Our Food System is K*lling Us

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[@VictoriousGardenosaurus]

The grocery store, like most everyone else. Perhaps, however, come this spring and fall, that answer will change. 1000m² garden should provide a few fruits, veggies and herbs. Tracking down local farms for my meat. Getting eggs from a few friends, currently. This is a literal grass roots type issue. Plant your Victory Garden in our battle to change the food web.

[@AnnaCatherineB]

Stealing, dumpster diving, food distros, and sometimes i pay for some at grocery stores.

[@claudiaborges8406]

Support the anarchist black cross!

[@toppersundquist]

I would love to see just ONE person try to pass an amendment in government to finally "ban slavery" (close the prison loophole), and watch literally everyone else vote No.

[@RealBradMiller]

I would love to be that person.. for better or worse.

[@Social_Pugatory]

The way both establishment parties would quake at the idea because of how it would disrupt these corporate profits.

[@kamek7361]

Imagine if American corporations were also held accountable for the slavery they outsource to the third world...

[@Leah-vr7di]

It has to be tried!

[@Falcodrin]

​@@Leah-vr7dinah honestly would rather not have the soul crushing of watching it fail then watching the entire media just ignore it

[@zleze-music]

i'm glad to see the struggle of undocumented migrants being brought up and talked about. it was really hard growing up seeing my parents and older brother have to suffer so much and feeling like no one cared or knew what was happening.

[@ArcticNightShade]

Then don’t go to another country illegally

[@morphingfaces]

​@@ArcticNightShadeyou seem like a well balanced empathetic human being why not you? Why is their suffering acceptable to you but you aren't putting yourself in a situation like that we are all human beings why do you think your better more deserving of safety and dignity your not and it's a indictment of your character that you choose cruelty instead of humanity

[@TheHonestPeanut]

​​@@ArcticNightShadeit's not illegal actually. That's the point of this video if you payed attention. Undocumented labor isn't illegal. Our entire system is quite literally designed to be powered by undocumented labor. It keep the working class poor and in fear of unionizing and gives owners more money. It's legal, bud. Wake the F up.

[@coolioso808]

Exploited workers can unite us all because we need a new system, not just for farm workers but for all of us. Capitalism doesn't allow for freedom and a healthy planet, that's abundantly clear. Capitalism preys and profits from exploitation, oppression, competitive self-interest, monopoly expansion and unpaid for waste. A better viable system would be localized, co-owned by the community, for the community to produce an abundance for all, with only 3 hours per week of contribution required by each member, sharing the wealth we create can do so much more than our inefficient capitalist, globalist system makes us think. Read Ubuntu Contributionism by Michael Tellinger (or watch videos from his channel about it), as well as The New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph. It's the era of system change. Are you on board?

[@brendalauts8473]

​@@ArcticNightShadewhy don't you get your spoiled lazy.....and get out in the fields and pick the veggies yourself then, and don't forget to take the rest of the Fox/OAN/Newsmax viewers and MAGAts with ya.

[@paulmetsker1127]

The true banality of it all....its literally apathatizing us to death....

[@Belfagorish]

From violence, since a long time, if I can add something. I really hate this.

[@Frankoman64]

We're like the Eloi from The Time Machine, so contented we don't even have the will to stop our own destruction

[@o_o8203]

I see that people are more tired from overworking than apathetic. Did everyone forget the 2020 BLM protests that coincidentally happened when we were all out of work? PEOPLE CARE.

[@paulmetsker1127]

@o_o8203 well...I live in a place where you would never know that anyone cares.. glad you have a different experience

[@Wild4lon]

I hate that so many rich privileged people don't know their entire cushy existence is built upon the pain and suffering of others. I have made it my life goal to change this.

[@President_NotSure]

yeah well just be tall and handsome

[@Wild4lon]

@saysaysay10 I have a degree from a top 5 university in the world in engineering, currently do ML and I'm a woman. Handsome where? I'm sliding into policy anyway

[@President_NotSure]

@@Wild4lon no one will listen to a short guy

[@ricopena2053]

Oh, they know. The exploitation of others is precisely why they want to be wealthy in the first place.

[@relight6931]

Power to you. Even if you achieve little towards that goal, yours will be a life well spent.

[@MrARock001]

We've got 99 problems, and capitalism is all of them.

[@coolioso808]

Indeed, Capitalism is the systemic generator of nearly all our social, economic and environmental problems. What is the antidote to capitalism? Well, I'd suggest people take a look at "A Cure for Capitalism (not for dummies)" by World Beyond Capitalism, featuring Peter Joseph (ZeitgeistFilms). The key is building local co-operative mutual aid networks that do more for all, using the local resource as efficiently as possible and sharing the goods and services we can collectively produce and provide each other. Capitalism is the worst way to organize a resource management system in the 21st Century, by far. It is well worth building a better system from the bottom-up. It is possible. One Small Town Can Change The World (see Ubuntu Contributionism) and it gets the ball rolling.

[@amagoddess507]

100% (my one cents added ) 😅

[@ErutaniaRose]

I love this phrase.

[@ErutaniaRose]

Also, big hole in your plan. Your basic income you'd get for your basic needs would not be enough to buy a mansion everywhere, jets, and thousands of cars. You'd have to work if you want to get all those extra things. Because they aren't needs. @Trainrhys

[@MrARock001]

@Trainrhys I think a lot of what informs or reinforces people's ideologies is how they think that kind of experiment would go - which is a sort of reflection of who they think their fellow citizens are and how they would behave - which, in turn, is the result of that person's personal experience with the world and all the people they've met in their lifetime. No one's personal experience is wrong or invalid, it's just purely subjective. So we subscribe to ideologies that best match our personal experience of the world. When someone holds an ideology that's very different from mine, I've been trying to get better at imagining what sort of experience that person must have in interfacing with the world to make that ideology the best description they could find of it. Everything in my personal experience of the world, and the experiences of my community, as well as scientific/social studies like UBI, and including history (if read *not* through the lens of one particular ideology), suggests to me that when the working class has the power collectively to make decisions without the coersion of the owner class, they make decisions for the good of everyone. It has happened lots of times throughout history, and the myth that it's always "doomed to fail" is propagated earnestly by the same people paying to sabotage it. Will it be a utopia? Of course not. Will it be better than the status quo? Everything in my experience of the world tells me it will.

[@jnmedina8989]

Wonderful work as usual, comrade; thank you. Very important subject! I have only one criticism, while it is about only a few seconds of the video: I think it would be a mistake to see the European middle-class farmers protesting as akin to the migrant and imprisoned laborers. They have more in common with the "farmer" protests in north America that happened last year, where fascists were parading as working-class. While group on the ground may be mixed, the European protesters have even been led by industry groups decrying "socialist" policies, and are directed to protest at the buildings of actual socialist organizations; and the regulations they are opposing are basic social-democratic regulations of big business. To me, it makes me think of other the times workers or farmers struggles were called upon as a masquerade for reactionary protests, such as 1973 chile, or 1930s USSR.

[@inspirednamehere6166]

ironically also, they are protesting regulations that are needed for long term agriculture, designed to prevent pollution, reduce reliance on chemicals, prevent soil erosion and desertification and promote crop variety: There are a lot of farmers who dont actually know much about farming, and stick to "traditions that worked"

[@a.randomjack6661]

Thank you! It has to be said.

[@theonlymegumegu]

how ironic is it that i got an ad for employment as a corrections officer on this video D:

[@rengarbot]

I know my comment will get any attention, but it would be really cool if this channel could make a video talking about agroforestry, and how that can be a answer to a more sustainable future. Thank you to those who like this,

[@rengarbot]

Thank you to all that liked

[@MrNick3742]

If we stopped using 83% of our agricultural land to grow animal feed and graze animals, we could easily de-intensify our farming methods. This could be accomplished by replacing mono-crops of all kinds with biodiverse permaculture food forests of all shapes and sizes that work within the ecosystem they inhabit. People who want the food from these food forests would have a stake in helping design and care for them, and wild plants, animals and insects would ideally be invited in to assist in the biodiversity and health of the system. Food forests could be in spaces as small as a back yard or as large as a previous alfalfa farming operation. They could be irrigated or rain-fed. They could be run by community coops, nonprofits, or a combination of the two. Ideally the food would be available for free to whoever needed it, with limits imposed only to prevent exploitation of the system. If not, the profits of the farm could reimburse those who put their energy into making the forest function at its fullest potential... at least until profit still exists under our current capitalist/ techno-feudalist dystopia. The only way we make this work is to stop turning most of the food we grow into manure and methane before it gets to our plates.

[@lluisfargaslopez9603]

Not all those landa could be used to produced human rated food. You dont have any idea of how farms work. Also for those who believe in organics, unless you want to allocate 60% of your budget and condemn millions to starve you don't know what you are talking about.

[@MrNick3742]

@@lluisfargaslopez9603 My back yard is an organic food forest, so I have a vague idea. Fortunately, we don't need to use all the space we're currently using to provide plenty of food for everyone. According to the EAT Lancet report for the UN, if we shifted to a mostly plant-based agricultural system we could reduce land use for farming by 75% and still have plenty of food for everyone. The difference is we wouldn't be feeding 92 billion fast-growing land animals. We have to feed farmed animals 9-100 calories of plant foods for every calorie of flesh or secretions they provide, so it's the definition of inefficiency. The most effective way to repair soil is to increase biodiversity, which is best accomplished by rewilding the land with some native plants and leaving it alone. Grazing animals being protected from predators is a fast-track to desertification, which is why the entire cradle of civilization is a desert. It's also why most of the forests in North America have been cleared and why the Amazon and Congo are being destroyed so quickly today.

[@purpleicewitch6349]

This is surely part of why food quality is so bad in the US. How can we expect good, healthy food to be produced by alienated and often enslaved labor? The corps care about profit and the workers are struggling just to survive. Seizing the means of production has to include land, and especially farm land.

[@Belfagorish]

I'm not from US, still I feel the blood on my hands for everything the sistem we live in bring to us. This reality you are showing really paints a sad picture. I choose to believe we can do better, all power to all the people ✊

[@Pedr0PT]

I think the protests in Europe should go worldwide. Let's return the profits to the people that do the work and goods and not edge funds.

[@siebentedimension]

Sadly the protests here in Germany have been mostly hijacked by far right and industrial farming interests groups. It’s a pity.

[@MyKharli]

There not about that , farmers are in fact the wealthiest in rural areas . They have become spoilt and are punching far above their weight just like humans do when they can . They are presiding over the worst decline in soil and water and wildlife health yet want to squeeze even more .

[@lluisfargaslopez9603]

O yes, for sure, farmers live better than those at the city... There is no generational relief in Spain, do you wonder why? The protests is about overregulation but diesel taxes were the detonant. You dont understand what working the land means. Extremel productive explotation have about 4% profit return and they are subjected to weathe and more incertanties than in any other industry. If the conditions and wages aren't better is because they can't be. (but note that in europe are far far better than this modern salvery that exists in anglophone countries). @@MyKharli

[@ricopena2053]

The French government needs to not only raise taxes on diesel. They also need to subsidize renewable alternatives for the farmers to use.

[@Simqer]

@@lluisfargaslopez9603 Farmers are heavily subsidized already against such conditions.

[@justalittleguy733]

also, i appreciate your sources list. it's super essential to a video like this and it even helped me find some sources for a paper i'm writing. thank you!

[@hackleberrym]

America just can't get enough of slavery.

[@antlerman7644]

It's not just America, this is happening all over the world.

[@custos3249]

Not just the explicit type either. Capitalism loves it some wage slaves when traditional slaves aren't available.

[@blackkakari]

@@custos3249 Go live in a Communist country for a year and then tell me how oppressed you are under capitalism. Just because capitalism is flawed, does not mean the alternative is better.

[@paytonturner1421]

It seems like things that were abolished taboo in the past can go underground and out of sight from the public view.

[@joshuagharis9017]

What most people don't realize is that even toothpastesoap the essentials cost money in prison

[@reboottalks]

It’s called commissary, right? There’s this person on KZbin who talks about life in prison

[@edwardboe7290]

Sheep ranchers out west are also exploiting their workers. Some years ago, we were camped out for a fishing trip and a Peruvian sheepherder came to our camp and despite the language barrier we understood that he wanted us to mail some letters. We offered him what was left of our breakfast and he wolfed it down like he was starving. Years later I found out he probably was.

[@kippgoeden]

One of the first things I ever learned while working in restaurants, was where all our food comes from. Sickens me to the core.

[@MatanteDodo]

If it's anything like Canada, there are probably Americans who would be willing to work on farms, but those are mostly people who can't afford the commute. If farms want willing local workers, they'll need to shuttle them from the nearby towns and back. I grew up being yelled at because I "thought I was too good for picking strawberries" like my parents did as teenagers, but there was a shuttle bus in the 70s, we were expected to figure out the commute on our own in the 90s.

[@fendicat6606]

This video has been very painful and I've watched in in pieces because I've become overwhelemed with anger and guilt. It pushed me to confront the reality of where my products come from and who's rights are taken away to give me a comfortable life. The issue is, the powerlessness I feel in changing this system. How can we be better? How do we actually reconfigure this deep rooted system that relies on slavery and is perpetuated by greed and apathy??

[@abeltrame0000]

My thoughts exactly... I'd like to say something along the lines of "I'd like to help change this" but the truth is, I wouldn't even know where to start! - No matter how much information is shared, most people just ignore it and move on with their lives - Even if some do listen, what are we going to do? Protest? To whom? Do protests really work nowadays? - How are we supposed to change a system that the entire world is based on? Even if we manage to make our country change some laws (which is already a long shot) that won't be enough to make a change in other countries... If anything it's just going to make our country more vulnerable and perhaps susceptible to even worse changes... I hate being so pessimistic, but I'm really at a loss here. The more I grow up and understand how the world works, the more I grow scared that changing its ways is impossible...

[@skiddytrippy7189]

@@abeltrame0000 start with county elections, the turnout rate for county elections consistently stays at 15-25%, which means an individual's organized effort makes a big difference, especially since the demographic voting in municipal, county, and even mayoral elections skew heavily towards the elderly, make your voice heard, vote progressive candidates, together we can make the change we need

[@nsjhdhdhdbhsudgvdydb7751]

Thanks for the video, would love more videos on intersectional veganism aswell, 77% of agricultural land on earth is used by the meat industry. This video could have used more statistics on how alot of these crops that are being harvested feed ""livestock"" animals instead of humans, and the amount of waste and pollution and suffering the animal industrial complex creates.

[@aturchomicz821]

Hes sadly an Anti Vegan and cant imagine a world after carnism, like so many of his fellow intelligentsia buddies...

[@melusine826]

IF it was run as a co-op education and self supporting program to feed themselves has so much potential for benefit for the prisioners . BUT not as a unfree forced labour which benefits the prison industrial system and public . America isnt the only place but seems to always be at the forefront 🤦‍♀️

[@claudiaborges8406]

Love to see this channel’s content improving further and further unlike many political channels who get repetitive and less useful as time goes on. This video again presents a new subject or new information about a subject I’ve looked into before, information feels refreshing instead repetitive and ties in a lot of different connected structures of the kyriarchy showing how they all strengthen each other and dont exist in a vacuum

[@juandavidbejarano6193]

Thanks, especially in this time this knowledge need to be share.❤

[@dannileigh6426]

Thank you for all these videos. Folks need to realize how deeply broken and wrong our systems are. That's the first step at least. All wind and waves start with small changes but sculpt our world.

[@wildalentejo]

46c?!?!How can they? Were I live and farm in the summer we reach sometimes that temperature and its impossible to be outside, all life is standing still...you just hear the cicadas. In the summer we start working at 5am and finish before lunch.

[@Lost-to-time]

This is a very important video, the injustice of capitalism never changes, it's effects are just ignored, we live in a global system built on the oppression of people and the destruction of the environment. The capitalist class relentlessly seeks capital accumulation at any cost to the well-being of workers. We can not let this stand, videos like these expand our awarness of the constant exploitation that people face both in America and around the world. Our labour only serves to uphold our own exploitation and the desires of the capitalist class. Our solution is to abandon the capitalist system.

[@ErutaniaRose]

It sickens me that people can even consider something remotely close to slavery to keep society going--especially in an age when we have so much new technology that could do jobs like this with human supervision. We all deserve good food, we all deserve healthy and safe conditions, and we all deserve human rights. PERIOD!!!

[@jaesdarkness]

And people, other Americans, act like I'm crazy and wrong when I go on about de-colonizing this wretched colony. "Huh? But 1776! 1865! Checkmate fool think you're so smart!" But...all of this. I worked in meat packing with immigrants from all over the world, many of whom the company knew were undocumented so were paid less than minimum wage in cash weekly. This is a colony, founded on exploitation for the benefit of absentee landlords. Slavery never ended; it got diluted and spread to everybody.

[@sstarklite2181]

Excellent! Please recommend these videos to everyone!

[@mangogo44]

I was born in Russia and it was very popular for my friends to pay some agency to send them to Finland to work on a berry farm. Accomodations are good, you get paid a little (by EU standards), but it's ok for Russians and all this is presented as "nature retreat" and "a vacation" on top of money earning option. You can eat the produce and travel the country but also the job itself ia hard, but people went for 2-3 weeks each time. I think for the US it can also be promoted as a week of mindfullness, ingolfed in pure nature while enjoying manual labor instead of gym, taking a break from corporate job and eating the freshest food. I think some people be willing to PAY for that, for many working in the garden is really therapudic. Let alone you can offer that job for illegal immigrants/homeless in exchange for REAL accomodations and food + a little salary (we are still talking capitalism) and different programs (like free public school for children etc.) allowing you to leave later on. Would have been much more sustainable version of what's going on but no, slavery is free

[@growwhereyouarefarm]

Powerful content. Necessary and informative.

[@progressivefuture5]

Peace and love, my brother. You’re fighting the only fight that truly matters here with a fiery, just passion that will bring our species together.

[@justalittleguy733]

excellent video. commenting for the horrible algorithm. more people need to watch this!

[@laaaliiiluuu]

Slavery was never abolished. It's been rebranded as "low income jobs".

[@samuelrosander1048]

But...but...GULAGS! With capitalists there's always a shallow excuse or three for why the problems of capitalism are really just the problems of individuals and government instead of capitalism.

[@owenbelezos8369]

state capitalism is also a form of slavery, "you work for the state or get enslaved or starve." anarchism is the only option: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qX7ShYp8j8-ij6M

[@woodchipgardens9084]

What you do is Pay the prisoner a livable wage then he has to pay for his Room and Food while incarcerted, how can you make money in prison then just send the money somewhere else, you have to pay your way Werever you Are.

[@khagnnorran7745]

well that took a bad turn quickly

[@CaptainWizard3000]

“…This abuse and exploitation of migrant communities to the food we eat, and also waste isn’t just a US tragedy…”

[@natesofamerica]

Slavery didn't even end though, there was more than just the prison loophole, they actually kept slavery going with another work around that took advantage of blacks that had nowhere to go.

[@andy9735]

Great Video. And if you need more ideas for videos maybe cover how bad/good sport has been for climate change? Talking about how sport has the potential to bring about great change. While also talking about the capitalist nature of it

[@ReginaJune]

8:33 if the prisoners are able to benefit from their investment by eating, preparing restaurant quality meals- they can find job opportunities, dignity and new perspectives. Otherwise it’s just exploitation and not therapeutic or solving societal problems

[@ruceblee969]

And yet no solutions being discussed, brilliant.

[@ricopena2053]

Thanks for bringing attention to this issue OCC. We not only need to slow down emissions, we need to end the exploitation of the marginalized in order to create the solarpunk utopia humanity and the world deserves.

[@KitwiSauce]

I worked in the fields of Kern County CA years ago. I remember workers doing drugs to keep pace with their work. Severely underpaid labor, and it seems most Americans are ignorant or hostile about migrant workers. Viva la Raza, UFW

[@Phoenix0000ff]

This plays a little fast and loose with the facts when it comes to California. I kind of tune out when it is said that people at the Central valley are working through wildfires. It's obvious people don't know the geographic and biome variance that California has it's a pretty big place. Also it rains a lot sometimes. Atmospheric Rivers and heavy flooding become problems. There are problems but we can't face them if we just make up stuff for dramatic effect.

[@Bli757]

I love the video! Amazing exposé!

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

A lot of farming can be mechanized/robotized and brought indoors (vertical farming).

[@hime273]

Oh, you mean like Tractors, with Hundreds of different Arrachment options, and Combines, like we aready have? Y'all City folk sure do seem to believe that all farming is done by hand, like the 16th Century.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

@@hime273 perhaps it's all the immigrants and fields of rotting food that makes me believe that? 🤔 Or the many inherent advantages to indoor growing.

[@hime273]

@@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 Well surely you must be referring to instances where asinine Government Regulations force Farmers to destroy Crops...Right? And it totally makes sense to move farming indoors, because Co2 levels can be increased substantially, resulting in faster growing Fruit/veggies. But y'all are anti Co2, because it's evil or whatever.

[@milt0n290]

Migrants are cheaper and that’s terrifying

[@owenbelezos8369]

@@hime273 it isn't "government regulation" it's the market, if the food doesn't sell or get used, it's more profitable to just throw it away, because it doesn't cost as much time and effort than to donate it to some place, and maybe get sued for providing rotten food, {some states even have laws against suing for providing rotten food.} and if your food is unsafe for consumption, it should still be donated to either create fertilizer or electricity which often isn't done. [because of the reasons mentioned above]

[@kingkelz215]

Freedom and Equity to All the Exploited Workers of the World 🌍

[@Lady_Omni]

Dude the mouth noises in your reading is killing me.

[@calipigeon]

Wow KZbin is suppressing this one. Usually your videos come up right after I watch SecondThought and I always watch. How is this at only 14k views???

[@MyKharli]

Also the low pay and bad conditions often mean animal abuse as they really are at the bottom of the pile .

[@meaghanorlinski8464]

With farmer protests around the world… mostly white farmers and landowners on tractors… this hits hard.

[@J_to_the_F]

it is especially hard to see in Germany where the "Bauernverband" (= farmers conclusion consists of CEOs of food industry companies or super markeds) coordinates the protests. You only hear talkingpoints that unseen feed into more profits for gigantic land owners and industries.

[@ThePapawhisky]

Thank you!

[@MyLoganTreks]

Thank you for producing excellent content worth watching. Prison industrial complex is modern day slavery and needs to be revamped. Heat stress is becoming a huge killer. Monopoly in our food supply with 4 major corporations is causing higher profits for them and high cost at the grocery store.

[@OCaminhoSereno]

Honest question: what happens if a prisoner just sits around and refuse to work? What the corrections officers could do that would not involve force? What kind of sanction could fall over the prisoner that could be worse than incarceration and slavery?

[@gorthauer2679]

Solitary confinement.

[@thelight3112]

You get reassigned to a shittier job, lose "good behavior" time, don't make any money to buy stuff at the commissary. The prisoners working out in the fields would likely rather do that than stay in the prison all day.

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

Picking fresh food is a time sensitive matter - just a few hours or days of delay could make make a major impact. Furthermore, there is the question of how can you further incarcerate someone who is already a prisoner. It already seems like there is an existing consciousness of class whether it be convicts vs guards or migrant workers vs employers. So what exactly is stopping the sabotage of equipment or work slow-downs? I admit - I have the wonderful fortune to be an outsider observer to to this system. It is not my intent to blame these people for their conditions. But it seems like we need a change, yet no one is willing to throw the first punch or detonate the first oil pipeline.

[@Serioslump]

Can I ask if there’s a reason you didn’t unpack anything relating to the treatment and emotional impacts on slaughterhouse workers, many of whom are often prisoners or migrant workers themselves? Or animal cruelty and exploitation in the meat industry? It feels like a pretty significant oversight

[@EugenesBackpack]

The consistency in your truth has many holes in it

[@54tisfaction]

"Slavery, you say? No, no, no, they are simply Black men held in servitude working the fields in the day and held in barracks at night, for the financial gain of their owners. That is totally different!"

[@danielsykes7558]

This is something i think about a lot

[@ConstantChaos1]

One thing to note about the programs where they feed themselves off of the food they grow, this modle leads to higher food quality for the incarcerated so with proper standards in place i have no problem with this being voluntary for ppl but it should not be exploitative in any way

[@amagoddess507]

“Exploitation, theft, trafficking & death” Yup sounds like my beloved 🇺🇸 😅

[@suolainenomena7631]

Thank you

[@magician77-c8h]

thank you Charlie ❤.....we have to dump all of our office work on AI and make small farming in backyard

[@caracrabtree715]

People need to get out feel productive and it doesn’t hurt to learn a skill, but they should be paid appropriately.

[@Kelvin555s]

America has done it many centuries can't get out of slavery so easily. It's also kind of a dilutional democracy than a real democracy where people can stand as a representative rather than chosen by the system. Not much different than CCP in this case.

[@SPAnComCat]

It's been a While Since you made a Video! Thanks! Can you Give me the Sources of the Murderous Food System?

[@Savdeep86072]

Anyway congratulations to 500k 🎉

[@abndmt]

How did those guys end up in Angola prison? 🤔

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

Vampirism. Parasitism.

[@user-wm9sy9qd4h]

This is why i havent eaten a vegetable in seven years

[@ecofriend93]

Dude, you totally skipped the physical and psychological harm that slaughterhouse workers go through. Why?

[@broodypie2216]

But they have to extract value from workers so they can pay people to do important jobs like keeping track of the money, moving the money, and extracting value from workers.

[@Milanor]

And here I tonight that slavery was abolished in the US 😂

[@HPkobold]

Why can’t people do anything against this?

[@kp6215]

I was part of the California lettuce boycott by Chavez ✊🏿

[@reversedragon3]

this video is a great explanation, and yet, the more we examine problems like prison slavery and economic imperialism it makes me feel like we are actually overcomplicating the way we explain them to people. if instead of thinking of the world as being made of countries or large racial communities we conceptualize class societies like the US South and capitalism as one huge world of many tiny competing chunks all constantly trying to subjugate each other in order to extract debt or low wages or traumatized obedience (these 'chunks' would be groups of varying sizes like corporations or towns) it is a lot easier to explain how that generates country-size systems of prison slavery and global imperialist-capitalism. basically class society is an absolute monster from the inside out. you think that just because you're White you're safe from being pushed into the periphery of society and abused, but in actuality you are not, because nobody is.

[@thomasa.anderson9055]

Here's an idea; could someone explain how it would be exploited? Have the output of prison agriculture be used exclusively for charities and food banks, especially in marginalized communities and food deserts, thereby helping the communities most harmed by crime and over-incarceration .

[@KarlSnarks]

Great video on this issue, maybe it would also be interesting to contrast this video with one about the astroturf farmer protests in Europe, by farmers who have networths in the millions and are f*cking up climate policy

[@Notfunnysam]

My boomer parents used to believe in climate change but the other night i found out they dont anymore. Sigh...

[@JaceHart33]

Let them know WI just had tornados in February for the first time in recorded history.

[@whutcat682]

Tell them that when I was little I had snow❄️ and 4 seasons. Now it doesn't snow anymore and is to hot for the region. I am from Easter Europe, here it used to be cold, now is to hot and the animals barely survive especially in the summer, we have 45 degrees Celsius when 30 was usually to hot for us. I grew up with negative degrees during the winter, my body is not used to it. Last year it stopped snowing in the mountains like?? But sure, no climate change 💀

[@hime273]

"Believe in" See the problem here?

[@a.randomjack6661]

They should see the winter we DON"t have in Canada. No snow in Calgary, temperatures way above normal all over. Lack of precipitation almost everywhere. Folks 70 years old and more never this. My friend in Switzerland hears same complaints. The Arctic circle is now 4 times faster than the rest of the planet. Meanwhile, 93,4% of the warming is going into the oceans at an incredible rate. When they say the world has warmed by 1,5°C, they mean the troposphere, in which only 2,3% of the warming goes to, which is ignoring 97,% of the actual global warming.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

That's concerning. What changed their minds? Sounds like they may have fallen into an information silo.

[@rast2853]

Unfortunately, this happens in Germany, the exploitation of people who come on a visa are paid less and if they get sick, they get fired.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Survey: I got told Polyamory/Polygamy is SOOO accepted by Progressives its synonymous with it now. And that disagreeing with the person who told me this is in-itself 'Disqualifying' me from calling myself Progressive. Biggest gatekeep-cope-nonsense or what? Are they in an echochmber or Am I??

[@Kannot2023]

Industrial revolution is not related to slavery but to steam engines. Germany till 1881 didn't had colonies but became an industrial county. Same as Sweden.

[@ryanbaker3829]

I think gardening and some small scall farming for prisoners is a good idea. First, I'll say I do NOT think any workers should be put in unsafe conditions or beaten to get them to work. I DO believe that the prison should be able to profit from the work that is being done. The prisons have overhead costs. Who should have to pay all of that? I don't think the non criminals should have to pay for all of that. Taxes have to pay for some of it though because we can't just take over the inmates' net worth and use their money. Income from asset seizures could help tho. How much should they be paid? idk. But enough so that they can still enjoy themselves with the money from the results of their hard work. and its time spent out of the cell. There could also be more specialized product making jobs for those with specific interests (minimal safety hazards).

[@jim-es8qk]

Its called a job. Students used to do this on summer holidays.

[@youtube7076]

0:10 the particular variety of grapes in this shot are NOT destined for supermarkets, those are wine grapes and are revolting to try to eat...

[@spiritofmatter1881]

Exactly. That's our food crisis.

[@gabrap4651]

TLDR: you dont need avocados, nuts or fruits if you live 200+ miles away from where they’re grown and especially processed foods. Buy locally, although if you live in the northern states all you’ll have is wheat and meat, which you can survive off of mostly, just don’t eat bananas, tomatoes, any fruit and most vegetables. It’s unrealistic for everyone to buy locally. In the US we all expect a similar quality of life but realistically if you want to take care of the environment and not fuel further capitalist harms to our surroundings you have to give up a lot of what you consume in your every day. It’s pretty impossible to convince people to consume locally because they will feel that their quality of life is less than others in our nation. Other states can grow citrus, grapes, stone fruit, other produce, and some states can only produce meat wheat or corn. Also the states that produce our resources aren’t necessarily the places people want to live, which increases the carbon footprint of each product and allows for more exploitation of the workers.

[@coolioso808]

That's not a very good summary of the video, I'm afraid. You also seem not to know of the technical capacity we have to grow an abundance of fruits, vegetables, grains and other food items locally in just about any climate. Tomatoes, lettuce, berries? One of the easiest foods to grow year-round, efficiently, using a variety of sustainable methods. The problem is capitalism can't profit from abundance. A technical abundance of free electricity would do what for capitalist companies? Make it impossible for them to profit. So do you think any electricity company wants to invest in a technology that could provide a free, sustainable abundant source of energy? No. As documented in the case of Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and his industrialist funder, JP Morgan, many decades ago. Nothing much has changed in that regard, except exploitation and inequality has become worse. We can produce an abundance from local bioregions that does not require people to give up anything or most things. True rare luxuries may need to be reduced, but we over-produce already, we can handle it. We won't really be giving up a lot we would be gaining more efficiency. Take a look at One Small Town Contributionism and see how that could work for just about any community, any climate in the world.

[@will823]

I dont get how maximum security prisoners are forced to work on farms in the prison even though they are being forced thats usually something minimum security prisoners are forced to

[@caracrabtree715]

Nothing we do will affect the profit, they’ll just take it from the consumer. Like always.

[@jannetteberends8730]

I’m from the Netherlands. So I skip this video. Most of the harvest in my country is highly automated, no humans involved. Only the farmer on his machine. There is a video channel about tractors, and this machines. Even organic farmers developed special machines to harvest their mixed crops.

[@wolfexer8250]

Come on, everyone knows that in the Netherlands and Belgium most of the farmwork is done by eastern europeans.

[@jannetteberends8730]

@@wolfexer8250 EU workers working in agriculture is a very small portion of the total EU workers in The Netherlands. From the 3 million EU workers, less than 25,000 worked in agriculture. I’ve seen so many crops harvested by machines. Even parsley, in neat bundles.

[@rickb3650]

You do realize that your nation can't feed itself, right? The Netherlands is arguably the least evil OECD nation, but it still exists because it steals the wealth of other nations, mostly in the global south.

[@jannetteberends8730]

Oh, and there are 112 thousand employees in agriculture. And a total of 244 thousand were working in agriculture in 2023 Source: central bureau voor statistiek.

[@KateeAngel]

Much of what you buy probably comes from other countries.

[@kp6215]

Yes I know for decades

[@ManuelCampagna]

I eat as much as possible certified organic food and certified fair trade food.

[@franklsuarez]

"That just sounds like slavery with extra steps."

[@discontinuedcereal]

The real Worldpowers are the ones who bought them or invested in them heavily. aka Black Rock (worth of 20Trillion USD), Vanguard, State Street, EMEA limited and so on. but these are the very largest and they own almost every companie in the world. you can simply fact check this by looking up what they own and have control over. one mzust simply imagine them using their powers to influence politicians and thereby the market. that why so many legislation seem to benefit only heavy corporations. Take the laws against farmers as an example. The goal? Well money, but I guess everyone also knows the term money is power. So are they simply striving for money to get power or for power to make more money. Well, I guess in the end it makes no difference

[@Vivifafaicha]

Uang kertas adalah masalah utama perbudakan modern. 🎉 Habiskan uang anda pada barang2 yg bisa di jual stabil. Jgn simpan uang kertas

[@PawsOnTheBalcony]

That whole "no slavery except as punishment for crime" passage of the constitution has always bothered me. It is being read wrong, IMHO. The way the amendment reads makes me think that the slavery has to be the actual sentence/intentional punishment at time of conviction. But nobody in the US is actually sentenced to "5 years slavery" or whatever. No, the punishment/sentence for crime is either a fine - or prison time. The time behind bars is the punishment/sentence. The slavery (or near-slavery) happens coincidentally, thus punishing people twice - with prison time AND backbreaking labor. Am I onto something here? How do you guys read that amendment?

[@Never-ending_]

Angola, Africa! Thankfully, American capitalism has made it cheaper to buy a tractor that can farm 400 acres than to deal with 50 slaves.