Is already the most consumed meat in the world and fueled by the Global Demand for inexpensive meat the industry continues to grow in the United States the waste produced by industrial pick farms is a major problem q the way as we dont open the doors in all the crew is pretty sure i will. China is the worlds biggest pool producer as chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow theres just not any end to french heres a mark on the planet if the chinese try to like americans what will happen so the amazon rain forest. To feed the pigs as cheaply as possible soil is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. We make the food that goes on the global populations table. So i cultivation is helping to drive the deforestation of the amazon and grown as a monoculture saw is impacting the whole world. Chinas population has now topped 1400000000 rising affluence has led to changes in peoples diets in the past rice vegetables and noodles dominated while meat was rare but today pork has become increasingly popular. China consumes more than 15000000. 00 tonnes of pork per year thats more than half of the worlds production. There on there since the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about 600. 00 pigs per hour the equipment is imported from a dutch company. This factory was built in the 1950 s. And 1998 i mean shifted to large Scale Production and. d the impact of chinas pork boom is being felt around the world Chinese Companies are snapping up huge industrial pig farms like one in the u. S. State of North Carolina. Your own burgeoning family farmers ration about 2022000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially she may feel foods in murphy where the owners of that there were american corporations but now theyve been bought out by a group called the dubby age group the old shumway corporation out of china its a Multinational Corporation headquartered in china. You know very well so you know they made i understand their profits for the 1st quarter of the here just their net profit 1st quarter this year was 200000000. 00 and you look at almost cesspools and you say to yourself theyve got the money to fix this whats whats all new everything up. About whats Holding Everything up and the fact that they dont want to spend that money to fix a problem theyd rather externalized the cost of their waste treatment on people North Carolina. Were going to do this well film or move through soon as we go through one country you know pick up everything we see all on the wire. And then if we spot some illegal discharges that will do some special foaming at. The. Plant a. Massive fungus with huge mineola goons extending as far as the eye can see. As a result of these industrial scale farms many local residents feel under siege. Were not anti farmer very anti business in North Carolina were just. About doing it correctly and not polluting. The citizens of North Carolinas waterways concentrating on the farms are in. More Rural Communities where the community to have a growing. To put up a fight to restrict these facilities are coming in here. And when they come in here they preach about having jobs. To help the community but even then the jobs are. What a Community Better would want or working in a slaughterhouse or working on. A farm and its not easy work and its. Very rarely see the owners of these facilities living onsite. Elsie herring lives near one of these farms called k. Flows concentrated animal feeding operations. Display feels right here so we dont open up the windows only at this is the bathroom window room next door was my brother being home and when to do some reason it is a kitchen window so we dont open these measures and out on the side of things in this place you if your phones are back here. To soften my mothers house way back you straight back but you cant see them from here. But if you see them in the mail route where when its prescreening. To wrong so that means real inhaling the stuff when everything is a lot of you know how ways to urinate dance about how to stay among young everything this in. You know in can we were in look cool is being released into our atmosphere so we can open a way as we dont open the doors and i will be pretty much a prisoner and i wont hold it when you do try to go and he spring you have to hold your breath because bill took a breath away. Stuart watering you if you still coughing get the finicky ones or a walk in makeshift angry you know you can. Decrease because you know when you finish me and this just doesnt seem. To me how salut could believe they do have a right to build animal we still know believe Smithfield Foods the largest pool producer in the u. S. Is now owned by a chinese company. During the ninetys we saw 90 percent of all our hog farms disappear in the United States the cash market dwindled from 100 percent of the market to less than 5 percent of the market the majority of the animals now are raised under contract and so you saw this traditional profitable industry for raising hogs get wiped out and replace with this new way of raising animals that was industrialize and centrally controlled it was really a corporate takeover and it happened in a very short period of time. In most appalling production today in the United States is produced in this industrial model its called vertical integration. Its. Just the way it works is that a company will own the nursery where the halls are born it will own the feed mill that produces the feed for the hawgs it owns the trucking lines the transport the hogs and even on to the slaughterhouse where the pigs are killed and turned into a variety of product. This was a business that used to be a pillar. Of Rural America and then it got taken over by smithfield and you know this is a company that had spent decades devouring independent firms in the United States and acquiring the kind of market share that never should have been allowed to fall under the umbrella of the one firm it is not a good idea to allow one firm to control 30 percent of the entire market. In the pork industry or Food Industry once that happened though it became a very attractive target for any kind of overseas company that could afford to buy it just a huge sector of productive capacity in Rural America i mean were talking about thousands of large scale farms theres a lot of money being made raising pigs in the United States. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is one of the biggest in the world Agricultural Commodities are also traded here on. Down here this is this is now the financial room here were standing in so over here we have a bond auction trading we have 3 bonds here or a cultural sector has been diminished over here which we still do the options on soybeans we didnt corn we also do livestock china for years and years its been trying to eat like a westerner which we consume about 3400. 00 calories per day china is now approaching 20 900. 00 calories so theyve really caught up with where we are in couric intake 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 or caloric consumption Going Forward its 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 dont have the g. D. P. Rates to expand their Meat Consumption much like china didnt become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g. D. P. Levels started to rally dramatically. Chinas hunger full pulque is driving Chinese Companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise d. I think having that care quark market is very important and thats part of the reason why. Now. Why they hire smithfields. Americas largest pork producer one i think they wanted access to supply but too from what ive heard from smithfield executives is that they wanted to learn how the american pork operations work how we were able to produce so much pork on so very little land and that means that this american industrialized style of producing pork is being exported to china. When it comes to industrial meat production china has caught up with the west. Its mechanized and operates on a mass scale. In 1961 this was a small slaughter house for chickens and other animals beginning in 1902 the government encouraged facilities like this to become more efficient. They allowed us to grow in acquire new machinery in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced and your growth rate of around 30 percent so. When you are leaving so many and such a small space animals help this compromised antibiotics become news routinely. Both for illness prevention and to increase weight gain in animals. In general if you have a few pigs on a farm. Their waste is an asset its something you can spread on your fields its a fantastic fertilizer you have a complete new translight go. But when you have 10000 or 20000 hogs and that small facility their waste is a huge liability. 960. 00 there was less than 10000000000. 00 animals killed per year. Today theres over 70000000000 and. The trajectory of meter fixation continues there will be 120000000000 killed for food by 2050. Industrialized our corporations effectively command about a 3rd of the worlds arable. Includes the majority of the worlds course Grain Production the biggest course grain maize and huge source of oil seeds principally soybean oil and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil seed cultures through what i call islands of concentrated. Solely cultivation is having a massive impact on industrial farming. Chinas hunger for meat is causing more and more slowly to be planted for use as animal feed. China as a country consumes twice as much meat as the United States but each person is only consuming half as much as americans so more the chinese able to fully and really at the american diet its hard to say where that meat would come from already china is increasing its imports of pork its increasing its imports of soybeans that are fed to livestock whether its the pork the chicken before that or the farm fish theyre incorporating a lot more soybean in their diet so the Chinese Government well aware of the. The dangers of famine having lived through that chinese famine where official records so some 36000000 people died they wanted to make sure that they could secure their food supply at home if the chinese try to eat like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. Where where will we find the land to grow that much soil to grow that much grain theres just not any empty frontiers anymore on the planet. The situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation saud. President. Who took office early that year is keen to promote the countrys Agricultural Industry and saw is a linchpin so i monocultures have come to dominate places like sometimes i am in the brazilian state of pa very a router lives next to us so i plantation i have asked right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation i. Asked some. Of. Them what is your head. So that this is all plantation. Was surrounded by soybean its all around us. Oh were right in the middle of all this land used to be a family farm and yet now its been turned into a sort of monoculture and because its only grown to export none of it reminds him brazil or. A truck full of sawing has tipped over on a road in the state of missouri grosso workers a gathering up of valuable soybeans by hand. This used to be rain forest now its sowing fields stretching right out to the horizon. A local farmer shows us around. Here to the border. Before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. The only thing here was forest and trees so they did. It look the way it does on the other side of the road. Something we used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. This regions economy is almost entirely based on soil in the here you see this is our vocation source its all we know how to do. Those things you need the mantras we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. For them probably soybean is an imported crop that we have adapted to conditions here. And we realized that it grows very well here and that we have the right conditions for it. Sort of since the movie a bank you know with the help of Gene Technology we slowly improve the soybeans. But today we have varieties specifically developed for our region. Theres also you know. We pay a visit to an agricultural trade in look us the real fatty in the state of much of crossover. Soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including a tough ya know piece that. You had a pick in the you can. I had a small farm in rio grande it goes so. I had 15 hectors. Drove here with a small truck to help my uncle who was moving here. I was young and very enthusiastic. And i thought i could make a good future for myself here. I was lucky and many Different Things came together i was in the right place in the right time for you exactly when the world began asking for more protein and a food i had a dream an unusual dream almost a fantasy. Fortunately reality has proved even better than my dreams. Its even pretty and my company has 270000 hectares under cultivation. I have publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now i am a shareholder and advisor. In brazil and in the entire Southern Hemisphere saw is to spearhead of a new model of capital production called agribusiness soyuz a standardized grain which has become a commodity its the same all over the world its easy to grow i want to very large scale. Here in brazil some of our soil farms cover 240000 hectares. Yallop think miraca you know the Global Market is controlled by only 5 companies bungler monsanto a. D. M. Cargill and dreyfus. They speculate with the prices speculate with stocks and manipulate the market. Pave managed to transform soil into the main ingredient and animal feed. Pig feed cal feed and chicken feed that means that soyuz now a very important raw material in human nutrition. The world has become one giant pig stye corporations use oil as if it were the only food we have in the world. We have the same seeds the same microclimate both the same Trading Company the same price setting mechanisms the same players its a very homogeneous Production System even though its very diverse an uncensored rationing trip radically different systems with social circuits its a Production System that generates its own homogeny in order to be able to. Attend this Global Market. And its in this region that produces mainly come from other countries. But some of them come from grosso and pattern our. Local people have also started planting us here yeah maybe theyve realised that its good business. But most of the people who plant soy come from abroad. Not only that. They also use a lot of machinery and knows machines take our jobs that were marking right back shed our hardly any people work in those fields now. Theres no more work for local people and my using chink in the north of the plantations hire a few to drive tractors jacobite not know that. Yet but apart from that they do all the work themselves act my union family you should be ashamed of. I know. That. This building houses the suntan ram farm what his union. Local people are not benefiting very little from the soybean boom. Smallholder farmers comp competes with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. But. What have you got there soybeans no theres no so here. Theyre 5. You know you will use them for the next. Our products arent worth anything. Only the big farms can make money because. Of the small ones can begin to think. Of us if you can try to plant corn down where youre going to sell it you know in the end theres no profit to be had in. The markets only for big growers if you want to plant soil you need big machine tractors we cant afford that kind of equipment but. Soit is not made for small holders its that simple. That. Im going to just brothers that we have a lot of different ways to fight the past im down all those pasts end up in our fields so when we plant beans now we end up with nothing. They use pesticides and the insects and up in our fields. We cant do anything about it. But. We used to plant beans and would feel too in time a sense of them its true. Now weve stopped planting. The pests from the land that belongs to the rich people come here and destroy our seeds. Getting better. In the United States in china cant they just destroy their own forests to plant soybeans. Why do they have to come to brazil and exploit our resources off africa like africa has plenty of forest why dont they go there maybe they dont work hard enough or they have more nerve but my mother. Has in fact reached africa mozambique is nearly 10000 kilometers from brazil but Brazilian Companies are moving in trying to secure vast tracts of land for soybean farming. The agribusiness project is being promoted by the pro savannah program. The brazilian farmers are going to africa because most beaks government is leasing land at a very cheap price to create new plantations. Mozambique is giving brazilian farmers a 6000000. 00 hector area 3 times bigger than 38. 00 and almost for free its going to be a lease that will allow for the cultivation of soy cotton and corn mainly for the chinese market. But. Were Company Human rights activist jeremy s. When john youre on a visit to the not carla region a lot of land here is slated to go to the brazilians. Are you doing good and you. I dont find my friend thank you. Advice thats. A very good selling time. You just ran. Yes it rained a lot we might have a good harvest this year and the next one. But i think you need to think before you need the thought ok. We dont have enough land here and. We already have conflicts among ourselves. If investors come the conflict will become worse if. The land belongs to the people of mozambique. Were not against development. But we believe that the community should be consulted and despite what our government says we dont eat soy beans we eat our local crops and. We gave the government some advice before implementing the project i mean that they need to involve local farmers. And what happened instead is that meetings were not public i mean not at the district or at the national level. Weve been threatened and intimidated. Many farmers are facing criminal charges but i mean what im what im. Going through so you believe the process of anna is not helping farmers that we. Know it is not good for us. Is a joint Program Involving mozambique japan and brazil its official goal is to promote development in the region one. When civic organizations investigated the situation and we realised that it was an ongoing battle a project on the design to pave the way for big investors and agribusiness giants and. Anyone who was interested in taking control of water land and Natural Resources and they call it a corridor of mozambique. Local farmers were displaced. And 5000000 people in the region have been affected. If youve even this out as you know because theyre going to see you know in. This sense what is this your land i mean is this land you want to occupy because this is just a declaration you do not have a certificate for land use this is only a statement about where you live. You used it specifies where your community lives and operates but the certificate does not have human rights to use the land thats why you have to be careful someone else could have laid claim to a land use certificate and the Community Needs to fight to get the proper documentation up and i think if we dont deal with the situation it might soon be too late that thats about. 2016 opponents of the president a program organized a major protest they succeeded in convincing the government to suspend it. Granting one theme for a long time mozambiques government implemented its policies without any outside input and now they finally been challenged by an opposition movement. By a farm workers who said that this is not the way to promote Agricultural Development you know if you move it you know they showed that it is possible to resist to protest and to say no you. Know whats theirs i suppose flow was you are the ones who are sustaining this country. 90 percent of the food that we eat at mozambique is produced by Small Farmers not by Big Companies or by projects from brazil or who knows where. We have to be very careful with these big projects they come here and promise all kinds of things but when these projects end what do they do they leave. They move to pursue other goals whatever the market demands. Despite some small successes in places like mozambique around the world Meat Consumption continues to soar and with it the saw industry. In brazil new plantations are concentrated in the amazon region. President bill sinatras policy is opposing an additional threat to this fragile ecosystem. That was going this is a map of the amazon regions where the side of everything in red is land thats been deforested it makes up 19 percent of the rain forest. This area which begins in radeon year is known as the arctic deforestation. 62 percent of this area is soybean monoculture. Another 6 percent are mixed crops but even that includes a lot of soybean. Was. Taking rain forests and plowing that into monopoles or turns up an awful lot of carbon that has been stored in the soil stored in in the forests so that that those vast monocultures and met a lot of Greenhouse Gases just in turning it over the 1st time but then every time theyre plowing you have the emissions from. A cultural machinery itself and then you have the emissions of crushing the so it means processing it and shipping them back to china its an enormously energy intensive. Process. In the context of Climate Change how do we reduce our very cultural footprint in landscapes and enhance Carbon Sequestration clearance of tropical rain forests for either pasture or large scale monocultures has has enormous climate implication in terms of release of carbon from those ecosystems and in the case of industrial monoculture is to make them to make those nutrient poor soils productive for farming requires very considerable fertiliser acumen but as you see whats happening here in. Zille is a crime an Agricultural Crime to plant soya in this tropical humid region you have to bring fertilizer here from china. Nitrogen and phosphate from who knows where. You brought they end up with lucy was picked on as the oh dear yes the subtle here does not have enough of those elements. Think that if you force flopped a little say on this is a mistake its throwing nature out of balance. And its destroying biodiversity in this area. Right here in the southern amazon in model grow so you can drive 200 kilometers without seeing any other crop plants all you see is saw it and there are no people either because so i displaces people to. You know then my eyes empty so are these woods as a business. Will the rich biodiversity of the region be replaced by so i monoculture. Were importing 20000000. 00 tonnes of additives each year nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides. Brazil has become the Worlds Largest consumer of pesticide in brazil consumes 20 percent of the worlds press to side production its absurd we consume an average of 5 liters of pesticide per person in rural areas its an average of 15 liters per hectare. Theres no University Department of agriculture anywhere in the world that says you need 15 leaders of pesticides to grow one heck tariff soybeans. Dont make that sergeant. Easy leave the given to. Today so i plantations in brazil already cover an area the size of germany. Yields are high in part thanks to heavy use of pesticides. These are the beans weve just harvested are the soft. Do you eat them. They eat you know no i prefer not to we sprayed them with the various products. We have to wait a while before eating them. Its very bitter we are do you want to try one. Animal feed destined for chinas pork chicken and beef industry the trade war with the u. S. Has also encouraged china to buy its soil from brazil. It makes no sense to take these soybeans for a model grocer or put them on a truck and drive 3000 kilometers to a port and travel another 20000 kilometers on board a ship to reach another port in china and then travel another 2000 kilometers by train until they reach a factory farm where the soyuz used to feed chickens. Saw is rich in protein and cheap the ideal animal feed for industrial livestock farming around the world. 2 as a result of globalization brazil is destroying its rain forest to grow soybeans. This saw ends up on the other side of the world in chinese pig farms and european ones. China has announced plans to consummate consumption in huff by 2030. Not long ago a swine fever outbreak killed vast numbers of pigs in china. But in the long term production is likely to rise again. Chinas rising middle class is unlikely to lose its taste for meat. I think a lot they have a microchip in their ears called an ear tag yet. Now i know we monitor them are constantly using a computer or an i pad. Industrial farming is growing ever more efficient thanks to soybean feed and the use of high tech. Industrialised meat production leads to rock bottom prices. In the. Narrative the world must double its Food Production by 2050 as we move from 7000000000 people today to 9 to 10000000000 people central to that is rising livestock production and consumption that is this inevitable force in world agriculture and that is something that i think needs to be fundamentally be stabilized its not inevitable that human beings will continue consuming more and more animal flesh per person we dont need to be doubling Food Production we need to be producing food in very different ways and thinking about diet as a very fundamental part of reconfiguring agricultural senate. Where. Some people are hoping to reverse this trend back in the u. S. We meet jute back and in iowa he puts a premium on quality over quantity. For me its obvious that we need to meet less meat and people criticize me because this is iowa and we have a lot of meat production here though so oh good you cant say that you can say to eat less meat but why why why who is being hurt by this if its healthy to eat less meat then wouldnt the farmers and i would be better to produce a special kind of high quality meat than to have less animals but get paid more and i think that everybody. Would be better off financially better off health and health wise at the end of the day but. People are afraid because of the large integrated companies were running so. Things public. In North Carolina some pick farmers are also trying to make the switch to organic but they cant match the rock bottom prices of the major produces price is the top criterion for most consumers says organic farmer calvin not trouble we want to run into the Grocery Store you know the Super Walmart and we want to grab something we look down on its you know Certified Organic you know and thats maybe 50 to 60 percent more than something that was grown over here. I dont want that i can afford it but you know what you still get the almighty dollar stuff in your pocket because you just saved yourself 50 percent because you bought something that who knows what they were doing to it or who knows how they were growing you. Saw a monoculture and industrialized livestock farming how long can this system of cheap meat production be sustained. Let me say it this way. As our population begins to grow and theres growing. One day there will be no me called the human beings a half a grain like they did back many years ago when they didnt have some which make i go while hes going to college is already you can pay more people with solar beings coordinate your tram with me if you want the faintest im just starving worrell cut out but you know all these cows and pigs that people want they can get the feeling of belize. Somebody wants to make money what they call about we will be the world if you want to feed the world and be more worried we graining you care would make. 2 electric car is morning edition as you drive from frankfurt to berlin as fast as possible the question time for a 6 year he saw the wrong hands fashion show me. My counts range because strategy. Cant help if you think charles fish i mean clearly pun intended yes just seconds apart read. If you want to talk you. Into good shape. The difference in genetic material use only takes men and women to get sick differently. 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