The way we eat has changed in the last 50 years
compared to 10,000 years ago.
but the image used for sales,
is still an image of a He is an American agrarian.
You enter the super market and you see pictures of farmers,
The ranks of fences, barns,
30 year old farming an and green grass.
This is a fantasy cycle of agricultural society.
Super modern American market
average has 47,000 products. </ P>
There are no seasons in the American super market. </ P>
Tomatoes are available all year long,
grows throughout half the world, picked when green,
and ripens using ethylene gas.
Even though it looks like a tomato,
this is actually artificial tomato.
this is the picture of the ideal of a tomato.
In meat section, there will be no more bones.
There is a hidden element here,
this curtain, which hinders us
and the origin of our food.
Industry doesn't want you to know the truth
about what you eat,
because if you know, you might not want
If you follow the food chain again
starting from the danging wrapping process,
you will find a completely different reality.
The real reality is the factory.
This is not a farm. This is a factory.
The meat is being processed
by a giant multinational company
that has to do with livestock and agriculture is very little.
Now, our food comes from from various layers
where animals and workers are misused.
And food becomes more dangerous
By means of intentionally hidden from us.
You have a small group from a multinational company
who controls the whole food system.
From seeds to to supermarkets,
they have control over food.
This is not just a matter of what we eat,
This is about what we can express,
what we may know.
This is not just a matter of our health who is at risk.
These companies don't want farmers to talk.
They don't want to /> the story is spread.
How about the password filled with the chicken just cooked?
You know, that's a good idea,
but I really think what I like
- is a burger. - Okay.
My favorite food to this day
is still a hamburger and fries.
I never realized that some companies
have changed what we eat and how we process food.
I have consumed this food for the rest of my life
without ever thinking where this food came from,
that how strong this industrial control is.
And the fact that
this fact is hidden from us.
I think that's one reason why
I am an investigative reporter,
to uncover this -
which has been hidden.
The entire food industrialization system
actually started from fast food.
in 1930 & apos; an,
The new form of the restaurant rises
and then it is called fast food restaurant.
The McDonald's Brothers were originally restaurants the most successful fast food outlets,
but they decided to cut the budget and simplify it.
So they fired a lot of employees,
they got rid of a lot of menus from the list
then they created a revolutionary idea
how to run a restaurant.
Basically they use the factory system.
to their kitchen.
They train every worker to do just one job
again and again and again.
By using one worker for one job,
they can pay them with low wages
and it's easy to find people to replace them.
This is cheap food, it tastes good
and fast food restaurants this McDonald's serving
achieves such great success.
The mentality of this uniformity,
comfort and generosity
which is widely applied < br /> and on a large scale
has created so many unexpected consequences.
When McDonald's becomes the biggest buyer
beef ground beef in the United States
and they want their hamburgers
to taste, anywhere, with the same taste,
they change how milled meat is produced.
McDonald's companies
are the biggest potato buyers
and one of the biggest pork buyers,
chicken, tomatoes, lethal, even apples.
This very fast food chain
wants a big supplier too.
And now there is a partner company
that controls our food system.
In 1970's, the top five beef packing companies
only controls about 25% of market price.
Now, the big four of these companies
control more than 80% market prices.
You see, the same thing now also happens to pork.
Even if you don't eat in fast food restaurants,
Now you eat meat produced
by this system.
You see the label
and you see this farm, that farm -
that's only about three or four companies
who control the meat.
We have never had food companies for
and this strong in our history.
Tyson, for example,
is the biggest meat packing company in world history.
The company changed the whole way how chicken is processed
Poultry has become popular in slaughter
50 years ago they were only used in half,
but now they are used twice as much.
People like to consume white meat,
so they redesign packaging chicken
by widening his chest.
They don't just change the chicken,
they also change the farm.
Now, chicken farmers have no control over their livestock.
Companies such as Tyson
control birds starting from the time they hack
until the day they are slaughtered. </ p >
Let me go to the top.
- This is chicken-- - Chicken Representative Council.
The chicken industry really has set up a model
for production interrogation, procession
and product marketing
which other companies also follow
because they see that we have created a successful economy.
On the one hand, we don't produce chicken;
we produce food.
all use high level mechanization.
So all the birds come from farms
which must have almost the same size.
Intensively, what want to be achieved by this production system
is to produce as much food as possible
in a small area range
and at an affordable price.
What's wrong with that?
It smells like money smells to me.
16 chicken farms are placed here.
And Chuck controls 4 parts of this land. </ P>
The chicken factory starts here
dan ini membantu seluruh warga di sekitar sini.
This is where my chicken farm is.
I have about 300,000 chickens.
What do you want?
We have a contract with Tyson. </ P>
They have been raising chickens for years. </ P>
All of this is science. They have to find a way out. </ P>
If you can raise a chicken within 49 days,
Why do you want to raise them within 3 months?
More money in your pocket you.
These chickens never see sunlight.
They spend more time in dark spaces.
So you think they will keep us outside?
I don't know.
I wish I knew, I will tell.
It would be nice if all of you could see what we really did,
but as far as you can enter,
we can't let you do that.
I understand why farmers don't want to speak up -
because companies can do whatever they want
as long as wages are paid, they can control everything.
But that brings us to a conclusion
that what is happening is not the right thing
and I have take a decision.
I will reveal what I want to say.
I understand why others don't want to speak up.
And I immediately to that conclusion
that I no longer want to take care.
This should be disclosed.
There is something disgusting here.
There is dust flying everywhere.
Dirt is everywhere.
This is not a farm.
This is just a massive production,
like assembly lines in a factory.
When they grow from a chicken
and in seven weeks you get five and a half pounds of chicken,
their bones, their internal organs
cannot survive in such rapid growth.
Many of the chickens chicken here, they can only take a few steps
and then they collapse. Because they
can't survive the weight they carry.
That's a normal thing.
There is an antibiotic that mixed into food
and of course then given to the chickens.
Bacteria creates resistance,
so that the anitbiotic doesn't work anymore.
I have been allergic to all of the antibiotics
and I don't hold it again.
When the night starts,
the chickens begin to lie down. They lack endurance
when they are confined. </ p >
This is the tradition of Afro-Americans.
Now we see more latin people who are catchers -
non-certified workers .
From their point of view, they have no rights at all
and no one will protest.
Companies like this like workers who like this.
It doesn't matter if the chicken becomes sick.
All the chickens will be herded to the factory
untuk diproses.
These companies always control the breeders
because of the debt that the farmers have.
To build a farm house
it takes around $ 280,000 up to $ 300,000. </ P>
And once you make an initial investment,
these companies will always return
with increasingly high demands
p>
for new equipment,
and the developers have no other choice.
They have to do it
or you will be threatened with loss contract.
This is how they control farmers.
This is how they make farmers spend their money,
come to the bank, then borrow more money.
They don't care about about your business,
really embarrassing.
It's like being a slave for the sake of a company.
The idea that you need to write a book
tell people where their food comes from
is a sign of how far we have progressed.
As if we don't have the right to know what exactly we eat -
"Who is the owner? How do they make it?
Can I go to the kitchen to see it? "
When I want to understand the food industrialization system,
the design I'm working on is so simple.
I want to follow the source
When you visit a super market,
products that look various and various choices this is not really the case.
It is an illusion in this diversity.
There are only a few companies involved
and there are several fields involved.
What really surprised me most
when I follow the trace of the food,
I always end up in the same place,
and that is the cornfield in Iowa.
So many of our food industries
are turning into smarter corn factories through a rearranged system.
Corn has conquered the world in various ways.
This is an extraordinary plant.
100 years ago, a farmer in America,
can produce 20 bushels of corn in one hectare.
Today 200 bushels of corn no longer a problem.
This is an amazing achievement
for the services of corn farmers,
fertilizer,
as well as pesticide makers.
in the United States today,
30% of land in America has been planted with corn. </ P>
Most of which is managed by based on government policy,
This government policy has an effect on
licensing for we are to produce corn below production costs.
The fact is we pay excess production costs,
and that is caused by
great interest from this multinational company.
The reason our government promotes corn -
Cargill, ADM, Tyson, Smithfield -
they interest in buying corn at a price below production costs.
They use interest as well as the interest on the loan they have
to lobby the congress to give us a kind of agricultural bill that we have.
"Agricultural bills,"
which should be called "food bills," </ p >
which is a symbol of the rule of the food economy.
Agricultural policy is always focused on for this agricultural commodity
because you can save it. </ p >
We encourage farmers to grow as much corn as they can,
become big, and integrated.
We subsidize farmers based on the number of bushels.
We produce more corn
and they appear with using the results.
Now we engineer our food.
We know where to go to get certain traits
like taste and taste.
And we combined all these pieces
and produce new food
that is not stale in the fridge,
not fast moist
The biggest progress in recent years
is high fructose corn syrup.
You know, I would dare to guess
if you visit and see fill the shelf at super marekt,
I guarantee there are 90% of similar products
contained in corn products or soybean,
and often contained in both products.
Corn is the biggest staple food.
You will find sari patih which big in it
and you can solve it then put it back together.
You can make high-fructose corn syrup .
You can make maltodextrin
and diglycerides and xanthan gum
as well as ascorbic acid.
All these raw materials are used in food processing -
So much that can be produced by corn.
Plus, you can make feed for animals.
Corn is the main ingredient in food composition
be it chicken, pork, beef - and others.
More broadly, we make corn as fish feed.
both tilapia and livestock salmon.
We teach fish to eat corn.
The fact that we produce corn at a low price
really allows us to control the price of meat.
The average American consumes more than 200 ponds
meat per year.
It's impossible
we can't provide diet foods from cheap wheat.
Since you sell corn below the production price, </ p >
compared to raising cattle, farming corn
uses only a small amount of production costs,
so that all animals are excluded
from all farms in the Midwest.
There are spider webs
between the road and the train line
the whole country removes corn
from where they grow towards the CAFO.
Cows are not designed by evolution to eat corn.
They are designed by evolution to eat grass.
And the only reason we giving them corn
is because corn is very cheap
and corn makes them fat faster.
Where do you put your hand?
My hand is in the rumen -
which is the first part of from the cow's belly.
And that -
is not- -
that really the thing is very hard to see.
You can see the liquid part here.
Wow. <
- Is that painful for cows? - No.
There are micro organisms -
bacteria in the rumen, very much.
The animals evolved
to consume grass.
There are several sources which indicate
that a corn sugar diet produces
E. acidic bacteria against acid.
And this makes E. coli very dangerous.
So you give corn as animal feed
and E. coli bacteria, which are actually ordinary bacteria, develops,
becomes a mutation
and a series called "E. coli 0157: h7 "
is present on the world stage.
And we make the diet products fodder
and become products from cattle farms.
Animals stand strong
above the dirt they produce throughout the day.
So if one cow is exposed to dirt,
then the other cows will also be affected.
When they arrive at the slaughterhouse,
Their skin is covered with dirt.
And if the slaughterhouse do slaughter
as many as 400 animals in an hour,
how do you stay keep the dirt
so that it doesn't get into the meat ?
And that's how dirt goes into food.
And now this thing that never existed
is now in the food system.
A nightmare of fast food might get worse.
A 2-year-old child died today in Seattle.
And the murderer? Hamburger meat Jack In The Box is polluted.
A warning to the national community
now more than 140 tons of ground meat.
Half a million ponds ground meat -
Now, all over the country retracts Con Agra's ground meat.
E. coli bacteria are now not only in ground meat- -
now also found in spinach, apple juice -
and this is really due to negligence from our livestock industry.
90 cases confirmed poisoning of E. coli bacteria.
Everything on the same raw material-- packaging spinach.
This is already the twentieth time E. coli bacteria contaminated green leaves in the past few decades.
Over the years during the Bush administration,
chief of staff at USDA
is a former lobbyist head
meat industry in Washington;
FDA head
the regulating agents
are controlled by companies
National Food Processing Association
p> which should be a meticulous company.
ConAgra, which was recently found in peanut butter
There are always cases of food poisoning.
The more technology develops
that is applied in the food production process,
you will think this is increasingly guarantee,
no more contamination.
But the planting plant is getting bigger and bigger.
This is perfect for producing bad bacteria
and spread them farther and wider.
Withdrawals are also carried out on frozen hamburgers
as much as 22 million ponds.
Sufficient meat for making fast-food hamburgers
for every teenager across America has been recalled.
In 1970's, there were about a thousand
slaughterhouses in the United States.
Now we have 13 slaughterhouses
the majority processing beef
sold throughout the United States.
Hamburger today,
has thousands of different pieces of meat
which are placed on one hamburger bun.
The results of this odd increase in calculation prove that the animal
carries dangerous bacteria.
It's amazing how blunt it is
p>
processing agent when we take a closer look,
and like that what the industry wants.
This is the USDA building.
Did Josh say how much time did we have?
- 5 minutes. - 5 minutes.
Yes, maybe around 15 minutes. Must be on time to the meeting. </ P>
- It starts at 4:00. - Alright. </ P>
- or start flipping through the paper, then that's the time. - I know, that's the time.
Thank you! Thank you.
I am listed as republican. </ P>
I have always been conservative. </ P>
I never thought would take this action
and of course thinking of <br never do it
works this close to my mother.
- Are we here? Alright. - Yes, through here. </ P>
Made a mistake-- I think this is the direction we want to go. </ P>
My mother and I, our relationship
has entered a new dimension.
2421? 2421. </ P>
Here it is. </ P>
- Hi. - Hello. </ P>
- How are you? - I'm Pat.
- Hi, Pat. - Barb Kowalcyk.
- Hi, Barb. - After this first big push
to set food standards, people get satisfaction.
We reduce FDA funding.
We increasingly rely on
our policies make towards these industries.
And now we really
lose our system.
You're the best on this land. <
for food security and this is very important.
This is really personal for me and my family.
Rules of security law < br /> our food started 6 years ago
when my son Kevin was 2 and a half years old
attacked by E. coli bacteria 0157: h7
and then change from a total healthy state.
My son is handsome -
and I have a picture today
taken 2 weeks /> before he fell ill.
He died in just 12 days.
In July 2001,
our family vacationed.
If we knew what was sold in the store
We will definitely never return home.
We ate 3 hamburgers before he fell ill.
We started seeing blood on Kevin's diarrhea,
so we took it to the emergency room.
And the doctor said, "we found
bacteria that developed in Kevin's intestine,
he contracted E. coli. "
The doctor came and informed us
that Kevin had kidney failure.
And he did dialysis for the first time.
He was not allowed to really drink water.
We have a small sponge
then we are allowed to dip it into a glass filled with water
then drink it to Kevin.
He bites the tip of the sponge until it releases.
You never see someone begging. </ P>
He begs for water. And that's all he always says. </ P>
Doctors don't allow anyone to enter to the room brings drinks.
Because-- I mean, only that what he wants the most,
just... water.
I don't know if he knows what happened to him back then...
And I hope-- I don't know.
Watching the child awesome this goes
from a truly healthy condition then dies within 12 days -
is really unexpected
something like this can happened because of food.
What's more painful -
it takes 2 to 3 years for us
to hire a personal lawyer
withdraw the remaining meat on the market.
August 1, My son has been hospitalized.
They tested the E. coli bacteria found in plants and the results were positive.
Still they did not pull back the meat
until August 27,
16 days after he died.
Suppose we do more hearing processes which we sure to do -
I hope you want to come and testify.
- Keep fighting. - Thank you. You too. </ P>
You can't forget about your child's death. </ P>
You will recover. </ P>
- This way? - Yes. </ P>
- We are here? - Mm-hmm.
We have faith in our government
to protect us,
and we are not protected
at most basic levels.
In 1998, USDA implemented microbial testing
on salmonella and E. coli 0157: h7
The idea is if a factory repeatedly fails the test,
then the USDA can close the factory
because they clearly have ongoing contamination problems.
meat entrepreneurs association and poultry farmers
Immediately bring USDA to court. </ P>
The court basically says
USDA does not have authority
to close factory.
That means that
You can have a pound of meat or poultry products
which is likened to one salmonella petri dish
and USDA really can't do anything.
A new law was introduced as a direct response
and the law became known < br /> as Kevin & sos; s Law (Kevin's Law).
This seems obvious.
- How are you? - Good.
We have been working for 6 years
and still have not been approved. </ P>
I feel that there may be an
an opportunity-- an opportunity more- -
to get approval into current law.
I think it comes from the views of consumers,
a lot people will support the idea of
from paying a little more if they can get a guarantee
a high security standard.
- Yeah. - But I also know
that there are other players
- in the food production chain... - We know.
... who tend to worry about that,
because it will look as an additional on their expenses.
I think the benefits now are -
Sometimes it feels like
The industry is more protected than my child.
That motivated me to become a legal adviser.
Just last year, there have been
many disease outbreaks are carried on food
that have resulted in significant losses.
explained Our current approach
to protect and supervise food
this is not close to the needs of a family in America.
It's very difficult for me to tell the story of Kevin.
But the only way is I try to be able to
prevent that from happening to other people
by going there and talking
Yeah.
The six are elementary school students, one of them is a sibling,
and there is one more in another area
in Kentucky, so...
this will be the seventh year
since my son's death.
What only I want the company does
is saying "We apologize.
We produce this defective product
that caused the death of your child, < br /> and this is what we
are doing to confirm that doesn't happen again. "
That's all we want,
and they cannot give it to us.
The food industry system always looks for
for the best efficiency, but every new step in efficiency
causes problems.
If you stop doing fattening from their corn diet,
give them grass for five days,
they will have 80% E. coli /> in their intestines.
But of course it's not that what the industry does.
The approach taken by industry is -
When that have a systematic problem like that -
don't turn around then see what's wrong with the system,
depends on technology improvements that allow system to survive.
This is the center of our operations.
We control all our factory machines from here.
Where is Chicago? Here, Chicago,
Georgia, Utah, Kansas,
Nebraska, Texas, LA, Ohio.
We control all levels from gears,
engine speed -
We can change it all from here.
We build something -
from the point of view < br /> food security,
We think we are one step in front of everyone.
We think we can reduce incidents
from E. coli 0157: h7.
But I just started working with ammonia
and ammonia hydroxide.
Bacterial deadly ammonia,
so that it becomes a processing tool.
I'm really a mechanic.
That's really me.
We designing our own machine.
This is our final product.
Are your meat products in most hamburgers in this country?
70%.
In 5 years we think it will reach 100%.
We have several competitors.
I think we will defeat them.
Again, this is a marriage </ p >
from science and technology.
I want one that costs 1 dollar -
- 5 rodeo cheeseburgers... - 5 rodeo. Okay. </ P>
... 2 chicken sandwiches. </ P>
- Anything else? - two small drinks,
and give me < br /> Dr. Pepper size. </ P>
- 11.48 dollars. - Thank you. </ P>
First window. Thank you. </ P>
We don't even think about healthy food
because we assume everything is healthy.
- here it is. - Thank you.
- Have a nice day. - You too. Thank you very much. </ P>
Now I realize that the food
is really unhealthy for us,
I feel guilty give it to the child my child.
But we don't have time to cook because we have to leave at 6:00.
We haven't returned home until 9 : 00, 10:00 a.m.
When you only have one dollar to spend
and you have two children to feed, </ p >
be it you go to the market
and try to get something cheap
or just drive past a drive- trhu
and buy two small size hamburgers for them
and "okay" this. eat this. "
that will fill their bodies,
is not one of the items on the market.
Look at that broccoli.
It's too expensive, man.
- What will you eat later? - Mama.
First check to see how many the number is in one pound.
- Uh, we won't buy this. - why not?
you will only get two or three.
- No. Come on. - Aww! </ P>
We can find cheaper sweets. </ P>
We can find cheaper chips. </ P >
Soda really very cheap.
Sometimes you see vegetables and say
"Okay, we can get two hamburgers there
with the same price amount ".
Why is it that you can buy
a double-cheeseburger at McDonald's & rsquo; s for 99 cents ,
and you can't even a piece of broccoli for 99 cents?
- You want one small one? - We have bent our food system
go to bad calories
and it's not a coincidence.
I mean, the reason that these calories become cheaper is
because it is one of the that we subsidize.
and this directly binds to the type of agriculture
that we have practiced
as well as various kinds of agricultural regulations that we have.
All calories those snacks
one of them comes from from the commodity harvest - -
from wheat, from corn
and from soybeans.
Making Calories is really cheap,
that is one reason that the biggest predictor
of obesity which has increased.
during development in human history,
we always fight to make sure we have
enough food and enough calories
for a large enough percentage from humanity.
Now the problem is too many calories.
The industry blames the problem of obesity
in crisis responsibility personal answer.
But when you are manipulating food
You are triggering a revolution.
The fact is we are fixated </ p >
only in three flavors -
salt, fat and sugar.
These things are very rare in nature.
Now sugar is available 24/7
dalam jumlah yang luar biasa.
We consume hundreds of pounds of these ingredients in a year.
Food arrangements consisting of high fructose corn syrup
and processed carbohydrates
causes an increase on insulin
and, gradually, weakens the system
in our body in metabolizing sugar.
My husband has diabetes.
One of my main concerns is
he could lose his vision.
He didn't go into-- sometimes he trembles,
So I'm afraid if he starts can't drive,
& apos; because that is his profession.
We also have to think about her treatment. </ P>
how much is it, 70 dollars? </ P>
50 pills the price is about 130 dollars. </ P>
Tapi Dia memiliki dua jenis pil berbeda.
100 dollar-and-something for one pill
and then $ 100- and-something else.
That at least takes a lot from our income.
We are really very strict both of
paying medicine for Him to stay healthy
or buy vegetables to stay healthy.
So where do you do do?
It's very difficult for me to see Ayah suffering from diabetes
and the like.
And it's really sad to see that my sister might experience it.
Something is happening
p>
there that we live our lives,
where we are guaranteed, where we buy our food
and what kind of food which we are able to buy
This doesn't just happen in our community.
This doesn't only happen in Baldwin Park. This happens everywhere.
How many of we know someone
in our family has diabetes?
For two?
Three? keep lifting your hand -
type 2 diabetes should
only affect adults.
And now it affects children in comparison to outbreaks.
All we have done
in the modern agricultural industry
including growing faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper.
No one thought about E. coli,
type two diabetes and environmental health
from all systems.
We are contract employees
autonomous farmers decision makers -
we compromise with big companies
in big cities 1,000 miles away
where people make decisions and don't live
with consequences from that decision.
Everything is grass-based.
You know, they don't eat corn, cows die
or chicken poop like they eat here in the valley -
or dead chickens.
They really eat grass, rummaging -
You know, clover, grass, medicinal plants.
They are herbivores. </ p >
If they eat corn,
You have to harvest the corn, move the corn,
then you have to transport all the dirt to a place
here... is -
there-- it's all there .
I mean the cow-- He's fertile.
He's grazing. We don't have to shit anything. </ P>
We don't need to hijack it-- He is hijacking it. </ P>
Everything is natural-- Advantages that come from from natural.
Food industry system
slowly becomes so noisy, smelly,
really not a friendly place, </ p >
those people who operate the factory
don't want anyone to go there,
because then people will see the truth the truth.
when that happens,
then we lose all integrity
and all accountability in the food system.
If we place a glass wall
in all facilities processing,
We will have a food system different in this country.
We have allowed ourselves
being so unconcerned and disconnecting
about something so familiar
... that is the food we eat.
What's the difference if it's outside here
In the fresh air, sunlight,
birdsong on the tree, you know?
But you see, based on USDA,
this is not healthy
because this is in the open air.
They are trying to close us .
One of the biggest attempts to close was
when they tried to close us
Because of this not clean.
Can you imagine?
So we let them breed on a local microbiology lab.
Our average 133 CFU.
and one from the store
an average of 3600.
Of course, that has passed 40 trillion watering.
We haven't seen chlorine one bit.
Many people ask "Is that real?
I mean, can you really feed the world?" </ p >
Everything that looks like a hypocritical argument
because, yes,
we are more efficient,
all inefficiencies from the industrial system.
I see people coming to the farmers market
and say "what ?? 3 dollars for a dozen eggs?"
And they drink 75 cents for a can of soda.
Hey, pig. Hey, piggles.
Hey, pigs.
I've always been impressed how we have been successful
when it hit target on the wrong target.
I mean we have learned-- for example,
on the farm we learned how -
how to plant,
fertilize and harvest corn
using GPS satellite technology,
and no one sits back and asks
"but should we eat beef? "
we have become part of technician culture.
we are all in -
we all are in the part of how this happened
and there is no backward
and say "but why"?
I mean, culture who only sees pigs
as a stack protoplasm dies
that can be manipulated with any creative design
that humans are able to insert into the creature
may want to see
individuals in this community
and other cultures in the community in this country
with the same insults,
disrespect
and mental control.
the city where the plant is
is a small town called Tar Heel
in the middle of the economic area very depressive
Smithfield mastered
art in taking and choosing
the labor that they can use, </ p >
initially from local workers -
poor white people, poor black people.
they became very fast labor .
now they have to gather their workers
all the way from Dentsville, South Carolina,
to Clinton, North Carolina.
you have to draw 100 miles circle diameter,
and that's where all your workers come in.
they have mentality same to workers
like they do pigs.
You know, pigs, they don't need to worry about their comfort.
because they are only temporary they will all be killed.
and they have the same viewpoint towards workers.
You don't worry about the survival of the workers
because, for them, everything has an end.
When you & apos; ve got 2000 posts an hour going through
employees, because they & apos; re handling these guts so much,
they have infection in the nails and other places.
all hand nails they detached from his hand.
you were surrounded by blood dirt and urine.
very easily hurt there.
you made a move the same
on the same pork piece
and without stopping.
you are basically treated like a machine. </ p >
you employ people who can't afford
to leave their place, and Smithfield knows that.
and that's what they hold it from you.
100 years ago
when Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle"
there is a belief in beef who holds great power.
Immigrants from Eastern Europe are being harassed
because of the absence of any government regulation
some are seriously injured
and some even died.
the situation is good. slowly getting better.
Teddy Roosevelt gets the trust towards beef.
the trade union slowly organized meat packing workers.
and turned it into one of the best industrial jobs
in the United States.
from 1950 to becoming a meat packer
like already being automatic work
that has good wages, good benefits, and retirement. </ p >
then what happened?
Meat packaging companies became bigger.
dalam rangka memenuhi kebutuhan industri makanan cepat saji,
who already have more customers more.
some companies meat packers like IBP
borrow the same type of work practice
from the fast food industry -
deducting wages, ensuring the existence of union unions,
accelerating the production process,
and have workers who do the same task
again, and again.
and now meat packing
is wrong one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States.
meat packing industry also recruits,
new immigrants-- illegal immigrants
and recently received immigrants from Mexico.
Many illegal immigrants who came to America
were corn farmers in Mexico. </ P>
NAFTA flooded the Mexican market
with cheap American corn.
it makes more than 1 million and a half from Mexican farmers lose their jobs.
they can't compete with cheap corn from America.
then what happened to more than 1 million and half of the Mexican farmers?
meatpackers like IBP,
National Beef and Monfort
began actively recruiting in mexico.
company ads on the radio
and in newspapers.
IBP provides bus service
in Mexico to bring workers to the United States.
For years the government has become blind
towards the recruitment of immigrants
that is done by the meat packing industry.
but now, when the emergence of anti immigrant movement
they move suddenly,
but they don't take action against the company.
but the government takes action against the workers.
immigrant agents arrest Smithfield workers
in this park.
this is an agreement
between Smithfield and immigrant authorities.
they get rid of 15 workers every day
but we won't see massive raids.
because of that this thing won't affect production.
- Sir, we tried-- - he ask me.
he asked us, not you.
I didn't see there was a Smithfield manager who was arrested.
nobody can do anything
to the fact that workers employed
are being arrested.
what we see today are workers
who have carried out production for the company and are working hard -
and they are arrested.
we want to pay the lowest price for our food.
we don't understand that, we only see the price.
that worker, they have been here for 10 to 15 years.
processing your bacon, "holiday ham" you
and now they are being led like criminals.
and this company is still getting millions of dollars.
what's that cheap?
who wants to buy the cheapest car?
we want subsidies
system food for creates "mystical"
from cheap food,
which is basically expensive food
if you add environmental costs
social costs, health costs.
The food industry is not an honest industry.
This is not an honest price. It is not produced honest.
This isn't processed honestly.
There's nothing honest about food.
I don't know the use is better for Smithfield boxes
This takes 5 to 6 hours of travel
maybe 300, 400 miles.
so.
it's very valuable.
p>
I have no desire to improve or become bigger.
My wish is to produce the best food in the world
and heal.
and if in doing so,
many people come to us and want goods,
without reducing integrity.
that's where-- that's where I am.
I have absolutely no desire
to become Wal- Mart. </ P>
As soon as you understand the growth,
you will see your customer in a different way,
you will see your product in a different way,
you will see your business in a different way,
you will see everything, and the most important thing -
you will see it in a different way.
this is our newest organic popcorn.
this is Vitasoy soy milk,
the best soy milk in the world.
the whole program this is the first time it has been
only for this part. / p>
some of us slept on the booth.
we can't afford the hotel.
Organic has grown more than 20% per year.
This is one of the segments with the fastest growth in food industry.
we will not get rid of capitalism
of course we will not throw it away.
when we have to hold back the warming global
and intercept pollution.
against air, our food and water.
we must be more critical.
Try to make perfect the enemy of the good
and say you will only buy food
from the most perfect system
away 100 miles from us, we will never get there. </ P>
as environmentalists, it's very clear to me
that business is the source of everything < br /> pollution,
business is basically a source all things
that destroys this world.
on campus I come to a small institute
called New Alchemy Institute,
which is a group of rebel biologists
my hope is to give you guys--
we are kind of new beliefs,
trying to develop food and waste-alternative medicine,
but we deliver it with confidence.
We depend on sources of support that are dry
and we are unable to reach the participants
who really needs this message.
I realize we don't have to be David
against Goliath. we need to be Goliath.
when we started, we were 7 cattle herders.
we have to prove that business can be part of the solution
global environmental problems.
at the same time we have to prove
we were able to get high profits.
in 2008, not only
we are the 3rd place in the American yogurt brand,
but we are one of the with the highest income.
Look, this is an interesting thing.
a small company now it becomes Kraft,
but you never thought it was Kraft.
This is now Pepsi. This is now Kellogg & apos; s.
- Kashi is Kellogg's s? - Yes.
- Right now it's Colgate. - Oh, really?
Yes, this is one company who started like us.
- well, that-- - made them different?
basically, makes them successful.
the decision has come out. I have to do it like that.
the big company isn't grow organically.
they grow with acquisitions.
Coke, Pepsi, Kellogg's s, General Mills -
they all run,
don't run, in the organic food business.
for me, when Wal-Mart enters organic territory,
I'm very happy, this is correct -betul very interesting thing.
I have long been dreaming of a day
where I can sit with with big companies
and talk
about organic and sustainability.
- this is Amanda. this is Rand. - Hi Amanda. I'm Rand.
- Rand, nice to meet you. - Tony.
- nice to meet you.
well, help me find out where -
- we both work for Wal-Mart. - you're with Wal-Mart.
Yes. </ P>
do you know that we've never been to Wal-Mart? </ P>
- we've never been there. - Oh yeah. </ P >
- isn't that awesome? - so we have to come to you.
yes, we haven't.
it's been a long time we started boycott
and we keep doing it until now.
Wal-Mart is very sensitive
to their reputation.
they obviously already slandered,
maybe even more than retailers
in our current economy.
actually, this is a decision which is quite easy,
to support something organic, or whatever,
based on consumer desires.
we see and respond to that.
if it is clear the customer wants it,
it will be very easy to do it,
we just need to push and try make that happen.
when I meet old friends in my neighborhood,
many of them feel scared
to the company branch that I hold now.
but when I began to explain it
what was the impact of one purchase order from Wal-Mart ,
not in pounds, but tons of pesticides,
tons of herbicides, tons of chemical fertilizers,
discussion-- we are out of emotion
and we are heading towards the facts.
This is really important, though, what are you guys do it here.
I have no shadow about this.
I don't believe that Wal-Mart came here
because they suddenly got moral enlightenment.
This is all due to economy
I can argue all day long, with my radical friend.
but no one can change the fact
that selling other millions of dollars for Wal-Mart
will help guard the world.
back to the end last century
the average farmer capable of employs 6 to 8 people.
now the average American farmer
is able to employ 126 people, okay?
this is the most productive human that has ever existed.
changes follow what happened to agriculture
important and radical but not seen by most of us,
because who else knows farmers?
but their way of life
has changed.
10,000 years ago,
farmers started storing their seeds at their best </ p >
and plant it again the following year.
This is how the seeds are developed.
This is how corn is developed.
from grass useless
towards extreme planting that is productive until now.
The idea that every company can have food crops
is a new ideas. not implemented before 1980
that's what the Supreme Court said. you could patent life.
and that's what made everything happen--
efforts to patent the most valuable parts of life
which means to the plants we depend on.
Monsanto adalah perusahaan kimia.
they produced DDT, Agent Orange in Vietnam,
and developed a product known as "Roundup."
We started hearing news bird about the soybean-genetically engineered.
that can survive the application of Roundup.
when Roundup is sprayed above it,
it can kill all grass that is out there
except for Roundup Ready soybean.
I remember when the first ban
to tube seed appears and is applied
most farmers
are very disgusted with the whole concept.
but what attracts it
for 11 years to see us go
a shameful thought
that we cannot store the seeds we have
and accept the concept .
what happens if the farmer
can store the seeds?
Well you know, actually here
Only one company is involved with this
/ p>
and that is Monsanto.
Monsanto is...
They have special investigators
who roam this country
they have at least 1800 Hotlines
They will receive a call, if someone calls it
And someone will accuse that someone saves the seed,
They will send the investigator out to see the problem.
If you store the seeds yourself, then you will get a call
From someone those from Monsanto
Two men block me on the road
shows a Black Card to Me
and they never tell that they are from Monsanto.
They said they were Have a survey team,
Catch Me To Clean Beans
I feel the need to wake up
around 3:00 and 4:00 p.m.
before investigators on the way to follow me.
They used to be -
maybe ex-militant or ex-police
They are big and they intimidate
I don't know whether they have the Survey Team themselves
or is my neighbor reporting, I Don't Know.
now when I turn to walk towards the house One of them says
I can hear it from behind "He Guilty"
This is a real smart device designed again in the 1800s
and Monsanto will close everything that is still outside.
So how many Seed Cleaners are out there
in this country do you think?
In the State of Indiana, There might be six.
Maybe. I didn't pay attention to it -
- What was it like before? - Oh my goodness. Every country is only three
Do they still have it out of business? </ P>
There is nothing left
when soybeans from Monsanto first arrived at the market,
I never really switched.
I started enough good with the results I have
With Conventional Soybeans I use
So I thought "well, I will stick with it this way."
Neighbors around me are all GMOs
If pollen comes in If the seeds move
I still count. </ p >
When you are genetically Modifying Plants, then you have it.
We have never had this in agriculture
Used first in Your University's Grants,
They develop so-called general seeds
Most from Plant breeding
right- right done in public institutions.
Monsanto is very similar to Microsoft.
In the same way Microsoft has Intellectual property
Behind many computers in America
They left to have Intellectual property
Behind the abundance of food in America
Breeding of Common Plants is a thing of the past.
Almost nothing General seeds again
It seems there are only four or five varieties </ p >
that I can really plant.
Now I have some the last soybeans
Exit from the state of Illinois -
- There are no GMOs. - General varieties. General Varieties. </ P>
When I get to the point where I don't can buy more certified seeds
What should I do? What is my choice?
I got this list that was sent to me.
Black List here is list Monsanto about illegal farmers
Wow. </ P>
Whether the farmers have resistance to them
or business, or else
or farmers who don't collect the results of their work,
will not change their views.
In my case, why am I there
Because I won't change my view
- Am I on this list? - Yes, there is.
Wow.
I see there are two farmers where I work here.
In this list-- now heading to one point
Where am I can't buy Monsanto Products, OK?
Right.
So this leads to "What will I plant"?
Monsanto sued me on the basis of
I encourage farmers to violate patents
by cleaning their own seeds
I have never < br /> in the courtroom
and my bill already $ 25,000
People who used to be my friend
are now reluctant to talk to me
we've been friends for 50 years,
and now it's very difficult to be together.
Right.
I don't think I'm really guilty
But it's cheaper to pay a fine
Instead of trying to fight it
- it's eating you away... - Of course.
Because if you think you are right about something
But finally acknowledge you are wrong.
Monsanto accuses us of being guilty for violating patent rights
and violate the contract.
There is nothing right.
You go to the market, find the dominant farmer
and if you screw it up, you're scared. The rest will follow the path.
My family spent $ 400,000
against pretrial.
and we were told this will cost millions
to face the trial
we left the trial.
the method that appeared in the system working at that time was
justice judge having a Scales
and you put money on one of the scales
and the other put more money on that scale,
hired the most expert and most willing
to convey a big lie he was the winner.
This seems to apply to the functions of our system now.
this is terrible This is terrible.
how do farmers defend themselves against
Multinational Companies like Monsanto?
I talked to a young man three days ago.
they also with the farm, you know?
and this poor young man, he tried to get out
His fiance was there. and I talked to him
and tried to give them The best advice I could give.
Unfortunately the best suggestion I gave was
try to get out of this problem intact
Don't fight them. You have to exit
and give them what they want, & apos; because you can't defend yourself "
In the Monsanto case, their control is very dominant.
If you want to move in agricultural production
you will definitely get in touch with Monsanto
they have soybeans
they will control production
starting from the seeds to the supermarket.
they basically have food control trhd.
there is a connecting door
between Monsanto companies
and various regulations.
and Judicial who hold that role.
Judge Clarence Thomas was a Monsanto lawyer
This is not a problem
due to one case
who decided about the issue of seed storage
Judge Clarence Thomas write majority opinion
In cases that make this company is allowed
to prevent farmers from storing their own seeds.
Monsanto has a close relationship
in the Bush administration...
dan pada pemerintahan Clinton.
This is why we have never seen a lot of political debate
about radical changes in our food systems.
for the past 25 years, Our government
has been dominated by by industry
which has been arranged in such a way.
Open opportunity when you have people
who are experts in the industry, who can be experts in regulation.
it revolves around their interests.
you talk about power -
the center of power
and this power is used
against the people of who produce their own food
like the farmers.
used also to the workers
who worked in his company
and also used to consumers
intentional kept tightly
about what we ate, where it came from,
what did to his body
Good afternoon, the head and members,
SB-63 is a consumer who deserves to be counted.
This implies that all food cloned
must be labeled as cloned food.
These cloned animals
are fundamentally < br /> is a new thing.
But I found something extraordinary that the FDA
Not only wants to allow the sale of meat from cloned animals
without further research
but also want to allow meat sales
without any label.
how many witnesses from the opposition, please?
Noelle Cremers with the California Agriculture bureau
If I can show
the reason why we need to pay attention to the label
creates fear that is unnecessary in the minds of consumers
until Industry has the opportunity
to provide teaching why do we want to use this technology
and the value of from this technology
we don't feel consumers who have
warning labels will help them.
these companies fight persistently and insistently
on labeling.
the fast food industry won't
give it to you
br /> calorie information.
they oppose to tell you
The packaging meat industry many people are prevented
from labeling their home country
they are opposed to not labeling Genetically engineered food
and now 78% of processed food in supermarkets
some ingredients have been genetically engineered
I think one battle is important
that consumers need to face
is the right to know what is in their food and how it is processed
Not only they don't want
you know what's inside,
they have set the law for anyone
who criticizes their products.
can you tell me how do you change the food you eat?
Well, we -
you might have to talk to lawyers
before you question this
what? you can say this-- we have stopped -
I know, but -
I can have meat and industrial poultry
come to me and I'm really -
seriously? to say-- that it
depends on in the context
you won't say "other people don't eat it"
well, I'm sorry Robbie,
but I was asked this thing all the time
initially, my reaction was,
"I don't care. let them sue me"
Let them try and sue from a mother
whose child has died and see.
This is quite amazing you can't say
- How you and your family change-- - The Vegetable Pollution Act is...
different things.
The food industry has protection that different
from other industries.
We have many questions about mad cow disease
If you recall the case where Oprah sued
by the meat industry
for what he said on the show
that made me pause
from eating another burger.
- good morning, Oprah. - good morning too.
are you feeling relieved it's over? </ p >
well, I think I can say that, right?
I can say, yes. I can see the end of this.
in Colorado it is a crime
if sentenced under the Vegetable Pollution Act
so you can go to jail
for criticizing beef
produced in the state of Colorado
there is an effort in some farming countries
to make illegal by publishing
photos of from every food industry operation,
every fattening operation.
at the same time, they also have
Old bills called cheese burger bills
this makes it very /> very difficult
to sue them.
These companies have a group of lawyers
and they dare to sue despite knowing that they won't win
just to send a message.
we have a note about the deposition of Maurice Parr
in this case the company Monsanto
and Monsanto technology against Maurice Parr.
Mr. Parr, we received the summons from your bank records
in this case. do you know that? </ P>
I tell you what is really what I fear most today
is that they check everything I write
from every account.bank that I have used
for the past 10 years.
Do you own land, Mr. Parr? </ P>
- Yes - how many hectares do you have? </ P>
Three. </ P>
how long have you had Dell Computer this?
Which cleansing soybean seeds for customers?
- Mr. Kaufman? - only nuts. </ P>
These people are not only customers,
they are personal friends. </ P>
This is very slashes my heart
to know that in this list belongs to Monsanto.
Harold Sinn?
only beans.
this is the first case
where a seed company sues
someone who does cleaning of seeds.
so if Monsanto claims enforcement in this case,
which does not only put Moe out of business,
but will prohibit any farmer in the country
to do what what moe is doing as an example in future cases.
is there a specific customer
notifying you if they won't use
- cleaning service your seed again? - Ron Merrill.
essentially puts me outside of business.
- Max Lowe. - I'm done.
Jerry Kaufman. Bill Zeering.
Robert Duvall.
we already have a food system that has been dedicated
to every efficiency kindness,
so we plant a number of plants on a small scale,
the number of varieties is very small,
number of companies on a small scale.
and even though you achieve efficiency
the system will be more and more dangerous.
you will get a report later.
and where the details come in the system
we will never know.
Modern agricultural production < br /> is very dependent
on the amount of oil
our farm uses
about 40 thousand gallons diesel fuel in a year.
we spend a lot of oil without realizing it.
to direct it to slaughter,
requires 75 gallons of oil.
so what do we see is
that this highly efficient machine
has no resistance to shocks
like a jump in to oil prices .
Last month's food prices 3.9% higher.
Than a year ago.
Taking corn, basic ingredients other from food sources
up to about 12 years.
For the time being, we can sell grains.
very cheap anywhere in this world,
farmers in other countries who are not subsidized
cannot compete with us.
be their capacity < br /> to grow food
for themselves can be compromised.
The world is running out of food.
and no one has a problem with that. We have no reserves.
there are forms of protest throughout the world.
The food crisis has already taken down one government.
a month will not pass
where there is no history in a story
who reveals the curtain
how is the food industry formed.
Downer cattle - too sick or paralyzed for brjl -
brutally cut their legs in slaughterhouse
millions of gallons concentrated pig fertilizer
flushing with the contents downstream.
the Tsar food government reports
that there is no tool in place that tracks
the latest origin < br /> regarding Salmonella outbreaks
at any time stories like this are revealed,
Americans learn more -
What happens in the kitchen where is their food prepared.
and every time they start to get sick
and look for other alternatives.
ironically is the average consumer
doesn't feel very strong.
they surrender
to industry who put anything in their place
for consumed.
Believe me, on the other hand.
when we run a supermarket scanner for certain items,
we will vote < br /> for local or not, organic or not.
at Wal-Mart we made a decision about a year ago.
to go through the process of being rBST free in our milk supply.
we made that decision based on customer choice.
individual consumers
changed the largest company on this earth
and thus,
may plug the last nail on the coffin
for synthetic growth hormone.
for healthy eating < br /> in this country you have to pay more
than unhealthy food. it costs more
and some people don't have money.
and that's one reason,
that we need changes at the policy level,
so that carrots are more affordable than chips.
people think "this company is very big
and in power, how do we make changes?"
but see the tobacco industry.
has great control on public policy.
and controls are also damaged
resistance to tobacco is a perfect example
about how behavior that is not responsible for industry
can be changed.
imagine what happens if, as a national policy,
we say will only work
if people will go a little
to the hospital next year than last year ?
what if is it successful?
the idea will have
some kind of pure food
nutrient-dense
people who eat it will feel better,
have more energy,
and don't have much pain.
look now, it's a nobel goal.
I can't change the fact if Kevin dies.
when you tell someone that you lost a child,
I really don't like pity view
who came from their view,
that they felt sorry for me.
I feel sorry for myself I'm fine,
thank you. I don't need any more from other people.
what I need from them is listening
and help me give a change effect,
you have to understand that we are farmers,
we will send to the market what they want.
if you want buy 2 $ milk,
you will get fattening in the backyard. very simple.
the community should start demanding
good food overall,
and we will send it I promise.
we are smart people. we will send it </ p >
I think that's what I can say.
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