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 is a major problem for you with how we. Produce. China is the worlds biggest producer as chinese consumers become more affluent and demand continues to grow theres just not any end in 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 so it is being grown on a massive scale especially in brazil. We make the food that goes on the global populations table. On the yacht. So i cultivation 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 rare 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 on there since the beginning of the slaughterhouse chain we saw her about 600. 00 pix per hour the equipment is imported from a dutch company. When this factory was built in the 1950 s. And 1998 i mean shifted to large Scale Production and. d 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 ration about 2022000 of them they all got replaced by this factory system and initially she might feel foods and 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 China its a Multinational Corporation headquartered in chief. 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 almost this pulls in you shake yourself they got the money to fix it whats whats all new everything up. Well whats Holding Everything up and the fact that they dont want to spend money to fix the problem theyd rather externalized costs that are way treatment on people North Carolina. Were going to do this will fill my rule true soon as we go through one country you know frank up everything we see all on the wire. And then if we spot some illegal discharges that will do some special filming i. Mean. Were going. To. Live. With. Massive farms with huge Mineola Koons extending as far as the eye can see. As a result of these industrial scale farms many local residents feel under siege. Were not anti farmer Side Business of North Carolina were just. About doing it correctly and not moving. The citizens of North Carolinas waterways concentrating in the farms are in. More Rural Communities where the community to have im going to put up a fight to restrict these facilities for coming in here. And when they come in here they preach about having jobs and. To help the community but even then jobs are. What a Community Better would want theyre working in a slaughterhouse or working on. A farm and its not easy work and its. Very rarely see the owners of these facilities living on site. L c herring lives near one of these farms called k. Fellows concentrated animal feeding operations. 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Could decrease become news you always miss millions just doesnt seem. To me how salue could believe they do have a right to belittle a stoner of the lead Smithfield Foods but not just pull produce in the us 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 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. In most production today in the United States is produced in this industrial model its called vertical integration. Its just 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 products. 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 happened 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. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is one of the biggest in the world Agricultural Commodities are also traded here on. Down here this is this is now the financial room here were standing in sort of over here we have a bond option trading we have 3 bonds here our Agricultural 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 intake 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 Meat 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. Levels started to rally dramatically. Chinas hunger full 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 and thats another reason why they are now. Why they hire smithfields. Americas largest pork producer one i think they wanted access to supply but too 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 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 one acquire new machinery in order to adopt a more industrial approach from 2003 to 2006 we experienced in here new a growth rate of around 30 percent so its really amusing. When you are eating so many and 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 that 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. The trajectory of beautification continues there will be 120000000000. 00 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 stories in the world you know and so there are these huge flows of grain and oil seed monocultures through 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 when 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. 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 at home if the chinese try to like americans what will happen to the amazon rain forest. Where where will we find the land to grow that much for it to grow that much grain theres just not any and you frontiers anymore on the planet. The situation in brazil is a case in point in 21000 deforestation saud. President. Who took office early that year is keen to promote the countries that are cultural industry and saw is a linchpin saw a monocultures have come to dominate places like santorum in the brazilian state of part but ria ruda lives next to us so i plantation us right there behind our homes this is soybean plantation. She. They want your head. So that this is all plantation was surrounded by soybean its all around us. Oh right in the middle of all this land used to be a family film. And now its been turned into a sewing monoculture and because its only grown for export none of it reminds him brazil or. A truck full of sawing has tipped over on a road in the state of missouri grow so well because 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 kids in the void. You before we started cultivating this was all forest it was cheap land. The only thing here was forest and trees have a. Good look the way it does on the other side of the road. Something we used to clear the land simply as a way to survive. This regions economy is almost entirely based on soil and i hear oh. This is our vocation for its all we know how to do. And you need a man when we grow the food that ends up on the global populations table. Is over with. For them for the here. Soybean is an imported crop that we have adapted to conditions here. And we realized that it grows very well here and that we have the right conditions for it. With the help of Gene Technology we slowly improve the soybeans. Today we have varieties specifically developed for our region. We pay a visit to an agricultural trade in look us the real daddy in the state of matter grow so. Soybeans have made a number of rich here including yano piece that. I had a small farm in rio grande into so. I had 15 hectors. I 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 hectors under cultivation. Ive publicly listed the company and sold 70 percent of its stock and now i am a shareholder and advisor just when you think. Theyre going to steal it golden we said is a look. In brazil and in the entire Southern Hemisphere so is the 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. So its arjun. Yallop think mirror kind of you know 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 soiree into the main ingredient in the 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 pig stye corporations use soya as if it were the only food we have in the world. We have the same seeds the same micro family hosts 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 interracial in 3. 00 radically different ecosystems in the social settings its a Production System that generates its own homogeny. In order to be able. To tend this Global Market. Share in this region the produce is mainly come from other countries. But some of them come from russia grosso and patten our. Local people have also started planting us. Here maybe theyve realized that its good business. But most of the people who plant soy come from abroad. They also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that were back in may like she did our. Hardly any people work in those fields now. Biz no more work for local people and my issue not the plantations hire a few to drive tractors jacobite now back. Here but apart from that they do all the work themselves by you and your family ishmael she was dumb enough to recognize 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 there soybeans. No theres no so here. You know youve been here some of them. Are products arent worth anything. Only the big farms can make money. But the small ones can you can 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. You know just rather just about that we have a lot of different ways to fight the past and then all those pasts end up in our fields so when we plant beans now we end up with nothing. They use pesticides and insects and up in our fields. We cant do anything about it. But. We used to plant beans and would feel to 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. And it. 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 plenty of forest why dont they go there maybe they dont work hard enough or they have more nerve 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 speaks government is leasing land at a very cheap price to create new plantations. Mozambique is giving brazilian farmers a 6000000. 00 hector area 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 john yet on a v