god. you got. all this it's all the stories that matter to you. we are yours actually on fire. we're nearly 8000000000 people here on earth and we all need food creamed vegetables fruits and meat but most of the food we cultivated more sort of the meat we eat green it's

a huge imbalance in that environment is environmentally friendly food for a distant country our food substitutes sustainable and safe and humans all of food habits to adopt new ones which would help our planet try if we don't all those questions and more of all secure on equal india along the world go i'm sunk that i call. my god start my day with out of by being hot cup of tea like me if you enjoy your morning you might nor that india is the 2nd largest producer 50 in the world next only to china the state of us some of the northeast is one of the most important growing regions in the country that of course many big players here but what's interesting to the north is that small produces some of form 100 percent organic are seeing significant success. the grower goban huzzaing was one of the 1st farmers here in our sun to make the switch to organic the northeastern state

has been world famous for its tea for over a century and open 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. i'm not tired or to get a man i miss the pests vanished in no time but the best side affected me so much that i couldn't eat. more money. i had such terrible stomach complaints. that was when i decided to find an alternative to dispense sides yeah because. that was around 20 years ago since then he has made his own for the life primarily

from garden. goban 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. so my hand me. just went out with the most in the walk that it if you. hit. the green is very laborious to make ira good indeed. 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. i think you know 15 needs to be roasted quote about 2 and a half hours. so green tea production is slow but the market demand for green

is high. the grower process is around $400.00 kilos of blackbeard most of it dusting for canada cambodia and kenya the man 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 said by british colonial era companies and although small holdings took over conventional farming techniques with hazardous chemicals is organic the growers 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 female agree it's much better the problem is your come down a lot so if india were to more completely organic concern come down from 1400000000 go about 800000000. organic growth is how i will say there grogram output is not significantly smaller dancing but those lives around 300 kilometers of it from cotton 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 us while 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 persuaded a number of conventional functions to make the change like farmer rice farm. organ equivalent of mr gavin also explain the drawbacks of organic farming it means a lot of hard work but the result 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 going us not to financially i was just making too but now having embraced organic growing i would see i am better off. because. i am doing this to help farmers learn

a trade they can live off of who can and where are the barranquilla about their love god why i want to show them what i do that you can produce the leaves manually and still export and do not require a machine for that purpose with export. 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 explore duty for a good price least 10 times as much as the conventional farm their livelihoods and also have benefited as has the unwind. an increasing world population needs an increasing amount of food a long time ago it was clear that this indian market can only be satisfied with genetically modified plots 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 their 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 farmers. 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. goes most at risk would 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. 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 air. 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 myself to fail. at present there aren't many orchards 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 in south to roll 6 times more pesticides than is average in farming in italy a sprayed on these monocultures. assignment is an apple fama. 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 the. woods but. nestled between the orchards is all been glued to his 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 want them in the air here contains a cocktail of contamination and we're not just breeding one substance and 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 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 to get briefed on 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 in 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. patting us 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 thunder. 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. very popular its young people in particular. but visitors think. that comes from cows and if we had to choose between. which would be the best for the moment and i help find out. for the environment what kind

of milk should i drink instead. 'd sometimes it feels like everything you buy is somehow about the planet. yet it often it but some choice of better but i'll. take food 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. this. coming. healthy alternative cow's milk right today we're going to take a look at which one is best for the planet. greg is making progress and ease perfection. milks make up 14 percent of milk sales in u.s. trials 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 screened over the planet asia is the biggest and fastest growing market for consumers in cities from jakarta to delhi getting richer and without pickier. like these have

even wider appeal because most adults in asia and africa don't have the enzymes to properly digest the lactose and cow's milk. milk but there are still doesn't apply 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. rice is growing in flooded field where bacteria also pump methane into the atmosphere these parties are one of the biggest methane producers in the world up to cattle. researchers from the university of oxford in 2018 use data from 38000 farms in more than 100 countries to work out the average carbon footprints of different food 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 and. because of the meat generated by growing. of the lowest emissions of the fire. let's take a closer look at. the. to make a milk i think can not save the night and again i did some of it for flavor blended together with a bit of salt. have a small carbon footprint because the trees are expanding on to plant and 2nd c o 2 out of the atmosphere. but almond milk has a massive water footprint 80 percent of the world aman's come from california which suffers from terrible droughts to getting worse and the planet was. making this loss of almond milk used up about as much water as having a shower. and then that the bees beekeepers truck their hives across vast

distances of crops of different seasons the combination of travel and pesticides means tens of billions of bees die in a single almond season. making require that extra step you have to boil the mixture up to growth for this helps increase the shelf life by a killing on white birds and even helped found. in milk is one of the most environmentally friendly milk you can find it is responsible for less ear to than rice oak and use less water than almond milk it's been a staple in asian duck for thousands of years in their environment without planning well yet but it depends on how and where the soil was growing in the months way of the day out of the rain forest of birds each year to grow soybeans now most of this if you live still like derrick out and about 6 percent of global soil output still ends up. and soil. could have been more

simple to blend strain and dry. that was great the plan 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 or trusting everybody on the let's look at story some people are scared of going up because it contains chemical compounds that act like a hormone restriction too much restriction can increase the risk of breast cancer 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 accounts. of more protein in the any part with the exception of oil which is actually really high in protein so when does. well the research that soymilk of

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 soil your best bet. one top of the food produced worldwide will never be eaten the shrivelled kept the meat that's already been in the fridge for too long on the order you can eat buffet which doesn't really stand a chance to be wiped clean food waste is a serious problem in breach as well a sport. 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. there your feet 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 often 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. the originally from germany done is head chef and in bangkok hotel food and reducing food waste is important to him. it doesn't mean 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. kind of 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. women talking of action 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 her 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 and the unused ends of vegetables or meat. at the various carvery is in the hotel 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. run. this hotel boasts 6 different specialty restaurants . there's also a buffet area with a variety of different stations for preparing various dishes but 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 leftover from breakfast all land in there it's a mid-day favorite people really like eating it and we don't have to boil the eggs in it was my dad to vinda de guys 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 the hotel's food waste in half over just 2 years it wasn't easy it 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 told 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 are livid at a flat rate and not according to volume or weight you'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 done this illusion is clear. believe in off on 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'll be helping the planet

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