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the bill comes in that says you can't call it. that in actua fact, meat is something that comes off a slaughtered animal. and that's what they're trying to stop you doing, is sayining that this is actually meat. friedrich: and it''s exactltly e same asas if you said, "t"this isn't a camera." 99.9% of photographs are taken on this thing. it's a camera. or it's got a camera on it. the missouriri legislation bans meat nomenclature, even if it sasays "plant-based," even if it says ""vegan." and yoyou can lilitery go to jail for a yearar for calling a veggggie burger a a veggie burger. reucassel: i mean, isn't that fair enough? friedrich: well, no, it's rank protectitiism. it's basically a command and control economy. it's something you would expect out of north korea, not in the united d states of americica. ty arare afraid to try to competetn a level playining field wiwith ththese products reucassel: but what about that packaging for beyond meat's chicken strips? friedrich: it says, "beyond meat." like the biggest words on the package are "beyond meat." reucassel: but couldn't you think that that was a chicken product?
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friedrich: i would b be very surpriseseif anybodydy thought that was a chihicken produduct. male announcer: [indistinct]. reucassel: i decided to check out if people would be fooled by such packaging, and outside a rodeo was an ideal place. what about these chicken strips? these dudes were hanging out the back. this product here; have you guys ever eaten it? man: yeah, it's hamburger, isn't it? reucassel: it's a hamburger? man: yeah. i mean, it's big. man 2: oh, it's vegan. reucassel: do you think that you could get confused and buy that in a shop if it was next to the other burgers? man 2: probably. i just grab and throw. reucassel: you just grab and throw? you don't do a lot of reading when you pick it up? man 2: nah, man, if it looks like a burger, it's going in! man 1: is it real? reucassel: what do you think? man 1: is it real beef? or is it vegetables? to be honest with you, man, i wouldn't eat it. reucassel: you wouldn't eat it? man 1: i wouldn't even look at it in the store. reucassel: see, vegan burgers. you wouldn't eat it? man 1: i wouldn't touch it. reucassel: no? why's that? man 2: because we want that right over there. reucassel: you want that... turns out these blokes do want to know what type of meat they're buying.
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what about, they're talking about growing meat--like meat actually from an animal, but doing it in a lab. so, it doesn't come off the body of an animal. it just gets grown in a kind of dish. it gets grown from cells. so, it's actually the same as meat. would you eat that? man 1: nono, sir. with the lab and the growing it, you don't know what they're putting into it. so, straight ofoff the hoof is best. reucassel: while these guys might prefer "off the hoof," i wonder if most americans know how their meat is actually produced. factory farming and feedlots face significant criticism on environmental and welfare grounds. we're from australian tv, australian broadcasting corporation. the cowboys here don't ride horses and aren't so camera-friendly. how big's this particular place? how many cattle headad have you got here? man: we got 4,700 right here. reucassel: 4,700. man: who you with again? reucassel: australian broadcasting corporation. we weren't wewelcome to film inside. we'e're with a showow called "foreign correspondent." in the united states, 9 out of 10 cows don't finish their life
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on the ranch. they're taken to feedlots, like this one in missouri, and intensively fed to fatten them up before slaughter. now, this is only a small one here, this is a tiny operation, but around america, 40% of meat comes from feedlots like this, but with 32,000 head of cattle or more on them--huge industrial-scale operations. [cows mooing] for all t their size, t the cate industry defefends feedlotots, sasaying that t they're e effic, prododuce high-quauality meat, d that ththe animals arare well lolooked afterer. as for methahe emissioions, they clalaim they'e overstatated. do you think that the new change in this debate that threatens you is the climate change debate? i guess the methane emissions from cows? simpson: well, i think that that's just kind of a fraud on our cononsumers thahat we'rere putting out t these emissions. beforore we had cattle, we had a million herds of buffalo, and they put out the same kind of emissions, and i think
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agriculture really, in the big picture of things, is very minute in putting bad things into the environment. friedrich: well, you're not going to find an environmental scientitist, or anyonone outsidf the beef industry itself, , that will tell you that the beef industry is environmenentally friendly for r any reason, inincluding that one. simpson: what's your name? boy: rhett. simpson: rhett? are you a cowboy? boy: yes. simpson: what are you going to do when you grow up? boy: work on the farm. simpson: you're going to work on the farm, are you? reucassel: bobby has a big investment in the future of the cattle industry. and dressed in their sunday best, so do the younger generations. these laboratories in san
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francisco seem light-years away from the ranches of the midwest, and yet they're caught in this battle over our meatat dollar. but can these disruptors convince us that their produducts are not only better for the environment, or animals, or health, but also that they're normal and affordable and something we can eat every day? because in the end, what's in a name? cattle, soy, cells, or beet--will it really matter if it tastes like meat? ♪
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>> [singing in non-english language] ♪ >> high five! >> high five! >> high five! >> high five! foreign l language]
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[indiscernible] >> [speaking foreign language] >> my passion is to see that these children are given another chance to leave -- live like normal children, because they are not a party to the crimes committed by their parents. they are totally innocent.
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♪ ]> ♪ [singnging [applause] name of jesus christ. [indiscernible] gallows.r r of the >> [speaking foreign language] >> telling a story. ♪ ♪
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[applause] >> hallelujah. >> hallelujah. >> i am here today to encourage you. i was taken to prison in 2000. i was bararely 21 years old. ering thesused me of murd father of my daughter. i did not kill him. he was cut. he died. i was cut. the sky is big here. you can see those who can see. i was rushed to the hospital in a iticalal conditition. narrowly, by the grace of god. [applause] up,the devil would not givee anand i was sesentenced to deaen 2002. i refused to allow the circumstances to determinne my
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future, because i was not a criminal. i refused to live like a criminal. [applause] praise the lord. ♪ [indiscernible] my mom was able to take care of my daughter. once in a while, my parents used to bring her to see me. talked -- it is very important for a prisoner to talk to their chihildren. whwhen you see a friend who doesn't have anything to e eat, your share, ok -- you share, ok? ok.
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learn how to share with those who don't have. imprisoned, the government doesn't have any plan for the children left behind, so these children need food, shelter. they are searching for love. they end up on the streets. they start committing petty crimes. they graduate into committing bigger crimes. their parents are in prison. ♪ i wanted to, if i get the opportunity, to come out a different path. i took the opportunity.
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the condititions were really harsh. i was studying law. i was sentenced to death. what do you want to do with that law degree? you are going to be hanged the next day. it was so foreign here, prisoner studying, women studying? hello. so, i had no class, no lectures, no compuputer, no internenet. so, had no graduation. it was amazing. massive, overwhelmining, my goodness. professors who had come from the university of london where there in big numbers, had come to , the first of its kind ever.
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♪ i didn''t feel a angry anymore. and even if i am bitter or mad can g give me all the time i went to prison. i choose not to be bitter. i choose t to forgiveve ♪
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the day i came out of prison, it was a friday morning and it felt like you don't belong in this world. this is another world that i came in. and so i needed someone, some people to help. if you don't have people to help in this world, you can get lost forever. it is easier for me to trust an ex-prisoner than someone who has never been to prison. when they come out --
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[speaking foreign language] [laughter] [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [spspeaking foreign language] >> [spspeaking foreieign langua] >> [speaking foreign language]
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[laughter] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ world,ow the outside they would judge ex-prisoner. i've also gone through that. you hear people talking. acceptance is nonot something expected quickly. ♪ ♪
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[laughter] >> [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. [speaking foreign language] [laughter] [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language]
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>> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign l language] >> [ [speaking fororeign lanang] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speakingng foreign l langua] >> [speaking foreign l language]
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[sighs]] >> [ [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] [laughter]
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>> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking fororeign language] ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> [speaking foreign language] ♪ >> thank y you.
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>> [spspeaking foreieign langua] prisoner. [speaking foreign l language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign languguage]
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>> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ >> [children reciting in foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [indiscernible]
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>> they are people with kindhearted, poor as they are. they have accepted to take in these homeless children, in their home. are [indiscernible] >> [speaking foreign language] >> she is one of the guardians who have tasked to take care of these children. there are three of them. these chililen, they a are total orphans with noo parents.. [speaking f foreign l language]
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>> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> this is all that she can afford. we really need to support her. we need to give her bedding. when you see the blankets - --'m
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ashamed. am. wewe should d do somethingng qu. [speaking foreign language] [sighs]
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[coughs] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] baby]g and screaming >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> sorry. sorry. [crying continues] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language]
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>> [speaking foreign language] >> you can't help [indiscernible] it is rampant in uganda. we don't want to o lose any of themem. we want all l of them to g grow.
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the resources are not t enough o sustain the children. donatioions, but donations are not reliable. the poultry and the pork, as meat, is highly in demand d her. such get funding fofor products, we will be able to sustain ourselves and not panic all the time or all the time we will have to do something all the timime. the children would have to go to school all the time. they havave to feed -- there isa source where we get some revenue from. >>

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