@@TolerantAcceptingModernCommuni A lot of people are already losing sleep over climate change because they've lost their livelihoods. Or else because it's already too dang hot to sleep!
Thats what people who regurgitate CNN say. Terrible ranching and farming practices are the major factor causing all of these "symptoms" given the evidence of the over abundance from my organic garden every year. I refer you to Paul Gautschi.
I'm tired of ranchers claiming to be amazing stewards of the land while washing topsoil away every year. I have personally had to pound fence posts in further year after year on the same pasture all while listening to the guy tell everyone how much he cares for his land.
that probably has todo with american ranchers traditionally having more land than they know what to do with, as opposed to farmers in moat of europe for example. you don't need to take care of the land if you've got so much that you don't need it to be optimally productive.
All you need to see in order to "get it" is a fence which keeps cattle off of a little land, and don't forgot EVERYBODY'S public lands are being profited from by these individual ranchers, it's nothing short of corruption... all for beef when Brazil still makes more than we do. Basically ranchers should have gone out of business decades ago, and would have if they didn't get huge public subsidies because stupid people think meat is necessary for their diets. And no, I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm not an idiot either. 100% agree with you.
It’s amazing to me how these farmers and cattle ranchers’ literal livelihood is being affected by extreme whether and drought and they still won’t acknowledge climate change
Ummm…climate change advocating has pretty much left out farmers and ranchers completely. All marketing and advocating should be done to directly target these folks. They’re the BIGGEST water users on the planet. Make a mascot…”Sammy the Water Saver”… Give him a cowboy hat and a rope. The billy bobs will be all over it.
you do realize that climate change is a natural process that our planet goes through right? regardless if you think we're speeding it up or not,it's going to unfortunately happen..... of course we can do better to care for our planet.
Your wrong. Texas has bad drought every 4yrs. This was our bad year. Just these past two weeks we have basically had 2weeks of nonstop rain here in Texas.
“Climate change is a controversial topic” 2 seconds later “There’s definitely a change happening. To what degree. I don’t know.” You literally can’t make this up.
"Is it possible that this hot climate is here to stay?" "Nope. Cause us farmers are close to god! We just gotta wait for the grass to come back." I hope that lady loses her farm. The level of ignorance to stare a problem in the face and say "nope, god is gonna do the work for me!" is astounding.
They haven't a prayer? No, but that is all they have. I have a nephew who owns and operates a cattle ranch in South Dakota. I want to see him prosper, but animal agriculture, especially raising beef, is too detrimental to climate change and fresh water usage, for me to remain silent. I spend a lot of time advocating the boycott of animal products, especially beef.
That is true. Droughts can last over 10 years and then come back to ideal water levels. It would have been helpful if Vice dug further into the information of weather patterns to see if this is just a cycle similar to 1930s compared to permanent.
@@thepranksters9841 Unless you have heavy investments in non-renewable energy sector, I have no idea why people push this ridiculous "cyclical" nonsense. I hope you at least get paid to comment stuff like this.
I think that rope looks stiff enough to actually be a lasso. cowboys on horsebavk definitely still use lassos, though I think mostly for catching calves.
A drought is temporary, but climate change will be forever. We keep heading down this denier path and we'll lose everything from the houses and land we live on to the food and water we need to survive.
Time to rethink how to make better use of the land and the dwindling water resources by resorting to better and more sustainable ways to utilize them. Raising cattle is simply not sustainable going forward.
@@iliketheodds2575 No the easy answer is don't live in areas that have limited water resources, Vegas is a prime example, to many people, not enough water....
I wish people understood spiritual bypassing... "Whatever god wants we just got to get on through it." Umm, no. You can make changes, take action and listen to the science of what is happening to our climate and prepare for that!
totally agree, i think people rest on the idea that God will save them instead of thinking critically and being proactive to realize whats happening and to respond accordingly.
Texas and certain areas there are referring to has had limited water. The farmers waisted as much of the water as they could and now ranchers and dairies are contaminating the water that is left. Cattle ranchers need to move to where that land can handle the amount of cattle they currently have. All the wells tested by Texas tech found All the wells in Texas have been contaminated by the dairy and cattle industry. Who is going to clean that up???? Now they are crying about how they are running out of water????? They are the cause of the problem.
Stop calling it drought. It isn’t drought. This is simply how things are today. The climate has changed. Same goes for California, where every weatherman has been saying drought for more than 20 years. 2 decades of drought isn’t drought. The climate changed, forever. Sunny Southern California used to be rainy for the entirety of Spring. It hasn’t been like that since the late 90s. I’m quite sure that Texas has changed just the same in their own way.
It's called weather warfare the government's using it I've been telling all my people to start stocking up on your food I told them this 5 years ago saying that this day would happen no one listens to me now look at the price of everything everything has gone up you guys are fighting to you know fill your cupboards up with food right now and I'm sitting plush because I prepared for this your government is not for the people it is against we the people when will you America stand up to your tyrant government now is the time to stand together everyone stop letting the corrupt government divide us
Vice should do a story about how once farmers and ranchers go out of business, their land is vulnerable to development (which disrupts biodiversity, wildlife passageways, soil health, and accelerates climate change). American Farmland Trust has lots of resources
no way you just said this. The farms themselves are the main disruption of biodiversity, wildlife passageways, soil health, and accelerating climate change.
This is nothing new. I came from a long line of ranchers in Latin America in Brasil and Nicaragua which are the largest cattle producers in South and Central America we also use Brahman or other zebu breeds for their resistance to the heat and tropical pest. We’ve notice that the dry season hits harder and longer now so a lot of ppl have opted for silos and preserving food, same way ranchers in cold regions save food for winter we do the same but for summer and also storing water in retention ponds and planting large shade trees in pastures are some other things that have helped. Summers in some areas are so hard now that all the trees loose their leafs and the creeks and rivers that used to run year around don’t anymore.
@@MrIt83Cattle kept individually is good business, but it is only justified when the land cannot be grazed, and food has to be stored and rationed to be offered to cattle in stables. As long as cattle can be put to pasture, it will never be better to lock up cattle than to have them walking free. Is better to manage cattle as @Aris_Lopes described but is even better to Design a Silvopastoral Systems (SPS), to diversified the income of farmers integrating cattle and timber.
The drought has been going on for a decade but what has save farmers up until recently was well water or ground water. But because of frackin that ground water is gone or not usable. So we did it to ourselves.
@@donglover3134 Not really.. Fracking creates fissures deep underground that contaminate water sources before we even gain access to them. Its literally unfixable.
They'll be BBQing anything that bleeds for a couple of decades, then their descendants will disown them like the cavemen they are. They're addicted to cruelty. Good riddance.
Relying on a man in a white coat to play god sounds like a worse plan. You idiots think you know it all and have the entire world figured out. Real quick what’s the average yearly rainfall in East Texas?
Miniature horses are going for ten dollars where I live and we don’t even live in a drought stricken area. And that’s ten dollars PER horse, not by the pound. Folks need to start planning for the twenty first century and stop living in the twentieth century.
Aussies (even the hardy rural farmers) are far more rational and reasonable in this matter. In the US, among the rural white folks, climate change denial is vehement. It is due to decades of slow poisoning by vested interests who dominate conservative politics.
Climate denial state voting for climate denial politicians. The only ones I feel for are the ones sensible enough to vote against these oil paid politicians and who cant leave the state.
Drier, hotter climate - "That whole subject for a lot of people is controversial" ... what does that mean? It's happening, farmers need to adapt... so what's the controversy? Is it actually not happening? Brahman Cattle - I get that it's advantage if they can sweat more to cool themselves down in the day, but wouldn't they need to drink the water in the first place? Don't they actually have to drink more each week to be able to sweat more... but I guess it doesn't wok that way! 🤔
@@kurtvonnegut9959 😄 😅 calm down 'dude' 🤣 he was repeated what they said, that they don't need as much water, it wasn't what I asked. DUDE you got issues.. 😆
I grew up on a farm, and truly feel for these guys, but the fact is, beef is just not a sustainable source of protein. These cows survive on grass hay and a bit of grain now and then, but the issue is their calves in the giant corporate feedlots. Each lb of beef requires 10 lb of grain/supplement, and Brahman calves are no different. Consumers need to realize they are going to have to change if our planet is going to survive.
My uncle's cows don't eat grain lol They never eaten one piece of grain their whole life. But I suppose for production farmers that's what you got to do
one or two cows, for one or two families, is actully very sustainable and economical.. but also, im from central california, and this was very common for families to do there. we would usually buy one cheap (at an auction similar to the one in this episode) and fatten them up on the extra fruits and veg from our garden, and hay of course. the meat after slaughter would last a year sometimes. a burger tastes better if it had a name, and you truly respect the meal, and the animals sacrifice, much more.
If you want to be a science teacher, you have to believe in gravity. For these rancher, they probably voted in ppl who don’t give a dime with climate, so before they change their opinion, I share no empathy
This happens every 8 years in texas, its just the cost of doing business. And we got our rain, this isn’t climate change it’s weather. Texas is mostly ‘oak savanna’ meaning long stretches of no rain followed by intense flooding that go on for years 2000-2009 wet 2009-2015 dry 2015-2022 wet Happens all the time
@@blooblefwarden4432 why can't you Texans stop trying to cope and do anything except accept the reality of the climate crisis? Why do you people dig your head in the sand so hard. You gain nothing from it, actually, the longer you do it, the more you lose. I get that you wanna keep tradition, or maybe just "oWn ThE LibS", but the folks who believe in pragmatic reality are trying to help you, and you keep stamping your feet. You understand that the rest of the country is getting tired of dealing with the consequences of your guys (conservative states) actions. You have made our country a laughing stock, destroyed our planet and economy, and in a twist of irony: sold your soul to the devil for a couple extra bucks
@yourmanwatson I’m just tired of trying to convince ppl basic scientific knowledge. If one wants to be scientifically illiterate, they can stay that way
Probably because we live in Texas and are outside checking rain gauges every time it sprinkles while you dumb hippies are inside worried about a RUclips video made by a group of millionaires to fit their narrative it’s called weather couple weeks after this video was made most of Texas was flooded
Everyone in the comments attacking the farmers and ranchers are the same people who whined when the shelves were empty during the pandemic because farmers and ranchers couldn't get their products to market. The shelves are about to be empty again for a very different reason, drought leads to famine. Everyone complaining needs to grow and eat only their own food for one year, then they have earned the right to complain about small agri. These same people who get a vente coffee that uses enough electricity to power a third world home and refuse to accept their part in the climate shift. The same people who drive plastic cars and own multiple devices with planet-raping trace-element batteries that plug into a powergrid run off fossil fuels, while wearing this season's poly-plastic blend clothing and living in plastic filled modern homes. If you can see or touch or are wearing 10 petroleum containing things, besides the device you are reading this comment on, then YOU are part of the problem. 85% of communities DO NOT have adequate, or affordable recycling programs. Many don't even offer recycling programs, so petroleum containing plastics are buried, burned, or dumped in the ocean. Their water management is even worse. People blame food producers for water shortages, but they won't stop watering their lawns and golf courses of invasive species grasses sprayed with pesticides, or filling their pools with chemically contaminated water that poisons birds and bees. Recycling, Adapting, and Living Circular is the only way we as a species will survive. Has the planet been hotter than it is now? Yes, it has during several epochs of the fossil record. Those that didn't adapt- died off.
There is no such thing as 100 percent recycling. Modern waste the energy is safe and effective at dealing with waste and we need to massively expand such industry.
I still don't understand why they haven't started building desalination plants in the coastal states. Sure water prices may double but at least we will have water.
There have been reports that the seas off the west coast are contaminated by toxic wastes, the reason why there seems to be no interest building desalination plans along that route.
@@ronnelacido1711 didn’t some company dumped 100s of industrial drums of DDT off the west coast? There’s beach in California I believe that has a population of seals. I believe they all have some form of cancer from the leaking drums of DDT.
There’s not a rancher alive making much profit so I guess it turns out we do care. It’s a good thing the world doesn’t depend on you because to do the this job it takes an extreme level of selflessness and determination. The sooner you realize these big media groups and politicians on both sides are the ones that don’t care about you the sooner progress will be made. Try talking to an actual rancher before making an ignorant comment like this. FYI The “ranchers” in this video are people they found to fit the narrative they wanted to sell. Shocker I know!
I think almost all of us are hampered by tradition what we're used to whether it's the beef Rancher or the person watering their lawn or the person driving their gasoline vehicle or the person swimming in their personal private olympic size swimming pool. Tradition is resistant to change or even considering change. Blaming others and believing they're much more responsible for problem than we are is also a pretty human First Response. Corporations blame individual people and people blame government and few of us will make a heroic change to reduce our carbon footprint. A few of us have enough resources We Believe we will Outlast those beneath us. Not even the house of Windsor can survive if there's no other living people, plants or animals on earth familiar to us.
Traditional ways of doing things are hampering our ability to deal with the accelerating effects of climate change and drought. What can each of us do about it? Boycott animal products! Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint. "According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.” “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford. Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study. Links at my channel under "About."
Each person switching to a plant based diet would save 219,000 gallons (829,000 liters) of water every year! "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet. National Geographic: "On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet." Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science): This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?")
Tradition is an excuse for people who think learning is uncomfortable and hard. And it is. So is exercising and eating your vegetables. Sometimes uncomfortable and hard things are good for you.
Huh, interesting how the states that for so long have denied these environmental conditions are now experiencing these droughts... I can only hope this opens their eyes and inspires change.
That's what it comes down to, essentially. Some people wanting more than others. If we all share, we all do well. If we all act selfish, we all suffer the same fate.@@laekrits
They believe that it's a test of their faith. If bad things happen, it's for a good reason. And by maintaining their faith, they will be rewarded at the end
My cousins have had four years of draught. This is our second year. If y’all think meat is gonna be affordable next year or the next if things don’t magically get better next year😅😅😅.
Honestly it would probably be best if meat became so expensive that it was no longer commonly used. Especially beef. That way ranchers could still make decent profits while also having less cows overall harming the environment.
To all the commenters correcting him for calling it a Drought: He cannot call it "climate change" in front of ignorant hillbillies. They deny that, so ...he MUST call it a drought, or he won't get any interviews.
Americans usually come through. But waiting for water to come back is not the long-term solution. They may have to find other sustainable ways to feed the growing population.
"By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests." -LA Times Mar 26, 2018" "But it doesn’t have to be this way. New research suggests the country could feed all 327 million Americans - plus roughly 390 million more - by focusing on plants. If U.S. farmers took all the land currently devoted to raising cattle, pigs and chickens and used it to grow plants instead, they could sustain more than twice as many people as they do now, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."-LA Times Mar 26, 2018" Title and author follow- "By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests BY KAREN KAPLANSCIENCE AND MEDICINE EDITOR MARCH 26, 2018 2:56 PM PT Link to the study within the article.
If Brahman are too large of cattle for you zebu are a good substitute. They are a miniature version and one day we may see ourselves having to move towards smaller scale farming
just eat simple indian meal like rice and dal with some okra fry...it is yummy....learn ....just save these satient being from suffering....wat a shame
@@jeepliberty1388 I wont blame u, I will blame ur forefathers who decided to name killed animal flesh as beef, enjoy this enslaved and tortured animal whose sole purpose of living was to tickle 10 secs of ur tastebud coz u didnt have brain power to be creative with veg food, thank you for continuing the legacy, u shud be ashamed sir!
To that lady at the end… I love God, and God would want us to care about climate control. Not just hope that everything is going to be okay. Of course God wants us to hope, but God would want us to make a change for good if we can do it and not just sit back on our butt. What she said is ignorance.
Climate control global warming if they're just made up things people can't accept their head that these are weather cycles. They've been here before. They'll be here again
It's amazing how only 5% of U.S. water is used for livestock. Whats even more amazing is mining is included with that percentage. Public supply is about 12% and the majority of that is coastal CITIES. A lot of rural people are also on well water and were raised to do little things like turn off the water when you brush your teeth and dont flush unless you poop. They dont have flowers from lowes in the front yard watering them every single day or thick Bermuda just to look at. People are so out of touch, honestly.
But the majority of water in the US is used to grow crops (~37%, the overwhelming majority of which is used to grow feed for livestock) and thermoelectric power (~41%). Public use supply is about 12%, wherein CA, TX, ID, FL, CO, NY, IL, NC, MI, MT, and NE account for 50% of the supply. Nowadays the 12 of the top 20 most populous cities are not coastal, but inland in like several cities in Texas, Columbus, Denver, and Chicago. The majority is not going to coastal cities. More water is going towards agriculture in the Great Plains, Central Valley, and alfalfa operations in the deserts of Arizona. I agree you shouldn't move to Las Vegas or Southern California and expect to have a green lawn, but water waste isn't solely an urban problem. There is a ton of waste in rural areas mainly due to poor agricultural practices and cows take a huge amount of water to get from a calf to a hamburger.
If there's one industry that absolutely needs to disappear, it's the cattle industry! The resources needed and environmental damages are too great to continue!
You sound so ignorant it is scary. People have been ranching livestock since prehistory. The only thing that has changed is that multinational conglomerates want control over all water. Dams and reservoirs stopping the natural flow of water ,I.e. mismanagement, is the only problem with water supply.
That’s good because not one person in this video was a rancher I don’t feel sorry for them either. I do however feel sorry for dumb hippies that get there information through there phone and believe this crap.
These doom and gloom pieces are lame. They need clicks I get it. Texas goes through droughts all the time..... Big Hint guys, ranchers will keep as many cows as they can feed so if its wet like it has been the last 7 years in texas and then you go into a typical drought, youre gonna have to sell off. It happens over and over again. Lake travis in Austin filled up in ONE NIGHT in 2015 from the rains. Its a drought, until it aint.
The real victims are the animals here who were exploited all these years out of sheer habit by human beings. High time this cruel and unethical animal agriculture was stopped.
I couldn't agree more. The benefits of a plant based diet will have lasting effect for human health and for the health of the earth in the future. Unfortunately meat consumption is on the rise, especially in developing countries.
Actually that's the reason this is occuring, to drive ranchers and farmers out of business, so that G@tes and the ÇČP can buy it all up, which they have been doing for years, then c0ntr0l our food sources. No one can get adequate supplies of protein, iron, zinc, and myriads of other vitamins and minerals, from plants alone. That's why all the liberal ind0ctrinated s0y boys and girls look so thin, anemic, sickly, with their hair and teeth falling out. # hääŕp
If so many "cheap" cattle are going to slaughter then prices should go down in the short term. Also, I wonder if that lady at the end of the video has considered the possibility that God just doesn't necessarily want it to rain in her part of Texas.
Back when my stepdad was a cattle rancher. He would buy a whole cow and have it slaughtered. We rarely had to go to the grocery store. We had a huge freezer in our utility closet full of beef.
Okay but is it the rancher’s fault they need to make a living or is it our fault for eating meat products with EVERY meal…… hard to point fingers when we all partake in the destruction
rancher just provides what we demand. its the fda and that awful food pyramid that is the problem. it drives economic growth if we eat meat every meal. tbh i didnt know people would want to do that, or anyone who could afford to eat meat every meal, until i was in my 20s.
@@alicat7281 I am a vegetarian too, 4yrs. I think that if people want to eat meat that’s perfectly fine, but moderation is key with literally anything. It’s just the same as conserving water, or electricity.
For every tree that is cut down...for every square foot of asphalt put in, the less rain there is, so they can start by leaving the rain forest alone; by not building another strip mall; by not putting in another housing development or condos. As a young kid, I grew up in St Petersburg, Florida and it rained every afternoon like clockwork but now, it hardly rains much at all. Y'all blame the ranchers, but in fact, they have left all the trees on their land. It's those large concrete cities around those ranches that are effecting the rainfall...Stop the mass building...Stop cutting down the forests...Stop allowing millions upon millions of illegals into our country. We must look out for ourselves and our future generations or our country will become a desert wasteland with no water or food like so many other countries...
To the last lady, PLANT TREES, that's what God want us to do. All of Rancher's land has not enough trees. Trees attract Rain. Silvopasture is the way to go.
@@dogguy8603 it’s better to plant native trees that can grow well in a period of drought. As I am not American, I can’t tell you which species of trees. Tree will provide a place where cows can cool themselves, improve the quality of your soil and protect your grass from burning.
I'm a rancher in an area that was under drought conditions,it literally changed over night with two days of rain, filled the stock ponds and grew new grass in a week and already started a new hay cut. It's never the end of the world as they claim only fools with not enough land and water that weren't being responsible anyway sold their heads for nothing.
You own that land or is it BLM land you borrow from teh rest of us like every other rancher I know? Where's our cut of your profit? Do you pay for the surface water rights on that land or is it just given to you?
Two days of rain is not going to return aquifers to their previous levels. Two days of rain will green the grass until the soil dries out. Now you sit and wait for two more day of rain down the line then wait for a couple more down the line.... But then again that has always been the plight of anyone in agriculture. Unfortunately, there are too many people to feed these days for this to sustainable.
@@mikestaihr5183 100% Well said, everybody here in NM after an extremely wet summer is sayin the same thing "Wish this was goin into the snowpack" as we watch it evaporate away.
.im sorry to inform y'all but in my drought area the big 2 day rain saved my ranch and cattle and I now have enough to feed and water them for a year which can be 2 sales for me at auction and buy more,I'm sorry but it's true.
@@valeriestillman7549 Yeah, lets believe in our opinions over science facts. I know what side I'm on and it won't be the one contributing what you do, if you continue to consume animals.
@@shadowslayer9988 Ummmm….no. Not at all. Not even close. Are you just guessing? Do you have ANY kind of substantiating evidence to support your wild and erroneous claim?!?! What a childish thing to lie about.
@@shadowslayer9988 look at water consumption to calorie ratio of a cow compared to crops. 1,847 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef ~ 1,137 calories 300 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of rice ~ 600 calories
My Crop duster grandpa tells me this joke at least once a month. A man in Louisiana is ordered over the radio to evacuate his house, there's flood coming. But he stays, telling his family, God will deliver! As the water reaches his porch, a cop drives by and asks to remove him, but he refuses. "God will deliver!". The water rises for four more hours, until its to his second floor window. A dingy from the red cross floats by, but he refuses "God will deliver!". As day turns into night, the water reaches his chimney, and he sits on his roof. A helicopter from the coast guard comes by, but he screams under the sound of the chopper "GOD WILL DELIVER". After he drowns, (he was a nice man) he walks up to the pearly gates and asks St. John "Why didn't God deliver?" I hope you get the metaphor.
Where do all the supplements and protein powders come from? How sustainable is it to order all the stuff you need from around the world? The health and ethical points are very debatable.
@@MichaelWilliams85 do you genuinely want the answers? Proteins could be found in legumes, beans, grains, lentils. You can rest assured about getting plenty of protein supply through vegan meals. Moreover, the consumption of land and water is much lesser. It's necessary to turn vegan even if it's for your own health, the environment that we are living in, and of course from an ethical point of view. Not a single clip of cow slaughter is shown in this video, you know why? Because even non-vegans are aware of the unethical aspect of killing animals.
@@MichaelWilliams85 well you can be vegan then. You can be lazy vegan but you don't have to go on and do all this crazy stuff to be vegan. You can literally just go outside and eat plants. It's so ridiculously easy to survive off the land if you know what is at all. There is a lot of edible stuff out there, but the weekends you see nowadays they're lazy. Vegans they're not real vegans but they're still annoying as hell
Meanwhile, California is diverting millions of gallons of water away from ranchers & farmers straight into the ocean. To provide municipal water, California gets it from Arizona! Dry spells come and the reserves are insufficient. In all cases, including Texas, the price of water skyrockets. It all comes down to water management. It’s easy as pie to blame climate change, but everyone knows that climate changes! We should have been prepared for this, and it’s absolutely criminal that we are not. Other places are being flooded. We live on a watery planet. There’s no excuse for this. VICE should go down the rabbit hole and get to the bottom of this.
Exactly bad management is the real problem and all this is propaganda to convince us to give all water rights to the same corporations and governments that got us to this situation
SAFE IN INDIA?!?!?? WTF are you taking about?!?!? India is easily THE MOST egregious neglectful of animals…ESPECIALLY cattle. Wow! You have ZERO clue what you’re talking about.
Brahman originated in India, this is true, but they have been bred and cross bred into what's now called American brahman. And Indians eat beef too, they just hold cattle sacred and treat them with respect. (Broad brush)
U like rib eyes, HB meat, or roasts ? We make the most from the land grasses to make sure cattle get fed well for optimal health purposes not to mention raising wheats and grain grasses for the flour, cereal, oatmeal, etc.
Research this fact: Each pound of beef requires 1,847 gallons of water to produce. These walking methane factories are sucking up what water they don't have.
Fundamentally America grew off of cheap and affordable farm land. That isn’t the environment anymore. A fundamental shift away from factory farm meat needs to happen for everyone’s survival
The problem is over population. They keep diverting water for crops, livestock, houses and golf courses. Too many people living in dry areas. The columbia river doesnt even make to the ocean any more.
@@jeepliberty1388 you'd be surprised at the number of people I've spoken to that have not made the correlation between cost of things and climate change
After 20 plus years it's no longer a drought it is the climate that has changed. You no longer lived in a prairie land you live in a desert.
Facts. We can't make it rain on our ranch (as far as we know) but--- we can make theoretically make it rain less.
20 years? thats actually the definition of climate... "the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period."
Climate has changed, not enough to loose your sleep over.
@@TolerantAcceptingModernCommuni A lot of people are already losing sleep over climate change because they've lost their livelihoods. Or else because it's already too dang hot to sleep!
Thats what people who regurgitate CNN say. Terrible ranching and farming practices are the major factor causing all of these "symptoms" given the evidence of the over abundance from my organic garden every year. I refer you to Paul Gautschi.
I'm tired of ranchers claiming to be amazing stewards of the land while washing topsoil away every year. I have personally had to pound fence posts in further year after year on the same pasture all while listening to the guy tell everyone how much he cares for his land.
i never heard of that myth, but anyone with eyes and a prefrontal cortex can see they are the opposite of stewards of the land lol
Thank you!!!!!
that probably has todo with american ranchers traditionally having more land than they know what to do with, as opposed to farmers in moat of europe for example. you don't need to take care of the land if you've got so much that you don't need it to be optimally productive.
And we also need to start referring to them as what they are. Cow farmers. Not ranchers- cow farmers. They love that lol ;)
All you need to see in order to "get it" is a fence which keeps cattle off of a little land, and don't forgot EVERYBODY'S public lands are being profited from by these individual ranchers, it's nothing short of corruption... all for beef when Brazil still makes more than we do. Basically ranchers should have gone out of business decades ago, and would have if they didn't get huge public subsidies because stupid people think meat is necessary for their diets. And no, I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm not an idiot either. 100% agree with you.
It’s amazing to me how these farmers and cattle ranchers’ literal livelihood is being affected by extreme whether and drought and they still won’t acknowledge climate change
Because most people in rural areas think climate change is a religion led by Chicken Little.
Because climate change, how you believe it, doesnt exist. The main problem is the mismanagement of resources
Ummm…climate change advocating has pretty much left out farmers and ranchers completely.
All marketing and advocating should be done to directly target these folks.
They’re the BIGGEST water users on the planet.
Make a mascot…”Sammy the Water Saver”…
Give him a cowboy hat and a rope.
The billy bobs will be all over it.
you do realize that climate change is a natural process that our planet goes through right? regardless if you think we're speeding it up or not,it's going to unfortunately happen..... of course we can do better to care for our planet.
... and they caused most of it.
That last clip was pretty sad. I don't think God's getting her out of this one.
agreed
Your wrong. Texas has bad drought every 4yrs. This was our bad year. Just these past two weeks we have basically had 2weeks of nonstop rain here in Texas.
@@nyantpag7391 you mean you're.
@@nyantpag7391 Yeah forgive me if I don't trust the opinion of someone who can't even spell you're correctly.
Or anyone else
“Climate change is a controversial topic”
2 seconds later “There’s definitely a change happening. To what degree. I don’t know.”
You literally can’t make this up.
Because climate change has been weaponized by the anti human green hysterics.
Weather cycles All it is
@@jeepliberty1388 Every scientist disagree with that statement
@@erikkling4791 common sense doesn’t bud. Ever heard of ice age dumb___
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"Is it possible that this hot climate is here to stay?"
"Nope. Cause us farmers are close to god! We just gotta wait for the grass to come back."
I hope that lady loses her farm. The level of ignorance to stare a problem in the face and say "nope, god is gonna do the work for me!" is astounding.
Welcome to America
I wont hope bad things to anyone but she is very ignorant to available information and research data.
They haven't a prayer? No, but that is all they have. I have a nephew who owns and operates a cattle ranch in South Dakota. I want to see him prosper, but animal agriculture, especially raising beef, is too detrimental to climate change and fresh water usage, for me to remain silent. I spend a lot of time advocating the boycott of animal products, especially beef.
I'll correct myself here it's not what you're saying it's how you're saying it.....
@@snowballeffect7812 That's pronounced 'Murica.
Imagine dying of cancer but claiming cancer doesn't exist and refusing treatment.
What about the 1930's? How many droughts have there been in North America just between 1740 and 1940? The weather is cyclical, it just is.
That is true. Droughts can last over 10 years and then come back to ideal water levels. It would have been helpful if Vice dug further into the information of weather patterns to see if this is just a cycle similar to 1930s compared to permanent.
@@thepranksters9841 once again someone who doesn’t know the difference between weather & climate.
@@thepranksters9841 Unless you have heavy investments in non-renewable energy sector, I have no idea why people push this ridiculous "cyclical" nonsense. I hope you at least get paid to comment stuff like this.
Like Steve Jobs? lol
"He doesnt have a gun, or a lasso" Guys riding with a rope tied on his saddle...
made me chuckle when i saw it
Not all ropes are lassos.
In fact…it’s a specific type and size of rope that makes a lasso.
He had a working rope. Not a lasso.
First thing I noticed. Plus, its texas, who said he doesn't have a gun. He's the type of guy that legitimately needs one, and not for people.
@@sendthis9480 What Length/qualities make it a Lasso then?
I think that rope looks stiff enough to actually be a lasso. cowboys on horsebavk definitely still use lassos, though I think mostly for catching calves.
A drought is temporary, but climate change will be forever. We keep heading down this denier path and we'll lose everything from the houses and land we live on to the food and water we need to survive.
22 years of drought in the West stops being “unusual”. The West and South West have been subject to 50 year droughts in prehistory.
@Spook Douglas Productions It's happening now. We'll all be here for it baring age or fatality.
Time to rethink how to make better use of the land and the dwindling water resources by resorting to better and more sustainable ways to utilize them. Raising cattle is simply not sustainable going forward.
@@iliketheodds2575 No the easy answer is don't live in areas that have limited water resources, Vegas is a prime example, to many people, not enough water....
Sad thing people will only do something unless it affects them we consume to much oil and waste to much water in this country.
I wish people understood spiritual bypassing... "Whatever god wants we just got to get on through it." Umm, no. You can make changes, take action and listen to the science of what is happening to our climate and prepare for that!
totally agree, i think people rest on the idea that God will save them instead of thinking critically and being proactive to realize whats happening and to respond accordingly.
Christians are simple. We need better religions.
Texas and certain areas there are referring to has had limited water. The farmers waisted as much of the water as they could and now ranchers and dairies are contaminating the water that is left. Cattle ranchers need to move to where that land can handle the amount of cattle they currently have. All the wells tested by Texas tech found All the wells in Texas have been contaminated by the dairy and cattle industry. Who is going to clean that up???? Now they are crying about how they are running out of water????? They are the cause of the problem.
You know who's gonna have to clean it up? Taxpayers.
While industry gets tax breaks for polluting our fucking water.
Stop calling it drought. It isn’t drought. This is simply how things are today. The climate has changed. Same goes for California, where every weatherman has been saying drought for more than 20 years. 2 decades of drought isn’t drought. The climate changed, forever. Sunny Southern California used to be rainy for the entirety of Spring. It hasn’t been like that since the late 90s. I’m quite sure that Texas has changed just the same in their own way.
People are still in denial stage. 20 year mega drought? Should it last for 30 more years, will they call it "hyper drought"? LOL
By definition this is a drought not climate change grow up and stop listening to TikTok you woke leftis
It's called weather warfare the government's using it I've been telling all my people to start stocking up on your food I told them this 5 years ago saying that this day would happen no one listens to me now look at the price of everything everything has gone up you guys are fighting to you know fill your cupboards up with food right now and I'm sitting plush because I prepared for this your government is not for the people it is against we the people when will you America stand up to your tyrant government now is the time to stand together everyone stop letting the corrupt government divide us
Exactly. The Earth will do what it has to, to help itself. But we aren't going to be happy about some of its self implemented changes.@@CaptainCharlie
Vice should do a story about how once farmers and ranchers go out of business, their land is vulnerable to development (which disrupts biodiversity, wildlife passageways, soil health, and accelerates climate change). American Farmland Trust has lots of resources
no way you just said this. The farms themselves are the main disruption of biodiversity, wildlife passageways, soil health, and accelerating climate change.
Nothing's better for biodiversity than a monoculture farm!
This is nothing new. I came from a long line of ranchers in Latin America in Brasil and Nicaragua which are the largest cattle producers in South and Central America we also use Brahman or other zebu breeds for their resistance to the heat and tropical pest. We’ve notice that the dry season hits harder and longer now so a lot of ppl have opted for silos and preserving food, same way ranchers in cold regions save food for winter we do the same but for summer and also storing water in retention ponds and planting large shade trees in pastures are some other things that have helped. Summers in some areas are so hard now that all the trees loose their leafs and the creeks and rivers that used to run year around don’t anymore.
So sad that this is a global issue, and so many of my countrymen decide to stick thier heads in the sand
How about we diminish the amount of land being used for farming animals?its not rocket science
@@MrIt83Cattle kept individually is good business, but it is only justified when the land cannot be grazed, and food has to be stored and rationed to be offered to cattle in stables. As long as cattle can be put to pasture, it will never be better to lock up cattle than to have them walking free. Is better to manage cattle as @Aris_Lopes described but is even better to Design a Silvopastoral Systems (SPS), to diversified the income of farmers integrating cattle and timber.
It's only going to get worse.
“This is nothing new” and “we’ve noticed the dry season hits harder and longer now” in the exact same comment. Get your head out of your ass.
The drought has been going on for a decade but what has save farmers up until recently was well water or ground water. But because of frackin that ground water is gone or not usable. So we did it to ourselves.
"We did it to ourselves."
Doesn't it seem to be that way most of the time? 😩
@@lynnkayee1015 yes but there is still time to fix it but there is no will.
Even without any "fracking" they have been sucking the aquifers dry for decade upon decade ever since the introduction of more powerful pumps.
@@donglover3134 not when there is profits to be made.
@@donglover3134 Not really.. Fracking creates fissures deep underground that contaminate water sources before we even gain access to them.
Its literally unfixable.
Relying on "God" and "Pride"...will be the downfall for these Ranchers, if they cannot adapt, evolve, and reform itself for the next generation.
Will be the downfall of a lot of people.
They'll be BBQing anything that bleeds for a couple of decades, then their descendants will disown them like the cavemen they are. They're addicted to cruelty. Good riddance.
Relying on a man in a white coat to play god sounds like a worse plan. You idiots think you know it all and have the entire world figured out. Real quick what’s the average yearly rainfall in East Texas?
I can't wait till the day comes when the ranchers.Not around and new people in the city go hungry.
Miniature horses are going for ten dollars where I live and we don’t even live in a drought stricken area. And that’s ten dollars PER horse, not by the pound.
Folks need to start planning for the twenty first century and stop living in the twentieth century.
I guess they are not even worth to be eaten?
@@syasyaishavingfun Eating horse meat is taboo in the US.
In Australia, it's the same people are like yeah whatever there's no global warming.
While birds drop from the intense summer sun that burns you.
Aussies (even the hardy rural farmers) are far more rational and reasonable in this matter. In the US, among the rural white folks, climate change denial is vehement. It is due to decades of slow poisoning by vested interests who dominate conservative politics.
Breaks my heart. I grew up in East Texas and have heard from friends how bad it's getting.
Climate denial state voting for climate denial politicians.
The only ones I feel for are the ones sensible enough to vote against these oil paid politicians and who cant leave the state.
So Grateful for your investigating reporting and I would love to contribute in some way ,
Drier, hotter climate - "That whole subject for a lot of people is controversial" ... what does that mean? It's happening, farmers need to adapt... so what's the controversy? Is it actually not happening?
Brahman Cattle - I get that it's advantage if they can sweat more to cool themselves down in the day, but wouldn't they need to drink the water in the first place? Don't they actually have to drink more each week to be able to sweat more... but I guess it doesn't wok that way! 🤔
No Brahman Cattle and Zebu Cattle in general need less water than nordic cattle breed and can thrives in poor quality grass
@@freedoo69 'No'? that doesn't explain how they sweat more yet need less water
@@JohnDoe-tx8lq google it dude he just gave you a lead, he’s not going to write a dissertation about it ffs
@@kurtvonnegut9959 😄 😅 calm down 'dude' 🤣 he was repeated what they said, that they don't need as much water, it wasn't what I asked. DUDE you got issues.. 😆
@@JohnDoe-tx8lq you’re the one who’s upset over the difference between the sweat production of two separate species of cows my guy
I grew up on a farm, and truly feel for these guys, but the fact is, beef is just not a sustainable source of protein. These cows survive on grass hay and a bit of grain now and then, but the issue is their calves in the giant corporate feedlots. Each lb of beef requires 10 lb of grain/supplement, and Brahman calves are no different. Consumers need to realize they are going to have to change if our planet is going to survive.
Thank you 👍
My uncle's cows don't eat grain lol They never eaten one piece of grain their whole life. But I suppose for production farmers that's what you got to do
one or two cows, for one or two families, is actully very sustainable and economical.. but also, im from central california, and this was very common for families to do there. we would usually buy one cheap (at an auction similar to the one in this episode) and fatten them up on the extra fruits and veg from our garden, and hay of course. the meat after slaughter would last a year sometimes. a burger tastes better if it had a name, and you truly respect the meal, and the animals sacrifice, much more.
Lol, you fools actually think climate change is doomsday lol? Stop listening to the Greta dumbburgs of the world.
Our planet won't survive. One day it will die.
I respect how she has faith in God, but man, religious people are so easy to fool. They'll just say it's all God's plan and not complain.
Has complaining about something ever gotten you somewhere you have to take action not complain
@@brandonsalas7731 complaining to your representatives is how policy gets made.
That older woman is a bit delusional in her perspective of changes that are happening
If you want to be a science teacher, you have to believe in gravity. For these rancher, they probably voted in ppl who don’t give a dime with climate, so before they change their opinion, I share no empathy
This happens every 8 years in texas, its just the cost of doing business. And we got our rain, this isn’t climate change it’s weather. Texas is mostly ‘oak savanna’ meaning long stretches of no rain followed by intense flooding that go on for years 2000-2009 wet 2009-2015 dry 2015-2022 wet
Happens all the time
@@blooblefwarden4432 you have every right to believe that. Time will tell who’s right and who’s wrong
@@blooblefwarden4432 why can't you Texans stop trying to cope and do anything except accept the reality of the climate crisis? Why do you people dig your head in the sand so hard. You gain nothing from it, actually, the longer you do it, the more you lose. I get that you wanna keep tradition, or maybe just "oWn ThE LibS", but the folks who believe in pragmatic reality are trying to help you, and you keep stamping your feet. You understand that the rest of the country is getting tired of dealing with the consequences of your guys (conservative states) actions. You have made our country a laughing stock, destroyed our planet and economy, and in a twist of irony: sold your soul to the devil for a couple extra bucks
@yourmanwatson I’m just tired of trying to convince ppl basic scientific knowledge. If one wants to be scientifically illiterate, they can stay that way
Probably because we live in Texas and are outside checking rain gauges every time it sprinkles while you dumb hippies are inside worried about a RUclips video made by a group of millionaires to fit their narrative it’s called weather couple weeks after this video was made most of Texas was flooded
Everyone in the comments attacking the farmers and ranchers are the same people who whined when the shelves were empty during the pandemic because farmers and ranchers couldn't get their products to market. The shelves are about to be empty again for a very different reason, drought leads to famine. Everyone complaining needs to grow and eat only their own food for one year, then they have earned the right to complain about small agri. These same people who get a vente coffee that uses enough electricity to power a third world home and refuse to accept their part in the climate shift. The same people who drive plastic cars and own multiple devices with planet-raping trace-element batteries that plug into a powergrid run off fossil fuels, while wearing this season's poly-plastic blend clothing and living in plastic filled modern homes.
If you can see or touch or are wearing 10 petroleum containing things, besides the device you are reading this comment on, then YOU are part of the problem. 85% of communities DO NOT have adequate, or affordable recycling programs. Many don't even offer recycling programs, so petroleum containing plastics are buried, burned, or dumped in the ocean.
Their water management is even worse. People blame food producers for water shortages, but they won't stop watering their lawns and golf courses of invasive species grasses sprayed with pesticides, or filling their pools with chemically contaminated water that poisons birds and bees.
Recycling, Adapting, and Living Circular is the only way we as a species will survive. Has the planet been hotter than it is now? Yes, it has during several epochs of the fossil record. Those that didn't adapt- died off.
There is no such thing as 100 percent recycling. Modern waste the energy is safe and effective at dealing with waste and we need to massively expand such industry.
I still don't understand why they haven't started building desalination plants in the coastal states. Sure water prices may double but at least we will have water.
There have been reports that the seas off the west coast are contaminated by toxic wastes, the reason why there seems to be no interest building desalination plans along that route.
@@ronnelacido1711 didn’t some company dumped 100s of industrial drums of DDT off the west coast? There’s beach in California I believe that has a population of seals. I believe they all have some form of cancer from the leaking drums of DDT.
Desal plants require enormous amounts of power. Unless that energy is purely green energy, that would literally hurt more than it would help.
6:38 I remember in college (2005) professors were pushing the switch to Brahmas to deal with this situation from happening.
Those ranchers don't care about us! all they care about is profit I am not worried about them! grow your own meat at home!
There’s not a rancher alive making much profit so I guess it turns out we do care. It’s a good thing the world doesn’t depend on you because to do the this job it takes an extreme level of selflessness and determination. The sooner you realize these big media groups and politicians on both sides are the ones that don’t care about you the sooner progress will be made. Try talking to an actual rancher before making an ignorant comment like this. FYI The “ranchers” in this video are people they found to fit the narrative they wanted to sell. Shocker I know!
You talk to any old timer and there were times where it was worse than this. It’s bad, but it’ll rain some day. Always has
We better sell all the water rights to nestle, they will manage the water for us
Oh they already do
We got rain, drought over, people are buying cows again
@@blooblefwarden4432 Shame. They should consider another product.
I think almost all of us are hampered by tradition what we're used to whether it's the beef Rancher or the person watering their lawn or the person driving their gasoline vehicle or the person swimming in their personal private olympic size swimming pool. Tradition is resistant to change or even considering change. Blaming others and believing they're much more responsible for problem than we are is also a pretty human First Response. Corporations blame individual people and people blame government and few of us will make a heroic change to reduce our carbon footprint. A few of us have enough resources We Believe we will Outlast those beneath us. Not even the house of Windsor can survive if there's no other living people, plants or animals on earth familiar to us.
Speak for yourself, I can survive quite well without other people.
Excellent response
Traditional ways of doing things are hampering our ability to deal with the accelerating effects of climate change and drought. What can each of us do about it? Boycott animal products! Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint.
"According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study.
Links at my channel under "About."
Each person switching to a plant based diet would save 219,000 gallons (829,000 liters) of water every year! "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet.
National Geographic:
"On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet."
Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science):
This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?")
Tradition is an excuse for people who think learning is uncomfortable and hard.
And it is. So is exercising and eating your vegetables. Sometimes uncomfortable and hard things are good for you.
This has Darwin written all over it.
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“He doesn’t have a gun or a lasso” over literally a shot of him with a lasso
That's what they voted for- now they gotta deal with it
Exactly 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Huh, interesting how the states that for so long have denied these environmental conditions are now experiencing these droughts... I can only hope this opens their eyes and inspires change.
Not unless God tells them personally
Get ready to share your tofu (o;
That's what it comes down to, essentially. Some people wanting more than others. If we all share, we all do well. If we all act selfish, we all suffer the same fate.@@laekrits
It's wild how god believers willingly accept all the bad things that they claim he is doing to them. It's not gods or devils, it's Nature.
Why do you care? How does their personal beliefs affect you in any way? I swear atheists are worse than Jahova Witnesses
It’s easy to be ignorant
They believe that it's a test of their faith. If bad things happen, it's for a good reason. And by maintaining their faith, they will be rewarded at the end
One word JOB
My cousins have had four years of draught. This is our second year. If y’all think meat is gonna be affordable next year or the next if things don’t magically get better next year😅😅😅.
Which state?
Honestly it would probably be best if meat became so expensive that it was no longer commonly used. Especially beef. That way ranchers could still make decent profits while also having less cows overall harming the environment.
To all the commenters correcting him for calling it a Drought:
He cannot call it "climate change" in front of ignorant hillbillies. They deny that, so ...he MUST call it a drought, or he won't get any interviews.
thanks
Americans usually come through. But waiting for water to come back is not the long-term solution. They may have to find other sustainable ways to feed the growing population.
"By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests." -LA Times Mar 26, 2018"
"But it doesn’t have to be this way. New research suggests the country could feed all 327 million Americans - plus roughly 390 million more - by focusing on plants.
If U.S. farmers took all the land currently devoted to raising cattle, pigs and chickens and used it to grow plants instead, they could sustain more than twice as many people as they do now, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."-LA Times Mar 26, 2018"
Title and author follow- "By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests
BY KAREN KAPLANSCIENCE AND MEDICINE EDITOR
MARCH 26, 2018 2:56 PM PT
Link to the study within the article.
If Brahman are too large of cattle for you zebu are a good substitute. They are a miniature version and one day we may see ourselves having to move towards smaller scale farming
just eat simple indian meal like rice and dal with some okra fry...it is yummy....learn ....just save these satient being from suffering....wat a shame
What Indians you know that are eating rice
@@jeepliberty1388 I wont blame u, I will blame ur forefathers who decided to name killed animal flesh as beef, enjoy this enslaved and tortured animal whose sole purpose of living was to tickle 10 secs of ur tastebud coz u didnt have brain power to be creative with veg food, thank you for continuing the legacy, u shud be ashamed sir!
For $5 a Head a day I'll pasture however many you would like to sponsor.
To that lady at the end…
I love God, and God would want us to care about climate control. Not just hope that everything is going to be okay. Of course God wants us to hope, but God would want us to make a change for good if we can do it and not just sit back on our butt. What she said is ignorance.
Did God want everyone to dam up water and build reservoirs that Rob everyone downstream?
Praise Elmo. Only through him can you truly be saved.
@Corey Mech I understood it just fine, no need to be rude
wtf are you taking about??? 😂 smh
Climate control global warming if they're just made up things people can't accept their head that these are weather cycles. They've been here before. They'll be here again
It's amazing how only 5% of U.S. water is used for livestock. Whats even more amazing is mining is included with that percentage. Public supply is about 12% and the majority of that is coastal CITIES. A lot of rural people are also on well water and were raised to do little things like turn off the water when you brush your teeth and dont flush unless you poop. They dont have flowers from lowes in the front yard watering them every single day or thick Bermuda just to look at. People are so out of touch, honestly.
But the majority of water in the US is used to grow crops (~37%, the overwhelming majority of which is used to grow feed for livestock) and thermoelectric power (~41%). Public use supply is about 12%, wherein CA, TX, ID, FL, CO, NY, IL, NC, MI, MT, and NE account for 50% of the supply. Nowadays the 12 of the top 20 most populous cities are not coastal, but inland in like several cities in Texas, Columbus, Denver, and Chicago. The majority is not going to coastal cities. More water is going towards agriculture in the Great Plains, Central Valley, and alfalfa operations in the deserts of Arizona. I agree you shouldn't move to Las Vegas or Southern California and expect to have a green lawn, but water waste isn't solely an urban problem. There is a ton of waste in rural areas mainly due to poor agricultural practices and cows take a huge amount of water to get from a calf to a hamburger.
Americans need to learn that you dont need to eat beef three times a day
Exactly! Have bacon for breakfast.
Speak for yourself
@@ILiketurtles68 pork is definitely a better substitute.
@@samhianblackmoon that's the American spirit!
If there's one industry that absolutely needs to disappear, it's the cattle industry! The resources needed and environmental damages are too great to continue!
Hi Heard that ...but where did you get the info?
You sound so ignorant it is scary. People have been ranching livestock since prehistory. The only thing that has changed is that multinational conglomerates want control over all water. Dams and reservoirs stopping the natural flow of water ,I.e. mismanagement, is the only problem with water supply.
@@MichaelWilliams85 ignorant, you say? Might wanna look up the cost of the beef industry, bud.
Vegans are cultists.
wrong again snowflake
I didn't know there was more than two breeds of cattle! I thought it was just inedible and edible😂😂😂
I don't feel sorry for anyone in this piece....
That’s good because not one person in this video was a rancher I don’t feel sorry for them either. I do however feel sorry for dumb hippies that get there information through there phone and believe this crap.
These doom and gloom pieces are lame. They need clicks I get it. Texas goes through droughts all the time..... Big Hint guys, ranchers will keep as many cows as they can feed so if its wet like it has been the last 7 years in texas and then you go into a typical drought, youre gonna have to sell off. It happens over and over again. Lake travis in Austin filled up in ONE NIGHT in 2015 from the rains. Its a drought, until it aint.
The real victims are the animals here who were exploited all these years out of sheer habit by human beings. High time this cruel and unethical animal agriculture was stopped.
exactly!! couldn't care less about these POS "farmers"
Amazing work
V.E.G.A.N
The Shepherdess has been talking about this for months now.
Just another reason why we need to move more towards a plant based diet and help give these businesses new ways to make money.
I couldn't agree more. The benefits of a plant based diet will have lasting effect for human health and for the health of the earth in the future. Unfortunately meat consumption is on the rise, especially in developing countries.
no
Actually that's the reason this is occuring, to drive ranchers and farmers out of business, so that G@tes and the ÇČP can buy it all up, which they have been doing for years, then c0ntr0l our food sources.
No one can get adequate supplies of protein, iron, zinc, and myriads of other vitamins and minerals, from plants alone. That's why all the liberal ind0ctrinated s0y boys and girls look so thin, anemic, sickly, with their hair and teeth falling out.
# hääŕp
@@matttoensing4505, y'all are horrible tr0lls, lol! Go tell your organizers that you şück at tr0lling, then give them all of their their money back.
Nope. The companies producing these products are the ones that want you to give them your water
oh we are in so much trouble.
Naw only some people are in trouble I don't care what happens. Society could fall as a whole. I'd still be fine
@@jeepliberty1388 0_o okay. have a day.
If so many "cheap" cattle are going to slaughter then prices should go down in the short term. Also, I wonder if that lady at the end of the video has considered the possibility that God just doesn't necessarily want it to rain in her part of Texas.
and wants it to rain in Canada and Russia
Back when my stepdad was a cattle rancher. He would buy a whole cow and have it slaughtered. We rarely had to go to the grocery store. We had a huge freezer in our utility closet full of beef.
@@dinoflagella4185 I'll bet he was a very self sufficient guy. The kind who could fix anything.
And now?@@dinoflagella4185
Okay but is it the rancher’s fault they need to make a living or is it our fault for eating meat products with EVERY meal…… hard to point fingers when we all partake in the destruction
Some of us are vegetarian.
It’s what’s for dinner.
rancher just provides what we demand. its the fda and that awful food pyramid that is the problem. it drives economic growth if we eat meat every meal. tbh i didnt know people would want to do that, or anyone who could afford to eat meat every meal, until i was in my 20s.
@@alicat7281 Even being vegetarian is contributing to the problem. You want to say it doesn't affect you, you need to go vegan.
@@alicat7281 I am a vegetarian too, 4yrs. I think that if people want to eat meat that’s perfectly fine, but moderation is key with literally anything. It’s just the same as conserving water, or electricity.
For every tree that is cut down...for every square foot of asphalt put in, the less rain there is, so they can start by leaving the rain forest alone; by not building another strip mall; by not putting in another housing development or condos. As a young kid, I grew up in St Petersburg, Florida and it rained every afternoon like clockwork but now, it hardly rains much at all. Y'all blame the ranchers, but in fact, they have left all the trees on their land. It's those large concrete cities around those ranches that are effecting the rainfall...Stop the mass building...Stop cutting down the forests...Stop allowing millions upon millions of illegals into our country. We must look out for ourselves and our future generations or our country will become a desert wasteland with no water or food like so many other countries...
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some one says " knowledge without religion is lame, but religion without knowledge is blind"
To the last lady, PLANT TREES, that's what God want us to do. All of Rancher's land has not enough trees. Trees attract Rain.
Silvopasture is the way to go.
What trees?
@@dogguy8603 it’s better to plant native trees that can grow well in a period of drought. As I am not American, I can’t tell you which species of trees.
Tree will provide a place where cows can cool themselves, improve the quality of your soil and protect your grass from burning.
“Most straws sell for under $100” lmao
I'm a rancher in an area that was under drought conditions,it literally changed over night with two days of rain, filled the stock ponds and grew new grass in a week and already started a new hay cut. It's never the end of the world as they claim only fools with not enough land and water that weren't being responsible anyway sold their heads for nothing.
You own that land or is it BLM land you borrow from teh rest of us like every other rancher I know? Where's our cut of your profit? Do you pay for the surface water rights on that land or is it just given to you?
Two days of rain is not going to return aquifers to their previous levels. Two days of rain will green the grass until the soil dries out. Now you sit and wait for two more day of rain down the line then wait for a couple more down the line.... But then again that has always been the plight of anyone in agriculture. Unfortunately, there are too many people to feed these days for this to sustainable.
@@mikestaihr5183 100% Well said, everybody here in NM after an extremely wet summer is sayin the same thing "Wish this was goin into the snowpack" as we watch it evaporate away.
.im sorry to inform y'all but in my drought area the big 2 day rain saved my ranch and cattle and I now have enough to feed and water them for a year which can be 2 sales for me at auction and buy more,I'm sorry but it's true.
@@mikestaihr5183 that's why you make hay with the grass and keep it through winter dum dum
The first cowboy definitely has a lasso on his horse, and I'm sure a gun nearby.
I don't think the average person understands how we need our farmers!
We need farmers growing crops.. we dont need cattle. Cattle ranching has caused a lot of the problems.
Farmers yes, but meat causes cancer per WHO 🎗️
@@Nicholas-f5 don't believe everything the WHO says. Just my opinion
Yep
They think they need air conditioned supermarkets where they get their beef…
@@valeriestillman7549 Yeah, lets believe in our opinions over science facts. I know what side I'm on and it won't be the one contributing what you do, if you continue to consume animals.
Congrats to all the Ranchers who are still in the business and wealthy families .
Plant base future!
No more cows!
Plants consume water too get a lot of them and they will be doing the same things the cows are doing.
Didn't know plants produce just appears in supermarkets. Pretty sure they use the same diesel, jet fuel and slave labour as any other food products.
@@shadowslayer9988
Ummmm….no.
Not at all.
Not even close.
Are you just guessing?
Do you have ANY kind of substantiating evidence to support your wild and erroneous claim?!?!
What a childish thing to lie about.
@@sendthis9480 don’t listen to that clown
@@shadowslayer9988 look at water consumption to calorie ratio of a cow compared to crops.
1,847 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef ~ 1,137 calories
300 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of rice ~ 600 calories
My Crop duster grandpa tells me this joke at least once a month. A man in Louisiana is ordered over the radio to evacuate his house, there's flood coming. But he stays, telling his family, God will deliver!
As the water reaches his porch, a cop drives by and asks to remove him, but he refuses. "God will deliver!". The water rises for four more hours, until its to his second floor window. A dingy from the red cross floats by, but he refuses "God will deliver!". As day turns into night, the water reaches his chimney, and he sits on his roof. A helicopter from the coast guard comes by, but he screams under the sound of the chopper "GOD WILL DELIVER".
After he drowns, (he was a nice man) he walks up to the pearly gates and asks St. John "Why didn't God deliver?"
I hope you get the metaphor.
Time to become vegan.
vice - thanks for covering this. moderate native texas democrat here.
Vegan is ethical, healthy and sustainable.
Where do all the supplements and protein powders come from? How sustainable is it to order all the stuff you need from around the world? The health and ethical points are very debatable.
Snowflake approved
@@MichaelWilliams85 do you genuinely want the answers? Proteins could be found in legumes, beans, grains, lentils. You can rest assured about getting plenty of protein supply through vegan meals. Moreover, the consumption of land and water is much lesser. It's necessary to turn vegan even if it's for your own health, the environment that we are living in, and of course from an ethical point of view. Not a single clip of cow slaughter is shown in this video, you know why? Because even non-vegans are aware of the unethical aspect of killing animals.
@@MichaelWilliams85 well you can be vegan then. You can be lazy vegan but you don't have to go on and do all this crazy stuff to be vegan. You can literally just go outside and eat plants. It's so ridiculously easy to survive off the land if you know what is at all. There is a lot of edible stuff out there, but the weekends you see nowadays they're lazy. Vegans they're not real vegans but they're still annoying as hell
...and g_y
good reporting
Meanwhile, California is diverting millions of gallons of water away from ranchers & farmers straight into the ocean.
To provide municipal water, California gets it from Arizona!
Dry spells come and the reserves are insufficient. In all cases, including Texas, the price of water skyrockets.
It all comes down to water management.
It’s easy as pie to blame climate change, but everyone knows that climate changes!
We should have been prepared for this, and it’s absolutely criminal that we are not.
Other places are being flooded.
We live on a watery planet.
There’s no excuse for this.
VICE should go down the rabbit hole and get to the bottom of this.
Exactly bad management is the real problem and all this is propaganda to convince us to give all water rights to the same corporations and governments that got us to this situation
Let's blame California for Texas problems! That'll show them libs!
What? My dude you aren't making any sense
source??
that isnt happening
Grow nopales
6:42 Brahman cows... native to India!? Um... they'd be a lot safer if they were in India right now. You know where they're not safe? Texas.
Unsafe cattle? What the heck?? 🤣
SAFE IN INDIA?!?!??
WTF are you taking about?!?!?
India is easily THE MOST egregious neglectful of animals…ESPECIALLY cattle.
Wow!
You have ZERO clue what you’re talking about.
Brahman originated in India, this is true, but they have been bred and cross bred into what's now called American brahman.
And Indians eat beef too, they just hold cattle sacred and treat them with respect. (Broad brush)
Vice = GOAT
U like rib eyes, HB meat, or roasts ? We make the most from the land grasses to make sure cattle get fed well for optimal health purposes not to mention raising wheats and grain grasses for the flour, cereal, oatmeal, etc.
Some of the best News you can get
We got a lot of rain all August in Texas
I thought Brahmin only existed in some farms around Goodsprings, Primm, and South Vegas.
Look into Holistic Management and Regenerative agriculture for anyone interested in Ranching in innovative ways thats in harmony with nature.
Research this fact: Each pound of beef requires 1,847 gallons of water to produce. These walking methane factories are sucking up what water they don't have.
And humans are responsible for breeding those cows into existence.
Fundamentally America grew off of cheap and affordable farm land. That isn’t the environment anymore. A fundamental shift away from factory farm meat needs to happen for everyone’s survival
Luckily there is an norwegian company developing a natural nano clay that will help with water problems, its called Desert Control
This is sad.
The problem is over population.
They keep diverting water for crops, livestock, houses and golf courses.
Too many people living in dry areas.
The columbia river doesnt even make to the ocean any more.
I assume you meant the Colorado.
@@collinneuhauser9655 yes my mistake
This story is now old texas got its rain, just a common 2 months no rain, happens about every 7 or 8 summers
You realize 1 torrential downpour of rain won’t magically cure the dystopian future for Texas cattle farmers, right?
And we wonder why beef prices have gone up
I don't think anybody wondered why the prices are going up. Pretty sure everybody that doesn't live on their own rock knows why the price are going up
@@jeepliberty1388 you'd be surprised at the number of people I've spoken to that have not made the correlation between cost of things and climate change
I live in Oklahoma and it's starting to feel like the Dust Bowl all over again.
we finna start eating exotic cows now lmao
American : God i will die without my delicious beef
God : Ok the next time u go to earth u will be the delicious beef for others
American : 😥😥
Omg the cow at the beginning video was a bag of bones drought and food shortage
And so it begins.
0:24 He literally does have a lasso
Just turn on the weather machine duh
Luckily we’ve gotten some rain through large parts of southern Texas in the past couple of weeks. Hope the cows can drink up.
just bought a steer at $3 lbs
Ranchers desperately need to learn permaculture and from Joel Salatin. If they don’t change the mass market is screwed.
I wouldn't consider a ranch to be litter....the exact opposite.