Morocco’s Soil Threat: Toxic Fertilizer Crisis | Seed Documentary

Morocco’s Soil Threat: Toxic Fertilizer Crisis | Seed Documentary
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Over the last 50 years, our use of phosphate based fertilizers has quadrupled. These are essential to modern agriculture, used especially for growing potatoes.
Most fertilizers come from Morocco, where the pollution from phosphate mines is poisoning local drinking supplies, causing birth defects in animals and health problems in children. But also present in most phosphate-based fertilizer is cadmium, a toxic heavy metal linked to kidney and bone disease.
A team of journalists, in collaboration with European scientists, set out to search for evidence of the extent of pollution in Morocco. They also want to see if the cadmium in these fertilizers is contaminating potatoes and entering the food chain. Their revelations will make the news and change the law.
In this investigation, the Green Warriors team reveal the implications of our addiction to cheap fertilizer.
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[@logantauson789]

Holy smokes this documentary is amazing! I cannot imagine how much work it must’ve taken to pull this off. Thank you so much. I study soil and composting, it breaks my heart and also brings Hope that the solution is so easy and so possible if we would just look to nature for advice

[@HTMLpopper]

For the record this is a reupload channel and the original creators will be in the credits

[@jabadabadu7089]

Problem is not only in one person or company or nation. Problem is in all of us. Blaming others for pollution, while demanding perfectly shaped potato in a grocery stores is duplicitous. You need to use a lot more insecticides and who knows what to keep vegetables only looking beautiful. I see people in stores being appalled by a slightly wilted lettuce and not buying it, when you can easily put in a water for 30-60 minutes and it's fresh again. We all need to change.

[@Adam-o7i1r]

👌👍👍

[@daredonte7787]

We will have to invest more in agricoltural Research instead of war

[@dudarsky]

@@daredonte7787 Agricultural research has nothing to do with it, farmers grow what is demanded by the consumers. Only thing we need to invest in, is educating the consumers on how things are grown and that a potato that isn't a completely round ball is still the same potato.

[@daredonte7787]

@ I agree with you, but unfortunately is all the system, because we produce more food and most of it is thrown in the trash, but we still have problem with energy optimization growing food necessities petroleum for tractors put in danger soil microbiology and make soil erosion, and to include all pesticides and diserbants used.

[@jabadabadu7089]

It may sound rough, but we must limit natality, because we are multiplying like flies and we do not consider that in our demands. If I over simplify, let's say Earth is a small sandbox where we live. For better understanding I will use small amounts. In that sandbox we have 100 liters of water, 100 liters of fuel and 100 kg of food. One person can survive for 100 days. 2 individuals 50 days, 4 people 25 days, etc. Water replenishes every 100 days. Food need water to grow. Fuel is used and does not replenish. Now multiply all that with 8 billion people living on Earth with limited resources. 8.000.000.000 people and rising. We will not last for long with this tempo. We all want everything, but we cannot have everything for everyone. So to stabilize that, we all need to change by gradually lowering human natality by limiting number of children per family and also equally distribute water and food. The moment you take something away from someone else, there will be a war of some kind. So to avoid that, we will have to start implementing different approach towards gathering resources IF we want stable peace for a long time. If we allow taking resources from others, we will never have stable civilization. And stability worldwide is again on the brink of a world war.

[@alaaneesful]

thank you for this amazing documentary , awareness is the key for better future our ancestors used animal manure to fertilize plants , nothing beats it till now , better for soil health , plants, and humans Almighty Allah made things in the right balance , if we don't follow it correctly , then we all suffer

[@TheBoussadra]

Heroes, thank you for changing the world to be a better place

[@HTMLpopper]

Really incredible study, there needs to be more attention brought to these regulatory loopholes that corporations are exploiting at the expense of people's health.

[@tonyclack5901]

I farm organically and do not poison anything but you must rember it is our government that approves the import.

[@daredonte7787]

The problem is that our society grows a lot of food just to use a quarter of it the other is just trash away this agricolture way is first polluter cause in the world

[@philfluther2713]

Excellent work. Slainte.

[@jb-vz4wb]

I often wondered about analyzing fertalizer to see what chemicals are present. I suspect it is not just metals that are the problem in fertalizer

[@deividasvisockas]

money and greed will kill us...

[@robertlee6338]

Nothing to worry about n Europe! Much like Chrome tanned Leather smells foul during processing but it fine after tanning, local treatment is up to its regulations

[@goated4684]

20:38 Ohh! They are looking for you James Bond 😂

[@j.b.4340]

I’ve worked in the acid units (h2so4) of several phosphates plants, which pair with the phosphate mines, which are ancient sea beds. It’s highly regulated, and there is no waste, or toxic discharges, over here, so they can, and should, do better. Be good stewards. I found shark teeth on my breaks.

[@markarca6360]

They should read about the Big 5 pollution diseases of Japan, especially the Minamata disease.

[@Freight_Train]

I've worked with ceramics and everyone knows that glazes with cadmium are universally not food safe. And that's just on the ceramic piece (plate, mug, etc.) that might touch your food. Having it directly in your drinking water or food to consume is so much worse.

[@user-wy4mp9ts3u]

Heavy metals are not a threat in alkaline soils but is acid soils yes especially if the soil has little clay and little carbon,lack of carbon is the big problem

[@mankisito]

I make fertilizer with crushed limestone dust, wood ashes, sea water, ground up charcoal, yeast and ammium sulfate crystals that I buy. For pesticide a use 3 drops of dish detergent and 5 tablespoons of store bought vinegar per liter of water.9

[@ThinkSustineri1]

Can you share the doc in Arabic and French?

[@hansfluks3127]

Fluoride is the biggest problem with fertiliser

[@user-wy4mp9ts3u]

I can see that that french farmers soil lacked carbon,it was too light carbon is black and makes the soil dark

[@ANTIAVISOSPORFIN-ii1cu]

Perhaps From Trading Weapons...

[@Maxx1066]

Well yall wanted to go green sadly gone are the days of Sterile potash Fertiliser I still burn stuff and people bring me their coal ash never had sick plant or tree . I got huge dragonflies and bees there's a bee keeper down from me and he can't understand the massive difference in taste of the honey.

[@DanishSpeakerChannel]

coal ash is filled with heavy metals, wood ash is too if the tree that once stood was growing on polluted soils and when you then burn the tree to ashes all the heavy metals get released

[@ThinkSustineri1]

@@DanishSpeakerChannel ashy Larry thinks he is slick over here

[@Abbezzorcax]

Omg.. U know what this case cause the Alien is so angry.. Same nuclear case.. Stop this now

[@Alex2222Rayan]

Canada 🇨🇦 I hope Canada 🇨🇦 🙏 and Europe 🇪🇺 to band all products from Morocco 🇲🇦 is really terrible what is doing king Mohamed 🤴 6 to all Morocco 🇲🇦 really dangerous 😳 ☠️

[@ThinkSustineri1]

@@Alex2222Rayan what is he doing?

[@NUCLEARNIRVANA999]

Womp.womp