How Anson Mills Saved Ancient Grains of Rice From Extinction Rooted
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Date: 2020-05-20
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Guest
This is historically in accurate in regards to this Rice. However it did NOT come from West Africa it came through Madagscar via Southeast Asian immigrants that mixed with Bantu speakers on the island. The West Africans domesticated Oryza Glabberima indigenous to the region. Extremely distinct. What happened what the early rice cultivating Africans enslaved brought Red Rices that broke when removing chaff and was a provision rice. It's extinct for the most part in the U. S. but former enslaved Americans who migrated to Tobago still grow it. It's related to African Rice's found in maroon gardens in Suriname. The Carolina gold rice came with slavers and traders that were in Madagascar that was put in the hands of skilled West Africans once back in the Carolinas. Or it came to the Carolinas via Barbados which 1. Had the largest proportion of enslaved Malagasy and 2. Was the foundation of South Carolina society and colonization. Ignoring the aspects of Malagasy contributions in the African cultures in the U. S. is wrong, especially because Malagasy descendants aware of their Malagasy roots still exist here and are all but forgotten other than in our families.
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This is historically in accurate in regards to this Rice. However it did NOT come from West Africa it came through Madagscar via Southeast Asian immigrants that mixed with Bantu speakers on the island. The West Africans domesticated Oryza Glabberima indigenous to the region. Extremely distinct. What happened what the early rice cultivating Africans enslaved brought Red Rices that broke when removing chaff and was a provision rice. It's extinct for the most part in the U. S. but former enslaved Americans who migrated to Tobago still grow it. It's related to African Rice's found in maroon gardens in Suriname. The Carolina gold rice came with slavers and traders that were in Madagascar that was put in the hands of skilled West Africans once back in the Carolinas. Or it came to the Carolinas via Barbados which 1. Had the largest proportion of enslaved Malagasy and 2. Was the foundation of South Carolina society and colonization. Ignoring the aspects of Malagasy contributions in the African cultures in the U. S. is wrong, especially because Malagasy descendants aware of their Malagasy roots still exist here and are all but forgotten other than in our families.
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Gewgulkan
Every time you selectively breed a plant for something, like larger or sweeter ears of corn, you run the risk of losing something else, often completely unrelated to the trait you're looking for. In some cases this can mean the plants lose resistance to disease, tolerance for harsh conditions, or even nutrition, etc. This has been done over and over many times to many of our modern strains of plants, which is why it's so incredibly important to keep the old strains alive. With genetic engineering, it could be possible to take the disease resistance (for example) of a robust ancient rice and apply it to a modern rice which most people would consider tastier. Frankly I'd like to try eating some of those ancient foods.
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Every time you selectively breed a plant for something, like larger or sweeter ears of corn, you run the risk of losing something else, often completely unrelated to the trait you're looking for. In some cases this can mean the plants lose resistance to disease, tolerance for harsh conditions, or even nutrition, etc. This has been done over and over many times to many of our modern strains of plants, which is why it's so incredibly important to keep the old strains alive. With genetic engineering, it could be possible to take the disease resistance (for example) of a robust ancient rice and apply it to a modern rice which most people would consider tastier. Frankly I'd like to try eating some of those ancient foods.
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madison
Watching this made me think of the argument for genetically modifying rice to have certain vitamins in it to potentially help people in third world countries with deficiencies. we may be able to get around this whole problem by having market around growing certain kind of rices that already had these kind of nutrients in them but have been kept off the market due to cheap imports which are also bad for the environment. possibly more than one solution both environmental, world health and possibly economics depending on who you have grow the rice could be established by going back to a more natural way of allowing rice to grow. this was a great video.
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Watching this made me think of the argument for genetically modifying rice to have certain vitamins in it to potentially help people in third world countries with deficiencies. we may be able to get around this whole problem by having market around growing certain kind of rices that already had these kind of nutrients in them but have been kept off the market due to cheap imports which are also bad for the environment. possibly more than one solution both environmental, world health and possibly economics depending on who you have grow the rice could be established by going back to a more natural way of allowing rice to grow. this was a great video.
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Nirrrina
Considering how much it costs to make they should try selling online as a specialty shop. People could buy them for parties & special dinners. Just to say hey this is an old world rice of such & such. It could come with an information packet as well. People would pay a real premium just for the experience. Especially if you sold sets that come with a variety of different rice. Or meal kits designed to bring out the best flavors of the rice. Seriously people would pay a lot more if it's a special one of a kind type experience.
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Considering how much it costs to make they should try selling online as a specialty shop. People could buy them for parties & special dinners. Just to say hey this is an old world rice of such & such. It could come with an information packet as well. People would pay a real premium just for the experience. Especially if you sold sets that come with a variety of different rice. Or meal kits designed to bring out the best flavors of the rice. Seriously people would pay a lot more if it's a special one of a kind type experience.
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Derrick
I'm certain he misspoke but Reconstruction was the term given to the set of federal programs and policies that sought to enable and improve the socioeconomic, sociopolitical lot of the newly freed slaves and freed communities. Reconstruction-era policies included universal public education and voting rights and repatriation for Confederate soldiers. Jim Crow was a reactionary response to Reconstruction and included inequal sharecropping programs, chain-gangs, and voting restrictions. These are not the same thing.
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I'm certain he misspoke but Reconstruction was the term given to the set of federal programs and policies that sought to enable and improve the socioeconomic, sociopolitical lot of the newly freed slaves and freed communities. Reconstruction-era policies included universal public education and voting rights and repatriation for Confederate soldiers. Jim Crow was a reactionary response to Reconstruction and included inequal sharecropping programs, chain-gangs, and voting restrictions. These are not the same thing.
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Cynthia
The thing that strikes me is how fortunate we are to be well enough fed that we can worry about things like flavor and culture rather than simply trying not to starve to death. I imagine that people from past centuries would be astonished that there would ever be a time that abundance was viewed as being less important than variety. Glad we can now focus on those ancient grains -- but glad that the abundance of less exciting grains makes that possible.
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The thing that strikes me is how fortunate we are to be well enough fed that we can worry about things like flavor and culture rather than simply trying not to starve to death. I imagine that people from past centuries would be astonished that there would ever be a time that abundance was viewed as being less important than variety. Glad we can now focus on those ancient grains -- but glad that the abundance of less exciting grains makes that possible.
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Guest
Ugh. There isn't anything wrong with trying to preserve this strain of rice but there is a ton wrong with this video. It attempts to celebrate the rice's heyday while ignoring the Holocaust like conditions the slaves that grew it died under. Please Google slave mortality in Carolina rice fields, particularly the Everyday Death entry for more. If you want to cite history include ALL the history not just a whitewashed version.
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Ugh. There isn't anything wrong with trying to preserve this strain of rice but there is a ton wrong with this video. It attempts to celebrate the rice's heyday while ignoring the Holocaust like conditions the slaves that grew it died under. Please Google slave mortality in Carolina rice fields, particularly the Everyday Death entry for more. If you want to cite history include ALL the history not just a whitewashed version.
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Guest
6: 41 I never thought of rice that way, as an actual food. I've ironically eaten it every day, and never gave it a second thought. It's a real eye-opening. I always imagined it as a hearty staple, or fuel, and never thought of it having its own flavor or nutrition, and always possessing a need to be completely supported and dominated by other, stronger flavors in meats and foods. Rice was always just rice to me.
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6: 41 I never thought of rice that way, as an actual food. I've ironically eaten it every day, and never gave it a second thought. It's a real eye-opening. I always imagined it as a hearty staple, or fuel, and never thought of it having its own flavor or nutrition, and always possessing a need to be completely supported and dominated by other, stronger flavors in meats and foods. Rice was always just rice to me.
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ADDerall509
Right from the start I knew that his video would make me just be like this is how much food affects culture and where people live. My goofy ass would want to try all kinds of foods and learn where they are from and how they came about. Supply and demand of a good product that is rare will drive people to open up to try new things and change things.
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Right from the start I knew that his video would make me just be like this is how much food affects culture and where people live. My goofy ass would want to try all kinds of foods and learn where they are from and how they came about. Supply and demand of a good product that is rare will drive people to open up to try new things and change things.
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Kreature
Not to get on a soap box. but who else finds it funny that they want to use transgenic mutations to solve the ills of monoculture farming when these problems have already been worked out over centuries and centuries of hybridization and not narrowing everything down to 3, 2 or even 1 variety in the case if bananas. Who would of thunk it
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Not to get on a soap box. but who else finds it funny that they want to use transgenic mutations to solve the ills of monoculture farming when these problems have already been worked out over centuries and centuries of hybridization and not narrowing everything down to 3, 2 or even 1 variety in the case if bananas. Who would of thunk it
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