The Chaos of America's Food System

A vital investigation of the economic and environmental instability of America's food system, from the agricultural issues we face - soil loss, water depletion, climate change, pesticide use - to the community of leaders who are determined to fix it. Sustainable is a film about the land, the people who work it, and what must be done to sustain it for future generations.
Director : Matt Wechsler
Script : Matt Wechsler
Cast : Marty Travis, Dan Barber, Rick Bayless
Year : 2016
Documentary, historic
Full documentary

[@donnamays24]

Every American needs to watch this documentary…there are corporations that are literally patenting certain foods that make it illegal for individuals to grow…that’s a problem! Being disconnected from where your food comes from is a disaster! Blessings

[@gaebitch3200]

look dude it’s bc those r genetically modified seeds, which they changed the genome for, so they do have the right to patent those. But ain’t nobody allowed to patent an heirloom, or a common variety that’s been around for centuries also usually heirlooms

[@BobRooney290]

Bill Gates Farms Corporation Inc. LLC. because Bill Gates knows farming. lol

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

@@BobRooney290 Bill Gates is buying up farmland because the growth of Microsoft is maxed out and bonds are a poor investment when there is inflation. That how the economy works. When the government screws up the money supply, investment switches from bonds to real estate.

[@loiscutting1716]

This video is the kind of life I grew up with. We did not use commercial fertilizers and no herbicides that poisons the soil. Instead, we rotated crops with wheat, hay, corn, different kinds of beans and oats. We also planted half acre of buckwheat for the bees to work in later in the summer. All the farmers around us used all the poisons and planted corn in the same field for twenty years. If you don't rotate crops, the corn bores will damage the ears on the corn. What one crops puts in the soil the next crop needs to grow. We had cattle and used the manure for fertilizer with no meds used in the cattle as others do. The restaurants in and around Chicago are fortunate to have farmers to bring in nutritious food. I have read where much of the food in the grocery stores have glyphosate in them, so people are consuming poison, no wonder cancer is so prevalent.

[@davidr9589]

God knows best. Man thought he could innovate past God. So foolish.

[@airesrebelo6242]

Concordo 100%

[@WendellBurkhart-g9v]

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I really respect these people and hope they continue this amazing journey and God Bless Everyone of Them.

[@scottsmith1569]

What an amazing documentary. I too grew up in a small Illinois farm much like those. I'm maybe 10 minutes from the end of this video, and the elephant in the room with this entire situation, is the massive donations the 4 major food producers pay to our politicians on both sides, to keep the regulations, and subsidies where they are. Only THEY get wealthy. Only their shareholders are making record profits, while the consumers are being squeezed more and more. I also agree one of the best documentaries I've seen in a very long time. Thank you.

[@FarmingFuture-w7q]

"This is hands down one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. I have deep respect for these incredible people and wish them all the best on their journey. God bless each and every one of them."

[@valerieneal2747]

Excellent documentary ! Keep up the good work❤😊

[@petereldracher5660]

Phenomenal video. Make this a mandatory part of school curriculums across the country.

[@gagelabarber3224]

unfortunately the cultural marxist run the school system and NGOs don't want to lose there power so they will keep pumping out the toxic crap we all grew up on until Americans get educated and active it won't change. everything stems down from culture so if we don't build communities up and be the change we want to see like these fine people then we are doomed as a nation.

[@bcase5328]

Few have any idea what farming is really like. They don't even give much thought to how their food gets to them.

[@mamaduck6845]

Agreed

[@FarmTastic97]

Phenomenal video. Make this a mandatory part of school curriculums across the country. NAHWU

[@marycalderon3837]

I’ve lived in Iowa a long time, and when I see the fields, I always wonder, why don’t they grow something people can eat.

[@GerryMantha]

And when here I drive across the Canadian prairies from Manitoba west to Alberta, I wonder how people can eat 1,000 miles of canola (rape seed), or where is it all going? To be fair, there's a few small 10,000 acres farms of wheat here and there...

[@Infinity.almighty]

You're keeping me alive

[@TheMighty_T]

The big shock is going to be (already started in some places around the world) when our ability to produce food at the industrial scales we currently do, starts to break down. At this point anyone is going to be happy they spent some time and thought on how to produce some of thier own food. You can do it in a city Scape (many projects already exist if you check around your locality), so don't need to be deep in the countryside.

[@julio28869]

en Argentina esta pasando lo mismo. los agricultores con la soja y el maiz, a su vez tienen retenciones y el monocultivo, asi y todo siguen, 400 millones de litros de glifosato se le echa a la tierra. por suerte hay mucha gente que trabajan de forma sostenible. pero el daño que se ha hecho es muy grande, gran documental.

[@estadoanarquista]

Aqui no Brasil o movimento nas direções apontadas pelo documentário são cada vez mais fortes.

[@cindybatka7186]

EVERY American needs to watch this. Phenomenal!

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

What a marvelous, educational & inspirational presentation!!! Thank you SO much!

[@Keiphton27]

In all honesty I needed this video after so many other videos that highlight the aspects of what’s wrong without solutions. This is informative, wholesome, and part of the solution. For health and community. Simply fabulous and bravo to those farming and to those filming. Appreciate what you’re doing and what you’ve done.

[@lenmordeur5163]

Bonjour, en France nous suivons le même chemin et ça ne dérange personne ! ....pauvres humains 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

[@duncanosborne4469]

that was an amazing programme being from the uk ,weve had problems for years with our farming practices it all started when we joined what was then the common market we weree promised it would be better ,but look at this we import thousands of litres of milk from france we try too export lamb too france and what did the french farmers do set fire too the trucks which took the lambs too france they were willing too let them burn alive the drivers as well,our farmers not all of them though took part blocked the docks from which the french milk tankers entered into the uk and opened up the tankers taps and allowed the milk too pour out yes they got into trouble. but land here is being sold for developing and we are still importing rubbish from thousands of miles away. the uk as its known but during the 2nd ww war we were called known as gb kept the country alive there never was any where near the commercial chemicals we have now, farmers kept pigs, or cattle they were graed outside during the summer and brought in in winter ,in spring when they out the barns they were kept in would be cleaned as through winter they would of been deep littered and that was stored in a heap in one of the many fields they had and in the fall that would of been spread on the fields left for month or two before being ploughed. one local farmer near too me for the passed 2 years has grown 4 fields of clover,vetches etc and every so often just tops it too keep it tidy but this year he will mow it and plough it into the soil his fields are so sandy the clover is helping too put nitrogen back into the fields and it also helps with holding the soil together so its not blown away or washed away ploughing it in will also feed the soil,theres too many farmers putting tons of artificial fertiliser on their fields,thats due too not many of them are keeping livestock any more

[@everydayjay3164]

Love your channel Josh. We've had drought conditions here in VA since May. Just a tip for storing hay out in the field, line your bales front to back as tight against one another as possible. This lowers the amount of exposure for each bale as opposed to having the bales standing alone in the open. I started storing mine this way a few years ago and can see the improvement in quality when it's time to unroll those bales. My next improvement is to cut enough logs to keep them up off the ground. One step at a time is how we improve. Stay blessed

[@lkn4jolly]

Shared... big time...

[@carynmartin6053]

Same🎉❤

[@djukafrajer]

Oduševljena sam Vašim načinom života i rada, tako sam i ja odrasla i verujem da će biti primorani svi da tako rade. Srdačan pozdrav iz Srbije🙋

[@kf2572]

So what do the restuarants do in the winter time, close down? I bet not. They buy food through the regular distribution channels which in turn get their food from big farmers in warmer regions.

[@eugeniebreida1583]

AND their menus shift to locally grown root veggies, gourds, squashes, grnhouse kale, collards etc, and likely housed mushrooms and even hydroponic salad greens etc. Plenty of food for the price. The rest of us soak/cook up dried legumes-beans/peas, grains like buckwheat, oats, wheat, Nuts and canned or fermented stuff from Spr/Sum/Fall harvests. Make some yogurt/kefir or brocolli sprouts on your kitch counter - yum! : ) Also fermented soybean Natto is the bomb, and made like yogurt… VERY useful health food for our small vessels.

[@777dragonborn]

Everybody needs to start growing their own food thiere is something about it that is spiritually invigorating to feast and enjoying the actual friuts of your labor. The pain is well worth the pleasure.

[@jamesrichey]

Amazing video.

[@KPVFarmer]

Buy local, meet your local farmers, know how your food is raised

[@patricedurand707]

Très intéressant. Ces personnes sont passionnées

[@LionsOfHope-23]

Made in 2016, but only coming out now in 2024 widespread for us all to easily watch on YT. Why has it been suppressed for the last eight years?

[@Vangriff]

Politics

[@alexutzusrl100]

Monsanto, Cargill money coruption

[@dkaspar67]

It hasn't. I watched this on Netflix around 2017. It was available for a year or two. The movie is called Sustainable.

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

​@@dkaspar67THANK YOU! For sharing this important fact! While I am a strong believer in true skepticism, it is critical to maintain the understanding of what that is and what it is NOT!!! One thing that skepticism does not equal is: To tend towards first assuming a conspiracy or nefarious intent (in the absence of directly suggestive evidence). The automatic assumption that this film was suppressed was thankfully mistaken, but more importantly, this is not a healthy or sustainable attitude & way of thinking. I am absolutely NOT suggesting that there isn't a tremendous amount of intentionally terrible things going on, or that we should overlook, deny or ignore any of that! We must remain open-minded & adaptive and follow the evidence wherever it leads! We have little hope of finding a solution for a problem which has not been properly & accurately identified and assessed. And we have so many errors & problems to correct & solve if we hope and expect for life to continue to thrive with us on this miraculous and amazing wet rock we call home.

[@robare552]

Saw a YT-clip from Leaf of Life where they looked at runoff and by just by creating a 10m barrier, with trees and bush, between water and planted products you decreased runoff by.. sorry do not remember.. a lot. This 10m border just kept dirt and chemicals to stay.

[@honeybadger5933]

Joel Salatin has been regenerative farming for decades too and has written a few books.

[@e4t662]

Food as a commodity, sad but true. If you can make a profit from something, make it scarce..

[@chriscarrol9373]

A very entertaining documentary with a well chosen soundtrack and a let's get back to nature theme. In 2022 the government of Sri Lanka banned all chemical fertilizers. It ended poorly and they quickly changed their minds six months later after having to import food which devalued their currency causing extreme inflation. Apparently going green made them loose alot of green$$$.

[@DenyseLRoss]

Need new laws that Stop poisoning people

[@gjsmimi4474]

Vote with your money. Stop buying processed and ultraprocessed "food". Buy whole foods. Support local farmers and markets. As long as we continue to buy the junk, the companies that make them will continue to.

[@Ryanrobi]

As a farmer and a person that has a large garden and grows most of my own food I personally understand wanting the connection but most people couldn't care less and romanticizing local and small farmers who produce almost none of the food doest help. Food is and has to be a commodity to create the right incentives to feed 8 plus billion people without that you would quite literally have 3 billion people starve and that's much worse than being disconnected from your food. Gardening is the most popular hoppy in America so many people do grown some small % of their food. If you went 50 years back to many more small inefficient farmers you would need the cost of food to more than triple and people are already very angry for food to go up 30% or so in 4 years. The cost of the average Americans food as a % of their income is the lowest in history and of any country it's about 5 % and even Canada pays about double that at 10% most people in developing countrys pay more that 60% plus. Global foods are commodities so if we held back on production global prices would skyrocket around the world. It's not even close to worry it to starve a few billion people so we feel more connected with our food. If you want to feel more connected move out of the city and have a house in the country and have a large garden and grow your own food.

[@chriscarrol9373]

You said what I wanted to. All of these locally grown sustainable products are great if you're wealthy. Kids enjoy this artisanal loaf of bread as that's all I can afford to feed you today.

[@cribbericarus3066]

The only problem being the whole thing won't work very long anymore this way. I fully agree, we need affordable/cheap food to feed 8 billion people. But if that food is neither healthy / nutritious and we poison not only ourselves but our fields, earth and water with it, then we won't last very long. Even if we got full stomachs.

[@joshua511]

People can eat high quality, local food and eat less of it than the McDonald's nonsense they consume multiple times a day. Humans were designed to live a life of intermittent fasting anyway. You certainly don't need 3 meals a day to be healthy.

[@PrivatelyHanging]

We don't need to feed 8 billion people, 1 good farmer only needs to feed 20 families. So what we need are ALOT of good traditional farmers producing ALOT of quality food. You're probably sitting in a position that doesn't understand much more than the giant concrete jungle you see around you, and that's why you think the whole world has to be fed. Farmers only need to worry about their local area first, county second, state third, and whatever left over is feed for the pigs.

[@jimmyrhodes1808]

There is more wisdom shown in this film than can be found in all of D.C.

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

I understand what you are attempting to convey and I agree. However, your claim is actually inaccurate & ignorant! There are actually some amazing things going on, even in DC with farming & food production (although small scale)... Your claim would be accurate if instead you specified "the politicians" in DC without including all of those residents who actually have nothing to do with the politics. In fact, the ¾ of a MILLION (~750,000) residents of Washington DC have NO representation in the US Congress nor the US Senate despite paying taxes like everyone else, if not more!

[@bonnieupton4114]

Love this

[@kalashoop1733]

There a lot of people in the USA and the other countries that are doing regenerative agriculture. Iowa is the 2 in the nation to do cover crops and has restored 416,000 wetlands . Iowa is number one in conservative tillage .Pigs and chickens can’t live off of grass to long they have to have grain with grass .Cows and goats and sheep can live off of grass . As for 2024 for the crops of 2023 50 percent went to humans and 36 percent went to livestock and 12 percent with to other material . If every one went that way it would be better for the environment . And bring fresh food into local grocery stores . There is a lot of misinformation on agricultural.

[@forestgreen916]

THANK YOU - i get to "travel" this morning - SAVES ME FROM DRIVING LATER : )

[@emermbiemeri]

politika amerikane. 100 probleme. shtepija e bardhe. shum bukur.

[@hansbleuer3346]

Ein wunderbarer Film. Menschen, Nahrungsmittel und Natur werden durch ein Überbewusstsein zusammen gehalten. Idealisten halten alles zusammen.

[@sailingwiththegods538]

Commodity farmers are dependent on the government for money, but are some of the biggest antigovernment people I know of. The irony isn't lost on me.

[@SuperKyle309]

As a market gardener in Henry County Illinois. I would like see more content and be involved with your project.

[@quinnabun1173]

This is more than fantastic 🎉❤

[@quinnabun1173]

Words absolutely fail me in everyway possible.This is the most fascinating information and doco ever❤

[@MaureenDunn-g1n]

Wonderful documentary! As they say - hope every farmer around the world regenerates their farms. Please watch this doco!! Glad the country I live in grazes animals on grass year round. And egg farms have to be cage-free by law. And more and more are free-range, ditto pigs.

[@BNOBLE.]

This started because we were told about the starving children all over the world and we had to feed them

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

No, your claim is inaccurate/mistaken (or possibly intentionally misleading, IDK). But I do know that the "marketing" of famines & starvation actually came later... After the so-called "green revolution". This all started in the 50s. Although it really came to fruition & widespread adoption during the 60s & 70s and it was not initially promoted as a solution to world hunger & famines!

[@garrettroberts7489]

Most excellent doc!

[@gabriellacordova6099]

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you’ve done research on this matter, read a bunch of books, watched movies and attended seminars. I just have some questions for you, why do we have such a huge supplement industry in this country? Why are the same people who are in chemical fertilizers and pesticides the people who make the medicine we need to survive the food were eating? Do you really believe that as a nation we are eating that much fast food compared to the other meals we eat? We are the most unhealthy nation in the world despite the fact that we spend the most on medicine.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

I know people in their 20’s who eat out every single meal. It’s not all “fast food”. I have a niece whose husband drinks Mountain Dew from the time he wakes up til he goes to bed. There’s so many bad eating habits out there. The good thing is the cost of eating out is getting too expensive and they are at least talking about cooking their own food soon. 😂

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

@gabriella Why do you think it is appropriate or reasonable to pose your questions to the film maker? While the topics are certainly related, those are NOT the topics of this film! Your questions are non sequiturs! And, in fact, I would argue that if you had actually been paying attention to this entire film... You would understand that the information contained here could prevent the need or importance of your queries.

[@YamiKisara]

17:00 -ish: the chef is right, that's why we must never, ever, EVER give up eating meat and other animal produce. Because cows in particular can eat all those plants that heal the soil inbetween crops like corn or soy and their dung is the most amazing fertilizer you can give back to the soil (partially because some of their gut bacteria that come with it continue to work in the soil and help retain the carbon from CO2 inside the soil, which plants then use to build their bodies - carbon is essential for any living cell). You can also get all vitamins and minerals from various parts of beef, often in greated quantities than from plants (vitamin C, iron, calcium, etc.) or they straight up don't exist in plant sources (some from the vitamin B category, vitamin K2 - which our bodies can actually use to the fullest compared to plant-sourced K1, albeit some fermented products also contain it), and you obviously need a much smaller portion of meat than of vegetables to be feel the same level of satiation.

[@gardeningwithkirk]

❤❤❤ beautiful

[@darrenivak4536]

Knowledge is power 🎉 true power that was a beautiful story I would like the story to be mine thank you

[@samwiginton339]

buy local , seasonal & preserve the extra to eat in the winter, small farmers grow the best food

[@boknows3841]

I also bake my own bread and I endure endless criticism because people wants it when it is free and they become insulting when asked to pay for it. One guy was on the radio and was telling everyone not to eat my bread and that it was not good because it was not free. When questioned why he said it doesn't taste like my mother. And I discovered that his grandmother sprinkled sugar on the bread. Only poor people feeds their kids sugar bread. Those people are no longer my friends!

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

WTF? Pathetic! You complain of endless criticism, and yet... Are you unable to understand & see that you are criticizing & demeaning your critics based on their socioeconomic status (their POVERTY)? First of all, it is impossible to believe your nonsense claim. NOBODY actually expects to get quality food from an artisan producer for free! You're full of sh*t... Nonetheless... I have a few questions that hope you can clear up for me, please. Can you explain how your criticism is somehow acceptable or justified while theirs is not? Or, even better, can you tell me how you are in any way doing anything that may resolve the problem of their constant criticism and end the cycle? I propose EDUCATION! Have you ever considered explaining & TEACHING them in a respectful and non derogatory manner that anything of genuine value & quality comes at some cost or price?

[@jimmason1072]

Reminds me of a Canadian film..." To Build a Farm"....I believe....shows the ups and downs....of the small farm....the co-op group is a great idea....since not everything turns out perfectly all the time and ad a supplier you need the produce for your customers.....

[@Tyler-fx5ws]

Great content. My wife and I would love to have a small farm similar to the one in this videos as our house on 1 acre is just not enough room. However, the ground in my county goes for 11k an acre right now, and it's just a pipe dream to own a 40 acre piece of land. There are too many farmers with too much money in my area.

[@gjsmimi4474]

Start where you are. If you don't have a garden, start one. Raised beds, containers, etc. I started several years ago on less than an acre. I have chickens, multiple raised beds, and this year added a small greenhouse. I buy from local farmers as much as I can. You don't need 40 acres. If you want to make your dream a reality, you have to take the first step.

[@MonikaStuder-je4xy]

Make the most of the one acre you have, you can produce a lot of produce if done right in a small space.

[@kenblakeley9940]

Who else has seen the ocean color change from blue to green? The nitrogen could be assimilated if the microorganisms weren't killed by Monstersanto!

[@luciedutra756]

Families having their farms taken away from them AND still today families are losing their farms from state restrictions and new legislation.!!!!!! This must stop !!!!

[@wendycullingworth3879]

AWESOME! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME PEOPLE AND VISION. SORRY TO SHOUT BUT I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO SEE THIS FILM AND HEAR THIS MESSAGE BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND GET ON BOARD. I wish you and all your future generations the very best in keeping this dream alive.

[@dianalittle7323]

i like this, and share it, after i watch it twice, i love it... knowinng me and 5 older siblingd were stolen by the state of michigan on lies because we were completely off gird minus the electricity on the houses my grandma and dad built... just to shut us down they ruine peoples lives on lies...

[@JennieLouSweden]

SUCH A GOOD VIDEO...! IF YOU ONLY GOING TO WATCH ONE VIDEO THIS YEAR..THIS IS THE ONE! HOPE YO ALL WATCH THIS VIDEO

[@dejabadejabas]

Edit this and use upper and lower case letters. Thanks

[@JennieLouSweden]

​@@dejabadejabas Why change?

[@LastRebel1978]

Yeah you would think we would have learned from history by now. Husbandry of the land. But short sided profit for gain instead of just a profit. Sustainable communities instead of cities and stadiums and shops.

[@cowboyfinleys2757]

I agree with not torturing animals

[@horacecrowe3520]

I agree with everything you say but how does it compare with Millennium Farmer on KZbin, thanks

[@jimmason1072]

I'd rather pay more for better food...than pay more and more taxes for nothing in return....

[@scottdobbins4826]

I believe in a lot of what is said. Especially the problems with uniformity. We need more choices in seed/product selection. I dont believe the carbon message. Plants die without carbon, we die without plants. I would like to see numbers on cost for the institutions that promote the alternative ways of farming. I imagine that they make a healthy salary with government grants to do the research. I farm but could not afford it without a pension from a prior 30 year career. Also you have to live in a "Goldilocks Zone" to be able to sell farm to table. If the farm isn't convenient cost wise to the customers its tough to make a profit. Rural people can't afford it or already raise it. The local farmers markets want 1 million in liability insurance and you have to accept EBT payments. A lot of this is labor intensive, what are the cost numbers? People are "sick, obese, unhealthy not because of the foods that are available, but the foods they choose to eat. I have yet to see a grocery store that doesn't provide both options. Food insecurity doesn't mean you don't have enough food, but that you might have to buy the store brand, instead of the name brand. Again I would like to see the numbers on investment and return on sustainable agriculture.

[@Jan-Boer]

Prachtig project en mooi om te zien. Moeilijk om op grotere schaal uit te voeren omdat het voedsel producten is voor een kleine elite groep. Als ik ervanuit ga dat er goede prijzen voor de producten gemaakt worden.

[@guyvossen1640]

Man must be prepared for the higher price and better quality.

[@larrabeejl]

Where i live the local septic companies dump raw sewage on the hay fields which are then treated with lime.

[@MrKatzengreis]

"Einkorn" - translation from german is "single grain".....just saying....

[@Emiliapocalypse]

From one grain grows many

[@Clevelandsteamer324]

Food is literally a commodity.

[@bencrescenzo]

I’d press those chefs that are buying ramps fomr Midwest the need to cater a community meal working with local chefs. Locals learn, big shots get more spot light, farmer grows more and supports local

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

1:27:37 very surreal

[@adriancarty612]

You will eat the bugs

[@MHolt-t6y]

What caused the Earth's last major ice age to end?

[@benjamindejonge3624]

So sad, so sad, while there are still countries self sufficient in their mind and knowingly about food relations from their soil, after 100 years only corn cultivation things might run like the Roman Sahara mistake

[@teresawehling3181]

If taking away any kind of meat protein I'm not interested

[@gregorylewis9442]

Industrial farming is not sustainable! Now they have 3D printed meat! They going to have 3D printed vegetables?🤔 Doing everything for money 💰 doesn't create a future for future generations.😍 More greenhouse in America are key because people in Nebraska and Colorado are growing food all year around.🤩

[@tucut8054]

You do not have friends you have clients who some day will find some other suppliers.

[@BartnickFarm]

Kelley frame

[@bonnieupton4114]

❤

[@emermbiemeri]

a i thojmi lavren me plluqi. lavren me qite mah te mire. edhe mah paster.

[@GlacialRidgeHomestead]

I think oatmeal does have gluten?

[@2Goldens1Rott]

We have been lied to. What will happen to John Deere and case. Ask blackrock?

[@Bossman1990]

He did not grow up in the 50s or 60s

[@milesobrien2694]

There are a couple of very important points to make before everybody goes charging off to start their own farm. The education system at the K-12 level has to teach everybody how humans work biologically along side plants and animals. People need to be taught how and where their food comes to them, and what happens after it leaves them. I need to point out a stupendous fallacy that was presented in the piece that was comparing modern chemical agriculture and crop rotation style agriculture. It left you with the impression that yields would be similar per acre. That might be true at one level. The yields year on year would not be however. A year of clover cultivation will not yield ANY commercial crop. Another fallacy is the statement that man can produce enough food to feed the world. That is a very disingenuous statement. Produce enough, maybe. Get it to the people that are starving (let's use real terms, not euphemisms like _food insecure_ ), is a whole different matter. The planet cannot sustain a perpetually increasing population. There are 8 billion people on the planet. Earth can realistically support 3.5 to 4 billion max. We should not have to look to compromising human biology to accommodate unrestricted procreation. Humans are omnivores. It does not mean you can't be vegan but it does mean you don't HAVE to be vegan. Humans have proliferated to the point that there is no safe potable water in most of the world without chemical intervention. There is no body of water freshwater or saltwater not contaminated with microplastics. We have stopped recycling on a scale that is meaningful.

[@clarencebosma7182]

There would be a lot of starving people on this earth if we grew everything organically unfortunately. First world problems here.

[@gjsmimi4474]

100 years ago, everything was grown organically.

[@clarencebosma7182]

@@gjsmimi4474In 1924 there were 2 billion people on the earth and a life expectancy of 60 years old

[@gjsmimi4474]

​@clarencebosma7182 there were many reasons s for the lower life expectancy, not just food availability

[@clarencebosma7182]

@@gjsmimi4474that is true. However I will make a broad statement and say that we have the most abundant cheap and safest food in history and this video says we have it all wrong.

[@gjsmimi4474]

@clarencebosma7182 but do we, really? Every week there's a food recall in the US. The "cheap" foods, processed and ultraprocessed foods are nutrient deficient. When we shop for fruits and vegetables we have no way of knowing when they were harvested or, many times, where they came from.Obesity (which is a form of malnutrition) is at an all time high. Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, etc., are rising.The life expectancy in the US has been dropping for several years. We are eating ourselves to death.

[@a.i2219]

😍👍

[@danjohnson887]

Ok great. More of the same....

[@diannasgardenmenagerie967]

Wheat is gross!

[@nockreel1190]

😂😂

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

The minute I hear "climate change" I know I'm watching a muppet production.

[@Flyingdutchy33]

You had me until you mentioned climate change

[@NathanBrown-z7o]

Environment does change over time.

[@arnaldobellucci9033]

Nice footage and loads of crap, food has never been so abundant and cheaper, and it is due to modern agriculture. People do not know and do not want to produce their own food. I also grew up in 60s and 70s and I am a small grower today, but I am not that clueless.

[@ricka.9977]

Most food grown by big ag goes to feeding livestock, industrial materials and biofuels. If you can grow more food, the price should fall more every year. Except when you grow industrial food. You degrade the soil, price rises. You get wiped out by disease or weather, price rises. Fuel prices go up, price rises. Fertilizer goes up, price rises. All they want is for people like you to keep singing their praises while they buy up every one of your small farms. Ask yourself why modern industrially grown vegetables have less vitamins and minerals than those grown in the past. Shameful. You should know better by now.

[@arnaldobellucci9033]

@@ricka.9977 I know better, I have grew up in a pretty small farm in Brazil, I worked very hard tasks, we produced everything we ate except sugar and salt, everything was expensive, yields were pretty low so the prices were high. All you said is wrong, small growers eventually sell their land mostly because they age and the siblings see no future working the land, small farm produce are not better than any other, efficient small growers use exactly the same technology the big growers use, this is the only way, this naive romanticism sounds nice, but it actually hurt real growers, agriculture has little to do with vegetable gardens, these are hobbies, not solutions.

[@morrismonet3554]

Americans spend less of their total income on food than any other country. No reason to change that.

[@chrisking9424]

@@morrismonet3554 They also spend more on healthcare then any other country, think there's any correlation!

[@LtColDaddy71]

@@morrismonet3554and dollar for dollar, what is spent on medical care has gone up proportionally, then their are all the outside expenses. Water treatment, subsidies, the Gulf of Mexico…. Farming has improved tremendously, but it has a long way to go. I went in full steam ahead, had two concurrent off farm incomes, also caught some breaks along the way. I get an operator not wanting to bet the farm, pun intended. But we have guys in their 60’s to 80’s who refuse to hang it up, and their kids are actually really open to improvement. I know, they come up to me all the time and vent their frustrations. I don’t believe co2 is bad. I think this blue marble we live on has thrown itself in to a forever mini ice age by taking it out of its natural cycle through deep sequestration. Any time the poles have been green, so was the Middle East. Co2 gives the engine of the climate the power it needs to push precipitation into areas it can’t currently. The sea levels do not go up when the ice caps melt. Evaporation transfers that water on land, creating lush, cooler over all environment. I do what I do for soil health, which directly nurtures better plant, animal and human health. I’m not a p!ss ant farmer, we’re above average in size.

[@morrismonet3554]

Using an ancient Allis Chalmers D-15 tells me these people are hobby farmers and have no intention of making any real money unless they can find suckers to pay them 3x market price for their "sustainable" food.

[@pamela6074]

Or they could be sweating the equity and finding alternative ways to reduce costs like vertical integration of the animal,veg, cost. There is more than one way to solve the issue, just like there is diversity in regions , climates, soil, etc.

[@morrismonet3554]

@@pamela6074 Sounds like you know nothing about farming. I know a hobby farm when I see one.

[@TheAntiqueFarmer]

10 min in and there’s a bunch of propaganda already.

[@timlawson817]

Most people cant keep a house plant alive . So industrial farming is needed .

[@atlas4225]

​@arnaldobellucci9033 I'm not prepared to adopt a defeatist approach to problems, as such i will continue to engage in permaculture and more sustainable practices on my 1.5 acres. I do more than most with such resources and many would do well to try harder.

[@HECKLEFISH.]

Bow to us Farmers or pay the consequences...jk or am I 😅

[@Cpt_JaK]

& farmers must bow to the immigrants, labor force (or lack thereof), and energy comps. that extract oil & the refineries that convert it to Ag diesel, for without them farmers aint farming much at all.

[@Pleasegoaway2024]

Actually the last thing that dude said it's an easy question to answer stop allowing the United corporation of America to own you for a dollar bill. That's all you're worth to the United corporations of America a dollar

[@emermbiemeri]

aka meh ju boh politikanve. politikanet. bujkutoni. ndreshoj edhe une poziten qkah meh boh nuk po dih

[@emermbiemeri]

1990. imt 539. te ri pi fabrikes

[@scottsmith1569]

I feel so obligated to also comment that this regenerative model of farming would drastically cut into the big chemical companies pockets. They donate millions to political campaigns. Also discussing growing your own seeds, most people aren't aware THAT'S NOT LEGAL, a literal CRIME with most major seed companies, has been for decades. Today's farmers do not OWN the seeds they buy. They're just using them to produce a crop. They can not use any of their crop for future seeds. I met a very elderly man in Alabama that was arrested and jailed for refusing to follow this. Again, like virtually every aspect of agriculture, the mega wealthy CONTROL nearly every aspect of it. Until we can have major campaign finance reform, and break up the very few agriculture and chemical producers that are clearly monopolies, nothing will ever change. Both political parties are equally liable for allowing this atrocity.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

Only if they are Monsanto seeds. Organic farmers still recycle all their own seeds, and they aren’t purchased from Monsanto. This is why America has tried to squash organic farming. Farmers CAN take control again.

[@DJJonPattrsn22]

​@@selecttravelvacations7472Yes! Not only that, but in many cases the seeds will not produce the same crop again anyway...

[@gabriellacordova6099]

If you have any critique of this video, go back to the very beginning of it and see how every civilization before ours has doomed itself by destroying the soil. Do not let history repeat itself. We have a choice right now.

[@bonnieupton4114]

I mix urine 4 to 1 with water and put it on my flower gardens. Amazing! They are assume now! Didn't cost me a dime. I do it 4 times a year, on the snow or before a rain. Use coffee grounds also. Dry and Grind up egg shells to put in my planters and flower pots. All free. My grapes doubled, Blackberrys also. Disabled and 70, but where there is a will their is a way. Trying to figure out how to make a garden that I can do..... With my disabled old body.

[@BobRooney290]

i only follow permaculture and no till farmers on youtube. the know how to restore soil. anything you grow to eat removes nutrients from the ground. it doesnt grow in the wild. you need to learn how to grow food with compost teas, mulches, and compost on top of the soil. you also need to learn how to grow produce with other plants that compliment it, drawing out nutrients for your produce from a lower level of soil, and also prevent bugs from attacking your produce with natural oil repellents and smells in its leaves. that is how to sustainably grow food. sadly not 1 corporation will ever adhere to this method, but it takes time and manpower and most importantly, respect for the soil that gives nothing but life.