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@kilianlindberg
June 25, 2024 at 8:42 am
I’ve noticed it’s possible to stimulate growth with AI & resonance; sound waves.. no toxic stuff, no disruption from dna-modification unbalancing ecosystems; only more growth and food
@l01230123
June 25, 2024 at 8:45 am
That’s very interesting. What research have you done on the topic?
@incogneat0h
June 25, 2024 at 8:53 am
Experiments, yeild, and sector growth sounds great, but all the bullshit that’s been conjured up in labs up to now has resulted in nothing more than bankrupt farmers and put goddamn fisher price fruit and veggies on my store shelfs! I can’t fuckin waaaiit to hear the long term health studies. You treat this planet, the food and us peasants like rats in some fuckin lab.
@l01230123
June 25, 2024 at 9:30 am
That’s strange, because non-gmo foods cost more to grow, produce fewer crops, and switching back to them has caused poor farmers to sell less. Gmo-free isn’t a legally or scientifically defendable position based on methods and testing. It’s just advertising, no different from the word “natural.” Gmos have been found to have very roughly 5-15% more of naturally occurring chemicals we eat every day. If that concerns you, eat a slightly larger variety of food.
I get that new things can seem weird and dangerous, sometimes they are, and it’s the sensitive people who are the first to notice danger, so I understand some concern, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Right now Australia is killing fish/wildlife and probably poisoning people from their cheap pesticide and/or feralized use, but doesn’t mean everything else is bad: the science was there, but their politicians were incompetent at navigating it.
You’re a lab rat when you eat highly processed foods with isolated and high quantities of molecules we don’t know the impact of. (In that quantity) That’s what’s likely to affect your health when you visit the grocery store.
@RTEducators
June 25, 2024 at 9:03 am
I think farming should be a civic compulsory service. If conscription is happening more and more in some country, so should mandatory farming service. There is SUCH a disconnect between knowing basic food production of a society vs picking up food at the local store and listen to my favorite social media/ celebrity telling me what to and what not to eat.
@l01230123
June 25, 2024 at 9:50 am
Even transplanting a fruit tree to schools might get people more interested in farming. Another useful skill schools don’t focus on (not that we force kids into a full day’s work on a farm, that’s probably too far 😅)
@Ribberflavenous
June 25, 2024 at 10:28 am
Compulsory conscription? Let’s perhaps include it in the education curriculum, maybe have gardens at the school. If you force it, you create resentment.
@RTEducators
June 25, 2024 at 11:02 am
@@Ribberflavenous no, I mean what I said. Compulsory civic farming service. You live, breath, eat and sleep like a farmer for 3-6 months. What is the point of education if it’s just gonna be more paper work/ homework/ academia to say “I learned what farming is like” when you ARE the farmer. Infact, for those that don’t want to do farming they can go do the compulsory military service. Yes I like compulsiveness…
@RTEducators
June 25, 2024 at 11:07 am
@@l01230123 I don’t care about kids going into farming how’s that gonna be realistic in learning anything? I’m talking about teens. Your do-nothing 16-20 year olds. Japan is doing it.
@wilerman
June 25, 2024 at 11:29 am
@@RTEducatorsHonestly not a terrible idea when we literally have summers off in school because we used to be farmers.
@GalaxyExpress-hq9qb
June 25, 2024 at 9:04 am
I do not give him good credibility when he equates AI to chatGPT. AI is already hugely considered in agriculture.
@BrainiousPodcast
June 25, 2024 at 1:17 pm
Nice point!
@KWifler
June 26, 2024 at 4:32 am
He is upset that *other people* do that. That’s what he was trying to say. Other people think AI is just chat bots.
@marcialabrahantes3369
June 27, 2024 at 2:54 pm
He mentions how *statistical modeling* has been used for ages.
AI is just the latest rebrand
There’s a lot of content on his opinions from his podcast (All in Podcast)
@ptkettlehatsandthegang
June 25, 2024 at 9:04 am
34:45 Look I bet this comment won’t get pinned or liked, reply and I’ll do absolutely NOTHING
@vcat417
June 25, 2024 at 9:36 am
What a great example of educational TED talk. This is kind of Entertainment I like.
@marcialabrahantes3369
June 27, 2024 at 2:45 pm
more animations would have been 💯
@toxicarrot89
June 25, 2024 at 9:45 am
I encourage you (TED and this speaker) to move beyond the technocentric viewpoint you’re oozing. It’s so limited. If farming was our first technology, then it was preceded by our social fabric and recognition of humanity in others and our abiotic environment.
The productivity equation ignores the input of marginalized groups (often women, children, and vulnerable individuals) on a local scale. The mention of the Haber process without acknowledgement that it was initially used to generate explosives for the Soviet Union is testament to the idea that progress at any cost is destructive, and that’s equally true for agriculture today. Technology isn’t the only solution needed.
The idea that there isn’t food is completely false, it is political agreements like the US-Canada-Mexico policy that requires the productive country (Mexico) to export it’s crops at lower prices while the bigger players flood their market with cheap imported crops, like in the case of corn (agricultural dumping). It is these political regimes that keep productive countries from breaking out of their debt on a global scale – for Nicaragua there were attempted and failed coups by the US government when Nicaraguans nationally rejected the incumbent neoliberal government.
Productive countries do not owe the tech hubs of the world anything, and they are not interested in commerce that reduces the existing biodiversity and indigenous knowledge they possess. They are interested in improving their systems – but not in a way that makes them reliant on a global market that relegates their contribution to pennies, as in the case of the potato seed mentioned.
And yes smallholder farmers care about their livelihood, it is what sustains them. But they are not made aware of their rights and the global market interests of others nor the reliance they inhabit through GMO seed cultivation. I’m not against GMOs (they’re necessary to adapt to climate change on a human scale), I’m against the concept of making someone who already understands local ecology and agriculture feel less than because of factors out of their control (commodifying crops, supply chains, extractive global policy).
@Mr.Marbles
June 25, 2024 at 9:47 am
Boosted breeding sounds like a tag on R34
@sgalla1328
June 25, 2024 at 10:11 am
Horrible. The chemical pesticides used to produce larger amounts of food are destroying the foods , decreasing the mineral uptake , destroying beneficial insects and causing genetic mutations in humans and animals. More food at poor qualty and less nutritional value DOES NOT equal success. Big ag and genetic and chemical exposure is causing mass disease . Horrible. We need more
Organic pesticide free with rotating crop planting in mineral rich soil as the objective.
@williamrobinson4265
June 25, 2024 at 10:15 am
I have ZERO interest in listening to you run your mouth
ALL I need is the pertinent information
@Aronnax777
June 27, 2024 at 3:22 pm
They are trying to sell a product that fixes no problems and harms the environment.
@AdvantestInc
June 25, 2024 at 10:19 am
David, your insights into the historical evolution and future of agriculture are incredibly valuable. It’s great to see such a comprehensive approach to tackling environmental challenges through technology.
@yas4435
June 25, 2024 at 10:42 am
as a diabetic, I cannot eat corn, potatoes, rice or high glycemic foods… this tech will not solve my diabetes but will cause more damage to the body and mind call type 3 diabetes.!
@zenmode216
June 25, 2024 at 10:50 am
Bestie on Ted channel!
@somethingginterestingg4275
June 25, 2024 at 11:39 am
Love Friedberg . Love science corner
@Gucky-pi1uq
June 25, 2024 at 11:51 am
Did you ask god if he is interested to learn your great, highly profitable, solutions? God seems to be very patient with guys like you. I wonder when you guys will go too far, experiencing the lightning in your neck? I only can say – sayonara!
@ayashwijewardhana3024
June 25, 2024 at 12:10 pm
Waiting your hands
@andycordy5190
June 25, 2024 at 3:21 pm
Either these boosted genetics plants yield seeds that are uniform or they don’t. The farmer comes back to the company each year because the boosted plants s/he grows will produce seeds with natural variations in genetics and will not repeat the productivity year on year. It works in a similar way to F1 hybrid varieties.
@BrainiousPodcast
June 25, 2024 at 3:31 pm
For sure we entered a new era and everything will be different from now on. In our channel we’re trying to educate others and include these interesting topics. Check us out!
@MostlyLoveOfMusic
June 25, 2024 at 4:52 pm
The solution is indoor vertical farming and lab-grown meat
@marcialabrahantes3369
June 27, 2024 at 2:53 pm
yes, now get to it
@hermitonthelake
June 25, 2024 at 4:56 pm
When we proclaimed we would “feed the world” 50 years ago, we Dr. Frankensteined dwarf wheat with another wheat, to yield 4 times more per acre. They won the Nobel prize for it. Turns out, ancestrally speaking, this wheat (which is now in almost everything we eat) is not as compatible with our microbiome as the natural strain of wheat, and over time can cause issues. Messing around with a foods genes or growing “vat-meat” is not really food fit for humans.
@JumpingCow
June 25, 2024 at 5:22 pm
This is so exciting. The potential is unbounded. Thank you, David Friedberg.
@WeylandLabs
June 25, 2024 at 6:53 pm
26:36 I stopped watching 15 seconds atter he said this.
This shows the worst of humanity, _”it doesn’t solve our problem but you can create businesses.”_
What’s even the point, then ?
Money & Greed & More control !
This isn’t a *Ted Talk* this is an investment pitch.
@KWifler
June 26, 2024 at 4:27 am
The answer to “is x scalable” is, if you eliminate human labor, yes. Each human represents a minimum wage.
@mohamedfayed8013
June 26, 2024 at 5:42 am
USA has 40 percent of its population in Obesity and Overweight .
Europe has 50 percent of its population in Obesity and Overweight .
food production is not the problem .
distribution is the problem .
USA and Europe will be better of with less food ; population heath wise and medical aid .
Africa will be better of with more food .
@jhunt5578
June 27, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Legend
@user-sd8gp3mj5d
June 28, 2024 at 2:03 pm
appeling
@JehnomInfo
June 28, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Quite sinister and puzzled when you portray agriculture in a negative light..
@iainneilson1453
June 30, 2024 at 8:19 am
There is no food shortage, only inequality of distribution. A small percentage of the world’s population has the luxury of throwing away good food. A larger percentage has the luxury of wasting empty calories. And then there are those who have no control over the means of production or access to nutritious food. You speak of the amount of land given over to growing crops to feed livestock and neglect to discuss in detail the land given over to growing cereals and grains for the industrial giants who dominate the food industry, and for seed oils. There is no discussion, either of the commercial and industrial interests which are driving small farmers into the ground. Improving productivity will not level the playing field.
Modern arable farming, with the application of vast quantities of nitrates, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, destroys healthy soil and ecosystems. The runoff poisons the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. The vast herds of animals which once roamed the plains of Europe, Africa, Asia and America did not create global warming. Their passage fertilised the land and ensured that it was healthy.
Nature has a nasty habit of adapting to control, and history has some unfortunate lessons about the consequences of reliance on monoculture and inbreeding.
Why was there no mention of regenerative farming, or the democratisation of production? Is not biodiversity, even in agriculture, the best safeguard against crop failure?
With all due respect, technocratic solutions work well for those who control the rights and the facilities and not so well for those who do not. They are unlikely to address the inequalities or fix the climate. And indoor farming, on a scale which would be sufficient to feed the entire population is a preposterous idea.
As for calories: the focus on carbohydrates and seed oils to provide substrates for ultraprocessed products has contributed to the epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular disease, dementia mental health and other diseases, the root causes of which are mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction.
@user-ck6bf3ke1w
July 1, 2024 at 2:41 am
I’d love to see someone try to grow downwards using Earth’s gravity to water the plants below on the lower levels of the greenhouse, with reflective materials all throughout to focus more light where needed most down below. I think the way forward is a balanced approach. Maybe we should approach this issue in a similar fashion to how they approached designing Earthships, which are luxury self contained & sustained homes that runs completely off grid on the cheap. Say if we were in invent a battery grid that could run long enough to pay for itself from the energy the home owner can sell back to the utility company. Where it’s free in the end.