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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 pick farms is a major problem so we can you know we as we open the doors you increase. 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 to french ears anymore on the planet if the chinese try to like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. to feed the pigs as cheaply as possible so is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. we make the food that goes on the global population's table. so i

conservation 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 vegetables and noodles dominated while meat was rat but today coke has become increasingly popular. china consumes more than 50000000 tons of pork but yet that's more than huff of the wilds production. they're all there since the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we slaughter

about $600.00 pix per our equipment is imported from a dutch company. this factory was built in the 1950 s. and in 1998 on the shift to 2 large scale production. the impact of china's pulque boom is being felt around the wild chinese companies are snapping up huge industrial pig farms like one in the u.s. state of north carolina. and north carolina were owned by a traditional family farmers raising about 2000000 figure about 22000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially smithfield foods and murphy were the owners of that they were american corporations but now they've been bought out by a group called the dubby h. 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 all or cesspools when you say to yourself they've got the money to fix this what's what's all new everything yeah. well what's holding everything up and the fact that they don't want to spend money to fix a problem they'd rather externalized the cost of their waste treatment on people north carolina oh yeah we're going to do this we'll filner. true. as we go through one country you know frank up to everything we see it all on the wire. and then if we spot something illegal discharges that will do some special filming and. i'm going to name one thing.

but. we. can't. find a. massive fungus with huge manila 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 very anti business in north carolina we're just. about doing it correctly and not polluting the citizens of north carolina's waterways

concentrating in the farms are in. the world rural communities where the community does not have a voice to put up a fight to be strict these facilities are coming in here. and when they come in here they may preach about having jobs. to help the community but even then the jobs are. what a community better would want for. working in a slaughterhouse or working on. farms is not easy work and it's. very rarely see the owners of these facilities living onsite. elsie herring lives near one of these farms called k. flows concentrated animal feeding operations. display feels right there so many don't open up the windows only this is the bathroom window room next door was

my brother being grown and when to do some ways it is a kitchen window so we don't open these binders and i want to set this in this way for you if you fold her back here. to have to suffer my mother's house where thank you for that but you can see them from here. if you see them from the mail route where when it's peach morning i mean for sure all so that means real inhaling the stuff when everything is alive you know how ways to urinate the antibiotics the ammonia everything this in. you know in in when look cool is being released into our atmosphere so we can open our 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 through he's brain you have to hold your breath because you took a breath away. watering you make you stop coffee gagne finicky monsoreau want to make sure you know you get to chris because no one is listening and this just

doesn't seem to me how someone could believe that they have a right to blow animal waste on another human means smithfield foods the largest coal producing in the us 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 to win gold from 100 percent of the market to less than 5. and 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 replaced 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. just 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 products. 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 and. the chicago mercantile exchange is one of the biggest in the world agriculture. commodities are also traded here on. the down here this is this is now the financial room here we're standing in sort of over here we have a bond option trading we have the bonds here or a cultural site there has been diminished over here which we still be the options on soybeans we warn 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 korea

good to china has the largest hog courtenay in the world accounting for about 47 percent of all pork productions but again when we look at meat consumption record 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 marsch why china didn't become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g.d.p. levels started to really dramatically. china's hunger full pool cues driving chinese companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise 'd. i think having us to care quark market is very important. part of the reason why we are now. why they acquire smithfield. america's largest port producer one

i think they wanted access to supply it but to from what i've heard from smithfield executives is that they wanted to learn. the american pork operations work how we were able to produce so much pork so very little land and that means that this american. style of play. cork 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 or so really to me as i. when you are reading so many and was such a small space animals how this compromised antibiotics become used routinely. both for illness prevention and to increase weight gain in animals. in general if you have a few pegs 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

and that small facility their waste is a huge liability. $960.00 there was less than $10000000000.00 animals killed per year. today there's over 70000000000 and. the trajectory of meta fiction continues there will be $120000000000.00 killed for food by 2050. industrialized our corporations effectively command about a 3rd of the world's arable. 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 thing in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oilseed 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 meat as the united states but each person is only consuming half as much as americans so what are 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 the livestock whether it's the pork the chicken before the or the farm fish they're incorporating a lot more soybean in their diet so the chinese government well aware of the. the dangers of famine having lived through the 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 end to french years anymore 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 so is the linchpin saw a monocultures have come to dominate places like some tar them in the brazilian state of pa but really a rule that lives next to us so i plantation i hear us right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. last summer. she.

i. think what your head. 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 found i mean now it's been turned into a sewing 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 and their love war. before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. the only thing here was forest and trees so. it looked 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 soils economy and i hear you say this is our vocation for it's all we know how to do. this often you need a man when we grow the food that ends up on the global population's table. with all of them for the here. 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. with the help of gene technology we slowly improve the soybeans. today we have a variety of specifically developed for our region. we pay a visit to an agricultural trade in look us the real daddy in the state of matter grow so. soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including. 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 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. i q no good as he'll you have told him he 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 bunga monsanto a.d.m. cargill and dreyfus. they speculate with the prices speculate with stocks and manipulate the market. paid managed to transform soy into the main ingredient an animal feed. pig feed cow feed and chicken feed that means that soya is now a very important raw material in human nutrition. the world has become one

giant pigsty 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 company the same price any mechanisms the same players it's a very homogeneous production system even though it's very diverse and it's integration into radically different systems and social settings it's a production system that generates its own homogenize. in order to be able. to tend this global market. in this region the produce is mainly come from other countries. but some of them

come from much more grosso and pattern 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 come from abroad. they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that what maggie may like shit out there are hardly any people work in those fields in. business so more work for local people and my usually not for the plantations hire a few to drive tractors project right now back. here but apart from that they do all the work themselves by you and your family you should be sure. come on up to rectify so that. this building houses the sometime ram farm workers union.

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. by. you know you some of them. are products aren't worth anything. only the big farms can make money. on the small ones can you not think. you can try to plant corn down where you're going to sell it you know. in the end there's no profit to be had in. the markets 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 a has not made for small holders it's that simple. you just rather just want them to have a lot of different ways to fight the past and then 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 better. 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 nerve. because so i boom 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 mozambique's government is leasing land at a very cheap price to create new plantations. the most and because giving brazilian farmers

a $6000000.00 hector area 3 times bigger than 30 percent 8 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 if she needs. your company human rights activist jen in the us will join you 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. i don't find my friend thank you. advice that's. a very good selling time. you 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 we do you mean if you thought ok.

we don't have enough land here and. we already have conflicts among ourselves. if investors comments 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 and not at the district or at the national level. we've been threatened and intimidated. by me i think many farmers are facing criminal charges but i mean what i'm not what

i'm. saying there 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 in civic organizations investigated the situation and we realised that it was an ongoing battle of project designed 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 most of it done. you've even though it's not as you don't consider going to see you know. this is this your land i mean is this the 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. yet specify us where your community lipson operates but the certificate is not kind of your rights to use the land that's why you have to be careful someone else could have laid claim to a land use certificate that the community needs to fight to get the proper documentation up and i think if we don't deal with a 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 that.

grantham want to think for a long time mozambique's government implemented its policies 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. they show that it is possible to resist to protest and to say no. no. there is. no flow as 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 for the pic 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 song industry. in brazil new plantations are concentrated in the amazon region. president both scenarios policies are posing an additional threat to this fragile ecosystem. but this is a map of the amazon region where the side of everything in red is land that's been deforested makes up 19 percent of the rain forest. this area which begins in radeon year is known as the arctic deforestation. 62 percent of this area is soybean monoculture. another 6 percent are mixed crops but even that

includes a lot of soybean. wood and while. 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 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. the culture 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 our very cultural footprint in landscapes and in how much carbon sequestration clearance of tropical rain forests

for either pasture or large scale monocultures has enormous climate implication in terms of release of carbon from those in co systems and in the case of industrial monocultures to make them to make those nutrient poor soils productive for farming requires very considerable fertiliser you know but as you see what's happening here in brazil is a crime and the agricultural crime compliant soil in this tropical humid region you have to bring fertiliser here from china. night or german phosphate from who knows where. not you but are they in the produce he was think that as the o. da of us here does not have enough of those elements. think that as you force 5 to do this is a mistake it's throwing nature out of balance. and it's destroying biodiversity in this area. by goes here in the southern amazon in model grow so 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 of to. you know this my c.m.t. . will the rich biodiversity of the region be replaced by so i monoculture. we're importing $20000000.00 tons of additives each year nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides. brazil has become the world's largest consumer of pesticide 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 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 but i don't think that the sergeant. easy lead the even of. today so i plantations in brazil already cover an area the size of germany. yields are high in part thanks to heavy use of pesticides. yes all these are the beans we've just harvested are the soft. do you eat them. they eat you know no i prefer not to 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 poor chicken and beef industry the trade war with the us has also encouraged china to buy its soil 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 pry 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 full 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. we. 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 and i mean you 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. narrative the world must double its food production by 2050 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. there.

and. some people are hoping to reverse this trend back in the u.s. we need jute back and in iowa he puts a premium on quality over quantity. so . 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. you can't say that you can't say to have less meat but why why why who is being hurt by this 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 and better off health

health wise at the end of the day but. people are afraid because a large integrated companies would lose money so. you can save 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 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't afford it but you know what you still get the almighty dollar stuck 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. so i

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 is growing. one day there will be no make human beings a half a grain like they did many years ago 100 amps in which make i go wow. it's our reading you can paint more people with solar beings coordinating you can with me if you want to faintest i'm just starving worrell tried out but you know all these cows and stuff and pig people want they can get the field or barely. god somebody wants to make money but they come about we will feed the world if you want to feed the world you didn't feed more we're we're grinding you came with me.

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