Bittersweet Muck: Florida sugar fires lead to complaints, research and calls for change
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
- When you enter into the City of Belle Glade a sign reads, “Her soil is her fortune.” But many people change the phrase to say, “Her people are her fortune.” The people who live in Belle Glade and the other small towns along the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee are hard-working, passionate, and inspiring people who live in an area known for its unique, nutrient- rich soil, known as Muck.
For decades, the people who live in The Muck have discussed the potential environmental and health consequences of the practice. In this NBC 6 original documentary, Bittersweet Muck, NBC6 News Reporter Sasha Jones takes you inside the debate about air quality in Florida’s sugar country.
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Are those rats ? Thank you for your hard work.
Muck Rabbits 🐇 also called swamp rabbits a subspecies of cotton tails…
Burning is the easiest and cheapest way to harvest sugar cane and that's the reason these 2 corporations don't go with green harvesting. I've heard this many times and it's the Florida mentality. . . "I've been doing it this way for 30 years" while at the same time I'm thinking "You still haven't learned"
It's not like they can't afford the transition, plus it would create tons of better paying jobs.
I live out in the sugarcane belt of South Florida n understand the benefits of burning before harvesting, but I’ve always just wondered if there could be products derived from the byproducts of sugar cane especially the undesirable leaves. I’ve always thought of products like paper, cardboard, insulation n particle products. But then again who am I and nothing might be cost effective enough to consider. Just wondering don’t beat me down. God Bless !
Yes! Brazil is showing to be a fabulous leader in ways to reuse and harvest without harming the environment & humans.
@@maryjane_lane that’s amazing news n I hope the rest of the world follows suit to countries that understand using every part of a product n leave nothing to waste n harm.
To hell with that burn,
Just like every other industry, people want the end product but not the process it takes to make that product. You gotta take the good with the bad or do without. People want to change everything to suit them. The want to do away with anything and everything that is a kittle uncomfortable or inconvienient. You want to change the process, you'd better be prepared to pay the extra cost. Suck it up or move. Stop complaining about everything. All this "not in my backyard" nonsense needs to go. If everyone says that, there won't be any backyard to make the consumables people want. You can't have it both ways.
This has been this way long before any living people have had a chance to complain. You moved into this area as it has been for 100 years. Don't complaine and say it must be stopped. Move away! Sugar is a tradition in this area.
Its developers taking over Florida ruining our way of life.
They blame everything on "Big Sugar" It's just one big distraction from the lames running things-causing the real problems. Vote them all out!
Leave the area if you find it a problem but don't mess with tradition or the livelihood of others. Same thing folks and the government tried to do in Everglades City in the 80's. Leave
Profits over people’s health… got it!
thank you. It's our traditions, leave it alone.
They found out when they messed with the folk in Everglades City. I spent a good part of my childhood just outside town and those are people you don't mess with.
@@Gator-357 I grew up in Copeland.
i lived right next to it from age from 3 to 22.. come on now. My home was right next to the field...they wet my home down so it did not catch fire. When i got covid, i saw a lung specialist and other then covid my lungs were fine and I spent years in that with 2 heavy smokers too. smh.. I was the girl who grew up on old sam center farm!
Wow and Poor little Emmanuel in the film has to grow up in that.. so sad. The sugarcane industry should stop the Burn
Farmers should probably burn less, and mulch or till under mire often.
This method would produce less air pollution, and allow soil to be fertilized.
Burn season should also be shorten, and people should be advised to wear facemask.
I was a victim of asthma when I was younger in cane seasons was the worst for me
the made a mistake 40 miles east of west palm is the Atlantic ocean 1:46
a classic case of the have's and the have not's. ill give one quess on who's going to win! one of the owners of the fields is a Florida Legislature who makes the laws. the richer is going to get richer and poor is just going to be poor! and to be honest that is what poor should get because they wont do nothing to change!
"Big Sugar" - good neighbors would listen to each other and find ways to ease the folks' concerns. Sierra Club did all the work and found a way for each community member to get along and respect each other: Green Harvesting!
Y'all are inconsiderate neighbors! Bullies!
It's time to reconsider your place in the neighborhood... or be punished!
Take a lesson from Brazil, green harvesting is the way to go!🎉
Black sand black roofs black ash everywhere,
What a shame, sugar lands in South Florida catching on fire. Must suck for the company that owns those lands.
That’s how they harvest the cane.
@@olveramelinda LOL Normies dont know much of anything. It all has to be explained to them.
They intentionally burn to speed up harvest... we could easily get sugar from other farms rather than speed farm the few owned by the big 3 sugar owners, but naw. It's all about makin' profits & cuttin' costs. These wealthy ppl couldn't care less.
Sugar cane has been a part of South Floridas heritage for generations, pound sand to all the Karens and Kyles complaining.
Hahaha, yeah changing an entire states eco-system and significantly weakening it for a practically useless crop that causes obesity and heart disease, affecting our entire countries health, while padding the rich pockets even more. But at least the Fanjul's get their money and its our "heritage". hell I bet you're as smart as your daddy 🤣
100% I grew up on old sam center farm. I was the girl in the middle of a cane field. These ppl are full of crap. I was 3 when we moved there is 22 when I left it. I'm fine! my home was right next to a field. I had no issues until covid.
America is more concerned about making more money.... Big Greed!
It can be done stop the burn God bless the glades.
I noticed the blacks were only interviewed got to make this a racial issue
Get over it
So, big surgar is now ephing up land and the water! Wow that's ephed up!
The virus is the lamestream media and the lies they sell to the normies who believe everything they here on television. Sugar is not the problem. Poor Development/ planning and these phony conservationists are the problem. If they let the water flow like it was supposed to and like it used to then there wouldnt be a problem with the glades. Environmentalists are a virus (viron)
Let company leave they cant take the land we can take over
It's inaceptable at this time and days still doing that barbaric act! That practice should be banned in the whole wide world!! Shame on them!
i love the old dude supporting the antequated thinking.. my generation did it.. why aint it good? move out if you dont like it.. lol. idiotic.