coaching Monsanto to re-brand using 'drought resistant'... which is interesting as a scientist and passionate about farming you would also know about the geoengineering that is going on... the farmers in our area certainly are aware
+Erin Davis Yes, I spent 11 years in university studying agricultural and animal science, earned three degrees, including a PhD and have 240 publications. And have worked in four countries and visited farms in 40 countries. I found your comment very confusing so not sure what you are saying other than something conspiratorial involving Hilary Clinton and Monsanto? Please share evidence.
+commodore256 All the info you mention re Monsanto and patents is untrue. The fact is that lots of companies have patents on lots of things. Monsanto has sued very few farmers and never for accidentally having some of their seeds or GMO plants. They only sue farmers that deliberately plant their seeds without contracts, etc. Any monies ever won have been given to charity. Please don't believe all the crap you read on the Internet.
Great Job!!! we need more of this, not only to tell our story to our eater customers, but to encourage those in the industry to stand up and start their own conversations. Fantastic, looking forward to more. Hopefully we can pull off something similar in Ontario.
We need something like this related to animal agriculture. I am so tired of hearing people promote veganism and how horrible farmers are to their animals when that is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Again, really well done. PROUD to be an agriculture grad and passionate advocate!!!
Ashley Marshall Of course they don't starve. However, they are crowded, put into gestation crates, and other cruel, cost-effective practices. Pigs getting tails cut off at birth, castrated without pain killers. These kinds of practices are common in the US.
+Diana, the Inorganic Vegan I assume you have some sort of reputable and legitimate evidence to support these wild claims to prove you aren't just making assumptions or making shit up.
the problem is that gmo crop herbicide resistance leads to over use of herbicides which are stored in the plant we then eat. We are eating roundup and other herbicides and this is destroying our digestive system...
Agribusiness is an activity risking for the farmers, but they have bet for their own benefit and logically generate food for humanity. Of course, agriculture currently needs scientific and economic advances to deal with the higher challenge of our civilization, producing food with low environmental costs and high nutritional value under extreme conditions. This is our mission.
Just finished watching the film and it's great. The perspective of the farmer is often not easily accessible to the consumer. The Canadian farmer's voice is definitely not heard enough. By and large farmers are not out to push any agenda. I've observed that they are usually humble and silent but most care deeply for the land and environment and take pride in the service they provide for humanity. The film is a great catalyst for discussion. It informs the consumer (including me) and promotes a deeper awareness of the science behind modern farming. It definitely facilitates a more open dialogue between the farmer and consumer and outlines how each has responsibilities. I think for lifetime farmers like my dad it is a very empowering film.
I enjoyed this documentary a lot, thanks for publishing it and making it free. (As somebody who has no farming experience, it was still easy to understand)
I love that when you talked about megacompanies competing to monopolize the seed industry, you showed Bayer and not Monsanto. People don't know this, but Monsanto is actually the second largest, not largest, seller of GM seeds (Du Pont is the largest), and yet none of the criticis can name Bayer or the other companies with similar market share.
+Trepur349 we have a "Big 6" Seed/ chemical cartel. Syngenta is being eyed by Monsanto (they did this a couple decades ago to beat a bad rap on PCBs, now they want a name change, or well, you know, to gobble up a competitor) and Dupont and Dow are in the final stages of their two-headed monster merger... And YES taking the conversation more broadly to the industry is a good thing, thanks for that .... companies do what they do because we allow it with lax regulation on chemical and biotech firms. Where it gets dicey is WHY the rules allow it. A lot of money and energy goes into shaping that environment in favour of the multinationals
+Jodi Koberinski we can argue the business and politics of this matter all day long but any outcome can't deny the benefits and the NEED of this technology. Even if one company monopolizes a hiv vaccine, we should eliminate the company not the vaccine.
Bayer is Monsanto. I get all of my seed and chem from bayer. It is quite good. It is easy to grow and Handel. We are getting more from less. And the chemical is way better and safer then it was a few years ago. And it is also better than tillage. For a 50lb canola bag is around $850. That bag contains thousands of seeds. And each seed now can produce hundreds of more seeds. The chemical helps the seeds get more nutrients by killing weeds, and not effecting the canola plant. That is my point of view.
@@TheOneSaskatchewanFarmBoy yeah funnily enough Bayer and Monsanto merged a couple years ago. But a the time of this videos (and my comments) creation, well that hadn't happened yet
Silly farmers, scientists, and other experts...don't you know that you'll never know as much as a blogger who spends about fifteen minutes on Google looking for that needle in the haystack that confirms their bias? All kidding aside, what an excellent presentation! I'd love to see a full feature!
Plant hybridization and genetic modification are not the same. When the video stated they were at 6:54 in, I stopped watching. You won't get any points in your favour for this video from anybody who knows the difference and it's easily researched.
+Gary Owens: You're right - they're not 100% the same; but they stem from the same idea, just different methodology. And when attempting to explain the concept simply, this is potentially the most straightforward way about explaining it. Doesn't hurt for people that do recognize the distinctions to point them out though, and ask further questions. This starts a dialog about it, and the only way to move forward is with discussion on the topic. Never stop asking questions.
+MissMme I did not say sweet potatoes were harmful. I just made the point that human involvement in these GMOs is not a bad thing. If you are full supporter of the insulin GMO Humilin, what is it about these crop GMOs that have you questioning their safety? I'm not here to attack you I am just trying to understand how you can support one yet be weary of another and not believe the studies and informative backing that stuff. There was another point addressed in the video that you did not list. By you only remembering the GMO talk and not even which crop we were talking about leaves me to believe you did not watch the video with an open mind. You have your beliefs which I understand. My wish as a farmer who grows GMO crops is that you would listen to what we are saying and not right away dismiss our facts as just backing big ag. We just backing the technology we use.
+MissMme Horizontal gene transfer, which you refer to as GM, absolutely does happen in nature, and we are discovering it is more common than previously believed. You are falling for the naturalistic fallacy referred to in the documentary - natural doesn't necessarily mean better or safer.
+MissMme "The easiest one to point out is that hybridization requires the plants to be genetically similar" Wrong. There are plenty of interspecies hybrids we've made. Triticale is the perfect example. It's a hybrid of wheat and rye, which are in completely different genus. The hybrid was made by using colchicine to induce polyploidy so the hybrid would be viable.
Song Girl, I am not. I believe in what I say. I have a lot of people who will back me up. I am an agriculture advocate, who will not back down. I won’t stop until I die. AND I AM 13!!!! I am a born and raised Saskatchewan farm boy. If you want to live your life in fear thinking farmers are trying to kill you, so be it. But me and millions of people won’t change our minds. If you want to see some real knowledge, go to @millenialfarmer ‘s channel.
Song Girl, I’d like to see you try to do that with 5200 acres (area=5200 football fields). That is a normal sized farm. But a few of my friends farm from 10,000 to 42,000 acres. P.S do you even live on a farm. Or do you live in a city.
I would just like to know this. In America we have created such an expensive way of farming that a young person that wants to get into farming simply cannot afford the capital to start one. The U.S.D.A. did a study about 5 years ago showing the average age of the American farmer was 60 years old. The children of most farmers don't want anything to do with farming because they have watched the hardships and struggle of there parents. So I ask how long will this big agg farm model actually work. With young people who want to farm not being able to afford 1,000s of acres and a few million dollars in equipment and you have the children of farmers growing more and more restless of the struggle how long will these 60 year old farmer be able to keep going? Not to be a stickler but how long does it actually take before a big agg farm makes money when you have millions invested in land and equipment? Seems like a pretty sheer slope of debt if you ask me. I farm 1/3 acre of all natural chemical free crops for local restaurant's and people in my community. I am able to net almost 100k per year while only using hand tools. I have no tractor and don't want one. I would put my cost to profit per sqft of land ratio up against any big agg farm and beat them every time. BIG AGG IS NOT PROFITABLE TO THE FARMER, IT IS ONLY PROFITABLE TO THOSE SUPPLYING THE FARMERS!
I’m sure this it a complete coincidence but these videos just happened to start popping up on you tube at the same time dicamba was about to hit the market. 🤔
Genetically modified crops are about control and preventing Farmers from being able to harvest their own seed and replant their crops and is about making them completely dependent on buying crops every single year from a seed dealer. And buying the chemicals to use to kill the weeds
I don’t hear people saying that farmers cannot use modern agricultural equipment. I hear them saying to not put chemicals on food crops and to have diversity and to have perennial agriculture that is sustainable and regenerative and economically viable
Commercial farmers are the absolute least objective people you could ask, save Monsanto. They have a clear and substantial personal interest in defending the reputation of their crops. All of Europe can survive without GMOs, so can North America.
There needs to be a way created to make structured democratic discussion of these issues possible and videos like this are helpful. Something that was not mentioned and that I've never heard in videos promoting Plant Breeding to feed the growing population of a hungry planet (apologies to Hans Rosling, Don't Panic!) is that agricultural production and plant breeding also involve the production of products that are not for human food consumption. In Canada and the U.S.A., there are crops like cotton, flax, aloe vera etc. that are not grown primarily for human food consumption (yes, flax seeds can be eaten by humans but people don't eat their linen or money). There are also crops that are grown indirectly for human consumption to feed to livestock, but field maize, in particular, is also grown as an industrial starch feedstock for a very large number of products humans don't eat at all. It's interesting to compare maize production in Canada and the U.S.A. with maize production in Africa where the percentage of the maize crop grown for direct human consumption is the complete opposite. The word 'farmer' carries a lot of historical baggage related to human food production. Maybe 'agricultural producer' is too generic because one does not think of the production of trees, landscape plants and flowers as agricultural production. (Yes, there are edible flowers but don't eat the Christmas poinsettas in the greenhouse). I'm not sure showing images of 'farmer's markets' really helps. It reinforces old ideas. I know of Canadian families that made a living with market gardens and greenhouse production on less than 40 acres/16 ha. So agricultural producer needs to include them as well as family farms of thousands of acres (I won't mention Brazil) and maybe vertical farms too. I've seen Canadian agricultural producers struggling with herbicide resistant weeds even to the point of smuggling illegal, unregistered herbicides into Canada from the U.S.A. to control them as a last resort. I've seen a field maize producer almost never have to use a pesticide while a friend growing sweet corn for a grocery store chain felt obligated to apply a pesticide several times to ensure a high quality product. I know for a fact that agricultural producers struggle with the issues of GMO's, use of chemicals and the environment and are often caught in the middle of the controversies trying to do what is right. People had a good laugh when the Prime Minister of Canada was rumoured as saying that 'We don't need the U.S.A., we have grocery stores." but it brings home the point that the production of some human food products eaten in Canada often takes place in relatively small regions outside of Canada. I was amazed once, to find out that a Canadian company was sourcing peanuts from China rather than from some part of Canada or the U.S.A. The raisins were coming from Turkey. In the U.S.A., Green Giant grows all its sweet corn in one state. In Canada, I've never seen or heard of very large vegetable production fields (apart from potatoes). I won't mention Brazil or soybean and coffee production but there are lots of issues there.
All I know is I bought an organic melon at a local farm and it was ten times better than the one I bought at the local supermarket. I can't disagree that golden rice could be a health benefit, if it is given to the farmers of the countries in need free of charge with no strings attached. Or will the companies want to gain a profit.
What the dont tell you is golden rice was a dishonest PR stunt from its inception, its nutrient stats were fudged and it's proved a failure. That hasn't stopped the propagandists from spinning the narrative and occluding the facts in their 'strategic communications' most radical opposition to Golden rice and GMOs/chemical agriculture in general comes from the poor people that are supposedly benefiting from this(see the 200,000,000 + peasants, among other rural people including family farmers in the global North that represented by the organization la via campesina) The truth is chemical agriculture and seed biotechnology has halved the vitamins and minerals in agricultural produce across the board since the 1950s. GMOs are about greed, simple as. the right to save open pollinated seed on farm is essential.
Some of the content was a reasonable call for not putting all farmers in one basket, but by the 20 minute mark I had heard just one too many unsubstantiated claims. If you want to get a different message across a more powerful approach might be to engage in some meaningful dialogue between respected leaders in the different fields - natural/organic, small-scale intensive and RegenAg in the same room with the promoters of chemical ag.
I’m a fourth generation farmer. Conventional, but want to move to organic. The conventional farming is bad for our rural communities. The cost of inputs are so high, and every year we have to get more toxic. For a small farm to remain I think the only option is to go organic, build up soil health. I’m tired of writing checks to chemical companies.
Just because the correlation cannot be absolutely proved as causation does not mean that nobody has been harmed by genetically modified foods. They absolutely have because those foods have been covered in toxic pesticides. I’m a former pesticide applicator and I understand these things.
+Andrea Suárez Really? How do I become canola oil sponsored? Sounds like a really good deal. I'm imagining big fat cheques signed from "canola oil", and obviously unlimited canola oil for life.
00:25 Today's farmers have radically different ways to manage their farm, there was nothing romantic about it back in the day, it is more so now. Less labor activity involved, easier because of the knowledge, also easier if you forgo knowledge and go straight to the chemicals. 2:00 Strict because science is working to eliminate risk to the environment and thus people over profits. 3:25 "They are selling the alternative", farmers are still selling food, just with alternative methods to grow it. 4:30 Farmers are going to explain about biochemistry? Or rather they will highlight some good person's struggle to make their money to survive, I feel for you, everyone is in the same place, it's the way of the world. 6:20 Huge monocultures create far different habitats than what can be afforded by the way we manage "conventional" (I dislike calling it that, as it is not conventional to change genes in an organism) agricultural land. The chemicals that are sprayed need to be continually tested by third party regulators as well as government to assure health to our ecosystems. A point is brought up further at 20:30 regarding more land being used because of the population size and the way that increased yields are because of the second green revolution (what they are talking about). Essentially, a part of the blame is the surplus of food for increase in population. It's hard to complain about such a thing, it definitely is something good, though something that causes something else, cannot be used as an argument for its continuation, for the cycle would perpetuate itself until there was no solution 7:00 Personally, doing it in a lab is one of the biggest reasons I would never consider it natural. Call it my stupid spiritual self, my reasoning behind why I think there is something considered good and evil in the universe, is why I don't like GMOs. It's lazy. And hard work, I'll leave it to Colossians 3:23. Remember, the seed is owned, patented and in fact legal ramifications have taken course because of them to reinforce this fact. 9:20 They list a bunch of things, and refute one. Very important. 10:20 "You will never beat evolution." I know, it's terrifying, for many things have opposite and equal reactions, and this is a huge amount of energy being pushed to beat nature. 15:00 ish...there's other ways to do it. Costs more usually, uses other methods, natural ones that many people are switching to and finding benefits. Other ways, just like there are other ways to get Vitamin A to people on the other side of the planet that are in desperate situations. Look how smart we are a society to figure this out, and we can't figure out a naturalistic way to do this? 15:50 Let's pay attention on this man talking about the need for regulatory agencies. 18:00 There are many positive effects, I will not lie, nor distract you as a reader of this, there are. It's all about the balance. And honest, directly measuring the costs and the effects. There are far more things that I can think of how these companies, effect the human living situation, including it's part in what I would consider the Chemical Empire and that includes politically. Are you happy politically? Think about the idea of security that this kind of technology needs, and really all chemicals need. People making wind turbines at manufacturing facilities don't need security guards like the kind of places that make these kind of chemicals and protect this kind of information that amounts to some would consider "god money" (despicable as that term is). 21:00 Humans are dictated by self interest. We have to fight against self-centeredness, naturally. Getting these people, from farmer to scientist, to writer, to mask ignorance by their own self-interest and how this technology feeds them when there are alternatives, is important to understanding how a person can be deceived. Is it any wonder why these used a pretty woman as a farmer that speaks while gathering farmers that do question the situation of things. Advertising 101. The "home piece". You farmers are not seen by me, and many others as bad people. I want an electric car instead of a gas one. I want green energy powering my home...I don't want to live in the dark, just have that good medium that is balance. And how many farm lands go fallow because of Some of the technologies of the 2nd green revolution, as well as myriad of other problems that have arisen. It came about because of a need. But most of the time, things are kept around, because it becomes to big to fail, or the people running it are the wolves that no one wants in their chicken coop.
This guy tried to compare aspirin to chemicals in food. What he did get right is they both contain manmade chemicals unnatural by stature. Seems to me, that these are all the same people. Just a little bit won’t hurt until a little bit doesn’t work anymore.
after watching this i still want organic my step dad was a farmer i had a chance too be around farmers my step dad realey knew how too take bad soil and make it great organicaly and encorage all bees in his garden some bees eat bugs and encurage other small creaters like frogs and snakes in it using human hair too keep some animals out naturally and knew what too do too save plants from a bad frost this information is lost and is not tought in schools alot of farms are gone in my area you have too go too vermont if you want too see farms an yes i live in ny..bring back the family farmer..
I beg to differ! People absolutely do understand risk. We are not stupid! The major concern is not that genetically modified organism crops are carcinogenic because of them being genetically modified… It is the cocktail of carcinogenic chemicals being applied to those crops because of that genetic modification that is the concern
I don’t know how it is in Canada, but if it’s anything like the United States, and I suspect it is, the same regulators who are regulating the corporations, are also having a conflict of interest because they are funded by those same institutions
Proper rotational regenerative holistic grazing management can capture a lot more Carbon into the soil than any kind of monocrop chemical dependent industrial tillage-based annual crop agriculture ever will
It often times is actually the case that small scale Farmers to have the ability to make more sustainable choices and therefore produce higher quality food that has less of a negative impact on the land for its production then do those industrial scale farmers
Looked up “sustainable agriculture documentary” and was personally disgusted that this was the first video listed. Monoculture is not sustainable, not safe, and economically inefficient. This is not how we feed the world or treat our environment. This “Documentary” is more like a pity plea from a large corporation whose been losing money as organic food consumption jumped to 5% this year out of total consumed foods, because people are finding out results from long term studies that have found health concerns from these GM and BT plants. From a perspective of the scientific method, i think we should be discrediting the studies of those who seek to benefit from GM crops and not from organizations seeking to gain information for public health and safety. There’s a reason the EU has banned GM foods, and it’s not because of “fear mongering”.
The concerns raised after the introduction of the romantic ideal segment being shown on the screen came up, are perfectly real and legitimate concerns based in what is actually happening
Acutely, the farmers created healthy benefits for the people and society in that country. However, farmers also are a important structure for expanding and demand of the economy growth.
Above and beyond the whole safety question.. The consumer pays for the product.. They should have a right to say, No thanks, I would prefer to buy the other (natural) one. One farmer said if he had to back to farming the way it was 50 years ago, he wouldn't farm... umm, Wheat, barley and oats are not GMO crops... yet enough is grown that we are all still eating bread and drinking beer. (I really do not agree with the spraying of finishing wheat crops, but that is a discussion for another thread.) Back to GMO's ... If there is no market for it... well, then I guess farmers can either plant what is wanted by the consumer or... maybe they can sell it oversea. Oh wait.. .. more and more countries are saying No to GMO's overseas.. same reason, I guess.. No one wants to purchase them.
The land needs rest. That’s why in the wild, animals come in and grays and then leave until the next year. Continuous use exhausts the land. Crop rotation is necessary
10 minutes into this video - So far there are several people on the video comparing ancient breeding of crops to modern day GMO's, which to me is no comparison at all. In days gone by the genetic manipulation was done to increase the nutritional value of plants, today, it's so the plant can be drowned in poison.....sounds different to me. The speakers keeps saying GMO's are safe....What if I'm after a bit more than just safety in my food? How about optimal nutritional value aimed toward optimal human health?
The problem is that those that promote GMO want to stuff it down your throat whether you object to it or not. Honest labeling, allowing freedom of choice and free market will give the public the ability to make educated decisions about the products they consume. Corporate mono farms are the best and only way to feed the populace, granted. But mono cropping is the biggest cause of our loss of top soil, a true natural resource, throughout the world.
Anybody who avoids Greens is doing them self a great service because grades are not digestible. Secondarily, anybody trying to avoid pesticide infused fruits and vegetables is also doing them self a great favor by reducing and minimizing toxins being introduced into the body.
Continuous cropping can happen with cover crops and pasture and alfalfa and does not need to be continuous corn on corn or soy beans on soybeans or wheat on wheat. We need perennial agriculture not annual crops
Some truths, some half truths, I think we can pretty much agree that 99 % of the original prairie is gone, so, to say GMOs have saved native habitat and biodiversity, is a bit inflated. The horse has left the barn!
2% why..because big ag has control and they rub out the small farmer that can't afford to fight. Regulate then use environment for there fights. In California a smelt won over food.
Electric cars are made from all kinds of very sustainably harvested minerals and metals and materials. The fact that they don’t pollute fossil fuel emissions from the tail pipe does not mean that they are environmentally sustainable
Actually, I’m only three minutes 58 seconds into this and the concerns of people all around the world are scientifically-based and are accurate. So far this “documentary” is sounding like some kind of agribusiness apologist propaganda film
As a farmer I know how difficult it is to become profitable. This video is nothing more than a PR piece. Maybe they should have more accurately named it "License to farm with GMO's". Hey I like canola oil but to assume we HAVE to have roundup ready canola is a joke. We need better crop rotations, smaller or narrower size fields, intercropping, windbreaks (even better profit alleys), gps guided auto-steered SMALLER tractors that are electric, more wildlife and wildlife habitats on farms, more beneficial insects and insect habitats on farms, more ponds, sloughs, swales, more diversity NOT LESS. Get me started!!! The industry wants to be able to do more, bigger, faster, cheaper. I want to also but not in a more monoculture, more bigger machinery, more simplified fields way. I've worked in western Canada and the scale of agriculture dwarfs anything in the east. Individual fields are so large there in no way for beneficials and wildlife to help control pests. It is WAY too far for them to reach the inside of fields. The hedgerows have mostly been ripped out (like in most places), many of the shallow ponds have been filled in since they get in the way of the big equipment. ARGHHH!!
+Stefan Sobkowiak Thanks for taking the time to offer a thoughtful response. It's important to keep the dialogue going, so we find the common ground. I don't think anyone wakes up every morning wanting to do bad, but if we are not well informed our actions might result in unintended consequences.
Stefan Sobkowiak We do not want any Gmo here in Europe either. roundup should be used with caution and as with antibiotics, we make the weed resistant to spraying agents. how much do you spend per hectare ?? over 4 liters ?? 2-3 liters and everything is dead and is used every 4 years.
Stefan Sobkowiak ❤️💕💛❤️ 4 mins in I called BS! Everything you said is bang on! I live in The city, & buy local & non-gmo as often as possible. Bigger is not better!
Stefan Sobkowiak - I completely agree. Round-Up Ready allows the corporation to claim, Monsanto, to file lawsuits against the farmers because of cross pollination. Shouldn't Round-Up be banned, since it's a poison that genetically modifies the organism? Way to go Jimmy Carter for allowing Monsanto to create patents for Monsanto seed. 🤔
Amen. Came to the comments 11 mins in to say the same thing. They are pushing a square rock down the road instead of fixing the root problem. Which is lack of biodiversity and design.
Traditional practices of organic agriculture are just as up-to-date now as they were back in the 1950s. They are not outdated
And indigenous peasant agriculture around the world, were it survives, is still by far the most advanced and sophisticated like has always been the case.
Now an irreversible oil crisis will teach farmers a lesson
Thank you for making this documentary. Hoping to see more of this information spread this way. We should chat!
"Farmers face a new challenge" at minute 00:56 we cut to a Non GMO Label. Yes. A new challenge. Transparency... I have to pause to get a note book, this 30 minute journey will require some note - taking, and some time from my work to address some of the statements that I am about the hear. It looks lovely, very professional. Please see the COABC, OCO, COTA and Think Before You Eat campaign to hear another perspective - from the pioneers - of sustaining food production systems and new economies.
+Jodi Koberinski Firstly, Thank You for your respectful dialogue. It is a breath of fresh air. From your perspective, could you help me understand what damage is being done by the GMO canola I might choose to grow on my farm. To myself, my family, the land we manage or to our customers?
+Jodi Koberinski So I google "Think before you eat" to find the website. The first thing I notice in the feature picture is a four tine tillage fork. This, to me, represents the most destructive force to soil health and promotes wind and soil erosion. While I respect the ideals of organic production, what I see is a reversion to tillage for primary weed control in organic production models and that alone gives me pause both from an efficacy and soil erosion standpoint.
There also needs to be strict labeling laws which let people who are buying food and beverages know what is in their beverages so that they can make informed choices and avoid toxins
This is an excellent video that provides a strong dose of reality from the farm in response to the alarmist non-scientific messages that dominate the internet. Well done SaskCanola!
I do think however, another one should be made! obviously you can't touch on everything in 30 minutes... but I think adding in the effectiveness of cover crops, crop rotations, livestock rotations...
We test our soil and we are putting fences back up around our fields that have no been used for years. We graze our cattle on a covercrop planted right after wheat is taken off. Our fields are never bare! Helping minimize soil erosion, decreasing soil temperatures and improving the bugs within the soil (there are many many more good bugs than bad IF the conditions are right... but this takes time. spraying is not eliminated, but very minimized).
I am grateful to the farmers that grow the food i choose to eat. I choose food grown organically thank you.
i would like to apologieze for all of those hatefull- anti farmer comments. they don't understand what a farm realy is and what we do
Not neccesarily hate,but when waterways,runoff,pesticides,herbicides,Fenceline pushbacks,deforestation,monoculture wipe and spray your feet due to diesease put on your tyvek suit is required,it aint farming.Its sad,but true.Its a corporate agenda and greed from the top.ALL short term thinking in todays world and Fu&*^ the next generation .Being more informed does not mean hate.Chemical induced soil on life support,it aint long term.Can't possibly last.
@@moultonditcher6187 I have one question. have you ever been on a farm in Saskatchewan?
Thank goodness I found someone with some common sense in this comment section.
I'm so proud of my family!!! Congratulations to Garry, Alexei and Benjamin who worked hard on this over the last year.
+Mishkin Berteig As you should be. They did an amazing job!! Hope they keep helping Canadian Ag to tell this side of the story.
+Mishkin Berteig of course with mega bucks funding why not?
+Erin Davis I'm not sure what you mean by "mega bucks funding". Although I don't know exact numbers, I do know that for the amount of time they put into this, they were paid a very very low rate - certainly much lower than they would normally charge for corporate work. My understanding is that 3/4 of the funding for this came from farmers. Also, "mega" usually refers to "million". Their personal take-home from this was much much much much less than a million. Finally, I'm never proud of someone for making money. That's crass. Perhaps that is your value system, although I suspect you simply were being sarcastic (hard to tell in comments) and actually you thought I was proud of them for making money. No - I'm proud of them for a different reason. I'm proud of them for helping an important, largely unheard voice, the voice of the farmers, to be brought into the discourse about food. Do you think that farmers should be silent? Would you censor farmers from speaking about food? Seems unfair to me... surely you didn't mean that.
+Mishkin Berteig $50,000.00 came from tax payers like me. I want a refund.
+Mishkin Berteig
Uh $200,000.00 of tax payers money funded this project. I'm sorry, but it looks like they were had too. And I mean that... I really am sorry that they were paid so little seen as just more people to be fooled.
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I wanted to be a farmer once , but then I realized that I was lazy .
This video is a chance to share our side of the argument when it comes to GM canola. In the past only the anti-Gm were represented. Thanks to the Berteig's and Sask. Canola for giving FARMERS a voice. Well Done!
+John Kowalchuk since the non-GM market for canola was all but obliterated after the introduction of GE canola on a wide scale in the late 1990s, there is hardly a peep from them because we abandoned the crop. Grateful for independent seslf-sustaining enterprises like Highwood Crossing, but they are a rare farm with no GMO in their seed stock.
The market wasn't obliterated for non-gm canola. It has always been sold into the same markets as gm canola. I applaud those farmers as well. Allowing consumers to have an option is great. I was stating that I was glad that it was something other than ANTI-Gmo not Non-Gmo.
+John Kowalchuk do your homework... Jodi is correct
so true
The use of chemicals is a genuine concern but the documentary is undermining these concerns. I think the dependence on technology is adding to this view.
I’m only here because my teacher assigned this
@Kelly me too and its due in an hour
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same here
This is good stuff to know
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SHARING EVERYWHERE!! This is SO important!! Very well done!!
GREAT to see a CANADIAN made documentary pushing out clear statements that the average Canadian can understand!!
THANK-YOU for making this!!!
We need to speak up ... especially since there's only 2% of us farming, we could be easily bullied by anti-farmers!!
Breeding plants and animals through selection works with natue. Genetically modifying plants and animals goes against natural selection. The DNA of any one organism is vast and genes are linked in a myriad of ways. Shifting selected genes around from one organism to another is just asking for trouble in the long term.
nice gmo propaganda... :)
Wait a second.. are you suggesting I trust a farmer to assure me about the biochemistry of my food supply? This documentary seems off to me.
This video is a) obviously promoted and financed by Bayer and b) extremely biased on the affirmations. It is true that GM technology can/could provide solutions to climate change adaptation and food security, but it is also true that it has been and still often is extremely devastating to the environment due to the unsustainable, large scale, intensive agricultural practices it induces. In addition it has been driving many farmers into large debts due to prohibitions on re-using seeds, the enforcement of certain farming techniques, etc. both in the global north and the south, and all this is also scientifically proven by many MANY articles you can readily find on platforms such as the Web of Science or PLOS One.
Indeed!
So this is a PRO GMO PRO synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and against organic. I am an organic farmer and it works for me
As someone who is both a scientist and passionate about farming, this was an excellent video and you packed a lot into 30 min. If consumers would watch this with an open logical mind, that would be a real bonus.
+William Enright if you are a true scientist, and truly did watch with an open mind I find it an oxymoron . Having watched this myself - open-minded, skeptical, .... a leaked video of Hilary Clinton coaching Monsanto to re-brand using 'drought resistant'... which is interesting as a scientist and passionate about farming you would also know about the geoengineering that is going on... the farmers in our area certainly are aware
+Erin Davis Yes, I spent 11 years in university studying agricultural and animal science, earned three degrees, including a PhD and have 240 publications. And have worked in four countries and visited farms in 40 countries. I found your comment very confusing so not sure what you are saying other than something conspiratorial involving Hilary Clinton and Monsanto? Please share evidence.
+William Enright It is impossible to have an open mind when people are actually lying to you....
+Erin Davis geoengineering? oxymoron? I think you should defer to the PhD guy who knows words 'n stuff.
+commodore256 All the info you mention re Monsanto and patents is untrue. The fact is that lots of companies have patents on lots of things. Monsanto has sued very few farmers and never for accidentally having some of their seeds or GMO plants. They only sue farmers that deliberately plant their seeds without contracts, etc. Any monies ever won have been given to charity. Please don't believe all the crap you read on the Internet.
Great Job!!! we need more of this, not only to tell our story to our eater customers, but to encourage those in the industry to stand up and start their own conversations. Fantastic, looking forward to more. Hopefully we can pull off something similar in Ontario.
Every Saskatchewan Ag advocate out there, stand up for your right. Don’t be afraid. Do what you love
We need something like this related to animal agriculture. I am so tired of hearing people promote veganism and how horrible farmers are to their animals when that is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Again, really well done. PROUD to be an agriculture grad and passionate advocate!!!
Well, most animal farms in the US are factory farms. Just saying.
+Wildcat Jackie please see vimeo.com/106837795
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Of course they don't starve. However, they are crowded, put into gestation crates, and other cruel, cost-effective practices. Pigs getting tails cut off at birth, castrated without pain killers.
These kinds of practices are common in the US.
Jodi Koberinski Thanks for sharing. This, too, happens on conventional farms, including my own family operation.
+Diana, the Inorganic Vegan I assume you have some sort of reputable and legitimate evidence to support these wild claims to prove you aren't just making assumptions or making shit up.
Healthiest? Is it? I know who to listen to! PERMACULTURE IS THE NATURAL WAY!
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the problem is that gmo crop herbicide resistance leads to over use of herbicides which are stored in the plant we then eat. We are eating roundup and other herbicides and this is destroying our digestive system...
Shooting License To Farm was to see into the heart of agriculture as being the cornerstone of civilization. Thanks to the great hearts we interviewed.
Agribusiness is an activity risking for the farmers, but they have bet for their own benefit and logically generate food for humanity. Of course, agriculture currently needs scientific and economic advances to deal with the higher challenge of our civilization, producing food with low environmental costs and high nutritional value under extreme conditions. This is our mission.
Just finished watching the film and it's great. The perspective of the farmer is often not easily accessible to the consumer. The Canadian farmer's voice is definitely not heard enough. By and large farmers are not out to push any agenda. I've observed that they are usually humble and silent but most care deeply for the land and environment and take pride in the service they provide for humanity. The film is a great catalyst for discussion. It informs the consumer (including me) and promotes a deeper awareness of the science behind modern farming. It definitely facilitates a more open dialogue between the farmer and consumer and outlines how each has responsibilities. I think for lifetime farmers like my dad it is a very empowering film.
I enjoyed this documentary a lot, thanks for publishing it and making it free. (As somebody who has no farming experience, it was still easy to understand)
:D nice propaganda
I love that when you talked about megacompanies competing to monopolize the seed industry, you showed Bayer and not Monsanto.
People don't know this, but Monsanto is actually the second largest, not largest, seller of GM seeds (Du Pont is the largest), and yet none of the criticis can name Bayer or the other companies with similar market share.
+Trepur349 we have a "Big 6" Seed/ chemical cartel. Syngenta is being eyed by Monsanto (they did this a couple decades ago to beat a bad rap on PCBs, now they want a name change, or well, you know, to gobble up a competitor) and Dupont and Dow are in the final stages of their two-headed monster merger... And YES taking the conversation more broadly to the industry is a good thing, thanks for that .... companies do what they do because we allow it with lax regulation on chemical and biotech firms. Where it gets dicey is WHY the rules allow it. A lot of money and energy goes into shaping that environment in favour of the multinationals
+Jodi Koberinski we can argue the business and politics of this matter all day long but any outcome can't deny the benefits and the NEED of this technology. Even if one company monopolizes a hiv vaccine, we should eliminate the company not the vaccine.
Bayer is Monsanto. I get all of my seed and chem from bayer. It is quite good. It is easy to grow and Handel. We are getting more from less. And the chemical is way better and safer then it was a few years ago. And it is also better than tillage. For a 50lb canola bag is around $850. That bag contains thousands of seeds. And each seed now can produce hundreds of more seeds. The chemical helps the seeds get more nutrients by killing weeds, and not effecting the canola plant. That is my point of view.
@@TheOneSaskatchewanFarmBoy yeah funnily enough Bayer and Monsanto merged a couple years ago. But a the time of this videos (and my comments) creation, well that hadn't happened yet
Be loud, Be strong, Be brave farmers
For anyone with the intellectual integrity to consider the other side of this argument, please read Joel Salatins, Folks this ain't normal.
also mark shepards book restoration AG.
we farm hard and do care. #SASKCANOLA #FARMERS aRE THE BEST
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Silly farmers, scientists, and other experts...don't you know that you'll never know as much as a blogger who spends about fifteen minutes on Google looking for that needle in the haystack that confirms their bias?
All kidding aside, what an excellent presentation! I'd love to see a full feature!
Plant hybridization and genetic modification are not the same. When the video stated they were at 6:54 in, I stopped watching. You won't get any points in your favour for this video from anybody who knows the difference and it's easily researched.
+Gary Owens Please point to a reference that you feels clearly explains this difference.
+Gary Owens: You're right - they're not 100% the same; but they stem from the same idea, just different methodology. And when attempting to explain the concept simply, this is potentially the most straightforward way about explaining it.
Doesn't hurt for people that do recognize the distinctions to point them out though, and ask further questions. This starts a dialog about it, and the only way to move forward is with discussion on the topic.
Never stop asking questions.
+MissMme I did not say sweet potatoes were harmful. I just made the point that human involvement in these GMOs is not a bad thing. If you are full supporter of the insulin GMO Humilin, what is it about these crop GMOs that have you questioning their safety? I'm not here to attack you I am just trying to understand how you can support one yet be weary of another and not believe the studies and informative backing that stuff. There was another point addressed in the video that you did not list. By you only remembering the GMO talk and not even which crop we were talking about leaves me to believe you did not watch the video with an open mind. You have your beliefs which I understand. My wish as a farmer who grows GMO crops is that you would listen to what we are saying and not right away dismiss our facts as just backing big ag. We just backing the technology we use.
+MissMme Horizontal gene transfer, which you refer to as GM, absolutely does happen in nature, and we are discovering it is more common than previously believed. You are falling for the naturalistic fallacy referred to in the documentary - natural doesn't necessarily mean better or safer.
+MissMme "The easiest one to point out is that hybridization requires the plants to be genetically similar"
Wrong. There are plenty of interspecies hybrids we've made. Triticale is the perfect example. It's a hybrid of wheat and rye, which are in completely different genus. The hybrid was made by using colchicine to induce polyploidy so the hybrid would be viable.
Take that everyone that hates us. We have true proof. Bravo whoever made this video. It is amazing. We need to stand up for what is right.
Lol, Except what you think is right is actually wrong! Stop poisoning the people!
Song Girl, I am not. I believe in what I say. I have a lot of people who will back me up. I am an agriculture advocate, who will not back down. I won’t stop until I die. AND I AM 13!!!! I am a born and raised Saskatchewan farm boy. If you want to live your life in fear thinking farmers are trying to kill you, so be it. But me and millions of people won’t change our minds. If you want to see some real knowledge, go to @millenialfarmer ‘s channel.
Sorry guy, but there are better ways to farm. The focus should be healthy people, healthy animals, healthy soil, working with and not against nature.
Song Girl, I’d like to see you try to do that with 5200 acres (area=5200 football fields). That is a normal sized farm. But a few of my friends farm from 10,000 to 42,000 acres. P.S do you even live on a farm. Or do you live in a city.
Song Girl, I think I am more educated on this by living in a grain farm my entire life. My family has been farming for 93 years
I would just like to know this. In America we have created such an expensive way of farming that a young person that wants to get into farming simply cannot afford the capital to start one. The U.S.D.A. did a study about 5 years ago showing the average age of the American farmer was 60 years old. The children of most farmers don't want anything to do with farming because they have watched the hardships and struggle of there parents. So I ask how long will this big agg farm model actually work. With young people who want to farm not being able to afford 1,000s of acres and a few million dollars in equipment and you have the children of farmers growing more and more restless of the struggle how long will these 60 year old farmer be able to keep going?
Not to be a stickler but how long does it actually take before a big agg farm makes money when you have millions invested in land and equipment? Seems like a pretty sheer slope of debt if you ask me.
I farm 1/3 acre of all natural chemical free crops for local restaurant's and people in my community. I am able to net almost 100k per year while only using hand tools. I have no tractor and don't want one. I would put my cost to profit per sqft of land ratio up against any big agg farm and beat them every time. BIG AGG IS NOT PROFITABLE TO THE FARMER, IT IS ONLY PROFITABLE TO THOSE SUPPLYING THE FARMERS!
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It's great to see all the discussion! All comments are welcome, both supporting and opposing the content of the video.
My teacher posted this for a school assignment
Who funded this documentary? There are no notes for this video.
i think sask canols. thank god for them. it was an amazing doc for the truth that we face
I’m sure this it a complete coincidence but these videos just happened to start popping up on you tube at the same time dicamba was about to hit the market. 🤔
Genetically modified crops are about control and preventing Farmers from being able to harvest their own seed and replant their crops and is about making them completely dependent on buying crops every single year from a seed dealer. And buying the chemicals to use to kill the weeds
This is the greatest documentary I ve watched in a long time. Thank you.
nice gmo propaganda... :)
@@papaszem44 it is not proerganta. it is just true fact.
I support farmers! We need to hear more farmers and prevent the anti-science activists from harming our environment and food supply.
has anyone tested this canola oil for glyphosate content???
This is the most inspirational videos ever
I don’t hear people saying that farmers cannot use modern agricultural equipment. I hear them saying to not put chemicals on food crops and to have diversity and to have perennial agriculture that is sustainable and regenerative and economically viable
Stopped watching at 45 seconds - more environmentally sound methods. Nope
Commercial farmers are the absolute least objective people you could ask, save Monsanto. They have a clear and substantial personal interest in defending the reputation of their crops. All of Europe can survive without GMOs, so can North America.
We urban foodies actually understand Modern agriculture quite well. We are often times highly educated and well informed. Stop talking down to us
Help me please where can I get this license agricultural
I love the challenges despite what I love farming
There needs to be a way created to make structured democratic discussion of these issues possible and videos like this are helpful.
Something that was not mentioned and that I've never heard in videos promoting Plant Breeding to feed the growing population of a hungry planet (apologies to Hans Rosling, Don't Panic!) is that agricultural production and plant breeding also involve the production of products that are not for human food consumption. In Canada and the U.S.A., there are crops like cotton, flax, aloe vera etc. that are not grown primarily for human food consumption (yes, flax seeds can be eaten by humans but people don't eat their linen or money). There are also crops that are grown indirectly for human consumption to feed to livestock, but field maize, in particular, is also grown as an industrial starch feedstock for a very large number of products humans don't eat at all. It's interesting to compare maize production in Canada and the U.S.A. with maize production in Africa where the percentage of the maize crop grown for direct human consumption is the complete opposite.
The word 'farmer' carries a lot of historical baggage related to human food production. Maybe 'agricultural producer' is too generic because one does not think of the production of trees, landscape plants and flowers as agricultural production. (Yes, there are edible flowers but don't eat the Christmas poinsettas in the greenhouse). I'm not sure showing images of 'farmer's markets' really helps. It reinforces old ideas. I know of Canadian families that made a living with market gardens and greenhouse production on less than 40 acres/16 ha. So agricultural producer needs to include them as well as family farms of thousands of acres (I won't mention Brazil) and maybe vertical farms too.
I've seen Canadian agricultural producers struggling with herbicide resistant weeds even to the point of smuggling illegal, unregistered herbicides into Canada from the U.S.A. to control them as a last resort. I've seen a field maize producer almost never have to use a pesticide while a friend growing sweet corn for a grocery store chain felt obligated to apply a pesticide several times to ensure a high quality product. I know for a fact that agricultural producers struggle with the issues of GMO's, use of chemicals and the environment and are often caught in the middle of the controversies trying to do what is right.
People had a good laugh when the Prime Minister of Canada was rumoured as saying that 'We don't need the U.S.A., we have grocery stores." but it brings home the point that the production of some human food products eaten in Canada often takes place in relatively small regions outside of Canada. I was amazed once, to find out that a Canadian company was sourcing peanuts from China rather than from some part of Canada or the U.S.A. The raisins were coming from Turkey. In the U.S.A., Green Giant grows all its sweet corn in one state. In Canada, I've never seen or heard of very large vegetable production fields (apart from potatoes). I won't mention Brazil or soybean and coffee production but there are lots of issues there.
All I know is I bought an organic melon at a local farm and it was ten times better than the one I bought at the local supermarket. I can't disagree that golden rice could be a health benefit, if it is given to the farmers of the countries in need free of charge with no strings attached. Or will the companies want to gain a profit.
What the dont tell you is golden rice was a dishonest PR stunt from its inception, its nutrient stats were fudged and it's proved a failure. That hasn't stopped the propagandists from spinning the narrative and occluding the facts in their 'strategic communications' most radical opposition to Golden rice and GMOs/chemical agriculture in general comes from the poor people that are supposedly benefiting from this(see the 200,000,000 + peasants, among other rural people including family farmers in the global North that represented by the organization la via campesina)
The truth is chemical agriculture and seed biotechnology has halved the vitamins and minerals in agricultural produce across the board since the 1950s. GMOs are about greed, simple as. the right to save open pollinated seed on farm is essential.
Some of the content was a reasonable call for not putting all farmers in one basket, but by the 20 minute mark I had heard just one too many unsubstantiated claims. If you want to get a different message across a more powerful approach might be to engage in some meaningful dialogue between respected leaders in the different fields - natural/organic, small-scale intensive and RegenAg in the same room with the promoters of chemical ag.
I love farming and salute to all farmers out there...
i love lean
I’m a fourth generation farmer. Conventional, but want to move to organic. The conventional farming is bad for our rural communities. The cost of inputs are so high, and every year we have to get more toxic. For a small farm to remain I think the only option is to go organic, build up soil health. I’m tired of writing checks to chemical companies.
Just because the correlation cannot be absolutely proved as causation does not mean that nobody has been harmed by genetically modified foods. They absolutely have because those foods have been covered in toxic pesticides. I’m a former pesticide applicator and I understand these things.
canola oil sponsored
+Andrea Suárez
Really? How do I become canola oil sponsored? Sounds like a really good deal. I'm imagining big fat cheques signed from "canola oil", and obviously unlimited canola oil for life.
So what’s wrong about sask canola making this video. P.S guess what you grease you pan with, or what your margarine is made out of. Canola oil
00:25 Today's farmers have radically different ways to manage their farm, there was nothing romantic about it back in the day, it is more so now. Less labor activity involved, easier because of the knowledge, also easier if you forgo knowledge and go straight to the chemicals.
2:00 Strict because science is working to eliminate risk to the environment and thus people over profits.
3:25 "They are selling the alternative", farmers are still selling food, just with alternative methods to grow it.
4:30 Farmers are going to explain about biochemistry? Or rather they will highlight some good person's struggle to make their money to survive, I feel for you, everyone is in the same place, it's the way of the world.
6:20 Huge monocultures create far different habitats than what can be afforded by the way we manage "conventional" (I dislike calling it that, as it is not conventional to change genes in an organism) agricultural land. The chemicals that are sprayed need to be continually tested by third party regulators as well as government to assure health to our ecosystems. A point is brought up further at 20:30 regarding more land being used because of the population size and the way that increased yields are because of the second green revolution (what they are talking about). Essentially, a part of the blame is the surplus of food for increase in population. It's hard to complain about such a thing, it definitely is something good, though something that causes something else, cannot be used as an argument for its continuation, for the cycle would perpetuate itself until there was no solution
7:00 Personally, doing it in a lab is one of the biggest reasons I would never consider it natural. Call it my stupid spiritual self, my reasoning behind why I think there is something considered good and evil in the universe, is why I don't like GMOs. It's lazy. And hard work, I'll leave it to Colossians 3:23. Remember, the seed is owned, patented and in fact legal ramifications have taken course because of them to reinforce this fact.
9:20 They list a bunch of things, and refute one. Very important.
10:20 "You will never beat evolution." I know, it's terrifying, for many things have opposite and equal reactions, and this is a huge amount of energy being pushed to beat nature.
15:00 ish...there's other ways to do it. Costs more usually, uses other methods, natural ones that many people are switching to and finding benefits. Other ways, just like there are other ways to get Vitamin A to people on the other side of the planet that are in desperate situations. Look how smart we are a society to figure this out, and we can't figure out a naturalistic way to do this?
15:50 Let's pay attention on this man talking about the need for regulatory agencies.
18:00 There are many positive effects, I will not lie, nor distract you as a reader of this, there are. It's all about the balance. And honest, directly measuring the costs and the effects. There are far more things that I can think of how these companies, effect the human living situation, including it's part in what I would consider the Chemical Empire and that includes politically. Are you happy politically? Think about the idea of security that this kind of technology needs, and really all chemicals need. People making wind turbines at manufacturing facilities don't need security guards like the kind of places that make these kind of chemicals and protect this kind of information that amounts to some would consider "god money" (despicable as that term is).
21:00 Humans are dictated by self interest. We have to fight against self-centeredness, naturally. Getting these people, from farmer to scientist, to writer, to mask ignorance by their own self-interest and how this technology feeds them when there are alternatives, is important to understanding how a person can be deceived. Is it any wonder why these used a pretty woman as a farmer that speaks while gathering farmers that do question the situation of things. Advertising 101. The "home piece". You farmers are not seen by me, and many others as bad people. I want an electric car instead of a gas one. I want green energy powering my home...I don't want to live in the dark, just have that good medium that is balance. And how many farm lands go fallow because of Some of the technologies of the 2nd green revolution, as well as myriad of other problems that have arisen. It came about because of a need. But most of the time, things are kept around, because it becomes to big to fail, or the people running it are the wolves that no one wants in their chicken coop.
The reality is that we have too many people on the planet and if everybody lived like somebody from North America, we would need seven planets
The concerns of people being referred to as consumers, is actually based in science
This guy tried to compare aspirin to chemicals in food. What he did get right is they both contain manmade chemicals unnatural by stature. Seems to me, that these are all the same people. Just a little bit won’t hurt until a little bit doesn’t work anymore.
very nice documentary, covering every aspect.
after watching this i still want organic my step dad was a farmer i had a chance too be around farmers my step dad realey knew how too take bad soil and make it great organicaly and encorage all bees in his garden some bees eat bugs and encurage other small creaters like frogs and snakes in it using human hair too keep some animals out naturally and knew what too do too save plants from a bad frost this information is lost and is not tought in schools alot of farms are gone in my area you have too go too vermont if you want too see farms an yes i live in ny..bring back the family farmer..
Good job Berteig Imaging! Really interesting Documentary!
nice gmo propaganda... :)
Genetically modified organisms crops use more pesticides not less
just label it and let the consumer decide.
Next Stop, Soylent Green.
What about the nutritional value of the gmo's
I beg to differ! People absolutely do understand risk. We are not stupid! The major concern is not that genetically modified organism crops are carcinogenic because of them being genetically modified… It is the cocktail of carcinogenic chemicals being applied to those crops because of that genetic modification that is the concern
Excellent.
I don’t know how it is in Canada, but if it’s anything like the United States, and I suspect it is, the same regulators who are regulating the corporations, are also having a conflict of interest because they are funded by those same institutions
GMO is fine, but when you alter the plant just so it can withstand round up. That's messed up!! And who owns farming... Oil/chemical companies.
Proper rotational regenerative holistic grazing management can capture a lot more Carbon into the soil than any kind of monocrop chemical dependent industrial tillage-based annual crop agriculture ever will
great film. I agree farmers need to engage customers and show them and tell them before an uneducated judgement is made.
Warning significant bia. Who funded this?
gmo
i think sask canola. that is a good thing they made this. it is so true. farmers feed the world
It often times is actually the case that small scale Farmers to have the ability to make more sustainable choices and therefore produce higher quality food that has less of a negative impact on the land for its production then do those industrial scale farmers
Actually, while farmers are the first ones affected, they do not generally get involved in anything that restricts them from using chemicals.
Looked up “sustainable agriculture documentary” and was personally disgusted that this was the first video listed. Monoculture is not sustainable, not safe, and economically inefficient. This is not how we feed the world or treat our environment. This “Documentary” is more like a pity plea from a large corporation whose been losing money as organic food consumption jumped to 5% this year out of total consumed foods, because people are finding out results from long term studies that have found health concerns from these GM and BT plants. From a perspective of the scientific method, i think we should be discrediting the studies of those who seek to benefit from GM crops and not from organizations seeking to gain information for public health and safety. There’s a reason the EU has banned GM foods, and it’s not because of “fear mongering”.
The concerns raised after the introduction of the romantic ideal segment being shown on the screen came up, are perfectly real and legitimate concerns based in what is actually happening
Sharing. I feel my mind has been opened from being very close-minded and ignorant for far too long regarding the Canadian farming industry.
Acutely, the farmers created healthy benefits for the people and society in that country. However, farmers also are a important structure for expanding and demand of the economy growth.
Above and beyond the whole safety question..
The consumer pays for the product.. They should have a right to say, No thanks, I would prefer to buy the other (natural) one.
One farmer said if he had to back to farming the way it was 50 years ago, he wouldn't farm... umm, Wheat, barley and oats are not GMO crops... yet enough is grown that we are all still eating bread and drinking beer. (I really do not agree with the spraying of finishing wheat crops, but that is a discussion for another thread.)
Back to GMO's ... If there is no market for it... well, then I guess farmers can either plant what is wanted by the consumer or... maybe they can sell it oversea. Oh wait.. .. more and more countries are saying No to GMO's overseas.. same reason, I guess.. No one wants to purchase them.
Official Documentary?!?!? Says who??
nice gmo propaganda... :)
The land needs rest. That’s why in the wild, animals come in and grays and then leave until the next year. Continuous use exhausts the land. Crop rotation is necessary
10 minutes into this video - So far there are several people on the video comparing ancient breeding of crops to modern day GMO's, which to me is no comparison at all. In days gone by the genetic manipulation was done to increase the nutritional value of plants, today, it's so the plant can be drowned in poison.....sounds different to me. The speakers keeps saying GMO's are safe....What if I'm after a bit more than just safety in my food? How about optimal nutritional value aimed toward optimal human health?
The problem is that those that promote GMO want to stuff it down your throat whether you object to it or not. Honest labeling, allowing freedom of choice and free market will give the public the ability to make educated decisions about the products they consume.
Corporate mono farms are the best and only way to feed the populace, granted. But mono cropping is the biggest cause of our loss of top soil, a true natural resource, throughout the world.
Anybody who avoids Greens is doing them self a great service because grades are not digestible. Secondarily, anybody trying to avoid pesticide infused fruits and vegetables is also doing them self a great favor by reducing and minimizing toxins being introduced into the body.
Tillage is not necessary and no tail should replace tillage or minimum till
Continuous cropping can happen with cover crops and pasture and alfalfa and does not need to be continuous corn on corn or soy beans on soybeans or wheat on wheat. We need perennial agriculture not annual crops
There are a lot of farmers who have a very callous disregard for regulations and safety precautions and do whatever the hell they want to do.
Awesome message!
Some truths, some half truths, I think we can pretty much agree that 99 % of the original prairie is gone, so, to say GMOs have saved native habitat and biodiversity, is a bit inflated. The horse has left the barn!
2% why..because big ag has control and they rub out the small farmer that can't afford to fight. Regulate then use environment for there fights. In California a smelt won over food.
Electric cars are made from all kinds of very sustainably harvested minerals and metals and materials. The fact that they don’t pollute fossil fuel emissions from the tail pipe does not mean that they are environmentally sustainable
Large corporate agriculture aren't farmers....they are heavy equipment operators...
If Farmers will not be honest about the negative impacts they are having on food and the environment, they will be subject to continued regulations.
👍 great too!
Actually, I’m only three minutes 58 seconds into this and the concerns of people all around the world are scientifically-based and are accurate. So far this “documentary” is sounding like some kind of agribusiness apologist propaganda film
YES!
@14.30 if u take two tablets headache will go away. If u take full bottle of tablets then you will go away.. :) nice sense of humour.