Secrets of the Tomato Industry: The Empire of Red Gold | Food & Agriculture Documentary

The industrialization of the humble tomato preceded the globalized economy that was to follow. It is now as much of a commodity as wheat, rice, or petrol. The tomato’s ability to create strongly identifiable products, such as ketchup, pizza sauce, soups, sauces, drinks or frozen dishes is unbeatable.
As early as 1897, ten years before Ford started to mass-produce cars, Heinz was already converting tomatoes into standardized cans of puree. They were one of the first companies to understand the power of branding. They banned unions, imposed uniform standards of production and established genetic laboratories that ensured identical tomato plantations all around the world.
Today, wherever you are in the world, you can eat the same tomatoes. This film will trace the journey of tomato paste from Africa, Italy, China and America to show the consequences of this global business.
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[@loktom4068]

Very bad racist media. Just because your locals are too lazy to work and preferably for welfare. You missed this big time.

[@Allgood33]

Some corrections. The Xiong Nu occupied Xinjiang earlier than the Uyghurs, by more than a millennium. That aside, Xinjiang is an autonomous region which means the leaders can only be Uyghurs, local police can only be Uyghurs no matter how many Han Chinese move there. Another correction, Uyghurs are still the majority in Xinjiang with one of the highest birthrate in China. The Uyghurs were also not subjected to the China's "one child policy" in the 80s imposed on the Hans. In China, no one is allowed to own land. But in these autonomous regions, the Uyghurs do. That's how repressive the Chinese central government is. lol! Chinese don't eat tomato sauce? Maybe not as much. But the word "ketsup" means tomato sauce in Chinese. Heinz first encountered the sweet tomato sauce in Malaysia and he asked the Cantonese chef (Southern Chinese) what it's called. And Heinz ketsup was born. It might still be available to fact check this in the Heinz website. Nice move on blaming the migrants to the Chinese companies. As if the Africans only grow tomatoes and nothing else. As if the wars sponsored by the western countries aren't the main cause.

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Use TRANSLATION NARRATORS...NOT PUTRID SUBTITLES !! 🥶

[@RogerJayYang]

Appreciate the documentary on the mighty tomato! I must say as a Chinese person, that even though we don't eat tomato sauce, we do like spaghetti and 番茄炒蛋 (tomato scrambled eggs) is a very common and popular Chinese dish. 🍅🍳

[@SweetChicagoGator]

@@RogerJayYang So you only eat tomato sauce on spaghetti & scrambled eggs? Do you eat pizza with tomato sauce?

[@PreppingAngel]

This is why I have 50 tomato plants in my back garden. Peas, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, carrots etc. Not counting the fruit trees and berry bushes/plants

[@leogilbert207]

Thats great!

[@thefutureofgardening5912]

I'm proud to hear that. I hope more and more continue to start developing what land they have and put it to good use! I'm growing as many plants as I can also. Urban environment, so I have to be smart on space.

[@adiadrian504]

I remember when i was a child the best tomatoes in the world no chemicals where from my romanian grandmother

[@thefutureofgardening5912]

@@adiadrian504 Oooh yeah some really good heirlooms come from that region. :-)

[@gregleach5833]

Same here . I produce 3/4 of the produce my family eats . I think this cheap labor is why they opened the borders to the United States up more and more over the last few years . The additives they add to all products is why I grow so much of our food . We buy mainly locally produced meats also as I don’t raise animals .

[@davidharness1507]

For all those bilions of dollars in the industry the tastiest tomato is the one you grow yourself!

[@dlengelkes]

Or at least get product from your neighbor or a local farmers market.

[@edwardmacnab354]

Store bought tomatoes literally have no taste. I quit buying them many many years ago

[@robertworon2623]

Absolutely!

[@deeT02]

Yes and save your seeds.

[@thefutureofgardening5912]

You are so right!

[@Li0n_007]

I must clap for you getting info about Chinese industrial practices. Those people rarely talk about anything

[@camryan5297]

Ya I was thinking the same

[@JimboJamboJames]

Every produce and product we consume has a background like this.

[@djpseudoname2023]

All it takes for evil to succeed is for people to say, it’s a business. One of the best KZbin videos I’ve seen. To the content creators, thank you for posting it to be shared with others. And to the Creator of all things living and existing, thank you for having me come across this KZbin post by chance. 🙏🏼 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

[@oliverlavermicocca2455]

This is why my family make our own sauce. Tradition and helping farmers directly is always better if possible

[@myriammadigan9966]

I'm going to do this too and grow my own tomatoes.

[@msjade2817]

Let’s patronize local produce in our community, healthier food and great help to our own neighbors to make a living. I will never buy this canned products ever again.

[@OPTIONALWATCH]

What about the price? You can take great pride and care of the product but it comes down to how much cheaper you can price it.

[@oliverlavermicocca2455]

@@OPTIONALWATCH some things you do not because of how much it costs but to bring the family together. It's not for everyone and that's fine. But it's what we do

[@toddai2721]

That's also the reason I make my own car... it better for car makers... and saves the solar system.

[@jamessitati7396]

we Africans are just to put it plainly not so smart, we import tomato paste from china yet next door in Nigeria they grow so much tomatoes, Ghana itself can produce its own tomatoes, we import this paste that we don't know what the chinese have put in and then when cancer cases go up and we wonder why, if Ghana can be a world leader in cocoa production, they can be a world leader in tomato production, i saw another documentary where Ghana and other west African countries were importing chicken from France, can you imagine an african country with the best conditions to do all kinds of farming importing chicken from a first world country, Kenya is one of the biggest exporters of cut flowers in the world but they consistently have food shortages, Israel a country in a desert produces enough food to feed its population and for export, africa is not poor but we have poor leadership, we lack vision and no direction, lets hope the next generations will not be a let down.

[@korokosso]

I don’t think it’s lack of intelligence but rather selfishness (We don’t care who gets the money as long as we get our product but the truth is every penny counts..and should go towards our local farmers) plus the free trade deals are hindering our local economy. Lack of awareness and unity is the real problem.

[@axelf4515]

In Romania we still have types of tomatoes grown by peasants, plump, heavy, small number of seeds, a lot of pulp and juice, with very thin skin, very tasty and extremely easily bruised. Probably one of the best type of tomato in the world. Also our soil helps to get a better taste.

[@Daniel-Condurachi]

I'm from Romania, living very close to one of the largest cities in our country. In my small 10x6 m garden I grow my own tomatoes and peppers from seeds from my elders, for my family's consumption fresh in the summer and autumn. For the winter and spring, I make tomato juice from the extra tomatoes I harvest. But this is an exception to the rule

[@tinusvandeventer6430]

Hope to have a taste of one some day in your country.

[@jerry1378]

unfortunately people are obsessed with good looks so they lose on good taste.

[@jimmy3538]

@@Daniel-Condurachi How does one get those seedlings to grow in areas like Rwanda?

[@Daniel-Condurachi]

@@jimmy3538 we keep the seeds from our best tomatoes from one year's yield to put in small pots in the next years spring in the house. We keep them by the window, in the house until May. During that time from the seeds we get the seedlings. Then I acclimatize the seedings with more and more time outside, ending by planting them in the ground in middle-late May. I am not quite sure how I could ship some seeds to Rwanda.

[@j2174]

Top 7 countries for fresh tomato export: Mexico: US$2.6 billion (26.5% of exported tomatoes) Netherlands: $1.9 billion (19.5%) Spain: $1.1 billion (10.9%) Morocco: $767 million (7.8%) Canada: $458.2 million (4.7%) France: $444.3 million (4.5%) Belgium: $326.1 million (3.3%)

[@mapmuncher5587]

Fresh, the chinese were exporting concentrate not fresh.

[@j2174]

@@mapmuncher5587 Yes, fresh. I did watch the video, I know the difference. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Ruby1848]

What a nice reply, I'm still laughing.

[@sharky7665]

Good information

[@j2174]

@@Ruby1848 Which reply is nice? Why are you laughing?

[@vaslav030547]

Quite an eye opener. Where I live the community have a scheme called 'Incredible Edible' where a volunteer group plant fresh vegetables around the town and tend them all year round. They are there for anyone to pick. All organic, fresh and free.

[@coincrazy3563]

where is that? interesting

[@cathymadsen2930]

Awesome idea. Last year I planted a little community herb garden out the front of my house.... the community has been to scared to help themselves but I'm going to put up signs to encourage it this year.

[@yosoycraxrubra]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Edible

[@patrickodea6500]

There was an incredible Edible garden where I lived too! we went there in 4th grade

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

@@cathymadsen2930 I've started a "if you pick one also pick a weed" garden out front of my home, seems to help people rationalize taking free food lol.

[@tesha199]

If more people start making their own tomato sauce, and enough of us do that, the industry is gonna break somewhere, and when big guys fall it's big.

[@bharatkumar-nu5yb]

But sadly. They transfer the pain to their employees. Like shutting down and selling.

[@tesha199]

@@bharatkumar-nu5yb yes, but there's always opportunity

[@bharatkumar-nu5yb]

@@tesha199 Yes, the customers should wake up and change. Like making their own ketchup and buying local tomatoes.

[@tesha199]

@@damu1814 it's difficult if you don't know what you're doing. Luckily, there's plenty of ways you can educate yourself, it just takes willpower and effort.

[@cacosta6294]

Don't forget there's big chains like McDonald's that buy more and more ketchup

[@samanthadry9214]

it is exactly what they did in israel, they bought the biggest dairy company in israel. and if you see the similarities here with the tomato industry, chinese don't eat dairy as their main food.

[@undergroundblu]

Thank you for making the effort to share this with the world. It really is appreciated.

[@rscott2247]

I think this video was very well done and covered a lot ground from greed, exploitation/efficiency of people, resources, living & working conditions to reasons/justification for increasing crime rates !

[@abecampbell8009]

Imposing free trade rules to African countries enables some government people to be in the pockets of corrupted business people from other countries. Hope that African countries will establish their own common currency and set up strict rules to protect their resources and people. It is so disturbing to see some African people being forced to live overseas rather than picking their own growth tomatoes in their own country.

[@MCRnursery]

Another example of why you should avoid any food product from China. The problem is, there is no requirement to label where ingredients come from in a product. This is why you can't really trust any foods you buy. There is always the incentive to cut costs by any means they can get away with, and that means getting ingredients from the cheapest suppliers.

[@gangshan]

Who wants to sell cheapest priduce? It's the purchasers and consumers lije you who are unwilling to pay higher prices for the tomatoes Chinese grow that make the workers slaves!

[@sociolocomtsac]

@@gangshan If they labeled the food source, I'd pay more not to get anything food-related from China

[@orange-silver4572]

@@sociolocomtsac You can pay because you have money - The majority of people in the world have to buy it because it is cheap.

[@sociolocomtsac]

@@orange-silver4572 No, it's because I've lived in China and even Chinese don't want to eat Chinese food products due to so many food-related scandals. I have no problem with Chinese products, just food.

[@aarongarcia1101]

In Chinese culture, it is your fault for falling for a trick or lie, you are to blame for being gullible. Yet the smiles and upfront are extreme

[@janiceherd1960]

So glad I grow and home preserve my own tomatoes.

[@ibec69]

Italians have been doing it for ages. Same with olive oil. If you live on the coast anywhere in the Mediterranean and see a Grimaldi ship at the port, you can be sure they're going to collect your olive oil in bulk, ship it to Italy, put a nice Italian flag on the bottle and probably sell it back to you.

[@viktorreznov1548]

Exactly same story with haselnuts from north anatolia.

[@makeingmillionsgta8948]

Same thing with every product the corporations have messed the whole world up 100 years in all of history and they funked it up heaven help us all

[@107utube]

same thing with South Indian arabica coffee beans.

[@scottishboer3126]

Wow. I always suspected that a lot of the premium olive oils aren't what they claim to be🤬🤬🤬

[@ibec69]

@@scottishboer3126 these low quality mega blends are the cheaper ones at your supermarket aisle with an Italian flag on them. Premium ones are quite expensive and should specify the type of olive it’s made from. When you taste it, it should have an intense fruity green aroma, some bitterness depending on the type of olive and it should burn the back of your throat after you swallow it. There are lots of boutique brands from all around Mediterranean producing great oils but crap is what you get from big name brands. You can follow famous olive oil competitions around the world and try to source the winners locally. They’ll be expensive but well worth it.

[@willykitheka7618]

Excellent presentation of very disheartening facts!

[@CanaryKin]

@ 0:56 The way he’s chomping on that tomato 😂

[@georgetzeriz7802]

Really great doc!! I had no clue whatsoever!! And only stumbled on it searching for a recipe of tomato sauce 🤣 Thank you for this eye opener!

[@mikey9030]

I have worked for many of these plants here in Central California. They went years without training their key workers. They cut benefits and now they have no qualified people left. The industry is dying. Morningstar can't get people who don't exist. Chris did this to himself. He can't even get Truck driver's to haul his tomatoes. You have to drive a good distance to get to his plant so its better to get a job close to home which pays better in the long run. Its to late to train people they are simply trading jobs between companies. Over the years the tomato processors have been riddled with scandals. Price fixing relableing product with lower mold content and Bribery. I was there when they raided SK Foods in Lemoore with AR 15 and riot gear. They took all the computers. And paper work. The owner got seven years. And two other companies got Three million dollar fines. Ingormar packing was one of them and Los Gatos tomato was the other. I can go on and on its a mess. Ther are only a few real Boiler Operators left. Nothing but kids who don't know anything and it has gotten dangerous to work at these places.

[@biggpicture2930]

@Moonland Almond Go fight for Ukraine. Ukraine needs Tomatoes too. Then we help you!

[@biggpicture2930]

@Moonland Almond Your ukrine's brothers dying. They are losing the war to the christian russians. Go help your moslem brothers!

[@rolandgrz1975]

@@biggpicture2930 Ukraine is te mist corrupt country in Europe. I would puss on Zelensky if he was on fire. Saludos culeros

[@jojoquinn2]

The elitists win again! This is how the left takes over and turns to a tyrannical government system. I lived in the SanJoaquin Valley for many years and remember when they were canning the tomatoes in the late summer/early fall. Tracy, Ca had the Heinz 57 factory and Oakdale had the Hunt's factory, or maybe it was the other way around. I grew up in the midwest and most of my family members were farmers. The government schemed to buy out the farmers and they made ways to put farmers in debt that was unable to be paid back. Bill Gates is one of them and has bought out hundreds of thousands of farm land that he can shut down. Their humanistic goal is to reduce population to 500 million which is about 94% less that the current population. Do the math and look up Georgia Guidestones which have recently been destroyed because it gave away all of the dirty plans the elite have made!!!

[@SheBytes2]

This situation is grave! I used to assume US products were all Safe and Fair Trade. WRONG. I care about where my foods and other products come from. Thank you, Mikey, for taking time to further educate me.

[@monetizeyoutube6846]

After watching this video I'm going to stop eating Genetically Modified imported tomatoes forever until my death.

[@katecarlisle8383]

I wouldn't suggest eating , drinking or putting on your skin anything produced in China. Very highly polluted country.

[@edwarddiaz5500]

still alive?

[@milosbozilovic7843]

We need to be much more respective of what we buy

[@geddylee4082]

Next watch Vice (name of media company) KZbin video on L cysteine, a harmless ammino acid made from Human hair. Some Bread companies put it bread to soften it and make it last longer. all true, I don't know why more people are not up in arms about this food additive?!? don't eat Dominos, Dunkin Donuts or Burger King.

[@Bhatmann]

GMO are to enrich corporations, and not to help feed the hungry. It’s all marketing and lies.

[@kingsleykronkk3925]

The Soy Powder filler they added is probably also watered down with another cheaper plant fibre or even fine milled sawdust. There is no limit to their deceipt and toxic scams like recycled sewer gutter cooking oils and fake coffee made from artificial flavoured roast corn and soya beans to the formaldrehyde laced baby milk used to up the protein percent.

[@bertkniss2707]

A great documentary exposing corruption and exploitation at all levels in just this one industry .

[@Karl-Benny]

that is not corruption maybe misinformation from Italy

[@Karl-Benny]

sorry the Exploitation was in America

[@sylviabriggs4087]

@@Karl-Bennyanything to do with Hienz and Nestle is corruption

[@sylviabriggs4087]

@@Karl-BennyChina

[@filmawayvlad]

Nothing else expected, honestly speaking

[@tesha199]

Basically, Italians screwed up the tomato sauce industry

[@terhgasabeha9552]

They label it San Marzano.

[@bdax1059]

Forza italia!

[@markogaudiosi5243]

And Americans srewed everything else.

[@tesha199]

@@markogaudiosi5243 not untrue

[@dl662]

@@tesha199 I seriously doubt if the Italians would do that to ruin their brands, after all 4 mins in n so much misinformation in the video n I stopped watching. This documentary is not credible.

[@tinusvandeventer6430]

Just to let you know, All Gold Tomato Sauce is one of the few things from South Africa that is the best in the world.

[@dietlindvonhohenwald448]

I have never seen it here 😔

[@timindlovu8913]

Very true!

[@elainelindsey1306]

And I love the fact that you still have the option to buy All gold in a big glass bottle. South African sauces and chutneys are the best

[@anndebaldo7381]

You should mention that it wasn't only Buffett who acquired Heinz - he did so in league with a Brazilian Company who did most of the closing and firing. I believe that the Brazilians were ultimately in charge of all of that - Buffett provided the $$$. It's still appalling to me how all of this has unfolded, how many good employees lost their jobs in the name of money. And I don't like to think that when I buy what I think are Italian tomato products, they ulitmately have come from China. Ugh!

[@Girlgamssilver]

I see they only make paste. The basic beginning. When it's shipped all over the world, it can be said that the end product is from that country. So as usual, greed will cause a ketchup famine.

[@satishvenkat266]

Chilly willy tomato paste

[@jkardez4794]

Chinese stuff is fake and adulterated.

[@tec9945]

Tomatoes are originally from Mexico and South America, not Italy. Just like noodles, tomatoes were imported to Italy, China, and the rest of the world. You are mad because it's from China? What about the taste and quality?

[@enokavaoga3550]

Took me three sessions in two days to watch this. Great effort one of the best presentations I've watched.

[@rossellagiovanardi9154]

I think the success of tomato 🍅 sauce is due to the fact that a pasta and tomato based dish is very very cheap compared to other foods and also delicious and nutrient.

[@UQRXD]

All pasta is enriched, no natural nutrition but starch. Peasant food.

[@rossellagiovanardi9154]

@@blub-tf6rt I don't think so It's normal food.

[@jakewhoskate]

Having one variety of tomato for all earth is a stupid idea.

[@ibec69]

Who says that? I live in the Med and there are at least more than 10 varieties of tomatoes at the street markets, make it more than 20 in summer.

[@jakewhoskate]

@@ibec69 It is within this documentary. There are more than 1500 varieties. 20 isnt much. Homogeneity is killing many industries including bananas. It is literally undeniable if you work in the industry and I do.

[@ibec69]

@@jakewhoskate I agree with you there. The value of crop variety is of utmost importance for future generations. There are lots of heirloom seed exchange programs where I live. At the market I usually get the ugliest looking tomatoes from a small stand who barely has like 10 kilos of them so that way I know they’re growing those themselves compared to some other stands who has a huge heap of identical ones.

[@s._3560]

That's just as stupid as having only Cavendish bananas as the type of bananas we eat around the world. Even in SEA where bananas originate the Cavendish is the most bland and worst tasting bananas. The local varieties are far tastier. But due to Big corporates companies like Del Monte and others, local producers are being squeezed out and replaced by them and their lousy Cavendishes!!

[@abohassaanalgadi5676]

Thank you for opening my eyes on this matter

[@otsok]

Thanks for a thought-provoking document! I did not know but probably should have guessed that China has such a major role in tomato industry as well.

[@drokraebube2983]

they have a major role in just about everything you can think of.

[@loktom4068]

Because locals hates work but loves to collect welfare.

[@Epiderm91]

China probably have major role in your underwear as well...

[@frederickso9286]

Very interesting. Never knew that China is a major producer and exporter of tomato in the world.

[@alexisgreene8952]

Make them look like Italian product!! Unreal!

[@larspolydeus3867]

@@alexisgreene8952 9⁹99⁹⁹

[@yuditilany]

And then when most food production will be located in China, they will raise the price and hunger and poverty will prevail in the west. In the west the knowledge, tools and productionlines will no longer exist. Fancy organic food will be available to those who can afford it. The rest...

[@noeminoemi1350]

processed tomato paste made up of 40 % additives and 60 percent tomato.

[@claudeyaz]

@@noeminoemi1350 that's why so much profit in it

[@nycrsny3406]

Really eye-opening documentary, great work!

[@scofab]

Now happier than ever that I grow my own... well done, thank you.

[@mjay4700]

Wow this video is very informative. Had no idea that Chinese slave labor-produced tomatos ended up in Italy and were being sold/marketed as Italian. It's apparent that a few key players moved the tomato industry to China to severely cut costs and pocket the difference while screwing over an entire Ethnic group/region. Shameful.

[@brightcamp4091]

These globalists are pratising neoliberalism , nothing new.

[@brightcamp4091]

@Moonland Almond So much BS , save yourself some trouble. Only three camps- yes, no and undecided. The undecideds won't be readjjng your crap, they simply not seeking out more info, or are constantly confused. The decided knows your BS.

[@mikereut6088]

Yep but in China it gets mixed up with a bunch of garbage more then 50% is fake or none tomatoes ...good to know I will not buy that brand.

[@edwardsnowden8821]

this video shows no evidence of slave labor. just people working to earn a living instead of stealing, but i guess poor people working to feed thier families in china amounts to slave labor in your parallel universe.

[@alessioskomneos655]

Slave labor my ass, 25-40 euro a day is what average Chinese made, it's 10-15 times what UN classified as below poverty lines,and are you suppose to pay your slave.This fucking documenter saying child labor and show none,only children with their parents playing arround and being carried by their parents in their back

[@DuyNguyen-lo2mm]

Every tomato taste is unique grow them yourself.

[@sevenravens]

I’m growing San Marzano, Cherokee Purple, Rutgers Legendary and Berkeley Tie Dye tomato’s this year. And tomatillos and 15 different varieties of peppers.

[@bjbrown6884]

Growing my own in Florida. San Marzano is my favorite with a yellow pear shaped cherry, sweet 100 and a new heritage named Mr. Stripey.

[@nick8422]

Truth.

[@mosessupposes2571]

Exactly. They may look the same but that’s where the similarity ends.

[@jimueltrinio225]

If your tomato sauce or concentrate are made in China that means it has a lot pesticides residue. In China they spray a lot of pesticide on their agricultural plants to increase production.

[@muraleedharanpaloran1712]

Well researched, eye opening information.

[@Megibson]

Dr. Quentin Skrabec, Jr., from the University Of Findlay what a great intelligent man of historical insight. I had this professor in several classes that he taught. Highly educated and works well with students.

[@Notrocketscience101]

Anyone that needs to be called; “Dr.” is an elitist.

[@Megibson]

@@Notrocketscience101 : Stop 🛑 you are obviously uneducated on this topic. Go away.

[@anonviewerciv]

A world of pure lycopersicum. 🍅 🌏 4:44 Urumqi, China. 🕌🌄👨‍🌾 11:15 Tianjin, China. 🏭🛢🛢🛢(37:20) 🌎 15:20 Pittsburgh, USA. 🏙🏭 19:15 Leamington, Canada. 🛥🏘🏭❌ 28:10 California, USA. 🌄🚜 🌍 26:05 Salerno, Italy. 🛢🏗🚢 42:55 Accra, Ghana. 🏪🚗🏫 48:20 Foggia, Italy. 🌄🚴⚰

[@lyndastarwriter8507]

Every time I eat veggies, I thank God and the workers who pick / plant the fruit. I send out easy, breezy thoughts and blessings their way. Thank you, so much.

[@kokorino7682]

I'm from Moldova where a big part of the population is rural . In the countryside , everyone dwelled in subsistence farming be it fruits , vegetables , vineyards and of course livestock . Poor trade laws and corruption killed local agriculture in my country . What people grew in their gardens was for the most part organic and high quality but the imported stuff from Turkey (or elsewhere) would always undercut them for dirt cheap , making it impossible for small farmers to make any profit from their labour . I remember people throwing their beautiful perfect cabbages or watermelons because nobody wanted them for even half the price . You worked all year round , to basically not even be able to afford electricity and heating for when the winter came . Terrible . The vegatables and fruits back home literally would give off an aroma if you were as much as in the same room . The tomatoes had blemishes but the flavour and the scent is incomparable to anything you will ever taste . That's why I don't even eat tomatoes here except for cherry tomatoes which i tolerate . Of course I'm not speaking from nostalgia as my family routinely brings back veggies and fruits every summer . It can simply not compare and i think everyone should have the privilege to taste real food like this, hopefully one day .

[@mememeyupyupyup9497]

Macar nu aveti ce arata astia in video

[@ichuryachurya9225]

Sad reality.. It is almost the same in my country where imported produces are prefered by customers "killing" local farmers

[@tinna1218]

I'm very thankful for this opportunity to see what company doing to us, we better open our eyes and choose better products for our money..I can't believe how they treating people 👎

[@gingerfish90]

What a great channel. Surprised you haven't got more subscribers. Thanks for the great videos!

[@KbB-kz9qp]

Surprising that Italy does not use machines to harvest tomatoes. In any case, usually my wife buys whole tomatoes and makes her our sauce.

[@eckankar7756]

the documentary says the migrants only work in fields too small for the machines to be used.

[@smoothcirmnal]

You guy really did a great job, research about the red gold, it’s is such deep research in & out each & every corner of pain for lot & the gain for the bosses… & the market

[@andrewlai9472]

Great documentary, I learnt so much. Thank you.

[@Acode7940]

Thank you for this good coverage. "Free market" seems to be another word for predators moving in. So sorry for those farmers.

[@Amy-ky5wr]

I live in Australia, I always buy Australian tinned tomatoes. They're a few cents more per can, and usually have a smaller section of the shelf-space than numerous brands of "Italian" tomatoes. But until the Australian supermarkets take the issue of modern slavery in the tomato industry seriously, I'm not going to knowingly buy something likely to have come from major exploitation / virtual-slavery. We abolished slavery centuries ago, we can't let complacency bring it back. And I have written to all the supermarket chains to raise the issue in case they were unaware. They all have policies supposedly to avoid supplying products of slave labour, but haven't caught onto the issue with "Italian tomatoes". I think more people need to write to their supermarkets so they know that it's an issue people care about. Supermarkets here do seem to act on social trends, but it needs to become a social trend, that more people insist on avoiding tomato products that may be a result of exploitative labour.

[@Karl-Benny]

so in china they can earn 50euros a day not much less than low wage workers in USA

[@Amy-ky5wr]

@@Karl-Benny yeah I heard that in the film, didn't actually sound that bad a wage depending on the cost of living in that area. If essentials like food and rent are cheaper in that region you'd probably be fine on that. There's much worse wages around the world. It's Italian grown tomatoes that I was aware of which had very questionable labour practices bordering on slavery or pretty severe exploitation. And the US definitely needs to pay its lowest-income workers more, that's another issue.

[@hellooutthere8956]

How do you know it is australian?

[@Amy-ky5wr]

@@hellooutthere8956 in Australia there are country-of-origin labelling laws that get quite specific. Read about them here: business.gov.au/products-and-services/product-labelling/country-of-origin-food-labelling-resources#:~:text=These%20labels%20require%3A,ingredients%20(if%20not%20100%25) And it's common to see "Australian diced tomatoes", or "Italian diced tomatoes" as the actual name on the tin, you don't even need to read the fine print. But if you are actually asking can I TRUST those labels, well, I can't 100% of course. But it's reasonable to assume they're very likely accurate. A few points: Country of origin info is considered important info here, and Australians don't stand for being lied to. Any company exposed as intentionally misleading customers usually ends up with its reputation in tatters, sales plummeting. Australia is known to be less corrupt than many countries, most people follow the law, that includes those in companies. The public holds its authority figures to account. A robust free press would have a field day if any whistleblower announced they thought tomato companies were doing the dodgy about country of origin. Australian vs Italian tinned tomatoes, there's not much of a price difference, so there's not currently any huge incentive to try deceive consumers about place of origin. Italian tomatoes don't have the bad reputation they deserve, there's no disincentive to not label them correctly. Australia grows most of its own fresh produce and tomato growing and canning is definitely an industry here.

[@Epiderm91]

We didn't abolished slavery. We just deregulated it. When the cost of maintaining slaves were getting higher, and more policies favouring slaves welfare were approved, they just change the system to labour practice. Now, they don't have to provide food, shelter and clothes anymore, just wages, which can be supressed as time moves on. More profit, less wages. And we have a lot of universities churning out workers desperate for a job so there is endless supply of workers willing to work for peanuts. Genius move by capitalists.

[@drmodestoesq]

When it comes to agricultural labour in California, this documentary neglects to mention that Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers were violently opposed to the employment of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

[@catherinenkirote7321]

Africa is importing almost everything.. Who is going to help us

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

Appreciation for the manufacturing supervisor who decided to tell the interviewer what the mysterious powder was. It is not easy in Ch1na to be honest. You could get in big trouble.

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

Truly so!

[@ruaid10]

So sorry for our muslim ughiur people. Nobody raise voice for them..😔

[@KB-io6ln]

Palastinians ..Lybians..Afghanis.. Iraqi's .. Syrian's .. No one hears The Muslim Voices ..

[@MrToontuber]

@@KB-io6ln and native Americans in their concentration eh special places.

[@KB-io6ln]

@@MrToontuber Voices huh silenced long time gone .

[@rambolion3734]

@@KB-io6ln Palastinians ..Lybians..Afghanis.. Iraqi's .. Syrian's .. are officially supporting Uyghur genocide at the UN HRC Assembly in every session.

[@tl7239]

pakistan Lybians Afghanistan Iraqis Syrians Jordanians Egyptians Nigerians Congo Uganda Ghanna India Cambodia Vietnam Loas Algerians Iran Uzbekistan China North Korea Venezuela 250 million christians killed for their faith 1900 to 2022. 800 million christians live in persecution. Nobody raises voices for them.

[@carrottop1233]

Thank you! I know that was hard for you to talk about. I can’t imagine the horror! we need people like you to help us and guide us with all this craziness 😢 it does make me feel better to know it was not set on purpose! Thank you for your service. You are a hero.❤

[@user-zm1zp8tv4i]

Greetings from Lagos Nigeria ❤

[@emiliomulini3248]

a family garden as it was years ago... healthy products, you know the value of the land, ( not the price), and all healthier .

[@bjbrown6884]

I am very lucky to raise most of my fresh food. I feel sorry for the people who don't have any place to grow even one tomato plant.

[@binder946]

In the end it's all about money if it's profitable the farm will continue else it will stop functioning. Yes we can slogan. Ceaser Chavez or any other person that asks for worker rights will get thier jobs taken away by technology. By rights I mean basic living wages.

[@ezomada1]

well done , thanks for the great information

[@muhammadabbas8586]

Great informative video ❤

[@oasisofpassion]

what a great video, very informative and open our eyes . Anyway everything in cans, . there is always additive chemical , that's why can stay longer. the best tomatoes paste is homemade , healthy and fresh ☺.

[@vintageb8]

not everyone has the time, know-how, and energy to make everything from scratch

[@annezone6b494]

I only know a few people who convert to Jews and safely can their own tomatoes

[@deepdude4719]

Mind blowing.

[@gueronopalero2416]

The tomato is believed to come from south america, but it was 1st brought to europe by the spaniards via the aztecs

[@catofthecastle1681]

The Aztecs lived right above there! The Spaniards traveled from southern North America to at least south of Peru! Not a big stretch!

[@3dprints]

damn , the guy 4:55 singing in a field, such beautiful voice, and song, I don't know what is about, just gives goosebumps

[@andyharpist2938]

I watched an English Crunchie chocolate-bar making machine-operator in tears as he packed up his machine, ready for Cadbury to send it to Poland.

[@presidentjoethudbrandon7074]

With the absolute lack of environmental standards and workers rights, it's amazing that anyone would knowingly eat something grown in Chinese soil.

[@bicyclist2]

Corporations count on the masses complete ignorance of what their doing.

[@dennisjohnson4992]

I don’t want any food came from China,because theirs puts profits not quality

[@jantschierschky3461]

Well no choice, because how would you know ? A lot has made in Italy, or new Zealand on it.

[@thesage4729]

Ha ha ha and American soil is so wonderful clean and productive ....? , fracking du Pont and Monsanto have turned the US into a toxic wasteland . A damn side worse than China

[@presidentjoethudbrandon7074]

@@jantschierschky3461 Well that wouldn't be "knowingly" would it?

[@lucasbx1012]

I buy local Tomatoes and make my Own sauce with local products and my style. The only way nowadays to be sure what you are eating!!or cultivate you own at your garden, its the pnly way to be 100 x 100 dure. But Don't Forget to buy organic seeds please, most of the ones in the market are gmo!!

[@marcellogenesi6390]

afrika It all depends on where you live , here in the UK there is not enough hot sunshine to grow tomatoes outdoors, it is possible; as i have done for a few years, but they lack the intensity and sweetness, of the ones grown in the South of Europe, so one cannot make a sauce with them, the same goes for the just insipid under glass grown variety. Ghana has the climate to grow good tasting tomatoes all the year round, there should be no need for them to buy tomatoes products from any one else. WTF is happening?

[@katisme5137]

wow.....very good documentary. thank you to the producers.what an eye opener

[@ambition112]

0:10: 🍅 The story of how the Chinese tomato industry emerged and its impact on global tomato production. 11:14: 🍅 The tomato industry in China has become a global powerhouse, with thousands of tons of concentrate being exported worldwide. 18:39: 😔 The closure of Heinz factories by billionaire Warren Buffett has resulted in job losses and economic hardship for employees. 23:49: 🍅 The tomato industry is dominated by traders who source tomatoes from different countries, including China and California. 32:44: ✂ The tomato industry has seen a dramatic shift towards automation and mechanization, resulting in job losses and the concentration of wealth in big companies. 39:05: 🍅 The Chinese tomato industry is using additives and lower manufacturing costs to compete with Italy in the global market, particularly in Africa. 46:10: 😔 The global economy and free trade have negatively impacted local tomato producers in Ghana, leading to factory closures and farmers seeking work in Europe. Recap by Tammy AI

[@DeKat-84]

It's a question I've been asking for years. How long will it be until things are automated to the point where nobody has enough money to actually buy the end product?

[@alancrowe6417]

Universal basic income, with the small amount of work that needs a human being equally shared out, everybody works 1 or 2 days a week and nobody is in poverty.

[@gbh5912]

Never, or it wouldn't be made. You don't supply without a demand

[@inisipisTV]

Rule of supply and demand. Why sell a product at a high price when no one is buying. Someone else would step in and solve that by selling a much cheaper product.

[@saajeeb]

Fantastic documentary indeed, thanks!

[@pineappleclub6313]

This is Genius, work of art! Thank you for these great efforts spent on a beautiful documentary like this, keep it up!

[@BS-my2ky]

Wow, thank you so much for this documentary. Me just having a sip of tomatoes juices and wonder how it is made.....and here 55 minutes later I learned a lot.

[@colint7743]

Africa is not a country, it's a continent !

[@helmutzollner5496]

very interesting and we'll presented. Thank you for this excellent video.

[@amandamccallum6796]

I live in Southern Ontario Canada and for a couple weeks during the Tomato harvest a section of the busiest highway in Canada the 401 turns red from all the Tomato trucks.

[@nimadorjeetamang466]

The most detailed documentary

[@battery781]

Every night I scour KZbin looking for awesome things to watch before bed and I don’t always find something good but tonight I found this gem!!! Thanks for posting this🎉

[@Amy-ky5wr]

It's a bit of a worry, them adding soy meal and other additives but not listing on the ingredients. What about people with allergies?

[@fuelconsults1252]

Really it's amazing and mind blowing. Opens a different way of seeing businesses. Thanks for knowledgeable content.

[@isaiahgimlewicz8298]

Thank You for opening my eyes to this atrocity. We grow and can all our own tomato products and have for years. Makes me sick to think of modern day slavery still occurs on a global scale!

[@weijingburr2392]

Thank you for the enlightening documentary. Very, VERY illuminating. I've avoided ketchup all my life, It smells funny, and the HFCS doesn't help either. That said, General Liu is a force of nature.

[@mjazz9017]

In the whole story the layoff part and closing of factories and mechanisation was the saddest…that gentleman in California callously followed mechanisation and so proud to save one working day in a year and so proud to control the whole plant with only two girls… that was miserable …in china I was near to cry when I hear that poor guy and his wife working on just 1 euro per 100 kilo of tomatoes …it’s cruel it’s injustice it’s taking advantage of their conditions..nothing worse than human itself in this world ….sad but true..

[@geddylee4082]

Yes, the plant owner said two SEASONAL workers. The one young lady looked pissed as her boss bragged about how much money he was saving. Evil man, him and Warren Buffet.

[@Zopdoz]

@@geddylee4082 It's this type of practices that'll lead to a revolution on a scale not witnessed in human history. Once mechanisation starts, it's very hard to stop, more profit for the higher ups & less income for your average working citizen. Its like a domino effect, implement free trade, force countries to open their markets to the world flood their markets with finished, cheaper goods, decimate the local industry. In turn making those people go aboard for a better livelihood. They arrive in Europe, without any education, make them work in shitty manual labour jobs in agriculture or the service industry, pay them low wages. Natives get pissed by growing % of non natives coming to their country, far right parties garner their votes, soon they have an equal paring long existing political parties & the rest is left to your imagination ... These capitalists are very short sighted, let them reap what they sow!

[@libisph]

But, Buffett is the ultimate asshole by closing Heinz to layoff workers

[@geddylee4082]

@Leanne Wesk Nah, Leanne you are wrong on this one. He is evil.

[@nicholaslee6972]

They can earn 56.7 Euro per day , Not decent even in chinese standard , But they can make a living of it . it is contractory that If you totally eliminate this kind of manual job, It literally would affect their livelihood . This story vividly depict a fact : China is still a developing country , In some rural area , There are very few decent , well-off high paid job ; the responsibility fall on our shoulder to improve ourself with eduction and training , and upgrade our industry to provide more high end jobs.

[@mtony2141]

We don't need wars to kill humans..these ruthless industrialist are already doing good job of it..

[@paulburgess1807]

Fantastic ❤

[@michaelhusada2276]

This whole thing with free trade and having migrant workers is a paradox that a lot of people in developed countries cannot see.

[@aylahughes9185]

these are the tomatoes that taste like crap, grown by people who are being completely taken advantage off. its cause of these assholes that most people think tomatoes are bitter and acrid. A good natural heirloom tastes like an orange plus a strawberry. it really makes me sad. but hey, im part of the solution at least for my self, i grew almost 500lbs of good natural organic heirlooms last summer, and this summer im set to possibly double that number. and perhaps, this year, if i can sell half i will be able to fund growing the same way on .6 of an acre next summer. i did over 300lbs on about 1/40th of an acre or around 1000sq ft. it took a lot of time and a decent amount of money to learn the skill of high density tomato production, but its worth it just for the taste. everything else is cake. people dont understand- organic natural tomatoes and peppers are tier 1 supper foods. as good as acia or anything else out there. in terms of vitamin b c and zinc they are really unbeatable.

[@wendyshoo3476]

Awesome

[@marapeters9144]

I learn so much thru KZbin videos

[@user-ob5rg6ne6l]

Thanks for sharing 💝🥂🍽💝

[@nishantaadi]

This why India have strict import rules but recently many smugglers found loopholes and now importing Chinese sauce aka hazard chemicals in India and ruining our health.

[@susanjolly3295]

Poor people, nothing but slaves for the big companies who make millions on the back of these poor souls ,

[@Kathakathan11]

We will be next, as China is everywhere, their money controls most things today

[@wendyshoo3476]

There is no poor souls who don't save up but spendrift and spend everything they earn.

[@Prometeo59]

That was eye opening. Great job!

[@momzilla9491]

When Heniz closed its plant in Ontario Canada, it let everyone go. In came FRENCH'S who bought the factory and rehired the workers. Now I only buy FRENCH'S condiments! I think it is the same recipe, only a bit more spicy! Works perfectly well. Goodbye Heinz!

[@pettahify]

Really interesting documentary. I must however protest a little bit. When a manufacturing process gets more capital intense and less labor is needed, the labor invested is more productive. This is how our society gets richer. The question to be asked is not "how long can we continue to automate?", The question is "What should we do with this new found riches?". The owners of the production wants to have it for themselves, the labourers wants higher wages. We can also use it to reduce total workhours, take out higher taxes and use it to get better health care or schools for example. This has always been the question, this has been the story of human development since we came into existence. That's why I get so upset when some people start talking about how bad automation/robotisation is.

[@staceystrukel1917]

I completely agree!

[@iron-farmer]

1. You have never worked on a tomato farm. 2. You shouldn't intstruct individuals based on observations seen through the eye of overall society wealth, it doesn't put food on the common mans table.

[@KKOPPONG]

50 euro’s a day picking tomatoes 😐. That’s not a bad sum of money.

[@georgemala4046]

2 Euros a day in Africa for same work

[@kate739]

This was really an eye opener, thank you

[@chrissuperhero2291]

Very enlightening

[@ch50220]

wonderfull work

[@Starphot]

Excellent documentary. No wonder that the store bought tomato products taste a bit off. Enough!

[@hassanriffat]

Weldone Man thank you for your Video.

[@mosessupposes2571]

How sad that Ghana and others never developed their own technologies and systems in order to be competitive, choosing instead to wait for someone else to do it for them or even moving to other countries to work for someone else’s system.

[@user-ie4tt1xp7j]

Nice meme, but that's not how international market works.

[@mosessupposes2571]

@@user-ie4tt1xp7j Not a meme. Economics.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Ghana tries to do this with processing their own cocoa and selling the chocolate, but the "free market"-liberalists in USA and Europe hate the idea and try everything to keep their profits high and Ghana poor.