Our Food is Killing Us
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I examine the causes and destruction of our current industrialized food system. Specifically, I dive into the capitalist commodification of food, and how most of the industrialized farming that takes place in the imperial core doesn't produce crops for our consumption. Instead, the majority of the "food" we grow goes toward animal feed and biofuels. In addition, the fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that our current industrialized farming system gobbles up are derived from fossil fuels. Essentially, fossil fuel corporations are laundering their dirty fuels through the very chemicals farmers use to grow their crops. Our food system is broken. We're in desperate need of a new agro-ecological revolution.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - The Shape of Industrial Agriculture
4:03 - Our Food is Fossil Fuels
9:40: Get Big or Get Out
12:59 - Industrial Agriculture's Environmental Destruction
17:49 - Beyond Capitalist Agriculture
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I get my food from the store because farming isn't feasible in my section of concrete jungle. We need to change a handful of mega corporations controlling global food distribution and another handful controlling production. Otherwise Cargill is going to own the entire food system in the coming decades.
Dual Power!
Anarchism, destructive and constructive!
Hey I would live to talk to you about how highly processed foods is causing huge amount of diseaes and early death.
I get 80% or more from my local farmers market. These are small, mostly organic, family farms. I vote with my money on what I want the agriculture system to look like.
@@jennifersvitko5997 Cool. If you are in the northern hemisphere. How do you get your fruit in February?
As someone who works on a small, family owned polyculture farm, one of the biggest issues we have is we are effectively prohibited from composting the immense amounts of organic waste we produce because of waste disposal regulations. We want to reduce our reliance on expensive synthetic fertilizers but the laws are just too complex and labyrinthine to do so safely.
*EDIT* Okay so after having a longer discussion about this with my boss I have learned that in fact we are not legally prohibited from composting. The main reason why we don't is actually for fear of soil born disease. Basically if we throw a diseased pepper into a field to decompose, the germ gets in the dirt and will stay there forever and spread. This would make any future attempts to grow peppers in that field effectively doomed. A more understandable but still unfortunate reason that has the same end result. I guess commercial compost goes through a decontamination process.
Break the law.
@@F_ckAllTrumpVoters 100% Regulation is slow, people are fast. Move faster than the regulators and they can catch up when your business succeeds. Without fertilizer costs, you can outcompete the mega farms. THAT will get noticed and people will mimic you.
Try asking at your local wastewater treatment plant, they usually have some good, safe and even free stuff. Or get some chicken and let them eat the waste and poop good manure everywhere
@@meyer6891 Yeah, chickens are one of the best animals that most people can keep and benefit from, as well as bees although their a menace to look after they give you some tasty honey and pollinate local plants.
This is outrageous, just rebel and arm yourself for when they come
I HIGHLY encourage people to reach out to their local friendship center/ indigenous community centers and ask how you can support their Traditional Food and Food Sovereignty programs. Indigenous communities across the Americas are holding 90% of the native biodiversity to the lands we inhabit and we NEED to support and protect what we still have in our ecological communities. If you love “Indian tacos”, go support the Aunties and Uncles protecting the traditional foods! Food Sovereignty is going to be big in the following decades, and we have to be able to decolonize from the commodity mindset that’s infiltrating every corner of our lives.
Neat. What do you to help the indigenous centres?
^This.
That will never happen
Decoupling from industrial food protection would cause poverty rates to increase as food prices skyrocket. That is a fact you can’t ignore, be careful for what you wish for.
@@Fister-kw5un So, just wait until the unsustainable system collapses and let everyone starve then instead of transitioning?
This is why I started farming. I've worked 5 different organic farms. I now work for a nonprofit farm that teaches youth and college students how to farm. We donate half of the food to the food bank. I've also started a small homestead and we are not a nuclear family we are a community of a couple families.
Amen!
Small farmers/homesteaders really need to organize and help each other and the community out. Do you have anay sort of an internship program?
@gcxred4kat9 the nonprofit I work for does
I'm planning on being a part of the WOOFF program next year on my small homestead and nursery.
@gcxred4kat9 a lot of the farms around here for sure help eachother in all sorts of ways.
Great info brother. Glad someone like you exists.
As a sidenote: Even the worst factory farm can get more reliable, higher quality yield while slashing 90% of its costs, with barely a few seasons of transition to regenerative techniques.
Its mostly a mental / educational issue. Farmers are tought from fossil fuel / agrochem textbooks at agrochem-financed schools and innundated with advertising that ought to be illegal.
Any actually competent land management is buried at best, its teachers attacked / threatened / falsely sued / straight up murdered on the orders of an industry that needs to be destroyed if the species is to survive.
I wish every farmer would read Gabe Brown's Dirt to Soil. He turned his parent's monoculture corn farm that was losing money into a highly productive and profitable business that builds soil, traps carbon, increases biodiversity and MAKES HIM MORE MONEY...
It's not only mental, but economical as well. Farmers (and related) are among the groups with higher suicide rates, because they're always on the verge of bankrupcy (plus other factors). Most are unable to feed themselves, unless they get government aid, which is usually given on 2 conditions: invest the money in agrochem/fossil tech, and keep the cost low enough for you not to have more options in the future.
@@meyer6891 yes it's slavery for the fossil fuel industry isn't it??
We live in very dark times don't we? We live under the brutal thumb of a fossil fuel owned-and-operated faux-government tyrannical dictatorial regime.
That's what passes here for "govt".
No they not taught this, they chose to be obtuse and lazy! Take this video ad an example, this farmer has access to 20 000 acres of cropland? Where's the trees and bio diversity? They are chasing money, not creating jobs, destroying the land, using GMO seed,pushing small farmers out and poisoning the consumer. Farmers need absolute reform, they lazy!
When most people hear "regenerative" in terms of food production, they think of Alan Savory's model that uses ruminants like cattle to regenerate the soil and capture carbon. The problem with that is that once the soil becomes saturated with CO2, it stops absorbing it, and the methane and nitrous oxide generated by cows is just as destructive as ever.
Things that we need, like food, water, shelter, healthcare, transportation, education, etc should not be commodified. They are all human rights and should only be used for human need, not greed. Because doing so comes at the expense of human suffering and deaths, wars, economic collapse, and destruction of the entire planet.
Nothing should be commodified
All well and good, but I am a farmer and kind of need to get paid for my work. I am not going to do it for free.
Actually none of those are human rights. That would make those things, someone else's obligation. And people are extraordinarily lazy, they will turn a blind eye while someone else is enslaved and forced to produce for the majority. Human rights are mostly negative, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, freedom from arrest for speaking your mind, owning personal property, owning the means to defend yourself, the abolition of owning other human beings.
Houses are not like speech or unreasonable searches and seizures. What is a house? Is it a cardboard box? Technically that could be shelter, just need to waterproof it. And who bestows these rights to you? Construction laborers? Who puts the gun to their head and forces them to build you a house? These words all sound nice, but in practice they're literally tyranny.
Hahaha. Human rights??? Omg you live in a first world mentality. What we need is resetting everyone back to zero. Then whoever know how to farm will survive.
Go live in a jungle them.
If it weren't for climate change, the nitrogen runoff from massive corporate agriculture systems would be one the main environmental issues today. My favorite takeaway from capitalist based agriculture is that soil is not treated as a base where tons of life lives. It is a patch of dirt and chemicals to add more chemicals to for the sake of commodity speculation.
One thing was left out. All that food that ends up on the "global market" is controlled by 4 corporations. ADM(Archer Daniels Midland), Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfuss. Just so they can speculate on the prices of that food, and intentionally let literally tons of food rot(where starving people are within walking distance of that food) so they can make profits for a handful of already wealthy ghouls.
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@@toyotaprius79Time to dust off the guillotines if need be. Or start eating the rich. No nitrogen fertilizer needed for that! 👿
Yes ,on POINT, they want to control the food supply,..to control the people.Starvation has been a powerful manipulation for totalitarian gov. throughout history.
Now take a walk through a random local suburban subdivision, many that were planted on small family farms, and understand there are more acres of lawn under 'cultivation' than food in the US. Indiscriminate chemical usage is more rampant when a homeowner buys a $100 of chemicals vs the $10,000 a small farmer might buy. Buzzing of commercial lawn mowers and leaf blowers make more CO2 than cattle farms. Check the streams for run off from these suburban monocultures.
true, due to nitrogen runoff and overfishing, Baltic Sea, near which i live, is dying, fish population plummeted, algal blooms get larger and larger, and coastal waters turn into bogs of warm (yes) seaweed soup
SO TRUE. We can reinvent our agricultural systems into permaculture, water harvesting, food forests that work with nature instead of going against her.
Abstract thoughts with no facts. Try harder.
Without this system we have hundreds of millions of people a year would be dying of starvation. Lots of areas can not grow food without these inputs. Its not possible to grow food in areas where the soil is junk. These fertilizers make it possible for them to grow food.
Studies show small organic farms produce more food per acre than large chemical fertilized farms. Published in Nature. Another study showed agro-ecology (intercropping and other techniques with no pesticides or chemical fertilizer) increased yields 80%. Agrochemical companies are fighting to stay relevant.
It seems counterintuitive because it goes against what you've always been told - how can you grow more with less fertilizer? Because soil health is more important than chemicals.
We can, actually, feed the world.on organic.
@zacharyb2723 can you link me that paper/study. Would love to read it.
Around here the biological farmers need 20-30% more ground to get the same tonnage.
I love my garden so much, even when a rabbit family digs in and ruins my green beans.
Alot of people find growing intimidating, my best advice is to ignore the influencers lush gardens and just try somthing approachable to you. Even something as small as taking a tomato seed out of your morning blt sandwish and putting it in a cup of dirt and just seeing what happens. Even if you dont get anything, you will learn something about growing food. And theres value in that.
Gardening is one way that those of us with back yards can augment our food from the store. Composting should also be done, since it significantly reduces the methane that would otherwise be generated in landfills. Composting is easy once you learn how, and it is nice to know that your food waste isn't completely wasted.
Exactly. People are just so afraid to even try, they are quite happy to write themselves off as non-gardeners without even making a beginning.
(My neighbour, for example, buys new plastic flowers to put in her tubs each year. That's it. Gaudy plastic flowers to last a few months and then thrown away. Can't get her the least bit interested - and no, I'm not going to grow a garden for her. I have 2.75 acres. Enough to do).
My son, at age 7, grew apple trees from apple pips. Just took them from the very apple he was eating.3 of them grew to produce a variety of miniature apples that I pickle in sweetened vinegar. One of them grew to produce full sized Cox's Orange Pippins.
And that was a little kid looking after them when he remembered to do so.
The peach stone he threw outside a few years later - germinated (I saw it putting up leaves on the gravel path outside, one cold day as it sat in a little puddle). We potted it up, and last year it produced its first gorgeous tasting peach. This year, it has three peaches - and one is bigger than any peach I've seen in a supermarket. Can't wait for them to ripen.
Growing your own food just takes building up of experience, and not rushing headlong into all sorts of unusual fruits and vegetables that take up a lot of time and effort.
I produce my own fertilisers - nettle tea, comfrey mulches, deep fern mulches, compost from kitchen waste scraps, and now human urine (the latter being one of the best, and we just flush all that valuable nutrition down the loo).
Agree with you
My garden ain’t pretty but it sure does produce well a quarter of our garden got 200 lbs of potatos
Agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, permaculture. These are the solutions, but they can't be commodified as heavily.
We need to put people and the environment first. The profit motive must be removed.
@@andrewrockwell1282 Yes! Permaculture ethics emphasize: Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. These ethics remind us of our interconnectedness with the natural world and our responsibility to nurture it, support our communities, and distribute resources equitably.
@@andrewrockwell1282 Yup. Capitalism needs to be torn up at the root and burned if we are to actually live sustainable lives.
@@solarityfarm Yes ,and NOT send millions $$$ towards , a slaughter war, then boast about how many billion a in profits made in arms missiles and tech $$ .
@@margotpreston Be aware, of the use of the word, " sustainable,". The WEF uses those " nice and fluffy" terms to indoctrinate peeps into compliance. Sustainable agriculture is a hidden agenda to dispose of farms with livestock, beef , poultry ,pigs.,further controlling the food supply of nutrician and health for consumers.They want peeps to eat lab.made meat, and provide rations.Controled through CBDC banking. Say NO to CBDC banking .
I’ve started backyard gardening with long-term plans to scale up to where I can also help feed my neighbors for free. I live in a neighborhood full of elderly couples on fixed incomes and I worry about how they will feed themselves as things continue to get worse, and I know even the “organic” food at the stores is often less nutritious. Hoping to scale up a little more each year as I learn.
You're a hero.
I started a backyard garden focused on permaculture. I have a whole ecosystem working for me and its been some of the most delicious vegetables I've ever had.
Gardening is one way that those of us with back yards can augment our food. Composting should also be done, since it significantly reduces the methane that would otherwise be generated in landfills. Composting is easy once you learn how, and it is nice to know that your food waste isn't completely wasted.
@@someguy2135 Not to brag but I have a a compost pile that has a gutter pipe with cut holes along the center. I just have to keep it watered and pump air in from time to time and it works so well!
The Oil and Gas companies are the Tobacco companies on a Titanic level!
FUN FACT
The Great Irish Famine was manufactured by the British Empire. Armed soilders were instrumental in ensuring that commercial produce from Ireland was exported into British markets, ensuring thr protection of private capital and markets.
You just failed Irish history 101. Brits took Irish production to MAKE GOVERNMENT LOOK GOOD. (Same reason Queen Victoria wouldn’t let Ottomans donate to Ireland!)
“F capitalism.” - Albert Einstein.
“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented towards social goals.” -- Einstein
L capitalism
@@nevadataylorI see you’ve read ‘why socialism’ by Einstein. Cool.
That's Genius
yeah, man, let's f**k the food supply. It's not like food is anything important and you need it to live.
One thing this video did not talk about is thanks to this industry, we can no longer drink our water and we are actually out of water in all the nearby towns. What is there is transported from somewhere else and contains high traces of deadly bacteria, nitrogen, and dangerous metals. We can't even boil our water anymore and expect it to be clean. This is true for a whole region.
So true agribusiness is the leading cause of the water crisis in drought prone areas and responsible for the collapse of natural endorheic basins and underground aquifers.
"90% of Earth's topsoil at risk by 2050"
This line sticks out to me because there seems to be a lot of things that collapse at or before that year. "Weird" how its the commonly cited year for "carbon neutral" plans.
I'd love to see a video that digs more into 2050.
The problem with talking about the future is the further we project how the future will look the less accurate the prediction.
I am a small farmer from the uk. I have to disappoint you people, we need cheap and plentiful food. If you try to produce food with your methods, it results in inefficiently which will drive up the cost. Farmer are very skilled people with a wealth of knowledge and understanding. Try asking a farmer what can be done to reduce oil usage and emissions. You will find complete different answers which are based in actual experience.
@@alexannal The consequences of human resistance to reducing GHG emissions is hardly controversial except by people who deny climate change is happening. But even the majority of folks accepting that climate change is a major threat to life continuing as we know it feel powerless to make any difference. Real change in confronting climate change must come at the policy level that incorporates the use of renewable energy to replace fossil fuel energy sources.
Making that transition is what is so difficult in large part because of public apathy and a political environment that is often caught up in grand standing and perpetual grievance as in the conservative movement in the US. The liberal side is hardly guilt free in this drama as they often lack the drive to push for policies and changes necessary.
But this is what humanity looks like with its chasm like differences on many subjects. The bottom line for is we have to figure this stuff out or future generations will suffer more. The extreme weather due to climate change is getting worse, fires are burning larger areas and so on.
Sorry for going on so long.
To add to this scenario and emphasize just how dire things may be there is some fascinating research on soil ecology.
To copy from my comment response elsewhere "I would note that really the main store of carbon in the soil is the biosphere it supports so to maximize the carbon stored you need to feed a diverse and complex biosphere. Unfortunately the nature of these ecosystems is poorly understood with most of the microbial denizens still being part of the "unculturable" so called microbial dark matter, a diverse assortment of bacteria archaea and myriads of Eukaryotes from fungi foraminifera and even small subsurface animals which are still being discovered.
Only a few years ago a critical ecological niche for closing the biological cycling of life products we never knew about before was discovered thanks to the emerging field of metagenomics.
Likewise we are discovering that the Asgard archaea identified as the closest relatives to Eukaryotes have been living beneath our feet in the soils and stream sediments, in fact at least one of the eventual endosymbionts the chloroplasts' ancestors appear to be from a ancient lineage of terrestrial freshwater specialists. Or rather it might be more accurate to say that all extant marine cyanobacteria descend from one of 3 lineages which based on molecular clock estimates appear to have coappeared alongside the first fossils of their more complex Eukaryotic algal counterparts no earlier than the Neoproterozoic. This doesn't mean there were no older lineages but if they existed they have left no modern descendants.
In other words it appears likely that the soils and sediments of land and the waters that flow through them as part of numerous watersheds and the coastlines they feed into appear to be the ancestral root of complex life on Earth. It seems likely to be the case that the complex circumstances and environments of land and shore were important in driving the evolution of complexity which would only later during the break up of the Super Continent Rodinia take the step into colonizing the previously prokaryotic and anaerobic oceans.
In this case it means the destruction of these environments under capitalism has the potential to deal irreparable damage to the genetic diversity of the world.
In fact the most ecologically biodiverse habitats on the planet today even after all of the devastating losses and damages are wetlands and estuaries followed by tropical rainforests and freshwater and coastal ecosystems. The soil thus is perhaps the most important habitat for life on Earth especially complex life.
Thus the protection of the soil is paramount to preserving biodiversity and reversing the impacts of climate change."
Remember every time we look closely at the soil we are still discovering new species ecological niches and even phylum of microorganisms which previously were unknown to science parts of the so called microbial dark matter which has been neglected by our biased search mechanisms focused on isolating individual organisms for study rather than the looking at the interconnected complex soil ecologies that have built up over hundreds of millions to billions of years.
@@Dragrath1thanks. Can U give me the sources of your explanation.
Important to note that the kinds of technology that gets developed depends on what the current economy is like. So if we were farming to actually feed people instead of just for profit, over time we'd be inventing different things to better suit that goal (and likewise for every other industry). Just to expand on your good point that better, non-capitalist farming doesn't mean a return to the middle ages.
We aren't farming for profit we are farming after a system set up with subsides that twist an otherwise diverse system where innovation could happen into a homogeneous system that does only what the lobbyist controlled government demands
I'm going to start regenerative farming in Puerto Rico, they import 85% of their food even though it probably has one of the most fertile soil.
Finally someone smart using market to fix things, the commies here will be angry! 😂
Very well done. I work a very large food and nutrition NGO with a presence across Africa and Asia. We work closely with UN agencies and with governments around the world. I think you covered a lot of very pertinent points here, albeit with a bit of a US focus. A good analysis.
I think it would have been right to talk about nutrition outcomes as well as environmental and socioeconomic issues.
I think it's also important to continue acknowledging the need for more nutritious food on less land. We can't really compromise on overall yield, so your final note on mixed production systems was excellent. Needless to say, we should also be tackling food loss and waste alongside.
Thanks for shining a light on this. The most critical item on the world's agenda.
Keep it up bro your videos are extremely important, we need more videos to have more information to help with the fight, we need people to share videos every social media documentation and more content the more we're able to pinpoint the harm to individual entities I feel it will be easier to force them to change
you are genuinely one of the most important creators on this platform. Thank you for everything you do.
This is very good, but i wish it focused even for a minute or two more on solutions based perspectives, namely Permaculture and Permaculture economics (please read appleseed permachltures 8 forms of capital if you havent already).
Thanks for making this important video!
Solution videos don’t get as many vas scare videos.
Communists aren't known for providing practical solutions.
And regenerative agriculture and land management! World eco forum is talking about it
@@MyMaya55 WEF is an example of exactly the kind of institutions that are causing the crises described in the video above.
Interesting the author doesn't mention animal agriculture much - most of the monoculture farming is to feed animals.
Eg. Less than 3% of soybeans grown globally are consumed directly by humans
Even smaller numbers for corn
If you think that this video doesn't mention animal agriculture then you weren't paying attention to the part of the video beginning at 1:45 that states that the two primary crops grown by farmers are corn and soybeans and that 38% of corn goes toward the production of ethanol and another 38% goes toward animal feed.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 yes but other than that it was not mentioned at all... There are many other factors of animal farming - land use, water use, deforestation, water pollution, sewerage etc. None of these were addressed and the focus seemed to be centred on monoculture - hypothetically if animal agriculture was stopped, 70%+ of current agricultural land can be reforested equivalent to total land mass of Russia, Canada and USA combined, monoculture for human will have almost no impact if that much world was reforested...
@@Pat-Man So the video could have have addressed the animal ag issue more. So you say. Maybe a future video will do so. For what it said I thought it was pretty good.
Reforesting programs are vital which is one thing China and India have invested effort in and that is just a beginning. We also have to stop burning and cutting forests which is just as big an issue.
I appreciate you making these videos very educational into the point keep going
What else seems missing from this equation that used to bolster soil quality is compost. Living in a small rural Canadian town with parents who grew a vegetable garden I was deeply familiar with the process of recycling the vast array of leftover food into a potent fertilized soil over the course of a couple years. This made sure that the garden never lacked nutrients.
If all the extra food that ends up in landfills were to instead be composted and returned to the field it would likely also reverse some of the damage and keep soil healthy along side polycropping.
Another fantastic video, even the first minute is riveting. Thanks!
I live in a suburb and firmly believe that if we were allowed to grow truly organic food on the common areas as well as our entire yards, the US would never again have a food shortage issue aside from meat (because the average yard isn't big enough to handle a cow, for instance) 1/3 of American homes are suburbs and it doesn't take much square footage to grow enough to feed your family and give the excess away. This is why billionaires keep manipulating the weather and calling it "climate change"...the idea of people being independent from their GMO and fiat systems keeps them up at night. Sanction them all, I say. Polluting corporations are the most evil of the world's criminals and they need to be abolished.
Thanks for great content. I eat plant based whole foods with occasional products like peanut butter and do my best to avoid plastic and buy ethically.
Living In Switzerland already 5 years, clear air, healthy meat and vegetables. Never got ill here, not even small flu or headache
Everyone who has a garden should use it either for nature (e.g. insect freindliness) or grwowing threir own food.
We had interesting stuff here left over from ww2, with allotment gardens! they became especially common to help families survive shortages and rations. I wish we could use these things more again!
There is also another aspect of diversification: A lot of people that become depressed in their jobs and there are also people without job. This is a lot of work-force free for doing small scale agriculture. I believe that a lot of people would find much more purpose in life by growing food than by serving some greedy company etc.
We grow corn and soy beans massively because it’s what we use to feed cattle. This is the biggest driver of deforestation.
Saying this just in case the video wasn’t depressing enough 😅
My employer is fond of the slogan, "health for all and hunger for none." All too often, we hear leadership say, "hunger for all, health for none." Freudian slip? 😂😮
This video is a real eye opener! 👍
People eating only or at least mostly a plant and mushroom based diet would solve all these issues. Consuming meat just uses too much land on earth. The land that is not needed can be rewilded for nature and reduce carbon emissions.
Such a beautifully made video so insightful ,this not only exposes an issue but also poses great ideas for how things can be made better ! I fundimentally agree that systemic change is neccesary ! How can we expect to see postive shifts if we're still reliant on a system that at its core is unethical ,unsustainable and destructive. Ty for giving me hope 🙌🏽💖
Producing food could be properly valued, so could education and medicine if these things were not commodities. This is impossible as long as the world is run by corporate executives and shareholders. As long as private property exits, those that own the most of it will control those that don’t. If you don’t personally use it, you should not be allowed to own it. These things should be held and controlled in common, with the costs and benefits common. We kind of have that now, but only the costs are socialized. The profits accumulate in the hands of fewer than 1% of people.
Why don’t you start a biz and get rich - stop complain
@@Fister-kw5un escaping the system changes it how?
How can we start to reform or replace the systems that are no longer serving us?
You can’t.
Very enlightening. Thanks for sharing this.
Sustainability is not possible to achieve under our current system. Radical change is not only necessary, it is a must.
okay I need an exhaustive list of what is not killing us cause that'll be much shorter.
meanwhile, the ceo of walmart chooses to pay themselves a half million dollars a day instead of taking even a penny of that amount of money they wouldn't be able to spend in five lifetimes and start looking into partnerships with small and midsize polycrop farms regional to their stores. if the ceos of the 3 top u.s. grocery retailers took 10 percent of their current pay and invested it in programs that brought regional crops into the main retail market, they would still have an amount of money they should be embarrassed to claim and maybe some of this destruction would slow down.
I am having trouble finding the claim you made at 20:50 in your source document, could you help me find it?
I’m allergic to some pesticides and the FDA does not require disclosure of pesticides used on foods so it’s a gamble every time I eat pretty much anything
I mean it’s really not possible for them to label that. It’d be a logistical nightmare to track that, and impossible to know what specific products had been used in a given sample. Let’s say you buy a loaf of bread. They need flour, sugar and vegetable oil to name a few. Each of those components will have a least one supplier. And each supplier is going to be taking raw product from likely hundreds of farmers at least. And each farmer will have a different chemical program. And even within each farm there’s going to be different products used. In our farm we vary our program by year and field and such. There’s such an absurd number of variables that it’s impossible to know what products were used to grow the crop that eventually was processed into your food.
Love the quality of your productions, I also watch on nebula.. but it's not possible to leave comments there😊
This channel has only gotten better over the years. Keep it up.
Agriculture is such a passion of mine I’m so excited about this video
The Haber-Bosch process, the one villified for the fertilizer production, is the only thing that allows us to feed literally billions of people, small scale farming is not only more carbon intensive but also completely inefficient in terms of labor and costs. The specialization of labor is what lead from a subsistence economy in which the majority of people were employed in agriculture, to a society in which people are free to choose a carrier and the socalled commodification of food is what lead to a drastic decrease in famines. I'm not saying that the gigafarm economies of the US are not damaging to the environment, but that's a political decision to overlook negative externalities in exchange for votes, but this needs to be changed with political engagement to reach more collectivistic models of production such as producers associations in the EU. The quiet part that needs to be said outlout is that when someone spouts ideas that can work for feeding millions of people at higher cost is what to do when the bilions that need food will come banging at their doors, one is implicitly saying that those people don't deserve what we have, aka cheap and widely available food
The use of Haber-Bosch nitrogen is not only destructive to the soil and the planet it’s also exceedingly inefficient requiring large amounts of energy to heat air to over 600° f.
Instead, if healthy soil conditions are created and the soil can now breath - literally inhaling oxygen and exhaling co2 - a diversity of microbial life in the soil can take the nitrogen from the air ( air is roughly 78% nitrogen) and convert it so that plants can use it.
Fossil fuels are finite and our soils and plants are addicted to them. There is a better way and we really have no choice but to follow how nature does it
Awesome video, very informative, loved it, thank you so much.
I don't spread fertiliser indiscriminately on my feald. Do you know how expensive it is. I use soils testing and variable rate spreading and gps to get the exact amount it needs.
I guess you could go organic but the yields would not be enough to feed us
Condolidation is actually a great thing, as it allows for economy of scale to take hold, and better plan out crop differentiation.
Cheaper prices too. Industrial ag is best thing that ever happened to poor people.
@@Fister-kw5unObjectively not, most poor people used to be ok off farmers which got ousted out of their farms and ended up in cities as proletariat.
But today it's a necessity for the poor.
I feel there was a huge missed opportunity to include ruminant animals in regard to regenerative agriculture here. The best way to build soil and provide the highest quality protein and nutrients for humans, especially since animal-based food bioavailability is nearly 100% vs. plant-based foods where the bioavilability is maybe 50%... this means more nutrients and protein with less food.
"Regenerative" animal agriculture has been debunked. It produces more emissions and destroys far more habitat than CAFOs. Meat consumption is also associated negative health outcomes compared to plant protein consumption which is associated with positive health outcomes.
50% is on the high end accutaly
The video mentioned that synthetic fertilizers generate nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. Another source of nitrous oxide is manure. It also generates methane, which is 80 times more potent than CO2 in the first 20 years, and 20 times more over 100 years. Raising cows is a major cause of methane and nitrous oxide due to the sheer number of them being raised.
Raising cows is NOT a major of producer - that conspiracy Theo has been DEBUNKED!
Bruh those substances aren't made by cows from thin air, they're inside the grass they eat. And this gas is absorbed again by new grass
Methane breaks down after aroind 12 years though… so I’ve got no clue where you’re pulling these figures from.
is there a better livestock animal for meat? besides poultry.
@@troodontidae9174 I used to think that animal products were needed in the human diet for us to thrive. I now know that is not the case. A properly plannned plant based diet gives us the best chance of a longer and healthier life. Rather than finding the best type of animal to raise and consume, just switch to a fully plant based food production system, possibly augmented by precision fermentation and clean, cultured meat produced with lab technology. Fish would be better from a health standpoint, but even that often contains heavy metals, PCB's, and microplastics, so I get my Omega 3 from other sources. Farmed fish is an environmental nightmare, and has its own health problems. The commercial fishing industry is a direct attack on biodiversity.
I stopped using chemical fertilizers two years ago. Mainly use, goat, chicken, rabbit manure. I also have chicken tractors that double for the rabbits. My lawn has never looked so green and lush. My garden did better than last year when i switched. Nature doesn't need a tiller to grow. Mimic nature.
Do one on regenerative agriculture please
It should be mentioned that this method of agriculture is heavily subsidized, justified by "national security."
very not stoked to see i will be alive for probably the most extreme escalation of suffering on the planet.
Great video
Amazing video
Eating a plant based diet is the single most effective way to reduce our individual impact on the planet.
Individual impact is a scam, tho. We're not a group of individuals, we're a society. As such, we need to care about our societal impact, about the systems we use
Getting rid of capitalism is the best
@@meyer6891okay put another way. Society moving to a plant based diet would be a silver bullet to deal with climate change in the short term buying humanity some time to enact the rest of necessary actions. Happy? 😊
@@RaulGarcia-vr1jx There are some nuances that would be interesting to discuss, but you do sound reasonable and didn't insult me. Appreciated.
@@RaulGarcia-vr1jxthe only way to stop climate change is by dismantling capitalism and installing socialism. Because it’s either socialism or extinction.
where does ammonium nitrate comes in such huge quantity? and the explosion in berut, lebenon was caused by same chemical?
I ONLY buy food from local farms in summer. Sometimes even in winter from their cold storage
i am not a chemist or agriculturist but would it be possible to extract the hydrogen and oxygen from seawater via electrolysis and then use that to manufacture hydrogen-based fertilizer? nitrogen could be put in the soil via nitrogen fixing crops, like beans, corn, soybeans, and others, and other metals could be supplied from natural sources, ideally mined in subterranean environments to minimize impact to the ecosystem
Electrolysis is a non spontaneous reaction so it doesn’t want to seperate from water on its own. It would take large amounts of energy and precious materials to integrate it in an industrial scale. Even if it were implemented t would need to be profitable under capitalism and the energy used would 100% be fossil fuels and such reactions can/may create co2 as a byproduct. This is just what I remember from high school chemistry so I am probably wrong on the specifics.
Animal production is integral to the health of the soil microbiome. Feeding animals that upcycle crops into invaluable proteins and amino acids for human consumption is as necessary to human health as minerals and vitamins we need from fruits and veggies.
This is important!
What if we concentrated CSA farms in communities that are food desserts to feed the local communities; focus on growing biodiverse plants that clean the air and nourish the soil; while simultaneously reinstituting tree save ordinances to eradicate clear cutting for development?
Great video!!!
Here's some suggestions for further inspiration to replace agrocapitalism with a more resilient, ecological and humane system:
*We will have to talk about meat and especially beef: after the revolution, global trade in feed and big-footprint food products like some meats should be contested as well as their subsidies. People shouldn't be forced into a strict vegetarianism, but many of these luxurious foods should return to become items for rare festivities and celebrations. It seems a kind of cultural revolution will be required to accomplish such a transformation in the consumption.
*To replace the heavy soil-damaging machinery, but not forego on their labour-saving effect, maybe the model of the Aztec-Mexican chinampas could be revisited and reinvigorated: you'd have a system of crop-growing islands interwoven with a system of sufficiently deep canals. The harvesters would be boats on these canals (with mowers extending from the sides of the boat over these crop-islands). A bit of basic physics shows that such a boat doesn't put additional pressure on the canal-bed as a combine does on the soil, i.e. there's no reason to scale down this kind of boat-harvester. The traditional advantages of chinampas like additional aquaculture opportunities, a regenerative erosion+dredging dynamic etc. could be retained.
*GMO research imho should continue with a focus in trying to create crops with nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with soil bacteria (like the fabaceae in the current agriculture system). The current nitrogen-predicament, with losses due to runoff exceeding 50%, is unacceptable, and organic farming doesn't manage to do much better in a convincing way. If one approaches this issue in a sober way, the only other way out seems either via a paradigm of growing food in bioreactors. If both these solutions don't come about, I'm suspecting that the nitrogen crisis and a related stress on biodiversity may continue well into the 22nd century, or the crisis recedes in too slow a fashion... Note that GMO research has miserably failed in that assignment of nitrogen-fixation so far (and I'm not the only one identifying this as a key historical failure)
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Stop talking and start doing. That the problem with commies , one day I’ll do it…..
dr elaine inghams explanation on the soil food web and composting
Funnily a video about farms shutting down due to government policy came up as an ad, those rich people trying to tell me that the government they control wants complete control is interesting.
this is so important
About time this video was made
There are so many government subsidies for crop insurance for corn and soybeans that farming isn’t real a free capitalist market. If it was free of subsidies wouldn’t farmers change crops as the demand for various crops go up and down?
That’s not what crop insurance is. Crop insurance is coverage for if there’s a drought or flood of something that takes out your crop, not if you don’t like the market price.
Yes. We're here. 👋🤠
Any farmer “spraying fertilizer indiscriminately”, or wasting resources in any way, will be out of business within 2 seasons unless subsidized by Big Brother or another wealthy relative.
Way forward : agroforestry, natural farming, minimulism, vegterian diet
nitrogene fertilizers also make plants weaken and attract diseases, plus reduce the nutritional value of food.
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient to grow any crop, without it you would produce nothing.
Simple question: If no organic matter on big farms, then what happens to all the corn stalks, wheat straw, bean/ potato/ tomato vines, etc.? All of those are always present in very large quantity at every harvest.
Don’t introduce FACTS into the conversation, you will confuse commies!
they are left on the field to decompose to keep the nutrients in the ground normally, they are chopped up and then tilled into the soil
There is organic matter. This video is mostly misinformation. Anyway high residue crops like you mentioned build organic matter. Over time it’s natural for some organi matter to mineralize into nutrients over time, but at the same time there’s new organic matter being formed.
Food should be free. At least some of the basic forms of it such as harvests.
Growing food should not be a business, but an intrinsic duty of society. Society has a duty to house and feed their fellow citizens before anything else.
I need to have the security that I have a roof over my head and I don't starve before I can be an actually productive member of society....
How is anyone supposed to help push society forwards if one has to put all that effort into not getting evicted or starve for the month...
By remembering that the goal is "not" for you to thrive and reach the potential to overtake the ones making the rules who wouldn't need to worry if they simply made fair rules from the start.
Based
Also look on the trees they tell a story of what they can give. There are many seals on trees. Apple trees can protect against fire. Fire is also one of the elements for new life. Go and look at Agni Fire and the benefits. Apple trees also make the soil more fertile.
The revolution is green!🌱 we need more hands on board making the current food system redundant.
This will work out great if people come to work at the farm for food.
And this is why greenhouse horticulture is so good. Lower land use, less water use, fewer (or no) pesticides, etc
And higher prices in greenhouse farms. Be honest.
It also requires a lot of very expensive infrastructure that isn’t practical at a large scale.
@@Beyonder8335 that depends on what you mean by "large scale". For many products it is possible to grow all of it in greenhouses, and not all greenhouses require very expensive infrastructure.
For crops like wheat and corn it probably won't be worth it, but for things like tomatoes, lettuce etc it is clearly the better option
@@Ruud_Brouwer yes it does make sense in some cases. Both have their place and neither is a replacement for the other.
@@Beyonder8335 tomatoes in greenhouses are a clear replacement for tomatoes in open field
The industrial tactics you describe may be needed by monocrop industrial food producers to be profitable. My diversified farm, similar to Polyface Farm, I’d profitable and good for the environment and the plants and animals on the farm.
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It Started with Greed!!!!
I totally understand that famers are being forced to focus on short-term profits rather than sustainibility, nature and human health or promoting biodiversity. Nevertheless, intensified farming that is specialized, uses fertilizers and pesticides also ensures that the least amount of land is used right? If food is produced by small farms the overall land needed will almost certainly be greater or not? Overall a really informative and convincing video!
You just debunked the entire video - small farms are extremely inefficient!
So what should we do? :( @@Fister-kw5un
They produce biofuel from Fossil fuel? Does it make sense? Without donations from goverment to food production?
Wheat farms are captive to the fertilizer system. Yields no longer increase and require more to maintain yields. Any desire to go away from the current system means fallowed fields for 5-10 years.
I like industrial farms. They help us from starving to death.
So much research went into this excellent video. Wow. Hard to refute the details he’s presenting and the articles he’s using. Subscribed. Impossible to change this commodity based system however. Not when the worlds most powerful companies hire the best lobbyists and create the biggest conflict of interest the world has ever seen.
There is a better way. The solutions are beautiful !
We are not killing the world. Whether the food is eaten is on the purchaser. Not the grower
What if there was a law that said schools everywhere had to have a (small, organic, diverse, native) vegetable garden or something? There could a person or a few that takes care of their local school individual garden. And have a gardening class showing the kids how to grow their own food. There could also be a cooking class and make local dishes. And maybe compost or whatever. Idk
That makes so much sense its frustrating that it hasn't been adopted nationwide. There are some schools that practice this but they are rare exception.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 The WEF and rich globalists want to control every one.Starvation is a strong manipulation tool.Research Agenda 2 1 and Agenda 2 O 3 O.thrugh sustainable agriculture, sustainable cities to control the population and control people_ s movements.
@michaeldeierhoi4096 Yeah, I’m glad that you agree that it’s a good idea. Hopefully more schools start practicing it. I wonder how laws are made or how it would be made possible. I’m guessing a principal of school board or mayor or governor or president or something but I don’t know. Or maybe if popular people made fun videos about it. I heard that a school garden committee is a thing.
How do you say go plant based without saying go plant based? this video 🔥
If you really want to reduce the monoculture soy production the best thing you can do is eating less meat and more plants directly as meat production is very inefficient. And you don't need to wait for society to change at it's core but can do good right now! #govegan
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this is the best video you've made thus far. it's an incredibly in depth, and accuratet dismantling of the agricultural industry. i don't know how the notion that we are growing products, not food, never came to me but im glad i was introduced to it, because it's exactly what's being done. acres of monoculture, depleted soil, places that were once biodiverse ecosystems, turned into dead, wastelands, for profit and animal feed, with no regard for the earth. it makes me extremely sad but concepts like solar punk and perma culture give me hope for the future.