subscribe. we're nearly 8000000000 people here on earth and we all need food crate and vegetables fruits and meat but most of the food to be cultivated most of the meat we eat creates a huge in about what's in that environment is environmentally friendly food for all a distant. food substitute sustainable and safe in humans on board

for habits to adopt new ones which would help our planet try if we not all those questions and more of all secure on equal india along the world go i'm sunk that i call. i can start my day without by being hot cup of like me if you enjoy your morning you might know that india is the 2nd largest producer of tea in the world next story to china the state of us some of the north east is one of the most important growing regions in the country that of course many big players here but what's interesting to note is that small produces some of form 100 percent organic are seeing significant success. was one of the 1st farmers to make the switch to organic the northeastern state has been. for over a century. goban his article started out as

a conventional to grow using chemical fertilizers and pesticides on a regular basis but when the mosquito bugs left his crops devastated he asked the farm for new ideas recommending a different pesticide. thought. i'm not tired or to get a man i miss the pests vanished in no time but the best decide if economy so much that i couldn't eat. more money. i had such terrible stomach complaints i would have no more. that was when i decided to find an alternative to dispense sites yeah because. that was around 20 years ago since then he has made his own for the life primarily from garden. goban no also grows green tea in addition to the black variety even after the harvest the work is still done by hand the leaves are 1st left out to dry then they are all

stood. elected. for my hand. takes just over an hour to move in the walk that it. hit. the green is very laborious to make iraq again did no. i need to steam it then dry it in the shade to get rid of the moisture. and then in the evening we have to roast it by. half a kilo 15 needs to be clear about 2 and a half hours. so green tea production is slow but the market demand for green is high. on.

the grower process is around $400.00 kilos of blackbeard most of it dusting for canada cambodia and kenya demand has risen in recent years to the point where he has trouble keeping up with orders until a few decades ago still had large scale plantations many set up by british colonial era companies and although small holders took over conventional farming techniques with his or discover. organic he grows up on years here but there are a tiny minority of one percent. the decades long deployment of pesticides and chemical fertilizers have left the saw in groundwater badly polluted studies conducted by greenpeace india and others have found pesticides residues in the tea plant a situation that the state board of india is well aware of there's no doubt that if you if you're going to avoid spraying chemicals on your book. it's much better i

mean i'm fail agree it's much better the problem is your come down a lot so if india were to move completely organic concern come down from 1x4cw8cw. organic growth this is how i would say the program output is not significantly smaller dancing but those lives around 300 kilometers of it from government and on the border of bhutan he also exports most of the t. he grows. and look so sneaky organic there is a misconception that organic means less well that's what all the work in the soil is done by natural organisms if you make your farm productive using good quality natural fertilizers you can grow as much as conventional to growers organic meat.

both farmers are eager to pass on their experience. has already pursued in a number of conventional farmers to make the change like farmer rice farm psyche or . organ equivalent of mr goldman also explain the drawbacks of organic farming it means a lot of hard work but the results will be very good i didn't have any issue with doing hard work but we'll be financially better off which is why i was open to the idea of organically growing. not to financially i was just making too but now having embraced organic growing i would say i'm better off. because. i am doing this to help families can learn a trade they can live off of the town where you. can make out why i want to show them what i do that you can produce the leaves manually and still export it and do

not require a machine for that purpose you know that. i'm missin or let it out in any case they wouldn't be able to afford a machine and what all i'm missing in. the organic farmers certainly can make a living from their efforts they can export their d. for a good price least 10 times as much as the conventional farm their livelihoods and also have benefited as has the unwind. i'm increasing the world population needs an increasing amount of food a long time ago it was clear that this in demand can only be satisfied with genetically modified lots more chemical fertilizers and more pesticides but over the last few decades we've learned about the consequences of this development a lot of apples in the supermarkets of new york for example come from they're all in italy was 2 of them are last produced unsustainably but some people do will now

want farmers to stop using pesticides in their apple plantations. substances but so division in italy is alpine valleys pesticides are in widespread use a fact that has angered some locals and sparked a heated debate between conventional and organic farms. you know take flu as a name it says on the packaging that it can harm unborn children in the womb just imagine this sort of product just doing the rounds. to ferguson there goes most that risk could be us the fruit farmers we're the ones who handle this stuff and it's concentrated form once it lands in the sprayer it's been diluted by a factor of a 1000 it's. the village of miles is located in one of europe's most picture rest landscapes in recent times the local pharmacy has become the center point of

research into the presence of pesticides in the ass you. back in 2018 an independent environmental institute set up 2 measuring devices in the pharmacist's garden the ad was monitored for 6 months although the closest fruit farm is about a kilometer away several pesticides were detected in the air. and this is a small garden surrounded by hedges right in the middle of a village with many houses there's a big tree which is supposed to offer protection but few to more than 25 pesticides have been detected with in god we have miles 1st to fail. at present there aren't many which is located near the village many locals want to see the landscape maintain its diversity it's a different story further down the valley where orchards dominate the landscape. one in 10 apples in europe

a grown in the region of south to roll 6 times more pesticides than is average in farming in italy as sprayed on these monoculture. assignment is an apple pharma. he prefers to use terms like plant protection of the pesticide. growing fruit without plant protection products is nearly impossible at the moment. conventional farmers do their thing they have their means and the organic farmers have theirs but both kinds require plant protection by their. plants and shrubs but. nestled between the orchards is all been glued or has organic herb farm he's previously been banned from selling his produce because it contained pesticides. now he's invested heavily in foil coverings to protect his plants.

if you count them out of the air here contains a cocktail of contamination and we're not just breeding one substance in nobody knows what happens inside the body when we breathe in this cocktail of substances remember if i go to the local farmers association says the situation has improved conventional farmers now have to plant protective hedges if they border on organic farms all set up nets which is supposed to stop the spread of pesticides small steps of this kind of going some way towards easing tensions but the widespread use of pesticides appears to be here to stay. so then also i can't really comment on the health risks what we always say is that the substances have been tested and approved by the health ministry guardsmen used. all the stuff that was sprayed 1020 years ago has now been banned at the time they were allowed and i'm convinced that the substances allowed today won't be allowed and

a few years. both the film american the pharmacist have set the ball rolling and it continuing the fight for organic farming to become the norm in and around. in a local referendum in $2142.00 thirds of the villages voted to ban pesticide use the village also declared itself europe's 1st pesticide free community the farmers association took the matter to court several years later the crew. it's accepted the results of the referendum but the fight over the use of pesticides continues. pharmacist. refers to a un report that described the necessity for pesticides as a myth. it literally says the assertion by the agriculture mccool industry that pesticides are necessary is not only inaccurate but dangerously misleading when. push came from us it came at us like funder.

many conventional farmers are concerned about the future of their business in the case has now reached the supreme court in rome which will decide whether or not. should be allowed in the region. like meat products and of course substitutes are very popular it's young people in particular. but is it better to think. that. and if one had to choose between. which would be the best and help find out. for the environment what kind of milk should i drink. 'd sometimes it feels like everything you buy is somehow about product. yet it

often it but some trace of a bit of. take. it's responsible for a quarter of the world greenhouse gas emissions and most of that comes from animal farming products like beef and dairy. most common ethical healthy alternative to cows milk right today we're going to take a look at which one is best for the planet. greg is making progress ease perfection . make up 14 percent of milk sales in u.s. trucks a multi-billion dollar industry is growing by 10 percent each year globally and riding a wave of consumer consciousness that prides itself on being healthy and not scream over the planet asia is the biggest and fastest growing market for consumers in cities from jakarta to delhi getting richer and with that picky it looks like beef has even wider appeal because most adults in asia and africa don't have the enzymes to properly digest the lactose and cow's milk.

i put there are still dozens of plot up to choose from. so i made this rice uncooked rice and water and then blending it with a couple of dates and a bit of salt. the problem for the planet is that rice production water rice is growing in flooded field where bacteria also methane into the atmosphere these parties are one of the biggest methane producers in the world. researchers from the university of oxford and 28 team used data from 38000 farms in more than 100 countries to work out the average carbon footprints of different. they found that a glass of rice milk has a 3rd of the emissions of a glass of counsel. rice milk is what the climate. because of the meeting generated by growing the rocks. have the lowest emissions of the fire and.

take a closer look about. this. to make obama look i think i can not say that night and again i did some date for flavor blended together the cold not melt have a small carbon footprint because now freezer expanding on to plan and sucking c o 2 out of the atmosphere. but has a massive water footprint 80 percent of the world aman's come from california which suffers from terrible droughts that are getting worse that the planet warms. making this loss of our milk used up about as much water as having a shower. and then that the bees beekeepers truck their hives across vast distances crops of different seasons the combination of travel and pesticides means

tens of millions of bees die in a single almond season. making soil require that extra step you have to boil the mixture of the growth for this helps increase the shelf life by a killing on white birds i don't even know about. milk is one of the most environmentally friendly milk you can find it's responsible for less ear to the rice oak and use less water than almond milk it's been a staple in asian ducks for thousands of years if their environment were downsized well yet but it depends on how and where the full of this growth in the woman swayed to the out of the rain forest the birds the g.h. growth soybeans now most of this if you live still like dairy cows but about 6 percent of global sort up a still that is out of it. could have been more simple. strain and rick.

that was great because they didn't take much water to grow and their emissions are tight. now you might be wondering about the health impacts of all these plant placement and if you think you might change your diet significantly talk to your doctor before trusting anybody you'll be in that let's look at story some people are scared so we know because it contains chemical compounds that act like the hormone restriction too much is good and can increase the risk of arrest. but the science here is pretty inconclusive despite a plausible mechanism studies in humans have found that even more so it has little effect on breast cancer the question but other part is whether there is nutritious with cows milk cows milk of more protein in. any part with the exception of oil which is actually really high in protein so why does. well the research that have the smallest environmental footprint they take little water to grow. rice milk is a great on any measure well. water but compared to cows milk the differences

between these are pretty small and then all of the milk are better for the planet than there but if you're looking to really learn. the ocean sawyer your best bet. one top of the food produced worldwide will never be eaten the shoveled out the meat that's already been in the fridge for too little or the more you can eat buffet doesn't really stand a chance to be wiped clean food waste is a serious problem in the rich as well as sport country in thailand we found a chef who was experimenting with interesting ideas on how to avoid for waste. most people will only see a carpet of trash here. sees a scandal in thailand's landfills nearly 2 thirds of the waste is organic mostly food waste. on the surface this all looks like plastic waste. but when you look

inside as well as a soft gooey stuff down there it's all food organic it's biomass. these still are quite ok they're well packed you could probably wash them and make something with them like my mom. eventually from germany is head chef and in bangkok hotel food and reducing food waste is important to him. i personally hate throwing food away not only because when i cook something i've put a lot of care and attention into it but also because it just seems utterly idiotic to throw something away that's clearly edible. it's always bothered me. and it drives me nuts. when they. can normally be found in the hotel

with over a 1000 rooms it's one of the biggest in thailand he's planted a vegetable garden on the roof of the hotel for his $200.00 stuff. its yield is negligible compared to the hotel's needs but the project has raised his staff's awareness of the life of food. the way we carelessly throw things away as a result of our seeing food merely as a product. we're not aware of how difficult it is to actually plant something and how long the path is from the seed in the soil to the edible produce booth says hotels waste food in part because the chefs have to work at a fast pace. so he set up a central kitchen in his hotel where many of the leftovers can be put to good use. he is the man we collect all the leftovers from preparation the unused ends of vegetables or meat. at the various carvery is in the hotel and there are always the

bones left over we collect them to make stock with normally you wouldn't bother if you only used one onion but when you've sliced hundreds of onions there's enough for a stock for the bottle but. this hotel boasts 6 different specialty restaurants . there's also a buffet area with a variety of different stations for preparing various dishes. with a bit of supervision and planning he's able to keep waste to a minimum or a little used to get the boiled eggs left over from breakfast all land in their path of it's a midday favorite people really like eating it and we don't have to boil the eggs in it and i doubt the end of a guy the problem is that breakfast eggs are cooked in the western kitchen but this is chinese cuisine it's. ideas like this have helped to her and his team cut their hotels food waste in half over just 2 years it wasn't easy there was

a learning curve and a lot of work flows had to be changed. once a month to her and his team take stock. they take a look at what food has gone and use that day and how it could be transformed into cool make cuisine. food that is still good to eat that the hotel can't use is donated to an entry of its staff collect the leftovers each day and distribute them to people in need across the city. only perishables containing things like fish or cream end up in the bin though even then not till they've been weighed and registered. just have to have evidence of it this helps us to better understand what we're throwing away and how much we always compile our monthly report. then we can see exactly how much it is and maybe manage to reduce it a little data collection can be

a good way to discover new solutions to old problems like the problem of food waste . the german agency for international cooperation g i said is funding a study to examine the waste produced by 400 representative households across thailand this kind of information hasn't been collected before in part because the costs were garbage disposal here on live aid at a flat rate and not according to volume or weight we're going to visit and we want to know how much garbage gets sorted in separated where it goes to and what happens to it. it's hoped that this data will help discover ways to reduce food waste food that ends up in landfills isn't just wasteful it's also terrible for the climate when organic matter rots it releases me thing gas a powerful greenhouse gas that's estimated to be $25.00 times more potent than c o 2. so organic waste is

a real climate killer especially in developing economies which rarely have modern recycling or composting technology for dunny this illusion is clear. believe in off the one we often talk about what to do with all the waste and there are important debates but we should really be talking about how we can prevent these trash piles from building up in the 1st place. daniel boone her wants to lead by example he knows that every step forward will make a difference. food is our fuel and that means we will do everything humanly possible to make sure plenty of it is available but going forward if each one of us chooses to eat food which is sustainable environmentally friendly and not to forget nutritious we helping the planet create i'll leave you without thought and see you again next week for my entire team in india and germany good buy. it's.

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