i have a challenge for you all of the review and the real. food fusion and the fun. from street food the 5 star restaurant tasting taipei start september 1st on d w. avocados and salmon are in high demand in europe right now. avocados are shipped all the way from mexico they bring people their prosperity but can also bring death . organized crime gangs are waging a war against small scale farmers and they are fighting for survival. this one more it's an awful situation. salmon farming is booming in chile that's had a negative effect on the environment and the local residents. for the big companies

salmon are more important than the workers. this is the state of michoacan in southwest mexico the world's largest producer of avocados. yes there are good. avocados are a lucrative crop that provides jobs for thousands of people. this is wild country the residents are strong and independent and they enjoy a good time. there we mexicans are crazy.

this fruit is about the right size. it just a fantasy and his neighbors own small avocado farms that the harvest season is just getting on to why. they keep growing. when we can start our resting now. if it is here the assembly and 20 years ago we were just getting $0.09 for a kilo of other cargoes. sometimes we didn't even harvest them either because it was cheaper to let them rot than take them to the market. but now avocado exports a booming found most can get up to 6 euros a kilo and earn a good living. at this and we call of a car goes green gold in the. but all that new prosperity caught the attention of organized crime gangs they started

extorting protection money from local farmers yet those who refused to pay up were killed or simply disappeared. was that one list done of those take over the fields or they force farmers to sell the land dirt cheap some people don't want to transport their crops to market because they're afraid they'll be attacked another minute go for that mortgage thing that's a bet on where there is money to be made you'll find organized crime you go on the one they've been there. 6 years ago some of the farmers started fighting back they formed their own security force. yet. oh these people have exchanged their farm equipment for weapons. leads the security force and provides a rigorous training program. there on the community that isn't going to put this force together because we had to. say will not our farmers were safe. we wanted

to stop the crooks from taking over our community but they're not going to. the local residents are fighting a determined and unscrupulous opponent of the criminal gangs are involved in drug dealing extortion robbery and murder and they're fighting each other for control in the region. the gangs will not hesitate to eliminate anyone who tries to get in there why. and that includes farm workers and avocado tried as. the criminals have also moved into it does hometown sure are to just a few 100 people live here. most belong to an indigenous group called purepecha the community has joined forces to stand up to the crooks.

the authorities have now designated the local security force as an official police unit in years past the regular police should have cracked down on the crime gangs but they didn't. know what the minute we saw criminals would actually go out on patrols with the police or the theatre. with them or the my motivation is the fear that they'll kill our families and take our money and the authorities won't do anything to stop it all in their all. 3 over . every patrol is dangerous ecto has often been shot at by criminals but he continues his work to protect his family his neighbors and their farms. does

a little of the glad i'm certain that we have officially declared war on organized crime. by the mother of your peers and maybe now they'll think twice before they try to take over our land because they're not in with a better body. but it's like david fighting goliath. a similar battle is underway in chile. here on the island of chile away another trendy food salmon is mass produced on fish farms. until recently the local economy was focused on the harvesting of shellfish like mussels oysters and see snails. the island's population has grown sharply along with the boom in salmon exports salmon and they ship to the northern hemisphere as fishermen luis manures points. out he takes us to visit one of the salmon farms.

there are some dolphins out here today. the farm consists of pens that contain up to 12000 salmon h. luis quit his job here when he realized the extent of the environmental damage. in the mornin the problem is that much of the salmon just sinks to the seabed there's also a lot of fish species down there. and all that stuff just piles up sometimes to a height of one meter for that sort of their. exports of fish farm salmon a booming thanks to the huge demand. double cortez has been working in the salmon industry for 23 years he's a trade union official and speaks openly about the poor conditions that workers face in the factories. you know what i'm going to name

you want to there is a real climate of fear. for the bosses constantly threatened to fire us if we don't meet the production quotas. if i don't volunteer to work overtime with that i mean that's a very it all adds. up 215-0000 salmon a day are harvested and then sent to the factory this said to be pumped full of antibiotics to help prevent deceives environmentalist say the dose is over 500 times higher than the amount used in europe. i. find i. lose marina sorto worked at the factory until she was injured in an industrial accident a year ago since then she's been unemployed. she hopes the gustavo's union can help her. lose marina still suffers from shoulder and back pain.

maybe days you need so you know i was turning around and a big fish container hit me in the back that's the last thing i remember so i passed out you're the a new to the. bad only later i asked my boss whether he could take me to the hospital. and he said it wasn't his problem to get me see any give me the. blues merino worked for the salmon company for 8 years on a seasonal contract so she received no compensation or severance pay. as you are i'm 60 years old now it was a sink and i hope that i'll at least get a minimum pension see my children buy food from me that's the only way that i can survive the company ruined me and caused me a lot of pain. and you. lose marina

still has not recovered from her injuries she has a hard time walking. says this is not an isolated case such incidents a common in the salmon export business. still the salmon industry has brought some prosperity to the town. here attends a meeting of factory workers and managers they discuss whether or not seasonal contracts are still appropriate one man it just says they are. all the devil you know what if you have production year round and then give people temporary contracts that would be illegal people. there's a lot about someone production is a seasonal business. so we employ workers on a temporary basis only of up to 70. i suppose you know you're.

in the city of 10 seater all is seen as the global center of avocado production it's a key part of the city's economy. some of the local residents don't mind people asking questions. these activists are going to show us some forest land that's been cleared. they're worried about possible attacks so they bring weapons. look well it's a start of this out among people in this region are obsessed with money so you've got to have a gun. to protect your children's future and our natural resources or to water and forests those kind of moderate elements. the mashallah can region was once covered with forests but a lot of the trees have been cut down often illegally to make room for avocado farms activists fought for 3 years to try to save the forest in this hillside but they filed the green gold has made people greedy criminals but also some farmers as

much as we even fight among ourselves or that was you know but we have to stand up to the big companies that are causing all these problems for. us it was kind of what's what's. some workers were illegally cutting down trees here they left as soon as we arrived the area is being cleared probably to make room for an avocado farm the farmers resort to illegal methods to reach their goals here loggers have cut into a tree so that it will dry out and die sometimes part of a forest simply burns down by accident some of the fires are reported by anonymous sources and later avocado plants suddenly appear in the same area. doesn't seem to some sometimes the fires are set but it's only the forest land then burns never the avocado plantations. school. so we know that it's not a coincidence. now we're

going to change vehicles in case trouble makers try to follow us. though. this entire section of forest land has dried out the avocado crops have drained off all the water but forested areas need to be protected to help maintain a supply of groundwater that goes on. if you want the most of what we're killing trees to make room for other it's awful if they're in front of. these huge pools provide water for the avocado crops it takes about 300 liters of water to grow one avocado the plantations also use pesticides which can damage the environment the local residents are paying a high price for these crops see is the avocados generate a lot of income on the walls with that mexico is ruining into air and water so that the rest of the world can enjoy these fruit committee no one talks about that is.

a major source of environmental pollution in chile is salmon feed. it's stored in harbor depose like this one. the think contains a pesticide that was banned in europe years ago it can only be used in salmon feet otherwise the feet would perish environmentalist say that this is a serious problem in chile. much of the salmon feed is made from soybeans and rapeseed. so these salmon have been turned into vegetarians simply to cut production costs and keep prices down for this popular food. a lot of the soybeans used in salmon feed a grown in the brazilian state of much will grow so. this factory produces soybean meal exclusively for salmon farms $18000.00 tons per month traces of

pesticides are often found in this material a company official explains why. couple blocks away very soon demand for this product is growing farmers have to use these chemicals to help increase productivity. does love orders. this year alone more than 150 new pesticides were approved for use in soil monocultures in brazil. rice says pesticide residues have been found in the local drinking water and even in the feet of his dairy cows. 3rd. 2 crop dusting planes are owned by big companies spray right next to his land. he can worship they target their own fields do you but the clouds of pesticide spread to other areas this this is the chemicals get into the surrounding environment always

. had. such methods are banned in europe they are common in brazil. paseo takes us to visit an organic farmer who lives nearby he says he's lost all his crop because of the pesticides you have on the soybean farms. for their food look at these holes. there for. 3 days after they schrader my crops died letters chicory and radishes they were all gone. now he plans to harvest these remaining plants before the spring starts again. but the soybean farms continue to grow to keep up with the booming demand for salmon.

in chile the salmon farms are becoming increasingly unpopular especially among traditional fisherman. this crew is harvesting shellfish off the coast. they get out of hoses provide the diet as with oxygen. back of. course a sun she has spent an entire hour underwater. she has to use some strange equipment for these dives. i don't know that's my backpack. these days there are a few and few a dive is because they can't find enough work. out of it with i've trained at

least 15 divers to harvest shellfish i'm proud of that because they were good diapers of the world. but supplies of shellfish are running out. so many of those guys will quit diving for the low but will fill. the divers are convinced that pollution caused by the salmon industry is responsible for the decline of the muscle population. one of the employee organic materials from some increases in feed are spread throughout the oceans by the comets and lucky or unlucky calls algal blooms like the ones we had in 26 in the us ago i know that they had a lot of. the algae made fishing impossible local residents held protests and blocked roads and ferry docks for 3 weeks. the demonstrations were directed my only. against the salmon industry.

which the trinitarian one carlos card in us supports the shellfish divers in their dispute with the salmon farms and he says that there are too many antibiotics in salmon feet and the farms need to reform their labor practices. if i'm saying go to sell more elective usually salmon industry has the longest working hours. and the most violations of workers' rights in the world. and even more going into to this and more. an increasing number of the divers who work at the salmon farms suffer from decompression sickness. if they come back to the surface too quickly air bubbles can form in the circulatory system and block the blood vessels. more and more of the divers have come to this local hospital seeking medical treatment for this problem they too are paying a high price so that consumers in europe can eat salmon.

the divers have to spend 2 hours in the region's only decompression chamber which simulates a depth of 18 meters. the process reduces the size of the air bubbles and eventually eliminates them the salmon industry does not provide any financial support to cover the cost of these treatments. but some of them. you would think that these companies would want to make sure that we take proper care of their divers but i think they're more interested in profits than in the health of their workers over the physical. market. they receive no financial support. here one carlos visits a woman whose husband was killed in a diving accident where if you. paula sanchez has come to terms with her husband's death but she believes the accident could have been prevented. but if you look at

them. when they didn't and i was cooking dinner when my sister came in crying and she said luis had been involved in an accident and they couldn't find his body i look you know i was in a state of shock i didn't cry i didn't scream i just kept saying no no no no no no no no. luis navarro died while he was repairing some in cages for an export company he was about 40 meters under water at the time. in norway they haven't had accidents like that for several years in the theater so silly is the world's 2nd largest exporter of salmon but we still have these 3rd world kinds of accidents. consumers in europe need to know that when they eat

salmon from chile. it has the blood of workers on it. environmental protection groups criticized the lack of worker safety programs and a salmon industry that seems to repeatedly write the rules. actually as minister of economy and development can impart accept this criticism and has promised to make improvements. it's a new industry that breeds its bases from the northern hemisphere here in the south . this is all fairly new in chile and was still learning about the impact that it's having in the in the in the study the problems and make corrections. but the bottom line is that salmon exports is then if it were a national economy. to such an extent that the salmon industry is expanding

its reach further south into the waters off antarctica seems to be no end in sight for the boom in salmon production. increased avocado production has brought wealth to mexico but it's also caused hardships for some. lara rosco and her family had to flee. after a crime gang stole their land. all right mom where are you i'm home. we've agreed not to reveal where they're living now. with the muslims that we had to leave we were forced to move several times because we feared for our lives that mr. lowry's family once owned a number of avocado plantations they worked hard and saved their money later they bought more land. and years ago lauer's father was kidnapped later 2

brothers went missing no trace of the 3 ever being found. my father was very ambitious he said that there's a solution for everything except death. after the kidnappings the rest of the family was forced to abandon their land. and. our lives were turned upside down and i never expected to have to live like this those people destroyed our lives so these days we're not living we're just getting by in the. us. we've now travelled to the region where lauer and her family used to live. there's a tracking device on the roof of the car in case they run into criminals as we approach the site of their old plantation lauer and her mother become increasingly

nervous. but i think my neighbor looking in the rearview mirror to see if anybody is following us. to be in the alley and. we've got an anonymous phone calls and people we don't know show up at our door. and they suspect just up but other than a stone's. you see if they did all of us. and have threatened to kill us what i mean man when they tell their why am i bad. you think it's this way yeah. we film the property from a distance the new owners are now making money with crops that used to belong to lauer's family simply there are armed guards over there you can't get too close or

they'll kill you or. lauer says that no one has helped them to try to get their land back. it's like you have to return to a place that used to be yours this land was taken from us get the lawn out about the other. but look at the look we built that farm with our own hands and the help of our friends. it was a lot of hard work either. that was our life but it's all gone now. they claim that the military and police were involved in the kidnappings and that the authorities work with the criminal gangs. and they still secure enough to members of my family. so that they can take over

our avocado farms is their work i think. for 11 years now the family has fought for its rights now they want the land that they still own to be transferred to lara's mother since her father is still officially listed as missing. it's called more but this can help us to regain our dignity and prove that everything that we've been saying is true that hume was it a bit of a. few years lara has been waiting step by step through the government bureaucracy but there always seems to be something wrong with the paperwork and you . get. this for the 1st time it's frustrating. some of the officials are no help at all they're insensitive and incompetent please. once again lowry has made no progress today

she has to make a new application because some pure question garrus was somehow made in the original one. but she won't stop fighting until her family gets their land back and she finds out what happened to her father and brothers even if she dies in the process the avocado crop has ruined her life. be for me in my family it's the greatest tragedy of our lives i mean. those who produce trendy through it's like salmon and avocados often pay a heavy price for their efforts. in the dock side of this business. is.

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plant crops and find new. ones and droughts will climate change become the main driver of mass migration you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably most of the bill. for climate exodus starts september 5th on t.w. . u.s. president donald trump says he would be open to meeting iranian president hassan rouhani within weeks he made the comments at the end of a g. 7 summit where french president emanuel has led efforts to defuse tensions between the u.s. and iran and salvage a landmark 2015 yukio deal. trump also signed an optimistic note on the trade war with china at the end of the g. 7 summit he said he believed china wanted to strike a deal after beijing contacted us.