China's Massive Food Shortage Problem
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There is a big issue with the food supply in China. In fact, China is hoarding 69% of corn reserves, 60% of rice 51% of the world's wheat supply. This happens when most of your groundwater is too polluted to use, and you've destroyed a good portion of your arable land.
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*Winston,*
Are you aware that a Chinese coal mining company, Monaf Investments, recently told Zimbabweans in Binga that they have 3 months to leave their ancestral lands?
@Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler
I remember U
Please post on rumble as well
@@riccardocacchioli9952
They've discussed doing every imaginable platform; Rumble and Discord, included. But they need to arrange for the set up to be more streamlined for ease of use. If they could somehow just record and post across the various platforms, in a stress free way to manage all platforms,
....they would.
But the technical barrier to entry seems too frustrating and time consuming for these gentlemen to implement them.
Would you happen to know of any means by which one could accomplish this?
.....Because I'm sure they'd love the exposure and ability to reach a greater audience.
@Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler
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The Chinese bought a massive dairy farm in Tasmania to supply milk back to China. One of the conditions of them buying this farm was to keep all of the people who ran it to keep it viable. Well they didn’t, the Chinese farm manager fired all locals then ran the dairy into the ground. The cows started ti suffer and became malnourished and because of the quotas that the manager had to attain instead of maintaining the health and well-being of the cows he just bought in more and more and more, to the point that they had to get a bulldozer in push all the effluent around, it ended up destroying the local river and had mountains of cow shit every basically destroying the land. Most of the cattle died and the local council who were supposed to keep tabs on the farm failed in duty of care. It was a fkn disgrace.
That aint nothing, in my country they spread a virus around, now we have 893,000 dead people piled up.
I so fkn hate the Chinese coming in Australia buying ANYTHING, but especially our farms. Half the blame goes to the Australian government who allows it.
Sounds like stories out of the USSR, when you’re dealing with quotas and not personal property all you have is the incentive to produce but not to preserve.
It's common for Chinese owned ventures to just not obey local laws or requirements in foreign countries. In New Zealand they bought an old scouring plant to use for bottling water as it had it's own aquifer. They were only supposed to take a certain amount, and only from that one aquifer. Well, they very quickly drilled down to a deeper aquifer so they could take more water than was agreed. The deeper aquifer was for the city's water supply. It was contaminated and had to be chlorinated.
Any country willing to let China do business on it's soil needs strict "Don't f*ck around or we'll kick you out and take ownership of your assets" type laws to keep them in check, and then actually follow through. The issue is that so many countries are too afraid to anger China because of economic retaliation.
A righteous man cares for the life of his animal, but the tender Mercedes of a fool are cruel. Proverbs 12:10
I remember speaking to a Chinese national who told me how excited he was that Walmart was coming to his city and he woulld be able to buy "high quality food".
God, that's jarring.
@@williamswenson5315 They'll probably have fights over the canned meats and seafood. Also baby formula.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Likely on all counts. I'd add that there will certainly not be any free food demos conducted at any time there.
I heard Walmart is leaving China
@@joshephand5538 Since 90% of what they sell here in the US is made there, I'd classify that as a rumor.
The pharmaceutical company I previously worked for purchased a new freeze dryer several years ago but chose to buy the stainless shelves necessary for use in the new equipment from China instead of from Italy as we should have. We received the shelves ($150k price) along with certifications from China guaranteeing the materials were of a high grade stainless steel per our specs. The new shelves turned red (rust) after one run. We called in a metallurgical expert in to verify the steel's quality. It turned out that the Chinese lied on their certs and the stainless steel we received was a much lower grade material.
"alkali-resistant o-rings": turned brittle & started flaking after two months sprinkling with ammonia-solution.
I work for a freeze dryer manufacturer and yes the SS from China is lower quality.
Typical Chinese.
@@puZAEdr We used Hull Lyos at the facility where they were primarily used for injectable oncolytics. The production delays caused by the crap steel indexing shelves from China cost millions in lost sales.
@@laurencestauch8296 lol, you should have bought from us.
I purchased 'Wild Caught Alaska' fish at Costco, I had no idea that they were processed in China. It does not list this on the packaging at all that I can find. In researching after seeing this video I learned that the company, Trident Seafood, does the processing in China because it is cheaper. That is really scary given all of the things going on over there. Why is this not required on the labeling of the product? That seems dangerous and ridiculous not to have food being shipped into the U.S. from overseas labeled with the country from which it came. I thought I was buying a U.S. product and I was wrong. The fish may have been caught here, but the U.S. has little control over what happens to it in China. I do not want to be poisoned, or to be supporting genocide or financing nuclear missiles aimed back at me.
Bought a package of fish from frozen food section with processed in china a few years ago, the fish was BLUE on the inside, its was cod.
Look up the COOL act (country of origin label) and it being withdrawn.
chucked full of trisodium phosphate....same stuff I use to clean my chimney
Norway poisons their fish, Vietnam poisons their fish, Denmark (where I live) sells fish food pellets that are contaminated, china fish are poison… where tf to get nice fish now???
@@DanishSpeakerChannel I have reasonable faith in our environmental protections here, though none are likely perfect, but when they do not even tell you what country the fish were processed in it is difficult to know if they are safe.
When I was 5 I went back to China to visit family drank the tap water without boiling it and ended up in the hospital for a week.
Me too. So filthy
Clean water access is a much bigger issue then most folks realize.
Glad I grew up in a land were I can just drink tap water without getting sick or so.
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@@MitsukiHashiba I love the great tap water here in Denmark. I can´t imagine living in a country where everything has heavy metals in it, and even the water you buy in supermarkets will kill you. That´s why you must never eat rice from Asia, most places they use factory waste water to grow it. Danish government website at one point had the warning to not eat rice because of this. That´s why i have always only eaten ecological government tested rice for 30 years.
Boiling the water would only concentrate the toxins as the clean water escapes as steam.
The Titanic bed part of your documentary has always stuck with me as one of the most hilarious things you've covered.
I had the same problem in Beijing and Liaoning...jilin...not able to stay in a hotel, even with my fiancee at the time...
He just mentioned it so how long exactly it’s has been stuck in there
My ex girlfriend would have loved the Titanic bedroom. Minus all the weird sex toys
When I worked at a university there, the chemistry department, cleverly, ran a bottled water service, since they had way more capacity than they needed in the water purification equipment they used. I am most grateful for that.
I work in the food industry in Australia, we export a fair portion of product to China. I’m told the middle class in China won’t eat anything that was produced in China. They obviously know something about the standards.
All of the garlic that is for consumption in Canada is all pretty much from China. My mom has a friend who is a farmer who says given how "clean" the garlic from China appears, it's most likely being bleached to look the way it is.
It is being bleached, along with a lot of their other vegetables. RUclips has videos showing it.
@@sonialelii9038 Their peeled garlic is even scarier. I told my mom I couldn't quite put my finger on it but there was this weird chemical that made the garlic smell a bit funky. It's really scary that we've gotten to this point that we're only relying on China for things like garlic and ginger.
Costco sell garlic from China I think
@@joshephand5538 They're all from China
@@sonialelii9038
And the USA uses bleach to clean meat products. U.K citizens are not happy that the gov't are going to import chlorinated
chicken from the U.S
If the Chinese start farming Africa, how long until that continent starts becoming similarly contaminated?
2 weeks.
Africa's starting from the downside of this already. The upside, at least for Africa on this one specific thing. Europe treats Africa similarly to how the US treats South America. It's kinda sorta not a quasi protectorate. Hasn't been a year in my life some European country hasn't had a few troops in Africa actively fighting someone. China is running straight into the teeth of the worst diplomatic mess in the world. The Middle East is straight forward by comparison. Does anyone honestly think France will completely let go of it's treaties and ties to old French Northern Africa because China is trying to move in? There's already EU pushback on the eastern costal countries from the old colonial owners. Europe full devested itself from Asia in the 20th, but they never fully left Africa. It'd been too much of their economy for half a millennium and the distance manageable for some measure of control. Africa's ties to Europe are too ingrained in the fabric of global and local politics for China to just throw money at it, and Europe has home court advantage if they want to press the issue. Most Europeans still see Africa as theirs. They may not phrase it that way. A precocious younger siblings or some kinda feeling toward the continent. But a feeling of other people just can't come in. It's an entire continent the US is mostly hands off with because we know better. There's vast oil fields in Africa, not a single US boot has touched the ground there over them without being asked to by Europe. That's what China is getting themselves into.
@@halycon404 But China has been building a lot of infrastructure in Africa over the last few years. Debt diplomacy is in full swing.
@@sonialelii9038 It's really not a lot of infrastructure. Africa is the second largest continent. A few ports and airports? For a continent? They're big and headline grabbing, but they aren't large enough to fill the needs. When China starts building freight railways worry. They're speaking about high-speed rail there, which is the last thing needed. China doesn't have the internal movement lines in Africa to get goods to ports.
The Chinese aren’t farming China and they won’t start farming China. It’s simply not what they do
My mate lived in China for about 15 years and ate street food all the time. He died of bowel cancer at 37.
Can't blame China for his choice of diet.
Would have probably got it even in his own country eating so much processed and fried food.
@@teflerchina.2987 correct, but you CAN blame china for the choice of ingredients.
Sewer oil is a classic killer.
@@teflerchina.2987 gutter oil exists in China
@@sillymesilly
Did.
@@sillymesilly who knows? Maybe even worse
I once bought a piece of pork from a local Wal-Mart when I lived in China. I noticed only later that the meat was glowing in the dark. The fatty part of it had a faint green glow.
Gross 🤢
Good luck not buying food out of China. I'm trying to track down where my food comes from here in Canada, almost impossible. The CBC recently did a story on how tomatoes from China are being put in food products marked as products of say, Italy. The story wasn't about heath concerns but the Uyghurs being used as slave labour to pick Tomatoes. Most products don't have any labels saying where there from. Pisses me off.
US beef is also banned in Europe because of the amount of hormones it contains so might want to avoid those too.
Here in Australia food packaging have to show how much local content in each product and how much is from imported goods. Unfortunately it doesn't show what is imported or from where. But we do get an idea of what or quantity of our food comes from Australia.
Some of the items in US shows where its imported
Same thing with apples. Most of the apple juice "made in the USA" are actually made of apples from China. It's impossible to figure out where each ingredient is from..
I'm uk every time I do a Internet search ebay etc etc I only get there unless I hunt for it elsewhere ,
I grew up on an organic farm. This is an absolute nightmare for me. 😥
@@lucabaki If we increase production and kill off our customers... Waits lets slowly kill them off, yeah just a smidge of the cancer causing agent.. It really is disappointing how shitty our food is, although biting into a peach and discovering a maggot is not something that I want either.
The most deadly poisons on this planet are "organic". There is a reason people started using pesticides. But of course, you need to understand how to use them in order to reduce side effects. And that is not emptying a bottle into a dam and throw the bottle in as well.
no wonder china's birthrate is going down part of the problem is you are poisoning the very people you want to produce kids.
the question i have does china care about its people at all doent seam like it too me?
if you cannot meet the cost of living in an area why should you have kids and make them suffer that is a problem in the usa as well imo. even if i were thinking of having kids i would not because of how much it costs to live and the goverment is unwilling to do what is necessary to stabilize the national debt. companies like apple need to be taxed more they make millions a year. companies that make millions a year need to be taxed more.
I had a friend who managed a major supermarket store telling me how many food stuffs are recalled in the States that are never reported by the news and that Walmart for example, sells food made in China that you would never suspect is Chinese made like frozen pizzas!
I'm glad you guys mentioned this. Before buying ANYTHING, check where it's made first.
Even products that you've checked before and now buy without thinking twice, can at times be a "Product of China".
Snickers (by MARS) is one example, for 6 months last year they were being made in China, due to local manufacturing plant repairs/maintenance. I refused to buy them until production returned back home.
But you can be duped. Local makers of things are using Chinese ingredients, just listed as local and imported. Of course so many spices come from Asia. Australia has imported products from our cousins, the kiwis, and their climate made beautiful peas and beans. It has opened up and imported Chinese vegetables are being packaged there, labelled product of New Zealand. Hospitals no longer make meals but get packaged muck shipped in to heat from factories owned by foreigners buying the cheapest frozen ingredients. Our son was a patient for a long time and we were asked to bring him good food so that he could get well enough for surgery……Australia.
@@luadraponies Australian food labelling laws are very strict. Not only do they state country of origin but also the percentage of Australian made products on each package along with a list of every ingredient in descending order of said percentage.
It doesn't take long to be well versed in which ingredients are not from Australia, even using just the percentage label.
I know exactly what fruit, veggie and other products are grown here and their seasons. As well as the reputation of the Brands. Further information can be obtained online.
If I do find myself doubt, I put it back, and later on contact the manufacturer for a complete breakdown.
Australia grows way more food than it consumes so finding a replacement is literally a hand's length away.
I've been doing this for over 4 years now and emailing manufacturers for information is now a only 2-3 times/year affair, mainly on new products only.
I will never buy snickers or any mars products after they apologized for calling Taiwan a country
When they started making snickers in China, the taste became awful. I haven't been tempted to buy it since.
@@november132 That's how I found out, half way through the bar, it tasted different, I reconstructed the label and read it...
Then in the bin.
China has been buying up arable land, food processor in the USA. They have been building a big wind farm in Texas through HG investments and is a security concern when a US base is somewhat near by and using the same main electrical grid the wind farm will be a part of. Like yoy mentioned the FDA is aware and is now actively trying to prevent land purchasing by Chinese companies even through secondary fronts.
China is sabre-ratting at a country where their much of their food comes from, for an island that is already economically dependent on them.
That's actually on par with most Chinese rulers now that I think about it.
West: China is in food shortage ，Chinese people are starving. CCP is evil
Also the West: China hoards most of the world's food. CCP is evil
@@boxerholy9507 China hoards food cause it’s the only way to guarantee food security, nobody is starving cause of a lack of food anymore in China but if they don’t have the land to comfortably feed everyone
@@boxerholy9507 yeah they hoard food because of a food shortage. Why doesn’t that equate for you?
@@paterpillar5997 They have more than half of the world's food reserves and less than one fifth of the world's population. And their per capita grain output is higher than the world average
If this is called a food shortage, what is the remaining population in the world? Famine?
You can't accuse others of having too much food and domestic food shortages at the same time
I know Brazil exports lots of lots of food for China.
Here farmers are educated and understand about production but in China where the land belongs to the state, only ignorant people takes care of the land...
Actually that's the contrary... the farmers got their land and own it in China... some of it is dynastic since the Mao stupidity era others were nobility of old that maintained their land but lost the peasants or their own knowledge on farm production... not that it was very optimal farming knowledge.
Anyway, the farmers are looked down on by government and private enterprise alike in China (one of the guys in the video actually mentions this)... and get no subsidies... they're subsistence farming, they make only the money they can produce... so they guzzle various extreme amounts of stuff like that to the point of toxicity in the hopes of maximizing their crop yield.
All nations, all decent nations, to ensure starvation isn't a factor, subsidize their farmers.
Every nation... subsidizes food both farming and processing. Without exception.
The bullshit of meritocracy is garbage for the slaves to pretend their billionaires in waiting.
While the rich don't care so much... and even the middle class don't care.
In this case, China wanted to get the big money via manufacturing, so lots of subsidies have gone to industrialization. So the focus was gone from farming to heavy industry.
The irony is, these farmers actually do own their property. It's not state run farms. That was abandoned well early when Mao gave out land to bozo the clowns to farm the land, and huge crop failures resulted.
So he then ensured the farmers that were, got the land, many were old dynastic farmers prior that survived the civil war. And have since farmed. They get no assistance. Because prior to the industrialization, they were the few that made "the big money" relatively speaking of course... they make very little in actuality.
Yeah, rich farmers own Brazilian land, and the poor just have to go to the slums of the city，cheer for capitalism.
@@boxerholy9507 how wonderful to be able to talk about problems of your country and try to make it better. Our Agro business is one of the best.
By the way, R y Chinese? Have you bought a wife already? Kept her in chains? Rape her to make lots of babies to work in the field without registration or education? And reward the husband? Very commun in China...while they try to send a man to the moon....
Only through criticism a country gets better but China only hide problems and do propaganda.
Get lost.
When the subject is Brazil then you will be able to discuss the country. But it is not the case here. Here is China.
@@boxerholy9507 oh and one more thing just like everything else you’re just involved in Epstein as any other country and if you think I’m lying all you have to do is look at the Harvard guy that was connected to Epstein connected to your city Wuhan.
@@anapaulaamaral1514
Yeah，It's wonderful to be able to talk about problems of your country and try to make it better,I can feel that.
The whole Chinese Internet is angry about this woman's tragedy. The Chinese government has conducted five investigations into the imprisonment of this woman, and more than 10 officials have been fired immediately for incompetence.
China is obviously better at finding and solving problems than Brazil, otherwise China cannot achieve much greater achievements than Brazil,far more than send a man to the moon.
By the way,you are quite concerned about a woman's imprisonment in China, that's OK,but I doubt how much you care about the rampant crime in the favelas of your own country，and how much confidence do you have in your country to solve this problem.......
Am I right in thinking that China (uncharacteristically) announcing it’s current grain hoard is actually a sign that their reserves are very low?
Could also be war preparation.
There’s a chain store called World Market in my town in Virginia. They have a small section of gourmet foods. So I was reading the labels on some of them and they come from China (some of them). All I could think was the dog treats that were killing some pets and the building supplies that contaminated houses that all came from China.
Makes me feel so sad that their government doesn’t really care about the health of the people or the world. They’ve tried to rise up but they get squashed and killed.
Is that the reason that closes to 900,000 dead in the US out of covid, while in China the number is less than 5000?
I live a few blocks from a World Market and it is such an amazing place every time I go in. As much as I don't trust food from China, I have yet to get any sickness from these White Rabbit milk candies imported from there
汉服百度 Hanfu Colorful you believe the propaganda numbers bro?
@@Waffleman00 He's wumao paid per post. He gets more if people reply to him...
@@AceFuzzLord How do you know what toxins are building up in your body until it is too late? These types of poisoning build up over time...
Love the intro lol, & really appreciate the insight you guys bring.
I'm a farmer in the UK & have an interest in global food prices. It should be no surprise to anyone when I say that food price inflation is a big deal at the moment. Wheat prices increased by 30% last year & show absolutely no signs of slowing down this year either, other commodities are up to a similar degree. To that you can add the logistical disruptions we've experienced over the last couple of years, but the 300 lb gorilla in the room is the fact that there is a global shortage of fertilizer for the year ahead. Energy prices are through the roof, & fertilisers & pesticides are derivatives of petrochems, there's estimated to be a 20% shoprtfall compared to the last few years. The overuse of toxic pesticides might be a self correcting problem (a silver lining to the mushroom cloud) going ahead, they'll be too expensive to use.
If you look at who's buying what you'll see that China has been buying huge quantities of available produce the last year:- up to %50 of global supply in some instances, the leadership knows there's stormy times ahead.
On a slightly different note If you go back through history, look through every secular minimum (also referred to as Grand Solar Minima) & correlate it with the fall of Chinese Dynasties. Each & every time (without exception) the regimes have been toppled when people start to starve. The current leadership are aware of this & plan to buck the historical trend. The purchase of so much (potential) farmland in northern Africa is in line with this, these regions are expected to have more rainfall in the years ahead.
Fascinating. Great info. Thanks for sharing
RUclips channel Adapt2030, I think? Plus Suspicious Observers, IceAgeFarmer, Oppenheimer Ranch Project etc. Lots of good info on climate changes and how to prepare.
Rafe, I take it you're an arable farmer? Would you say most other farmers share your concerns? What are farmers doing to prepare? It seems to me we've reached and passed 'peak food', so things will get tough from here on in. How will you cope? Are you planting leys with nitrogen fixers to reduce fertiliser use?
China preordered 69% of Maize, 60% of all rice and wheat 51%, it´s totally insane. I predict hunger in many country´s because of this hoarding and pushing up prices. 20% of the worlds population hoarding over 50% of grain and corn in the world. Something will have to break
The Gulf states buy a lot of farmland in Sudan as well.
A food crisis in a communist country? This is a classic.
Who could have guessed?!
They’re just lying buddy. I work and I live in china since 5 years now. I’ve never seen this. They’re just ani-china. every society has its ups and downs but I’ve never seen China crying over food shortages.
I guess the Dust Bowl was caused by Communists? - Capitalist
And the Potato Famine? - Capitalist
And the Bengal Famine? - Capitalist
Greed causes famine, not politics.
@@africaarise5448 and they also lived in China way longer than you. Your just another Chinese who pretend to be a white.
West: China is in food shortage，Chinese people are starving. CCP is evil
Also West: China hoards most of the world's food. CCP is evil
Groundwater is a problem in east europe too. Drinking "bottled water" is about as safe as drinking out of a puddle. Corruption destroys society in a very physical way.
East Europe too? It is normal to drink tap water in my country. City water utilities sometimes advertise in newspapers and on TV that local tap water is of very good quality. For drinking, you should not even boil tap water. Water was often of poor quality in the early 1980s, but not now. And only the elderly remember the poor quality of tap water.
Drinking groundwater is bad for your back. You have to use a cup.
Central Europe is fine. No prob with water. Except low level.
Not sure what you're referring to, but where I'm from (in Bulgaria), water comes from mountain sources and is some of the best tap water I've had.
We're blessed to have so much perfect water above ground in Norway, and especially here in the north. We get a warning & instructions to boil the water if some animal falls into the lake and drowns. That happens maybe once a year.
We have garlic, ginger from China in Canada, I avoid anything food related from China. As far as technology or hardware, I go with Japan and South Korea.
Canada is a lost cause, Trudeau is basically making it little china
I recently found out my best friend's dad has also been a fan of you guys for years. We end up discussing your guys' videos everytime I see him.
China worries me, but because of you two and people like LeLe Farley, I think I'm worrying less about "China is going to overtake the world" and more about the ways the CCP threatens global stability. Morals and principles are more important than ever. Technology in general is so advanced that we must harness it rather than exploit it. Democratic countries are much better at checks and balances on exactly this sort of abuse of power.
Agreed my man, the CCP has the power to make ripples everywhere
Funny I send an ADV video to my friend because he loves bikes also. Turns out he was already a big fan haha
@Black Lesbian Poet Where is this Whitey? He sounds like a bad dude.
I love your profile pic man lol
Word. That's awesome.
Reminds me of what they did in North Korea, throwing massive amounts of chemicals at the farms, fertilizer, weed and pest killers, which eventually collapsed their agriculture and caused a massive famine.
They had no fertilizers and pest and weed killers available because they could not afford to import them.
It was corruption and economic mismanagement, floods and droughts, the withdrawal of the Soviet Union's support and the food distribution system that caused the famine. But hey, these are just the facts and we don't want to let these get in the way of your story.
I really want to buy my own land to build a house and a farm on someday. Seeing how many foreign countries are rapidly buying up land in the US just because it has value is so disheartening. It should be illegal if they don’t actually plan on living in the houses
I think so many people have become disillusion with the way food is produced. I recall Grand Parents saying food doesn't taste like it used to. We thought it was because their taste buds were not working. But they were CORRECT. Food grown naturally (e.g. permaculture) tastes much better and in no small part to the nutrients made available by micro-organisms killed by modern farming. I wish you well in buying your dream. However, even a garden is a good starting place.
@@gazgandalf4854 Thank you. I currently have a myriad of house plants that I’ve been taking care of for about 5 years now. Every spring I plant garden vegetables like basil, cucumbers, pumpkins, different kinds of tomatoes, and manage them. Right now I can’t because where I live, this time of year the snow freezes and kills plants, but I can’t wait for spring to come :^)
@@Ava-km7tl It can be seized along with other assets belonging to foreigners from outside the US if the Government decides to do such a thing, they did it right before and during World War II by the Roosevelt Administration!
@@Ava-km7tl Well done - that's almost a market stall full of vegetables. My favourite herbs are Basil (I add some to my green veg) and Coriander. I think you're in the States so you call that celantro.
China also buying Australia, I predict civil war over this.
Any large country hoarding large amounts of staple foods may be trying to prevent their own population from starving... but it's also a great way to add destabilizing pressure against the economies of any potential competitors/foes.
Could you elaborate, how could hoarding food add destabilizing pressure?
Thanks in advance
@@trolllovindaddy Preparation for war. Armies must be fed.
@@trolllovindaddy first of all removing the local food surplus, that will destabilize local communities. And second creating economic reliance weakening trade
@@trolllovindaddy you
I miss the scheduled uploads, BUT now I appreciate the uploads even more than before because uploads come as a surprise.
My friends wife died at 32 from uterean cancer. Her uterus had grapefruit sized tumors. Makes you wonder how much crap we end up eating.
Hi guys! I am a rice farmer and we have a special disposal area for chemical containers (bottles and sachets) but I still catch my guys throwing them in the field every so often. It is possible that they sprayed the contents properly but threw their bottles in their canals for disposal.
People who diligently apply those chemicals according to the rules, don't throw away the bottles in the fields. If your guys are doing that, I bet they are negligent at applying the product.
What country?
I recently refused to use dried mushrooms from China (my wife bought them) because the cooking instructions on the packing sounded as if they were toxic waste.
WTF?
Then, buy mushroom from Japan, the mushroom is good at absorbing readiation.
@Hamfu Colorful
Funny you talk about Radiation since China is 10 times worse that a French companies have to report them since CCP keep increasing the threshold of what considered as "safe".
Like all toxic food in China, radiation in China also rarely get report as well.
@John Wong Fun fact: Chinese nationalists like him are not even supposed to watch RUclips - so they are actually criminals according to CCP standards. 😂
Would rather starve to death than use anything from China, it is the faith that every Chinese hater should have.
@@johnwong5317 no，CHina is 10000000000000000000000000000000 times worse，How dare you claim that China is only ten times worse? You must be Wumao,
The ground water thing is horrific, imagine what they dump in the ocean. I feel for all those people :C
That's what scares me. I love smoked oysters, but most major brands say "product of China" on the packaging. I used to eat many cans of them growing up, so I'm surprised I haven't caught paralytic shellfish poisoning by now.
Ground water in most countries around the world is polluted. That's a fact.
@@grantadamson3478 but China's is A LOT worse compared to those so.
I feel very bad for the creatures of the land and sea…and for the planet, which is a symbiotic ecosystem…NO ONE ESCAPES the damage that China inflicts upon the planet.
Helpful tip: Do not buy ANYTHING you consume, from China. No potstickers, no meat, fish, rice, tea, farmed seafood etc…Nothing…
It's worst than you think...the CCP has approved the pumping industrial waste water down into the 'deep water tables' (think 3000+ feet down).
Care to guess how that is going to turn out...
These reasons are why I’m growing rice locally and organically for my community here in the USA. I also do not grow rice in paddy’s because of the huge amount of methane produced and water used. The amount of chemicals used for agriculture is so gross. Please support small farms! Thanks for covering this you guys.
I would like to buy some only down- side is I life in Europe :(
Carbon comes in black and green .
Plants absorb green then give it back up .
It's complete cycle
If farmers increased carbon in the soil only 1 percent then that would fix climate change
Fossil fuels were formed because oxygen was scarse .
So burning fuel just adds carbon without a cycle
So right. We have produce stands and weekend food fairs. Not only is it better for you, it tastes so much better than the grocery stores.
@@tomrobertson3236 yes sir! I use cover crops and no till to sequester carbon. I wish more large scale farms did this in my area.
Growing rice produces methane?
That's a new one; never heard that one before!
When I lived in Shanghai, near Jing an, I almost never ate local food except foreign food at a few chain restaurants, but mostly I shopped at a German wholesale supermarket place that needed a special membership. All food, I think even the vegetables, imported. I cooked at home almost exclusively.
Only water I used was scalding hot water from the tap with plenty of detergent and never drank Chinese water, except good bottled water.
I spent three nights with my family at a business hotel in Cheng Du. My eight year old daughter collected the business cards that were slipped under the door overnight with pictures of topless Chinese women advertising for their services. We laughed that first night but after that it became a little tiring and I would quickly go to the door and remove and throw away the cards before my daughter would see them. / The hotel actually had a Starbucks and a Burger King attached through the main floor hallways. Regardless, Cheng Du is a beautiful city with very friendly residents.
The stir fry mix veggie bag at Walmart is from China, I stopped getting it and same at samsclub, not worth the risk. I even buy apple juice only made here in the states when I found out Walmarts apple juice was from China 😭 so gross! They have taken the China apples label off and now say imported apples.
"Where there is secrecy, there is guilt"
Buying beef thats from the US is also a no go, its banned in the EU for a reason (contains too much hormones).
Don’t be fooled with media propaganda on anti-china. I live and work here for five years. they have have a great civilization and they’ve always been high on population. if shortage of food was and a thing in china now, imagine how they’ve survived till this date and still being the most populated country on the entire world. you don’t believe anything on RUclips. These guys are hungry for views from RUclips. Wise up
There is a CBC report that found that apples in apple juice sold in NA were mostly from China. They called the apple juice companies and the confessed this.
@@africaarise5448 is a WuMao, he is paid by the government to propagandize foreigners.
Can't believe it's being 6 years now watching these guys
I'm just in shock of the pollution facts you guys shared. Just wow. I honestly didn't know anything about China until watching you guys. Thank you
And you still know nothing. This was a tiny inconspicuous piece of China.
@@grantadamson3478 you know nothing John Snow.
@@beangreene2109 This creature is probably a bot that is part of the Wu Mao 50 cent Army which is used by the CCP to counter anything negative about China and the CCP on social and other media.
"China Uncensored" is another eye-opening channel.
The failure of heath and safety oversight highlights one of the strangest aspects of the CCP to me: the combination of massive overreaching bureaucracy with complete lack of actual oversight where it counts.
CCP: "We want to be able to track every single person in the country and what they are saying or doing *at all times* . Ensuring building projects and food production meet even minimal health and safety standards? You're joking, right?"
The *massive* inefficiency and neglegence of such a massive state apparatus never ceases to amaze me.
That's probably because being a civil servant has always been considered achieving social status and safe income in China since ancient times, not just in the CCP era.
The job is an end of itself, they don't have to work hard or much at all.
This was one of the best vlogs you have produced in a long time.
Thank you
I got a bag of frozen salmon fillets from Tesco's UK, I got it home and realised caught wild in Alaska produced in China.
I sent Tesco a stinking Email. I always buy the Spanish garlic but most is Chinese.
When I lived in Vietnam they were very weary of Chinese produce.v
Why were they weary?
@@BountyFlamor they do not trust the produce. Chemicals I think.
Thank you for that comment about Chinese Food. I have been really careful about that. It is disgusting what they do to food in China, if you can even call it food anymore, it is so polluted.
Guess what.. New Zealand is exactly the same. They were still using DDT less than 10 years ago.
I have seen similar things in rural China, food sufficiency and safety is a big big issue in China.
I can’t imagine polluted groundwater is good for crop yields.
Depends - Nitrate and phosphate are polutands and fertilizers.
I really miss the early ADV days.
Thank you for these revists.
"Don't go randomly eating Chinese food." Much simpler, "Don't go to China."
please don't go
I stupidly bought $50 worth of non-gluten rice noodles on Amazon not checking the fact that they are from China. Will trash them ALL.
Tahiti is much better
Abolish USA Communist Democrat Party or Complete 100% reform it by throwing everyone that is in it currently and BAN them from all Government Position as well as from Joining any Party FOREVER; including those through the period of pass 6 years till today.
This is a MUST, IF YOU ARE Serious in Eliminating the Entire SWAMP. chyna CCP is part of the Swamp way before ww 2.
Please get rid of USA Communist Democrat Party before the final phase of ww3 or we will have to work to get rid of USA from the rest of the world.
No more repeating history on PURPOSE like in ww2 ( e.g communist democrat economy suppression on others on purpose, etc, etc)and earlier.
Note that South Korea is Still at this moment a *Communist in Disguise at its core.* Until the gov is completely conservative. Which been attacking Japan from the South of Japan under directions given by Communist chyna CCP.
One can easily observe how so many of its people that have a communist mindset. Though not all of them; but there is a lot of them. You can easily find this if you look around.
This include *malaysia* ; which is also a *Communist in Disguise* never changed since like forever.
Communist malaysia contributed and feeds ww2; as well as play the Communist blame game. countries such as these cannot be trusted and shall be held accountable with serious punishment for their action without fail.
And Yes, Pence had gone down in history as someone that is completely useless that caused billions of death due to his weakness. He should not have taken the possition if he can't do it. and he knew it.
China's Bioweapon chyna ccp virus = covid, omicron
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because the majority of americans stubborn on continue to be stup.
Which will only keep repeating history on purpose without solving the core problem. We are tired of it and had given chances for decades.
This current scenario is the same one from WW 2 and earlier. even within the pass 15 years; the same scenario is played for more than 10 times.
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Do you think we are stup?
Which is reason thy neven get rid of all or PERMANENT BAN on ALL THOSE BAD APPLE. Especially the entire USA Communist Democrat Party (if thee want to know in details, dig into them yrself. I've explained enough and tired on americans).
The only reason the world choose to get together as real ally is cause of President Donald J Trump. When thee all betrays his effort, Thee all betrays the rest of the allies effort.
Unless thee get rid of all of them with PERMANENT BAN in place " Government Position as well as from Joining any Party FOREVER", we will be force to rid of usa from the rest of the world.
That's the All of them. No more true ally. Conservative or not, it no longer matters.
The time limit is until before the begining of final phase of ww 3. thee know whether this is a joke or not.
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JAPAN is now the Top Leader of the Entire Asia. Is time we stands and fight for what is Right.
Naturally, I'll sign up at a moment Notice. Is no time to hold back no longer. All who are with chyna CCP or linked by even a single electron will be annihilated without mercy.
JAPAN!!!
The TOP LEADER OF THE ENTIRE ASIA.
ALL for JAPAN!? ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
@@qee540 Well, current Japanese leadership i.e. the Prime Minister Kishida is equivocating on China, sitting on the fence. He is not like S. Abe.
I attended agricultural college when I first got out of school in the late 80's, and there were plenty of students from around the world there. The ones that stuck out were the black south african guys who were on a scholarship from their government to learn modern farming practices. I got to know them well because they were not as highly educated as us westerners, so we took them under our wing to help them get through the course. When they returned home they were going to be travelling the country, teach the locals how to produce food more efficiently and safely. There was not a single chinese student, and after watching this video it really has me questioning the ccp leadership sanity. When I attended university in the 90's, it was ridiculous the amount of chinese students we had on campus. It felt like almost half were chinese, all busy studying the various tech sciences, but mostly software engineering it appeared. This video just further displays to me the ccp's warped priorities.
Finally🙏🏻
Missed ADVChina a lot
Very informative. Thank you! Was wondering why my head ached when I ate some food on business trips there. Was suspecting this.
I always enjoy your honesty. Thank you for such a good work.
@4:17 I do like the locals' custom of shouting "Welcome to the rice fields!" when a Laowai shows up.
Thanks guys. Your coverage of China as always is fantastic and puts the corporate and government (CBC) media here in Canada to shame.
I find them unbiased. Never seen this channel just spetz.
I hate our government in the US, and no malice for Chinese people, but their government is insane.
Bring down the useless Ghost towns and or give people a free shelter.
Another Canadian here: Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star have both printed propaganda prepared by the People's Daily as if it was news under the banner "China Watch".
Trudeau is also pushing for Xinhua to get parliamentary press gallery accreditation, while our independent media has to fight an uphill battle to get in. The only quality msm journalist I can name in this country is Sam Cooper, and he's actually been a guest on China Uncensored.
@@micahaalders9840 At least we have ways to get real information out now, even the majority of people don't see it.
People gets such beliefs and won't even believe absolute evidence that contradicts them.
man that intro music brought me back. I've been watching since you guys actually lived in China. Glad to see you guys are still making content. I appreciate you telling your experiences with China's issues from the perspective of someone living there. You don't hear that much
I spent a month at a hotel near Tian An Men in 2016; got minor skin burns- from showering! The water was so acidic & polluted!
Over the years, the way they label the country of origin has gotten sneakier. I started noticing this about 10 years ago when I went to a Korean store to buy some dried chili powder and I reached for a cheap one and it said "Product of PROC" and I was thinking, "Where/who is PROC??" I kept thinking and it dawned on me..."PROC...People's Republic of Chi....Son of a...!!!"
Yeah. My rule of thumb is any food product or anything that goes into my body will NOT be made in China. Too bad that it's basically unavoidable to buy nothing that's made China, but I still try my best, even if it's a few bucks more.
Even more sneaky is ‘packaged in…(Canada. Etc)…from imported ingredients’. Imported from where?
Same, I am paying a little more to get my things from not slavery sources. I do understand people who has no money to pay products not made in Xina, but I will keep doing it to everything I can, I stop buying from Nike and Moji already and my list will only get bigger with time.(Still need to stop purchasing Disney products, but with a kid it is quite difficult 😅)
@@keo872 I explained to my little cousin once that Walt Disney supported concentration camps he now wants nothing to do with Disney
Storage silos in Dalian make me think they know an inevitable collapse and capital flight is coming. I've read they need 2T in foreign currency coming in to import at current levels.
Yeah Toyota pulling out and closing their factory, the workers striking blaming toyota when its the government not renewing their land lease.
I was about to buy Talapia in my supermarket in Seattle and I saw it was from China and told my wife to put it back. Thanks for educating us.
PS. I love how you guys describe Panjin as a little city or town, which is exactly how my wife describes it. It is a small city, only 2 million people. 😀 The definition of small in China is so different.
I sent my wife a picture of the city limit sign of the exurb I live in near Portland Oregon. She asked what the 3945 at the bottom meant. I told her that is how many people live in our town.
She couldn't stop laughing and reconned there were more people than that in her apartment building.
@Mike the Neanderthal: She would get a laugh out of wear I live in Kansas, pop. 1500.
'KEEP ON KEEPIN ON'!
That’s a huge apartment building
@ very typical on China.
You're doing great work.
I spent a year in Qingdao for an internship in 2003 and they had this famous "Lao Shan" water everyone said was super healthy and high quality, supposedly coming out of a nature preserve outside the city. The stuff tasted like it was contaminated with engine oil, or something like that.
A German engineer I worked together with made jokes about it and called it: "His daily dose of carbo-hydrates."
There is some "famous" bottled water from France as well - "Volvic" AFAIR.
My German sister in law - and her children - told me how good it tasted (OK, they live in Berlin - which is a special chapter concerning tap water ...).
For me it was horrible - it tasted like plastic.
Fortunately years later some test revealed the same - tastes like plastic.
German tap water won over bottled water - imagine that.
Was driving through Texas. I could smell oil/gas in the air. Stop for breakfast at a De***s. Waitress brings me a glass of water. Tasted like gasoline. I have her taste it. Nada. She was used to it. Kinda like a papermill town( smells like bleached wet diapers ) locals don't smell anything.
Poor Chinese. The west bought them to make everything, having to use chemicals or air pollution from steel mills and the like.
I'd say western consumers and greedy corporations are as equal as guilty as CCP.
@@2paulcoyle I agree with your point about people being used to stuff and not noticing it, when outsiders do, but I can't agree with assigning a equal amount of blame to western consumers as to the CCP.
When somebody sells you a product, you are not equally guilty for shady stuff he did to produce or obtain that product. Especially not when he is constantly lying about the things he does.
Yes, the people shipping manufacturing jobs and factories to China and then not checking or not caring about the conditions there, carry some of the guilt too, but first of all, those are not the mass of consumers in the west and secondly, it isn't as if the CCP would allow foreigners to snoop around in China and tell them how they have to do things, is it?
@@Sagittarius-A-Star Bottled water gets advertised as "from fresh mountain springs!" or as "glacial water!", but it is all artificial. They take regular water, pump it through high tech membrane filters originally developed by NASA for the space station and nuclear submarines, till it is pure H2O, without any minerals or other elements in it.
They call that "Thirsty Water" because nature always looks for an equilibrium and that pure water will soak up minerals and other stuff like a liquid sponge, when in contact with them.
That is why drinking Thirsty Water would kill you. It would suck vital minerals and other material out of your cells to reach a saturated equilibrium again, which would be deadly.
The point being, that Thirsty Water has no taste and they have to compose a taste for it in a laboratory, by adding minerals and other stuff (like sugar) to it.
So how bottled water tastes depends on how good the "taste composer" is at his job and on what the consumer wants and is used to.
Bottled water is just as much of a artificial, laboratory made product as Coca Cola or Pepsi or any other industrially produced beverage.
It requires even more laboratory work and testing, because when you make some sugary soft drink, people just accept that it tastes a certain way and they like it or don't like it. With water everyone has an idea what clean, natural water ought to taste like and the guys in lab coats have to recreate that "natural" taste.
Haha
haven't watched one of your videos in a while. so glad this popped up on my feed!
Thank you for covering this stuff. Its very important.
Yesterday my coworker bought me a drink....it was a chinese sparkling water. As soon as I saw where it came from I threw it out. Was that overly paranoid?
Worrying about what other people think is less important than worrying about what your are putting in your body. The same people that would accuse you of being paranoid will die in less than 10 years from some form of cancer anyway.
It's going to get worse especially for 'middle class' Chinese in China due to the mandates claimed by NZ food production companies are 'demanded' by customers. New Zealand exports over 90% of it's food in some industries. What happens when 10 to 30% of the work force are out of work? They recently had to shut down a factory producing hundreds of tons of products due to staff 'sickness' - and not due to the big 'O' dis ease... Food doesn't just appear on supermarket shelves. Not only does it need to be delivered it has to be collected in it's natural state, processed and packaged by skilled workers. It will get worse before it gets better... Some may not make it.
What the hell are you on about.
@@grantadamson3478 did you even watch the video?
Whatever are you talking about?
@@RolandElliottFirstG Food supplies.
@@RolandElliottFirstG you realise that china get a bulk of their milk, dairy, meat and bottled water from NZ.
Thanks for broadening my horizons on what's happening
I'm such an idiot that when I was thinking about buying a water bed (ages ago), I got the bright idea to rent a room in this motel I was driving past on my way back and forth to a job I was on. I could see the sign saying "Yes! we have waterbeds", from the highway through Toronto. I should have known it was a "sex motel" but I didn't even catch on when they asked how long I wanted the room, in hours, I just didn't. I worked 12hr night shifts and intended to sleep in a waterbed and head back to work.
I saw all the mirrors and heart shaped bath tub and thought they'd rented me the honeymoon suite!
I finally realized when I began hearing the noises and then the Police raided the place. I felt like such a fool, but I was still young back then.
How was the water bed? Just curious.
Love you guys. Stay awesome!
I love this channel so much I've been reviewing episodes from 5 and 6 years ago, please I want more, and love the China footage.
You guys look Great I'm so glad y'all re still together and hope you're doing well
The day after the last ADV China video rolls out, is the day I look away. You guys are awesome.
Stay that way.
Sad how a tyrannical leader leads a country that could've been great into the ground
On the other hand, we should thank CCP for destroying any chance of China becoming real superpower. If China continued improving the way it did in 2000s, it would be no1 in the world today. Now, thanks to return to communism, they are doomed to be 3rd world shithole like other communist 'paradises'.
@@lazyman7505 Nah, envy isn't my thing, I'd be fine with them doing better.
But its never going to happen now. Communism is based on fear & envy; envy of others and fear of We the People.... and no people scare the CCP as much as their own people do.
Even if they pass us, the fact stands that they have 4 times as many people as we do, if their economy is as good as ours that means their people are doing 25% as well.
And obviously, even that level of affluence is too much for their CCP masters to tolerate.
@@johnwolf2829 Agreed. It would be MUCH better for the world if China were evolving into something better. It could have been like Taiwan.
Well its the mindset that they have
@@lazyman7505 China’s free trade zones are expanding, that doesn’t sound like communism.
When I was there, if there were 10 people they would order at least 15 entree's. Always lots of food waste.
I feel like that's a universal problem. .food waste....very hard for me to get my peers to change their habits.
Seeing Matt & Winston sharing the covers is great lol
Im so happy I found your 2 channels. So much information ℹ
Question.... If there was a change in government from the CCP would you feel safe then to go back and visit China? Or would there still be holdovers that would be threat?
They will not be able to return. They are classified as enemy´s of China, that does not go away if Winnie the poo falls from power.
@@TrickOrRetreat I think he meant fall of the CCP not just Xi Jinping
@@saint_matthias Well in that case, i still think many nationalists will try to harm them physically. If the CCP falls they should at least give it 5 years to see what happens first. It would probably be a shit show and civil war.
I answered like that because XI kinda is the ccp now.
Ovarian cysts are relatively common here in the US as well, not as common as what you guys are stating but they do trend in families.
Ok- roundup is dumped on crops all over the world on specificly bred crops called “roundup ready” which means they’re immune to roundup. Farmers dump glyphosate on the roundup ready crop and it kills every other plant.
But it's generally dilutesd and mixed as per manufacturer instructions and sprayed out of pumps in a relatively more targeted way. It is not dumped raw into rice paddies which are basically lakes, and not in the quantities found in China. And you may not harvest crops so treated for 30 days after application, because after 30 days, the stuff biodegrades more than 90% in that timeframe, meaning that it should never be on your food. It's a robust system.
Unconventional Ideas . In the USA it’s sprayed on wheat crops to make the entire field ready to harvest at the same time. Even Quaker Oats oat meal has been shown to have roundup in the final product.
I understand that Roundup breaks down in the ground in a couple of weeks.
it is also used for harvest desiccation of non gmo crops, thus it's presence in wheat, oats, and rice, to name a few.
Good video. The lighting is very good in this video.
great show as always.
Interesting. I wonder if rice from places like Vietnam, Thailand and Laos is ok? I buy Thai rice here in the UK...
I buy Thai rice too and I eat it 7 days a week. 🇹🇭
The ministry of health in Germany recommends to not eat rice and drink tea on a daily base because of the amount of pesticides and heavy metals in them.
@@sebastianriemer1777 You have got to be kidding me. Tea as well?
Buy Italian rice, asian rice is often contaminated.
Thailand has banned the glosphate…spelled wrong the chemical from Monsanto
Although they still use alot of spray for crops not sure what as I can’t read Thai
All the big name shops and supermarkets in Australia have a huge selection of foods, many of which are produced in China, it's very difficult to find something not produced in China. Our labels on food products have to show country of origin in percentage.
Australia is a lost cause it’s basically little china
Glad to see your videos again mySir.
Thanks guys. Always entertaining and educating.
Iam not big on the use of glyphosate ( round up ) but its basically used in every large ( and small ) farming operation in the US. Its been tested in measured in much of the food you eat. Hell Ben & Jerrys ice cream tested positive for it in the ice cream that comes with cake ( or wheat ) products as well as any of them containing nuts. I CANT imagine how bad the usage is in China. Its somewhat regulated here but farmers can still basically use it as needed ( and they love that stuff, especially in plants that are modified to be resistent to round up, then they can just dump on some glyphosate and kill anything thats not corn etc... ) In china there is probably no oversight, no chemical company that works with the farmers to decide how much is good to use ..... ugh I cant imagine how much worse there food is for glyphosate levels on the end consumer. YIKES.
To be fair *glyphosate* has been extensively studied and has never really been shown to be a likely cancer causing chemical. That does not mean Roundup has no link to cancer, but Roundup is made up of more than glyphosate, glyphosate is the majority of it, and the chemical doing the work to make it a herbicide, but there are others in there too that are protected as trade secrets that they are allowed to keep under the none specific 'inert ingredients' title. As in, even if you drank a 2.5 gallon jug of the stuff and the hospital called to get the ingredient list of what you have specifically ingested Monsanto will not, nor are they required to tell them what those ingredients are.
So what I am saying is glyphosate itself in this case gets a bad wrap. It really does seem to be safe, its likely something else that's in that Roundup jug causing health issues.
Don't get me wrong though, glyphosate is still WAY overused and that is a major issue as just like antibiotics depending so heavily on a single mode of action, causing evolutionarily pressure to ensure the odd weed that mutated to have a resistance becomes the dominate one with less competition both in the gene pool and in the field fighting for resources. (the amount of resistant weeds the US has now DWARFS those of the rest of the world including Canada because of our over reliance on it; If I recall we have something like 120+ and Canada is a distant second at like 17, most the world has like 2)
Gotta switch up what your herbicides mode of action (In this case Roundup is an Amino Acid Inhibitor), rotate crops ect. Stop doing corn on corn or wheat on wheat year after year, especially if you are no tilling and doubling down on the roundup to kill off everything so you can get the seeder through it.
PS. Yeah, I'm also a farmer. (Spring/winter wheat, Barley, Canola, Lentils, Yellow Peas and Alfalfa are our main crops)
I agree, but I think the point is that there will be lots of toxic, much worse than glyphosate. E.g. Mercury or some super-carcinogenic chemicals which never break down. I expect the crabs are a cocktail of highly toxic compunds.
@@richardpowell1425 For sure, that I have no doubt of.
Glyphosate doesn't kill anything other than green plants. When it comes to _very_ high doses it might cause problems eventually, but everything does. In theory you could even drink it.
It might cause obviously long term problems if you do that though. We have nothing backing that claim, but there are some observations of conditions which appeared after it was used in high doses.
That being said, it's used in very high doses way too often and extensive use can damage ecosystems due to its effects on green plants and because resistant plants do appear.
However at the end of the day it's _the_ most well researched herbicide and while I'm no friend of it all we'd see if it wouldn't exist is more extensive use of way more dangerous herbicides.
Sad part is that I know atleast for a while we sent frozen Cod among other things ... to China for processing so they cut it and packed it in China and sent it back to Norway to sell !!! so it basically was Cod caught by norwegian wessels in norwegian sea .. shipped to a freeze hotel (they call it that here) and then sold to among other china for processing.
Ofcourse I live at the coast of Finnmark we do not buy old fish, we buy fresh fish, and it must be caught the day we want to have it. !!! But I feel abit ashamed to admit that we do that practise but I think people are waking up from this.
much smoother opening. Good job.
Thank you for the heads up boys.
FWIW, food products coming out of china sold in western countries (mostly speaking for european countries here, since I'm pretty familiar with the level of oversight in major retailers here) can be considered safe, even though they come from china. That's not because what's in this video is false, it's because they go through several more steps in the chain, each with their own QA departments and accountability to the next one in the chain. The western companies releasing imported food into the market are as accountable for what they sell as the ones selling locally made food. Especially the store brands of major retailers are under extremely strict oversight because the retailers are scared shitless of food safety scandals. Food sold under other brands vary more widely in the level of quality control, some brands may be strict, some not so much.
It's still understandable to avoid food products coming out of china in western countries, just not primarily for food safety reasons.
I’m glad you mentioned the % of arable land. So many people don’t understand that or it’s significance. The official figure in economic text books used to say 15%.
Also, any region that relies on rice is a food deficient region. The south of China is such a place. Rice is a crop that produces a lot of calories for a very small area of land. So it’s the food of choice if you’re food deficient. It’s a number one indicator.
The 15% arable land figure is important because it’s why the CPC won’t attack Taiwan. The South China Sea is covered by the PLAs rocket/missile divisions - the biggest in the world (that’s what the false islands are all about), but as soon as the CPC starts a war with the west the sea lanes into the South China Sea get cut and chinas food supplies go (and chinas naval base at Djibouti either gets taken or blockaded). Thars why the CCP started the belt and road into Central Asia and why Xi did his 2012 deal with Putin. China’s back up supply line is via Central Asia - African food supplies are not that interesting to them because the security of that supply is deep,y questionable. But the CPC has learned the hard way that if the west cuts supplies to China then the Chinese economy - and China itself - immediately collapses.
Jack Ma is said to be currently in Europe studying western agricultural methods.
I think Jack Ma is getting away from Xi
Overland transportation is many times more expensive per ton than by sea. Even if China can physically import a full replacement by land/air, it'll either: 1) empty its treasury (especially foreign currencies) paying for it, or 2) cause mass uncontrollable upset among the Chinese people who will be priced out of the goods.
@@doujinflip Maybe, but if youve created a transport system that is uneconomical and a white elephant in times of no war then youve partly solved your war supply problems
Years ago and first I start to watch your channel
Thanks for the video! I learned a lot more than I thought I knew!
A number of Permaculture techniques can help fix the land in China. While yield per crop is less, It doubles the yield per acre overall as it relies on a diversity of plants each finding it's niche and no pesticides. Certain plants end up trapping poisons and salts in organic material making the land safe again. Mixing certain charcoals and clay's in the soil may also help reduce the poisons.
They likely know this but it's about getting the money to get the job done. We could also end world hunger if the transportation costs were low enough.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Morailty maximizes the profitability on the universal and eternal scale first before the medium and medium term and the medium and medium term before the local and present term. Immorality does not. What they are doing is investing for short term gains and immediate gratification at the expense of others this is both greedy and selfish and is a problem with the morality of the culture in the mainland. Permaculture is a longterm solution and can take 7 years to build the soil and water tables but the payoff is immense both in terms of overall yeild and in terms of health and the enviroment which decreases cost that individuals will incure later. For a country that does 50 year plans and what not this is something they should look into and educate their farmers on...and then provide them with the financial and regulatory stability to make it happen. Let's hope they read this comment and do something about it.
The cleanup industry is a racket as well. Company spends 600-800 rmb to clean an acre. But charges thousands.
@@novat9731 If farmers are educated they can do it themselves and the government can reward positive test results. But the cultural morality problem needs fixed first.
@nfw I don't understand the question. Clay isn't alive and can't legaly own anything.
awesome video as always :)
I absolutely love the way they do their sponsorships
I think it was the Solo Trilogy that talked about the Huts and the subspecies T'landa Til. I listened to about 120 books on MP3 over an 8-month period at work. So much better than the movies.
I love Winston and C-Milk's level headed commentary on China and they eally caution about not to go overboard in sensationalism, but it does bother me about them hoarding food. The CCP doesn't tend to care a fuck for it's people, so to hoard that amount of basic staples makes me wonder what that's for? It could be something banal like an extended wave of COVID, but I wonder how much of it might be for something like thir intention or possibility of war or some conflict
They at least want to be extra sure their people won’t starve. If they starve, historically, the leadership collapses.
@@EMichaelBall No they don't though. That's the point. If they cared about thr people, then why do they DELIBERATELY kill thousands by diverting flood waters? They only care about face and sure they will focus on feeding the cities, you're missing the point. They are hoarding FAR MORE than would feed the whole country.
i seen a video in the fall saying that a high percentage of their reserves were found contaminated and spoiled with mold and other things. Most of it had never been reported to the higher authorities because of corruption or simply on fear of being blamed
@@Taber01 Undoubtedly, but that's not the point. It's WHY they're hoarding so much in the first place. If they had slightly more than enough to feed their population I would understand that, bearing in mind their greed and incompetnece. but we're talking 70 percent of the world's grain.
@@EMichaelBall That's not true in many cases. Not true during Mao's Great Famine.
A lot of American fisheries send their locally caught/farmed fish to be processed in China because labour is so much cheaper there.
Cutting, filleting, deboning are all manual labour jobs. A huge reason for this is also because shipping used to be very cheap, I don't know if it's still cost effective now since shipping costs has increased by 3-5x.
When I worked over the summer in Alaska, they used to fly in Filipinos/as from the Philippines to work at the canneries/vacuum packed fish because its cheaper to employ them that way than hiring Americans local wages.
人口基数大，人工费用肯定就低了。
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