are a lot of lawmakers in the state of missouri that we know huge financial contributions from agricultural industry groups those are the groups that opposed proposition b. and there is no doubt in our minds that those same groups pressured lawmakers to overturn proposition and before the session even started there were bills that were pretty filed just that you feel bad because it was repealed but you know all of your work. has made a dramatic difference for this i mean just the fact that almost half these facilities are out of business who could have envisioned that things are definitely much improved with many of the worst operations but you still have chronic while leaders who are operating you still have treatment. and you still have. some folks believe they can do whatever they want there are so many issues so many porton issues and everybody is struggling in their own way that we don't necessarily want to pick up the other guy struggle eventually i have to go back. and face this neighbor and face the other neighbors and i will meet them a church at the grocery store a meeting at the

a gathering of the most powerful agricultural forces in missouri at the stinson morrison and hecker law firm in addition to members of the dog breeding industry the meeting included the leadership of the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers association and the missouri soybean association at this meeting these groups agreed to fight prop be in a coordinated effort with the dog breeding industry. to front groups emerge from the meeting one which would eventually be called missouri farmers care and the alliance for truth while these front groups seem to have sprung out of thin air it was actually. highly coordinated effort financed largely by corporate agriculture nearly 82 percent of total contributions to missouri farmers care originated from 3 corporate agriculture trade groups and their respective political action committees. the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers and the missouri soybean association while the

a gathering of the most powerful agricultural forces in missouri at the stinson morrison and hecker law firm in addition to members of the dog breeding industry the meeting included the leadership of the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers association and the missouri soybean association at this meeting these groups agreed to fight prop be in a coordinated effort with the dog breeding industry. to front groups emerge from the meeting one which would eventually be called missouri farmers care and the alliance for truth while these front groups seem to have sprung out of thin air it was actually a highly coordinated effort financed largely by corporate agriculture nearly 82 percent of total contributions to missouri farmers care originated from 3 corporate agriculture trade groups and their respective political action committees. the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers and the missouri soybean

really is there promote american agriculture it's not an impartial sort of entity that is neutral you overseeing the laws and for years u.s.d.a. was allied with the very interests that it was supposed to regulate including these folks within the agriculture sector who you know started raising puppies and started operating puppy mills never in the state of ohio any breeder been forced out of this. long. standing violations of the animal welfare act if they choose to no longer be u.s.d.a. license it's because they chose not to renew their license not because inspectors came out to actually revoke that license i never heard of a regulator coming to pennsylvania no one was getting shut down the feeling of the industry was very we don't have to worry about it so frankly their doors were pretty open the so often if a breeder some violation of the animal welfare act they get a slap on the hands and when they get a slap on the hands. off and it is months following the violation and they're given an opportunity to correct the violation and sometimes it may be days. before that inspector return

the vast agricultural plains of the i grew up and pima in central italy are one of the country's main areas of food production. but many of those who live here aren't italians they're indians. at least $11000.00 of them and possibly up to 4 times more. mostly sikhs from punjab in northern india they are economic migrants who've come here to work in local farms and send money. but all too often those dreams are crushed instead they can face abuse and exploitation laboring for pitiful wages and trapped in a system from which there is no escape. we've come to hear their story. made of friends more than the law going to the border illegally guess he needs to lump all it ended up on cheers from london and doesn't appear. there the number that about to get in the news on the net. come again that i would. have done more but i'm not. going to become a lost on most of them even if you get in the way. it can i'm in the wrong but i'm going never but a nominal number of them enough. to live to back them got me. this 100 mile long stretch of land facing the terrain in sea was marshlands until a ce

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[applause] to givest: it is easy cheap talk about agriculture. there are some engaged in this race like my opponent, theresa greenfield, that is offering up a lot of cheap talk. about agriculture. those that are engaged in it know that it is 24/7. and you know what? sometimes you have to get a little dirty and get in the mud, right? that's a lot like politics. but we are going to fight for this. and i know our farmers will never forget how bad barack obama was for farmers. think back. think back. waters of the united states. what an overreaching, overburdened some regulation that was on agriculture. on farmers and ranchers. andof course, joe biden theresa greenfield are hiding. the catch phrase for theresa greenfield right now is hiding with biden. she is hiding with biden. [applause] sen. ernst: i'm wondering if joe biden and theresa greenfield are going to come out of their basements long enough to say whether they support a plan like barack obama did that would regulate most of iowa's cropland. i would love to hear an answer. at least one answ

for decades thousands of sikhs from india have migrated to italy to work in the country's agriculture industry the hope is to provide a better life for the families they've left behind but though their labor is vital to italy's food production many get caught in a cycle of exploitation and abuse from which there is little to skate we've been to invest ago. the vast agricultural plains of the i grew up and pima in central italy are one of the country's main areas of food production. but many of those who live here aren't italians they're indians. at least $11000.00 of them and possibly up to 4 times more. mostly sikhs from punjab in northern india they are economic migrants who've come here to work in local farms and send money. but all too often those dreams are crushed instead they can face abuse and exploitation laboring for pitiful wages and trapped in a system from which there is no escape. we've come to hear their story. made of friends. on the lagoon of the border illegally b.r.c. needs to lump all it ended up on chairs for longer than the. 1000000 are there the number that abou

into a ban on all rearing of animals and agriculture you know they said that this would affect farming you know and of course when they were confronted on it and showed the wall they said well it's a slippery slope but there was still continue to go into rural areas and convince everybody that this was going to shut down the family farm and it just created a mystery and it made a really difficult campaign it didn't deal with cattle pigs it india with chickens it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone who's a 1st year law student could say with definitive precision that it just applied to dogs in space a clear way to one of the dominoes and what i call the line of dominoes out here in eliminating all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats and you want the livestock arena forces and so forth and in a ballot measure campaign you don't necessarily need to convince people that your position is right you just need to so enough confusion so that people maintain the status quo and vote no phones no way to defend this so instead they want to change the subject to

the chicago mercantile exchange is one of the biggest in the world agriculture. commodities are also traded here on. the down here this is this is now the financial room here we're standing in sort of over here we have a bond option trading we have the bonds here or a cultural site there has been diminished over here which we still be the options on soybeans we warn we also do livestock china for years and years has been trying to eat like a westerner which we consume about $3400.00 calories per day china is now approaching 2900 calories so they've really caught up with where we are in korea good to china has the largest hog courtenay in the world accounting for about 47 percent of all pork productions but again when we look at meat consumption record consumption going forward it's going to happen in countries like bangladesh nigeria pakistan india these are the going to be the big drivers of calories over the next 10 to 20 years heretofore they don't have the g.d.p. rates to expand their meat consumption marsch why china didn't become a big meat consumer until t

we don't think about the money that's in agriculture.of farmers as low on the tote empoll in terms of business, but some of the biggest companies in the world of agriculture companies. because they're deeply family businesses. it's generations of wealth that are accumulated over decades, centuries. these large companies, purdue, tyson, start as family farms. >> john deer is number 87 on the fortune 500. adm had $64 billion worth of revenue in 2017. and cargill is the largest private company in the u.s. all started as family organizations. >> my great grandmother grew blueberries and she used to create jam. imagine if she could have gotten usda loans in 1920 to turn that into a growing business. instead, the usda said, we're not going to give loans to black people. >> i decided to go get a loan. >> and you don't have generational wealth, my uncle gave me a small loan of $100,000. >> big farmers were the ones that could loan people money. pay for college tuition. >> when the farmers succeeded. they employed other people. they put their mon

one of the worst hit areas in the economy with agriculture. a program began under tugwell , who was one of the advisers to president franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. this is back when we did not have television. we had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. so they could not listen to the radio podcast of find out what was going on in other parts of the country. they sent off photographers to take pictures of what was happening and put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines, journals, things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs, because nobody really wanted to face up to what was happening. but roy striker, an economist from columbia university, was persistent. he was the head of this project. he went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people, just really pushed and pushed and pushed to get these pictures published and out to the reading public so they could see what was happening. his projects

newsom announced state o assistancentain, quote, alarming coronavirus outbreaks in california's agricultural heartland. the state will deploy three teams to eight counties in the central valley to boost contact tracing, testing, and outreach. the state will also provide $52 million in fede l aid for affected communities. essential workers in agriculture and meatpacking industries who are mainly latino are especially vulnerable to getting sick and e fresno county health department says latinos make up roughly half of the county's population but acunt for nearly 70 percent of covid-19 deaths. with me now by skype is esno city council president and enining bykype from fresno is steve randel. thank you both so much for joining us. >> thanksfor having us paid would like you to tell me úabou it so hard to contain the virus among farmworkers. >> these conditions are very specific to farmworkers in inclliving in high density substandard housing with intergenerational living e uninsured and have limited access to healthcare, a lot of them have pre-existing medical conditions like diabetlo and high pr

essential workers in agriculture and meatpacking tino are especially nly vulnerable to getting sick and dying from ththdisease. fresno county health department says latinos make up roughly half of the county's nearly 70 percent of covid-19 deaths. with me now by skype is fresno city council president and enjoining by skype from fresno is steve randel. thank you both so ch for joining us. >> thanks for having us paid >> you are a formerfarmworker, úabout the conditions that makeo it so hard contain the virus among farmworkers. >> these conditions are very specific artoorkers including living in high density substandard housing with intergenerational living conditions, the fact thate they uninsured and have limited access to healthcare, a lot of them have pre-existing medical conditions like diabetes d high bloessure and they live in an area with the highest poution ra in the country and they do not have access to paid time off on a problem with language access for aclanguage in g and they have all been declared essential workers and been given no direct support at the federal level to re

basically at the root of the militaristic mind losing every war against life well obviously big agriculture big pharmaceutical companies and big oil they all deny that they have anything to do with her creating disease but we do hear from press briefing say from downing street here in london or from the white house the fact that big multinational companies will be involved in our defense against coronavirus just tell me about what you talk about in one this your investigation of the origins of intellectual property and are you optimistic that there will be no payton to on any future vaccine against corona virus the 1st you know to work on patents is what led me to create another and see saving and fighting against the illusion that corporations like monsanto are inventors of life and see just the employment of billions of years of nature's evidence and thousands of years of farmers breeding that it's a machine that the events the book one this one says one percent grew out of the fact that i witnessed at the paris summit on climate change that bill gates and mark zuckerberg was strutting ar

wasof the worst hit areas agriculture. a program began under one of the advisors to president franklin theevelt to document conditions under which people .ere living this is when we didn't have television. of folksdio but a lot did not have electricity. they sent out photographers to take pictures of what was happening and they put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines and trade journals and things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs because nobody wanted to face up to what was happening, but lori stryker who was an economist from columbia university was really persistent. he was the head of this project and went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people and pushed and pushed against these pictures to get them published and out to the public so they could see what was happening. employedct photographers who traveled to the worst hit areas where they were planning to have government intervention programs. one of the things they did

what is still working our local farms and community supported agriculture and links between the growers of food gloss the problem and it's the land but the my book oneness was as one percent isn't how the saw because philanthropists actually philanthropy capitalists my book is analyzed every sector that has been shaped and remember bill gates it was not gene dry still he started to finance it it was for 5 years ago there is pushing it it is deregulating the european court of justice said it's a g.m. they're trying to have it declared and not g.m. or all the instability of this gene try. you know to tick is coming up gene tries to push species to extinction can you imagine the mines the miners that would imagine it has the power to engineer extinction i wish extinction rebellion what drives up against this deliberate extinction difficult arguments difficult to have a demonstration on at the moment but there is no direct evidence at the moment that the creation of monocultures by capitalism by greed directly created coronavirus surely we need that proof before big agriculture big mining b

to agriculture is the backbone of the kenyan economy. but rules on pesticide use means lots of its products use contre be sold in the european union. this is the business i'm kate ferguson thanks for joining me it was a hotly anticipated patient i.p.o. and it turns out to have been as lucrative as analysts expected german biotech company has made well over 200000000 dollars in its debut on the non-stock stock exchange the firm is working on a covert 19 vaccine and wants to use the funds to pay for clinical trials. for 20 years from its hitch queue in southern germany cure of ike has worked on vaccines and on drugs for cancer and other diseases it came to the global attention in march when u.s. president donald trump reportedly want of the company to relocate its research and development for a covert 90 vaccine to the u.s. . the risk to make a vaccine is harder nope around the world and cure of remains a leading contender but developing vaccines is extremely expensive and for that reason the company is going public on wall street. it make

with a year of spigots urban farm the aim is to bring about a new era of increased sustainable agriculture and the covert $1000.00 crisis has even more made the case for such a model. in our project incarnates what we in france call the word of tomorrow it stands for urban resilience new kind of city with more solidarity and proximity and local food networks of high quality. you know. the plants are attached to vertical pillars or held in horizontal container as a 3rd of the farm is opening now with the whole project launching in 2022 half of the 400000 euros for the project were raised in a crowdfunding campaign. we are using so called hydroponics and our opponents methods they are based on a closed circuit where water and nutrients are being channeled to the plants and that allows us to use 90 percent less water than in traditional agriculture but this expert says that even during biggest urban farm has its limits likely urban farms will never be able to field and the city we also need traditional agriculture and yet the developer say the urban farm has another function apart from just p

we know agriculture is essential workers.ealth care workers get the publicity about this, but agricultural workers most important in the world. >> reporter: they have struggled with short supplies of masks and some resistance to using them. and washing hands has doubled in water use. but there is close to 16,000 infections at fresno county. >> it tells us i can't get a test for three or four days and then i can't get results for three or four days more. i have lost another week and i want to go back to work. >> reporter: farmers and ranchers say they can't afford to lose workers due to covid-19 and from testing delays since fewer workers have come north from mexico. >> faster testing and particularly for people who exposed. the other thing we need is an appropriate place to self isolate. >> reporter: farm workers live in close quarters, kocarpool to the fields and don't have separate housing. >>> could someone from here be on the ballot for vice president? we break it down next. >>> and (woman chattering) - [narrator] orderin

in the mennonites are more likely to view these animals as cash crops as agricultural products we'veheard that over and over again and i believe that to be true. not all amish families or not all minimally families breed dogs but the large majority the overwhelming majority of the people that we deal with the breeders are from illinois it was something that farm families could do between when you harvest in the fall and when you planned the spring. as commercial kennels cropped up across pennsylvania in the late 1960 s. the welfare of the dogs trapped in puppy mills was not viewed as a priority of the pennsylvania department of agriculture inspections were few and far between the regulations were ill defined and the program was clearly underfunded so the regulators were completely tied by the laws and just to the vagueness of all of them so what we really needed was in forcible measurable standards you would see inspection reports time and time again where a warden is morning operator to do something. and this didn't go on for like one or 2 inspections in a year's time you're talking

we were enforcing the law on the kennel meaning the partner agriculture said this indoor nuon it thatthey weren't enforcing it because they knew the kennels weren't complying is say that again they weren't enforcing it because they knew the kennels were in compliance but the goal of the law is to get people not to do it the goal of the dog law was not to find camps it was to get kennels do improve the conditions in their facilities for for the animals that's the goal of the program and we were getting the troops ready to really make a huge deal out of the lack of enforcement of this berry popular law and all of a sudden there was a one in 80 of the department and they hired a director of enforcement who was one of the best dog wardens that we've ever seen but here is the the big big issue and it's not just this it's anything we do the people matter who are running the programs right now i think the administration made significant strides into who is running the program but the people that are actually running the program sometimes you know that there are faces bureaucrats to the gener

for decades thousands of sikhs from india have migrated to italy to work in the country's agriculture industry the hope is to provide a better life for the families they've left behind but though their labor is vital to italy's food production many get caught in a cycle of exploitation of deep use from which those little escape we've been to investigate. the vast agricultural plains of the i grew up and female in central italy are one of the country's main areas of food production. but many of those who live here aren't italians they're indians. at least $11000.00 of them and possibly up to 4 times more. mostly sikhs from punjab in northern india they are economic migrants who've come here to work in local farms and send money. but all too often those dreams are crushed instead they can face abuse and exploitation laboring for pitiful wages and trapped in a system from which there is no escape. we've come to hear their story. made of friends more than the law going to the border illegally b.r.c. needs to lump all it doesn't jump on shoes for longer than doesn't feel. they're the numbe

because of what you describe as their nefarious influence on agriculture.re are a number of examples. c cotton ine bt india. he said this is not a matter of helping farmers grow their land, also making them dependent on those big corporations. corporationsof into agriculture is so wrong, because corporations only bring poisons. most of them have roots in hitler's's germany, and making gases to kill people in concentration camps. >> that is not their aim. >> no, no. the aim was to make chemicals that kill people. afterwrward they said, why shoud we stop making these? they will kill pests, they will be fertilizers. >> that is not the same goal. >> the companies are the same and the processes are the same. your rhetoric might change, but the goal does not. the materiality of a debt-making chemical does not change when you say it is for feeding the world. i did a bobook on the violence f the green revolution because punjab was destroyed. when monsanto came in as a result of mobilization, because until the 90's 90% of the seed was in the farmers hands. the risk

we stopped mark zuckerberg from trying to get into indian agriculture.obilization of people t that believe in the opn internet -- >> what did he want to do? vandana: facebook, they mine the data from the farmers, and right now all over the world there are new debates and privacy issues, data mining, a new form of capitalism, which is surveillance capitalism where you have turned human beings into raw material. bill gates does both -- he takes living resources, minds it into data, and wants ownership, along with his friends, and mark es your data and behaviors and turns it into the raw material of the corporate whichfor selling things is why strange advertisements pop up after you send a message to your friend, and manipulating elections. i have a chapter on the hijack of democracy -- you have an update on what -- on facebook selling data to cambridge analytical. this is a major threat to democracy. >> so this is why you're calling them done in her dictators because -- calling them billionaire dictators because they're not helping democracy. isn't this to

likely creature urban farms were never be able to field of all city we always also traditional agriculture and local and yet the developer say the urban farm has another function apart from just producing fruits and vegetables such as strawberries and salad for sale parisians can rent $135.00 little vegetable patches for $320.00 euros a year and i'll be dining on. that. many people in big cities don't have access to vegetable patches here at night to ben they can reconnect with the earth and literally go back to their lives. for now the developers are only farming on french troops but success here could take the model beyond france. flower was being followed in freshness and while lives in the us temples flour was offered to the gods on the bills but when the deacon they're often discarded by the temple authorities as we assist and end up in rivers do you think that because of the best decides the cadi account will based company a let's these discarded flowers and incense sticks. i got back cheese or incense sticks have always been an intrinsic part of religious functions in india. yes wel

local region is a rich agricultural province in central thailand. and this one of the world's leading rice produces and exporters. but this is only been possible with the extensive usage of agricultural chemicals be it herbicide pesticides or fertilizer. this has led to environmental economical and health problems affecting both farmers and consumers. you. hear my name is some look to see i'm 74 years old 60 years ago time people were very healthy rice was number one in the world back then we never used chemicals to farm but farmers were later misled and grew chemical advertisement and started using that by you and that saddam had a lot of heart yeah. all the 18000000 rice farmers in thailand so mark is among the few who refuses to use chemicals in farming. he. as his simple and interesting way of growing chemical free rice. in the fields in the mid ninety's the population of apple snails exploded i found out my wife was secretly using pesticides i didn't agree and bought my docs instead of being fed. her. these awesome looks a.v.'s. their existence

agriculture is one of the most polluting and ecologically damaging industries so. if we want to keep food on the table without continuing to ravage on natural environments. we need to completely rethink how all through the industries work. i'm russell beard in finland where one restaurant is championing a hyper local circular economy to create a revolutionary approach to dining i must know 3 in the end it's the scientists all combat ing jellyfish do this by taking them out of the sea and on top plate. in developed countries like finland it's hard to imagine that we're in the thick of a global food crisis. these helsinki shelves are stacked to the hilt with a wide variety of tasty treats where salaam e. the was to true cost of all this choice to our increasing. the beleaguered planet reindeer spring roll. a global food system is incredibly wasteful use huge amounts of energy water and land to grow food and fly thousands of miles around the world only for much of it to remain in money it's an incredibly inefficient and imbalanced operation. of a post i don't know if

from voters feeling the ripple of pure of weakness in agriculture and the economy at large.auling hemingway. great to have you with us tonight. what is your take on the agricultural vote in the midwest given the dynamics. >> i don't think donald trump needs to worry too much about losing the agricultural vote, they came out to support him in 2016, some people might have been reluctant in doing it and in the intervening they cases from holding for trump in their minds has likely strengthened not because of a strong economy, there have been rough times first written farmers and for certain states, but the economy has performed well under president trump particularly before the coronavirus. more than that, there is not a particularly good case being put forth by the opposing party. joe biden said he would take away that tax cuts and tax reform that had been passed previously, which is not going to be a message they want to hear. farming isn't the big issue here even though it has been something focused on on the convention. more interesting as the trump campaign is working hard