Africa. Is already the most consumed meat in the world and fueled by the Global Demand for inexpensive meat the industry continues to grow in the United States the waste produced by industrial pig farms is a major problem you know we as we dont open the door you know we pretty much presume. China is the worlds biggest pork producer as chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow theres just not any and the french are on the planet if the chinese try to like americans what will happen amazon rain forest. To feed the pigs as cheaply as possible so it is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. We make the food that goes on the global populations table. So i cultivate in is helping to drive the deforestation of the amazon grown as a monoculture sign. Is impacting the whole world. Chinas population has now topped 1400000000 rising affluence has led to changes in peoples diets in the past rice of vegetables and noodles dominated while meat was rat but today pork has become increasingly popular. China consumes more than 50000000. 00 tonnes of polk a year thats more than half of the wilds production. There on this is the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about 600. 00 pix per our equipment is imported from a dutch company. When this factory was built in the 1950 s. And 1998 i mean shifted to a large Scale Production of. The impact of chinas pork boom is being felt around the wild Chinese Companies all snapping up huge industrial pig farms like one in the u. S. State of North Carolina. Were owned by a traditional family farmers raising about 2000000 figure about 22000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially she may feel foods in murphy were the owners of that there were american corporations but now theyve been bought out by a group called the dubby age group the old shumway corporation out of china its a Multinational Corporation headquartered in china you know very well so you know they made i understand their profits for the 1st quarter of this year. Just their net profit 1st quarter this year was 200000000. 00 and you look at all oh shes pulling you should you show they got the money to fix this whats whats all new everything up. About what sold everything up and the fact that they dont want to spend that money to fix a problem theyd rather externalized the cost of their waste treatment on people North Carolina. Were going to do this will fill my rule true soon as we go through one country i dont think up to everything we see all on the wire. And then a few spots on illegal discharges that will do some special filming. And. Massive farms with huge mineola goons extending as far as the eye can see. As a result of these industrial scale farms many local residents feel under siege. Not anti farmer or inside business in North Carolina were just. About doing it correctly and not polluting the citizens of North Carolinas waterways concentrating on the farms are in. Rural communities where the Community Need to have a voice to put up a fight to restrict these facilities are coming in here. And when they come in here they preach about having jobs in. The community but even their jobs are. What a Community Better would want their work in a slaughterhouse or working on. A farm is not easy work and its. Very rarely see the owners of these facilities living outside. L. C. Herring lives near one of these farms called k. Follows concentrated animal feeding operations. Display fields right here so well open up the windows on the sat this is the bathroom window room next door was my brothers being home and it went in this way is the kitchen window so we dont open these windows and i want to set this in this way for you if you fold her back here. To to suffer mommys house way back in the street that you cant see them from here. But if you see them from the mail route well when its peach morning that means its wrong so that means we are in jelly stuff when everything is in life you know how to place to urinate products the ammonia everything is in. You know in in we were in the cold is being released into our atmosphere so we can open our way as we dont open the doors you know we pretty much a prison i wont home but we do try to go out to his friend you have to hold your breath because going to congratulate you make out a store watering you make you stop coffee get the finicky monsoreau up in makeshift angry you know you get depressed because no one is listening and this just doesnt seem to me how someone could believe they did have a. To build animal which dont know believe Smithfield Foods but not just pull produce in the u. S. Is now owned by a chinese company. During the ninetys we saw 90 percent of all our hog farms disappear in the United States the cash market dwindled from 100 percent of the market to less than 5 percent of the market the majority of the animals now are raised under contract and so you saw this traditional profitable industry for raising hogs get wiped out and replace with this new way of raising animals that was industrialized and centrally controlled it was really a corporate takeover and it happened in a very short period of time. Most hog production today in the United States is produced in this industrial model its called vertical integration. Its the way it works is that a company will own the nursery where the hollands are born it will own the feed mill that produces the feed for the hawgs it owns the trucking lines the transport the hogs and even on to the slaughterhouse where the pigs are killed and turned into a variety of product. This was a business that used to be a pillar of Rural America and then it got taken over by smithfield and you know this is a company that had spent decades devouring independent firms in the United States and acquiring a kind of market share that never should have been allowed to fall under the umbrella of one firm it is not a good idea to allow one firm to control 30 percent of the entire market in the pork industry or Food Industry once that happen though it became a very attractive target for any kind. Overseas companies that could afford to buy just a huge sector of productive capacity in Rural America i mean were talking about thousands of large scale farms theres a lot of money being made raising pigs in the United States. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is one of the biggest in the world Agricultural Commodities are also traded here. Down here this is this is now the financial room here were standing in so over here we have a bond option trading we have the bonds here or a cultural sector has been diminished over here which we still do the options on soybeans we need in corn we also do livestock china for years and years has been trying to eat like a westerner which we consume about 3400. 00 calories per day china is now approaching 2900 calories so theyve really caught up with where we are in couric and to china has the largest hog courtenay in the world accounting for about 47 percent of all pork productions but again when we look at me consumption or caloric consumption Going Forward its got to happen in countries like bangladesh nigeria pakistan india these are the going to be the big drivers of calories over the next 10 to 20 years heretofore they dont have the g. D. P. Rates to expand their Meat Consumption much like china didnt become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g. D. P. Level started to rally dramatically. Chinas hunger for pulque is driving Chinese Companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise d d. I think having us care park market is very important in china thats kind of the reason why. Now. Why they left smithfield. Americas largest part producer one i think they wanted access to supply but to. From what ive heard from smithfield executives is that they wanted to learn how the american pork operations work how we were able to produce so much pork on so very little land and that means that this american industrialized style of producing pork is being exported to china. When it comes to industrial meat production china has caught up with the west. Its mechanized and operates on a mass scale. Here 2. 00 in 1961 this was a small slaughterhouse for chickens and other animals beginning in 1902 the government encouraged facilities like this to become more efficient. They allowed us to grow one acquire new machinery in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced in hand you a growth rate of around 30 percent or so very amusing. When you are eating so many and was such a small space animals how is compromised antibiotics become used routinely. Both for illness prevention and to increase weight gain in animals. In general if you have a few pigs on a farm. Their waste is an asset its something you can spread on your fields its a fantastic fertilizer you have a complete nutrients like 0. But when you have 10000 or 20000 hogs in a small facility their waste is a huge liability. 160. 00 there was less than 10000000000. 00 animals killed per year. Today theres over 70000000000 and if the trajectory of meter fixation continues there will be 120000000000 killed for food by 2050. Industrialized our corporations effectively command about a 3rd of the worlds arable. Includes the majority of the worlds course Grain Production the biggest course grain the maize and and the huge source of oil so its principally soybean in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil seed monocultures through what i call i once of concentrated. Solely cultivation is having a massive impact on industrial farming. Chinas hunger for meat is causing more and more to be planted for use as animal feed. China as a country consumes twice as much meat as the United States but each person is only consuming half as much as americans so more the chinese able to fully emulate the american diet its hard to say where that meat would come from already china is increasing its imports of pork its increasing its imports of soybeans that are fed to livestock whether its the pork the chicken before that or the farm fish their corporate a lot more soybean in their diet so the Chinese Government well aware of the dangers of famine having lived through the chinese famine where official records so some 36000000 people died they wanted to make sure that they could secure their food supply of homes. If the chinese try to like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. Where oh where will we find the land to grow that much for it to grow that much plain theres just not any empty frontiers anymore on the planet. The situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation saward. President. Who took office early that year is keen to promote the countrys Agricultural Industry and saw is a linchpin so i monocultures have come to dominate places like sometimes i am in the brazilian state of part of our. Lives next to us so i plantation i have that right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. Last summer. She. Sure head. Yes. I know that this is all plantation but were surrounded by soybean its all around us and. Were right in the middle of all this land used to be a family farm and yet now its been turned into a sort of monoculture and because its all grown to export none of it remains in brazil. A truck full of sawing has tipped over on a road in the state of missouri grosso workers are gathering up the valuable soybeans by hand. This used to be rain forest now its only fields stretching right out to the horizon. A local farmer shows us around. I cleared to hear the voice of the people for we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. The only thing here was forest and trees of it all so. It looked the way it does on the other side of the road. Over the something we used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. This if this regions economy is almost entirely based on saw its economy and i hear you say servant this is our vocation for its all we know how to do. Is offering you the mantle we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. And also the fires over with all of them probably soybean is an imported crop that we have adapted to conditions here. Sort of the most koreans as we realised that it grows very well here and that we have the right conditions for it. Sort of sitting over here bank units with the help of Gene Technology we slowly improve the soybeans. Only and then weve got available today we have varieties specifically developed for our region. And they can see those from australia. We pay a visit to an agricultural trade fair in look us the real bad in the state of. Soybeans have made a number of rich here including. I had a small farm in rio grande and. I had 15 hectors. Drove here with a small truck to help my uncle who was moving here. I was young and very enthusiastic. And i thought i could make a good future for myself here. I was lucky and many Different Things came together i was in the right place in the right time exactly when the world began asking for more protein and food i had a dream an unusual dream almost a fantasy. Then unfortunately reality has proved even better than my dreams. My company has 270000 hectares under cultivation. I. Have publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now i am a shareholder and advisor so you think. Theyre like you know going to seal it building we said. Oh look im all in brazil and in the entire Southern Hemisphere somebody has to spearhead of a new model of capital production called agribusiness soit is a standardized grain which has become a commodity its the same all over the world its easy to grow in a very large scale. Here in brazil some of our soil farms cover 240000 hectares. So. Yallop think mirror kind of the Global Market is controlled by only 5 companies bunga monsanto a. D. M. Cargill and dreyfus. They speculate with the prices speculate with stocks and manipulate the market. Theyve managed to transform soy into the main ingredient in animal feed. Pig feed cow feed and chicken feed that means that saw is now a very important raw material in human nutrition. The world has become one giant pigsty corporations use soil as if it were the only food we have in the world. Do. We have the same seeds the same micro chemicals the same Trading Companies the same price setting mechanisms the same players its a very homogeneous Production System even though its very diverse and its untrue gratian into a radically different systems than the social settings its a Production System that generates its own how much. Navy in order to be able. To 10 this Global Market. Share in this region that produces mainly come from other countries. But some of them come from russia grosso and patton our. Local people have also started planting it. Yeah maybe theyve realized that its good business. But most of the people who plant so i come from abroad. They also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that were back in my back shed our hardly any people work in those fields. Business so more work for local people and my initiation not the plantations hire a few to drive tractors project right now back. Here but apart from that they do all the work themselves act like you and your family should be sure it was coming up the rectifies that. This building houses the sometime rain farm workers union. Local people are benefiting very little from the soybean boom. Smallholder farmers cant compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. What have you got their soybeans. No theres no so here. You know you hear some of them. Are products arent worth anything. Only the big farms can make money. On the small ones can you not think. You can try to plant corn and then where are you going to sell it you know in the end theres no profit to be had then. The markets only for big growers if you want to plant soil you need big machine tractors we cant afford that kind of equipment but i. Saw has not made for small holders its that simple. Im going to just rather just about that we have a lot of different ways to fight the past and down all those pests end up in our fields so when we plant beans now we end up with nothing. They use pesticides and the insects and up in our fields. We cant do anything about it. But. We used to plant beans and would fill 2 entire sense of them its true. Now weve stopped planting. The pests from the land that belongs to the rich people come here and destroy our seeds they get it right. In the United States in china cant they just destroy their own forests to plant soybeans. Why do they have to come to brazil and exploit our resources have offered africa like africa has kani of forest why dont they go there maybe they dont work hard enough or they have more nurse but my mother. Has in fact reached africa mozambique is nearly 10000 kilometers from brazil but Brazilian Companies are moving in trying to secure vast tracts of land for soybean farming. The agribusiness project is being promoted by the pro savannah program. The brazilian farmers are going to africa because most beaks government is leasing land at a very cheap price to create new plantations. Mozambique is giving brazilian farmers a 6000000. 00 hector area is 3 times bigger than 38. 00 and almost for free its going to be a lease that will allow for the cultivation of soy cotton and corn mainly for the chinese market. But. Were Company Human rights activist jeremy s. When johnny on a visit to the not collar region a lot of land here is slated to go to the brazilians. Are you doing g