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 pig farms is a major problem so we view the way as we dont open the doors you do pretty much proves there i will do what china is the worlds biggest pool producer as chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow theres just not any n. Q. French here is any 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 for us almost. So i conservation 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 people who diets in the past rice vegetables and noodles dominated while meat was rare but today pork has become increasingly popular. China consumes more than 50000000. 00 tons of pork per year thats more than half of the wilds production. Here on this is the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about 600. 00 pix per hour the equipment is imported from a dutch company. What this factory was built in the 1950 s. And in 1908 i mean shifted to a large scale production. Ringback 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. Were owned by a traditional family farmers ration about 2000000 about 22000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially Smithfield Foods and murphy were 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 all those just bulls when you say to yourself they got the money to fix this was what she told never think up. Well whats Holding Everything up and the fact that they dont want to spend money to fix a problem theyd rather externalized costs that are way treatment on people North Carolina. Were going to do this will fill my rule true soon as we go through one country they dont pick up everything we see all the way. And then if we spot something illegal discharges that will do some special foaming at. The. Moment. And. Massive farms 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. Not anti farmer Side Business in North Carolina were just. About doing it correctly enough polluting the city. This is of North Carolinas waterways concentrating on the farms are in. Rural communities where the Community Need to have a voice 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 good 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 outside. L. C. Herring lives near one of these farms called k. Fellows concentrated animal feeding operations. Display feels right there so many open up the windows on the sat this is a bathroom window room next door was my brother being home and it went in this way is a kitchen window so we dont open these measures around the sentence in this way for you if you fold the back here. Too to soften my mothers house way back in the street that you can see them from here. If you see them from the mail route where when its peach morning that means issue wrong so that means we are inhaling the stuff when everything is if you know the how to waste to you are in the antibiotics the ammonia everything is in. You know in in we were in local is being released into our atmosphere so we can open our way as we dont open the doors you know we pretty much a prisoner i wont hold it we do try to go to his friend you have to tell you grass because it will take a breath away to make it out store watering you make you still coughing get me finicky once or a lot it makes you angry you know you get dick. News no one is listening in news just doesnt seem. To me how so you 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 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 industrialized and centrally controlled it was really a corporate takeover and it happened in a very short period of time. In most hog production today in the United States is produced in this industrial model its called vertical integration. Its the way it works is that a company will own the nursery where the hollands 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 a kind of market share that never should have been allowed to fall under the umbrella of one firm it is not a good idea to allow one firm to control 30 percent of the entire market in. 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 and 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. Down here this is this is now the financial room here were standing in sort of over here we have a bond option trading we have t. 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 has been trying to eat like a westerner which we consume about 3400. 00 calories per day china is now approaching 2900 calories so theyve really caught up with where we are in chlorate intake china has the largest hog heard in a 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 got to happen 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 for pulque is driving Chinese Companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise d. I think having us to care quark market is very important and thats another reason why. Now. Why they. Felt. You know. 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 worked 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. Series here today 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. Payloaders to grow and 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 feeling so many and was such a small space animals help those compromised antibiotics become used 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 that was less than 10000000000. 00 animals killed per year from today theres over 70000000000. 00 and you know the trajectory of meta fiction continues there will be 120000000000. 00 killed for food by 2050. Industrialized our corporations affectively command about a 3rd of the worlds arable that includes the majority of the worlds course Grain Production the biggest course green maize and huge source of oil seeds principally soybean in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil seed monocultures 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 use person is only consuming half as much as americans so more the chinese able to fully emulate 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 the livestock whether its the pork the chicken before that or the farm fish there and corporate 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 a month if the chinese try to eat like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. Where oh where will we find the land to grow that much for it to grow that much grain there is just not any and you frontiers anymore on the planet. The situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation saward. 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 part of our. Lives next door so i plantation i have that right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. Last summer. She. Think what should head. So that this is all plantation that was surrounded by soybean its all around us and im. Like were right in the middle of all this land used to be a family farm i mean im now its been turned into a soil monoculture and because its only grown for export none of it remains in brazil. A truck full of sawing has tipped over on a road in the state of missouri grosso workers are gathering up the valuable soybeans by hand. This used to be rain forest now its only fields stretching right out to the horizon. A local farmer shows us around. Our kids is that of what. You before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. And. The only thing here was forest and trees so. It looked 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 soyuz economy and the hero you see this is our vocation for it its all we know how to do. And even the mantras we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. And also the fossil record. For them to produce here so being is an important crop that we have adapted to conditions here. For the most koreans as we realised that it grows very well here and that we have the right conditions for it. Sort of says it will be a bank you can work with the help of Gene Technology we slowly improve the soybeans before you. Got available today we have varieties specifically developed for our region. Around australia. We pay a visit to an agricultural trade fair in look us the real betty in the state of matter grosso. Soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including lot of ya know peace retta. I had a small farm in rio grande a disorder. I had 15 hectors. I 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 food i had a dream an unusual dream almost a fantasy. Then unfortunately 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. And theyre. Going to feel it building me said. In brazil and in the entire Southern Hemisphere saw is to spearhead of a new model of capital production called agribusiness soyuz a standardized green which has become a commodity its the same all over the world its easy to grow and very large scale. Here in brazil some of our soil farms cover 240000 hectares. Yallop think we are kind of the Global Market is controlled by only 5 companies bunga monsanto a. D. M. Cargill and dreyfus. They speculate with the prices speculate with stocks and manipulate the market. Pave managed to transform soy into the main ingredient in animal feed. Pig feed cow feed and chicken feed that means that saw is now a very important raw material in human nutrition. The world has become one giant pig stye corporations use soya as if it were the only food we havent. World. We have the same seeds the same microclimate both of the same Trading Companies the same price setting mechanisms the same players or its a very homogeneous Production System even though its very diverse and its interracial and 3. 00 radically different systems in the social circles its a Production System that generates its own homogeny in order to be able to. And this Global Market. Share in this region that produces mainly come from other countries. But some of them come from national grosso and patten our. Local people have also started planting us. Yeah maybe theyve realized that its good business. But most of the people who plant soy come from abroad. But only. After they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that maggie may like shit out. Hardly any people work in those fields. Business so more work for local people and why is she cheap enough for the plantations hire a few to drive tractors jacobite not know back. Here but apart from that they do all the work themselves act like you and your family sure she was dumb enough to get you guys that back. This building houses the some to ram farm workers union. Local people are benefiting from very little from the soil. Smallholder farmers cant compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. But. What have you got there soybeans no theres no so here. By. You know you some of them. Are products arent worth anything. Only the big farms can make money. For the small ones can you can think. Of us if you can try to plant corn and then where you 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. Soil has not made for small holders its that simple. But im going to just rather just about that we have a lot of different ways to fight the past and down all those past send up on 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 fill 2 entire sacks 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. Get it right. 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 offered africa like africa has plenty of forest why dont they go there maybe they dont work hard enough or they have more nurse 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 for 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 br