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 so we can you know we as we open the doors you increase. China is the worlds biggest pork producer thats chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow theres just not any end to french ears anymore on the planet if the chinese try to like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. To feed the pigs as cheaply as possible so is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. We make the food that goes on the global populations table. So i conservation is helping to drive the deforestation of the amazon 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 rat but today coke has become increasingly popular. China consumes more than 50000000 tons of pork but yet thats more than huff of the wilds production. Theyre all there since the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we slaughter about 600. 00 pix per our equipment is imported from a dutch company. This factory was built in the 1950 s. And in 1998 on the shift to 2 large scale production. The impact of chinas pulque boom is being felt around the wild Chinese Companies are snapping up huge industrial pig farms like one in the u. S. State of North Carolina. And North Carolina were owned by a traditional family farmers raising about 2000000 figure about 22000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially Smithfield Foods and murphy were the owners of that they were american corporations but now theyve been bought out by a group called the dubby h. 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 this year just their net profit 1st quarter this year was 200000000. 00 and you look at all or cesspools when you say to yourself theyve got the money to fix this whats whats all new everything yeah. Well whats Holding Everything up and the fact that they dont want to spend money to fix a problem theyd rather externalized the cost of their waste treatment on people North Carolina oh yeah were going to do this well filner. True. As we go through one country you know frank up to everything we see it all on the wire. And then if we spot something illegal discharges that will do some special filming and. Im going to name one thing. But. We. Cant. Find a. Massive fungus with huge manila 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 in the farms are in. The world Rural Communities where the community does not have a voice to put up a fight to be strict these facilities are coming in here. And when they come in here they may preach about having jobs. To help the community but even then the jobs are. What a Community Better would want for. Working in a slaughterhouse or working on. Farms is 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 there so many dont open up the windows only this is the bathroom window room next door was my brother being grown and when to do some ways it is a kitchen window so we dont open these binders and i want to set this in this way for you if you fold her back here. To have to suffer my mothers house where thank you for that but you can see them from here. If you see them from the mail route where when its peach morning i mean for sure all so that means real inhaling the stuff when everything is alive you know how ways to urinate the antibiotics the ammonia everything this in. You know in in when look cool is being released into our atmosphere so we can open our way as we dont open the doors you know we pretty much prison i wont hold it when you do try to go through hes brain you have to hold your breath because you took a breath away. Watering you make you stop coffee gagne finicky monsoreau want to make sure you know you get to chris because no one is listening and this just doesnt seem to me how someone could believe that they have a right to blow animal waste on another human means Smithfield Foods the largest coal producing in the us 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 to win gold from 100 percent of the market to less than 5. And 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 replaced 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. Just the way it works is that a company will own the nursery where the hawgs 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 products. 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 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 and theres a lot of money being made raising pigs in the United States and. 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 were 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 theyve 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 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 marsch why china didnt become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g. D. P. Levels started to really dramatically. Chinas hunger full pool cues 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. Part of the reason why we are now. Why they acquire smithfield. Americas largest port producer one i think they wanted access to supply it but to from what ive heard from smithfield executives is that they wanted to learn. The american pork operations work how we were able to produce so much pork so very little land and that means that this american. Style of play. Cork 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. So if you had 2. 00 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 and acquire new machinery and in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced an handle growth rate of around 30 percent or so really to me as i. When you are reading so many and was such a small space animals how this compromised antibiotics become used routinely. Both for illness prevention and to increase weight gain in animals. In general if you have a few pegs 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 meta fiction continues there will be 120000000000. 00 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 so its principally sort of thing in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oilseed 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 each person is only consuming half as much as americans so what are 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 the 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 the 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 for it to grow that much grain theres just not any end to french years 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 so is the linchpin saw a monocultures have come to dominate places like some tar them in the brazilian state of pa but really a rule that lives next to us so i plantation i hear us right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. Last summer. She. I. Think what your head. This is all plantation was surrounded by soybean its all around us. Oh right in the middle of all this land used to be a family found i mean now its been turned into a sewing monoculture and because its only grown for export none of it remains in brazil or. 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 and their love war. Before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. The only thing here was forest and trees so. It looked the way it does on the other side of the road. We used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. This regions economy is almost entirely based on soils economy and i hear you say this is our vocation for its all we know how to do. This often you need a man when we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. With all of them for the here. 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. With the help of Gene Technology we slowly improve the soybeans. Today we have a variety of specifically developed for our region. We pay a visit to an agricultural trade in look us the real daddy in the state of matter grow so. Soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including. I had a small farm in rio grande into so. 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 exactly when the world began asking for more protein and food i had a dream an unusual dream almost a fantasy. Fortunately reality has proved even better than my dreams. My company has 270000 hectares under cultivation. Ive publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now im a shareholder and advisor. I q no good as hell you have told him he 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 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 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. Paid managed to transform soy into the main ingredient an animal feed. Pig feed cow feed and chicken feed that means that soya is now a very important raw material in human nutrition. The world has become one giant pigsty corporations use soya as if it were the only food we have in the world. We have the same seeds the same micro chemicals the same Trading Company the same price any mechanisms the same players its a very homogeneous Production System even though its very diverse and its integration into radically different systems and social settings its a Production System that generates its own homogenize. In order to be able. To tend this Global Market. In this region the produce is mainly come from other countries. But some of them come from much more grosso and pattern our. Local people have also started planting us. Yeah maybe theyve realised that its good business. But most of the people who plant come from abroad. They also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that what maggie may like shit out there are hardly any people work in those fields in. Business so more work for local people and my usually not for the plantations hire a few to drive tractors project right now back. Here but apart from that they do all the work themselves by you and your family you should be sure. Come on up to rectify so that. This building houses the sometime ram farm workers union. Local people are benefiting very little from the soybean boom. Smallholder farmers cant compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. 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. On the small ones can you not think. 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 i. Saw a has not made for small holders its that simple. You just rather just want them to have a lot of different ways to fight the past and then 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 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 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 of africa like africa has plenty of forest why dont they go there maybe they dont work hard enough or they have more nerve. Because so i boom 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 mozambiques government is leasing land at a very cheap price to create new plantations. The most and because giving brazilian farmers a 6000000. 00 hector area 3 times bigger than 30 percent 8 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 only if she needs. Your Company Human rights activist jen in the us will join you on a visit to the not carl