Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet | NYT Opinion
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- The global food system is a wonder of technological and logistical brilliance. It feeds more people than ever, supplying a greater variety of food more cheaply and faster than ever.
It is also causing irreparable harm to the planet.
The system - a vast web of industries and processes that stretches from seed to pasture to packaging to supermarket to trash dump - produces at least a third of all human-caused greenhouse gases.
Yet somehow these impacts aren’t in the forefront of the conversation about global warming. Indeed, they often aren’t in the conversation at all.
In the Opinion Video above, we explore why. Our focus is American agriculture, an industry that, while feeding the United States, is also damaging the environment - contaminating the air and water, exhausting the soil, destroying wildlife habitats and spurring climate change.
But despite these harms, the sector has largely been spared environmental regulation. This exception reflects, in part, the special place that farmers occupy in the American imagination. But the industry, particularly the big corporations that are increasingly dominating the sector, are also aided by one of the most effective lobbies on the planet.
This is the first in a series of three Opinion Videos that we are publishing this month. each providing an angle on the food system and, we hope, changing the way you look at food and making you think twice about what you put on your plate. The second video will examine how a few powerful companies dominate the chicken industry, trapping farmers in exploitative relationships and condemning the animals to short, wretched lives. The third video will propose a dietary modification that may gross you out - but also might help curb climate change.
For now, pull up a chair at the lobbyists’ lunch table. Juicy, expensive steak is on the menu. If you’re a taxpayer in the United States, try your best to enjoy it. After all, considering agriculture’s enormous public subsidies and the harm the industry is doing to your land, air and water, it’s you who will ultimately be picking up the tab.
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Hi I'm Adam, one of the filmmakers behind this opinion video. When we started making this we were shocked to discover how free American agriculture is from any real regulation, despite its huge environmental impact. Our video tells the story of how things got this way. If you live outside the U.S. we'd love to know how farming is regulated where you live - please let me know in the comments!
Loved you as Batman!
And good job.
Here, in The Netherlands, we "adopted" american style agriculture as part of the Marshall plan, after WW2. Needless to say we have problems here too. Very poor soil, polluted groundwater, phosphate overkill, pesticides galore, too much livestock, too much poultry in mega stables, diseases left and right, you name it, we've got it.
Please continue spotlighting the corporate corruption in our politics! Do you think you’re downplaying the harmful effects of fossil fuel emissions by lumping it in with plastic straws? It reminds me of the disingenuous argument that we shouldn’t work on carbon emissions because China is the biggest problem.
In Bangladesh, agriculture is the driving force of our economy and survival. Hence, it has always remained over-subsidized and unquestioned. Jum cultivation is done by clearing forests and hills, literally by stripping them. Huge patches of lands are cultivated three times per year since they have come up with paddies which can be grown this way. We are facing two types of challenges here. 1. We can't afford to buy food from other countries. 2. We don't have enough lands for cultivation. What our farmers are doing can be compared with forced labor of the "lands". The lands, if we imagine, may help raise crops once a year. Due to our needs, we are forcing it to grow three times (and more).
Hi, Biologist from an agro university in The Netherlands here. Agro exports make the dutch economy a powerhouse, so no hard incentive from politicians to meddle with it. The Netherlands don't reach their stablished clean goals but there are no consequences. The big food industry is just not seen as a big treat. Yes, sustainability and higher yields are the goal of many projects but they are not ultimate conditions.
Permaculture has been preaching this for years. Modern lawns, landscaping and HOAs are part of the problem too.
Golf is supposed to be played in the rough, not on manicured turf.
Yea HOAs stand in the way of a lot of environmental progress. I read the other day about a person who bought a drying rack and started drying their laundry outside…they got a letter from the HOA saying that was against the rules…
I plan on making an HOA that puts the environment first. Creating a neighborhood where ditching huge lawns is encouraged
someone said it!
Yes I don't mow for this reason and let things grow naturally
I work at a CO2 plant and our side makes dry ice.... The amount of co2 pollution we emit is incredible and no one discusses it because... well dry ice is an essential product for transportation of food and pharmaceuticals. ..
Why don't you quit?
TRANSPORTATION OF CORPSES (which is not food).
@@rebeccasmith8567 because he needs money to feed his family
The CO2 is not hurting anything. Stop believing all the BS.
I don’t care why is this an issue when inflation and war are coming . Build the stupid pipeline we gonna eat someone’s gas it might as well be ours . Screw being green right now. Worry about it later .
Having no regulations and law to handle side effects and to control things is more like a tornado that sweeps off land to uproot everything. Enjoying the current moment and ignoring the consequences is a true stupidity.
I agree. The good news is that there is something that each of us can do- Go vegan.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Links on my channel under "About."
You're absolutely right. But greed is the engine that drives this industry. I can't comprehend how those responsible can sleep at night, knowing their instant gratification will create immense and deadly long-term consequences. Guess they figure they won't be here, and that's also greed. We're watching a climate disaster happen in slow motion that affects everything else; since there's so much money at stake for these government officials who serve themselves and not the people, I don't see how we're going to fix this or any other problem created by them and lobbyists in all industries. Quite sad, really.
@@someguy2135 i have read the studies and I don't think they are very comprehensive given the gravity of the statements they make and the nature of what they are attempting to get people to do. Very poor science with a lot of flaws in the methodology combined with a poor understanding of agriculture.
Lots and lots and lots of junky 2nd rate "scientific" studies get published these days. Just another kind of tobaco funded study. By that I mean an interest of some fashion paying for "resarch" designed to support a position.
Unless it results in direct measureable technological advancement I would advise to assume any papers you read or read about have a politicised angle.
@@katlynklassen809 So you don't find Oxford University credible? How about the UN? Their expert panel found that animal agriculture contributes more to climate change than all transportation combined! They urged mankind to switch to a more plant based diet ASAP.
"Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation, and smarter production methods, including improved animal diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions, are urgently needed, according to a new United Nations report released today ..." Nov 29, 2006
Link on my channel under "About."
Who do you speculate is funding these studies? Who would profit? Big business? No, just the opposite.
Your stupid we don’t need regulations that gonna take away meet and raise prices . Just build sea walls . Stop wasting money woke video . Who cares big food lobby . At least keep food cheap. Good god inflation too big
Ohh goodness, I live in Toledo, Ohio... we had no potable water for ANYTHING for 3 days... boiling it? Only made it worse. Our tap water could not be used for absolutely anything. Not even washing our clothes. Some of us who lived outside of the metro area who were only supplied by Toledo's drinking water source had no free access to bottled water being given out and had to drive hours in any direction just to find water, and had to purchase it out of pocket. Anyone close to the area who had bottled water available were gouging prices. Our local gas station was getting away with selling water for $10/gallon.
TLDR: At the height of summer, August 2nd of 2014, at 6am, I woke up and woke my mother and my friends and even that early, we had to drive an hour into Michigan to find water. The water crisis left over .5 million people without water for 3 days straight. It was determined later that the intake for our water was sourced far too close and too shallow at the mouth of the Maumee River, and parts of our main water plant had gone without needed repairs, some still dating back as far as the end of WWII.
Unfortunately, it is thought that the stress due to the water crisis for those 3 days, the ongoing criticism of our leadership, and the mistrust that continued of our tap water, later contributed to the heart attack and death of our mayor, D. Michael Collins, in February of 2015. He was a truly wonderful man and it was not his fault that money for our water was not allocated correctly (that was the doing of some of our city counsel's more senior members who served unchallenged for far too long).
yeah a few weeks ago in Texas something happened to the water.
I live in houston
It would be different if big corporations hadn't run most family farmers out of business.
no dude ,, it wouldn't !! it's the same corrupt atrocious practice, and besides that these factory farms-ranchers exists bc of ranchers who began small then grew bc of demand AND their encouragement of corruption and non-moral exploitations of animals and use of people for participating and supporting behaviours of corruption which started from small ranching atrocious practices bc they need hooked corrupt clients.
That's a common trope, but 90-some percent of farms are family farms. The video was right in that they are getting larger. Scale matters, and fewer farmers means that individual farmers can use new technology to farm more acres. That's not a bad thing.
@@DrKevinFolta they said in the video that only 2-3% of the land used for agriculture is smaller farms nowadays
kevin
if we talk to correct impartial scientists (those guys with measurements, notations records, calculators etc.) they would tell us that creating food for over 70 billions land animals is destroying the ecosistem faster than all cars combined not mentioning water animals (besides the aspects of non moral behaviours of corruption and torture and atrocities inherent in knifing animals which is a mental sanity aspect(like ranching dogs shows insanity) more important than pollution aspect ).
the scientists that were non paid by corrupt ranchers for creating noise and confusion similar as tabaco industry did.
So let's talk about big agriculture and the middle men that make it impossible to farm on a small and or environmentally sustainable scale and still be profitable
this started specifically from small corrupt ranchers and the behaviours of ranchers-farmers exploiting and knifing sentients and their behaviours of corruptions and their encouragement of idiocracy clients to support and participate into.
it's the exact same non-moral practicing and corruption only concentrated in fewer efficient big factories instead being divided into hundreds but with same atrocities and pollution (maybe higher pollution, similar as smaller packages polluting even more) involved.
@@d6wave see normal people are not in your bubble. He understands scale. Your cult has blinded you to reality.
@@user-qx9wv3xf6u Scaling down animal agriculture to a sustainable level would require heavy regulation by governments. Since governments don't tend to do that (as the video documented) it is up to us as consumers to boycott this industry and reduce demand, which will bring about fewer animals being bred into existence according to the law of supply and demand. The dairy industry is already feeling the effect of changing consumer demand.
"Borden Dairy filed for bankruptcy Sunday, becoming the second major milk producer in as many months to seek Chapter 11 protection.
Chief executive Tony Sarsam said the company’s debt burden, coupled with industry head winds, left Borden with few options. “This was our final resort,” he told The Washington Post on Monday.
Dean Foods, the nation’s largest milk producer, filed for bankruptcy protection in November. From major corporations to small farmers, milk processors are seeing their margins pinched as wholesale milk costs climb and consumers gravitate to dairy-free options such as almond, soy and oat beverages." -Washington Post
make at least an example if not a 2+2=4 DEDUCTION. or show some MEASUREMENTS THAT ARE ACCURATE and not funded with corruption of ranching corpses for keeping corrupt clients of corruption sufferings in atrocities participants and supporters. and do you know the meaning of cult word !? bc veganism DOESN'T COINCIDES to that category or TRAITS OR ATTRIBUTES set, resulting in showing you supporting and trying behaviours of corruption FALSE ACCUSATIONS smearing tactics and an attempt of insults(by accusing falsely). now if we say corpsivores support participate and defend behaviours of corruption breeding NEEDLESSLY and ranching corpses and sufferings would be clearly NOT an insult because it's ACCURATE AND TRUE. it's similar as pointing out into words that you are retired if you apply for retirement (for example, besides as a figure of speech). nice attempt and trying noise tactics, you retired corpsivore participant and supporter of corruption ranching atrocities needless sufferings @@user-qx9wv3xf6u
I have an extremely profitable small farm. We give off no methane, only carbon dioxide because we grow the finest gourmet mushrooms in the Washington DC & Baltimore region. If anyone wants to see what a truly sustainable farm looks like, hit me up.
My father had a sustainable organic farm before it was a trend but he was small time compared to the factory farms. When a big name company started buying up local farms around him and he refused to sell they made sure we lost everything. It’s organized crime. It’s not a joke and NYT mentions the company who did that to my dad in this video.
In colombia an ex manager of JP morgan colluded with the meat industry to use armed paramilitary groups to displace small farmers on a large scale, and then they would use corrupt gov workers to forge sale documents, farmers were killed along their family members and they eventually gave nothing to the survivors. Some of this land was used by them to create a ranch called “the scam”.
in dog ranching !? or it was cats !? cows, horses !? glad to hear that he's no longer knifing animals.
I'm so sorry he went through that. It's a true loss, to him, the environment, and the country.
there's a win for the non-exploited animals AND the environment (as the environment aspect .. a loss of a NEEDLESSLY polluter) tho. therefore it's not really a bad loss, it's a good loss. and there's a considerable DIFFERENCE between crop farmers and the corruption of ranchers of corpses breeding torture atrocities suffering @@Kelly_Ben
@@d6wave Please refer to my other comment in this thread about how repeatedly using words like corpses, knives, atrocities etc in an aggressively rambling manner get in the way of delivering your message. My parents were vegans for 20 years, so I understand what you're TRYING to do, and how you've gone astray. My step father was like you, rabid, foaming at the mouth, aggressively attacking people in their choices even when they showed interest in what he had to say. My mom was calm, logical, answered questions with well researched facts, figures, and common sense. You need to seriously take a look at your delivery, because you're doing your cause more harm than good by driving people away and reinforcing the idea that veganism is radical, instead of an actual reasonable lifestyle option.
The expected, and appreciated, amazing coverage from NYT. Thank you.
My only question is why are you spreading misinformation and calling a slaughter plant a “farm”
We refuse to take our heads out of the sand. The collapse is coming. It's inevitable. I'm a teacher and I have a hard time facing my students knowing that we have sacrificed their futures at the altar of our greed.
I’m so glad I never had children.
And our comforts
The young people have that right to speak out. I don't understand what happened to my generation we used to care about our earth. Stand strong and demand to have the kind of world you want to live in. ✨️
Thank you Bertha
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@@Aconspiracyofravens1 She's got a point. She's an icon, she a legend, and she is the moment.
No wonder Greta Thunberg is vegan.
“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
Yea it’s crazy to me that the generation that did tons of protesting in the 70’s and 80’s suddenly seems to think that students shouldn’t protest anymore
They don't really address the consequences of eating meat and other animal products. Animal food requires much more energy than plant food to produce because the animals generally eat plant food that's produced by family farms. But only a very small part of those plant calories is converted into animal food (meat, milk, etc.)
This is especially true for large animals like cows and pigs.
If people in the USA were getting almost all their calories from plants, there would be far less environmental impact from agriculture.
FYI, cattle generally graze on land unsuitable/less suitable for quality crop growth. If you think going over to less meat will save the world, then look at what growing vegetables, wheat and corn has done to our ground water in Nebraska - it is poisoned by nitrates, because everything has to be fertilized to get anything to grow. The answer is a LOT more complicated than you think.
dude what !? it's this text serious !? educate yourself dude ,, before writing and confirming who's who in what categories and participations while publicly shamelessly defending BEHAVIOURS and support of CORRUPTION literally breeding coprses sufferings and atrocities innlarge scale to the point of reaching ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE polluting needlessly you retired corpsivore and troll @@kevinadams9468
@@kevinadams9468 FYI the vast majority of cattle don't graze. 'Grass-finished' beef accounts for less than 1% of the current US supply and only 5% of grass-finished cattle have lived their whole lives on pasture. "A nationwide shift to exclusively grass-fed beef would require increasing the national cattle herd from 77 to 100 million cattle, an increase of 30%. We also find that the current pastureland grass resource can support only 27% of the current beef supply". Most of the grain is fed to farmed animals. It is inherently inefficient. The answer is a LOT more simple than you think, but I wouldn't think too hard if I were trying to justify continuing my unsustainable and unethical practices either.
So what? The energy supply for growing grass and plants is infinite - it comes from the sun.
dude that energy it's not for you turning needlessly over 85 percentage from total crops in AMONIA CO2 methane nox in excrements lagoons etc WORSE THAN BACTERIA destroying aquariums, so gtfo with attempts of smearing noise and deflection and trolling you corpsified corpsivore participant and supporter of corruption ranchers breeding corpses atrocities sufferings in large scale reaching environmental collapse which is bc of you atrocious trolls breeding suffering @@gingerbaker1
I was disappointed this video included no possibilities in how to feed people. This situation is so much more complicated than simply blaming "big ag".
Instead of eating the meat the big ag wants you to eat, you can eat plant based.
they have no answers, they only know how to create problems.
@@slipperyslope8752 Eat plants... its a practical solution
@@CurtisV0llmar if you raise your own food, good for you! otherwise on a large level, plants need fertilizer, plants can have major pest problems, plants can spoil easily, plants are susceptible to weather, plants will need to be processed, plants will need a lot of labor, what about weeds? How much will food cost when considering everything? the list is long, most don't realize how complex a lot of this is, and for the record farming is heavily regulated and the people presenting this have an agenda.
@@slipperyslope8752 And 70% of plants on earth are fed to livestock animals... even if your points are true, we can cut down on the number of plants needed by cutting out the inefficient middlemen (the animals)
This is a nicely done piece. There are a few issues though. The Farm lobby is far from the most powerful lobby. The Military/Defense complex, Energy lobby, Auto lobby, Pharma, Gun, and Environmental lobbies are all better funded and better organized than the Farm lobby. The main reason the Ag Lobby is effective is that many of its positions make sense to people that like to eat.
The US Ag industry is heavily regulated by the USDA, EPA, OSHA, FDA, and others. Since the US uses food as a foreign policy tool, farmers are also subjected to huge market swings. If you look at the satellite images of areas that contribute to climate change in the US, they are all centered over metropolitan areas, not cow farms. The only way to effectively reverse climate change is to reverse population growth, especially in those high concentration areas. Birth rates in US and much of the industrialized world suggest we have began this very slow process. The main outliers are China and India. They are projected to top out in or around 2035 I believe. By then the world will have 10 billion inhabitants. If we eliminate commercial agriculture as suggested, no plowing, no fertilizer, no pesticides, that means a majority of the worlds farms effectively return to subsistence farming, i.e. the farmer only grows enough for his own family. There are only 2.6 million farmers in the US. That leaves the other 326.9 million in a pretty bad situation. There are an estimated 570 million farmers worldwide, so 6.5 billion people would get very hungry. Maybe you should drive out to farm country instead of just flying over it. Maybe you should be truly informed before passing judgment. This is a very flawed opinion piece.
What do you mean that you can see climate change over metropolitan areas? I've only seen pictures of climate change with melting glaciers, melting artic, hurricanes and drought and things like that. I don't think you can take a picture of the methane gas coming from a cow burp. If you take a picture of a tree you can't see the capturing of co2 and prudicing oxygen, you can only see a tree. That doesn't mean it's not happening. Scientist can measure things like that. I think there's an overpopulation of livestock, there are better ways to use the land then for livestock to feed billions of people. Though population growth can't continue the way it has.
"people that like to eat" ...nuff said ;)
Man this sucks... I feel like the phrase "We are past a national emergency." is appropriate for too many topics. There are so many things that have gone unchecked, unregulated and unmaintained. I hope people keep fighting for solutions and that everything doesn't just snap at once.
Believe me, the population will snap and the loud minority will know about it.
As "Daria" would say: Sick Sad World - LOL! Oh well... :-/
As an Ecologist I feel like the author of this opinion didn’t really do their research regarding how agriculture can be a critical tool for conservation. Are there significant problems with agriculture in the United States? Absolutely. But I think that the focus on fossil fuels vs agriculture when it comes to climate change is that point sources are easier to regulate and determine if the regulation is effective.
It is impossible to regulate agriculture the same way that transportation is regulated. We need an entirely different paradigm.
@@Gman20 No it's not. It's called ending animal agriculture. Make it illegal to breed and genocide animals needlessly. Problem solved.
exactly dude !! it's like inconceivable for corpsivores not participating and not supporting behaviours of corruption in corpses industries. they don't comprehend not torturing and exploiting non-human animals and want different contradictory non possible solutions like alcoholics and violators in denial keeping violating and destroying the planet humanely. it's weird bc reading comments of corpsivores it's a bit like watching the movie zoolander (which is not good, it's sad) @@DylanLenn
This video is not made by people who have a very large mode of thought. It is just trying to make people angry without presenting a better result for the negative picture they are painting of a completely necessisary industry.
Totally agree with you. It was a hit piece not an actual educational video.
I thought he was going to speak about the fashion industry, also a huge problem.
watch the video dude
@@d6wave bro he said before watching he thought it was going to be on the fashion industry
dude what !? how it's that title (video title) about fashion industry or anything related or not clear enough that is about ranching and corruption of ranch-farms atrocities !?
@@d6wave behind energy production, agriculture, and transportation the fashion industry is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet. It's a pretty fair assumption that the video could have been about it
no it's not a fair assumption dude. that's bc the clothing industry (which is a very necessary or critical industry unlike fashion industry and corpses-torture-ranching industry) IT'S NOT IDENTICAL WITH the fashion industry (the part of fashion hijacking and using and with behaviours of predators exploiting clothing industry, it's just a small subcategory and completely separated on the NECESSITY ASPECT). "nice" job in showing and exposing yourself bravely on who's who and defending what by the behaviours of corrupt confusion and corrupt noise tactics which are clearly behaviours of grave corruption @@TheScottaboy
Ok, it does talk about food. You're just not listen to the grassroots of the movement. This is insulting our intellegence. This has been part of the mainstream discussion among environmentalists for at least a decade.
not really. 😂 veganism is not mainstream discussion among environmentalists.
I think this ignores the fact that most Americans do not make enough money to purchase farmed goods that are made more sustainably. I'm all for more regulation, better environmental practices. But those costs unless subsidized will be passed on to consumers. And this will be just another 'lifestyle tax' that regular Americans will have to bear.
Also, you have to think about calorie density for regular Americans looking to make ends meet. I do enjoy meat alternatives but they are not as satiating, as well as being more expensive. So not only will most people be paying more at the grocery store per product but they will also most likely need to purchase more food to get the same satiation feeling.
It's a broken system. And I am by no means defending the current practices. However, I think that what NYT and Corey Booker (who's Vegan) and many other affluent people that won't even notice a 10% increase in their grocery bill is that this system while incredibly terrible for the environment is how we get the cheap, calorie dense (but not necessarily nutrient dense) foods that so people rely on. And a child tax credit or an electric vehicle tax credit will not offset the cost of that. So figure out a way to make this attainable for regular Americans or forever wondering why these movements never have overwhelming public support.
not so cheap for the knifed sentients AND the environment tho.
Another thing is if the solution ends up creating more problems like higher average cost of living, energy insecurity, food shortages, etc. ... support can backfire with the masses swinging to the other side. Sri Lanka's popular government planned to go fully-organic and banned synthetic fertilisers and agrichemicals. We saw what happened.
To a lesser extent, Germany and many other European nations are backsliding to coal because of the gas shortage... not helped by the current Ukrainian-Russian War.
The reason we’re in this situation is because of massive government subsidies going into the meat and dairy industry. $38 billion every year (in the US alone) to be precise. How much more affordable and innovative would the plant-based industry be if it got even a fraction of that?
Thank you!!!!
One thing that was not really made explicitly clear in this video is that the overwhelming majority of crops are fed to livestock animals (who are very inefficient feed converters), so most of the issues related to crop farming are actually due to animal farming. ANIMAL agriculture is the primary culprit here, not just "agriculture" as a whole. If consumer demand for meat, dairy, and eggs were to plummet, the amount of land needed to feed everyone in the country would be drastically reduced.
Most of our paddy fields of Kerala, in India have been transformed in to townships and housing colonies with the support of the authorities. Thick forests have also been cleared for the purposes of making tourist destinations!
Too. Many. Of. Us. Consuming. Too. Much.
Not to mention red tide, and the use of antibiotics instead of a humane amount of space leading to resistant bacteria.
I have to ask honestly if you feel a similar upset towards the monoculture crop fields?
@@jbee2407 Monoculture is the worst! Not only bad for the soil and surrounding life, but I also just find it ugly.
Kids don't wanna talk about the impact of non vegetarian foods because they love their kfc, Mcdonald, pizza, coffee etc. So no matter how much they save on co2 or plastic but still contributing huge in global warming and climate change.
I like to keep it that way. Build a sea wall and leave my food alone
Why the gossip girl type of voice over though? It ruined the documentary and it felt preachy and less credible.
I dont eat meat so I obviously agree with the message but the format is creepy. If feel like shes trying to replace my inner monologue or something. Give me facts, let me decide how to think about them.
Vegans are creepy, you get used to it.
I am supprised to see that this debate has not really started in the US, yet. As for the logic of farmers getting paid to not harm the environment - that is what the EU is doing for decades now and it is costing around half of all EU expenses. Hopefully this will contribute to spark debate but it is going to be a long struggle.
Farms have long struggled to maximize yield and at the expense of all else. If farmers are guaranteed a stable income by the government for their hard work regardless of drought or factors beyond their control, there is no need to damage the environment to try to maximize crop yield, just to boost their annual profit a small amount.
Currently, the US government heavily subsidizes animal agriculture and promotes its products. Ending that would be a good start. That way, plant based alternatives would be able to compete on a level playing field.
What's your opinion on this?
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This piece was trash. Most environmentalists in the US do recognize and speak out frequently about Big Food. Now what politicians do about that is another story. But it's definitely a HUGE issue here. Maybe the author of this piece has been living under a rock, but I live in the US and I am always hearing people talking about urban agriculture, community gardens, permaculture, aquaponics, etc as alternatives/solutions to Big Food.
@@someguy2135 Fruit and veg receive far more subsidies as it is, stop spreading your lies and misinformation to promote your cultist agenda.
I grew up on a farm and ranch then went to work in the oil field. If you agree with this video, what is your solution to change? Mind you people buy most of their goods from China, which is a huge polluter, plus it's all shipped over to the U.S.
Solution on a personal level is to decrease your extra consumption. Buy less goods, get your goods/clothes secondhand, renting, more plant based daily food, understanding where your food comes from. Sourced your food locally and seasonally (dont fall into superfood gimmick where your food is produce on the other side of the earth)
On the other hand, china is a lot more advanced than the US in terms of renewable energy.
China now are the biggest emmitor simply because all EU and US shift their goods production because its much cheaper.
Go plant-based for the planet 💚
The only sensible comment I have read on here so far. Unfortunately People can't change even when their house on fire they still will want to eat animals and their secretions and deny the destruction!!
Plant your own food, clean your own food, reduce your own waste! Just try your best.
There’s a lot of people who still care, don’t feel hopeless.
They’re building cricket 🦗 farms just for people like you.
@@justanotheracc6148 cricket farms are sustainable. is that supposed to be a dig? lol
@@bifurioussiren “You will own nothing, you will live in pod, you will eat the bugs, and you will be happy.” Get ready for “The Great Reset” sheep 😂
So what's the alternative? As consumers, We don't have access nor can we afford sustainable farming produce.
There’s too many of us. 80% need to disappear. This will happen.
Vegans who aren't cheagans take a handful of pills 3 times a day, that is the BP future the elite want for the peasants.
Everything you need in pills with your bowl of gruel.
No more farmer welfare, especially for billion dollar corporations
Zio Bill dopo le aziende farmaceutiche acquista persino terreni e vende alla Mc Donalds
Che dire ormai zio bill controlla tutto grazie ai suoi amici politici e finanziari.
I would much rather support a farmer than a lazy victim who steals other ppls property to get their H and meth.
As a small dairy farmer i agree with some of the aspects of this video. A problem i see is the small ethical farms are not able to buy more efficient equipment of today because of the up front price. People are still able to make yesterday’s machinery run very efficiently if tuned correctly, but the new machinery has its problems too. The emissions systems have only been out for a handful of years, and they are not perfected yet. They can cause many problems putting machinery into limp mode. This comes at a cost to the farmer to fix, and also to the crops. During harvest or planting season you usually have a 1-2 week window to get crops in or off, and breakdowns are hard to deal with. The farmers need to have machinery in good operating order so they can get their crops off efficiently. When they have breakdowns and the crops are left behind, that lowers the feed quality or crop quality. If we can get machinery to be cheaper and perfect the emissions systems, that might give farmers more incentives to buy better equipment. But until then we will probably continue to run yesterday’s equipment until things change.
Booker takes campaign cash from the companies he’s complaining about
even if that would be true ,, SO WWWHAT !?
@@d6wave Right! Makes the fact that he is speaking out all the more impressive. That money could dry up now.
exactly !! it would be even a better move or more impressive @@someguy2135
@@d6wave Cory Booker is vegan, so we know that he doesn't just talk the talk. He walks the walk! Greta Thunberg (shown in this video ) is also vegan.
We have totally changed our diets to plants based for several weeks for two reasons our planet and our health !
Feel better!
Blood sugar is normal.
Weight is down.
Hope the rest of the world population does their part some time soon.
We finally met our enemies but we have not done anything about them.
Environmental groups are disoriented and disorganized.
Lobbyists and industries are the problems.
Couple things, as a farmer, I took out of this video. First the comment about all the cows in the world...we don't have all the cows in the world in the US and to compare them as second only to China in pollution??? How about direct some of the energy you are spending with this OPINION VIDEO, on China..? Second is the "factory farm" and showing meat processing plants when using that term...target them, the big 4 that have monopolized the meat industry and prevent the small guy from being able to compete. I am a very small cattle producer and that is all I want to be. Buy local from your local farmer and know what you are buying and how it was produced/raised, then make your choice.
Buying local is not sustainable, not even close to it. Do the math: an average ranch of 4500 acres produces an average of 80,000 pounds of beef. The average American consumes 209 lb/yr. That means that an average ranch can only feed 383 people. At an average of 11.75 acres per person, and a current population of 336,000,000, you would need 3.9 BILLION acres to supply the US demand. Sadly, that is 2x the amount of land in the lower 48. You would need all the land south of the 55th parallel (in Canada), as well as all of the land north of the 15th parallel below the equator (Brazil). And that means all of it - the forests would all have to come down, the mountains would be levelled, the Grand Canyon would be filled, the rivers and lakes would have to be drained, the cities and all highways would be eliminated. And don't forget that the US population is growing along with its beef consumption, while its land base is not. Lastly, keep in mind that this does not even include pigs, chickens, sheep, turkeys, and ducks. There is no way meat and dairy can be a part of the future of planet Earth.
Did I say lastly? I forgot one thing: no matter how "ethically" you raise your beef, they have to die, needlessly, in the same horrible way as those in the factory farms.
What do you expect when you globalize the food supply chain. Quit planting soy and sending it overseas. Quit planting non edible corn. Stop injecting corn and grain filler into every facet of US food production. Stop one or two states from playing an outsized role on domestic food production (California/Florida). Quit growing water intensive crops in the desert (cotton in Arizona).
Drive from New Orleans to St. Louis and ask yourself where all that grain is going-when you incentivize grain export and realize all that domestic farmland isn’t for domestic consumption or use. Then, figure out where you will make up those export numbers..
At the very least, domestic food production should have shorter mileage from farm to table- especially when factoring in the larger health and medical debate.
You make some interesting points, but this is the most effective change we need to make.
Go vegan.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Links on my channel under "About."
More than 70% of soy is used to fatten animals and to produce dairy and eggs. Most crops are fed to our "food." We need to cut out the animals from the food equation.
@@someguy2135 sustainable farming practices outweigh eating a suboptimal diet
@@p4rad0x Animal agriculture is not sustainable for a growing population. There is not enough land and resources. The methane cows and sheep produce is 20-80 times more potent than CO2 for cliamte change. Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation. Why is the Amazon being intentionally burned? To graze cattle and to grow soy. 70% of soy is used for animal feed. Google veganic farming for the most sustainable method of producing food.
and eat more mushrooms!
Plastic straws and fossil fuel companies are NOT close to being comparable. You can hold the agro/food industry accountable without discounting the environmental effects of fossil fuels. We have the capacity to begin the transition to a sustainable energy model right now, just not the political will. This sounds as disingenuous as politicians saying that we shouldn’t work on carbon emissions because China isn’t.
sir the main issue is that you need to talk about agriculture in regards to the climate change in the same way you do with oil companies, I don't know where you go the idea that the video make it seem that one is important over the other
exactly dude ,, that's so true, luis.
Agriculture uses a ton of fossil fuels.
exactly !! as a figure of speech said a ton, bc in reality are millions of tons. "Globally, the agrifood chain consumes 30 percent of the world’s available energy - with more than 70 percent consumed beyond the farm gate" - fao. other industries are literally wasted needlessly polluting bc are used in behaviours of corruption ranching breeding corpses atrocities for arrogant clients of atrocities while supporting the environmental collapse(that's what actually is happening while we are witnessing) @@illuminate4622
Why is that disingenuous when 2 coal power plants are being built every week in China? The fact you think carbon from China and India has no effect on your climate model is what is disingenuous.
Did I miss something or did they fail to mention ag-gag laws?
Hey, so this is all very interesting but can we talk about a much more polluting industry? The US military. Or is it a lil too controversial? It feels a little too easy to guilt trip the poor for buying cheap meat when the military gets 800 billion dollars in government spending per year.
defences systems are necessary as opposed as NON NECESSARY knifing over 70 BILLIONS land animals and crops food for fattening over 70 billions land animals ()
that's just added to the pollution of cars(which a big part of truck and tractors are used in behaviours of corruption ranching torture industries) and other industries (electicity and heating concentration camps and many other resources polluting the ecosystem ).
@@d6wave even if we ignore animal products, agriculture is still very harmful to the environment. people NEED to eat, its 100% NECESSARY. what ISNT necessary is spending billions of dollars a year on upholding organizations that aren't necessary at such a huge scale
Oh boy, you are treading on very thin ice on this one.
Shedding dispersions or even shining a light on the Military/Industrial complex is almost like questioning the authenticity of the Pope.
army is necessary dude similar as police is necessary even if it's a bottomless pit for money. and completley different on pollution aspect. moving the goal post and diluting the message or the video's point it's not changing the urgency. and attacking the military it's WORSE than attacking or critiquing the pope which is not a good idea either bc they like eachother and are VERY good friends. what do you delusionally hope !? "keep" trying "cancelling" the military lol !? facepalm pff @@dannyhughes4889
@@d6wave You read so much into what I wrote that isn't there and make assumptions without facts.
'Over and out'.
Farming Simulator player here, we gunna talk about how expensive tractors are, and emissions could go down if farmers could afford the less emission producing tractors of the modern versus the millions of ohio farmers that use equipment from as early as the 40s and can't afford to upgrade
I would be curious to see how well a virtual mushroom farm would do?
Your kinda wrong, most farmer’s can afford the tractors, and the newer ones are very clean
Like you said, newer tractors are efficient and that comes at a cost. Coming from a small farmer, you can make a 40 year old tractor run very efficiently when they are tuned correctly. The problem too with the newer ones is the emissions systems havent been around long enough to be made reliable. They cost alot of time and money when they break, and sometimes if they break during a busy time of the year, that can loose alot of money and good crop because they wernt able to get it off in time. It has happened already when we were waiting on repairs and the hay was left laying in the feild and got ruined. Someday the systems will be more reliable and cheaper to maintain.
If we want to change the world, we must begin by changing ourselves. As an individual you can help stop this insanity, simply by eating an 'Organic', 'Plant Based', diet'. My wife and I went Vegan, five years ago and it's the best decision we have ever made.
dude exactly !! the simplest most comfortable solution ever. non-atrocious too besides most ecological whenever we support just the plant based side.
Thank you for being part of the solution. Here is more food for thought.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Links on my channel under "About."
Growing the vegan movement will put pressure on our leaders to make the needed changes. They will see that our environment is important to us.
that's so accurate. very succinctly well said dude especially when you said that we need to put pressure on leaders to show with ACTIONS WHAT IT IS THEY STAND for or at least whay category they defend. boom!! keep educating us dude while confirming who's who defending what or standing on what side (correct side tree s ecosystem's side OR clearing land and cutting forests needlessly side) or category with every exercise or discussion or dialogue @@someguy2135
and I bet you have found there are many more foods which now taste better. For me, I fell in love with the mushroom.
I hate that they don’t show the true horrors of industrial animal farms and instead show a few cows freely grazing, as if those were the cows that you would eat at McDonald’s, I hate that the only reason they give us to stop eating animals is climate change and not also animal welfare, I mean CC is a very important reason, but not the only, it’s like when talking about CC, if you only pay attention to fossil fuels, even though fossil fuels certainly release massive amounts of CO2, they aren’t the only sources of emissions, you are still missing a big part of the picture. Same with animals, CC is a good reason to stop eating animal products but not the only reason that argues why eating animals is wrong, you are still missing a big part of the picture.
Statements like ‘eating animals is wrong’ does not and will not resonate with A LOT of people. Humans have been doing this for eons and many do not want to eat lab grown food. 'Factory farming is inhumane and wrong’ is a statement that many people CAN get on board with. Vegans, for some reason, don’t seem to get this.
It also is missing the whole point of the video which is to focus on organisations. Putting the responsibility of all of these problems on the individual (eg to 'stop eating meat because it's wrong') is exactly what lobbies, governments and corporations want. Policy should be regulating CORPORATIONS and ORGANIZATIONS rather than constantly dicking about applying more and more restrictions on individuals.
I hear you and feel you. Same thoughts here...
Corporations and organizations are made up of and owned by people!
You just needed to wait for the sequel. ruclips.net/video/m6xE7rieXU0/видео.html
You may see Babe the pig and Fluffy the lamb. They see dinner...You are not going to guilt or disgust them into adopting a vegan diet. It difficult enough to get some people to care about other people, and you're asking them to care about what they consider "meat animals?" Most people care about themselves, their families and perhaps their neighbors in that order. Any benefits that you're going to sell them need to address their concerns.
1. Farming practices have changed. Many farms are on no-till or some sort of conservation tillage.
2. Tractor manufacturers have included DEF system to reduce emissions
3. Farms expand because needs/wants expand
4. Precision systems and drainage have been massively improved to keep fertilizer in place in the ground and not as heavily applied as in previous decades.
But farming is still the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases for as long as the needs and wants expand farming will forever put the most stress on the planet .
Overall I enjoyed this video and it attempts to address a larger issue that I fully support. But as an environmental scientist that lives and practices in the Midwest, it breaks my heart how much misinformation is in this video. It's so important we provide scientifically sound information because people start to doubt everything else we say if we say a few things incorrectly.
A few of the big things I wish weren't generalized or were incorrectly.
- Regulation varies greatly geographically. There are many agricultural areas that are strictly regulated, and others that are not. This is normally at a finer resolution than state governments as many states have smaller natural resource districts or other political boundaries with the power to regulate ag producers.
- You mention converting grasslands to crop land being a problem. Meat, especially cattle, can be part of the solution here. Many studies and real world practices have proven responsible grazing practices enhance the health of grasslands, enabling it to store more carbon. Meat raised in this manner does not have the same greenhouse gas footprint at all.
- You count all of the crop production as food related emissions, when 40 percent of our countries number one crop goes to producing ethanol.
- No till is becoming the norm for most farms in the Midwest.
I still support this video and understand it's an "opinion". But if the information is presented as facts I wish it would've been reviewed by a scientist that understands this topic.
Totally unrelated but was the editor lazy or were they really in love with the stock video of the man eating the steak! lol
no dude !! that's bs attempt of false baseless and ironic accusations and tactics of smearing noise and a weak attempt of trolling about opinions in the video, but not your retired comment full of false ironic accusations AND misinformation facepalm.
- earthling ED DEBUNKED (with peer reviewed studies) the bs of grazing pure SHAMELESS BAMBOOZLE. (should search him, just to educate yourself BEFORE commenting bs and misinformation).
- 85 percent of crops wasted needlessly in fattening corpses in atrocities of corrupt clients of ranchers breeding corpses atrocities and sufferings for pleasure. how much a cow or a pig chicken dog cats etc needs to eat per month and how much EXCREMENTS WASTE lagoons polluting as methane co2 AMONIA NOS etc for reaching weight for knifings , huh !? a lot more than their weight output of corpses.
- the MORAL ASPECT not mentioned by you ,, as if it doesn't matters. which it does matters bc it's tbe most important aspect considering that is a requirement in intelligence OR authentic civilization.
aaaa no dude ,, it's clear that is nothing left of you retired corpsivores other than tactics of smearing noise false accusations and opinions tho. dude just gtfo with these attempts of false accusations and weak trolling about grazing (literally destroying the land) AND shamelessly defending behaviours of CORRUPTIONS literally knifing animals NEEDLESSLY worse than yulin festivals in large scale wasting resources while polluting the environment so much that reached ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE (from the consequences of atrocious industries of western versions of yulin festivals basically). how do we know !? accurate measurements (and NOT retired opinions).
Check how the Dutch are defeating chemicals in agriculture. How they pollute way less and produce more per mile. There's more and more videos on that.
At this point in climate change, all i care about is carbon emissions and carbon capture. No one wants other pollutants, but if we need to convince these industries to change, how about we focus on the one big essential demand that, beyond any shadow of a doubt, must be addressed NOW.
We can come back to other issues later once we manage to retain our polar ice caps.
@@ems7623 Yeah, and don't forget about methane. That is another huge contribution to global warming. With Siberia thawing we're in for much worse soon. And meanwhile politicians claim "we care" and then take corporate money to 'help the economy'. Sigh.
A amazing piece that should be main steam news.
Shared and tweeted
I like how the narrator is like 50 years old, acting like a teenager. Clearly, we need to stop eating.
we need to stop eating corpses of animals, yes. we should eat plant based, wild idea ik.
@Toe Rogan Actually, the largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said just that.
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
@Toe Rogan "All of a sudden?" The vegan society was founded in 1944. Vegetarians have been around since Pythagoras, DaVinci, and many other wise people from the past.
Okay... well produced video, but there are very few CURRENT agricultural facts put into this video. Yes, tillage causes CO2 to be released. You know what farmers do and have been doing for years? NO-TILL. Ferilization, we use computers and technology to ensure that the fertilizer does not leave. Trust me when I say, I don't want it in the water any more than you do. That stuff is EXPENSIVE, but VITAL to agriculture and producing a crop to feed the people who are complaining Agriculture is bad and how it is causing all of these global issues. Without us, there would be NO Food. Everyone should talk to a farmer and fact check everything they hear because as a farmer myself, there is a lot of missing information here.
Well, they did at least get one thing right, and that is the Farm Bureau is a powerhouse!
the eating shots are giving "Regent of Gondor" energy
What happens when there’s no food ?
Same as what happens when there is no fuel. We die.
The plan is to feed the population crickets 🦗 research the cricket farms being built around the world to replace meat. Meat will only be for the elites. We’ll be stuck with synthetic meat and bug based foods.
7:04 Lol, you guys did a great job there!
I agree. The good news is that there is something that each of us can do- Go vegan.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Links on my channel under "About."
Hello Adam, New York Times, attorney standing on behalf of "Mother Earth", et. al.
Since farms and farmers (corporate and small farms) are the world's third worst polluters, I have a great recommendation that you can do to truly support your cause and efforts 100% to fight against those evil polluters: don't drink any milk or consume any dairy (since that comes from farms), don't eat any vegetables and fruit (since that comes from farms), don't eat any meat--beef, poultry, pork, fish (unless you catch it fresh yourself), etc. (since that comes from farms), don't eat any breads or pastas since their base all come from farms. By skipping these foods you will prove to the farmer that you are 100% anti-pollution they generate...that is of course if you REALLY believe the propaganda you are selling.
67%+ of all crops planted in the usa are to feed cows and other food animals. the usa could feed 800 million peopke with its croplands.
so we don't need to stop eating farmed plants. we need to stop feeding them to cows.
nice try tho, troll.
dude ...are you playing stupid !? just don't mix the corruption of concentration camps full of corpses wasting crops + resources that pollute a lot to create and pooping pollution needlessly, with plant based authentic correct solutions that would require a lot less emissions and impact on environment per total to make. "nice" tactic of smearing noise as usual, exposing yourself as a anti-abolitionist and supporter of atrocities and abuse of power on inferior sentients, and destruction supporter, and behaviours of corruptions nonacceptable as defeating the purpose.
If we start talking about Agriculture, all I can see is an escalation on population control.
Here is a reality. If you want us to go to pre-industrial levels of Agriculture and do fertilizer free agriculture, we would have to shrink to 2 billion people.
I wonder which 6 billion people will have to die in order to go back to that level .Yeaaaaahh, We know.
At this point, the focus should be on carbon capture. Even on farms.
Best comment I’ve seen thus far👌🏽 if you wanna know what the elites are planning read the first 18-20 pages and you’ll have a good idea. Also look up WEF and the great reset.
www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0Aa9GvmuVYfnESs5h2WAc8trSO1_POqUXu6gIRJmcSzGwI-bZUOK-H5s4
Huge farms are the most efficient way to produce food.
11:47 Maybe the New York Times shouldn't run ads it thinks are harmful.
dude what !? that's not the point in the video and you strawmaning them and then attack them on that strawman. they critiqued and attacked the misinformation in advertising of ranchers and advertising OF CORRUPTIONS part (not the advertising industry of all things). just their corrupt advertising full of misinformation and not showing how they really look like corrupt ranchers of breeding atrocities torture viruses and waste of resources and excrement lagoons polluters.
Still, if NYT was truly against the message of the ad, they are able to not publish it
wow, good catch!
facepalm it's just a sht attempt of corruption false baseless accusations and smearing noise tactics and playing stupid and attempts of DEFLECTING, and NOTHING to do with the discussion or the point presented in the video, accusation which are confirming behaviours of corrupt trolling @@eklectiktoni
@@d6wave Learn to communicate like a sane person... 🙄
I'm worried about local giant farm who just filed to get permission to double their size! I'm small farm worried about my water! I agree these giant conglomerate farms are not not true farms. They factory!
Thank you for this
"Unlike pollution from a factory, pollution from agriculture can't be measured"
Because pollution from the latter, according to actual science, is non-existent. Especially compared to industrial facilities.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation begs to differ. They estimate GHG emissions from animal agriculture to be between 14.5% and 21% of total emissions.
@@afaultytoaster The UN is the same organisation that accepted China's cheating statistics on air pollution. I wouldn't trust it if I was an actual scientist.
Yeah, that Lobbyists are somehow a legitimately entrenched and/or even a requisite aspect of American democracy is beyond the pale.
How is that other democracies that limit such can even survive could be an idea for your next installment.
Americans truly deserve more than slush funds.
Exactly, lobbying in DC wasn't even a thing until the 1960s... the history of it is pretty interesting. They are only there to protect corporate interests, not people.
Ok here’s my take as a 5th generation FAMILY farmer. We supply as the market demands. We aren’t villains. We do the best we can while still trying to feed our families. Get out of the cities people there is a big world out there. Take a drive and go visit with farmers. We provide goods the consumer wants. As habits change so will we.
If we all give up drinking milk (and I think we should), it would make a huge difference. And we don't need to eat as much meat as we do.
How can you put average farm size and number of farms on the same graph? Isn't that a little misleading?
Why do they pretend that plant agriculture is not also an issue??
@Toe Rogan yeah I know, its sickening tbh. I replied to the pinned comment to check out the channel Garland Farms and what does he think about that, and I cant see my comment there anymore.
As someone who has grown up in a rural community around numerous farmers and ranchers, it is extremely disheartening to see that many people believe the first thing they see on the internet. I can be the first one to admit that agriculture isn't perfect. There are things that need to improve, but overall, agriculture is an industry that we cannot survive without.
This piece creates a terrible picture of agriculture and it extremely misconstrued. 98% of farms in the United States are FAMILY-OWNED. Just because a family has increased the size of their farm doesn't make the product of the farmer any different.
Our country, and much of the world for that matter, have very little education when it comes to agriculture. Children do not have it as a course until they are in at least 7th grade, and even then, it is typically offered in more rural schools than urban and suburban schools, which is where that education really needs to go. Many Americans have never seen or been on a farm, but think they know how farming works.
It is so sad to see so many individuals downgrading the industry that provides so much for them. Get out and do some research, don't trust everything you see/read, and go visit a farm. Talk to a farmer and follow them around for a day and see just how much work they put in, just to be criticized and unappreciated.
I disagree with you. Food industry is terrible and the food you atr producing is worse then even. In Americas you are esting wery unhealty , but i am sure that it is possible to change. Be smart!
It is possible to hate the executives, and yet have respect for the farmers too. The farmers aren't really at fault for the environmentally destructive industry practices of the big ag companies. They just want to make a living. We should direct our anger to the companies who support these practices with an iron fist, not the farmers.
Good video.
Do you have one about the emissions and impact of wars on climate?
From what i see in the news when bombs explode there is a lot of smoke and probably chemicals.
When you live in a country (like the US) that is a huge net *exporter* of food, you have to be very careful about making changes that may reduce your overall output. Factory farms have caused more pollution than standard mom and pop operations but they've also helped feed millions of people across the globe. Eliminating things like chemical fertilizers, GMOs & pesticides sounds good in theory but the issue is much more complex than most people realize. More earth-friendly farming methods produce smaller yields and always require more labor. Americans might be able to afford the substantial cost increases but the same can't be said for many of the countries that import our food.
Hi, did car industry lobbyists write this video? Transportation is by far the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. We need public transit, walkable cities and urban housing. Those things are the priority, not food.
Literally what i was thinking! While I do think agriculture is also a problem it’s not nearly as bad as oil imo. For years big oil has tried to deflect from its own faults, placing the blame on consumers.
Don’t pretend we only have one problem, food and transportation are similarly intensive, even if there is more total emissions from transportation. Stop eating red meat
@@haught7576 Absolutely! In some ways, exploitative agriculture is more insidious- as it harms entire ecosystems without anyone noticing. Like the video says, there's no smoking gun to point to in agriculture.
Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all of transportation combined by some estimates. Stop downplaying the problem because you're too lazy to stop paying for dead animal flesh.
@@DylanLenn The expert panel set up by the UN officially announced that conclusion. They urged mankind to switch to a more plant based diet ASAP. Here is a quote from the UN web site.
"Nov 29, 2006 - Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation,..."
Everyone watching this has the power to help make a change. You don’t have to stop eating (red) meat, but if you make a conscious decision to eat less of it, move towards poultry, eat more veggies, and eat less dairy, we can collectively work to reduce emissions. At the same time, look in your area to see if there are any local farms you could be getting your food from, so we are supporting the systems we want to see replace big ag.
dude ,, on the moral aspect (which is even more important than the environment), it's like advocating for beating childrens a bit less and not completely stopping necessarily.
just to warn them maybe (i should attempt), bc it's clearly a waste of time to try convincing the trolls playing stupid and subjectively interpreting things falsely for suiting their preferences. dude that's a good point actually .. so let's try. why would god create or want eden as a perfect garden design at the begining and not full of atrocities from the start !? just to make atrocities little by little until factory ranch-farms and infernos and complete destruction !? hm .. sounds like a contradiction , doesn't it.
@@d6wave you can't win silly vegan.
@@d6wave why would god make a world that animals eat each other? Grow up dude. You hate nature and think you are above it. We will always be omnivores. Deal with it.
@@user-qx9wv3xf6u there are many societies around the world that eat mosty vegetarian food.
That was not an opinion... straight facts!!!
Eat less, less beef... Less fastfood. More healthy for you and better for environment.
This is a good window to a key problem and highlights the need for limiting money in politics. Regulation kinda requires representation not beholden to big money interests.🗽 We the People First.
Amen ! But this piece of trash hasn't known truth in many decades !!!
I agree. The good news is that there is something that each of us can do without the politicians- Go vegan.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Links on my channel under "About."
What can we do? Don’t give them your money. Eat less meat, buy local products.
on the moral aspect (which is even more important than environment bc it's intelligence related) it's a bit like saying eat less dogs in yulin festivals. we should not eat corpses completely, not just less. everything is local for the locals (which in terms as pollution of ranchers means nothing, and the food crops of animal feed is imported from amazon destroyed forests for growing soy for animal feed).
Don't give them any money! Boycott meat dairy and eggs until they go under. Local products of animal agriculture is still devastating to our environment. For example, cows produce the same amount of methane regardless of where they are killed and sold. Here is a video that shows how local is not as environmentally friendly as you may think. ruclips.net/video/F1Hq8eVOMHs/видео.html
And eat more mushrooms. They are good for the human body, humanity and the earth.
Agriculture runoff has destroyed the Mississippi River.
“we are past a national emergency”
wow i feel that one on too many levels
exactly !!
I agree. The good news is that there is something that each of us can do- Go vegan.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Links on my channel under "About."
Same here dude .
@@someguy2135 The University of Oxford is a complete joke to most of the planet, even worse than Harvard.
@@jayz8839 So you are claiming that an employer would reject an Oxford graduate and laugh him out of his office? Now that's funny!
"Oxford is ranked among the most prestigious universities in the world." -Wikipedia
This video is honestly comical how far from the truth it actually is. “You might not live close to a farm or ever been to one” at the 3:45 mark…. That’s the only true statement I’ve seen so far and it’s only true because it pertains to the makers of this video. This is honestly the problem with American agriculture is there’s no good promoters on how everything is regulated, done safe, productive, and as earth conscious as we can possibly be. There wasn’t 1 “fact” in this video where it was anywhere close to fact. American agriculture is one of the MOST regulated industries on the planet. I encourage you if your questioning any of these ideas on this video to reach out to any farmer or ag influencer on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, RUclips,… or whatever platform you use. We’d be very willing to explain these to you. Since we’re on RUclips I encourage you to watch MN Millennial Farmer and your eyes will be opened to how far off this video is. It honestly makes me sick and causes even more harm on the American ag industry’s reputation than anything! Shame on you NYT!
@@donaldhutchinson8079 I am very well affiliated with ag, with that being said all of the “industrial farms” that they were portraying in this film are not farms at all. The “factory farm” they kept showing was a meat processing plant, not a farm, in case you are unaware, these processing plants take the animal that is delivered there from a farm and then processed into a finished product you buy in the store. These animals are there for a day or two at most, not there whole lives. What’s difficult for me to hear is videos like this bashing an industry that does more good for the environment than any other but gets blamed for these “facts” by reporters, executives, politicians, ect who have never been to a farm, read the rules and regulations we follow, see the land husbandry we follow to feed the world the safest and nature friendly way possible. That’s what’s difficult for me to hear and see.
@@albertsondroneservicellc I've worked on small farms, and a small nursery, that are right down the road from hugh corporate industrial producers... and what's reported in this video is definitely true. I wonder which lobby firm you work for... or how you can be so blinded to the extremely bad effects that our conversion to industrial farming has had over the past 100 years. It's ludicrous to deny it
@@tabularasa I don’t work for any lobby firms and honestly this article saying the farm bureau is the biggest most influential lobby group is honestly a joke. Farm bureau never gets heard and the ag lobby groups are not just for the farmer they’re for everyone. On the topic or sustainability and move to industrial farming, every farm is industrial, no matter if you farm 10 acres or 10,000…. If we didn’t industrialize to mechanized machinery, better plant genetics and proper pest management systems we would be planting, harvesting and everything in between by hand. It’s the way to be sustainable. If we were back 100 years ago and farming the way they did agriculture wouldn’t be sustainable. And 98% of American farms are family owned, that’s not an opinion it’s a fact you can look up with data backing it. I’m not on here to argue this opinion I merely commented on how far from reality this is and ashamed of why it’s like this.
@@albertsondroneservicellc Your reply here is so disingenuous. Are you trying to claim that the Farm Bureau is *not* the most influential farm lobby? They "never get heard"...? In this short video, we all saw the clip of the former president calling Zippy Duvall by name. *It's very clear that he gets heard.* When I read about the mission of the Farm Bureau, it's obvious that they are not "for everyone." How can you look at our many instances of water pollution, sometimes affecting drinking water on a massive scale, and the lobby groups' pushback against regulations to protect groundwater, and call it "for everyone"? That's just obviously false, and such a misrepresentation of what the lobby actually does. I don't know what your level of involvement is in this industry, but I think you would benefit from taking a few steps back and being more honest about its frequently negative impact.
The rest of your comment, about industrialized farming, conveniently sets up a straw man argument for you to push over. There is no desire to plant and harvest everything by hand, and you know it. Of course we need machinery. That's not the issue. The issue is one of *scale.* In the last 100 years, the number of farms in the USA has been drastically reduced, but the size of them has grown astronomically. For most people, their connection to the very thing that keeps them alive has been diminished to almost nothing. This was not by their choice. This gigantic scale shift causes big problems, both for local economies and the environment. I feel that there is a clear comparison to the way that our exchange of goods has shifted. Whereas there used to be many mom & pop shops, with many local suppliers of goods, developing a solid middle class, with people contributing to a productive local economy-- now they are all wiped out, and big box stores like Walmart have control of nearly everything. Can you argue that Walmart-type commerce is more sustainable? Our recent bottle-neck supply chain issues show that it is definitely not. The whole de-localized profit-driven food economy is hurting us badly, in multiple ways.
And finally, your claim about 98% of American farms being family owned-- I've been unable to verify that. You said I could look it up, but I'm not seeing it. I found on the Census Bureau website that it might be around 60%, but then I'm not even sure exactly what you mean by "family owned." This could be an interesting twist of words that serves your strange opinion here, but I'm not fooled. Even if that 98% figure were true (which I doubt that it is), if the majority of these farms are in exclusive deals with Tyson or Cargill, then how "family" oriented are they, really? It's a misnomer. That's the kind of tricky language that the Farm Bureau likes to use. And that's why there is distrust of this industry, because of this disingenuous misrepresentation.
One other thing I'll mention, in relation to your earlier comment about a meat processing plant not being a farm-- again, this is splitting hairs with language, and not acknowledging how meat processing plants are absolutely part of the agriculture business, and a huge part of it. Just because something looks like a factory, it doesn't mean that it isn't part of agriculture. Really, until your grocery bags hit your kitchen counter, it's all part of the agriculture business, every step of the way. I wish that you would be more honest about how this industry functions today.
@@tabularasa I understand where your coming from, what I meant on farm bureau, yes the ARE the most influential farm organization but they are not the most influential lobby group out there. Yes they get heard but other groups get heard faster. On the water pollution comment, yes I agree this is an issue that could be and is being addressed but with that being said, the chemistry being used today compared to 50 years ago when chemical weed control was being engineered is way safer and is but on at a fraction of the rate. Other erosion control for runoff is being adopted rapidly through ag. Along water ways there are filter strips that catch any runoff and keep it from getting into water supplies.
On the note if industrial farming, the number of farms has diminished from a 100 years ago but that’s in part to the urban movement and everyone moving off the farm, farmers retiring and the ones who stayed taking on more ground. This is in part to the economy of business, you have to expand if your going to survive. I agree and I’m ashamed at the disconnect between the farmer and the producer and that’s why I’m a big supporter for vocational and agricultural education in schools other than just rural schools. Teach the population about how there food is produced and then the population will have a better understanding of the problem people in ag has with videos like this trying to slander the people who feed them.
I get what your saying about mom and pop shops and I wish they’re were more around than the big box stores but that’s really not Agriculture’s problem that’s the retail industry. The argument of if they are more sustainable goes both ways. With the bottleneck question, I really think it could go both ways, could make it easier but in present times with shipping I think it could be a nightmare. Shipping companies can barely keep 50 Wal Marts stocked let alone 250 mom and pop stores that those 50 Walmarts service now a days.
On your comment to my 98% of farms family owned. You saying how family owned are they, farmers sell there product to companies like Tyson for chicken for example, the farmer sells them live chickens and Tyson process it to sell to Walmart. Same with Cargil, the farmer sells raw grain to Cargil and then Cargil processes it into ethanol for gas or corn syrup to be used in food products for example. Even if the mom and pop stores were still around the farmer would still be going through processing companies like them before it got to the stores. Hobby farms and farmers market farms that go to farmers markets are not sustainable and profitable for every farm to process every product there grain goes into if it was changed to be that way.
On your last paragraph I agree it all includes agriculture from the farm to the counter but there are a lot of other factors ag doesn’t have control of. On the meat processing plant, you misunderstood me. They are not farms but they are very much a part of ag but how it was pertained to in the video is not a farm, its an end user not a farm. It makes the product the farm raises. I’ve been truly honest on all of this. It really makes me sad and that I feel I need to do more to educate and show consumers that we’re doing everything we can to feed and sustain the earth. I encourage you to do more research and research on USDA website. It’s got a wealth of data that is unbiased and collected on 100’s of different topics.
www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=58288
We have severe algae blooms happening where I live and it is choking out all the natural waterways…
thanks for this video
Is the issue with the farmers or Washington DC? Farms have changed over times but 90+% are still owned and operated by family farms. You can have a problem with Tyson, JBS, etc. but it's silly to have a problem with the families working around the clock to feed the world. Be better, NYT. #eatmeat
Thanks for this video shedding more light on how destructive big ag can be. People seriously need to reconsider what foods they're buying that causes environmental harm.
Lets correct this. Industrial farming ruins things not general agriculture.
on moral aspects AND pollution and wasting resources as crops or plant based foods trucks gasoline etc. for over 70 billions land animals it's the same practice of deforestation and ecosystem destructions and corruption @@mclt8883
actually a bigger efficient factory (similar as packages or buying in bulk) would pollute a bit less on environmental aspect.
Robo,
If its healthy, then the fed will end up banning it for the general public.
Yea, I’ve been researching more climate topics lately and it’s wild how often you end up running into issues with farming. Been encouraging me to slash my meat and dairy consumption and eat more raw produce over the years.
@@mclt8883 "Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
“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
Link on my channel under "About."
what song is that guy playin on the piano?
Past national emergency…get rid of lobbyists and stop corporations from running the country. And we wonder why Americans are easily divided.
yes, bc the atmosphere is a non-nationalistic component in the climate or pollution equation or aspect.
Ny times, thank you so much putting this out
Thank you for this ❤️
It's the American farming system that is the problem, factory farming, monoculture, chemical intensive and debt controlled.
One giant issue are the subsidies. Studies have shown a big mac which costs 5$ today, would without the subsidies, cost 13$. That's an increase above 100%. Consumers are already paying these prices but they don't know since much of it is taken in tax. The true cost of producing these horrific foods environmentally are being hidden by enormous subsidies. Tackle those and the market will see a significant change as consumers realize the actual cost of their food.
Hi, if you are interested in this video you might also be interested in "inconspicuous consumption" by Tatiana Schlossberg, a NYT reporter. I found it recently at my local library and have found it incredibly insightful. It presents how certain industries (like Internet and Tech) work and what to keep in mind to make sure hey develop sustainably. As a Gen Z, it has empowered me to shape the future as it develops, rather than be angry at the faults others made in the past. Highly recommend.
Here is a relevant RUclips video that was posted a couple of months ago and already has been viewed 5.8 million times. Very engaging, entertaining, and backed by science.
ruclips.net/video/F1Hq8eVOMHs/видео.html
@@someguy2135 Great video!
@@DarkDeepGreen I'm glad you agree! Quite relevant to the topic of the video by the NY Times.
Kudos to NY Times for addressing this issue and working to bring this into people’s awareness. The answer is simple, add more, whole food, plant-based food and reduce our egg, dairy, egg and seafood consumption. I also understand the need for regenerative agriculture and permaculture. We must start building healthy soils and plant food forests.
Yeah sure the , " TRUSTED NEW YORK TIMES "!??? NO , NOT !!
MAYBE ABOUT FIFTY YEARS AGO ! BUT NOT ANYMORE !! AND ABSOLUTELY NOT TODAY !! TRUTH !!!
How do people not see how one sided this is? Where is the pros vs cons? Where are the ag supporters with counterpoints? The difference between informational and propaganda is providing ALL perspectives on the issue. Just bashing a view because it doesn’t agree with what youve experienced is not going to solve anything.
Thank you NYT and Senator Corey Booker ❗🆘
If at all humans were more sensible😑
They would eat more mushrooms😊
@@SetasMushrooms you will be fed crickets 🦗
I'm fully behind the concept of limiting emissions, but this piece should have been on the list of toxic substances. The way the narrator and the inappropriate music come together to sound so glib that it seems to be designed to mock itself. Seriously, wtf produced this snarky tripe?
Indeed.
Propaganda the elite want you to eat bugs fake meat live in a room and not drive while they eat steaks like in the UN OR G7 meetings fly in private jets and buy mansions by the sea even do they tell you sea level is rising and soon we are all doomed see how it works .
They think they have won already so the smugness is stenching off of them. Higher powers in this Universe are at play than some numbers on a screen.
@@jayz8839 please go get some fresh air
Go watch Fox News if you don't like it.
The fact that this video hasn't blown up yet just proves that those people are just really good at their job. I'm amazed.
The solution should never be hoping for people to have restraint. There should be subsidies to support new ideas and new ways of doing the same cleaner.
the rules are definitely necessary for the eliminations of corrutions and atrocities and violations and knifing animals NEEDLESSLY only for a taste pleasure (which can be obtained on plants anyways) similar as rules or restrictions against behaviours of dogfigtings and cannibalism or other behaviours of corruption being non-acceptable.
the rules are definitely necessary for the eliminations of corrutions and atrocities and violations and knifing animals NEEDLESSLY only for a taste pleasure (which can be obtained on plants anyways) similar as rules or restrictions against behaviours of dogfigtings and cannibalism or other behaviours of corruption being non-acceptable.
@@d6wave I agree, they are rules and enforced by authorities not based on peoples restraint. If you let them they will still do it.
good point exactly !! that's why responsibility it's not enough which results that repercussions or accountability it's clearly necessary (with better education to warn us on what consequences may result from our actions as prevention attempts(even if majority clearly would ignore that education), for all of us) @@davidsmithsmith5679
@@d6wave Even educated people will put aside morality and values for profit.
I can tell you that as a person who grew up in areas we the farms and cattle ranches these people buy into the hype, and truly think they are "part of the solution."
Stop eating what they produce and be the change you want to see.
There are farms and farmers who grow their food in an environmentally sensitive way, but they're typically small operations--not a match for Big Ag.
This documentary is missing a large part of the problem. I'm guessing whoever agrees with this video doesn't want to eat beef, or eat at all. Industrial farming is corporate owned, not family farms. And more fertilizer is put on a home lawn per square inch than ag land. Cow burps are natural and composition of the methane gas from cows is less toxic than car and industrial pollution. Agriculture makes up less than 2 percent of the population which means that each family farm supplies food for 138 other people. And if you don't want us to raise cows than you don't want pharmaceuticals, paint, drywall, ball bearings, jello, instants mashed potatoes etc. Query products that contain animal by-products. And I believe that big oil has the biggest lobby over ag.
facepalm.
dude ,, what a pile of sht misinformation false excuses and attempts of trolling shamelessly and defending behaviours of CORRUPTION of ranching breeding corpses atrocities literally needlessly, while confirming AND encouraging support and participation in environmental collapse. just gtfo with attempts of defending literally NON-ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOURS OF INSANITY corruptions of atrocities exploiting knifing sentients needlessly in western versions of yulin festivals FAMILY OWNED OR NOT DOESN'T MATTERS IF INVOLVES SAME ACTIONS OF CORRUPTIONS ATROCITIES BREEDING CORPSES SUFFERING KNIFING SENTIENTS NEEDLESSLY, WHILE POLLUTING TURNING CROPS (85 PERCENT FROM CROPS STOLLEN FOR FEEDING FATTENING CORPSES, BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR WORLD HUNGER BC OF CORPSIVORES) IN EXCREMENT LAGOONS WITH AMONIA METHANE CO2 NOX ETC UNDER THE NATURAL FALSE EXCUSE AND ATTEMPTS OF CORRUPTIONS MANIPULATING GASLIGHTING READERS WITH FALSE INFORMATIONS AND FALSE EXCUSES ONLY FOR THE PUPROSE OF KEEPING CORRUPT CLIENTS OF CORPSES AS SUPPORTERS AND PARTICIPANTS IN ATROCITIES INFERNOS LOOPS BASICALLY.
just don't mix in the same pot necessary ball bearings which are NON ATROCITIES with the non-necessary ATROCITIES or needless exploitative predatorial behaviours of corruptions ABUSE OF POWER AND VIOLATORS of ranching breeding corpses sufferings needlessly.
and other resurces or industries as electricity AND OIL POLLUTES FOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS LIKE TRACTORS(IN CROPS INDUSTRIES OVER 85 PERCENT WHILE CUTTING FORESTS) TRUCKS AND FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTING ALOT OF FOOD FOR FATTENING OF CORPSES, YOU RETIRED DEFENDER OF CORRUPTION ATROCITIES RANCHER OF CORPSES CORPSIVORE TROLL. YOU CONTRIBUTE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE THE MOST WHILE ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT WITH YOU IN ACTIONS OF CORRUPTIONS ATROCITIES.
Okay I’m not dismissing the ecological impacts of the agri-industry, but probably the real reason that people are focusing on fossil fuels is because fossil fuels are readily replaceable. Not to mention that in the US, which is all this video seems to care about, agriculture makes up 10% of our green house gas emissions, compare this to the fact that transportation makes up 29% of our emissions, simply generating electricity makes up 25%. These are statistics readily available from the EPA. This whole video just sounds like shill piece by the petroleum industry. Again I’m not saying that agriculture doesn’t have an impact, but when the narrator asks “why is everyone focusing on big oil?” It’s because solving that industry first will yield the most immediate effects.
Modern agro-business in the U.S. definitely needs to be reformed - but not by some secret plot to replace access to real, healthy food grown on small, traditional farms with further industrial control over our food choices! And focusing on reform to agriculture does not let the fossil fuel industry off the hook. Both industries need massive reform to save our planet and our health. The last thing we need is a culture war series of fake or slanted research in misleading marketing videos like this one, trying to place the blame on each other!
This could not be more one sided. For those who don't live in a concrete jungle, there are farmers in your community. Talk to them, listen to and see how they farm in your area. Social media and the internet a a great place to find real people and farmers who share their life everyday. Good, bad and ugly
My nephew and his wife own and operate a free range cattle ranch. I love them, but I spend a lot of time influencing people to boycott their product by going vegan. The climate and environment crisis is too important. They would find a different way to earn a living if they had to.
Why don't you present the other side? How is animal agriculture compatible with the environment crisis?
And if you don't have a mushroom farm locally, start one! You will be glad you did!