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(bleeps)
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(graceful music)
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- I think the Chinese
are to keep their feces
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in their own country.
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I think that they stink up
our homes and they're wrong,
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and they talk about they
want to be good neighbors.
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They come in and they
could've put sewage straight
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in the facilities in,
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but all that money they got,
they want to use a stone age,
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caveman mentality that we've got now
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that the rich Americans got away with,
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and now they're getting away with it,
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but they are Chinese people.
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I hadn't been to China so I
don't know a lot about them.
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But apparently they don't care
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whether they stink up our homes or not.
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(graceful music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(enchanting music)
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- The pigs in North Carolina
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where owned by traditional family farmers
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raising about two million pigs,
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there were about 2,000 of 'em.
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They all got replaced
by this factory system,
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and initially Smithfield Foods and Murphy
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where the owners of that.
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They were American corporations.
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But now they've been bought
out by a group called
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the WH Group,
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the old Shuanghui
Corporation out of China.
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It's a multinational corporation
headquartered in China.
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You know, very wealthy.
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I understand their profits
for the first quarter
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of this year,
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just their net profit
first quarter this year
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was $200 million.
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And you look at all those
cesspools and you say to yourself:
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"Hey, they've got the money to fix this,
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"what's holding everything up?"
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well, what's holding everything up
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is the fact that they don't
wanna spend that money
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to fix the problem,
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they'd rather externalize the
cost of the waste treatment
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on the people of North Carolina.
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Yeah, what we're gonna do,
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this will film our whole trip
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as we go through Swine Country,
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and we'll pick up everything
we see all along the way.
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And then if we spot
some illegal discharges,
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then we'll do some
special filming of that.
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- [Man On Radio] 531.
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(man speaking on radio faintly)
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- You're gonna see more cesspools
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and more fecal and urine waste
being stored in open storage
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than you'll find anywhere
in the entire world.
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North Carolina is second
in the production of swine.
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We've got eight to 10 million swine here.
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It's a little less than what
they're doing out in Iowa.
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But the problem we have,
which is a humongous problem,
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is we've got all these pigs
tightly packed together
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in huge city-like environments.
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And all their waste is being concentrated
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in the coastal plain of North Carolina,
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which is an environmentally sensitive area
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being full of waters, wetlands,
streams, creeks, and rivers.
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It's not that we're trying to shut down
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the production of pork in North Carolina.
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Frankly, I think it'd be better
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in the hands of traditional family farmers
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and the production spread out
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all across America as it used to be,
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but if they keep on going this way,
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they gotta pay the full
cost of waste treatment.
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They can't be allowed
to dump all this waste
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into our environment and destroy the lives
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of people who live here.
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(rhythmic instrumental music)
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All right, man.
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- [Man] Are you done now?
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- Yes, as soon as we're done
here I'll be heading out.
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- [Man] Okay, cool.
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Do you guys need anything in here?
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- No, we don't need to get
in here, we're okay, right?
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We're done.
- Yeah.
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- Right.
- Cool.
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All right.
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- All righty, it was a good flight.
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- Right.
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- A little bumpy, bounced
about six times on the landing,
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but we got down where I walked away.
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- Any bad actors or anything?
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- No, I didn't see anybody spraying.
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What I did see are a lot of empty lagoons.
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I mean empty lagoons.
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You could see bottoms, yeah.
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- Even after all this rain?
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- Yeah!
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- That's interesting.
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- Yeah
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I don't know how they got rid
of all that waste this summer
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with all the rain we've got.
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- Right.
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- All right.
- It's a pleasure.
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- [Man] Right.
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(dramatic music)
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- We're not anti-farmer or
anti-business in North Carolina.
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We're just about doing it
correctly and not polluting
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the citizens of North
Carolina's waterways.
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So this is a public road
just in Kenansville,
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and as you can see right
there across the ditch,
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there is in fact the lagoon.
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And if you look at all these pipes,
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each one comes out of the barn
and they flush the hog waste
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directly into the lagoon here.
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So there is one, two,
three, four, five, six,
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seven, eight barns right here,
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each one can a few hundred or even
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up to a thousand head hog in the barn,
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so as you can there is
quite a bit of hogs here.
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There's the center pivot sprayer,
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where the waste is pumped and
sprayed out onto the fields.
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Concentrated animal farms
are in poor rural communities
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where the community does not have a voice
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to put up a fight to
restrict these facilities
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from coming in here.
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And when they come in here
they preach about having jobs
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and to help the community,
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but even then the jobs aren't
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what a community member would want,
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you know, working in a
slaughterhouse or work on a hog farm
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is not easy work.
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You very rarely see the
owners of these facilities
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living on site.
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Rain, rain.
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I'm visiting Miss Elsie Herring.
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- Hi, hi.
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Good to see ya.
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- Okay, you guys made it.
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Just tell him to pull up.
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The spray fields are right there
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so we don't open up the
windows on this side.
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This is a bathroom window
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and the room next door
was my brother's bedroom,
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and the window this way
is the kitchen window,
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so we don't open these
windows on this side
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facing the spray fields.
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The CAFOs are back here
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to the south of my mother's house.
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Right back here, straight back.
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But you can't see them from here,
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but you can see them
from the mail route road.
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That's one of his dental sticks.
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- [Man] Uh-huh.
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- He buries them sometimes,
then he'll go dig 'em up.
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My mother was born on this land,
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the same tract of land in 1902.
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And she had 15 children,
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and she stopped having kids in 1948.
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So we were all here, long
before the hog facilities came.
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They took part of the 15 to third,
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as you can see we're covered
in trees and there's a V-Ditch.
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And they turned that into the spray field.
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And they took all of this
to the south of the house
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where they have built two
hog houses and a lagoon.
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I went to our county commissioners,
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which is our local government.
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Of course I called the sheriff department,
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and they said they can't get involved
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with these kind of issues,
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that I'll have to call water quality,
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that's why I end up
calling Dina so many times,
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Because I continued to find any avenue
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that I could to pursue this
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to get someone to pay
attention to what was going on
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with me and my family and other people,
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the hog farmer's son came over twice.
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The first time he came over,
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he went back over here where
his father was spraying
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and he stood there with
a gun beside of him.
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And then he came back over a second time,
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the hog farmer's son walked in here,
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opened the screen door and
he opened this storm door
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without being invited in.
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He walked up to my mother
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and he started shaking
her and cursing at her.
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And he told her that he
could do anything to me
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that he wanted to me and get away with it.
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And I went to law about this of course,
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and we went through court about it,
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and just like he's said,
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he walked out as if he had done nothing.
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When spraying, that means it's raw,
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so that means we are inhaling this stuff
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when everything is alive.
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The hog waste, the urine,
the antibiotics, the ammonia,
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everything that's in the lagoon
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is being released into our atmosphere.
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So we can't open our windows,
we don't open the doors.
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We're pretty much
prisoners in our own home.
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And when you do try to go
out when he's spraying,
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you have to hold your breath,
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because it will take your breath away.
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It will make your eyes start watering.
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It will make you start coughing, gagging,
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feel like you want to throw up.
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It makes you angry, you get depressed,
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because no one is listening,
and it just doesn't seem
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to me how someone could believe
they have the right to blow
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animal waste on another human being.
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(dramatic music)
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- The barn in the other part
there is a little dance hall
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that people can do line
dancing and country dancing in.
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And this right here was our
old tobacco grating barn.
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This is called a 140 Farmall tractor.
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It's the first new tractor
and only new tractor
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that my father ever owned.
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This is probably the tractor
that replaced the mules.
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People took these one
tractors and they plowed,
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the little family farmer!
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He could take this
tractor and make a living
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off of it for his family.
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But you can't do that there
now for corporate takeover
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of American agriculture
is real and it's here.
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I got into hog business because
I was teaching in school,
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and back then a school teacher
wasn't making much money,
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and so I figured out something
I could do in the afternoons
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to try to help make more money.
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And so I got into business like that,
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and I stayed in the business,
and it was pretty good.
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But something happened
that changed my mind
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about the way I was raising hogs.
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And there was an old store down there
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that Mr. Bazemore used to run.
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And you could stop
there and buy a sausage.
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I stopped there a lot and eat.
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And one day I went by there
and Mr. Bazemore said,
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"Don," he says, "I want to talk to you."
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And Mr. Bazemore said,
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"Don, I don't wanna upset
you because I like you,"
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he said, "but ain't there
something you can do
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"about this odor?"
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So what did Don do?
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I got a V-bottom aluminum boat
that my business partner had
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and his Johnson motor put on.
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And I got some yeast, and
I put it in the cesspool,
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a little cesspool, not as
big as these nine-acres are.
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And I stirred it in both places.
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I mean I stirred it up good,
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mixed it up with yeast.
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And about three or four days later
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I stopped by Mr. Bazemore's store.
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I said, "Mr. Bazemore,
are things any better?"
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He said, "Don," he said, "I
wanna tell you something."
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He said, "Please, ever what
you did don't do it no more,
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"because that made it worse."
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I went to my business partner,
I said, "I'm through."
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I said, "I don't want
nobody do me that way,
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"and I don't wanna do
my mom and dad that way,
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"and I can't live with myself
if I'ma do it this way.
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"And I don't see any other way to stop
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"that feces and urine from stinking."
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We got too big and we weren't real big
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compared to hog business now.
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- During the '90s we saw
90% of all our hog farms
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disappear in the United States.
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The cash market dwindled
from 100% of the market
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to less than 5% of the market.
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The majority of animals now
are raised under contract
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and so you saw this
traditional profitable industry
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for raising hogs get wiped out,
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and replaced with this
new way of raising animals
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that was industrialized
and centrally controlled.
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It was really a corporate take over,
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and it happened in a very
short period of time.
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Most hog production today
in the United States
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is produced in this industrial model.
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It's called vertical integration.
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The way it works is that a company
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will own the nursery
where the hogs are born.
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It will own the feed mill
that produces the feed
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for the hogs.
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It owns the trucking lines
that transport the hogs.
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It even owns the slaughterhouse
where the pigs are killed
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and turned into a variety of product.
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This was a business
that used to be a pillar
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of rural America.
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And then it got taken over by Smithfiled.
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You know, this is a company
that had spent decades devouring
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independent firms in the United States,
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and acquiring a kind of market share
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that never should have been allowed
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to fall under the umbrella of one firm.
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It is not a good idea to allow one firm
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to control 30% of the entire market
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in the pork industry or food industry.
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Once that happened though,
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it became a very attractive target
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for any kind of overseas company
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that could afford to buy it.
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It's a huge sector of productive
capacity in rural America.
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I mean we're talking about
thousands of large scale farms.
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There's a lot of money
being made raising pigs
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in the United States.
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- We're down here.
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This is now the financial
room here we're standing in.
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So over here we have bond option trading,
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we have T-bonds here.
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Our agricultural sector has
been diminished over here,
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which we still do the options
on soybeans, wheat, and corn.
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We also do livestock.
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China for years and years
has been trying to eat
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like a Westerner,
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which we consume about
3,400 calories per day.
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China is now approaching 2,900 calories,
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so they really caught up to
where we are on caloric intake.
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China has the largest
hog herd in the world
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accounting for about 47%
of all pork productions,
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but again when we look at meat consumption
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or caloric consumption going forward,
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it's gotta happen in
countries like Bangladesh,
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Nigeria, Pakistan, India.
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These are gonna be the
big drivers of calories
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over the next 10 to 20 years.
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Here therefore they
don't have the GDP rates
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to expand the meat consumption
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much like China didn't
become a big meat consumer
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until the 2001-2002 period
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when its GDP levels started
to rally dramatically.
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- I think having a secure pork market
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is very important in China,
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and that's part of the
reason why Shanghuai,
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or now it's known as WH group,
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while they looked to acquire Smithfield's,
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America's largest pork producer.
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One, I think they wanted access to supply,
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but two, from what I've heard
from Smithfield's executives
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is that they wanted to learn
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how the American pork operations worked,
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how we were able to produce so much pork
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on so very little land.
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And that means that this
American industrialized style
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of producing pork is
being exported to China.
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(machine rattling)
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- In the United States, the
pork processing industry
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is highly concentrated.
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I think the last figure
was that four firms
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controlled about 70% of
processing in the United States.
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And China's moving more towards
this kind of consolidation
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and using vertical integration,
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where government support
really goes to processors.
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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- When you are feeding so many animals
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in such a small space,
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animals' health is compromised.
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Antibiotics become used routinely
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both for illness prevention
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and to increase weight gain in animals.
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In general, if you have
a few pigs on a farm,
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their waste is an asset.
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It's something you can
spread on your fields.
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It's a fantastic fertilizer.
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You have a complete nutrient cycle.
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But when you have 10,000 or
20,000 hogs in a small facility,
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their waste is a huge liability.
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- In 1960, there was less
than 10 billion animals
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killed per year for food.
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Today there is over 70 billion.
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And if the trajectory of
meatification continues,
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there will be 120 billion
animals killed for food by 2050.
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Industrial livestock
operations effectively command
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about a third of the world's arable land.
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That includes the majority
of the world's coarse grain
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production, the biggest
coarse grain being maize
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and a huge source of oilseeds,
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principally soybeans on a world scale.
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And so there are these huge flows of grain
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and oilseed monocultures
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through what I call islands
of concentrated animals.
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(wind howling)
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- China as a country
consumes twice as much meat
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as the United States,
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but each person is only consuming
half as much as Americans.
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So, were the Chinese able to fully emulate
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the American diet?
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It's hard to say where
that meat would come from.
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Already China is increasing
its imports of pork.
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It's increasing its imports of soybeans
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that are fed to the livestock
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whether it's the pork, the chicken,
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the beef or the farmed fish.
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They are incorporating a lot
more of soybean in their diet.
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So the Chinese government,
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well aware of the dangers of famine,
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having lived through the Chinese famine,
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where official records say
some 36 million people died,
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they wanted to make sure
that they could secure
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their food supply at home.
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If the Chinese try to eat like Americans,
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what will happen to the Amazon rainforest?
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Where will we find the
land to grow that much soy
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to grow that much grain?
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There is just not any empty
frontiers anymore on the planet.
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(dogs barking)
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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(dramatic music)
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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(engaging techno music)
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(children mumbling)
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(crowd mumbling)
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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- We have the same seeds,
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the same agri-chemicals,
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the same trading companies,
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the same price-setting mechanisms,
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the same players.
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It's a very homogenous production system
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even though it's very
diverse in its integration
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into radically different
ecosystems and social settings.
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It's a production system that generates
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its own homogeneity in order to be able
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to attend this global market.
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(dramatic music)
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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(rain pattering)
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(chattering in foreign language)
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(woman laughing)
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(chattering in foreign language)
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(men chattering in foreign language)
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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(men chattering speaking
in foreign language)
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(rhythmic techno music)
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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(engaging techno music)
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(men chattering in foreign language
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- [Jeremias] Okay.
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(crowd laughing)
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(men chattering in foreign language)
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(upbeat techno music)
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(Jeremias speaking in foreign language)
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(calm instrumental music)
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(Romulo speaking in foreign language)
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- Taking rainforests and plowing that
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into a soybean monoculture
turns up an awful lot of carbon
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that has been stored in the
soil, stored in the forest.
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So those vast monocultures
emit a lot of greenhouse gases
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just in turning it over the first time,
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but then every time you're plowing,
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you have the emissions from the
agriculture machinery itself
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and then you have the emissions
of crushing the soybeans,
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processing it, and shipping
them back to China.
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It's an enormously
energy-intensive process.
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- In the context of climate change,
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how do we reduce agriculture's
footprint to landscapes
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and enhance carbon sequestration?
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The clearance of tropical rainforests
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for either pasture or
large-scale monocultures
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has enormous climate implication
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in terms of the release of
carbon from those ecosystems.
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And in the case of industrial monocultures
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to make those nutrient-poor
soils productive for farming
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requires very considerable fertilizer.
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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(calm instrumental music)
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(calm instrumental music)
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(men chattering in foreign language)
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(calm instrumental music)
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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(playful instrumental music)
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(dramatic techno music)
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(upbeat techno music)
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(pig snorts)
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(upbeat techno music)
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(faint voice talking)
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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- I don't know whether
the independent farmer
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or the farmer with sovereignty
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is totally disappearing around the world.
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But I know that wherever there's
industrialized agriculture,
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you are gonna see the replacement
of the independent farmer
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with the corporate contract farmer.
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- It's ironic how ideas
of national sovereignty
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that are usually flared up
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when we talk about such a
transnationally controlled sector
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end up really neglecting
the food sovereignty
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of the majority of the people
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in a place like China or in Brazil.
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In Brazil peasant rural workers
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are displaced, marginalized
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by this production system
that's really geared
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to produce profit and export commodities,
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while in China the peasants
are forced off their land,
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they're disenfranchised,
become second class citizens
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as migrant workers in the cities.
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- The narrative that the world must double
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its food production by 2050
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as we move from seven billion people today
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to nine to 10 billion people,
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central to that is rising
livestock production
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and consumption as this inevitable force
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in world agriculture.
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And that is something that I think
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needs to be fundamentally destabilized.
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It's not inevitable that human beings
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will continue consuming
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more and more animal flesh per person.
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We don't need to be
doubling food production,
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we need to be producing
food in very different ways
520
00:51:29,810 --> 00:51:33,790
and thinking about diets
as a very fundamental part
521
00:51:33,790 --> 00:51:36,343
of reconfiguring agriculture systems.
522
00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:41,860
- For me it's obvious that
we need to eat less meat.
523
00:51:41,860 --> 00:51:44,550
And people criticize me
because this is Iowa,
524
00:51:44,550 --> 00:51:46,630
and we have a lot of meat production here.
525
00:51:46,630 --> 00:51:48,757
So, "Oh Jude, you can't say that,
526
00:51:48,757 --> 00:51:50,384
"you can't say to eat less meat!"
527
00:51:50,384 --> 00:51:52,710
But why?
528
00:51:52,710 --> 00:51:54,750
Who is being hurt by this?
529
00:51:54,750 --> 00:51:56,240
If it's healthy to eat less meat
530
00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:58,720
then wouldn't the
farmers in Iowa be better
531
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:01,530
to produce a special
kind of high quality meat
532
00:52:01,530 --> 00:52:04,100
and to have less animals
but that get paid more.
533
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:08,100
And I think that everybody
would be better off financially
534
00:52:08,100 --> 00:52:11,660
and better off health-wise
at the end of the day.
535
00:52:11,660 --> 00:52:16,660
But people are afraid because
large integrated companies
536
00:52:16,670 --> 00:52:17,760
would lose money,
537
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,193
so you can't say these things in public.
538
00:52:22,750 --> 00:52:24,340
- Come on, Red!
539
00:52:24,340 --> 00:52:25,950
Where is Red at?
540
00:52:25,950 --> 00:52:27,763
There is Red, there we go.
541
00:52:28,864 --> 00:52:30,286
Come on.
542
00:52:30,286 --> 00:52:31,255
There we are.
543
00:52:31,255 --> 00:52:33,620
(faint voice talking)
544
00:52:33,620 --> 00:52:34,619
Come here, come on.
545
00:52:34,619 --> 00:52:36,481
(pig snorting)
546
00:52:36,481 --> 00:52:37,974
You gotta start sweepin', huh?
547
00:52:37,974 --> 00:52:40,760
(faint voice talking)
548
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,150
- [Man With Bonnet] Is he your friend Red?
549
00:52:42,150 --> 00:52:43,917
- Oh, yeah, he's my friend.
550
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:47,900
Oh, yeah, he always comes.
551
00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:53,251
(faint voice talking)
552
00:52:57,770 --> 00:52:59,300
- You can see they like to eat the grass
553
00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:03,423
and a little bit of corn
and a variety of things.
554
00:53:05,510 --> 00:53:09,440
So the principle in organic
farming is to treat the system
555
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,270
as one whole living organism.
556
00:53:12,270 --> 00:53:15,010
So the earth and the land and the crops
557
00:53:15,010 --> 00:53:17,810
are ultimately supporting the animals,
558
00:53:17,810 --> 00:53:20,210
but the animals manure will then return
559
00:53:20,210 --> 00:53:23,760
to the system as nutrients
to support the earth.
560
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,600
And it's really important
to have this in balance
561
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,180
in organic farming,
562
00:53:28,180 --> 00:53:30,690
because these nutrients
are very valuable for us.
563
00:53:30,690 --> 00:53:33,650
It means we don't have
to be buying fertilizer.
564
00:53:33,650 --> 00:53:36,690
And if we're managing the pigs' waste
565
00:53:36,690 --> 00:53:39,210
in the right and in a natural way,
566
00:53:39,210 --> 00:53:41,200
for example in the pasture as you see,
567
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,470
then the system can be successful
568
00:53:44,470 --> 00:53:47,670
without any purchased inputs
569
00:53:47,670 --> 00:53:50,823
or chemicals or fertilizers or pesticides.
570
00:53:59,910 --> 00:54:02,870
- I think the biggest problem is that
571
00:54:02,870 --> 00:54:06,940
the regulatory market structures
in the US are not built
572
00:54:06,940 --> 00:54:11,150
to accommodate new
entrants into the market.
573
00:54:11,150 --> 00:54:13,330
There are some really smart people in Iowa
574
00:54:13,330 --> 00:54:14,880
who wanted to make an alternative,
575
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:19,260
and they actually scaled
up an alternative model.
576
00:54:19,260 --> 00:54:21,480
But over time they became big enough
577
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,640
that they attracted hedge
fund money from New York
578
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,550
and then they began to change
their practices a little bit
579
00:54:27,550 --> 00:54:28,900
to ramp up production.
580
00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:32,030
And they guy who had
founded it quit and left
581
00:54:32,030 --> 00:54:34,660
and then just a few months ago,
582
00:54:34,660 --> 00:54:36,540
the company itself was purchased
583
00:54:36,540 --> 00:54:39,250
by one of the largest
agribusiness consortiums
584
00:54:39,250 --> 00:54:40,640
in the US, right?
585
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,210
So you see how these models get coopted
586
00:54:43,210 --> 00:54:44,400
into the existing system
587
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,363
if they're allowed to grow at all.
588
00:54:50,074 --> 00:54:51,090
(faint voice talking)
589
00:54:51,090 --> 00:54:52,840
- California is so incredible.
590
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,570
You can go at short distance
591
00:54:54,570 --> 00:54:56,620
and be in a completely different climate.
592
00:54:57,590 --> 00:54:58,990
- [Boy] Oh.
593
00:54:58,990 --> 00:55:03,084
Well, there are some
disadvantages about that too!
594
00:55:03,084 --> 00:55:03,917
(groans)
595
00:55:03,917 --> 00:55:06,363
- We were naturally raising pigs outdoors.
596
00:55:07,450 --> 00:55:08,340
Of course you would.
597
00:55:08,340 --> 00:55:10,777
We never even considered
not doing it that way.
598
00:55:10,777 --> 00:55:12,530
- Instinctively.
- Instinctively.
599
00:55:12,530 --> 00:55:15,650
And it was like in my
childhood in Minnesota
600
00:55:15,650 --> 00:55:17,460
where you'd go down any country road
601
00:55:17,460 --> 00:55:21,280
and there'd be pigs out in
a field or next to a barn
602
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,290
winter, summer, any season.
603
00:55:23,290 --> 00:55:25,660
And they're outside
frolicking and rooting around
604
00:55:25,660 --> 00:55:28,980
and doing what pigs do, and thriving.
605
00:55:28,980 --> 00:55:33,780
And so that was my model, and
we did the same thing here.
606
00:55:33,780 --> 00:55:36,050
And it was very sensible and it worked,
607
00:55:36,050 --> 00:55:38,800
and it made great pork and the
pigs were happy and healthy.
608
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,960
And then the only problem was
it was a lot of work, right?
609
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,870
And we're trying to
streamline the operations
610
00:55:45,870 --> 00:55:47,850
through capital investments
611
00:55:47,850 --> 00:55:49,670
and not concerned about, well,
612
00:55:49,670 --> 00:55:53,103
what's that mean to the
pig's and its lifestyle?
613
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,850
Once I've learned more and more about pigs
614
00:55:56,850 --> 00:55:58,670
and saw these bigger scale operations,
615
00:55:58,670 --> 00:56:00,750
I said, "Wait a minute, there's
something wrong with that."
616
00:56:00,750 --> 00:56:02,430
And if you guys know,
617
00:56:02,430 --> 00:56:04,070
you've seen probably a lot of pigs now.
618
00:56:04,070 --> 00:56:05,900
You can look a pig right in the eye
619
00:56:05,900 --> 00:56:08,230
and you can tell when they're suffering
620
00:56:08,230 --> 00:56:09,063
or when they're happy
621
00:56:09,063 --> 00:56:11,730
and having eyes just like ours, I think,
622
00:56:11,730 --> 00:56:14,765
they're much easier to communicate with.
623
00:56:14,765 --> 00:56:17,348
(boy babbling)
624
00:56:20,110 --> 00:56:23,070
- Well, I think the
whole system right now,
625
00:56:23,070 --> 00:56:27,620
everything from the way food is subsidized
626
00:56:27,620 --> 00:56:29,870
and the way environmental
laws are enforced.
627
00:56:29,870 --> 00:56:32,830
You can just look at so many
levels on which everything
628
00:56:32,830 --> 00:56:36,450
is geared toward supporting
industrial production.
629
00:56:36,450 --> 00:56:40,620
And if you look at the Department
of Agriculture's policies
630
00:56:40,620 --> 00:56:44,100
and just the way they enforce regulations
631
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:45,760
and then the way they apply things,
632
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,930
it's always set up for
the largest operations
633
00:56:48,930 --> 00:56:51,960
and the smaller and independent
farmers and ranchers
634
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:53,907
just have to kind of
make do with the system
635
00:56:53,907 --> 00:56:56,163
and even though it really
doesn't work for them.
636
00:56:57,315 --> 00:56:58,174
Come on.
637
00:56:58,174 --> 00:56:59,189
(faint voice talking)
638
00:56:59,189 --> 00:57:01,772
(boy giggling)
639
00:57:03,303 --> 00:57:06,470
(faint voice talking)
640
00:57:09,607 --> 00:57:12,120
Basically the food supply is getting
641
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,053
into fewer and fewer hands,
642
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,943
and there's less and less diversity,
643
00:57:19,580 --> 00:57:21,283
it's less and less dispersed.
644
00:57:23,010 --> 00:57:24,100
That's really problematic
645
00:57:24,100 --> 00:57:25,240
from a lot of different standpoints.
646
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,250
And for one thing when
you just think about it
647
00:57:27,250 --> 00:57:29,930
in terms of the security
of our food system,
648
00:57:29,930 --> 00:57:31,515
we're very vulnerable.
649
00:57:31,515 --> 00:57:34,682
(faint voice talking)
650
00:57:35,870 --> 00:57:37,340
- We should be concerned about the scale
651
00:57:37,340 --> 00:57:40,840
and the fact that fewer and fewer firms,
652
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:44,210
smaller and smaller number
of firms are controlling
653
00:57:44,210 --> 00:57:47,470
and deciding what we eat, how
we eat it, where we buy it,
654
00:57:47,470 --> 00:57:50,270
and deciding that the health
and ecological implications
655
00:57:50,270 --> 00:57:51,240
don't really matter.
656
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,470
They don't really get counted in the idea
657
00:57:54,470 --> 00:57:57,400
of what quality food is, of
what the price of food is.
658
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:58,940
None of these things are counted
659
00:57:58,940 --> 00:58:01,793
and just a few people
are deciding that for us.
660
00:58:12,420 --> 00:58:14,320
- They want these animals to grow
661
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,550
as fast as they can get them to grow
662
00:58:17,550 --> 00:58:19,343
on the feed they have,
663
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,980
that they're producing for these animals.
664
00:58:22,980 --> 00:58:26,180
And what you have is
you have a hybrid animal
665
00:58:26,180 --> 00:58:30,560
that they only know one
thing: grow really fast
666
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,210
and consume as much feed as
they can possibly consume,
667
00:58:34,210 --> 00:58:37,463
but also at the same time
they're utilizing all that feed.
668
00:58:39,780 --> 00:58:43,460
That's what they've come up
with with these universities:
669
00:58:43,460 --> 00:58:48,150
give us the best cross to produce this
670
00:58:49,010 --> 00:58:50,860
at the cheapest price.
671
00:58:50,860 --> 00:58:51,830
That's what they want.
672
00:58:51,830 --> 00:58:54,413
(pig squeals)
673
00:58:56,710 --> 00:58:59,760
See how they just graze it?
674
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,833
They don't dig it up, they graze it.
675
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:10,030
We wanna run into the grocery store,
676
00:59:10,030 --> 00:59:12,680
the super Walmart, and
we wanna grab something.
677
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:16,683
We'd look down the aisle and
it says, "Certified organic"
678
00:59:18,110 --> 00:59:22,580
and that's maybe 50 to 60% more
679
00:59:22,580 --> 00:59:25,310
than something that was grown over here.
680
00:59:25,310 --> 00:59:28,430
Well, I don't want
that, I can't afford it.
681
00:59:28,430 --> 00:59:29,270
But you know what,
682
00:59:29,270 --> 00:59:31,640
you still get the almighty
dollar stuck in your pocket
683
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,510
'cause you just saved yourself 50%
684
00:59:34,510 --> 00:59:36,070
because you bought something
685
00:59:36,070 --> 00:59:38,200
that who knows what they were doing to it
686
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,790
or who knows how they were growin' it.
687
00:59:40,790 --> 00:59:44,623
(dramatic instrumental music)
688
00:59:53,670 --> 00:59:54,920
- Let me say it this way:
689
00:59:56,780 --> 00:59:59,783
as our population begins
to grow and it's growing,
690
01:00:01,250 --> 01:00:03,440
one day there won't be no meat
691
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,380
because the human beings
have to eat the grain
692
01:00:05,380 --> 01:00:07,970
like they did back many years ago
693
01:00:07,970 --> 01:00:09,620
when we didn't have so much meat.
694
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:16,700
Already you can feed more
people with soybeans, corn
695
01:00:16,700 --> 01:00:18,780
than you can with meat.
696
01:00:18,780 --> 01:00:21,490
If you want to feed the starving world
697
01:00:22,350 --> 01:00:24,740
cut up feeding all these
cows and stuff like that
698
01:00:24,740 --> 01:00:26,560
and feed the people on what they can get
699
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,640
to fill their bellies,
700
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:30,720
but somebody wants to make money.
701
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,490
They talk about, "We
want to feed the world."
702
01:00:33,490 --> 01:00:34,790
If you want to feed the world,
703
01:00:34,790 --> 01:00:38,958
you can feed more world with
grain than you can with meat.
704
01:00:38,958 --> 01:00:42,125
(upbeat techno music)
54383
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