Genetically modified organism

It's vaulting.

It's, you know, protecting from the GMO side of things and the CRISPR editing and that side of the genetic fears preventing from losing your stable.

You know, it's, there's a lot of benefit, I think, to making your own seed, even as someone who can't stop buying seeds.

Mm-hmm.

So companies that have invested on this early on, they can predict the outcome better.

And also, for example, case of fermented products where the GMO production strain needs to be removed the final product so this is also the important part here whether there is viable cells of DNA or GMN are present there is a threshold stated in the guidance so your final product needs to be need to meet that threshold so getting this right is not difficult but it has to be assessed early And getting it wrong is really very expensive because it can set you on the GMO framework, which is completely difficult and different.

And on the last category, we have the cultivated meat.

right now, which is the most complex category from the regulatory standpoint.

So for precision fermentation, where a genetically modified organism produces a specific protein, the organism itself should be absent from the final product.

So there is a specific requirement on EFSA guidance that the threshold of 10 nanograms of DNA per gram by PCR.

So if you exceed that threshold, the product is no longer into the NovoFood and the shift goes to the GMO regulatory framework, which is very different with higher

requirements.

For sure, you're not going to find a full like vegetable and fruits, you know, the piles of vegetables and fruits that you see at the supermarket.

Well, none of them are actually GMOs.

So I would say a bit all around Europe, it's very difficult to find products that are labeled actually as GMO or which are derived from GMOs.

Okay.

And I would know that because GMO products have to be labeled in Europe, correct?

Okay.

And why is that?

Because GMOs in Europe, they are regulated.

And then something that kind of the skeptics and foes are pushing right now is the ultra-processed products, ultra-processed foods debate.

So something we're seeing right now is there's certain industries that want to push us into this category of being ultra-processed and being GMO because they know that's something consumers don't like in the US.

It's off-putting in a way.

So that's a political battle that we are at PFA trying to fight, trying to battle and making sure that we do not end up in that category of being ultra-processed.

I can deal with the things that are making me angry and I know what they are.

But I also appreciate these points that they're making to what are we talking about when we're talking about a food system? And what are we talking about when we're talking about broken? Another point that I really appreciated was the GMO.

The GMO aspect, it's had horrible PR for so long.

And I'm always thinking I'm eating DNA left, right and center all the time.

When I eat a vegetable, when I eat meat, you know, whether it's plant or meat based, I'm always eating DNA of some kind.

I'm digesting DNA all the time.

So how is it that GMO has got such a bad PR aspect? uh rap in in all this so it did i kind of agreed with them there i don't agree with the um with the um what was it um you know how monsanto comes to play in all this and how they've created the gmos but i think they're talking mostly about the pesticides and and other things inputs that come into the system um that gave the arise to gmo and i think that's kind of gmos and that's part of the problem but anyway so there was some points in there that i was like okay i'm going to settle down they actually have some interesting things to think about even though a lot of it made me very mad but emotions are messages right they're telling you something that you may need me might need to look at

you're on mute jesse

I didn't realize that it was Bitcoin that made you guys so, like, you know, into the other side of health, I guess.

You know, there's financial health, but then there's, like, you know, and then there's, like, you're right, eating an apple banana, but then there's, like, eating an apple banana that hasn't been sprayed and that's not going to be GMO'd and all this craziness.

But what do you think it is about the world, like, you know, school system? I guess where I'm going with this is, Is it planned? Do you think all of this, the fact that I can't buy organic dates without canola oil on them or sunflower or whatever it was, is that an evil force that is projecting bad things into the food? Or is this just downstream effect of fiat and it's kind of like it's out of hand and we don't really know? There's no one to blame, I guess.

Yeah, I mean, we wrestle- I think

We were trying to create something really outside the box.

We were the first non-GMO verified chocolate company in the United States.

We were digging a little bit deeper into supply.

We were a little ahead on that.

And so right off the bat, it's going to be harder.

Try going to the grocery store and buying good whole foods, healthy foods, like non-GMO foods or organic foods.

Depending on where you live, it can be really hard.

Oh yeah.

I have another video to help you with that.

But some of us really like to include some carbohydrates, and we believe in our heart of hearts that some of these more naturally occurring, organic, non-GMO carbohydrates may even be healthy and good for us.

And that's okay because this theory of the carbohydrate knob allows you to indulge in some level of carbohydrate ingestion without guilt and without fear, and always retaining the power that, if you so choose, you can turn down the carbohydrate knob and see what that does to your overall health.

Now, if you're working on reversing chronic medical conditions like obesity, overweight, morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, hyperinsulinemia, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, or fatty liver disease, then the carbohydrate knob concept is probably gonna be the most powerful concept that you can use to improve your health and reverse those chronic conditions.