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is already the most consumed meat in the world and fueled by the global demand for inexpensive meat the industry continues to grow in the united states the waste produced by industrial pig farms is a major problem so we came to the way as we all. know the creamers presume. china is the world's biggest pork producer that's chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow there's just not any end in french here is anyone on the planet if the chinese try to like americans what will happen amazon rain forest. to feed the pigs as cheaply as possible so it is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. we make the food that goes on the global population's table. so it

conservation is helping to drive the deforestation of the amazon grown as a monoculture saw is impacting the whole world. for. china's population has now topped 1400000000 rising affluence has led to changes in people's diets in the past rice and vegetables that noodles dominated while meat was rare but today pork has become increasingly popular. china consumes more than $15000000.00 tonnes of pork per year that's more than half of the world's production. they're all there since the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about

$600.00 pix per hour the equipment is imported from a dutch company. where the factory was built in the 1950 s. and 1998 i mean shifted to large scale production. the impact of china's pork boom is being felt around the world chinese companies are snapping up huge industrial pig farms like one in the u.s. state of north carolina. were owned by education family farmers ration about 2022000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially she missed field foods in murphy where the owners of that there were american corporations but now they've been bought out by a group called the dubby age group the old shumway corporation out of china it's a multinational corporation headquartered in china. you know very well so you know

they made i understand their profits for the 1st quarter of this year just their net profit 1st quarter this year was $200000000.00 and you look at almost cesspools when you say to yourself they've got the money to fix this what's what's all never they know. what's hold everything up and the fact that they don't want to spend that money to fix a problem they'd rather externalized costs that are where the treatment on people north carolina. we're going to do this will fill my rule true soon as we go through one country i don't think up everything we see all the wiring. and then if we spot some feeling on discharges then we'll do some special filming and i. would think. that. anyone. in the.

massive fungus with huge mineola koons extending as far as the eye can see. as a result of these industrial scale farms many local residents feel under siege. we're not anti farmer or inside business in north carolina we're just. about doing it correctly and not polluting this. citizens of north carolina's waterways

concentrating on the farmer's market in the world rural communities where the community does not have a voice to put up a fight to restrict these facilities are coming in here. and when they come in here they say they preach about having jobs. to help the community but even then jobs are. what a community member would want they're working in a slaughterhouse or working on. a farm and it's not easy work and it's. very rarely see the owners of these facilities living outside. l.c. herring lives near one of these farms called k. follows concentrated animal feeding operations. display fields right here so no open up the windows on the sat this is a bathroom window the room next door was my brother's being home and it went to do

some ways it is a kitchen window so we don't work on these binders around the side of things in this way feel ok phones are back here. to to suffer my mental stress way back here straight back but you can't see them from here. but if you see them from the mail. when it's peace morning that means it's wrong so that means we're in hell and we still feel everything is alive you know how place to you are in the antibiotics the ammonia everything this in. you know in in we're in the cold is being released into our atmosphere so we can open a way as we don't open the doors you know we pretty much prison i won't hold it when you do try to go and he's framed you have to show you grass because get a ticket breath away. stuart watering you make you still coffee get the finicky monster walk in they should be angry you know you could. you cringe because you

know when you finish 1000000 years just doesn't seem. to me how salut could believe that they have a right to build animal waste on interview lead smithfield foods the largest pool producer in the u.s. is now owned by a chinese company. during the ninety's we saw 90 percent of all our hog farms disappear in the united states the cash market dwindled from 100 percent of the market to less than 5 percent of the market the majority of the animals now are raised under contract and so you saw this traditional profitable industry for raising hogs get wiped out and replace with this new way of raising animals that was industrialized and centrally controlled it was really a corporate takeover and it happened in a very short period of time. in most hog production today

in the united states is produced in this industrial model it's called vertical integration. it's the way it works is that a company will own the nursery where the hawgs are born it will own the feed mill that produces the feed for the hawgs it owns the trucking lines the transport the hogs and even on to the slaughterhouse where the pigs are killed and turned into a variety of product. this was a business that used to be a pillar of rural america and then it got taken over by smithfield and you know this is a company that had spent decades devouring independent firms in the united states and acquiring a kind of market share that never should have been allowed to fall under the umbrella of one firm it is not a good idea to allow one firm to control 30 percent of the entire market. in the

pork industry or food industry once that happened though it became a very attractive target for any kind of overseas company that could afford to buy it just a huge sector of productive capacity in rural america i mean we're talking about thousands of large scale farms and there's a lot of money being made raising pigs in the united states. the chicago mercantile exchange is one of the biggest in the world agricultural commodities are also traded on. down here this is this is now the financial room here we're standing in so over here we have a bond option trading we have 3 bonds here or a cultural factors been diminished over here which we still do the options on soybeans we need in corn we also do livestock china for years and years has been trying to eat like a westerner which we consume about $3400.00 calories per day china is now approaching 2900 calories so they've really caught up with where we are in couric

intake china has the largest hog heard in a in the world accounting for about 47 percent of all pork productions but again when we look at me consumption or caloric consumption going forward it's going to happen in countries like bangladesh nigeria pakistan india these are the going to be the big drivers of calories over the next 10 to 20 years heretofore they don't have the g.d.p. rates to expand their meat consumption mush like china didn't become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g.d.p. levels started to rally dramatically. china's hunger full pulque is driving chinese companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise. i think having us to care quark market is very important and that's part of the reason why they are now it's. why they hire smithfield's.

america's largest pork producer one i think they wanted access to supply but too from what i've heard from smithfield executives is that they wanted to learn how the american pork operations work how we were able to produce so much pork on so very little land and that means that this american industrialized style of producing pork is being exported to china. when it comes to industrial meat production china has caught up with the west. it's mechanized and operates on a mass scale. so if you had $2.00 in 1961 this was a small slaughter house for chickens and other animals beginning in 1902 the

government encouraged facilities like this to become more efficient. they allowed us to grow and acquire new machinery and in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced an handle growth rate of around 30 percent so. when you are dealing with so many animals in such a small space animals help those compromised antibiotics become used routinely. both for illness prevention and to increase weight gain in animals. in general if you have a few pigs on a farm. their waste is an asset it's something you can spread on your fields it's a fantastic fertilizer you have a complete new translight go. but when you have 10000 or 20000 hogs

in a small facility their waste is a huge liability. $160.00 there was less than $10000000000.00 animals killed per year. today there's over 70000000000 and if the trajectory of meter for patient continues there will be 120000000000 killed for food by 2050. industrialized our corporations effectively command about a 3rd of the world's arable land includes the majority of the world's course grain production the biggest course grain maize and huge source of oil so it's principally sort of the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil seed monocultures through what i call islands of concentrated. solely cultivation is having a massive impact on industrial farming. china's hunger for meat is causing more and

more sowing to be planted for use as animal feed. china as a country consumes twice as much as the united states but each person is only consuming half as much as americans so more the chinese able to fully i mean the american diet it's hard to say where that meat would come from and already china is increasing its imports of pork it's increasing its imports of soybeans that are fed to livestock whether it's the pork the chicken before that or the farm fish their corporate a lot more soybean in their diet so the chinese government well aware of the. the dangers of famine having lived through that chinese famine where official record so some 36000000 people died they wanted to make sure that they could secure their

food supply at home. if the chinese try to eat like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. where where will we find the land to grow that much for it to grow that much pain there's just not any end to french years and you are on the planet. the situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation sawed. president. who took office early that year is keen to promote the country's agricultural industry and saw is a linchpin saw a monocultures have come to dominate places like sometimes i am in the brazilian state of pa but rhea ruda lives next to us so i plantation i have passed right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. class from. us. they wash your head.

so that this is all plantation was surrounded by soybean it's all around us. oh right in the middle of all this land used to be a family farm yet now it's been turned into soil monoculture and because it's only grown for export none of it remains in brazil or. a truck full of sawing has tipped over on a road in the state of missouri grow so work has a gathering up the valuable soybeans by hand. this used to be rain forest now it's only fields stretching right out to the

horizon. a local farmer shows us around. our kids in the. me before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. the only thing here was forest and treat. it look the way it does on the other side of the road. something we used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. this region's economy is almost entirely based on soft economy and the hero. this is our vocation . it's all we know how to do. those offering you the mantras we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. for them soybean is an imported crop that we have adapted to conditions here.

and we realized that it grows very well here and that we have the right conditions for it. sort of since it will be a bank you know with the help of gene technology we slowly improve the soybeans. only and today we have varieties specifically developed for our region. there's also you know. we pay a visit to an agricultural trade fair in look us the real daddy in the state of matter grow so. soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including yano piece that. had a pick in the u.k. . i had a small farm in rio grande into so. i had 15 hector's.

i drove here with a small truck to help my uncle who was moving here. i was young and very enthusiastic. and i thought i could make a good future for myself here. i was lucky and many different things came together i was in the right place in the right time for you exactly when the world began asking for more protein and food i had a dream an unusual dream almost a fantasy. then fortunately reality has proved even better than my dreams. it's even pretty and my company has 270000 hectares under cultivation. i. have publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now i am a shareholder and advisor. in golden we said. in brazil and in the entire southern hemisphere saw

is to spearhead of a new model of capital production called agribusiness soyuz a standardized grain which has become a commodity it's the same all over the world it's easy to grow i want to very large scale. here in brazil some of our soil farms cover 240000 hectares. yallop think miraca the global market is controlled by only 5 companies bhangra monsanto a.d.m. cargill and dreyfus. so you speculate with the prices speculate with stocks and manipulate the market. pave managed to transform soy into the main ingredient in the animal feed. pig feed cow feed and chicken feed that means that sawyer is now a very important raw material in human nutrition. the world has become one

giant pigsty corporations use sorious of or the only food we have in the world. we have the same seeds the same micro chemicals from the same trading company the same price setting mechanisms the same players are it's a very homogeneous production system even though it's very diverse and it's something gratian and to radically different systems and social settings it's a production system that generates its own homogeny in order to be able to attend this global market. and in this region that produces mainly come from other countries. but some of

them come from russia grosso and patten our. local people have also started planting us here yeah maybe they've realized that it's good business. let most of the people who plant so i come from abroad. not only that. they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that went back you might like shit out. hardly any people work in those fields means. business i'm a work for local people and my years in the north of the plantations hire a few to drive tractors jack i might not know that. yet but apart from that they do all the work themselves act like you and your family and you should be issued. you know. that. this building houses the santorum farm workers union.

local people are benefiting very little from the soybean. smallholder farmers can't compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. but. what have you got there soybeans no there's no so here no 5. you know you will use them for the. other car products aren't worth anything. only the big farms can make money. on the small ones can you can think. of us if you can try to plant corn down where you're going to sell it if you know in the end there's no profit to be had then. the market's only for big growers if

you want to plant soil you need big machines tractors we can't afford that kind of equipment but. choice has not made for small holders it's that simple. that. sounds like good just rather just that we have a lot of different ways to fight the past i'm down all those pasts end up in our fields so when we plant beans now we end up with nothing. they use pesticides and the insects and up in our fields. we can't do anything about it. but we used to plant beans and would fill 2 entire sacks of them it's true. now we've stopped planting. the pests from the land that belongs to the rich people come here and destroy our seeds. get it right. in the united

states in china can't they just destroy their own forests to plant soybeans. why do they have to come to brazil and exploit our resources off of africa like africa has plenty of forest why don't they go there maybe they don't work hard enough or they have more nurse. who has in fact reached africa mozambique is nearly 10000 kilometers from brazil but brazilian companies are moving in trying to secure vast tracts of land for soybean farming. the agribusiness project is being promoted by the pro savannah program. the brazilian farmers are going to africa because most beaks government is leasing land at a very cheap price to create new plantations. mozambique is giving brazilian farmers

a $6000000.00 hector area 3 times bigger than sergey date and almost for free it's going to be a lease that will allow for the cultivation of soy cotton and corn mainly for the chinese market. but. we're company human rights activist jeremy s. when john you're on a visit to the not carla region a lot of land here is slated to go to the brazilians. are you doing good and you. fine my friend thank you and. yeah very good selling time. just ran. yes it rained a lot we might have a good harvest this year and the next one. but i think you need to think of those many thought ok. oh.

we don't have enough land here and. we already have conflicts among ourselves. if investors calm the conflict will become worse if. the land belongs to the people of mozambique. we're not against development. but we believe that the community should be consulted despite what our government says we don't eat soy beans we eat our local crops and. we gave the government some advice before implementing the project i mean that they need to involve local farmers. and what happened instead is that meetings were not public and not at the district or at the national level. we've been threatened and intimidated. many farmers are facing criminal charges but i mean. what i'm.

saying there so you believe the promise of anna is not helping farmers and we. know it is not good for us. is a joint program involving mozambique japan and brazil its official goal is to promote development in the region. and civic organizations investigated the situation and we realized that this was an umbrella project designed to pave the way for big investors and business giants. anyone who was interested in taking control of water land and natural resources and they call it a corridor or mozambique. local farmers were displaced.

and 5000000 people in the region have been affected if. you've even though in this others you don't consider going to see when you don't. then says is this your land because this land you want to occupy. this is just a declaration you do not have a certificate for land use this is only a statement about where you live. used to it specifies where your community lives in operates but the certificate is not give you rights to use the land that's why you have to be careful someone else could have laid claim to a land use certificate of the community needs to fight to get the proper documentation up and if we don't deal with the situation it might soon be too late that that's about. 2016 opponents of the process on a program organized a major protest they succeeded in convincing the government to suspend it.

and grant them want to think for a long time mozambique's government implemented its policies without any outside input and now they finally been challenged by an opposition movement. by a farm workers who said that this is not the way to promote agricultural development you know if you move it you know they showed that it is possible to resist to protest and to say no you. know what. i suppose flow was you are the ones who are sustaining this country. 90 percent of the food that we eat in mozambique is produced by small farmers not by big companies or by projects from brazil or who knows where. we have to be very careful with these big projects the pit come here and promise all kinds of things but when

these projects end what do they do they leave. they move to pursue other goals whatever the market demands. despite some small successes in places like mozambique around the world meat consumption continues to soar and with it the song industry. in brazil new plantations are concentrated in the amazon region. president bill scenarios policies are posing an additional threat to this fragile ecosystem. don't think that was what this is a map of the amazon region where the side of everything in red is land that's been deforested it makes up 19 percent of the rain forest. this area which begins in radeon year is known as the ark of deforestation. 62 percent of this area is soybean monoculture. another 6 percent are mixed crops but even that

includes a lot of soybean. was. taking rain forests and plowing that into monoculture turns up an awful lot of carbon that has been stored in the soil stored in the forest so that that those vast monocultures and met a lot of greenhouse gases just in turning it over the 1st time but then every time they're plowing you have the emissions from. a cultural machinery itself and then you have the emissions of crushing the so beings processing it and shipping them back to china it's an enormously energy intensive. process. in the context of climate change how do we reduce our cultural footprint commands and then have carbon sequestration clearance and tropical rain forests for either

pasture or. large scale monocultures has has an enormous quantum implication in terms of release of carbon from those in co systems and in the case of industrial monocultures to make them make those nutrient poor soils productive for farming require earth very considerable fertilizer you know but as you'll see what's happening here in brazil is a crime an agricultural crime to plant soya in this tropical humid region you have to bring fertilizer here from china. niger german phosphate from who knows where. you brought diana produce it was think that as the o'day of us the soil here does not have enough of those elements. think that as it was far too little say on this is a mistake it's throwing nature out of balance. and it's destroying biodiversity in this area. right here in the southern amazon in model grosso you can drive

200 kilometers without seeing any other crop plants all you see is soil and there are no people either because so it displaces people have to. either move the mice empty book out so are these blue sort of dismiss them or. will the rich biodiversity of the region be replaced by so a monoculture. we're importing $20000000.00 tonnes of additives each year nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides. brazil has become the world's largest consumer of pesticides and in brazil consumes 20 percent of the world's press to side production. it's absurd we consume an average of 5 liters of pesticide per person in rural areas it's an average of 15 liters per

hectare. there's no university department of agriculture anywhere in the world that says you need 15 leaders of pesticides to grow one heck tear of soybeans. out of the. easy leave the vin of. today so i plantations in brazil already cover an area the size of germany. yields a high in pot thanks to heavy use of pesticides. before these are the beans we've just harvested. do you eat them. they eat no no i prefer not to know what we sprayed them with the various products . we have to wait a while before eating them. it's very bitter we are do you want to try one

of the. animal feed destined for china's pork chicken and beef industry the trade war with the u.s. has also encouraged china to buy it saw it from brazil. it makes no sense to take these soybeans for a model grocer or put them on a truck and drive 3000 kilometers to a port and travel another 20000 kilometers on board a ship to reach another port in china and then travel another 2000 kilometers by train until they reach a factory farm where the soyuz used to feed chickens. saw is rich in protein and cheap the ideal animal feed for industrial livestock farming around the world. as a result of globalization brazil is destroying its rain forest to grow soybeans.

this saw ends up on the other side of the world in chinese pig farms and european ones. in. china has announced plans to consummate consumption in huff by 2030. not long ago a swine fever outbreak killed vast numbers of pigs in china. but in the long term production is likely to rise again. china's rising middle class is unlikely to lose its taste for meat. i think a lot they have a microchip in their ears called an ear tech yet. now i know we monitor them are constantly using a computer or an i pad. industrial

farming is growing ever more efficient things to soybean feed and the use of high tech. industrialised meat production leads to rock bottom prices. the narrative of the world must double its food production by 2050 as we move from 7000000000 people today to 9 to 10000000000 people central to that is rising livestock production and consumption as this inevitable force in world agriculture and that is something that i think needs to be fundamentally be stabilized. it's not inevitable that human beings will continue consuming more and more animal flesh per person we don't need to be doubling food production we need to be producing food in very different ways and thinking about as a very fundamental part of reconfiguring agricultural setting.

and. some people are hoping to reverse this trend back in the u.s. we meet jute back an organic farmer in iowa he puts a premium on quality over quantity. for me it's obvious that we need to eat less meat and people criticize me because this is iowa and we have a lot of meat production here though so oh and you would you can't say that you can say to me less meat but why why why who is being hurt by this and if it's healthy to eat less meat then wouldn't the farmers and i would be better to produce a special kind of high quality meat than to have less animals but get paid more and i think that everybody. i would be better off financially better off health health

wise at the end of the day but. people are afraid because of large integrated companies would lose money so. you can save these things public. in north carolina some pick farmers are also trying to make the switch to organic but they can't match the rock bottom prices of the major produces price is the top criterion for most consumers says organic farmer calvin not trouble we want to run into the grocery store you know the super wal-mart and we want to grab something we look down the aisle and it says you know certified organic you know and that's maybe 50 to 60 percent more. something that was grown over here. i don't want that i can't afford it but you know what you still got the almighty dollar stuff in your pocket because you just saved yourself 50 percent because you bought something that who knows what they were doing to it or who knows how they

were grown what you. saw in monoculture and industrialized livestock farming how long can this system of cheap meat production be sustained. let me say this work. as our population begins to grow and grow and. one day there will be no make human beings a half a grain like they did back many years ago when they did have some which make i go wow it's our rating you can paint more people with so we being cold morning you can with me if you want to feed just i'm just starving worrell trout but you know all these cows and stuff and pig people want they can get the field or barely. somebody wants to make money what may come about we won't be to worry if you want to feed the world you can be both were were graining you came with me.

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