One Hungry Planet

[ShaneOmac397]

@phillips78 Individual farms have grown because more people have left the industry. They've grown because they had to. As for your "solution" of contraception, we're not just talking about America. There are countries in this world that ARE escaping poverty and, for that reason, are seeing increasing populations. Should they be told (by their government or another) that they can't have children even though they can financially sustain the increase?

[phillips78]

1) At 1.03 it failed to mention that world population grew by almost 30% in the same period and that individual farms have grown so of course a farmer feeds more today 2) it also failed to mention that without fossil fuels none of this growth would have been possible and fossil fuels are likely to get very expensive very soon. 3) overall a misreprestation of current farming methods which are unsustainable.

[kayzeebee13]

@normalguyable this video is about agriculture not livestock.

@supercucu123 farmers actually make decent pay depending on how well their crops do. it may be like that where you live but where I am farmers are paid fairly and adaquately.

[normalguyable]

any respect and dignity for the life of cows? are they just robots to serve your taste buds? the human race are bloodthirsty brainwashed murderers.

[Supercucu123]

Too bad farmers have the shitty end of the deal. Working long hours with little pay. All their profits sucked up by large corporations. Farmers are pretty much slaves to the corporations because they have no other choice. Trust me, I know a lot of farmers.

[Supercucu123]

Humans need to learn about goddamn birth control.

[Zamriasra]

Sigh i wish every person that brought the topic "We can not feed enough people on this world, or the world is over populated" would watch this video.

[phillips78]

Once cheap fossil fuels run low and we reach the limits of genetics in plant growth people might start to realise that we have been picking the low hanging fruit. Increases in crop productivity are slowing down. We need to start dealing with the causes of increasing demand, rather than the consequences. If everyone voluntarily choose to have just one child or less for two generations and we stabilised at 2 billion people we would no longer need to keep damaging soil or the environment.

[tubor70]

@phillips78 Very Orwellian future you advise for all of us. Tough to get consensus on that perhaps though you could help thin out the herd by taking yourself out of circulation.

[phillips78]

@tubor70 No need for deaths just use a condom, problem solved :)

Option 1: keep going the way we are and nature soon limits our numbers in an unpleasant way or Option 2: use voluntary contraception to stabilise and reach a more sustainable population level where everyone can escape poverty due to a larger share of resources per person?

You prefer option 1, I prefer option 2.

[imperfectionKillz]

Nutritionally depleted food comes from nutrient depleted soil. Let us welcome obesity with open arms! I'd rather invest my money into our hospitals instead of good quality food. Feed me, Monsanto! Keep the economy going strong!

[rachelmc74]

I was at National PAS conference this past week. I am a horticulture student.

This video made me more aware of those students around me that are making feeding America and the world there career choice. If it wasn't for you we would all starve to death.

I just want say Thank you!

[agsalesman]

I'm proud to be a family farmer who not only supports, but has benefitted greatly from biotech crops. Monsanto has done more to help the American farmer in the last 20 years that the US Government, or anyone else for that matter, had in the past 100. Check out my YouTube channel to learn more about us, and to see the real face of agriculture.

[MrHoopster32]

@ gearlockT Point is gearlockT, if you want to think that is our problem drerived from junk science, about our food source, go ahead, I can't fix ignorance (from junk science). That fact is, the US is the MOST regulated farming country, the food you eat is safer than you going to the doctor and him injecting CHEMICALS into your body for colds and the flu. You will die from something, my be it will be anything else other than US food. (hence the radio, cell phone example from the previous post)

[gearlockT]

@MrHoopster32 I don't even know how to respond to your ridiculousness. Have a good one!

[MrHoopster32]

@gearlockT I was thinking about this on my way home with the raido playing, the cb on, my cell phone sitting next to me, driving by a TV station...with all these, and many more radio frequencies, and all the extra crap processors put in food, and all the cars on the road emitting gases, you find "facts" that link glyphosate (which is proven to degrade to nothing in 30 days and is non carcinagatic {spelling} { non cancer causing}), farm chemicals are safe, unless you believe junk science!

[aprilreeves1]

@abawald: It seems to me an unrealistic world is that which controls our food supply and sovereignty. Unrealistic is when your GM crops contaminate mine, I get sued, I lose my livelihood and sometimes my farm, and you continue to get paid by taxpayers instead of taking a second look and making other choices.

[abawald]

Rather than debate GMO vs non-GMO, Organic vs. non-organic, backyard vs. "factory farms", maybe we should focus on the real importance of this video. The world population is exploding, and the vast majority of that population is not in a place or position to mull over these arguments. Why? Because they are hungry. They just want to eat. So rather than lambasting us farmers for doing what we can to increase production, Why don't you just say thanks and move on?

[bzell99]

Hmm...who mentioned animal waste Mr. Hoopster? and who said a farmer shouldn't make money? It's hard to argue against the truth. I do agree that farmers are more businessmen than farmers. A real farmer is hard to find these days!

[MrHoopster32]

I laugh at all the "experts" that state food quality's gone down, GMO isn't safe, the sky is falling, etc. For the bone head talking about ammonium fert, nitrogen is nitrogen, I'd rather eat food that had the Nitrogen carrier as amonium than animal waste (bullshit). Farmers are businessmen as anybody else, if processors pay more for corn syrup...duh, he's gonna sell to them, you seem to want the farmer to just "give" you the food as it's your right!?!

[gearlockT]

@MrHoopster32 What are you even talking about, you need to do some actual research on the risks of releasing transgenic organisms in the environment and their consumption. Not to mention poisoning our ecosystem with glyphosate and eating foods doused in it, I've lived in rural scenes where people are getting aggressive cancers from glyphosate. It's real science, I've learned directly from geneticists and farmers of the consequences. You want to bury your head in the ground go right ahead...

[bzell99]

It's really hard to watch this. Such a load of bull. Note that food quality is not mentioned. The quality of the plant and crop has been going down and down ever since the use of ammonium, pesticides and herbicides. As well, most farmland growing corn does not even end up as food. They use it to make high fructose corn syrop and all the corn ingredients in our food, also ethonal, and the big one is feed for industrial feedlots. Did I mention that 80%+ of the corn grown in the US is GMO!!!

[aprilreeves1]

@Fentanyl3: you build beehives. I keep bees: lots of them. I'm also a Director of GE Free BC: a NPO that creates GM free zones in Canada. I don't watch junk: I speak all over on the effects of GM crops. Bees and GM don't mix. Not sure why you think they do, but if I struck a nerve then just attack with your brain: give me something to dialogue about.

[TheAquarius2580]

Bottom line to everyone in this world:

HUNGRY AND NAKED...... THAT IS WHERE YOU WOULD BE WITHOUT AGRICULTURE!

I believe in the IPM (look it up if you don't know it) approach, Organics WILL NOT feed 6 billion people, much less 9 billion! We need all technologies available.

155 people every year get to have food on their tables and in their stomachs because of ONE farmer!

[escargotmelonnier]

Dommage que cette vidéo ne soit pas traduite en français! Agriculteur de souche et de sang en Vaucluse, j'airais bien aimé la comprendre!

[aprilreeves1]

1. Corporations like Monsanto are working hard at monopolizing YOUR food supply. Eventually, they will control what you eat and what you grow.

2. Many of the crops shown here are GM (corn, soy, canola, sugarbeet) and are used for animal feeds (around 50%), biofuels and junk food. What a way to feed the world!

3. Using the phrase "Feeding The World" is old, worn out and no one buys it anymore.

4. Support local farmers. Encourage Non-GM farming. Or pay the price later...

[Fentanyl3]

@aprilreeves1 Do the real research for yourself, stop watching films created by college students with an agenda.

[gearlockT]

@Fentanyl3 What are you even talking about, you need to do some research on the risks of releasing transgenic organisms in the environment and their consumption. It's real science, I've learned directly from geneticists and farmers of the consequences, you can't just bury your head in the ground and think things are going to ok. If you want to learn about people with an agenda who are spreading disinformation Monsanto is your culprit. Controlling your food supply is their goal.

[abawald]

@aprilreeves1 please explain your use of the term "local farmers"? Those of us that farm, go to town to the local church, the local store, and the local gas stations don't understand how we are not "local farmers" by the tone of your comment, since we use crops that are designed to control pests themselves, rather than require an application of a pesticide that carries a skull and crossbones on it.

[aprilreeves1]

@abawald Local farmers: those that grow food for the people that live within their neighborhoods. That way the food isn't shipped for hours, using fuels and other costs that drop the prices for farmers. Are you growing GM? If so, you are stimulating the profits of one of 4 Corporations that will take over all the seeds and control of what you farm and what you eat. Plus encourage cross contamination, wiping out farms and lives - like mine, as I have no recourse. Fair?

[abawald]

@aprilreeves1 one of the main tenets of successful economics is specialization. In Northern Indiana, our soils and climate dispose themselves well to raising corn and soybeans. Not carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, etc. but grain crops. As such, we raise grains that will then be used to feed animals. The majority of our corn is shipped direct to North Carolina poultry feeders by our local elevator. So I feel we are a very local farmer. I admire your idealistic yet unrealistic view.

[mcc1327]

Amen!! Farming is safer, greener, and more efficient today than ever before. Somebody needs to create a 3 hour video over this same stuff to run "food inc" in the ground. And to the guy or girl saying that monsanto was banned in europe, monsanto has been in the seed developing business a hell of along time and trust me they know what they are doin; also look at europes failing farming techniques DA.

Greeting from North Texas!

[farmerallis]

That last statistic is just mind boggling.

[johndeereal1]

I grew up on a family farm and none of this info is a suprise to me ,i lived it. I loved farming there is no life like it. I have acheived the ultimate eveloution of being a shade tree mechanic learning from the school of hard knocks on the family farm to a Maintenance Tec at BASF. What a ride !!

[CorporateRule]

Go Monsato! Go Archer Daniels Midland! Go BASF AgriProducts! Without your AgriBiz innovations and food production technology, the world would be hungry!

[gearlockT]

@CorporateRule Are you fucking serious! Monsanto is ruining food security, get real you fool.

[gearlockT]

@CorporateRule Once you learn of the consequences associated with releasing transgenic organisms into the environment you start to realize that it is a pandora's box capable of creating an ecological disaster the likes of nothing we have ever faced. Not only that but through the unethical ownership of living plants and animals the giant agribusiness corp Monsanto and others are gaining control of the world food production and destroying food security.

[CorporateRule]

@gearlockT

How is it possible that you believe such nonsense in these modern times?

Are you living in the Stone Age?

Of course a corporation can own living plants, they can take ownership of an entire species of plants if they so choose, especially in cases where the species have been genetically created from scratch in a lab, and therefore patently owned outright.

We knowledge your position, but cannot morally agree with any 'conspiracy theorists' nonsensical views that GMO's aren't beneficial.

[gearlockT]

@CorporateRule Nonsense? It's factual science you moron, do the research. It's all there if your not ignorant enough to ignore it. I don't have to live in the stone age to be wary of the consequences of releasing transgenic organisms into the environment. You obviously don't even understand the gospel you preach. No biotech corp creates anything from scratch in a lab, it's all altering dna from established organisms, so what the hell are you even talking about?

[gearlockT]

@CorporateRule What's the conspiracy here? I know a farmer who was sued because monsanto's gmo canola contaminated his crop. His crop then belonged to monsanto. Where do you not see the problem here? You fail to understand the situation that effects farmers who don't want to grow gmo. It's all about money and control, and as you spew your pro gmo propaganda your food security is being handed over to these fiends.

[langbankplayer]

@gearlockT Percy Schmeiser is a loser, and a publicity hound. Not to mention a thief.

[gearlockT]

@langbankplayer I would have liked to insult you, but with your intelligence you wouldn't get offended.

[gearlockT]

@CorporateRule Horizontal gene transfer is responsible for new and bold pathogens arising. They are introducing experimental genetically engineered crops into the environment and are not responsible for any damages caused if a genetic disease spreads. Stop believing all the lies the biotech corporations are feeding you, understand the ramifications of toying with the primary building blocks of life before you make any more asinine comments.

[nelson9510]

As a farmer (some would say large, others would say small), I really appreciate this video. The average consumer is very disconnected from agriculture. Most do not understand the american farmer. 99% of farms are family owned. Those 99% produce 94% of the food produced in the country.

BTW, we are not being persecuted by chemical and seed companies, we have plenty of choices. Nothing is forced on us. We make our own decisions. Great video to view search for Dr. Jay Lehr visits San Francisco

[nelson9510]

As a farmer (some would say large, others would say small), I really appreciate this video. The average consumer is very disconnected from agriculture. Most do not understand the american farmer. 99% of farms are family owned. Those 99% produce 94% of the food produced in the country.

BTW, we are not being persecuted by chemical and seed companies, we have plenty of choices. Nothing is forced on us. We make our own decisions. Great video!! >>> youtube.com/watch?v=2n2HjGam_j­I

[pearce369]

People of the U.S. have no idea where food comes from. This should be shown in every school. As 8th generation  beef producers my family was enviromentalist before it was the "in" thing, our land is our living destroying it would destroy our livelihood.

[doidletp]

I have dug through a large pile of scientific, peer-reviewed publications comparing organic production to conventional farming practices... bottom line is that WHEN detectable, the differences are very minor, that conventionally produced food is safe, and sometimes organic food is actually more dangerous because organic (read that "chicken manure") fertilizer sources can sometimes be more harmful than pelleted fertilizers.

[brwnstown]

LMAO, everyone cheer for Monsanto frankenfood.... Nothing like GMO Corn, soybeans etc....

[AR15Shootist]

@brwnstown It is sad as a farmer with a masters degree in plant pathology and 30 years farming experience (employing 138 people/yr.), and 6 years as a commercial crop consultant, to see the ignorance espoused by a very limited, but vociferous number of young people (usually brainwashed by environmental extremists posing as "experts" in our public schools). Now I know how advanced civilizations felt as they succumbed to the forces of ignorance and brutality at the onset of the Dark Ages.

[brwnstown]

@AR15Shootist

Good for you. Now go ask monsanto why their GMO crap is banned in europe.

Ask them about the bovine growth crap as well.

Better yet ask papa bush why he appointed monsanto guys into the USDA and FDA to get their crap approved.

Then ask the farmers who have been sued by monsanto because their franken crops have cross pollinated with farmers who were not growing their crap how they feel..

But the world needs shills.Good Job..

[abawald]

@brwnstown It's a pretty simple answer, and Monsanto will be the first to admit why their "GMO Crap" is banned in Europe. It's because uninformed or poorly informed environmentalists pushed their agenda to the public, scaring the hell out of all of them unnecessarily, and the government caved in to the public, not sound scientific research. As they say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and in this case, the squeaking was for no good reason.

[brwnstown]

@abawald

Just LOL @ U...

[agdiva9]

I really like this video, the only thing is I wish the examples used about doubling the amount of food wasn't corn and soybeans because they are already giving farmers a bad rep...

[jburrows2009]

great video. i think more people should watch this, gives a good view into the world of agriculture

[MappingUK]

How did I miss this? Just seen follow up video 'World without Farmers' which is great and same funky, addictive sound track. Powerful words in both videos with different hard hitting message re farmers, farming and agriculture. Well done.

[MappingUK]

How did I miss this? Just seen follow video 'World without Farmers' which is great and same funky, addictive sound track. Powerful words and hard hitting message re farmers, farming and agriculture. Well done.

[ham99007]

What is this music? I like it!

[RD4AgAZ]

I grow food. You eat food. Pretty simple, you need me more than I need you. And the real shame is that I can't make it so that you ignorant boneheads don't get what I grow.

The only reason you critics have time to spew your lame beliefs is because I am feeding you.

Quit talking about things you know nothing about, especially while your mouth is full.

[cookiefia]

@RD4AgAZ Bonehead says, i chose what i want to eat, and you need me as well just as i need you.

My only concern is not for me or you, its for our own kids, i want to be sure its not poison your feeding your son or grandson and me too!

[josh1hogan]

Go watch the Some Food for Thought Video. It's much better.

[doidletp]

@angelazul416 So if I follow your logic... by selling products to farmers to help them improve yields and produce more food these companies are making people be poor and hungry so that they can get richer? Just listen to yourself!

[PippiLongsox]

Deemstars, "giant multi-national corporations" do not own most of the farms. The U.S. government recently announced the most current statistic: 98 percent of U.S. farms are family farms. You might not like their productivity, but they are family farms. The only farms corporations like Monsanto own are research farms, where scientists work to develop productive, safe, efficient products and techniques to feed our growing world. And no, I don't work for Monsanto. I have degrees in agriculture.

[PippiLongsox]

Deemstars, "giant multi-national corporations" do not own most of the farms. The U.S. government recently announced the most current statistic: 98 percent of U.S. farms are family farms. You might not like their productivity, but they are family farms. The only farms corporations like Monsanto own are research farms, where scientists work to develop productive, safe, efficient products and techniques to feed our growing world. And no, I don't work for Monsanto. I have two degrees in agriculture.

[darroth42]

woooooooooooooooooow.

[vakusb]

Great video. The world's population is growing, the land available for food production is not growing. Farmers are doing a better job than ever providing food.

[Petrhivanderlinde]

Thanks to all the Farmers! Keep up the hard work!!!

[kjhexec]

Thanks for framing the future of food issue so we can see clearly what is ahead. This is definitely a video worth sharing.

[Theowest]

People eat too much!! EVERYONE EATS TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! We CAN feed EVERYONE, but some people just eats too much.. -.-

[rainingblood001]

@Theowest The world population increases by 200,000 everyday. We must produce more.

[Theowest]

@rainingblood001 and consume less.

[SandReckoner14]

For all those criticizers on here: If you don't like the way our ag business works then go grow your own food. Simple as that.

[40intrek]

Heaps of Prayers for our Farmers, but this is a chemical production so heaps of Prayers for the chemical industies, for they will one day be held just as accountable as the rest of us.. Thanks....

[snazzykcat]

@wmarkhilton - that's right, my friend! No one that's not a farmer or not from a farming town would truly understand the hard work, amazing patience, and heaps of prayers it takes to be a farmer.

Great video, BASF.

Farmers - keep on keepin' on. AND: Thank you, each and every one of you!

[40intrek]

@snazzykcat Heaps of Prayers for our Farmers, but this is a chemical production so heaps of Prayers for the chemical industries, for they will one day be held just as accountable as the rest of us.. Thanks....

[wmarkhilton]

To murphygirl70. So do you want to quit your job and become a full time farmer? If we did what you proposed we would need 20 million full time farmers today instead of the 2 million we have now. Your idea sounds great on paper, but there is no way those of us used to working 40-50 hours/week and making $35,000/year in a temperature controlled work environment woudl go out and start farming and work 80 hours/week and make $20,000/year.

[djjasonwin]

Cool video On why we should eat pesticide food and pay more for medicine

Can wait for when farmers to start growing pills and capsule out the ground that we can eat instead of natural food.

[clonermark]

@murphygirl70 If we go back to farming to feed 15 people are you sure you'll be one of those who has food, at any price?

[beeqool]

so now we all - europeans and americans who basically are also europeans - should feel guilty because of 3rd worlders who dont want to build as minimum 2nd world countries to provide themselves with food as minimum but at the same time breed like shit?

[gni852]

Good job explaining the contribution of agriculture. Would be nice to see the people fed per acre versus farmer since there are less farmers than in 1940. However, there are also less livestock and acres of farm land, too. Thank you to all.

[murphygirl70]

And all your chemicals are making our food supply task like crap (not the original food it was modeled after...) and is making our people SICK!!! Keep up the awesome work people. I want the days of my farmer making food for 15 people back. I'll pay more for it.

[TheWejdin]

@murphygirl70 Ive eaten food that was grown w/o chemicals and food grown with and it really doesn't taste any different. Human life expectancy has risen by about 20-30 years since the 1950s so those chemicals cant be hurting us to bad.

[40intrek]

poisoned with selection... 

[40intrek]

+10% Unemployment Backroom deals. Payoffs. Blatant and shameless. Bribes. We've had enough. We're taking our country back. From radicals. Leftists. Liberals. And progressives. AMERICA RISING.

[40intrek]

Check out “Organic Bytes” which is a publication of the Organic Consumer Association. Or you can put two & two together and look at the backgrounds of the people that have been appointed and are being appointed to branches in our Government.. Here are just a few...

Michael Taylor

Monsanto's Vice President and Chief Lobbyist

Currently Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA. Appointed by Obama

[40intrek]

Linda Fisher Was Executive Vice President for Monsanto Corp Then Environmental Protection Agency Then Monsanto Corp Currently Environmental Protection Agency

Justice Clarence Thomas

Monsanto's Lawyer for Regulatory Affairs

Supreme Court Justice

Micky Kantor

Board of Directors, Monsanto

Secretary of Commerce

Lidia Watrud

Biotech Researcher. Monsanto

Evironmental Protection Agency

[40intrek]

Anne Veneman Board of Directors for Calgene, purchased by Monsanto Secretary of Agriculture Michael Friedman Senior VP for GD Searle, a division of Mosanto Acting Commissioner, FDA William Ruckelshaus Monsanto Board Member Chief Administrator, EPA Donald Rumsfeld President of Searle, susidiary of Monsanto Secretary of Defense the list goes on

[fehlan2]

@40intrek What does it matter the backgrounds of people working in Agriculture? If you seem to know it all, while don't you become a farmer and start producing your own food? Then you can control all the so called 'crap' you believe is in the food. Until then stop talking crap and be thankful that someone cares enough to produce food for thankless people like you.

[40intrek]

Thank you American Farmers but please read Silent Spring if you ever have the time. I personally don't mind eating a few bug now and then, sure would be better then that toxic crap they got everyone hooked on... Thanks

[karumph1]

Why would our hunger double in the next twenty years..if the population only goes up 3 billion? If there are 6.8 billion people now, there would have to be 13.6 billion people in twenty years for our hunger to double. I just say we destroy Africa and everything there, and grow a ton of corn. That way we will have a nearly endless supply of Ethanol (for fuel) and versatile corn (for food). No that wouldn't be a good idea, I'm just trolling. Plus I hate Africa.

[GunSotsOverMe]

Yeah we all should be thanked for doing our job, not just he farmers.

They are just doing their job.

[emevans6102]

@GunSotsOverMe Well until you have as noble of profession as feeding the people of the this Country and many others, don't count on it. We live in a world today where people believe that their food comes from the store. Many people don't understand the work that farmers and ranchers go through to get that food to the store.

[GunSotsOverMe]

@emevans6102 Look my friend, we all get paid accordingly, the more you work, the harder your job is you get paid more. Including farmers unless there are a lot of farmers who do it and subsidise each other. If you didn't understand my comment before I will elaborate. Either we all have "noble" jobs or none of us.

We all work our bottoms off for the better of society, every job is important.

The only noble job I could think of is the one underpaid such as state teachers/ hospital employees.

[fehlan2]

Since all of you seem to be bashing farmers why don't you start growing your own food. I mean most of you seem to know exactly what you want and think you're experts about agriculture. Maybe then your realize that it's not as easy as it looks to feed millions of people. So next time you have a meal, remember who grew it and thank a farmer. Without us you wouldn't be alive.

[akafazov]

This is very misleading video. What did farmers do to grow more crops? Nothing actually, they just took the technology that industry provided. In the process, while growing more food, quality of food dropped dramatically, but farmers did nothing to change this, they just kept growing more. And by the way, if you don't have wars or economic crisis, famine cannot be a problem.

Do you know that 1/2 of worlds population is starving and farmers now produce more food than the entire world needs?

[russttu]

@akafazov The quality of row crops has absolutely gone up. Less pest damage means less aflotoxin poisoning. Stop misleading people.

[DairyGal1]

This is a great video...reality should be slapping you all in the face right about now!! No matter who grows your food (btw it's not big corporations) whether it's organic or conventional, the fact remains that the population wants to eat. Do you want to eat American? or do you want to eat from another country whose food you cannot be sure is safe? Oh yea, local is great, and I promote that at all times, but it won't feed Detroit, or Chicago, or New York! Wake up America, thank a farmer!

[cookiefia]

@DairyGal1 Please wake up, 5 companies control about 85% world production. Americain Farmers have to buy their seeds year after year ! Please Americains open your eyes and talk to your farmers , they are persecuted and are being ruined by these companies, help your farmers to fight against these guys if its not too late! thank you

[ackermanfarms]

@cookiefia we american farmers buy our seeds because they come from the seed factory treated with pesticides and herbicides. plus corn nowadays is made up of many different varieties of corn. the seed compainies breed the corn to have certain traits so that it is resistent to pests such a corn rootworm and so that it yields more bushels per acre since us farmers have less and less land to grow crops on everyday. The seed compainies are good. 54.4% of U.S. farms fall between 1-99 acres.

[cookiefia]

The problem is that you have to buy your seeds at the same companie that produces the pesticides. Can you tell me if your own seeds grow ? Or do you have to buy them year after year? sorry for the english.

[ackermanfarms]

@cookiefia we don't have to buy the seed and chemicals from the same company. most of the seed and chemicals are interchangable. If we would plant the seeds from the plants that we harvest each fall they would grow. but they would grow very poorly. we would have more cost in tilling the ground, planting the crop, and harvesting it than we would from buying seed which has chemicals applied to it at the seed factory to prevent pests from keeping it from growing. we buy new seed each spring.

[sammx137]

@cookiefia I am speaking for only 3 crops I am educated about because these are the 3 we produce. Corn, soybeans and wheat.

Wheat and soybeans can be saved and used to plant the following year as long as they are not protected by the PVP Act. Corn on the other hand cannot be saved because it is a cross pollinating plant and it bred for hybrid vigor. Its offpsrings won't have the same vigor. If you have more questions post on my channel and I'll get answer them.

[deemstars]

If the giant multi-national corporations who own almost all of the farms in the world actually cared at all about feeding the starving people, there wouldn't be any starving people. The goal of these corporations is not to feed hungry people, it's all about maximizing profits at all costs.

This video sucks.

[40intrek]

I sure do wish the our first lady weather we like her or not, would speak out against the real issue hear. I mean, isn't good quality food important for the masses as well????

[40intrek]

Gen-M, the first Monsanto Generation of humans force-fed genetically modified foods hasn't reached reproductive age yet (they were born in the late 1990s). But, if a critical mass of animal feeding studies are any indication, the millennial generation, reared on Food Inc.'s unlabeled "Frankenfoods" can look forward to a long-term epidemic of cancer, food allergies, learning disabilities, sterility, and birth defects.

[40intrek]

@40intrek Corn (85% of U.S. production is GM), soy (91% GM), cotton (88% GM), canola (85% GM) and sugar beets (95% GM) are all genetically engineered by Monsanto to withstand massive doses of the company's glyphosate herbicide RoundUp, or else to exude their own pesticide, Bacillus Thuriengensis (Bt). RoundUp, the favorite weedkiller poison of non-organic farmers and gardeners, causes brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses.

[40intrek]

@40intrek And scientists warn that RoundUp, the most extensively used herbicide in the history of agriculture, "may have dire consequences for agriculture such as rendering soils infertile, crops non-productive, and plants less nutritious." In addition, hundreds of thousands of US dairy cows are injected with genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (developed by Monsanto) in spite of studies linking BGH with cancer, and longstanding bans in most industrialized nations.

[40intrek]

@40intrek With genetically modified foods and crops threatening public health and the environment, not to mention the next generation's reproductive capacity, why isn't there a massive consumer outcry to restrain Monsanto's biotech bullying and ban genetically engineered foods and agriculture?

[40intrek]

@40intrek The answer is disturbingly simple. Collusion between Monsanto and elected public officials (including the current Obama Administration) has obscured the fact that almost all non-organic foods in the US contain GMOs. Despite poll after poll indicating that 85-95% of US consumers want mandatory labels on foods containing GMOs, Congress has heretofore listened to Monsanto and corporate agribusiness, rather than their own constituents.

[mojo4tojo]

@40intrek Intrek, show me the data. Truth is, GE food is now grown on over 3 billion acres, by large, small and family farms and there hasn't been one recorded belly ache. On top of that, as a result of GE, farming has become considerably MORE sustainable, not less. Get your facts straight, 40 intrek.

[40intrek]

@mojo4tojo there's some of my data, where's your's, mojo

[ackermanfarms]

@40intrek show me your data. there is not one difference between GE plants and organic except of course that GE plants yield much more than organic plants do.

[macilak]

People please! First and for most please research the subject before you thank a video on a chemical company's channel. What they are advocating is NOT sustainable agriculture (corn, soybeans, more food in QUANTITY...).

[40intrek]

familyfarmer,,,, more and more farmers today don't own there farms unless they bow down to Monsanto... Thanks goes to the ones with the guts to stand up to them. FREEDOM!!!!!

[dudevinci]

i will be so old then its 2050

[jonboy2781]

I love you FARMERS! :D

[vandos11]

farmers RULE!

[TheLittleAzn]

Thanks.. pshh Your joking right!

People on Youtube! Make sure you look up GMF(Genetically Modified Foods) before saying "Thanks" to some BS ; )!

[b3stn4me3ver1]

Thanks

[dipankarbaishya]

Very nicely presented importance of Agriculture....the foundation of our society. Proud to work with farming community in India and hep them to address some of their issues (may be very small way)!!!!!

[macilak]

@dipankarbaishya Please research keywords sustainable + agriculture (esp. if you are a farmer or advocating for farmers).

[aseemasongs]

Excellent video that should be shared in classrooms across our country. I encourage the sponsor to have an updated version of this each year. It is nice to have a youtube video about food based on science and facts for a change. I appreciate the documented sources for the data provided.

[cookiefia]

@aseemasongs Not based on real facts ! Hope this video will never been shown in classes. this company made this video for its own propaganda. Please talk to your farmers they will tell you how they are being ruined.

[ackermanfarms]

@cookiefia we are being ruined by the HSUS and other "animal rights activists" not by seed and chemical companies. get your damn facts straight before you go posting all this BS

[doidletp]

@cookiefia Yes. Please do talk to your farmers. They will tell you that they are free to make their own choices and that these technological advances are appreciated, they use them to produce more food, and that they make feeding the world a possibility.

[watsupkim]

AWESOME VIDEO!!! I LOVE doing my part as a rancher to feed 155 people and preserve my land for future generations in my family!

[40intrek]

"Monsanto"!!! There's that dirty word again. Amazing how many former monsanto employee's have made it into our current government. Has anyone else noticed???

Many thanks to the Small Family Farms still out there!!!

[ssariesen]

THANK YOU FARMERS!!!! However, look who made this video. They failed to state the amount of chemicals now used and the decreasing number of farmers on that same amount of land. The increased number of corporate owned farms drowning out the small family owned farms is a disturbing trend that just makes me sick. Keep your eye on the likes of BASF, Monsanto, and Dupont. THANK YOU SMALL FARMERS, MAY YOUR INTEGRITY SURVIVE..

[familyfarmer]

@ssariesen According to USDA 96% of farms today are owned by family farmers. Farming has changed since 1950 but the people working the land & caring for the livestock are still the same hard-working families as they were in 1950. Size doesn't matter when it comes to the quality of care given to the land & livestock. What matters is the farmers commitment to care, they want to pass their farms onto the next generation, they don't overuse chemicals & many use manure as fertilizer.

[jonboy2781]

Your right and a smart person too and this is a compliment . :D

[3739527]

What the video fails to show is that about 80% of the corn, soybeans, and wheat is wasted by feeding it to dairy cows, livestock, and factory-farmed fish for meat, dairy products, and eggs, creating a huge amount of toxic and devastating pollution. I urge non-vegetarians to go veg, and vegetarians to go vegan, and please spread the word! Read The World Peace Diet to find out more!

[ackermanfarms]

@3739527 do you drive a car?? all the cars on the road put out much more pollution than farmers. its dumb asses like you that ruin the world

[smseifert5]

Excellent video! We r definitely doing our part to feed our 155 people!

[patzmarketing]

great presentation - thank you!

[jhoughde]

Impressive - although (according to the latest FAO Yearbook) Americans now consume 3790 Calories per person, when the number required to maintain weight averages only 2350 - so each U.S. farmer is now actually producing enough food to feed 250 people, not 155!

[macilak]

@jhoughde Yes quantity is important but do we have the quality?

[berniemcken]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[whomybuddy]

You have educated me XD Thanks man

[russttu]

Great video. Sustainability is about how efficient we can be with our current resources given current technological knowledge. It also demonstrates that as technology develops, our ability to utilize finite resources in a more efficient way becomes more necessary. For those who think organic or bio-dynamic food production is the only sustainable system, just ask yourself what the world would be like currently if 1/3 of our food simply disappeared. The food riots of 2007 would be but a hiccup.

[macilak]

@russttu Our food IS disappearing. Plan diversity is in an alarming decline! This video is a bunch of BS. I am not advocating for bio/organic production but for local, diverse food production (policulture).

[russttu]

@macilak this has nothing to do with local polycultures. This has to do with feeding people. Complex 3 rotation row crop farms can be just as sustainable as any other type of system. I have nothing against local production but a recent study indicated that if you put the entire state of New York under tillage, they would only be able to feed 22% of their population. Where is the remaining 78% going to come from?