make up your own mind, ah, the w made for mines. how long does the, ah, or an eternity? time it can be measured precisely. and yet each person experiences it differently as if there were different forms of time to time the phenomena, a dimension and illusion. about time starts december 31st on d, w a. ah, this is d w news, and these are our top stories. german chancellor, olaf shoulds has announced new restrictions to slow the spread of the arm across corona virus variant. the measures which will come into force after christmas include limiting public and private gatherings even for vaccinated people. other

european countries are taking similar steps as they face a huge 5th wave of hope in 1000 cases due to the new variant. u. s. president joe biden has announced new measures to battle a surgeon crone of iris cases including providing 500000000 free rapid tests. omicron has quickly become the dominant variant in the u. s. causing 73 percent of new infections, worried by and also called on unvaccinated americans to get their shots know, calling it their patriotic duty. i got my booster. the un has again called on poland and bell roost to address the plight of thousands of migrants and refugees. stuck on the border between the 2 countries. un human rights office says migrant say they face violence and bell roofs and poland. conditions on both sides of the border are dire with limited access to food, clean water, and shelter, and then freezing temperatures. this is dw news from berlin. you can get lots more

on our website. that's d, w dot com. ah, it's like deja vu all over again. an american president talking about doing everything possible to save lives, countries contemplating locked downs and travel bombs. and german leaders going into another house, another hot huddle to decide what to do about the pandemic. and this is with cove it vaccines. so when people say we're going to have to get used to living with a corona virus, what does that actually look like? i'm fil gale in berlin, and this is the day ah, all of us are sick of this bundle. we're now threatened by the 5th wave. there's no answer yet on whether we will need an adaptive vaccine. i'm

a chronic advancing and brittany denmark and the u. s. this variant differs significantly from previous ones. if you've got huge numbers of people, in fact it, you will have a small percentage get to the phone. even those with double vaccinations. and those who recovered faith, a high risk of infection. and that translates into big numbers. also on the day, poland has had a near total ban on abortion. since the start of the year when the supreme court ruled against the termination of pregnancies, because a fetal abnormalities, a move that has triggered protests. this that an abortion means that homeless women are forced to carry pregnancy with fetuses that have no brain that have no call if they are in distance outside of their body with lethal har hart failures. it's just impossible to describe how it feels like a woman in poland today. ah,

all of us are seek off this bond on all of us. want to spend time with friends and family, but uneven cancelled is better than life cancelled. it's better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. w h o director general tedra gabriella is a survey issuing a stock warning end of year festivities can drive infections and lead to more death . he also said that it's not clear evidence that army chrome is more contagious in any other version of the virus so far. that's why the world health organization is calling on people to consider the risk they may be taking. well here in germany, the government is introducing new restrictions intended to curb the spread of only cra german chancellor, olaf sholtes announced measures after an online meeting with leaders of the countries federal states. germany center for disease control have been calling for

maximum contact restrictions to be introduced immediately. but the planned measures will take effect after christmas. here is the chancellor lights the believe. we're now threatened by the 5th wave. i'm a crohn is advancing in britain, denmark, and the us. this variant differs significantly from previous ones. according to the experts, it's more aggressive, interesting, and has characteristics which allow it to get past the protection offered by vaccines. and even those with a double vaccinations. and those who are covered by face a high risk of infection before the committees up on to stick. more on this with a doctor and a politician, doctor, your 100 wagner is a pediatrician and and pay for the green party which is part of germany governing coalition. welcome to d, w doctor, will these new restrictions a delay,

the only true wave? good evening. yes. well we hope so and we will do everything which is needed. and on the other hand side, you also do have to prepare a general lockdown. so in case we need one next here, this can be implemented very, very fast. but for now with this matters, we're going to be hoping to see a further declining of the numbers. but, and actually the numbers are still declining, but we have heard in just a few seconds ago. it is on the rise. so that's why the combination of those measures and planning and general locked up, preparing dinner, locked on you can eat on next. here is the best. yeah, best option right now. why don't general lock down now where the robot to call constituency is calling for for wong. why ignore the experts and ponder to people and say, all right, well, we'll just keep it out for christmas. well, because the federal states did not use every possibility they had until now to

reduce the context, we 1st need to reduce context with in the current in framework. and then see if really the only one numbers are rising as fast as in other countries. the most important thing, of course, is to have a vaccination kind of pain still over to over the holidays as well, and only with a high number of vaccinated people. we can at some point and the pandemic. that's why, in our opinion, it was ok for now to to booster to vaccination, can campaign to really strengthen it and to, and make people like it is very important to get vaccinated very, very fast to get the booster. and also those restrictions which are actually very, very tight restrictions, but we don't need to look down right now with the numbers and declining. i have to

be prepared. ok for large german medical workers in hospitals and nursing homes will be required to be faxed to the games cove. it should this be extended to the general public? in my opinion, yes, we have to close the gap and people who are not vaccinated because is the only meant to get out of this. and we are always again coming way because of and then waves of corona viruses. and of course, we also have to have in mind that this global foundation has only over if it's over a globally, we have to also rise numbers of excited people in other parts of the world. we have to support other countries in the world to, to get the population an accident, but also in germany need higher numbers of people that need it. and as far as right now, we did not have succeeded with an options we had. so my opinion, yes, we need a mandatory explanation next year. and how would that work? what would it would you say you have to get vaccinated or we will find you or we

will put you in jail. what? what would you do? no, we will not put people in jail, but of course a fine could have possible could be a possible measure. and if people are not vaccinated or to have certain and enter restrictions in place for the whole year, for example, like the restriction to only get into certain stores if you are vaccinated already covered, those are possible measures to, to implement, monitor the nation. but of course you have to discuss this and then the destination campaign and in the, in the bullet talk and data you have to exactly define what kind of measures could be, what kind of restrictions could be possible. understood, thanks so much for joining us, dr. johan. to savannah, a lawmaker for the green party in the gym and parliament. thank you. meanwhile, u. s. president joe biden has announced new measures to tackle the pandemic. a

major part of that will do the purchase of 500000000 rapid tests. they'll be delivered to americans for free when they order through a new website. it means that they won't have to pay for the test themselves and then hope their health insurer reimbursed is them. the president also plans to deploy an additional 1000 troops with medical skills to help overstretched hospitals is of some of what he had to say a little earlier. if you're not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you're at a high risk of getting sick and you get sick, you're likely to spread it to others, including friends and family, and young racks. now you have a significantly higher risk of ended up in the hospital or even dying. almost every one who has died from covert 90 in the past many months has been on vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated. you have an obligation to yourself, to your family and quite frankly, i know you criticize this to your country,

get faxes. it now it's free. it's convenient. i promise you, it saves lives. and i asked, god, leave it, you patriot duty. patriotic dirty. let's explore that with doctor. i'm asha ad dowager, who is a senior scholar and to johns hopkins center for health security. he specializes in infectious diseases and pandemic a policy. a welcome to the day doctor, and more vaccines. 500000000, free rapids covey test, but no lockdown. is that enough? i do think it's enough when, when it comes to locked downs, you have to remember that they are very limited in their usefulness because they are very hard to comply with and they have negative cascading impacts. that will have a repercussions on many parts of society. so we want to remember that this isn't march of 2020. this is december of 2021, and we have met much better precision guided tools to be able to limit the impact

of oma khan. and it's particularly on our hospitals than we did back then. so i don't think that we need locked down. so i think what we need to do is more testing . we're vaccinations, anti virus, monoclonal antibodies. i think that's how we move forward in this new phase. and this latest cluster, if i can put it with us, this latest cluster of, of, of new measures from governments around the world. this is being driven by on the chrome. how is this new variant changing this pandemic and the response necessary? well, we always knew that this virus was going to mutate to become able to get around the immunity from prior infection, the immunity from vaccines. and that's what i'm a con, represents. and i think now it's time that we start to focus on what really matters when it comes to coven 19. and that's preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death. that cases are always going to be there. because this is not a virus that can be eradicated or eliminated, our goal is to tame it, to make it much more manageable. and i think omar has accelerated that progress process because we're seeing so many breakthrough infections occurring. this is

something we're all going to get and we have to learn how to risk calculate and learn how to differentiate between mild breakthrough cases and what really counts severe disease, hospitalization, and death. so i keep hearing people saying about what we're just going to have to get used to living with concrete as you've done there. so what does that look like in future? is that just more? is that just more mass squaring and more boosters on more social distance thing from here to, to, to death. what it means is that we now have another respiratory virus that we're going to have to contend with every year, just like we contend with flu in our as the a whole host of viruses that cause cold cold like syndromes. but what will happen with coven 19 is it will become tamer, as we get more of the population immune as we get more tools like anti virus, such as the one pfizer is developing. we're monoclonal antibodies and more rapid tests. and we get better at making smart choices and risk calculating. but there are going to be some people that continue to wear masks for some period of time.

others may not, but it's going to be something we have to deal with in a way that i think most people haven't really come to grips with. and i think if you look at the very beginnings of this virus with, with an efficient, efficient spread through the respiratory route in animal host, it was never going to be eliminated already gated. and i think the world was done a disservice by not i. people not being honest about this becoming an endemic virus, that was not going to be eradicated. but it's interesting to you to talk about this being endemic, which i think a lot of us can say how that's going to be the case for your use of what time's best or it's, it's going to be with us. it's going to be around us. but you seem to imply it's not going to be as deadly, whereas it's being the opposite it's, it's become deadly and faster. so you see it taking a meant dipping. right. and what's going to make it tamer is probably nothing that the virus does. we're going to make it taper, we're going to make a team by getting vaccinated. we're going to make it tamer, by having anti virus. we mean we're going to make it tamer, by having monoclonal antibodies. medical science is going to what be with what

teams. the virus, it's not the virus itself that gets team, it's our ability to cope with improves to such a degree that it's not something that can kill it. the rate that it could. and president biden's message was get vaccinated, get vaccinated, get vaccinated. according to the cdc, 61 percent of americans of all ages have been vaccinated. is it possible this fall into a pandemic to, to get identify those who are still reluctant to get vaccinated? do they fall into any particular social ethnical, political groups? well, what we find is that, unfortunately, our pandemic response has been very tribal, and people in one tribe particularly have not really been forthcoming with get wanting to get vaccinated. so if you can, if you look in the, in the country, these are pockets of places. unfortunately it's, it's males, it tends to be republicans. that's the problem that we see. we see, and i think it's because politics has been so infused into this pandemic response. but hopefully, you know, for president trump just a couple of days ago, talked about himself getting a booster vaccine and,

and advocated for the vaccine. hopefully it starts to move the needle into people's arms, especially his supporters who are the, the main to hold out. but it is very, very difficult. now it's become something where people are very dugan and it's hard to see an easy solution. other than talking to people on a one on one basis and trying to persuade them that the vaccine is the right thing for them to do because it will benefit their lives personally fast. i think thank you so much for joining us and showing your expertise dr. dr. i. mr. dahlia from johns hopkins center for health security. thank you. well, i mean, i say it's on the con is now the dominant variant by far, according to accounting for 3 quarters of all infections. just a week ago that figure was wanting 8 in new york virus cases are surgery just ahead of the holiday season. gatherings. one? 03. 0, one. happy to her. this is just a test. new year's eve in time square has not come early,

but the on the chrome wave has hit the u. s. sooner than many experts expected. net by new yorkers line up to get tested with christmas just days away and cases surging. many are worried. definitely feels like that 1st wave of the pandemic without anxiety, all these long lines around the city, people getting tested, exams are getting cancelled for people in grad school like myself. so i kind of feel like that really part of that. we didn't, we didn't really know what's happening. i think we've all been affected as a new yorker, we're trying to take every single precaution that we can. i've got dull vax boosted regular testing. i am planning to travel for the holidays, but depending on the result of this test, i'll probably stay put in your back. americas took pandemic advisor. anthony found she though, had a hopeful message for those worried about the holidays. yes, you can go the extra mile and get tested before you have a family gathering or a group get test the day before or the day of getting together,

but vaccinated and boosted people. one of the family members of accident, it should feel very comfortable in getting together and enjoying holiday meal or a holiday get together. despite the worsening situation in times square, some people were still in a festive mood. but this might be the last time new yorkers see these lights in person. the mass still hasn't decided if new year's celebrations here. we'll go ahead now to poland, a country with some of the strictest abortion laws in europe. they buy the procedure in all but a few cases that the government wants to go even further by creating a legal register of all pregnancies. d. w. 's, alexandra fawn. nomine reports on an issue that often pits individual women against hospitals and the police. claudia, coastal 26 years old entrepreneur. earlier this year she decided to and an

unwanted pregnancy, using abortion pills. she ordered on the internet for one looked with ala. i went to a hospital just to confirm that i'm not pregnant anymore. all tell us. but once they are, i was brutally examined, though on the doctor didn't providing any medical information. instead, she scared me saying the state prosecutor needed to know that she would report me to the authorities of others. washy, jonathan's washing despite pool and sneer. total ban on abortion women who terminate pregnancies cannot be prosecuted under polish law. that however, didn't prevent the police from interrogating her. a claudia coast oak tells me, oh sam, up. he says, look what me asked and they wanted to know how the pills were delivered out what the package looked like. so i'm open. i had to give them the names of all my friends who knew i had an abortion. not, no idea what that was for help. also. last year, a court ruled that abortion in poland is only permitted in cases of rape or incest,

or when the mother's life is threatened, thousands took to the streets in protest with the intact until $911.00 dos come with. one of them is the reproductive rights activists says that the results of the new law amounts to torture is found on the horse. it means that polish women are forced to carry pregnancy with fetuses that have no rain that have no call if they are in distance outside of their body. we have legal har hart failures. it's just impossible to describe how it feels like to be able to enroll into date. as of january, the government also plans to introduce a centralized register where pregnancies and miscarriages are reported. prochoice activists fear this data base could be used to cause legal problems for women who use abortion pills or find other ways to and to pregnancy, pos shit or shapes key is the gynecologist in which he says the concerns about the register are and justified as the data is available anyway,

but he also says he is fed up with the issue being politicized in poland. if kelly bush with her, we, as doctors would like to be left alone by politicians, we want them to start using us for their purposes or both sides of doing it. piazza or chef ski fears they're restrictive abortion rules in poland. will have floss think consequences. first could be the boy for those children, there are women who now are afraid to get pregnant, which is a job they think, what am i going to do when i find out my thetis has an illness or gene damage your school. so that's why they decide not to get pregnant at all. so that does the lack of mothers against every natal examinations because they fear the results above even equal. but the debate in poland continues with pro life activists demanding father restrictions and criminal charges against people selling abortion pills. the activists who sell the pills or any money on that. and this is what we want to stop

. we want to stop this business of ah, business of death. you could say claudia could still cannot come to terms with what's going on in poland. she's hoping for a political change soon. otherwise, she says she is going to leave the country. dr. rebecca gone, pert says an abortion rights campaigner and founder of women on waves, that's a boat that provides abortion services to women in countries with restrictive laws and also a women on the web. a website where women can order pills to and unwanted pregnancies, and welcome to d. w. doctor. i know you've been following our developments in poland. what do you think the government's trying to achieve with this pregnancy register? so the effect of these not is that it really scares people and it will make them it causes self censorship. so people are really scared,

they think all the time they will do something wrong. and i think what will be the impact is that many women who haven't miscarriage, or, and, or an abortion, they will be scared to go to hospitals in when they need care after care. this is extremely rare because an abortion is very said when you do it medicines, but sometimes it's needed to have some after care and especially also with miscarriage. this is also the case. so what do you seeing in other countries as well is that some health care providers are really pressuring women to, to see that they use for some pills, or that they had an abortion, or they denounce them to the police. and then women will be interrogated because in own and it is illegal for anybody to help somebody and their pregnancy. so it yes. okay. and has your website seeing an increase in demand from poland?

sin fees, laws were introduced? well, the law, which is recently to do is it's only banning abortions with genetic malformations, and these are usually 2nd trimester abortions. so women on web is facilitating access to its 1st trimester worse and so up till the 13 weeks of on fee because the world health organization and older research has shown it, it's extremely safe and effective for women using these bills themselves at home. it's safer in a dense i agra, for example, but definitely say for example, for us, it's a nurse and, and it's why it's, it's, it's restricted to that, to the 13 weeks. however, we also sometimes help women that have a fetal and amenities that we work together with the doctor's info and that we know

are supportive all of these cases. and so did women have a place where to go? in case often complication because the longer the pregnancy that is creating and higher risk universe yourself, even though it's still possible and still save. but it's important that at least their doctors that are willing to help the woman if she needs it and they don't let her to die. like what happens a few months ago. important. right. and just shifting focus slightly access to abortion is also when the threat from united states following the me a bomb in the state of texas. how are you planning on helping women the well actually i already set up an organization called 8 excess and i'm working with 10 doctors, me and i did states and we are providing tele, medical abortions in the united states as well. oh, thank you for joining us. i don't to rebecca gunboats, her abortion rights, her company. thank you. thank. oh,

lou, every year, the united nations childrens fernando unicef silex of photograph that best to fix the reality of children's lives around the world of this year. the fame of climate change to shape the lives of many, including a young girl in cycling had india, who was gaze caught the attention of the judges. 11 year old policy and her family have lost every thing. a cyclone destroyed their home and tea shop in india's ganges. delta people here are used to storms, but climate change is making them stronger and more frequent. the intense look on pull, always face, motivated the photographer to reach for his camera ab, cynthia peebles bears i. jones aren't storms, ours are also is jesus fe, do your finger on dishes, wonderful movies. on march, climate change war flight,

hunger and hardship have shaped the lives of many children this year to. that's shown in the exhibition by the patron of unicef, germany 1st lady, elk, a boot, and bender, the award winning photos don't show this directly. they offer a 2nd look at the consequences of the horror. and now with the new theme, the corona virus pandemic lines come as expedia. 1.6000000000 children have temporarily missed out on school. so kia many will not return to school yet. we already know that problems like child labor and force marriages for girls will increase again as a result for me. that was she that pseudonym. that's why it's so important to find creative ways to keep up schooling these award winning photo show deep narayan nyak, a teacher who moved his classroom outdoors and turned the walls of houses into blackboards. and that's it for another day, but the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter, i've actually dw news, or you can follow me at gail with,

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a sweet treat. what's so bad about that? but have you ever thought about what goes into producing them? what sprayed on them, where the workers are treated well in the supply chain or even how much the production of transport of your food could contribute to climate change? so is it possible to eat without a guilty conscience? font, a fork, greening, or food? that's our topic today on mate. even the sweetest treat can leave a bit, a taste in the mouth when making it involves child labor. for the 1st time in 20 years, the number of child labor as has risen, according to unicef and the international labor organization. the number has gone up to a 160000000 worldwide with most working in agriculture, including in the cocoa harvest, altogether, bar of chocolate into your hands. some companies and producing nations of fighting back. but are they going far enough? christina becker investigates move 10,

they're creamy delicious. that's probably the 1st thing that comes to mind when you think of chocolate. but what about child labor and the exploitation of cocoa farmers? the chocolate is so delicious, that all too often we tend to forget about that. more than 1600000 children workin coco plantations in ghana in the ivory coast. the 2 countries groped 60 percent of the world's cocoa. they also provide beans for the german and european market. the children have to work to help reduce my chocolate bar. it's not out of the question. does that make me criminal if he can chocolate a crime? yes, this journalist turned funded, couldn't. he even turned himself into the police for buying and eating chocolate? i realized that i needed to take my responsibility as a consumer,

and after talking to one of touch, finest professors in criminal law, i decided to prosecute myself for buying an eating chocolate. in the end, the cord witted his find the cook and then launched his own chocolate brand. tony's chuckle only aim to produce chocolate. without slavery and child labor, not an easy mission. even big chocolate companies have failed so far. mendez, what's, i'm happens situation hasn't really changed much in the last 20 years and the hug and anger protocol assigned back in 2001 that said industry wide goals to eliminate child labor from the cocoa industry. since then, none of these deadlines have really been matter or had simply elapsed. and child labor is still a very big problem in the industry. with child labor even increased in the last decade. this is not what you would expect in a booming industry. annual

a global sales or over $130000000000.00. but why is it so hard to put an end to child labor? you may, i had a majority of coco farmers live in poverty or even extreme poverty. so farmers rely on their own children as unpaid labor because they can't afford to pay workers. if you want to end the child labor problem, you have to find a solution to the poverty problem. local prices aggravate the issue. only 6 percent of what we spend in germany on a chocolate bar actually goes to the copper farmers themselves. on average, the $3000000.00 cocoa farmers in garner ivory coast are less than a dollar a day that is under the extreme poverty line. most of the profit goes to chocolate companies and tweeter chains, but gone ivory coast. they're fighting back. both countries have added

a living income premium of $400.00 per ton of cocoa to the price. they charge it. we welcome this initiative. as things stand that the governments have done much more for cocoa farmers on the price issue than all the chocolate companies and certifiers combined with whatever ivory coast had to reduce the producers price this year. the higher cost of being scared of some buyers and global demand has also dropped another challenge in the fight again, child labor is determining the origin of the cocoa beans. it's m as mcdowell. there is still the issue of the lack of traceability and the supply chain level on every chocolate company wants to know where they coco comes from. and we all need to concern ourselves with the problems that exist. there are bad when the good news. there is a growing number of programs to fly child labor. the bad one. they only cover 15

percent of the production process. that leaves me with a distinctly bitter aftertaste. lou, one thing you or i can do is to vote with our wallets. the same is happening with meat here in europe. production is sing king as consumers, change their eating habits globally. the picture is different. me production is leaped 4 times since 1961 with over $80000000000.00 animal slaughtered each year to put food on our tables. not everyone has the choice to do without meat and the diets. but for those you have the ethics of killing animals, as well as the massive contribution of me production to climate change are serious concern. luckily, there are alternatives. it's no secret. the food industry is a climate killer producing more than a quarter of all c o 2 emissions worldwide. that's more than the emissions of cas plains and ships combined. farming accounts for 70 percent of our consumption of

fresh water and 50 percent of all habitable land is used by the agriculture industry. we have to, we see our system and our phone environment we're chronus are being produced and consumed. we figure out that there is a need to produce more better with less the meat industry is one of the worst for the climate capital produced methane. it's greenhouse gas, which is $28.00 times more potent than c o 2. but not only the climate, the suffering animal welfare also falls victim tall, craving for meat. that's why the international n g o proven which has made it one of their goals to reduce the consumption of animal products for the mum, mia transfer and it's become more and more clear how much these animals, which we call livestock suffer. m that site and acidic altruistically. these are

animals that are bred under the worse conditions to the sole purpose of becoming leet on our would later tell us the billing and the world's population is forecast to grow to almost 10000000000 by 2050 and more people means more food. in fact, up to 60 percent more food might be needed. that's not good news for all planet, but there are environmentally friendly alternatives by 5th, by, for example, that researchers at oxford university calculated that a plant based diet. specifically, they see a 2 footprint of a plant based diet, like it could reduce food emissions by up to 73 percent dr. watson for gom having out of and can and the message seems to be catching on. meet consumption in the global north has been declining for years. one reason is the development of meet alternatives. it's a market that's been growing steadily in western countries. the n g o hopes that by

2040 the consumption of animal products will drop by 50 percent. when you're hungry schnell, if you look at how fast the market is growing, especially for vegan and plant replace need alternatives than maybe we're not so far away from his goal any more. so we'll amplified vic. many consumers are now giving more thought to what they buy, the paying more attention to the ecological and ethical effects. their choices had . ready but many people still craves the taste of meat and have a hard time giving it up. that's where meat alternatives come in. the traditional german meat processing company, including by the mula, picked up on the trend early on. the company has been focusing on meat substitutes since 2015 with success ah foot in one actually in july for the 1st time we sold more alternative products than meat and sausages,

flash of west palm and demand seems to be growing all the time. that mancy student and you look at studies and predictions about the world market and the german market. then you see the german market. is that about $215000000.00 euros, jordan oil or the prognosis for 2030 is that will be at almost $30000000000.00 euros by then. i see stuff us with that by yeah, from fast prices 1000000 oil. we'll eat. it seems like we may well be in the midst of a food revolution. one of the biggest weakness would of course be the climate but animal welfare and our own health would benefit from a change in diet to the world health organization want in 2015, that processed meat and ret meeks could be linked to set in kansas. but what about these meet substitutes? are they really healthier once again,

come on these in these and i've not even those on the whole these products have a lot of benefits. studies have shown that red meat is quite problematic, and it appears to be linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, especially if you eat a lot of it in general, and you need to pay attention to the ingredients used in these alternative products . sometimes they use quite a few additives. it stabilizers amal, safire's, flavorings, sometimes even flavor enhance, as well as ours is a home and i file august mac slash telecom. so consumers need to take a close look at the meet alternatives on offer. but we know that cutting back on meat would bring many benefits to our health animal, welfare and the environment. it's time to rethink the way we eat and change is in our hands. one of my guilty pleasures is she's and it seems a lot of europeans agree. after all,

e u residents eat the most cheese in the world. at 9500000 tons in 2021. followed by the us with just under 6000000. brazil is far behind with around 800000 china, just 430000. but as we've learned where animals are involved in food production, there are carbon emissions to consider, to get to know the industry better. dw chi shaneka had the enviable to ask of becoming a cheese maker for the day. welcome to seize paradise. this is where the magic t hoping is created that makes every dish just better. literally, i challenge you to name a dish that it can't improve. mackenzie, she is on keep that team for who and yes, life is on fred,

i think loads of it ever since i tried cutting down on me to make cheese, you need milk and to make milk, you need animals. the emit loads of greenhouse gas emissions and use lots and lots of water. i mean, i really love cheese, but we need to talk about it. how hard is this piece of art freely on the environment? do i need to stop eating chief and how the alternative any better? and the best way to find out make some she's yourself. she's makers, paul, and you'll have agreed to let me look over their shoulder for the day. paul used to work for large scale dairy operations, but gave it up to create his own cheese. and here comes the milk. we just need a couple of minutes for about 250 leaders. how many liters do you actually need to make one kilogram of that depends on the chaise recipe. so it also depends on the composition of the mill. we're quite lucky here. we are working with milk

from jessica's these cares pretty small, but very high solid. so we get much better yields than we'd say if we were using holstein, for example. but as a general rule for something like cheddar or gouter, we'd probably be looking at a 10 percent yield. so for every one killer, teasley 10 meters. and the amount of mill that is use is actually extremely important because depending on which study you're looking at between 80 and 95 percent of cheeses, greenhouse gas emissions from the mill. so the more not is the worse for the planet . more than half of those emissions come from the farming process, because cows and other mil producing animals fart and breathe out methane again, that is $84.00 times more potent than c o. 2 at heating the planet. but milk from different kind of animals have different carbon footprints,

cow and buffalo milk have the lowest with 2.8 and 3.4 kilograms of c o 2 per kilogram of milk. goat and she milks impact is more than double that. with 5.2 and 8.4 kilograms of c, o 2, herb o mega animals, pollute the planet. less per kilogram of milk. that's because cows or buffaloes just produce more milk than a good of shape, for example. and because all these animals are ruminants and pump out methane, jesus covered footprint is actually bigger than that of poultry and even pork. more emissions than meat that is absolutely insane. but anyway, now that we got the milk, we need to heat it up and at some bacteria the go to date turning this into a dummy socrates. and let me tell you it's boiling in here. this chase is particularly happy if the room is a little bit too hot for the chief breaker. so if you're having a hard time when you feel like you're in

a sauna history isn't going to love it. or i, or i was starting here is a process called fermentation. the bacteria feast on the sugar that's in the milk and break it down. after a while, we add a liquid called rennet. this is what turns our concoction into cheese as it restructures the case in it, a protein that can only be found in animals, milt and yes, it really works. our milk is suddenly solid. oh, just for me to cut it into pieces again. and laurie alyssa, 200 leaders of milken acquire screw. now we have to work quickly. the current needs to go into these molds while it's still warm and be flipped after a couple of minutes. it'll cost you $20.00 arrows for low pressures on cost. so basically after another 2 or 3 hours, all of these molds go into the ripening room,

a cheese make his treasure chamber. they are all sorts of cheeses come patter. these that need to age for longer periods of time from one or 2 months to even up to 3 years like the famous parmesan, the processing accounts for between 2 to 18 percent of cheeses, final c o 2 emissions. but of course, the longer you need to keep it at a certain temperature and humidity for it to become really tasty. the more energy it uses. so to a certain extent, it's better for the planet to eat lots a rela, instead of parmesan. but there are other players on the market that can further reduce your carbon footprint vegan cheeses, but they might not be as environmentally friendly as you think. new day, another cheese maker. but today we're producing the vague and are tentative. and here cash use are the main ingredient. yes, that's the wonderful thing about cassia. yes, we can make a nice mill from them if we soak them, clean them and crush them. yeah, this produces

a smooth milk that can be processed into cheese alternatives. the way animal milk would be for normal cheese production, either for arbiter to that and can. and after i've ground down all these cashews bacteria cultures will be added to start the fermentation process. just like you would when making cheese from animal milk. they are all thought of ingredient forces alternative, su l man. oh boy. and even olive oil and even on the radius abundance of different recipes might have to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions. and legacy, alternative vegan cheeses are fairly new. so there aren't a lot of studies on there and via mental impact yet, which is why we can only compare what it takes to grow the most popular ingredients, cashews almonds and the new kid on the block codes. the dutch national institute for public health and the environment compare different environmental impacts.

other studies claim different impacts, but for easy comparison, i'm sticking to this one. making cheese emits way more c o 2 than reagan alternatives. one is the bacteria have started their work during the fermentation process. the herbs and spices are added to this version is what the company called chuck calico to become as delicious as possible. it goes through a similar ripening process as real cheese, where the bacteria continue their work. looking at the science though, it takes quite a lot of water to grow cashews. the dutch study found water consumption to be as high as 2000 liters per kilogram of cash use. but it's not just the number that's important. the impact depends a lot on the region. whether cash use are ground. does it rain a lot or is it a waters cast region, for example, in vietnam? cashews, i'm mainly grown in areas with relatively little of water stress,

but the opposite is generally true for brazil or book enough fossil. alrighty. and now i'm really curious how that is going to taste. oh yeah, it has years mail and tastes a lot of herbs. the consistency is actually pretty similar to like cream cheese. what with her pin star as really read. all right, all right. all right. that was pretty good. even 14 love a, but if you want to go full out and saving the planet, go for owed based options, but they are just starting to hit the supermarket shelves. now, real cheese will always be my number one, but i'll try to switch it up with some tasty alternatives. thing we're going to start paying him in cheese now. now if you've found a fly in your super restaurant,

you might send it back except these days it could be the garnish. 2000000000 people already eat insects regularly. after all, they're a great source of protein and have a low carbon footprint compared to meet. there are already insect farms in europe, though most of them have produced for the animal feed market. but the e u recently approved locusts, crickets, and meal worms for human consumption too. and business is booming. it could be so easy. breeding harmless little flies to lay eggs which turn into maggots with a voracious appetite for food waste. and the larvae can be turned into tasty, high protein. burger's good for the climate and the environment, though it's not quite that straightforward yet. but 1st things 1st. welcome to the love shack of the black soldier, fly

a creature by the name her media. in lupin's heinrich cats is a superstar among fly farmers. he'd love to expand his farm and be part of the insect protein revolution. and the larvae are up to the job. they have a racial appetite and gobble up everything from food waste to animal excrement. and true glutton fashion. their body weight increases 6000 fold and just 3 weeks. the problem is, you regulations forbid the farmer from feeding them food waste when, when last snowiest mark, if you're a pioneer doing something new, more than that, you're going to really enjoy what you're doing and be enthusiastic about it. but often you do bumping the challenges in a lot, especially in the case of disruptive innovation, as you might find yourself facing regulatory hurdles, avi kansas in europe. we say, if it's not permitted, it's prohibited a kind of a prudence principle before whenever you do something truly new, you know, it'll be prohibited done for mark like for warden. the you is concerned about the

sanitary conditions of the larvae which live in their own feed and theses insect live in, in their feet. they live in their own feet. so you have to make sure that there is no risk of contamination between the feet which day if and the insect protein, which is the final product at which will be consumed. this is why they're currently fed on pink feed. was they all dish this up here is kara, which is great for our young larvae, or cora is a byproduct of tow for production for yesterday. this is unless but there are more efficient solutions available, like in kenya we're handling can't says also set up a fly farm. with indoor plumbing, a rarity in many poorer districts. a startup has set a portable lavatories in selected places. the excrement is later collected and mixed with food waste

a blend that's perfectly suited to the black soldier. fly larvae he lost and found on july. the larvae are then fed to pigs and chickens life, that we've had the system up and running for a couple of years now with 0 problems and no cases of animals getting sick. i didn't leave office michelle tom despite its concerns. the you says it wants to promote larvae farming, which could be a sustainable source of protein and a meat substitute. nearly 100 percent of the maggots can be consumed, either by livestock or humans. there is far less waste than when pig chickens or cows are on the dinner plate through blue plants, the maggots shelf can be used as a fertilizer or for making cosmetic products and even medications. you know that you've been u. s. a. dr. an action plan for a circular economy, and we have adopted the for the farm to for strategy where we want to develop

resilient and sustainable food supply chains. and one of the things which are being assessed there is whether you feed substrates for insects are focused on former food stamps. could be considered as a source or feature. so this reflects is ongoing. meanwhile, the eel is dragging its heels on the certification front. before waste can be used this way. the e wants proof that as a safe product. as his own sklar that we know that we need to deliver empirical evidence that it safely congress and passes with the field. but the e. u is basically making that impossible because they won't grant us an exemption nomic naming off your greek. so we're being asked to provide evidence while being denied the means to do so. it was the community college game. we can only hope that will be granted exemptions at the local level, and that the you doesn't put a spanner in the works. you can discuss

a college for now. i know chances ground fly larvae can only be fan to dogs and fish, but it all goes well. larvae could be the next big thing in the food industry. so everything we eat has an impact, but it's clear, there are plenty of alternatives. that's all for this edition of made thanks for watching. and so you can see ah ah,

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