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Video: The Loss Of Nutrients
The vast majority of our food is of low quality.
This low quality food is one of the reasons why obesity is growing rapidly worldwide.
Obesity leading to Diabetes type 2 is causing a variety of heart, liver and kidney diseases.
One of the reasons for this decline of food quality is the loss of nutrients as a result of hybridization.
In this documentary of Moconomy we zoom in to this issue.
Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content.
In the past 50 years, vegetables have lost 27% of their vitamin C and nearly half of their iron.
Take the tomato.
Through multiple hybridizations, scientists are constantly producing redder, smoother, firmer fruit. But in the process, it has lost a quarter of its calcium and more than half of its vitamins.
The seeds that produce the fruits and vegetables we consume are now the property of a handful of multinationals, like Bayer, and Dow-Dupont, who own them.
These multinationals have their seeds produced predominantly in India, where workers are paid just a handful of rupees while the company has a turnover of more than 2 billion euros.
A globalized business where the seed sells for more than gold.