How Can We Produce Cheap Good Food

[@EriIrwannew]

I'm touch by your explaination, I'am a poor peasant live in small town of Tanjung pinang,Indonesia. Like you Jon, I keep telling my community how important to maintain our own environtment, showing them by growing organic vegetable ..ect...thanks appreciate

[@JonJandaiLifeisEasy]

It’s great to hear you are doing the same!

[@davidmgilbreath]

You are doing great work! 💯 Keep going, and never give up hope! (If you ever feel like giving up, know that there is a complete stranger, somewhere in the world, who believes in what you’re doing! ❤️

[@FloridamanForager]

Good work I’m also a poor peasant that lives in a small town here in the USA lol

[@_Wai_Wai_]

I wish Indonesia can implement good policy for environment, and food independency. Indonesia joining the BRICS nations IMO is a very good thing in the long run.

[@inhatoyeptho2983]

I subscribed your channel during pandemic time and learned many things how to produce own food. Now I have my small garden though living in urban area and now I reduced buying vegetables and produce for my family's consumption. Thanks a lot for your advices 🙏

[@orlanduhden5842]

All over the world there are many farmers that have started to farm using the "old ways" and have abandoned the "western methods" because the soil was poisoned by all the expensive chemicals just as you have described. In places where the farmers stopped using these chemicals they are now doing much better financially and the land has recovered it's health. Now many people realize that all plants need various fungus and bacteria which convert the soil into nutrition for the plants. Their crops are no longer starved of nutrients or destroyed by pests. Chemicals should be banned. When farmers have a bad growing season because of insects or bacteria or fungus, the plants recover a year or two later. That is why farmers would grow many kinds of crops instead of only one or two types of crops, so there would always be something to eat and something to sell. Thank-you for sharing your video. 🙂

[@peaceleader7315]

France 🇫🇷 we have small food producers and selling it directly to the public .. we're lucky.. and our fisherman too .

[@angiebaltazar3020]

You are 100% correct! May we be awaken & go back to old ways of farming. God bless🙏

[@kimberlymensah5063]

Thank you for this video and for all you do. Coming from the USA and now living in Ghana I definitely see a pattern of trying to take control of the food. We have gone into farming and I have started gardening and raising animals for our personal consumption. Another major thing I noticed is that as we buy food that is already processed. It makes us sick. Therefore they have to build more hospitals and produce more medicine and produce more vitamins, which produces more money for them. They don’t want to kill us but getting us sick is OK because they can make money on that as well. That is just my personal uneducated observation and opinion. Thank you, and God bless you.

[@raylidell3613]

All you said is very true

[@davidmgilbreath]

To solve this, we need to completely restructure how we think about growing food (or anything for that matter). One example is weeds. We are taught that particular plants are bad; the need to be “removed”. However, often times those plants are highly nutritious, and are good survivors for their environment. So basically, we’re working hard to destroy an healthy, abundant, and resilient food source. Ofc not all weeds are useful, but that usefulness can depend entirely on the knowledge one has. Keep learning friends! ❤

[@kimberlymensah5063]

@ thank you so much. You are 100% right we were talked to remove clovers and dandelions from our lawns using chemicals in the US. Later, I learned that they are very medicinal and good for you. We will definitely keep learning. Thank you for commenting.

[@clivebishop5224]

That is what they mean by the expression " Value Chain ". They benefit from the "Value " of you the people being in "Chain ".

[@TJ-ug1cc]

Jon, I always watch your KZbin in the past 10 years thank you so much for the insights inspirational information.

[@CARODSLINK]

100% correct.

[@TheTimeReaper]

Random Fact, In the background you can hear a Common Koel. They migrate from Asia to Australia which is currently at this time or a little a few weeks ago. They and Channel billed cuckoo's come here to eat and replace our native bird eggs. One of the biggest targted birds by the channel is our pied currawong which is also a native bird pest that had a huge appetite for our native small birds and it's kinda this cool system i've realised. This guy is on it too. Most of the world is owned by four big seed company's who sell single use seeds. Huge cheap child labour in india. Dupont is one and there responsible for poisioning 98% of the world with PFA'S. Ham is pink due to sale pushes. Artificial nitrate is poisoness but they don't think ham will sell pink. The world is kinda like a giant pyramid scheme traced to the WW big players and were kinda all just in it. Im a fosterkid and now a kid to a powerful heir family. Australia is currently on the brink of a water crises and the big man are already ready for the water markets. Store carrots and tomato's are already a average lack of 50% in mineral and vitamins. Big question that Gary Economics questions alot, what do you do? I think our issue is how extraterrestrial we are and pushed to be while living on this terrestrial planet. I think the system of relying on corperations is the simulation we live in. Kinda like when you play civ or ages of empires. We just exist in a system until we question. You don't question until the system lets you collapse. ~Adam Curtis - Centurary of Self. You will be happy when you realise nothing matters. @johannesalfven8401 4 years ago The world is enough for everyone's need, but never enough for one person´s greed...

[@JudePowell-b3r]

I recommend a book called Small is beautiful, a study of economics as if people mattered by Schumacher. Our problems all start with our way of thinking.

[@kyawthaung2375]

Unfortunately, most of people in Myanmar(Burma) don't live in Ways of Living taught by Buddha. Thanks..

[@SopirAngkot-d1k]

Actually, farmers understand that the nicer, bigger, and more abundant the crops are, the more chemicals are contained in the agricultural products. So, the good-looking agricultural products actually contain more dangers than the not-so-good-looking agricultural products. Pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, etc. have to be applied to our crops regularly before they can be harvested. And many of these chemicals are systemic (not contact), so they cannot be washed off post-harvest, as they are already part of the crop.

[@qualqui]

Here in central Mexico, there are factory farms that grow vegetables that require alot of water, when we should be growing plants that are heat-resistant and require less water, like moringa, pigeon peas, fortunately we have chickpea growers, but so many plants that give abundantly and still harmonizing with Nature. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge Jon, 👍and 👋greetings from Querétaro.🤠

[@FloridamanForager]

I grow Moringa and pigeon pea here in Ocala, Florida . Does great in our climate as well as an abundance of food.

[@engtia]

When we feed our stomach we will be full! When we feed our ego, we will always be hungry!

[@JohannesBadenhorst-x2c]

I survive from my 800m square garden planting cassava and pigion peas as my stapel food. Then i keep rabbits and chickens for my proteïen, 3 beehives and shugarcane with some pawpaw, bananas, tarro, runner beans, sweet potatoes, corn and some frutetrees. I can sustain my self on this 1000 metre square piece of land that include the 800 metre square garden and include my small house with my chicken run and rabbit house. I use only solar and Rain water. I have a small kichen garden for some greens. I do not need much money to stay alive living off my land but i can only feed my self and my small dog from this land. Thank you God for this land.

[@TheRubytulip]

It is very wonderful that you live this way, I try to grow as much food as I can and I get some food from farmers. I also have solar and do rain catchment. I love living this way but I get a lot of friends telling me that I should move back to the city. I have been living this way for 10 years

[@richreitz5815]

God Bless Jon ❤

[@YvettePhilip]

Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

[@goodgoods664]

So true.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

with our technology, there should be abundance for everyone.. 🙏 quality of food in Australia declined since 1970s .. our best food not sold here in my country, it exported .. pineapples for example grow here many years. now we have cheaper imports instead from south africa philipines and indonesia.

[@levidaisyyoung220]

commercially grown for the major supermarkets & its not even good quality with some items. I do the Sunday organic market and its local farmers produce.. we are still able to get good produce but im seeing a decline in some things too. Gold Coast .. I grew up in the 70's we grew our own veggies, had chickens for food, it may have been harder but convenience has brought in fake food, chemicals.

[@mdashfaquenadaf4376]

Thanks.

[@Anne-le5lo]

Very well said 😢 it's no different here in Philippines!! Government more interested in getting money from poor people 😢

[@رضوانسكافان-ص9س]

The problem is the lack of water in certain areas like my region in morocco theres no rain almost for 10 years

[@honsonhon7261]

SO true my friend! You really can put all this in right perspective!

[@ogaanshotube7563]

amazing

[@luanlinhduong6634]

Xin chào cảm ơn chú đã chia sẻ vi deo chúc sức khỏe vui vẻ và bình an❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MichaelD-em6vx]

GREED is the problem summarized in 1 word. It's all over the world, but in Thailand it's on another level, and things will not improve. The individual cannot fight the system or the big enterprises like the one that starts with a C and ends with a P. Independent farmers and dedicated individuals need to join together and form cooperatives, developing an alternative to what is available now for most consumers. This is no easy task, and would demand involvement of professionals from many sectors to become successful.

[@ibradibango4744]

Kenya too on another level

[@kimnenninger7226]

Most of us agree with what you are saying but most people just won't make an effort to change our habits.

[@giridharpavan1592]

it will all go down and down only..

[@jackm2293]

❤🙏

[@_Wai_Wai_]

Agreed, hundreds of years ago, countries were empires, that operated on Feudalism, and food was grown in traditional way by Serfs, and farmers who were considered bottom level of society. But even then there was enough food for 100's of millions of people. China in the 1800s had population over 400 million people, and grew enough food without modern industrial ways.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

in Australia big mafia involvement in market.. and only 2 major supermarket chains have farmers working for no profit.. farmers giving up 😔

[@-whackd]

The population of the world was 1.2b in 1850 and there were many more famines from droughts and floods before industrialization.

[@blakeavila4409]

@@-whackdfloods re mineralize the soil. I’d rather have droughts than epidemic chronic noncommunicable disease

[@_Wai_Wai_]

@-whackd we also have to consider the world was less integrated, in terms of infrastructure, in terms of diplomatic connections. Today we have railways that stretch across continents. There are huge tanker ships crossing the oceans daily. Goods and food can even be brought in by airplane. The world today have many major economic blocks, even adversarial nations such as China and USA have billions of dollars in trade annually. All this are major reasons why we can sustain 8 billion people. IMO, places where food is unavailable, is not due to the lack of food in the world, it is due to Politics prevent cross border trade, lack of infrastructure for transport is sometimes also due to politics.

[@Ekidrat]

❤❤

[@ommanipadmehu]

❤❤❤om

[@vangnguyen4761]

So right

[@boringsoftware2093]

U ARE THE SMARTEST #THAI MOFO ON THIS PLANET, LET'S THINK MORE IN #ECOSYSTEMS!!!

[@neiljoy8465]

Because people exploit people because we/they are sooooi greedy

[@KtChan-vl4eq]

But you never mentioned the world population is increasing over time .... food also needs to increase proportionally ... food security is a big issue !

[@anitaberendsen9525]

Why cheap? From good food you need less and get far more energy and no pharmaffiacosts

[@MrSethshapiro]

less people growing - unproductive and imbalance production / people concentrate in cities making useless things

[@neiljoy8465]

Greed manifested😵👎