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 pick farms is a major problem so we can deal with how we as we want to open the doors in all the previous president all who china is the worlds biggest producer as chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow theres just not any end to french heres a mark on the planet if the chinese try to like americans what will happen amazon rain forest. To feed the pigs as cheaply as possible is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. We make the food that goes on the global populations table. So it conservation is helping to drive the deforestation of the amazon grown as a monoculture saw 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 15000000. 00 tonnes of pork per year thats more than half of the worlds production. Theyre all this is the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about 600. 00 pix per hour the equipment is imported from a dutch company. What this factory was built in the 1950 s. And 1998 i mean shifted to a large Scale Production and. Ringback the impact of chinas pork boom is being felt around the world Chinese Companies are snapping up huge industrial pig farms like one in the u. S. State of North Carolina. Were owned by a traditional family farmers ranging about 2000000 page there were 22000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially schmidt field foods in murphy were the owners of that there were american corporations but now theyve been bought out by a group called adobe 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 are cesspools when you say to yourself theyve got the money to fix this whats whats all new everything up. Hold everything up to the fact that they dont want to spend that money to fix the problem theyd rather externalized the cost of the way treatment on people North Carolina. Were going to do this will fill my rule true soon as we go through one country we dont think up everything we see all on the wire. And then if we spot some illegal discharges that will do some special foaming at. The. Moment. And. Massive fungus 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 farm or her entire business in North Carolina were just. About doing it correctly and not polluting the citizens of North Carolinas waterways concentrating on the farms are going. Girl. Communities where the community does not have a voice to put up a fight to restrict these facilities for coming in here. And when they come in here they preach about having jobs. To help the community but even their jobs are. What a Community Better would want their work in a slaughterhouse or. Farming 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 feels right here so many dont open up the windows only sat this is a bathroom window room next door was my brothers being home and it went in this way is the kitchen window so we dont know who these measures are on the side of things in this place you know if you fellows are back here. To look to the south of my mothers house were back here straight back but you can see them from here. If you see them from the mail route where when its prescreening and music to all so that means real inhaling the stuff when everything is in life you know how waste to your own gadget products the ammonia everything thats in. It you know in in when look cool is being released into our atmosphere so we took a look at how we as we dont open the doors you know we pretty much just a prisoner and i wont hold it when you do try to go to his friend you have to ask because bill took a breath away to make out a storm watering you maccie still coughing get the finicky monsoreau up in makeshift angry you know you get a crisp because no one is listening in this just doesnt seem to me how someone could believe they have a right to the animal waste on one of his. Smithfield foods but not just pulled 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 contracts 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 the 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 of overseas company that could afford to buy it. Just a huge sector of productive capacity in Rural America i mean were talking about thousands of large scale farms and theres a lot of money being made raising pigs in the United States and. 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 factors been diminished over here which we still be options on soybeans we didnt 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 into china has the largest hog heard in a 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 marsch why china didnt become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g. D. P. Levels started to really dramatically. Chinas hunger for pulque is driving Chinese Companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise d. I think having us care park market is very important and thats another reason why. Now. Why they acquire smithfields. Americas largest part producer one i think they wanted access to supply but. From what ive heard from. Smithfields executives but they wanted to learn how the american pork operations worked 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 slaughter house for chickens and other animals beginning in 1902 the government encouraged facilities like this to become more efficient. They allowed us to grow and acquire new machinery in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced unhandled growth rate of around 30 percent so that really to me is i. When you are beating so many animals in such a small space animals help those 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 new translight go. But when you have 10000 or 20000 hogs and a small facility their waste is a huge liability. 960. 00 there was less than 10000000000. 00 animals killed per year. Today theres over 70000000000 and if the trajectory of modification 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 maize and huge source of oil so its principally sort of thing in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil monocultures really what i call islands of concentrated. Solely cultivation is having a massive impact on industrial farming. Chinas hunger for meat is causing more and more slowly 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 theyre incorporating a lot more soybean in their diet so the Chinese Government well aware of the. The dangers of famine having lived through that chinese famine where official records so some 36000000 people died they wanted to make sure that they could secure their food supply at home if the chinese tried to eat 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 grain there is just not any empty frontiers anymore on the planet. The situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation sawed. President. Who took office early that year is keen to promote the countrys Agricultural Industry and saw is a linchpin saw in monocultures have come to dominate places like some tar them in the brazilian state of pa but ria ruda lives next door so i plantation i guess right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. Last summer. She. Should head. So that this is all plantation but were surrounded by soybean its all around us and. What were right in the middle of all this land used to be a family farm. Now its been turned into a soil monoculture and because its all grown for 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 a 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. Our kiran to the. Before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. The only thing here was forest and trees. It looked the way it does on the other side of the road. Of your thoughts something we used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. This regions economy is almost entirely based on saw its economy and i hear you say this is our vocation source its all we know how to do. And you need a man for we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. And those are the folks over with all of them probably soybean is an imported crop that we have adapted to conditions here. With us and we realized 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 for you. Today we have varieties specifically developed for our region. But also here. We pay a visit to an agricultural trade for the real betty in the state of much of. Soybeans have made a number of farmers rich here including yano piece that. I had a small farm in rio grande. 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. Fortunately reality has proved even better than my dreams. My company has 270000 hectares under cultivation. Ive publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now im a shareholder and advisor. Am going to seal it building he said. In brazil and in the entire Southern Hemisphere solly is to spearhead of a new model of capital production called agribusiness soyuz a standardized green which has become a commodity its the same all over the world its easy to grow i want to very large scale. Here in brazil some of our soil farms cover 240000 hectares. Yallop think miraca 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 soya 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 in its integration into radically different systems and social settings its a Production System that generates its own homogeny in order. To be able. To tend this Global Market. In this region that produces mainly come from other countries. But some of them come from much more grosso and pattern our. Local people have also started planting us. 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 at my command like she did our hardly any people work in those fields in. Business so more work for local people and why is she not for the plantations hire a few to drive tractors jack up are not back. Yet but apart from that they do all the work themselves by you and your families which was coming up the next 5 that. The for 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 there soybeans. No theres no so here. You know you some of them. Are products arent worth anything. Only the big farms can make money. On the small ones can you not think. Of us if you can try to plant corn down where are you going to sell it you know in the end theres no profit to be had in. 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. You know just brothers not that we have a lot of different ways to fight the past and then all those past send 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 sacks 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. 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 offered africa like africa has plenty of forest why dont they go there maybe they dont work hard enough or they have more nurse. Who 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 that 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. Your Company Human rights activists jet in the us one join you on a visit to the not carla region a lot of land here is slated to go to the brazilians. Are you doing good and you. Fine my friend thank you and. Advice. Very good sewing time. Just rain. Yes it rains a lot we might have a good harvest this year and the next one. Ok. We dont have enough land here. We already have conflicts am