Red Ice TV - July 02, 2021


Synthetic Foods： Vanilla Made From Plastic


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

147.43921

Word Count

475

Sentence Count

36

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary

In 2018, scientists accidentally created a mutant enzyme that broke down plastic bottles. And then they produced a super enzyme that eats plastic bottles even faster. They can do all this, but not put time into finding alternatives? I m starting to think that we are that enzyme that breaks down plastic.


Transcript

00:00:00.680 Recycling isn't always better. I never buy recycled paper products, plastics, or fabric for a reason.
00:00:07.000 For one, the chemicals added in the recycling process to break things down are toxic.
00:00:12.480 Also, toxins like BPA and phthalates and many more are found in samples made from recycled fibers compared to virgin samples.
00:00:20.980 Additionally, the presence of contaminants in packaging, once recycled, migrates into other products made from it, including food.
00:00:28.500 We should be looking into better alternatives all around, but we're not.
00:00:33.220 Instead, we're looking at ways into how we can ingest more poison.
00:00:37.660 Scientists are now converting toxic plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring.
00:00:42.800 Not actual vanilla that comes from a plant, of course, but a bad synthetic mutant version.
00:00:48.140 Why? I'll get to that.
00:00:49.820 They're taking plastic bottles and converting it to vanilla flavoring using genetically engineered bacteria.
00:00:56.980 From their literature, researchers have already developed mutant enzymes to break down the polyethylene terephthalate polymer used for drink bottles into terephlactic acid, TA.
00:01:10.340 Scientists have now used bugs to convert TA into vanillin.
00:01:14.860 Now, vanillin is a fake vanilla extract and turns out it's used in everything.
00:01:19.040 From food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, cleaning products, and toxic herbicides.
00:01:24.980 Apparently, we can't make these products without vanilla or the fake version of it.
00:01:30.060 It's a cheap filler.
00:01:31.240 About 85% of vanillin is currently synthesized from sketchy petrochemicals.
00:01:36.720 Now, they don't have a problem with the sketchy chemicals part, just the fossil fuels part.
00:01:41.620 Yes, plastic bottles are toxic and a massive polluter, creating horrific long-term damage.
00:01:47.700 But instead of finding better alternatives for it, some we already know and should be developing,
00:01:52.440 instead we're creating byproducts from it to ingest.
00:01:56.180 In 2018, scientists accidentally created a mutant enzyme that broke down plastic bottles.
00:02:02.100 And then they produced a super enzyme that eats plastic bottles even faster.
00:02:05.940 They can do all this, but not put time into finding alternatives?
00:02:09.440 I'm starting to think that we are that enzyme that breaks down plastic.
00:02:14.520 In fact, a study in the Environmental Science and Technology Journal claimed that we consume
00:02:19.700 five grams of microplastic a week.
00:02:22.900 That's similar to eating a pen per week or a plastic coat hanger a month.
00:02:27.920 It's in the water, air, and common foods, but most commonly in drinking water.
00:02:33.140 That's why you want to have good spring water or well water.
00:02:35.940 Just really know where you're getting your water from.
00:02:37.860 Recycled products are being marketed as the latest, greatest thing in the fake green economy.
00:02:43.320 But the truth is, they're not better for you or the environment.
00:02:46.480 They're not better for you or the environment.
00:02:49.940 They're not better for you or the equilibria.
00:02:50.820 They're not better for you or the environment.
00:02:51.620 They're not better for you or the environment.
00:02:52.940 I've got a magazine that's kind of
00:03:11.400 The other aircraft that we're around to do with