a car bomb killed at least 17 people the taliban denies any responsibility the truce is only the 3rd to take place in the last 1000 years and will last until the end of the muslim holiday. this is due to be news coming to you live from berlin i'm terry march and be with you at the top of the next hour thanks watch. a meal and i'm good welcome to the 2nd season of only good chance. the planet on the brink of disaster just long in-depth interviews with experts about one question how to change. the only difference.

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 view the way as we want to know the. president who china is the world's biggest producer as chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow there's just not any end in french here is any more on the planet if the chinese try to americans what will happen amazon rain forest. to feed the pigs as cheaply as possible is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. we make the food that goes on the global populations table. so i

cultivation is helping to drive the deforestation of the amazon grown as a monoculture saw is impacting the whole world. china's population has now topped 1400000000 rising affluence has led to changes in people's diets in the past rice of vegetables and 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. there on there since the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about

$600.00 pics per hour the equipment is imported from a dutch company. this 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 a traditional family farmers raising about 2000000 who care about 22000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially schmidt field foods in murphy were 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 thing 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 all are cesspools when you say to yourself they got the money to fix this what's what's all new everything up. about what's holding everything up at the fact they don't want to spend money to fix the problem they'd rather externalized the cost of it which treatment on people north carolina. we're going to do this will fill my rule true. as we go through one country they don't pick up everything we see all the way. and then if we spot something illegal discharges i will do some special filming on that. when i want to. i'm going. to.

live. and. play in a. massive farms with huge mineola goons 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 out polluting the cities. as of north carolina's waterways

concentrating on the farms are 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 preach about having jobs. to help the community but even then jobs are. what a community better 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 on site. l c herring lives near one of these farms called k. flows concentrated animal feeding operations. display feels right here so me open up the windows on the sat this is a bathroom window room next door was my brother's bring home a blender this way is

a kitchen window so we don't open these binders and i want to send things in this way for you if you fold them back here. to to soften my mother's house way back in the street that you can see them from here. if you see them from the mail route where the queen is prescreening and musician are all so that means real in telling me stuff when everything is alive you know how place to you are in the antibiotics the ammonia everything this in. you know in in we were in loco is being released into our atmosphere so we can open our way as we don't open the doors you know we pretty much a prisoner i won't hold it when you do try to go out for his friend you have to hold your breath because you took it breath away to make it out and still watering you if you still coughing get the finicky monster look in makeshift angry you know you get to cry. because you know when you finish me and this just doesn't seem. to

me how salut could believe they did have a right to build an animal we still know believe 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 industrialize 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 hollands were 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.

industry or food industry once it 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 here. 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 here or a cultural site there has been diminished over here which we still do the options on soybeans we didn't corn we also do livestock china for years and years it's 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 korea

can take 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 got 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 much 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 polkas driving chinese companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise. i think having an see care park market is very important and that's another reason why only now that's why they left smithfield.

because 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 worked 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. 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 in acquire new machinery in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced and your growth rate of around 30 percent so. when you are leaving so many and was 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 trancelike 0. but when you have 10000 or 20000 hogs

in a small facility their waste is a huge liability. 960 it was less than 10000000000 animals killed for your food today there's over 70000000000 and if the trajectory of modification continues there will be 120000000000 killed for food by 2050. industrialized our corporations effectively command about a 3rd of the world's arable that includes the majority of the world's course grain production the biggest course grain the maize and huge source of oil so it's principally soybean in 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 slowly 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 emulate the american diet it's hard to say where that meat would come from 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 records 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 grain there's just not any and the french here's an alarm on the planet. the situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation saward. president. who took office early that year is keen to promote the country's agricultural industry and saw is a linchpin saw in monocultures have come to dominate places like sometimes i am in the brazilian state of pa but ria route that lives next to us so i plantation i have us right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. class from. us.

i think what your head. so that this is all plantation. was surrounded by soybean it's all around us. but we're right in the middle of all this land used to be a family farm and yet now it's been turned into a sort of 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 grosso workers are 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 is there the water. you before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. the only thing here was forest and trees have. it look the way it does on the other side of the road. we used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. this region's economy is almost entirely based on saw its economy in the hero you see this is our vocation and fortune it's all we know how to do. and you the man when we grow the food that ends up on the global population's table. with all of 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 the movie a bank you can work with the help of gene technology we slowly improve the soybeans . and today we have varieties specifically developed for our region but you know this also here. we pay a visit to an agricultural trade in look us the real betty in the state as much across so. soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including a tough ya know piece that. you had to pick in the you can. i had a small farm in rio grande and. 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 exactly when the world began asking for more protein and food i had a dream an unusual dream almost a fantasy. fortunately reality has proved even better than my dreams. my company has 270000 hectares under cultivation. i've publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now i'm a shareholder and advisor so you think once a year. they're going to seal it building he said. both in brazil and in the entire southern hemisphere

sawyer's 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 in a very large scale. here in brazil some of our soil farms cover 240000 hectares. so it sergeant. yallop think miraca the global market is controlled by only 5 companies bunga monsanto a.d.m. cargill and dreyfus. they speculate with the prices speculate with stocks and manipulate the market. pave managed to transform soy into the main ingredient in animal feed. pig feed cow feed then chicken feed that means that saw is now a very important raw material in human nutrition. the world has become one

giant pig stye corporations use soya as if it were the only food we have in the world. we have the same seeds the same micro chemicals the same trading companies the same price setting mechanisms the same players it's a very homogeneous production system even though it's very diverse in its integration into radically different ecosystems and social settings it's a production system that generates its own homogenize. in order to be able. to 10 this global market. share in this region the produces mainly come from other countries. but some of them come from grosso and patten our. local people have also

started planting us. yeah maybe they've realised that it's good business. but most of the people who plant so i come from abroad. what on. earth they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs i went back in my head like shit out there are hardly any people work in those fields. there's no more work for local people and my education not through the plantations hire a few to drive tractors and get right now back. here but apart from that they do all the work themselves my you and your family you should be sure. coming up to get you guys that back in. this building houses the sometime ram farm workers union. which

local people are benefiting very little from the soybean boom. smallholder farmers can't compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. what have you got there soybeans. no there's no so here. and there by. you know you hear some of them. our products aren't worth anything. only the big farms can make money. on the small ones can we can we think. you can try to plant corn and then we're going to sell it 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 machine tractors we can't afford that kind of equipment but i saw has not made for small holders it's that simple. don't hate you just rather just want them to have a lot of different ways to fight the past and then all those pests 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 bain's and would feel to 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 offered 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 but my mother. 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 that is 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 only into. your company human rights activists jeremy s one john yet on a visit to the not cholera region a lot of land here is slated to go to the brazilians. are you doing good and you are. fine my friend thank you. very much sewing time. just rain. yes it rained a lot we might have a good harvest this year and the next one. ok.

we don't have enough land here. we already have conflicts among ourselves. if investors calm that 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 soybeans we eat our local crops and. we gave the government some advice before implementing the project they need to involve local farmers. what happened instead is that meetings were not public not at the district or at the national level. we've been threatened and intimidated. many farmers are facing criminal charges.

and so you believe the process 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 one. point and civic organizations investigated the situation and we realised that process of them. it was an umbrella project on and by design to pave the way for big investors and agribusiness giants and. anyone who was interested in taking control of water land and natural resources and they call it a corridor of mozambique. local farmers were displaced. from

sunday yesterday and 5000000 people in the region have been affected. but. you've even this out as you know because they're going to think you know. this is what is this your land because of this land you want to occupy because this is just a declaration you do not have a certificate for land use this is only a statement about where you live. use yet specifies where your community lives and operates but the certificate does 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 i think if we don't deal with the situation it might soon be too late that that's about. 2016 opponents of the president a program organized a major protest they succeeded in convincing the government to suspend it.

and grant them want them for a long time mozambique's government implemented it's a policy as without any outside input 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. no. floors you are the ones who are sustaining this country. 90 percent of the food that we needed 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 they come here and promise all kinds of things but when these projects end

what do they do they leave they move somewhere else 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 saw industry. in brazil new plantations are concentrated in the amazon region. president both scenarios policy is opposing an additional threat to this fragile ecosystem. 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 red daniel 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 coming. taking the rain forests and plowing that into. monoculture turns up an awful lot of carbon that has been stored in the soil stored in the forests 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. i recalled your machinery itself and then you have the emissions of crushing the so it means 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 agricultural footprint in landscapes and then have carbon sequestration clearance of tropical rain forests

for either past year or large scale monocultures has as enormous climate implication in terms of release of carbon from those in closest thems and in the case of industrial monocultures to make them make those nutrient poor soils productive for farming require earth very considerable fertiliser you know brazil what's happening here in brazil is a crime an agricultural crime to plant soil in this tropical humid region you have to bring fertilizer here from china. nitrogen and phosphate from who knows where. they end up where does it was think that as a of us the soil here does not have enough of those elements it was think that as you 1st start to didn't say oh this is a mistake it's throwing nature out of balance. and it's destroying biodiversity in this area. goes 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 too. you know then my example would get sources because as a businessman. will the rich biodiversity of the region be replaced by so i 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. 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 a rural area since 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 hectare of soybeans. easy leave the live in a. today so i plantations in brazil already cover an area the size of germany. a high in pot thanks to heavy use of pesticides. 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 us 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 song ends up on the other side of the world in chinese pig farms and european

ones. 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 tag yet. now an m m a u 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. in narrative 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 that is 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 diet as a very fundamental part of reconfiguring agricultural setting out. there.

and. some people are hoping to reverse this trend back in the u.s. we meet judith becca 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 gee would you can't say that you can say to me less meat but why why why who is being hurt by this if it's healthy to eat less meat than wouldn't the farmers and i would be better to produce a special kind of high quality meat then to have less animals but get paid more and i think that everybody. would be better off financially had better off health and

health wise at the end of the day but. people are afraid because a large integrated companies would lose money so. things. 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 on it you know certified organic. you know and that's maybe 50 to 60 percent more than something that was grown over here i don't want that i can afford it but you know what you still get 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 growing.

monoculture and industrialized livestock farming how long can this system of cheap meat production be sustained. let me say it this way. as our population begins to grow and grow and. one day there will be no me called the human beings i have a grain like they did many years ago 100 amps in which make i throw out is already you can feed more people with solar beings corning you can with me if you want to feed just i'm just starve in more rural trout but you know all these cows and stuff and pig people making get the fielder believes. and somebody wants to make money but they talk about we want food to worry if you want to feed the world you can be more worried with graining you came with me.

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