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the way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10th but the image that used to sell the food it is still the imagery of agrarian America you going to the supermarket and you see pictures of farmers the picket fence in The Silo in the 30s farmhouse in the green grass  it's the spinning of his past role fan modern American supermarket has on average 47000 products there are no seasons in the American supermarket made us all year round brown Halfway Around the World picked when it was green and ripened with ethylene gas although it looks like it's Meto it's kind of a notional tomato I mean it's the idea of a tomato in the meat aisle there no bones anymore there is this deliberate valve is curtain let's drop between us and where our food is coming from the industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating because if you knew you might not want to eat it if you follow the food chain back from those shrink wrap packages of meat you find a very different reality the reality is a fact Turner Farm to factory  that meat is being processed by huge multinational corporations that have very little to do with ranches your food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused and the food is become much more dangerous in ways that are being deliberately hidden from us  I just got a small group of Monash and corporations who spoil the entire food system  from seed to the supermarket they're gaining Patrol food just about what we're eating this is about what we're allowed to say what were allowed to know it's not just our health that's at risk the companies don't want Farmers talking they don't want this story told how about a nice chicken sub Sammy's Vegas pressure cooker chicken General Nexus that's a nice idea but I think what I'd really like is a burger favorite meal to the state remains a hamburger and french fries I had no idea that a handful of cup is it changed what we eat and how we make our food  Simon eating his food all my life without having any idea where it comes any idea how powerful this industry is and it was this the idea of this world deliberately hidden from us think that's one of the reasons why I became an investigative reporter was take the veil lift the veil away from you know important subjects that are being hidden the whole industrial food system really began with fast food 1930 is a new form of restaurant arrives and it was called the drive-in  the McDonald Brothers had a very successful but they decided to cut costs and simplify so they fired all their car hops they got rid of most of the things on the menu when they created a revolutionary idea to how to run a restaurant and they basically brought the factory system to the back of the restaurant kitchen they trained each worker to just do one thing again and again and again by having workers who only had to do one thing they could pay them low-wage and it was very easy to find someone to replace them it was an expensive food that tasted good and this McDonald's fast food restaurant was a huge huge success that mentality of uniformity Conformity and cheapest applied widely and on a large scale has all unintended consequences when McDonald's is the largest purchaser of I'm beef in United States and they want their hamburgers to taste every where exactly the same they change how ground beef is produced the McDonald's corporation is the largest purchaser of potatoes in one of the largest purchasers pork chicken tomatoes lettuce even apples  these big big fast food chains want big suppliers I now there are essentially a handful of companies controlling our food system in the 1970s the top 5 beef Packers controlled only about 25% of the market  today the top 4 control more than 80% of the market the same thing happening now in pork even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant your now eating meat this being produced by this system you look at the labels and you see farmer this farmer that it's really just three or four companies they're controlling the meat we've never had food companies this big and this powerful in our history  Tyson Chapel is the biggest Meat Packing Company in history of the world the industry change the entire way the chicken or raised birds are now raised and slaughtered in half the time they were 50 years ago but now they're twice as big  people like to eat white meat so they redesign the chicken to have large breasts  they not only change the chicken they change the farmer today chicken Farmers no longer control their Birds a company like Tyson owns the birds today they're dropped off until the day that they're slaughtered I go to the top National chicken Council industry has really set a model for the integration of production and processing and marketing of the products that other Industries are now following because they CW the chief tremendous economies the way or not producing chickens British food  it's all highly mechanized  so all the birds coming off those Farms have to be almost exactly the same size what is System of intentions production accomplishes is to produce a lot of food small amount of land had a very affordable price in Somebody explain to me what's wrong with that smells like money to me 16 chicken houses sets here  Chuck fun for over top of the hill the chicken industry came in here and it's help this whole Community out where's my chicken out of the deer I have about $300,000 you can what you want we have a contract with Tyson growing chickens for many many years and it's all a sign they got it figured out if you could grow a chicken in 49 days why would you want one you got to grow in 3 months more money in your pocket Chris Jacobs never cease unlock watching the dark all the time so you think they just want to keep us at  I don't know if I knew I'd tell you it would be nice if could save what we really do but you know but as far as y'all going in that's we can't let you do it I understand why farmers don't want to talk because the company can do what it wants to do as far as pay since I control everything but it's just gotten to the point that it's not right what's going on and I've just made up online. go to say what I have to say I understand why others don't want to do it and I'm just to point the it doesn't matter anymore and something has to be said it is nasty in here there's dust flying everywhere there feces everywhere this isn't forming this is just mass production like an assembly line in a factory  when grow from a check then in seven weeks of got a five and a half pound chicken their bones in their internal organs can't keep up with the rapid growth lot of these chickens here they can take a few steps and then they flopped down it's because they can't keep up with all the wings of Carrie that's normal there's antibiotics that's put into the feed and of course that passes through the chick in the bacteria builds up a so any biotics aren't working anymore  I have become allergic to all antibiotics and can't take them when it's dark inside the houses chickens lay it's less resistance when they're being caught  traditionally it's been can American men now we're seeing more and more Latino catchers undocumented workers and from their point of view they don't have any rights and they're just not going to complain you know the companies like these time for is it matter if the chickens get sick all of the chickens can go to the plant for processing the companies keep the farmers under their thumb because of the debt the farmers have  to build one poultry house is anywhere from $280,000 to $300,000 per house once you make your initial investment the company is constantly come back with demands of upgrades for new equipment and the has no choice they have to do it or you're threatened with loss of a contract  this is how they keep the farmers under so it's how they keep them spending money going to the bank and borrowing more money and the debt just keeps building no say in your business and it's degrading if it's like being a slave to the company the idea that you would need to write a book telling people where their food Trump is just a sign of how far removed we become  six to me that we're entitled to know about our food who owns it how are they making can I have a look in the kitchen  you know when I wanted to understand the industrial food system what I said about doing was very simple I wanted to trace the source of my food when you go through the supermarket what looks like this Cornucopia Variety in is not  there is an illusion of diversity there only a few companies involved and they're only a few crops involved  what really surprised me most as I follow that food back to its source I kept ending up in the same place and that was a cornfield in Iowa  Soma of our industrial food turns out to be clever rearrangements of corn horn has conquered the world in a lot of ways minute is a remarkable plant  100 years no a farmer in American can grow maybe twenty bushels of corn in an acre today 200 bushels is no problem that's an astonishing and cheese for which breeders deserve credit for which fertilizer makers deserve credit for which pesticide makers all deserve credit in the United States today 30% of our land bases is being planted corn that's largely driven by government policy government policy that in effect allows us to cruise corn below the cost of production through the matter is as we're paid to overproduce and it was caused by these large multinational interest  Louise Montgomery corn is the cargill's the 80s Tyson Smithfield they have an interest in purchasing corn below cost of production use that interest in that extensive amount of money they have to fly be Congress to give us the kind of farm bills we now have  FarmVille we should really be called the food bill codified the rules of the entire food economy  Farm policy is always focused on these commodity crops because you store  we encourage Farmers to grow as much corn they could grow to get big to consolidate we subsidize the farmers by the bushel  witnessed a lot of corn and they came up with uses for it we are now engineering our Foods we know where to turn to for certain traits like Moundsville and then flavors and we bring all of these pieces together engineer new foods that don't stale in the refrigerator don't develop rancidity across the advanced in recent years was high fructose corn syrup  you know but I would venture to guess if you go and look on the supermarket show I'll bet you 90% of them would contain either a corn or soy bean ingredient and most the time what contain both corn is great raw materials and get that big fat kernel of starch can you can break that down and reassemble it and you can make high fructose corn syrup in you can make multi dextrin and diglycerides and xanthan gum and the scorebig all the all those obscure ingredients on the process food to remarkable how many of them can be made from corn plus you can feed it to animals main component in feed ingredients roads chicken Hogs cattle you name it increasingly were feeding the corn to the fish mother reading the happy hour or the farm salmon we're teaching fish how do you corn  the fact that we had so much keep corn really allowed us to drive down the price of meat  me the average American is eating over 200 pounds of meat per person that wouldn't be possible had we not offend in this diet of cheap grain  since you're selling corn if I will the price of production the feedlot operator can buy corn at a fraction of what it cost to grow so that all the animals are dropped off of all the farms in the Midwest there is a spider web of roads and in train Max all around the country moving horn from where it's being grown to to these k photos  text cows are not designed by Evolution to eat corn their design by Evolution egrass and the only reason we feed them corn because corn is really cheap and corn makes them fat quickly where you putting your hand I'm actually inside the Rumba but first compartment of the stomach  it's not it's kind of hard to you can see the the liquid card here is that hurt the cat no  there's how to organize bacteria in the room millions of the animals evolved on on consuming grass there's some Mercer indicates that the high corn diet results in heat coli that are are acid resistant and these would be done more harm ecoli  so you feed corn to cattle and E coli which is common bug in a certain mutation occurs and a strain called that you coli o157 H7 appears on the world stage  that's a product of the diet we're feeding cattle on feed lots and is the product of feedlot life the animals stand ankle-deep in their manure all day long so that if one cow has it the other cows will get it when I get to the slaughter house their hides are kicked with manure  and if the slaughterhouse is slaughtering 400 animals an hour how do you keep that newer from getting on to those carcasses and that's how them in or gets in the meat  and now the thing that wasn't in the world it's in the food system a fast food nightmare maybe getting worse a two-year-old child died today in Seattle and the killer painted made from Jack and the hamburgers in Nationwide recall today for more than 140 tons of ground be half a million pounds of ground beef Nationwide recall ecola isn't Justin ground beef now it's been found in spinach apple juice and this is really because the runoff from our Factory Farms confirmed cases of E coli poisoning last decade for years during the Bush Administration the chief of staff at the USDA was the former Chief lobbyist to the beef industry in Washington head of the FDA was the former Executive Vice President of the national Food Processors Association these regulatory agencies are being controlled are there companies that they're supposed to be scrutinizing gout there's always been food poisoning as more and more of technology is being applied to the production of food you would think of the beginning safer I'm not more contaminated but the processing plants have gotten bigger and bigger is just perfect for taking bad pathogens and spreading them and why the recall a frozen hamburger now includes  how many pounds of meat to make a fast food hamburger for every adult in America being recalled  in the 1970s there were literally thousands of slaughterhouses in the United States and today we have 13 slaughterhouses process the majority of beef that is sold in the United States the hamburger of today it has pieces of thousands of different cattle ground up in that one hamburger patty  the odds increase exponentially the one of those animals was carrying a dangerous pathogen most remarkable how to flush our regulatory agencies are when you look closely on it and that's how the industry wants it this is you building up here  did Josh say how much time he thought we get five minutes I've got to be run time for that meeting starts at 4 so if I start going like that or if I start shuffling papers thank you thank you I'm a registered Republican I've always been fairly conservative I never thought I would be doing this and I certainly never thought I would be working so closely with my mom we go this way I think that's the way we want to go my mom and I have in our relationship is taking on a whole new dimension 2421 hello how are you cat Park Washington after the first big push to establish food standards people just got Play We reduced funding for the FDA we relied increasingly on self-policing for all of these industries and now we just have really lost our our system you know you're really one of the Champions on the hill for food safety nets important cause it's very personal to me and my family really are fruit safety advocacy work started six years ago when my two-and-a-half-year-old son Kevin was stricken with E coli o157 H7 and went from being perfectly healthy beautiful little boy have a small picture with me today that was Taken 2 weeks before he got sick he went from that to being dead in 12 days in July 2001 our family took a vacation had we known what was in store for us we would never gone home  we ended up eating three hamburgers before he got sick  we started to see blood and and Kevin's diarrhea so we took him to the emergency room we've gotten the culture back from Kevin's stool and he has hemorrhagic e.coli they came in and informed us to Kevin's kidneys are starting to fail  Kevin received his first dialysis treatment he was not allowed to really drink water we had these little sponges and we were allowed to dip that in cup of water and then give him that  and she  bit the head off of 101 you've never seen someone fake he paid for water it was all he could talk about it wouldn't let anybody bring any any reach into the room because he knew it was all he would talk about  water I don't know if you knew what was happening to him and  I hope I don't know to watch this beautiful child go from being perfectly healthy to dead in 12 days  it was just unbelievable that this could happen from eating food  what was even kind of adding more insult to injury it took us almost two or three years and higher private attorney to actually find out that we matched meat recall on August 1st my son was already in the hospital they did a ecoli test of the plant that was Paz they didn't end up recalling that meet until August 27th 16 days after he died sure we will I'd love to have you come and testify who keep fighting you never get over the death of your child you find you normal  we're going this way  you put Faith in our government to protect us and we're not being protected in a most basic level  the 1998 the USDA how many micro do testing for salmonella and E coli o157 H7  the idea was that if a repeatedly failed these tests that the USDA was shut the plant down because I obviously had an ongoing contamination problem  theme associations immediately took the USDA to court  the courts basically said the USDA didn't have the authority to shut down the plants what it meant was that you know you could have a pound of meat or poultry products that is a petri dish of salmonella and Rusty really can't do anything about it  the new law was introduced in direct response and this lot became turn is Kevin's Law it seems like such a clear-cut common sense type thing we've been working for six years and it still hasn't passed all this time you know I think from the standpoint of the consumer lot of people wouldn't support the idea of paying a little more if they could be guaranteed today you know safety let you know I also know that there are other players you know in the food production change the 10 to 10 about that because it's going to be seen as an add-on to their cost and I think the advantage here is sometimes it does feel like industry was more protected than my and that's what motivated me to become an advocate in the past year alone there have been a multitude of foodborne illness outbreaks which resulted in significant losses clearly our current approach to food oversight and protection is not meeting the needs of American families it's really hard for me to call Kevin story but the only way I'm going to be able to prevent it from happening to other people is to go out there and speak about it sixer elementary schools what is the sibling in the nurse another one in another County in Kentucky so it will be 7 years since my son died  all I wanted to company to do was say we're sorry we defective product that killed your child and this is what we're going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again that's all we wanted need dustrial food system is always looking for greater efficiency but each new Step inefficiency leads to problems which cake feedlot cattle off of their corn diet give them grass for 5 days they will shed 80% of the coli and their got through course the industry's approaches when it has a systemic problem like that is not to go back and see what's wrong with the system it's to come up with some high-tech fixes that allow the system stop bye bye five products search dang gold level 11 this is our Operation Center we control all of our chance from here Chicago George Utah Kansas-Nebraska Texas La Ohio all levels of the gearbox speed of motors and we can change those all from here but don't something that deal with them on food safety standpoint if you think we're ahead of every we think we can listen to incidence of E coli o157 H7 find a star open with ammonia and ammonia hydroxide  Livonia kills bacteria  four became a processing tool I'm really a mechanic that's really why I am  we design our own machinery this is our finished product most of the hamburgers in the country percent five years we think we'll be in a hundred percent  we do have some competitors I think we're going to beat them  is it getting some Mary Science and Technology I want to know stop milk five rodeos cheeseburger chicken sandwich to a small drinks and give me a large dr. pepper thank you Winter Haven think about healthy eating because we used to think everything was healthy  thank you just thank you very much now that I know this the food is really unhealthy for us I feel guilty giving it to my kids  but we don't have time to cook because we leave at we don't get home until 9:10 night  when you have only a dollar to spend and you have two kids to feed can you go to the market and try to find something that's cheap or just go straight through a drive-thru and get to small hamburgers for them okay here I eat them what's going to fill her up now don't that one single item that at the market look at the Broncos  suspension what did you want first check to see how many are there for a pound butler names why not you don't like two or three need to find candy that's cheaper you can find chips that are cheaper the sodas are really cheap  sometimes you look at a vegetable and say okay what can get two hamburgers over here for the same amount of price  why is it that you can buy a double cheeseburger at McDonalds for $0.99 can you can't even get a head of broccoli for $0.99  we've skewed our food system to the bad calories and and it's not an accident the reason that those calories are cheaper is because those are the ones were heavily subsidizing  when is Easter retards of the kind of Agriculture that we're practicing in the kind of farm houses we have all those snack food calories are the ones that come from the commodity crops the wheat from the corn and from the soybeans by making those calories really cheap that's one of the reasons that the biggest predictor of obesity is income over the course of human history we were struggling to make sure we had enough food and enough calories for a sizable percentage of the human race now the problem too many calories  the industry claims obesity on a crisis of personal responsibility but when your engineering Foods you are pressing our evolutionary Bots I mean the fact is we're hardwired to go for three tastes Salt Fat and sugar these things are very rare natured now sugar available 24/7 a tremendous Plum days where we getting hundreds of pounds of the stuff a year this diet of high what does corn syrup and refined carbohydrates leads to these spikes of insulin and gradually a wearing down of the system by which our body metabolize my husband said betok one of my main concerns is he can lose his sight  he he does get into some sometimes shaking cuz I'm afraid that he's going to start not been able to drive cuz that's what he does for a profession we have to consider his medicine what is it $70 but he's on two different types of pills 100 something for one pill and then a hundred something for another that takes a lot of our income away  we're really tight I'm either paying for his medicine to be healthy or buying vegetables to be healthy so which one should we do it's hard to see my dad suffering with diabetes and stuff like that and it's really sad to see that talking my sister might have it there's something that's going on in the way that we that we live our lives and where we play and where we buy our food in the types of food that were able to buy that is causing this epidemic and it's not just Community everywhere how many of us know one person in our family with diabetes how about 2 three keep your hand  it used to be the type 2 diabetes only affected adults and now it's affecting children epidemic proportions everything we've done in MA industrial agriculture Hyster growing faster fatter bigger cheaper nobody's thinking about ecoline type 2 diabetes and the echo logical health of the whole system  for outsourcing autonomous farmer decision play King Without forcing. To corporate boardrooms in big cities a thousand miles away where people make decisions and don't live with the consequences of those visions anything is grass based or or dead cows or chicken manure like you know they feed right here in the valley or dead chickens they actually eat grass porridge no Clover grass herbs herbivores  if we're eating corn you're going to have to harvest that corn transport that corn and then you're going to have to haul all that manure somewhere out there for the Delta back in here  it's there there is the there is the whole thing I mean the cow is she's fertilizing she Boeing we don't have to spread any man or we don't have to harvest that she's harvesting it I mean if it's all real time real real solar dollars industrial food system gradually became so noisy smelly not a person friendly place that the people who operate those plants anybody to go there because then people would see the Ugly Truth when that occurred then we lost all the integrity and all the accountability in the food system if we put glass walls on all of the Mega processing facilities we would have a different food system in this country was that this morning we have allowed ourselves to become so disconnected and ignorant about something is as intimate as the food that we eat  what a difference between us to be out here in the fresh air sunshine birds singing in the trees you know but you see according to the USDA this is unsanitary because open to the air they tried to close this down world's biggest showed out we had two of them was they might try to close it down because this was this was unsanitary can you imagine  we have them till today local microbiology lab and are salvaged 133 cfu quartermile and the ones the store average 3600 and of course those have been through you know 40 carrying bass haven't seen any for it you know popular wonder you know this real I mean can you really Feed the World whatever you know and that that whole thing is such a spacious argument because and especially if you plug in all of the inefficiency of the Industrial you all have people come up for farmers markets you know and say what you know $3 a dozen for eggs and they're your drinking how many five cent can of soda hey Peg a bagels hey pigs they'll always struck by how successful we have been hitting the bull's-eye of the wrong target  I mean we have learned for example in, we've learned how to how to  plant fertilize and harvest corn using global positioning satellite technology and nobody sits back an **** but should we be feeding cows corn  you know we become a culture of of technicians call in to roll into the howl of it and nobody stepping back and saying but why I mean a culture that just use a pig as a Pyle of protoplasmic inanimate structure to be manipulated by whatever Creative Design to human can foist that Critter will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations with the same type disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentality the town where the plan is located is a small town called Tarheel in the middle of a very economically depressed area Smithfield has mastered the art of picking and choosing a Workforce that they can exploit initially from the local Workforce the poor whites to pull black they went through that work force very quickly now they have to bust their workers all the way from Bennettsville South Carolina to Clinton North Carolina got to draw a circle 100 miles in diameter and and that's where all your works are coming from Miami they have the same mentality towards workers to do towards the hog 300 hog don't have to worry about their comfort because the temporary they going to kill  no ma'am you point to the worker we don't worry about the longevity of the worker cuz today and everything has an end when you get $2,000 an hour ago employees because they're handling these got so much they get infection in her fingernails and all their fingernails separate from their fingers yet you come play Blood feces urine as he's get hurt down there when you doing that same movement for that same piece of the hawk that it's nonstop you know basically you treated as a human machine you have people that can't afford to leave from out there and Smithfield knows this and that's what they hold of 100 years ago when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle there was a beef trust that wielded enormous power Democrats from Eastern Europe were being abused in the absence of kind of government regulation there were horrible disfiguring injuries and even deaths since got dinner is slowly got better  Teddy Roosevelt took on the beef Trust labor unions slow play organized Meatpacking workers and turned it into one of the best industrial jobs in the United States  by the 1950s deer meat packing worker was like being an auto worker it was a good wage good benefits pension  then what happened meat packing companies got bigger in order to serve the needs of the fast food industry which was its biggest customer some of the meat packing companies like ibp borrow the same sort of Labor practices in the fast food industry cutting wages making sure there were no unions speeding up production and have coworker do the same task again and again and again and Meatpacking is now one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States delete packing industry also recruited a new set of immigrants illegal immigrants in recent immigrants from Mexico the many of the illegal immigrants coming to America were corn farmers in Mexico  NAFTA led to a flooding of the Mexican it was cheap American corn it's put more than a million and a half Mexican Farmers out of work they couldn't compete with this Jeep horn, phone number so what happened to those million-and-a-half Mexican Farms Meat Packers like ibp National Beef and Montfort began actively recruiting in Mexico  companies advertised on the radio and newspapers  ibp bus service in Mexico to bring workers into the United States for years the government turned a blind eye to the recruit immigrants by the Meatpacking industry but now when there's an anti-immigrant movement they're cracking down all of a sudden but they're not cracking down on these companies of the governors mark it down on the workers immigration agents are arresting Smithfield workers at this trailer park disagreement between Smithfield add immigration authorities they get rid of 15 mortgage per day but you don't see any massive rates that way it doesn't affect the production line Yankees and she asked me questions I don't see anybody she knows Smithfield managers nobody in the plan that had anything to do with the fact of those workers were hired as being arrested for we see today's its workers for producing for this company for working at this other people can get arrested we want to pay the cheapest price for our food we don't understand that that comes at a price  this workers to be here for 10:15 Sears processing your bacon your holiday ham  and now they're getting picked up like they're criminals companies are making billions of dollars is cheating **** everything that there is a man who wants to buy the cheapest car  we're willing to subsidize the food system to create the mistake  of cheap food when actually it's very expensive food when you add up the environmental cost Sitel cost health cost the industrial food is not honest for it's not priced honestly it's not the zoo honestly it's not processed honestly there's nothing honest about that food I can't think of a better use for a Smithfield box it was about A5 hour drive maybe 3 400 miles so it's worth it  I have no desire to scale up or get bigger my desire is to be best food in the world and heal and if in doing so more people come to our corner and one stuff then Heaven help me figure out how to meet the need without compromising the integrity. That's where I am  I have abs no desire to be at Walmart as soon as you grasp for that growth you're going to view your custom differently you're going to view your product differently you're going to view your business differently you're going to view everything that is the most important you're going to do differently this is our new organic wine popcorn I decide so what's the best soy milk in the entire world  hospice entire shower when I first started it was the size of this column right now  several of us sleeping in our boots we couldn't have Bordetella  Organix been growing over 20% annually it's one of the fastest growing segments in the food industry we're not going to get rid of capitalism certainly we're not going to get rid of it in the time that we need to arrest global warming and where is the tux application of our air our food and our water we need to be much more urgent and if we attempt to make the perfect the enemy of the good and to say we're only going to buy food from the for the most perfect system within 100 miles of us we're never going to get there as an environmentalist it was pretty clear to me that business was the source of all the pollution business was the source of basically all the things that were destroying this world college night came across this little Institute called new Alchemy Institute which is a group of renegade biology my hope is to give you we were preaching a kind of a new religion trying to develop food and waste treatment turn it up but we are preaching to the convinced we were depending on sources of support that were dried up and we weren't reaching the audience that really these messages my realize we need to not be David up against Goliath we need to be Goliath we started out you know we were seven cow Farm  we wanted to prove that business could be part of the solution to the globe's environmental problems at the same time we had to prove that we could be highly profitable  today in 2008 not only with the number play yogurt brand in America but were among the most profitable this music thing a little me like this it's not crap but you don't have any Alaska this is not a Pepsi and that's not Kelloggs Special gate now companies that you know started like us and are they able to give me their soul the jury is out you know able to put it that way these large companies don't grow organically they grow by acquisition Pepsi Kellogg's General Mills all of them running not walking into the organic food business for me when will Walmart enters the organic space I'm thrilled it's absolutely one of the most what is I dream of the day when I could sit with corporate Titans and have conversations about organic sustainability YouTube  so we both were from Walmart that have a cat do you know that we don't go to Walmart we've never been not amazing we just get riding on that though  Walmart is terribly sensitive to their reputation they've obviously been vilified probably more than any retailer in our current economy  it's a pretty easy decision you know to try to support things like organic or whatever it might be based on what the customer wants and we see that and we react to it and so if if it's clear the customer wants it it's really easy to get behind it in two in the bush Gordon try to make that happen when I run into my old environmental friends many are initially horrified by the kinds of company that I'm keeping these days but when I then go on to explain what the impact of one purchase order from Walmart is in terms of not pounds but enza pesticide tons of herbicide tons of chemical fertilizer the discussion we get away from the emotion we can down to the facts really keys out what you guys are doing here  but I have no Illusions about this I don't believe that Walmart give me up because if suddenly had a moral and Enlightenment it's because of economics  second debate with my radical friends all day long but nobody can challenge the fact that a sale of another million dollars to Walmart helps to save the world back around the turn of the last century the average farmer could feed six or eight people now the average American Farmer can feed 126 people okay productive human to ever live the change is down on the farm have been momentous and radical been invisible to most of us cuz who knows a farmer air way of life has been revolutionized 10000 years ago farmer started saving best seeds and planted again in the following year  that's how she's been developed that's how corn was developed from useless grass for the most part 2 to the reproductive planet is today  the idea that any Corporation could own a food crop you know is a very new idea and it wasn't until the 1980s that the Supreme Court you could patent life and that open the floodgates Everett's to patent the most valuable parts of life which is to say the crops on which we depend stop they produced Agent Orange in Vietnam and then they develop we start hearing Rumblings about genetically engineered soy beans that could resist the application of Roundup  when run up straight over top of it killed every Wii except for this Roundup Ready soybean I can remember when the when the first prohibitions against seed saving came into being in Allen most farmers were just absolutely disgusted with the whole concept and it's been interesting over the course of 11 years to watch much as go from other contempt for the notion that we can't save her own C2 acceptance  what happens if a farmer saves the seeds well you know this really there's only one company involved in this now and that's Monsanto Mancino's is they've got a team of private investigators that kind of Rome the country and they've got a little 1-800 hotline to take calls on and  they going to call and does somebody Ledges somebody save see they'll send investigator out there look into the matter and save your own seed you're going to get a call from somebody for Monsanto two men drove in my driveway at Sprouts 7-739 prison a black card to me and they never told me that they were from Channel  I found it necessary to get up a praying for in the morning before the investigators are on the road following me  they were going to say like maybe ex-military or next police they were large they were intimidating and I don't know whether they had our surveillance team or whether it was my neighbor that turn me on I don't know another trying to walk in the house when I'm sad I hear the back he's guilty it's really ingenious device design back in the 1800s receipt printer driver in the country usually think there maybe 6 maybe I'm not a word I used to be we had three of they've all been put out of this there's nobody left what Montana soybeans first came on the market I just really never switched over  I was getting pretty good deals with the conventional soybeans I've been using so I thought well I'll just stay where I'm at my neighbors all around me are all GMOs the pollen Lowe's in is a it's a seed moves in I am still held accountable when you genetically modify a crop you own we never had this never culture  used to be that your land-grant universities they develop what was called public the vast majority of the plant breeding was actually done in these public institutions Microsoft the intellectual property behind most computers in America they set out on the intellectual property behind most of the food in America  public plant breeding what's the thing of the past there are no public seeds in so if it's only like 4 or 5 riding my plans coming out of Illinois but okay any more certified seed for my options  acquired just list email to me  The Blacklist here is on San hose on authorized grower list either farmers and have judgements against them or businesses Barro's is already farts Farmers that you have not submitted their paperwork will not turn over the records and that for my case that's why I'm on there cuz I would not turn over my records am I on this list yes you are  I see two of my Farmer said I work for on here this list now it comes good point where I cannot buy Montana products okay so it's coming down to what can I plant my Santa is suing me on the basis that I'm encouraging the farmer to break the pattern by cleaning their own C I haven't been in a courtroom yet and I my bill is already 25 snellers  people that were friends of mine are reticent to even talk with me we've been friends for 50 years and now we can hardly be seen together I don't think I really killed it but it was cheaper to pay the fine check with you if you think you're right it but you admit you're wrong Monsanto falsely accused us of violating their patent in breach of contract  none of it was true you are going to Market and you find a dominant farmer and if you can ruin them you scare the rest of the fallen into the line  my family spent $400,000 battle pretrial and we were told it would take another million to take the thing to trial we are settled out of court play the system appeared to work too many was Lady Justice had the scales and you piled cash on the scales and the one that piled the most cash on the scales and hired the most certain ones most willing to tell the biggest lies that was the winter that's that's seems to be how a justice system functions now  terrible how can I farm open himself against Amal I National Corporation like Monsanto  I talked to a Young Man 3 days ago  they Bend was Farm you hun and this poor kid he's just starting out you know she's fiance was there I talked to her and tried to give him best advice I could and which unfortunately the best advice I can give him his try to get out of this thing with your skin attack don't fight them you've got to roll over and give them what they want cuz she can't defend yourself in case Monsanto the control sub-dominant you want to be in production Agriculture and you're going to be in bed with Monsanto on the soybean they are going to control that product from seed to the supermarket they are an effect gaining food there has been this revolving door between Muncie corporate offices and the various Regulatory and judicial bodies that have made the key decisions Justice Clarence Thomas was Monsanto attorney that wouldn't be such a big deal if it weren't for one court case that really decided this whole seed saving issue Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion the case that allowed these companies to prevent Farmers from saving their own seat  Monsanto had very close ties to the Bush Administration and the Clinton administration in this goes to why we haven't had much political debate over over radical change to our food system the last 25 years our government has been dominated by the industries that it was meant to be regulating challenges Emoji of people with expertise in Industry the may turn out to be really good regulators it's really about what they decide to represent you're talking about power centralized power and that power is being used against the people who are really producing the food like the farmers is being used the workers who work for these companies and it's being used against consumers who are deliberately being kept in the dark about what they're eating where she wants to me to get bottles good afternoon Madam chair and members  SB HD3 is a consumer right to know measure it simply requires that all foods that are clone must be labeled as clone Foods two animals are a fundamentally new thing but I find it incredible that the FDA not only wants to allow the sale of meat from animals without further research but also wants to allow the sale of this meat without any labeling Emerson California Farm Bureau and if I can point out  we are concerned with labeling is it creates unnecessary fear and consumers mind until the industry an opportunity to educate why we want to use this technology in the value of the technology we don't feel that consumers just having a warning label will help them Cox Scottsdale these companies fight tooth-and-nail against labeling fast food industry fought against giving you the calorie information they fought against telling you if there is trans fat in their food the meat packing industry years prevented country of origin labeling they fought not to label genetically modified foods and now 70% of process food in supermarket has some genetically modified ingredient  I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight is is the I know what's in their food and how it was grown  lonely do they not want you to know what's in it they have managed make it against the law to criticize their products can you tell me how you change how you eat  yeah we are you going to eat probably have to call talk to an attorney before you would put this insurance I really it depends on the context list all the time and and you know my initially my reaction was I don't care let him sue me let them try and Sue the mother of a dead child and see it's pretty amazing that you can't say how you and your family loss with her arm are different the food industry has different protections than other Industries do we have a lot of questions about this mad cow disease if you recall the case where Oprah was sued by the meat industry for something she said show is just stop me from eating another Burger Jamario in Colorado it's felony if you're convicted under a veggie libel law so you could go to prison criticize in the ground beef that's being produced in the state of Colorado there is an effort in several Farm states to make it illegal to publish a know of any industrial food operation any feedlot operation at the same time they've also gotten bills passed call cheeseburger bills that make it very very difficult for you to sue them  these companies have Legions of attorneys and they may Sue even though they know they can't win just to send a message we are on record for the deposition of Maurice Parr in the matter of turn tow company in Monsanto technology versus Maurice bar bar we subpoenaed your bank records in this case you know that I tell you what really scared me the most today was the fact that they have every that I have written from every bank account that I've used in the last 10 years do you own any land Mister part yes acres do you own three how long have you had this Dell computer which ones are soybean seed cleaning customers mr. Kaufman being Zone these people are not just customers or personal friends  and it's extremely heart-wrenching for me to know that this list in the possession of Monsanto Harold sin  beans only this is the first case in which see company is suing the person who does the cleaning of the seed so if if Bond Saddles planes repelling this case that when I put more business but whatever you grow or the country from doing what mode does as a present and future cases any of these customers specifically told you that they are not going to you Searcy cleaning services anymore run Merrill this essentially puts me out of business back slow you know I'm finished Jerry cough Bells earring Robert Duvall we've had a food system that's been dedicated to the single virtue of efficiency so we grow very small number of crops very small number of varieties very small number of companies and even though you achieve efficiencies the system gets more and more precarious Google break down eventually and where the breakdown comes in this system you know where none always know modern section agriculture is highly dependent large mass killing  how far we're going to use about 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel year pull out of oil now bring a steer to slaughter in 75 gallons of oil  so what we're seeing is that this highly patient machine does not have the resilience to deal with shocks such as the spiking in oil prices last month were 3.9% higher than they were a year ago who take other basic source of food for a while we could sell so cheaply anyone World Farmers and other countries who aren't being subsidized could not compete with us  so that their capacity to grow food for them no was compromised the world's running out of food and nobody's talking about it we have no reserves heavy protests around the world already broke down one.  A month doesn't go by where there isn't a story in the news that peels back the curtain on how that is True Food is me  downard Orlean's walk through DeLand Florida concentrated hardwood flushing their contents down river the government's foods are reported that there are no tools and place to turn the origin of the latest every time one of these stories comes out America learns a little bit more you know what's going on in the kitchen for their food is being prepared and every time they turn away and in Revolt and start looking for alternatives the irony is that the average consumer does not feel very powerful they think that they are the recipient so whatever industry has put out there for them to consume trust me it's the exact opposite  We Run the Night in Pet Supermarket enter were voting for local or not organic or not  at Walmart we made a decision about a year ago to go through a process of becoming RBST free and I we made that decision based on customer preference  individual consumers changed the biggest company on Earth and in so doing put the last nail in the coffin questions that Acro Karma  to eat well in this country cost more than to eat badly it will take volume I didn't some people simply don't have it and that's one of the reasons that we need changes at the policy level so that the carrots are a better deal than the chips people think these companies are so big and so powerful how we ever going to change things but look at the tobacco industry it had huge control over public policy and that control was broken the battle against tobacco is a perfect model of how an Industries irresponsible Behavior can be changed imagine what it would be if as a national policy we said who would be only successful if we had fewer people going to the hospital next year than last year  how about that for a you know access the idea then would be to have such nutritionally dense unadulterated food that people who ate it actually felt better more energy and we're sick as much you don't doubt that she got some Noble goal  I can't change the fact that Kevin's dead so you tell somebody you've lost a child I really don't like that look A pity that come into their eyes that they feel sorry for me party all by myself very well thanks I don't need it from other people what I need them to do is listen and help me affected change do you have to understand that we farmers  you're going to deliver to the marketplace with the marketplace demands if you about $2 milk you're going to get in your backyard  people have got to start demanding good wholesome food of us will deliver I promise you we're very ingenious people will deliver  so I had to say Willow River NASA of America a song will the sunrise be are you win Home Depot I followed my footsteps sparkling cider Coors was called the service was made you laugh this one is mine do you work on a real push first do not go stream water real estate Madison kocian song search if you want boomslang snake the pool do the New York OK Google food in Spanish

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