i have a challenge for you all very giving and the really good food for fusion and fun. from street food the 5 star restaurant tasty taipei starts september 1st on t w. avocados and salmon are in high demand in europe right now. avocados shipped all the way from mexico they bring people their prosperity but can also bring death. was a nice crime gangs are waging a war against small scale farmers and they are fighting for survival. there's a move 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.

you know this fruit is about the right size. and it just evolved to send his neighbors on small avocado farms for the harvest season is just getting underway. and they keep growing. what more we can start our resting now. but as are the as a very young as in 20 years ago we were just getting $0.09 for a kilo of our carlos. sometimes we didn't even our missed them because it was cheaper to let them rot than take them to the market. but now avocado exports a booming farmers 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 isle of god. but all that new prosperity caught the attention of organized crime gangs they started

extorting protection money from local farmers those who refused to pay up or killed or simply disappeared. lost that one let's keep one 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 for them or a good thing that's a bet on where there is money to be made you'll find organized crime so you go on the run they've been there. 60 years ago some of the pharma started fighting back they formed their own security force. oh these people have exchanged their farm equipment for weapons. leads to security force and provides a rigorous training program. that if they're going to put this force together because we had to. this it will not have our farmers were safe. we wanted to stop

the crooks from taking over our community but the criminals are going to. the local residents are fighting a determined and unscrupulous opponent and 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 traders. the criminals have also moved into ector's hometown sharod 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 crocus.

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. resort criminals who 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 family and take our money and the authorities won't do anything to stop it when they're all. 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. that we have

officially declared war on organized crime. that is the model of your business 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 sea snails. the island's population has grown sharply. with the boom in salmon exports salmon and they ship to the northern hemisphere as fishermen louis sma new us 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 things 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. first of all 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 didn't want to there is a real climate of fear. that they're going to look for the bosses constantly threatened to fire us if we don't meet the production quotas or if i don't volunteer to work overtime with that i mean i say it's over with all it's. up 215-0000 salmon a day i harvested and then sent to the factory they're said to be pumped full of antibiotics to help prevent disease environmentalist say the doses are 500 times higher than the amount used in europe. i. find. lose merino sort. i 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 . still suffers from shoulder and back pain.

maybe 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 your the a new way to the. bad only later i asked my boss whether he could take me to the hospital. when he said it wasn't his problem to get me see any give me the. news marino 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 and i hope that i'll at least get a minimum pension see my children buy food for me that's the only way that i can survive the company ruined me and caused me a lot of pain or should i knew. those marina

still has not recovered from her injuries she has a hard time walking. says this is not an isolated case such incidents the 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 manager 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. this or that. but salmon production is a seasonal business. so we employ workers on a temporary basis only decided that as it was in earlier.

in the city of time seato is seen as the global center of avocado production in it's a key part of the city's economy. some of the local residents don't like 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 where there's this guy out of this out of my people in this region are obsessed with money that is so you've got to have a gun. to protect your children's future and our natural resources or to water and forests but i list 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 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 on the receiving but we have to stand up to the big companies that are causing all these problems for. us it was come to the us 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 provoke this. sometimes the fires are set but it's only the forest land then burns never the avocado plantations. of so we know that it's not a coincidence. now we're

going to change vehicles in case trouble makers try to follow us. 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 i don't know what it. is you want them with we're killing trees to make room for other car goes it's awful with the inferno. 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 siesta avocados generate a lot of income on the walls of mexico is ruining into air and water so that the rest of the world can enjoy these fruits can make it no one talks about that is.

a major source of environmental pollution in chile is salmon feed. it's stored in harbor depos like this one. the fig 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 right seed. 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 matter 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. apple blossom very soon demand for this product to screw with farmers have to use these chemicals to help increase productivity. 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. their. crop dusting planes are owned by big companies sprayed right next to his land. he can worship read actually they target their own fields. but the clouds of pesticide spread to other areas this and this is the chemicals get into the surrounding

environment always. 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. right going for their food look at these holes. but never thought that i did that is 3 days after they sprayed all my crops died better 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 calm with the booming demand for salmon feed.

in chile the salmon farms are becoming increasingly unpopular especially among traditional fisherman. this crew is harvesting shellfish off the coast. the yellow hoses provide the diet as with oxygen was cool. the. process sanjay has spent an entire hour underwater. he has to use some strange equipment for these dives. i don't know that's my backpack. these days there are fewer and fewer dive is because they can't find enough work. because it was claimed at least 15 divers to harvest shellfish i'm proud of that because they

were good divers of the world. but supplies of shellfish are running out. so many of those guys will quit diving for the love of the would kill. the divers are convinced that pollution caused by the salmon industry is responsible for the decline of the muscle popular. i. want to improve. organic material from 7 pieces and feet are spread throughout the oceans by the currents and lucky i'm not in calls algal blooms like the ones we had in 26 in the us and all i know i got behind you i got. the algae made fishing impossible local residents held protests and blocked roads and ferry docks for 3 weeks. to get. the demonstrations were directed mainly against the salmon industry.

which the trinitarian one carlos card in us supports the shellfish tie this in their dispute with the salmon farms and he says that there are too many antibiotics in salmon feed and the farms need to reform their labor practices to get it all or if the machine go to the psalm on it like if the least salmon industry has the longest working hours the lowest valorise and the most violations of workers' rights in the world. and even more than the other is going to tell you so much. 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 dip 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. as. you know 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 and over the . market. they receive no financial support no. one carlos visits a woman whose husband was killed in a diving accident but if you have ready paula sanchez has come to terms with her husband's death but she believes that the accident could have been prevented. i

think you know. when i think 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 lowkey 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. louis novato died while he was repairing some in cages for an export company he was about 40 meters underwater at the time. in norway they haven't had accidents like that for several years in the theater skilly 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 break the rules. chile's 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 this is all fairly new in chile and we're 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 this seems to be no end in sight for the boom in salmon production. increased avocado production has brought wealth to mexico but has also caused hardships for some. lara rosco and her family had to flee. after a crime gang stole their land. on my mom where are you i'm home. we've agreed not to reveal where they are living now. with those also 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 were tarred and saved their money later they bought more land. 11 years ago lauer's father was kidnapped later 2

brothers went missing no trace of the 3 ever been found. me but 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. 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 traveled 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. they are looking in the rearview mirror to see if anybody is following us. to maybe an alley and. we've got an anonymous phone calls and people we don't know show up at our door. and they suspect just what other stores. we see them and they did all of us. and have threatened to kill us but i mean man now loudly when they tell their well you know my bad luck. 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 they might. lauer says that no one has helped them to try to get their land back. it's a return return to a place that used to be yours this land was taken from us get their lawn i have a father. 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. that was their 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. in this they kidnapped members of my family. so that they could take over our

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

no progress today she has to make a new application because some pure a crash she carries 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. for me and my family it's the greatest tragedy of our lives. those who produce trendy foods like salmon and avocados often pay a heavy price for their efforts. in the dockside of this business. yes.

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