I am a violin maker and I use shellac for the confection of alcohol and oil varnish. This video helped a lot to understand the chain of workers behing these golden flakes. Thank you 🙏🏼

@BusinessInsider

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@akashchoudhury6694

Ай бұрын

Hygiene is illegal in India

@ff1077

Ай бұрын

​@@BusinessInsiderso why did you all pin this specific comment and not the one noting the time between shellac being stretched by someone's feet to it being on their candy?

@greatwhiteflash1645

Ай бұрын

@@ff1077 I guess we're just going to have to live with the fact that the world is an unpredictable place and unexpected things often happen.

@johnnychang4233

28 күн бұрын

@@ff1077 Have you ever hear about Pasteurization?

28 seconds in and we've gone from a guy stretching shellac with his toes to talking about how it's going to cover my jelly beans.

@SuperCakeKing

Ай бұрын

and if ya dont like it you’re a racist deal with it

@portanrayken3814

Ай бұрын

he is also biting it with his mouth too

@cosmickitteh

Ай бұрын

ohh nyoo

@77Avadon77

Ай бұрын

🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮@@portanrayken3814

@aodhanking2539

Ай бұрын

Hey , if you don't like curry toe-jam or Hindu spittle, you just don't know what you are missing the investment of a lifetime and a racist, said no one ever in human history except businesses insider.. And don't forget that duck feces.

Proof that good marketing and packaging can make you eat anything, even bug shit with feet flavour 💀

@eriksonyw

Ай бұрын

wines are traditionally made with feet flavor too 🍷

@user-uv5xq4jc3t

Ай бұрын

,😂😂😂😂😂

@user-uv5xq4jc3t

Ай бұрын

Be specific bro it's not just any feet it's indian feet flavour

@jueviolegrace8827

Ай бұрын

*only in india*

@deathsupplier8408

Ай бұрын

@@jueviolegrace8827 India don't have candy culture, We uses it for jewellery and furniture, That's you who demanding shiny candies from birth

I’m 71 years old and have used shellac for years on furniture and never knew that my kids and grandkids eat it to on their candy! Didn’t know it came from bug poop either!

@dingalarm

Ай бұрын

It's *not* bug poop!

@LGBTGROOMSOURCHILDREN

Ай бұрын

@@dingalarmYou really should spend some time looking it up your self, I don't think you understand what secretion and excretion are.

@Kateluvssuu

Ай бұрын

@@dingalarmwhy are you mad

@dingalarm

Ай бұрын

@@Kateluvssuu Because the OP said it's bug poop, and it isn't. I don't understand why some people don't bother to watch, listen & learn the truth from the video 🤷🏻‍♂️

@dingalarm

Ай бұрын

@@LGBTGROOMSOURCHILDREN No, I understand the difference perfectly. Shellac is a secretion, not an excretion. And it isn't faecal matter, as you seem to imply. It is a resin (natural polymer) exuded by the lac insect to form a cocoon around itself.

What I wonder is who first took the bug goo off trees, chopped it up, melted it, filtered it, put it on wood things and then said "hey I bet this will be great to eat!"

@AE-bh5zs

Ай бұрын

Some clever person who saw it as a wood preservative? Shellac has many uses.

@ernstschmidt4725

Ай бұрын

it's shiny, people like shiny, they even like shiny food.

@dawnj2360

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I wonder that every time I see something like this.

@wokeydokey6885

Ай бұрын

​@@ernstschmidt4725Yeah, Pokemon proves it.

@Peleski

Ай бұрын

Doubtless they were first using it for tools, like sticking arrow heads on wood. It just evolved for other uses.

as a prolific enjoyer of bee vomit, I see no issue here.

@goosenotmaverick1156

Ай бұрын

Yeah a lot of people forget that one. However my understanding is that they have a "nectar stomach" that is separate of their digestive tract, where they store the nectar used for honey

@sandratania5149

Ай бұрын

😂🙌🏻❤️

@yuzzo92

Ай бұрын

Average bee vomit fan vs average shellac enjoyer (They're both gigachads)

@gemmameidia8438

Ай бұрын

The bare food, hand and those teeth tho 😅😅😅

@iankellymorris

Ай бұрын

​@@gemmameidia8438It gets refined, so it doesn't matter at all.

Shellac is the most durable (and expensive) primer on the market. It will cover stains and smells that even oil primers can’t. We use it on smoke damaged homes and heavy cigarette smokers houses too. This stuff is absolutely essential in the painting industry. It blocks water stains and wood tannins better than any other primer and also dries the fastest, in about 15 minutes, because it is used with an alcohol base so it evaporates quickly. Super durable and has the highest adhesion on the market. It has also jumped up $50 a gallon from 2022 to now ($80-$130 CAD).

@honor9lite1337

11 күн бұрын

Got it.

I am from India. It's a really good video on shellac. I live in a village which is famous for it.

@raje279

24 күн бұрын

Place

@gr8vijay

18 күн бұрын

Which village ?

@vastavvikta5456

12 күн бұрын

दिहाड़ी कितना मिलता है इनको? Cuz they seem very poor! Wish we had better laws to protect them, I can bet my ass the woman climbing has no insurance!

This is one of the most bizarre things I have ever heard. I've know shellac as a wood treatment for most of my life and I just figured it was a petrochemical. It's a bug excretion?!?! I have no words.

@EdwoodCA

Ай бұрын

Wait 'til you find out that anything fermented is from bacteria's waste product. Bread and beer come to mind, first. :D

@nerrade

Ай бұрын

@@EdwoodCA I make beer, wine, bread, cider, mead etc. It's fun to play with yeast ;)

@SomeBuddy777

Ай бұрын

Bug Shell Lacquer

@skyfinancejanitor6695

Ай бұрын

Nice to know we’ve all indirectly kissed an indian man

@nosrah9660

Ай бұрын

@@EdwoodCAyeast for baking and brewing is a fungus though. But I do believe bacteria is added after some yeast fermentation in the production of certain alcoholic beverages though and non-alcoholic ones like Kombucha and yoghurt.

India: We use it for glossing furniture and clothing. America: We use it for Food..💀

@sokawai5

Ай бұрын

I LOVE AMERICAAAA

@dhruvakhera5011

Ай бұрын

@@sokawai5 H1B1 visa still rejected womp womp

@davidkesterson

Ай бұрын

it's how we convince ourselves we're not still cavemen sitting around on dull rocks

@clashingfrontiers

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@MoneyMitrovic333

Ай бұрын

And Americans clown the east for eating bizarre foods😂

Holy shellac… the amount of work that goes into something that is used in EVERYTHING!!!!

@ayoCC

4 күн бұрын

It's crazy how it's not automated on nearly all steps. Like the meat or corn industry

I’m a woodworker from FL I use shellac on most of the stuff I build I really appreciate the hard work that goes into making the shellac that I use every day I knew it came from a bug but I had no idea what went into making it now after watching this video I have a much more appreciation for shellac and what the people go through to make it. Thank you

@PocketSandMan

19 күн бұрын

you can literally harvest pine resin or Burch oil and do the same thing for a lot cheaper and more locally sourced

props to the tree lady. you're the real MVP.

@user-ur9tz7lb2x

Ай бұрын

A real monkey in its natural habitat

@sum8601

Ай бұрын

its crazy how this multi million dollar industry all begins with a sari wearing lady climbing a tree with a crude knife

@Truth_chan_studio

13 күн бұрын

Ikr!

@vastavvikta5456

12 күн бұрын

@@sum8601and a lot, a hell lot, of wealth disparity!

I think I am way more impressed with the lady that climbed that tree as if it was just going for a walk.

@yuri8217

Ай бұрын

You never climbed a tree before?

@adnanmahmood1014

Ай бұрын

As if she. You said it !!!

@AVGN1774

Ай бұрын

​@adnanmahmood1014 No, he got it right the first time. The brown sandal nation will never learn civility.

@user-zr7cm3ni3s

Ай бұрын

@@adnanmahmood1014 ‘it’ as in the action of climbing the tree, do everyone a favour and learn grammar please

@UserUser-in6ig

Ай бұрын

Me too

It blows me away that back in the day, people were able to go through processes to figure out how to get to shellac from a bug. Like, what initiated then to think hey, I bet if I do all of these steps in this specific order, I'll get a shiny hard shell. And that goes for a lot of other stuff that we have nowadays. Like chocolate and other items that require a specific item, a certain temperature for a specific amount of time, and this and that and different ingredients, in order to get to the point where you have a whole new product. It's just super interesting to me

@Cobalt-sr6eu

25 күн бұрын

I always wonder that too!

@karolinedemon

14 күн бұрын

Yeah was it trial and errors? What they originally wanted to do w that product or what they wanted to achieve is interesting too... same with what is edible and how something can become edible after like 10 steps

@ZeroXSEED

14 күн бұрын

Ancestor want to find something Ancestor found something on [this] Ancestor found [this animal] did it Ancestor had found cultivation This is how we found Aspirin, from willow bark

I had no idea that’s what shellac came from. Fascinating. I hope the farmers and producers can continue making it.

How anybody originally figured out this stuff is absolutely insane to think about..

@ReveredWizardBob

Ай бұрын

The power of boredom

@Kittsuera

Ай бұрын

prob found it while burning wood in a fire or stove. then collected it and wondered. "what if"

@HiLaToya

Ай бұрын

Word.

@codiserville593

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah

@codiserville593

Ай бұрын

​@@Kittsueranow that sounds likely

That was so informative 🌷 Thank you business insider

Thank you for this interesting video! I can now add shellac to the interesting large scale insect products that I know of which previously only included honey, silk, and carmine! -SLMC 🔥

After all of that foot action, I'll never look at jelly beans the same.

@lynch42o

Ай бұрын

its all boiled down later, so it doesnt matter.

@gorak9000

Ай бұрын

To each their own - more toe jam beans for me then...

@Dougpoppington

Ай бұрын

And it was lots of that going on!

@theonetruemorty4078

Ай бұрын

@@gorak9000 Let's be real, I'll never give up Jelly Belly addiction.

@FBi_.

Ай бұрын

What im saying

As soon as someone slows down the boss man says “Stop Shellacing”

@christopherscott6854

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of when my coworker told me that I’d “spackled” the toilet

@seththechefnola

Ай бұрын

BOI

@dejaykydd7475

Ай бұрын

You win

@vxzdzd121

Ай бұрын

Your joke literally made me 😬

@JDLupus

Ай бұрын

Good one!

Wow. I just learned something I had no idea about. If you had asked me before where shellac came from, I would not have had a clue. This was so fascinating.

I'm 200 sure not all Indian Manufacturers use this manual way of extracting Shellac, but Business Insider need to add the OOH Factor so they fond the smallest factory in the rarest region

I'm more impressed by humans discovering how to make this stuff than A.I.

@imnotdavidxnsx

Ай бұрын

Why not both? Are you very old?

@Gingerblaze

Ай бұрын

@@imnotdavidxnsx nah. One involved the entire human, the other, just math.

@NoctuaOlivae

Ай бұрын

​@@Gingerblazeyeah so does interpretive dance. Are you saying that's more impressive than every scientific or medical advancement we've ever made as a species?

@Vjtubeq

Ай бұрын

That is what Ancient Vedic knowledge. Where the Nalanda University is Destroyed the lakhs of books by burning 6 months. Proud to Santanani.

@billydagenham

Ай бұрын

@@Gingerblaze “just math” lol math is a human endeavor that has had millions of people working on it for thousand of years across cultures

“Iceberg straight ahead!” 4:39

@kerhabplays

Ай бұрын

**Starts to play My Heart Will Go On**

@senseisapphire7763

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂ohhhhhhhh,

@Kurayamiblack

Ай бұрын

I got the quote's reference to the movie but it took me far too long to recognize timestamp clip's reference to the scene 😅

@sum8601

Ай бұрын

"Bring Me The Horizon"

@saacde

Ай бұрын

That is a knee slapper Garrett!

Great Subject of Shellac.I was just thinking about this thing was used on Seized properties as red shellac with a logo of the company named on it. So much so great story behind this great product and it's life coming from a small insect❤

5:40 it is a completely natural product with producer's saliva and tiny dirt in it. Completely safe.

@batman_2004

Ай бұрын

😂

I've learned a lot today and I have already lost weight just by watching this video, thanks for keeping my body in shape, KZread!!

@N1c0T1n3__

Ай бұрын

Shame you couldn't learn about how Westerners exploit 3rd world countries.

@pppp-dm4cj

Ай бұрын

amazing to see we still employ slaves but now we pay them cents so its okay

@bowman3545

Ай бұрын

soy

@dreamdestroyers19931

Ай бұрын

XD

@tedarcher9120

Ай бұрын

Did you puke lol?

I don't know how or why this video popped up on my feed, but I'm so glad it did. Learn something new every day!

@winzigerwhoop2131

Ай бұрын

because its your "feed".. and were eating bug shit.! lol

@dn734

Ай бұрын

@ms.payton1458 Seems random but it's not.., we are being 'groomed' to accept a diet of bugs. The presentation 'appears' harmless.., but consider that, this 'type' of 'apparently harmless' presentation is how 2 generations of children have been groomed towards 'gender confusion' etc. Sneaky sneaky messaging...

@TruthJustice_Soldier

Ай бұрын

Hello Fellow BUG SCAT fetish friend!!🤣 We all eat Doo Doo

@TruthJustice_Soldier

Ай бұрын

​@thesinner9617Yes you will lol😅

@minzy5857

Ай бұрын

yes! I love business insider’s youtube channel, it’s taught me so much and it’s always so interesting!

Thank you for this enlightening video. This is not information that they readily promote or even allow in any kind of textbook in learning institutions in America so thank you for this!!!

If I remember correctly (since I'm spanish and I'm not sure If this is goma laca) shellac is used in art history for protecting the pieces when they have golden leaf applied acting as a protective barnish. These shellac scales are disolved in rubbing alcohol, filtered and applied.

Our carpenter used this (Lakh Daana) to polish our furniture and wooden gates and I must say, it looks so shiny and it's scratch proof now. A lot of people have asked me what did our carpenter did with the wood to pop its color like that.

@Rushing2death

Ай бұрын

Is it expensive as compared to a normal furniture varnish??

@Zara-ZAF

Ай бұрын

Same question is it expensive

@exeVividNova

17 күн бұрын

​@@Rushing2death it is not expensive , the price is around same as with other varnishes, and you can make it cheaper if you buy raw shellac and make mixture yourself (dissolve it in ethanol). However shellac is very sensitive to heat, and will blacken if exposed, so it is not a universal fit.

Our Govt (Indian Govt) should acknowledge this industry since it is very important and more than half of this industry is in India we should encourage and support such occupations so that it becomes even more bigger industry.

@derrick15

Ай бұрын

They need to charge more. They getting ripped off

@arunkumarvikram

Ай бұрын

Once the Govt pays attention it's game over. Probably some politician will take over the business and kick the local guys out. Bad things happen when the Govt notices your business.

@kaartikeykusshwaha10-c8

Ай бұрын

@@arunkumarvikram Then tell us a new solution

@derrick15

Ай бұрын

@@arunkumarvikram exactly they destroy everything and want full control. They are the ones with mental issues that were abuse as children

@arunkumarvikram

Ай бұрын

@@kaartikeykusshwaha10-c8 what is the problem which needs to be solved ?

Absolutely amazing! Great documentary 👍

The woman is fearless. The way she just stands there chillin' in a treetop!

Shellac is technically a nature plastic. Been used as wood furniture coating and such since ancient times. It's started to be use in food during industrial era. The guy who process these probably doesn't even know that big food companies use them in food.😅

@sonaliv1489

Ай бұрын

Hed mostly laugh and panic that people are eating big waste instead of applying it to furniture or jewelry.

@6atlantis

Ай бұрын

Not even close to a plastic.

@trueaussie9230

Ай бұрын

​@@6atlantis Plastic - adj. (of a substance or material) easily shaped or moulded. Precisely how is shellac NOT a plastic substance?! 🤔

@trueaussie9230

Ай бұрын

Oh. You think they're as insular and ignorant as the average American?! 🤔 Although the USA buys 25% of India's shellac, the vast majority of Americans have no idea that many of their favourite foods are coated in shellac.

@6atlantis

Ай бұрын

@@trueaussie9230 not waterproof like they mentioned in the video. Does not go on in layers like a polyurethane but melts in to itself during each additional coat. Never truly cures, only dries, doesn’t off gas like poly it simply dries when the solvent is gone. Different solvents, alcohol being the solvent for shellac. It’s edible. There are so many variables here that I’m not going to go on, just because something looks like plastic and is used in similar applications doesn’t make it plastic. Put something you cherish out in the rain coated only by shellac or in and tell me if you still consider it a plastic. It is a resin/varnish but it’s natural, plastic is synthetic. So while they may seem to have the same properties, we are comparing apples and oranges.

1:39 twenty fits on a tree! Wearing a sari!! That's what's called bravery.

@thecccnz

Ай бұрын

No, it's called capitalism. If she falls and hurts herself, she loses her means of an income, end up in a perpetual cycle of debt and lives a life of misery.

@cybersentient4758

Ай бұрын

@@thecccnz lol you burst his bubble man

@ajaythomas623

Ай бұрын

Most of the hospital owned by government provide free or cheap helthcare india

@learningmaster8060

Ай бұрын

@@ajaythomas623 but in Northern India, the quality of Govt hospitals is pathetic.

@learningmaster8060

Ай бұрын

@@ajaythomas623 I guess you should be from Kerala. Only a Keralite can dream of Govt hospitals providing free treatment without bribes

This footwork is probably what makes candy give us cavities😂

Insightful video on an ingredient that I had no idea that's added to something that I used to LOVE putting in my diet when I wss coming up.

So cool to watch this. Last night I dissolved some lak flakes in alcohol, and today I French polished a guitar with it. Such a beautiful and easy finish.

@sosotik

Ай бұрын

yo what guitar was it

@Nutty...

Ай бұрын

@@sosotik probably a classical guitar

@yogimarkmac

Ай бұрын

@@sosotik It was a 130 year old Columbia parlor style guitar that belonged to my great grandmother. She took it from Virginia to Oregon around 1895.

@TheXxdarkhackxX

Ай бұрын

where do you get the lak flakes from?

@mh1970

Ай бұрын

How do you French polish? Does it involve tongue?

Watching them pull the shellac off of the forming tool like one big fruit rollup is quite satisfying

This was genuinely interesting for a video I clocked for the pretty colors lol

This is actually fascinating! I already knew it came from bugs and was grossed out that i eat it in candy sometimes. Now I'm Even more grossed out about the unsanitary factory conditions where it's refined.

So... Shellac was used as a textile for thousands of years, and now it's being used to 'polish' our candies? Awesome.

@LecherousLizard

Ай бұрын

It's mostly just tree resin.

@toolbaggers

Ай бұрын

@@LecherousLizard Okay if you think my poop is mostly corn.

@modusoperandi4917

Ай бұрын

@@toolbaggerspoop with undigested corn

@wisefries4205

Ай бұрын

@@LecherousLizard yes, like sea salt is just whale sperm.

@doctorpanigrahi9975

Ай бұрын

You people seem to enjoy the smell of my feet.

Great video. I've used shellac on hundreds of wood projects. I love it.

@Polyrytmi

Ай бұрын

has anything changed now that you know and indians toes and teeth stretched it out during the process?

@shanewalker8607

Ай бұрын

​@@Polyrytmi No... why would it? It's a product I use for wood. And I don't eat jelly beans.

@mahmoudfuad1868

Ай бұрын

​@@shanewalker8607then please clarify in your comment that you use it for wood works.

@wrije

Ай бұрын

@@mahmoudfuad1868”on hundreds of wood projects.” are you incapable of reading? or do you just enjoy looking like a moron?

@jasonmarkus3834

Ай бұрын

@@mahmoudfuad1868 it says wood projects in his comment. dont correct people if you barely speak the language.

I'm 59, and I've learned something today. This is fascinating. The labor hours involved in this process in order to produce this product are through the roof. I knew it had something to do with beetle excretion, but that's it. Wow. "If you don't know, now you know,.....". Biggie

I love the subtle humor when you said Climate crisis. 😂😂 That's a good one.

I used to make food grade shellac at a chemical plant in St. Louis. It is insanely expensive

@detectiverigby3949

Ай бұрын

Organic shellac or food grade chemical shellac?

@Stroopwaffe1

Ай бұрын

I'm sure they spoke about shellac in band of brothers or saving private ryan because none of the generals knew wtaf shellac was lol.

@danmayberry6717

Ай бұрын

@@detectiverigby3949 food grade. Even made Mars's formulation.

@kaipullaVig

Ай бұрын

Expensive as in to make it or expensive product?

@mujeeburrahmansharrief8841

Ай бұрын

Its shit cheap in india, west is just hyped for everything😂

Every jelly bean that you have ever eaten in your entire life. 🎉 SURPRISE🎉

@user-qj6vg9uv4s

Ай бұрын

I think this is the last thing to worry about in what a jelly bean contains.

@nouramy4038

Ай бұрын

Jelly => pork ( the cleanser aka recycling garbage) , i don't know wich one is worse ... with this processed food industry wont be surprised if they include human shit in the future...

@chedderbug2820

Ай бұрын

Not just jelly beans. Why do they put it on our healthy food?! Is the US government the only ones that allows it on our food? Great for other uses such as wood protection. I guess a clean processed bug secretion is safer than the toxic chemicals being put into our food.

@danielcachafeiro2590

Ай бұрын

And I thought it was vegan

@bstaznkid4lyfe392

Ай бұрын

🤮

Climbing that high with a full length dress. My respect!!!

Starting from 0:59 - it almost sounds like that commercial on Rick and Morty about how the plumbus is made. lol

They should have really made it more clear that machines are used to stretch the sheets and stretching by hand was just the traditional method.

@vz6zo

Ай бұрын

Even with the machinery, people were still walking in the product with bare feet. Not much progress, really.

@aff77141

Ай бұрын

It's almost like it's not actually that dirty and people wash their feet more over there. It would be worse with shoes. The traditional method is also still clearly widely used since it makes a big flat sheet instead of shreds, so have fun with that in your mind.

@CmdrCorn

Ай бұрын

It seems like the different grades are treated accordingly. The highest grade gets turned into flakes, the lowest grade into those buttons, and the middle grade intuition the rough 5 foot sheet... At least according to color and how they said it'd be used.

“Relax, it’s just Shellac!” Is my new phrase from now 😂

Fascinating. Thank you. Shellac is also what is used in genuine French polishing.

@Fred-sy5sg

Ай бұрын

Well I guess it's not genuine or French.

@Der_Gewagte

Ай бұрын

In Kinder products too

@-rate6326

Ай бұрын

More like Ancient Indian Polishing

@imnotdavidxnsx

Ай бұрын

What's used in disingenuous French polishing?

@ziolp

Ай бұрын

Ok

5:43 "This is a completely natural product!" Dude is so proud LMAO!

@mastachen9392

Ай бұрын

Well in nowadays it’s really smth that you should be proud of

@davidandrres

Ай бұрын

@@mastachen9392 Exactly

@Mom-pl2xb

Ай бұрын

@@Christ4Life777and also you know water resistant wood and our dinner tables

@Mom-pl2xb

Ай бұрын

@@Christ4Life777 sorry mane your not making any sense lac coating on your wood is super underrated

@djcarbine3074

Ай бұрын

I do shellac finishes on some of my rifle stocks@@Mom-pl2xb

So you're telling me...every time I eat candy, I indirectly kissing those who made the Shellac?

to be clear, it does get refined to a purer state than that hand-stretched orange sheet for various uses including the food kind, and for thatpurpose it gets either heated to a high enough temperature or dissolved in solvents that would kill any germs. for various spices and nuts also featured on this channel, that is not the case.

@khanshiranyor3974

Ай бұрын

The racists would hate you even more now.

@RadRebel4

Ай бұрын

Now they use machines for this 6:11

@spookshow6999

Ай бұрын

It's disgusting

@RadRebel4

Ай бұрын

i think its fine all developing countries have some of this stuff going on @@spookshow6999

@mishidesu

Ай бұрын

@@kushpaladin Being an Indian I'd say come to India only when you have money. If you don't, street food is probably what you can afford and your gut is not strong enough for that. If you do have money, you can get world class service. And I think that's the case for most countries. Just because foreigners who spend less than $2 on food per day and make volgs about India doesn't mean that's the whole entire India. It's like saying I won't go to the USA because I might get killed in a shooting "some of the most violent people in the world" or won't go to South Korea because I might get filmed secretly in hotels and restrooms or I won't get on Japanese trains because I will get gropped "some of the most perverted people in the world" or I'll get scammed and robbed in Italy, etc. One should think before generalizing an entire population of a country that too when you have probably never even been there and possibly never will.

Appreciate the efforts put in by these workers .... Their hardwork and skill .... I see somany negative comments here .... This is a small factory some where in one part of India ....there may be other producers with advanced set-ups ... and moreover its a traditional method .... Nice to know that india contributes to over 50% of the global supply of shellac ....

This is the best video I've ever come across regarding shellac production... Its fascinating.

@Not_convinced

Ай бұрын

What’s more fascinating is how the people doing all this labor for such a lucrative business are living in such severe poverty

@TheFatblob25

Ай бұрын

@@Not_convincedTotally agree. Middlemen, middlemen & more middlemen. Its the problem in every aspect of the economy, especially global trade. I was just remarking about the unique specifics of where shellac comes from..insect excretions to manual processing & refining.

@KH-lh2lp

Ай бұрын

That is the case across the board for any industry

@royrached6668

Ай бұрын

Yeah so fascinating ............processing it is more discussing than the bug itself

@yaboiavery5986

Ай бұрын

Feetcinating

Some things are not meant to be known 😭

@jueviolegrace8827

Ай бұрын

*only in india*

@heheheldk3201

Ай бұрын

@@jueviolegrace8827 ok and. wanna talk about how wine is made or let me guess are you America?

@DBT1007

Ай бұрын

​@@heheheldk3201the thing is, it's more in india 😅❤

@heheheldk3201

Ай бұрын

@@DBT1007 agreed I know it is a problem in india but calling it just an Indian problem* is problematic

@issstari954

Ай бұрын

It's an Indian problem

You'd be surprised how much shellac is used in the TV and movie industries ! I was a union painter and we used it all the time by diluting 50/50 with alcohol on plaster to seal it before painting the walls, and of course sealing wood !

Wow!!! Videos like these are awesome.

I am from Jharkhand, India , where Lac is largely produced and I am an agriculture graduate who also visited LAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, located in Ranchi, Jharkhand. I will try my best to come in this market and make it more local to global and increase local farmers income. Like it to remind me , until I reply back on this section that I finally did what I said/commented today.

@balwaann

Ай бұрын

Did you do it yet?

@terrylegend7669

Ай бұрын

Tell them to be way more sanitary?

@evocati6523

Ай бұрын

it's been 15 hours, we need a progress report

@aiperthatgotmutatedbytruth5638

Ай бұрын

And supporting the death of millions of insects for absolutely no real reason- a true human right there

@Woodburnworks

Ай бұрын

Well hurry up its already been 16 full hours

Never ceases to amaze me how resourceful and ingenious human beings can be, and to think this is something that has been done for thousands of years!

@GoodVibes-ev4lc

Ай бұрын

Indians are not indigenous

Such amazing, rich culture & history to learn about. It's appreciated.

I knew about this. This and those red dye that comes from insects are always in our food and candies. My wife makes it a point to always read the ingredients labels and avoid food with insects as ingredients or dyes

Astounding! How on earth did someone see a product at the end of bug poop after such a laborious process. Incredible . Thank you.

@jacquimunns2093

Ай бұрын

Agree

@Baronnax

Ай бұрын

Human ingenuity is endless. Some nutcases will try to tell us they're given to us by aliens or something but that shit just minimises our ancestors' achievements.

@lobais

Ай бұрын

It's not bug poop. It's just the resin the insect sucks out of the tree. Just like amber.

@celxoirealyx

Ай бұрын

You and I have eaten bug vomit in our lifetime. Take a guess 👀

@maclura

Ай бұрын

@@celxoirealyx ya people forget what honey is, though walmart honey isn't honey anymore it's like invert sugar and other things.

I respect what these people do in order to make shellac.

Poop from insects makes my lemons shiny and lovely to look at, thanks for teaching us.

Shout out to the Sister Climbing the tree, Amazing Work Jazak Allah

@krishanSharma.69.69f

Ай бұрын

Thanks, she is my salve.

@Yeskos

Ай бұрын

​@@krishanSharma.69.69fsays the cow worshiper 😂

@user-ur9tz7lb2x

Ай бұрын

A real monkey in its natural habitat

For the record, shellac has to be dissolved or heated to be used. Alcohol is the usual solvent and would disinfect any pathogens. If you're freaked out by bug excretion take a hard look at vanilla "flavoring" that's in your foods. 😂 Shellac and wax are the most beautiful coatings for wood.

@EnkiduShamesh

Ай бұрын

If you are referring to the beaver's scent glands stuff (castoreum), that rarely ends up in food these days, as there aren't nearly as many beavers as there used to be. Roughly 300 pounds of it gets used a year - a far cry from the 18,000 tons of artificial vanilla derived from petroleum.

@caveblaster

Ай бұрын

@@EnkiduShamesh yeah, and we would need maybe hundreds of thousands (or even more) of beavers every year for them to make up enough castoreum to meet the market requirements

@iamrobot396

Ай бұрын

Also dont look up how honey is made

@squidward5110

Ай бұрын

I'm fine with bugs what grosses me out is the FEET

@piedpiper7051

Ай бұрын

​@@EnkiduShameshI'll take your word on that. You're way more up to snuff on beavers than I.

This process can be simplified a lot by just boiling all the branches in a pot of water and then cooling the liquids to almost freezing, removing the oil-based stuff and leaving the solids in the water.

The shallac on citrus fruits does not "wick away water." It prevents the water in the fruit from evaporating. While the shellac itself that is used to coat citrus fruit may be safe to eat, this shellac just about always has fungicides mixed in with it.

People need to remember how thier wine is produced 😅

@darthvadeth6290

Ай бұрын

disgusting Inda

@Cat-vs7rc

Ай бұрын

not from bugs

@deadboltzz5199

Ай бұрын

Remember for the really expensive wine they must have very long toe nails t0 bring out the flavor 😂

@akun10years10

Ай бұрын

​@@Cat-vs7rcI eat crickets and locust often. u r just weak

@AWOL401

Ай бұрын

There’s a reason we don’t buy wine from India.

Wow, I had zero clue that shellac came from insects, I thought maybe it was an oil byproduct if anything. Very cool.

Nice sales pitch. I would like to know more how it is food grade tested and all of its qualities. Heavy metals etc aresenic lead whatever

It amazes me how they discovered and found uses from them that we use today.

High quality content with different perspectives, Business Insider never disappoints.❤

@billynomates920

Ай бұрын

where's your butt pic?

@Szopki2

Ай бұрын

Especially about climate change. I am sure you are not disappointed. And well vaccinated.😂😂.

@dracofirex

Ай бұрын

@@Szopki2 What on Earth are you going on about...

@LuminousSpace

Ай бұрын

living in denial aren't we@@Szopki2

@imahumanbutichosetobeapota5479

Ай бұрын

don't mind the idiots,it decreases your Iq@@dracofirex

Very cool and informative. Had no idea this was even a thing

There’s a specific KZreadr I know would have a field day with this video. Usually starts with “what do we have here today…”

It's kind of exhausting to continually see really unique industries with workers being treated a horribly and paid next to nothing

@ellaisplotting

Ай бұрын

It seems to be the constant regardless of the product being made. They don't even see a fraction of what it sells for.

@gabbar51ngh

Ай бұрын

Small margins. India's laws themselves are unfavourable to small businesses.

@MINIMAN10000

Ай бұрын

The part that got me was hearing that something that is used as a wood finish, pill gloss, candy gloss, fruit wax. The whole industry is worth $167M. That is an absolutely tiny market. An single advanced CPU fabrication facility can cost upwards to $100 billion dollars these days.

@MadsterV

Ай бұрын

@@MINIMAN10000 And that's the answer to the above. A tiny industry with lots of producers and low yields = small profits and sales = low pay for workers. No big conspiracy.

@user-kl9bi4jt4t

Ай бұрын

There is an exceedingly high probability that this industry looks nothing like this.

I sell lac bangles at my shop. Never knew it was made from this material

"This is how it's been done for many hundred years" just had to be put in to address people that will complain about it being gross

hold up hold up... the price has dropped and you are saying that its because climate change and other factors are making it harder to grow... no the price would increase if that was the case because it would be harder to source...

@synthetiCore

Ай бұрын

Climate change is blamed for everything regardless of logic.

@gnotnats

Ай бұрын

Maybe the company spends more money sourcing or using pesticides and so must pay workers less? I agree with u tho

@purpletoad352

Ай бұрын

Not only is it harder to grow and production is down. The price per kilo is also down because there isn't a shortage of supply

@bootstrappingcivilization5862

Ай бұрын

@@purpletoad352 they went and made a point about how it is getting harder to produce, if that is true then there should be a supply shortage. Unless it's use is dropping simultaneously, but that was not mentioned once.

@broca246

Ай бұрын

They have an agenda to push…

Whimsical music and narration taking away from the drudgery of this

@GaH.Hassan

Ай бұрын

Didn't get through the video for exactly this reason

Really cool. :) Using what nature provides.

Fantastic. We must take care about the nature carefully and of human wonderful creativity.

I've used shellac on wood projects so I was surprised to see it mentioned on the outside of an crate of apples at the grocery store. It said may be coated with wax or shellac.

@BloodwyrmWildheart

Ай бұрын

Apples are also artificially dyed as well. Completely unnecessary.

@GardaOrban

Ай бұрын

to be clear, it does get refined to a purer state than that hand-stretched orange sheet for various uses including the food kind, and for thatpurpose it gets either heated to a high enough

@techshabby0001

Ай бұрын

@@BloodwyrmWildheart imagine if people who never had a garden or haven't seen food beyond the grocery store, had to eat natural color food right off the tree or right out of the ground. Pick off little bugs, the dirt, cut away the bad parts or the bug eaten area where a bug may or may not be living. The imperfect shapes, uneven ripening. I used to have super old (100 yrs or more) strawberry plants opin my garden that I was gifted from the garden of a very old, very lovely woman. The berries were small and misshapen, what some would call ugly I suppose, but wow, talk about bursting with strawberry flavor! They were so sweet and tasted like.. strawberries. Yummy! She also gave me cuttings from a wild rose bush. Same situation, flowers too small, pale, and too loosely formed but with the most amazing scent ever. 🌸

I knew what shellac was but I had no clue how it was made or processed! How cool!

@TruthJustice_Soldier

Ай бұрын

Bug ASS JUICE and Indian Lady Foot sweat

@heartysteer8752

Ай бұрын

Yeah, everything i'd read through the years never really explained it. This was excellent!

Kudos to the tree climbing woman , a working woman with no nagging and a great attitude unlike others .

Going to show this my six year old. He'll soon stop wanting to go to the shop for sweets.

@Pink_Floyd-ll8lq

Ай бұрын

Perfect idea. Maybe show him factory farms too

It takes alot to discover that something like this can be made into something like that.shout out to the person who discovered all this.

@OmNamahShivayeee

Ай бұрын

thats the beauty of India😊

@trueaussie9230

Ай бұрын

The PEOPLE who envisaged the many uses. 😉😊

@syd5380

Ай бұрын

I make maple syrup and I ask myself the same question constantly

@MarioMastar

Ай бұрын

These ancient cultures that still retain what they know are the undisputed leaders of knowing how to make great produces from the parts of nature we don't think about. Most people would see these red bugs and want to spray their whole tree with insecticide, but India took what looks like crusty bird poop and turned it into the most beautiful garmets and even FOOD somehow. All from washing and cooking it a few times. After seeing how much you can polish a turd, we really restrict how much we could recycle everything cause of the smell.

@FLPhotoCatcher

Ай бұрын

@@MarioMastar We in the West do things better. We use fossil oil to make everything from plastic. It makes us fat, unfertile, and diseased, but allows us to afford buying the stuff.

That is pretty awesome. These are the type of videos that make the internet make sense

I've used this stuff for 20 years, and I didn't know how labor intensive the harvesting is. I use a product call 155c from capol

OMG! When I saw them making the thin confetti like sheets, I total remember that this was in the original willy wonka! If you remember the golden egg scene where the spoiled girl throws a fit you can see this yellow thin sheets in the same room when she starts throwing things and making a mess of the room. I'm so glad I learned of this amazing practice, such hard workers and much dedication to their craft. Simply well done.

I’m just glad candies go through high temperatures before being formed.

@QUI_QUI_QUI

Ай бұрын

chitin doesn't just disappear lmao

@rooster1012

Ай бұрын

Might not want to research how food safe red dye is made in Mexico.🤣🤣🤣

@squiddyjamzzz

Ай бұрын

Still eating bugs

@XiaoxiaoYuyu-ug3gy

Ай бұрын

I do not buy candies make in that country or anything after watching this

@Why_stop_at_41

Ай бұрын

@@XiaoxiaoYuyu-ug3gy bad news for you, candy companies alllllll over the world use the shellac on them, not just in pajeetville

Whats getting me is the way its being dragged all over the floor with dirt on it, it being in people's mouths stretching it, being walked on, and sat on and this is after is been cleaned.

@justkorbii3180

Ай бұрын

Lmao

@user-mt4tl4ms4i

Ай бұрын

I don’t think this is the one that they use in food it would never be allowed.

@victorarregnelle8976

Ай бұрын

I worked at a cake factory for 1 day. I never thought there would be flies all over them. Everybody cool about it too.

@Thetycanmenaceyt

Ай бұрын

Don’t expect anything else from backward living people tbh! It’s just nasty as f k the way their feet and mouth just need to eve involved in everything, and I mean everything they do this with food (bread is stuck inside furnaces with saliva) they stand all over their produce with shitty feet mixing the produce like they don’t have a Harley care in the world lol.. shocking tbh

@mikedhiman

Ай бұрын

We indian didn't know that you western will use our shellak on candy and cakes. Its original purpose was to protect wood and painting 🎨🖌️.

I could never crouch on my knees wearing a loin cloth in a 200f hut for long hours This takes perseverance

They take the dingle bop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all the fleeb juice.

Never eating jelly beans again

@elongaabigail8636

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mzkeekos

Ай бұрын

WE'VE BEEN EATING FEET FLAVORED BUGS SINCE CHILDHOOD!!!!!!

@MilkMocha56

Ай бұрын

I don't think we eat food made up of it. We use it in furniture tho

@user-mt4tl4ms4i

Ай бұрын

This can’t happen in North America jelly bean factories hopefully

@carmelitajones7779

Ай бұрын

Ronald Reagan never got me into it. Although, I tried it and uhh to know teeth and feet were all on it..🤮