Eating Our Way To Extinction [FULL DOCUMENTARY] 4K

thank you foreign [Music] ers we surely you must realize that this is their home these indigenous tribes have been living on this land for hundreds of years listen this world is not fair some people win some people lose the whole world think they can tell Brazil what to do with her land sorry no we do what we please our Earth she is ever in flow and motion a dynamic Symphony of forces all working together breathing life into the four corners of the world and for millennia cultures the world over have called her their mother foreign foreign ly beautiful planet a home that we will hopefully pass on to Generations to come but his ears go by it's becoming increasingly hard to imagine what kind of a world we're leaving behind us we've spent the last four years traveling around the world filming the Stark reality that people now face from the threat of ecological collapse it's now become very clear to us that there's one thing driving the destruction of our ecosystems faster than anything else let us show you how this very same thing might just also be our salvation foreign and environmental scientists warn that we are fast approaching the point of no return if we don't make a substantial course reversal we see really serious catastrophic effects in the next few years certainly in the next decade or two the world will be completely different from the way it is now since 1900 we have seen a dramatic increase in worldwide weather-related disasters there have now been four times more weather-related disasters in the last 50 years than in the previous 100. we began to work together to move this issue onto the global Center Stage there was a lot of discussion about the contribution from buildings and from industrial factories but I became aware during that same period of time that there was another factor that was going undiscussed and that is the role of animal and agriculture which I could see was playing some significant role around the planet but this was the elephant in the room no one wanted to talk about whatever environmental issue you want to look at from species loss to water pollution to water use to climate change animal agriculture is one of the top causes the critical widespread negative impact of animal agriculture on our planet is undeniable severe Global crises from climate change and environmental damage to species Extinction hunger poverty disease and antibiotic resistance all of these have direct connections to Anna animal Agriculture and the massive inefficiency of our current food production systems Port published by Wikileaks as far back as 2009 exposed the conversations between Nestle Executives and U.S officials called the Tour de Horizon the Nestle Executives said our own research had shown that the world was set to run out of fresh water within the next 30 Years it stated that one of the greatest reasons for our detour down this catastrophic path is the global demand for meat products if you look at the the impact that food Choice has on on global warming it's very significant eating meat is huge for global climate and that's something where personal choice is the determining Factor so there's the only case I can think of where individual human choice would have a big effect would be food we're now over the line and the idea that we're going to double meat production between now and 2050 this is just unsustainable this is going to have to give our diet is taking us to an abyss a significant reason why livestock production has been having such a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions is because of the large surfaces of forests that have been destroyed in order to make room for pastures and for the growth of soybean and Maize for feedstock production were once full of the most of a life in more recent years we began to grow an insatiable appetite for meat and dairy and as our demand for more meat grew we needed more and more land so we slashed and burned our way through the pristine forests destroying everything in our paths to make way for the animals we desired to eat as these animals weren't allowed to roam free as they naturally do in the wild their grazing areas soon became empty and so of course we needed to feed them so again we slashed and burned our way through more and more forests sowed the ground with Genetically Enhanced corn and soya and then doused it in pesticides herbicides and synthetic chemical fertilizer animal agriculture has literally changed the face of our planet the Greenland is used for human crops a great area that spans the globe and yet the land we use for animal agriculture shown in red now occupies vast amounts of our Earth's land a far greater area than that used for human crops almost all the earth's surface is now Bears The Mark of some kind of human impact and most of that is livestock production agriculture has transformed the planet like nothing else to produce milk we Farm an area about the size of Brazil to produce beef we Farm an area about the size of Canada the United States the whole of Central America Venezuela Colombia and Ecuador combined to produce eggs we found area the size of Sweden to produce aquaculture feed an area about the size of the UK a plant-based diet would reduce the amount of land required to produce our food by 3.1 billion hectares that's an area of the size of the entire African continent this ancient and richly biodiverse world is slowly being replaced it is often assumed that much of the soy being planted in Brazil is for human consumption in fact less than six percent of the soy grown across the globe is fed to humans the vast majority is grown to create animal feed for livestock the soy is exported all around the world and fed to the billions of chickens farmed fish pigs and cows that we eat each day the forests are not only home to millions of species of Wildlife and plants but are also great Regulators of our planet's atmosphere day by day they slowly breathe in the carbon dioxide whilst producing billions of tons of fresh oxygen for our air each year an estimated 18 million Acres of forest are lost which is roughly the size of the country of Panama it is thought that about half of the Earth's mature tropical forests have now been destroyed and some scientists have predicted that in less significant measures are taken on a worldwide basis by 2030 only 10 of the forests will remain [Music] one of the most precious things we have in the world is our rainforest the rainforests are literally being chewed Away by farmers who know they can make money by cutting another acre and then another acre and then another acre for need [Music] foreign [Music] each year hundreds of tribes people indigenous to the Amazon rainforest have their Villages burned to the ground they have been forcibly removed from their land with many of them murdered by the agribusiness paramilitary who seeks to turn their jungle home into farmland for growing soy for livestock feed [Music] [Music] one of the worst affected tribes is the garani Kiowa in matogroso De Sol foreign [Music] [Music] movie [Music] noise so there was actually a report that came out in 2018 and they found that the world's top five livestock corporations now release more annual greenhouse gas emissions than ExxonMobil shell and BP it is crazy when you think about it because the EU is spending 24 billion pounds of taxpayers money on livestock farming each year and this is at a time when we are facing an ecological collapse and we drastically need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so it's no surprise that people are asking a lot of questions now about the fact that there seems to be some serious conflicts of interest going on here there's some very heavy lobbying going on of government and I think that happens throughout the world and it's just a historic thing that needs to be I think rebalanced as I've mentioned to you over the phone um I've worked with a number of large livestock companies around the world um so the way it works is that a representative from pesos he usually look up to half million euros we then Target the relevant uh politicians from different governments around the world and motions are made to pass legislation in favor of the company's business strategies for Environmental Policy we can be very persuasive in order to abolish our heavily relaxed environmental regulations in government so our clients have more freedom in their work I mean the other day we managed to kill proposed legislation that would have had a huge impact on the industry based on a report from the unfao you know the industry is just concerned with growth but the environmental data that's coming out now it's it's really making that difficult for them today democracy does not always function as well as it should because of the huge influence that agribusiness corporations and livestock producers in particular exercise on decision making the former director of the United Nations food and agriculture organization Dr Samuel jassi warned as far back as 2010 that interventions by agribusiness lobbyists were blocking reforms that would offer better standards for human health and preserving the environment big animal agribusiness corporations and food producers influence over political decisions about the regulation of their industry has long been a concern for campaigners who see the narrow interests of the industry taking widespread control if we have any doubt about how powerful this influence is we can recall that for example when the advisory committee on dietary guidelines in the U.S made recommendations to the U.S government as to how dietary guidelines should be shaped they were blocked by this very powerful Lobby of agribusiness interests change through livestock the report states that livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all Global Transportation combined a growing number of scientists believe that the impact of animal agriculture is in fact even worse than stated in the FAO report there are close ties between the research organizations and governments and government policy and industry it's very pervasive because livestock Industries depend on government policies that support them the a few reports was prepared within the FL by Specialists of Agriculture and livestock production not by Specialists of the environmental issues associated with agricultural production I believe that to more serious concern of course is that the International Meat Association was involved in preparing the report which does raise the question of the independence with which the study was prepared government policy in that regard is not for the benefit of the land it's for the benefit of the industry in their report the FAO partnered up with member countries non-governmental organizations and many other organizations including the European feed manufacturers Federation the international Dairy Federation the International Meat Secretariat the international egg commission and the international poultry Council in an industry worth over a trillion dollars are these not the very institutions that have the most to lose from a damaging scientific report against livestock farming [Music] there are few people that know more about the ocean than Dr Sylvia Earl Dr Earl was the first woman to become Chief scientist of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and held the record for spending more time walking along the sea floor at depth untethered than any living person when I was a child the idea of a dead zone in the ocean was was not even in our vocabulary but in the 20th century as agriculture began to greatly expand the areas around the coast began to show signs of wear and tear the first most notorious Spotlight area I think was off the Gulf of Mexico and it has simply grown over the years an annual phenomenon it is coincident with the application of massive amounts of fertilizer the millions of square miles given over to Growing feed for the animals we eat are heavily sprayed with nitrogen fertilizers the nitrogen runs off the fields working its way down rivers and eventually into our oceans the nitrogen-rich water stimulates massive overgrowth of algae resulting in algal blooms so large they can be seen from space the algae starves the water of oxygen leading to the death of the marine life around it since the demand for meat has grown these low oxygen dead zones have been steadily growing and growing there are hundreds of dead zones that have developed all around the coastlines of the world and okay people say that's that's too bad for the fish so sorry fish but we need to understand that what we do to the ocean we're doing to ourselves [Music] I want others to see and and to see for themselves this is all we've got this little blue miracle [Music] It is believed by some that switching from eating meat to fish will have a beneficial effect on our planet this simply could not be further from the truth if the ocean dies then we humans would probably die with it as every other breath of air we take has been created by our ocean as reported in the leading science journal Nature we have lost nearly 90 percent of all large fish in the ocean since the 50s one of the most in-depth studies ever carried out investigating fish stocks also in the journal Nature stated that at the current rate of fishing the world's Fisheries are predicted to collapse in less than 30 years according to ipbes the intergovernmental body which assesses the state of our biodiversity the leading cause of marine life Extinction is fishing our taste for fish is literally draining our oceans of life [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] opportunities for European fishermen with more than 5 billion euros and benefiting more than 50 000 fishermen catches agreed today will continue to make the European fishing industry highly profitable also in 2019. [Music] [Music] no way a beautiful country with breathtaking landscapes it is also a place that Harbors some darker secrets Norway is one of the world's largest exporters of farmed fish an industry that is worth billions of Euros to the country's economy as much of the Wild Ocean large fish populations collapse to near Extinction fishermen are turning to aquaculture as a way of growing fish in a controlled environment Norway produces more farmed salmon and cod than any other country in the world about 70 of the fish we eat today now comes from artificial Fish Farms as thousands of fish are kept close together in very small sea cages disease and lice spread easily and have become a massive problem for the industry as a result pesticides disinfectants and antibiotics are used extensively to keep the fish alive long enough to go to market in order to rid the fish of lice special pumping boats are used which suck the fish up in a giant water vacuum the fish are then pumped through the system and as they flow through they are either heated to a high temperature or bathed in a chemical solution which removes most of the lice before being pumped back into the cage the fish are bathed in chemicals such as hydrogen peroxide and as a methophos to kill the parasites and diseases and given feed with chemicals such as Teflon benzaron Emma mectin and diphlobenzeron which by their very nature are toxic researchers have found that traces of chemicals can end up in the fish and ultimately on our plates this is much the same for farmed fish all around the world Taryn Bishop an environmental activist is meeting with the green Warriors a conservation organization based in Bergen on the west coast of Norway the green Warriors have been investigating the devastating practices of fish farming on the local ecosystem for many years and are taking Tarin to see the darker side of the Farms that Lies Beneath the surface a specially built submersible has enabled them to see the seabed below the cages all along the ocean floor lies a thick layer of sludge made up of fish waste bacteria and uneaten feed the sludge is full of the pesticides added to the feed a new research has shown that the massive amounts of pesticide being added around the world to the Marine ecosystem in Fish Farms is having a devastating effect on the natural ocean biodiversity the sludge also releases large amounts of climate warming methane researchers at Oxford University have found that some types of aquaculture are now releasing more methane than beef production live home Fjord is the head of the Norwegian directorate of Fisheries whilst in Norway we were given information that not only is she in charge of regulating the country's fish farm industry but also owns shares in one of Norway's largest fish farm companies many conservation groups feel this is a great conflict of interests Palm Fjord has agreed to meet Taryn to answer questions about the state of Norway's Fish Farms well fish farming is quite a new industry in Norway it started back in the 1960s with some local entrepreneurs starting with Hobby and it's grown until it's a billion Euro industry today and seafood is the second largest export industry in Norway and fish farming accounts for two-thirds of the export value of seafood so recently we found out that you also have shares in one of the largest fish farm companies in Norway do you not feel that that's a conflict of interest of course there could be a con in conflict of interest but this is a fact that's been known since before I got this position and I've been open about it I do not I'm not involved in the business from day to day or at any so it's and if this we have and I have so I have to do you have to start over again so all the decisions that I made will either be for the whole industry not especially for this fish farm or it's only an advice to the politicians and the politicians accepting the limits and the actual regulations so if this actual case who handling regarding this company then I will step aside when on a few drawers I was working here over the years as a diver we used to go into Fish Farms cleaning the disease fish from the needs and fix the Nets Etc after storms are on occasion we'd seen some of the boats coming in to clean the lice off them quite a lot of dead fish you know disease they've died but it's a lot of pink mush you know no no no no no Healthy Look having seen what I've seen and worked on the various sanction about where I've been in Scotland I wouldn't eat farmed salmon very pretty rank salmon is marketed as healthy it's also marketed in in a very devious way deceptive way that they think it's a wild product so it's a fake product it's a fatty product it's contaminated it's marketed as healthy but it but it's not so salmon if you see salmon alarm Bells should start ringing groom when you dive down to the bottom of the cages because you know we always see the bottom full of dead fish and it's basically because many of these fish are so diseased so parasite resin and Laden with chemicals that they become sick and they live out their sad short lives basically looking like zombies you know you don't see this when you go to the restaurant or the supermarket but this is basically what a lot of the fish actually look like before it ends up on our plates so tonight Don wanted to show us how much of the farm fish actually dies because of the very unnatural and unsanitary ways that they are kept and they have rows or very large metal containers that they are constantly filling up with the dead fish and I have to say that the smell as we get closer is actually pretty disgusting so this is the sordid side of salmon farming in Scotland this is that there's Dirty Secrets the industry don't want you to see this is disease-ridden farm salmon it's 15 to 20 fat that's where the contaminants the cancer causing contaminants pcbs dioxins and the artificial colorings are so this is something to be avoided at all costs this is the salmon farm just here we got free information data from the Scottish environment Protection Agency showing the use of over 50 tons of formaldehyde not just at this site but other sites across Scotland is formaldehyde may cause cancer suspected of causing genetic defects toxic if swallowed may cause respiratory irritation causes damage to organs do not breathe [Music] foreign [Music] workers told us that the workers come down to the Farms early in the morning spraying the chemicals into the fish cages so they're obviously spraying something down there in the water [Music] the guy who gave us the tip-off said that toxic chemicals are widely used across Scotland including formaldehyde and also hydrogen peroxide and these are supposed to treat the diseases and lice problems which both rampant across the fish farm you know these are not chemicals that you want in your body whatever he's spraying must be pretty powerful if he needs to wear full protective chemical suit and a face mask [Music] as the ocean becomes a Dumping Ground of seven billion people and Farms saturate their fish with chemical feed eating fish has never been so toxic you know our oceans have become Humanity sewers everything eventually flows into the sea so we've got a you know time machine that go back before the Industrial Revolution might it's a different story but now the highest levels of many of these persistent organic pollutants we're talking about you know DDT and pcbs and dioxins the highest levels in our food supply are found in the Aquatic food chain fish are not the safest Choice anymore so Tony it's great to see you good to see you as well thanks for coming not to tell thank you a pleasure being here so I wanted to ask you if you could share with us what is what exactly it was you began to feel when you realized something was going wrong I was exhausted more than usual and then I was losing short-term memory and that scared the hell out of me and then I tore my rotator cuffs in a really intense snowboarding accident and the doctor said you want to do your metal stuff so I said I got my Magnums out 25 years ago he goes there's so many medals environment you should do it so I did I get a phone call a week later and I said to my system just haven't sent the report he said no it's an emergency has to speak to you I was like no one wants to hear that and so I called him up and he said Tony I showed your blood tests you have extreme mercury poisoning on a zero to five scale which is what we measure five being toxic you're 123. the doctor said how long has this man been in the hospital and I just got off stage so I I said I can't understand this so I went out and they thought you know maybe someone's trying to poison me because the number was so high and I was very disciplined I was a vegan for 12 years and then I just went salad fish salad fish and they brought the Medical Group out here and they looked at it and I found this man named Dr shade who's the only guy has an ideation process where you can see where the Mercury came from and it was fish it's been three years and I had some severe moments it burned a hole my esophagus and I literally collapsed I lost a third of my blood supply I could have died I lost half my hemoglobin people begin to lose their hair their memory they lose their memories as you were doing as you would notice but they can also have headaches they can complain of fatigue they can also have depression what we're seeing now is with the toxic environmental exposure especially with the Mercury methyl mercury and fish is that everyone has got to be careful because they're the levels are going up Udo tell me because your specialty is in this how do you get the fish oils that we all need for the brain and for the body uh if we can't have fish we used to get them from fish oils yes and but we can actually get them from vegetables flax is the richest source of Omega-3 the way everybody thinks should come from fish oil if you get enough of that a starting material your body will make what the fish oils make and it'll be clean many people take fish oils or have fish for the long chain omega-3 fatty acids and you have to ask yourself the question well where do the fish get them from and it turns out they get them from the algae in the ocean they get them from plant food so if you want the purest form of the long chain ready-made omega-3 fatty acids the best way of doing that is simply to take an algae supplement because then you've got the purest form of it and you don't have the extra risks of having the toxins and the heavy metals and the saturated fat and the cholesterol that you would get from eating a fish a peer-reviewed study from researchers at Scripps institution of oceanography at UC San Diego undertook one of the largest studies of fish pollutants in the world the scientist found toxic contaminants in fish right across the planet's oceans nobody would go to the nearest body of water and put in like a cup and drink the water you're basically getting the concentrated toxins if we're eating fish [Music] I've also become filled with plastic as the oceans are so large it is a challenge for any scientists to accurately understand where most of this plastic is coming from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch covering an area of about 1.6 million square kilometers May provide a unique opportunity to better understand the growing problem of microplastics in the sea a team of scientists from the organization ocean cleanup have been studying the patch for some time and were surprised when they discovered that the vast majority of plastic in the patch is not from old drinking straws or used plastic water bottles but from thousands of tons of discarded fishing gear broken down by the sea into trillions of pieces of microplastic a study recently published in the journal Nature found that about 80 percent of the plastic in the Pacific is made up of discarded fishing gear many scientists agree that one of the greatest things we as individuals can do to solve this problem of a plastic ocean is to move away from eating fish and switch to a plant-based diet at least health of the plastic in the sea today comes from discarded or lost fishing gear because all those nets all those Lions all that stuff it's it's just become a plasticized ocean but we have a chance we have a chance right now to change our eating habits there's an estimate that there's over 5 absolutely everywhere everywhere we look we found microplastics whether it's at the polar regions in remote Islands also if we're looking on the surface or the sea bed and everywhere in between we find microplastics we've also found microplastics in just about every animal group that we've looked in we've been cycling for microplastics for quite a while now and we found that there's 27 times more bits of plastic than there are fish larvae microplankton are found throughout the oceans they are filter feeders when the researchers add microplastics into the Plankton's environment they consistently observe them ingesting the plastic particles unaware that the tiny particles are made up of toxic chemicals the Plankton consume them indiscriminately the researchers observe how the chemicals accumulate within the organs of these small Marine creatures the toxic Plankton are then eaten by larger fish and researchers have found that much of the fish that we are eating today has bio-accumulated these chemicals within their flesh [Music] a study by the University of Plymouth found that over a third of all the fish tested contained microplastics as we eat these contaminated fish we ingest the same toxic chemicals into our bodies and Recent research suggests similar toxic accumulation in humans our scientists tell us we now in the sixth Extinction event of Life on this Earth it doesn't even make the headlines no one even knows about it thank you so much foreign [Music] foreign [Music] economists [Music] waikana e we've had five mass extinction events on this planet in 450 million years let me be clear on this the last time we had an Extinction event of this magnitude with 65 million years ago it's incredibly sad to realize just how how many species both in the oceans and on land that we're losing at the moment and it's up to all of us to make sure that this doesn't happen in the future today over 26 000 species are currently threatened with Extinction and the most important Drive of that is our use of land for agriculture over time livestock have been a major major driver of St loss Osama predicted that by 2045 the species loss would be so great that we won't recover the Earth will suffer ecological collapse and the biggest thing you and I can do is change our diet some scientists have begun to call this current crisis a biological annihilation according to the journal science of the total environment from Florida International University livestock farming is the leading cause of biodiversity loss according to a study published in the journal science if the entire world were to switch to an exclusively plant-based diet we would free up over 75 percent of the world's arable land and many of the forests previously cut down for livestock farming could be restored there are now many great initiatives around the world doing just that ecosia an online search engine similar to Google is one such initiative that uses the revenue made from advertising to pay local communities to re-plant trees one of ecosia's main Foresters is Mauricio who has been working hard to replant the rainforest in Brazil foreign Brazil foreign when we plant a tree we sow the very seeds of our future on this planet the most recent in-depth study into the environmental impact of what we eat was a peer-reviewed journal by an international team of researchers this Landmark study headed by Dr Marco springman of Oxford University in England found that in order to have any chance of keeping temperatures below the dangerous 2 degrees Celsius threshold set out in the Paris climate agreement in high-income countries we need to drastically reduce our consumption of meat by around 80 percent policymakers have been very very reluctant to address the livestock issue it's entirely out of keeping with the urgency of the crisis that we're facing hi Autumn Brockway for Rockstar films um this is a question for commissioner Hogan the scientists at Oxford University have been very clear that livestock farming has a far greater impact than plant-based farming with this in mind would it not be common sense to reduce the billions in subsidy payments to livestock farming in Europe and offer them to plant-based farming instead as an incentive to a much more sustainable food system we have made our proposals based on protecting the farmers because they are unlike you and I they're out in all sorts of weathers and there are all sorts of Market risks and you and I may not know anything about that because this is their lives this is they're producing high quality food for us all so that we can have this particular good quality products available to us at all times sometimes in the local conditions like organic more times as conventional farming so we provide financial support at the moment for that and it's a public good that's not ours recognized but the movement of our policy is in the direction of our Farmers being centrally involved in providing more public goods and if you want to do anything in life you have to pay people sometimes I understand that there's a moral obligation and there's people of principle but most of the time 99 of the time they have to get paid so as professionals that we're expecting to provide good quality food and do more on public goods we pay our Farmers this is the decision that we make a political level lifestyle I met methane and nitrous oxide now most people when they think of climate change they think of CO2 carbon dioxide which is a very potent global warming gas but methane is 25 times more potent per molecule when it's released than CO2 and nitrous oxide is 298 times more potent per molecule than CO2 these are very powerful global warming gases so today we have a very special camera called hyperspectral Imaging camera and it basically enables us to be able to see gases that would be otherwise invisible to the naked eye and today we're looking at methane gas methane is a gas that is being produced by cows when they belch methane together with the other gases it produces in the atmosphere has caused a third of global warming since 1750. livestock are the largest source of methane that we can control steep cuts and methane emissions can slow global warming by 15 to 25 years making it the most effective means we have to slow warming in the critical years ahead whoa look at that wow heating potentials of climate gases we can look to an experiment known as the infrared absorption experiment here we see four earth-shaped ice statues each one in its own airtight chamber the chambers represent the atmosphere surrounding the planet each has an infrared heater placed above it set at identical temperatures and each one is then filled with a different gas [Music] the first chamber is filled with normal air that we breathe from day to day the second chamber is filled with carbon dioxide a well-known climate warming gas the third chamber is filled with methane a gas associated with animal Agriculture and the fourth chamber is filled with nitrous oxide also a gas associated with animal agriculture over time we begin to see the ice statue in the carbon dioxide chamber slightly melting compared with the normal air but in the same short time the statues in the methane and nitrous oxide Chambers begin to melt rapidly as the temperature inside Rises considerably higher than both the normal air and also the carbon dioxide 16 hours later the results are Stark we can clearly see that the methane and nitrous oxide the two main gas byproducts of animal agriculture are potent climate warming gases of the estimated 70 billion land animals reared for human consumption each year around the world nearly 90 percent are chickens an emerging problem is that chicken consumption is now on the rise whilst chicken has a lower environmental impact than red meat over 90 percent of chicken globally is now intensively farmed and this is having devastating effects on our planet if we compare the equivalent protein calories for meat and plant-based proteins such as chickpeas chicken does less harm to the environment than commonly consumed red meats and yet still causes 40 times more climate related warming per calorie of protein than chickpeas and uses 50 times the amount of water we know that if we would shift from Remnant needs to other meats then we probably would reduce our footprint just from from that particular product by about a factor of 10 which is quite a bit uh but if you compare that with how much you would reduce your footprint if you went to plant-based products that is about a factor of 100 and that's the reason why shifting to more towards more plant-based diets has such a big impact because we're really talking about different scales here organic meat has been claimed to have less environmental and climate impact however a study carried out by researchers at Oxford University found that in fact organic or conventionally produced meat has little significant difference in Greenhouse emissions so in our day so we didn't find big differences between organic and conventional across multiple indicators what we did find is that no matter how you produce animal products even the lowest impact forms of production still create higher emissions and use more land than typical vegetable proteins so that's saying something really important that's saying that even if you go into the shops and try and purchase sustainable meat or dairy is always going to be better to purchase vegetable proteins instead each year the US government gives around 20 million dollars to subsidize fruit and vegetable farming but meat and dairy farming get a massive 38 billion dollars from the government it is now estimated that the annual cost the U.S taxpayer of diseases related to meat and dairy consumption are now around 314 billion dollars and when you you know cram you know tens of thousands of animals in these cramped filthy unhygienic conditions basically live atop their feces it's just like a breeding ground animal to human diseases that arise um because of the way we're now treating animals whether it's these live animal markets in East Asia whether it's the bush meat trade the concern is that with enough spins at genetic roulette on these swine factory farms these chicken factory farms we're gonna you know end up with one of these viruses that's not only deadly to chickens but can jump and transmit human to human and cause the next human pandemic the risk of large-scale factory farmings increases the risk that we or the likelihood that we might have a pandemic particularly of influenza in the future this pandemic has been very severe but this is not necessarily the big one swine flu which killed over half a million people is believed to have originated in pig farming AIDS and the Ebola virus are believed to have come from eating wild animals while MERS from Camels and also camels milk and meat SARS is thought to have spread from live animal wet markets as was the recent covid-19 pandemic bird flu is believed to have come from chicken farms and also live animal wet markets and the measles virus is thought to have originated from farm cows people know now what a global pandemic feels like and they've seen the effects they will be feeling the effects for many years to come and that this is a chance I think an opportunity to point out that this particular root of infection is is a a very concerning one the World Health Organization has announced that the post-antibiotic era is near time where a simple scrape on the arm could become fatal our Miracle life-saving antibiotics are being rendered useless due to overuse not because of overuse by humans but because we give them each day to billions of farm animals [Music] [Music] foreign for six years one thing I know is that if people knew what happened in the production of their food they wouldn't eat meat [Music] so one of the things that we would hit every day was past nodules tumors cysts it was something that we would hit on a daily basis having worked in a supermarket chain I was I saw this first hand every single day so here's one that's running along the shoulder blade oh yeah that is what I remember in The Butchery it comes out like a thick toothpaste I remember that every single day that's interesting to hear you at that experience all the way over there because in the UK exactly the same yeah we would see that on a daily basis but those people who say it's uh it's not my butcher does this you know they need to open their eyes because butcher's being honest with them they're not going to want to tell the public because it's going to affect their business but it is a fact and me working in multiple butcheries I saw these common Trends across the board so I know that it wasn't just isolated to the one that I was working in it was across the board for me people need to reconnect with what they're eating and the whole process that we were we're talking about here of how that food gets to them um it's hidden from them and it's hidden for a reason because if they saw it it would most definitely make them want to think harder about what they're eating foreign s and atmosphere begin to warm the water cycles of the planet are beginning to change climate change changes the water cycles of the planet the heat that's being generated is forcing the precipitation into the clouds so we're getting more concentrated precipitation in our clouds in more dramatic extreme and unpredictable Water Events all over the world in the northern region of the remote Pacific island of Taiwan the atayel people live high in the mountains Taiwan is no stranger to extreme weather but in recent years the strength and frequency of the typhoons have increased this has had a devastating effect on the attil people and their way of life foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign increasing levels of extreme flooding in many places the opposite is happening much of the world is increasingly entering into extreme drought destroying thousands of tons of crop as millions of farmers struggle to find enough water for their fields I'm definitely worried about the future of our farm I think we're seeing you know much more uh many more swings and climate than we've seen in the past but we want to use all the land that we have to grow food but we haven't been able to just because of the the shortages of water it'll have an impact on food supply and prices and availability and so estimates now are between 500 000 to over a million Acres of Farmland that'll come out of production in California [Music] Al Maria in the south of Spain is home to 31 000 hectares of indoor Vegetable Farms Al Maria produces half of Europe's fresh fruit and vegetables an essential component in the supply of the continent's food system worryingly Spain has been in the grip of a 20-year drought a drought that climate experts suggest is closely linked to climate change in terms of water the truth is that the drought in Spain has become a complete katasu our harvests are decreasing in massive quantities last year in the area we are now there was almost no Harvest people don't realize the food system is collapsing as a result of this shift in the global climate system the drought across Africa has deepened rivers and lakes that Supply hundreds of Millions with fresh drinking water are beginning to run dry as new conflicts break out over these dwindling resources we are witnessing the beginning of a mass Exodus of people moving North desperate to survive it's climate refugees are willing to risk everything to get themselves and their families to what they see as the safe shores of Europe in response to this modern day Mass migration Spain has built a massive wall that runs along its southernmost Border in malila thousands of refugees are beginning to swarm the Border fences overwhelming the Spanish police amid predictions that this migratory pattern is set to increase it seems increasingly clear that our world is poorly prepared to cope Android [Music] [Music] as the Gobi desert in Mongolia begins to spread deeper and deeper into the country like a beast consuming all life in its path many of the lakes that support both the people and the wildlife have now dried up if the Lakes continue to disappear then the people will be forced away from their home and into distant and strange lands together foreign a lot of people talk about how much fresh water we use for hydro fracking 700 billion gallons globally is wasted on fracking so 700 billion gallons sounds like a lot but animal agriculture the production of animals that we use for meat around the globe use 70 trillion gallons of fresh water a year hundreds of thousands of times as much as fracking and and we give them the cows and the chickens the good stuff right they don't get the Flint Michigan lead tainted condoms floating in it water they get the top shelf stuff because we don't want to screw up our sausage links and I know what some of you were thinking right now you're thinking oh here's the part I'm a vegetarian and pigs are people too man but no Let's ignore how the animals are treated in our Factory torture farming let's pretend they're treated amazing for just a minute it's like a celebrity backstage at the Oscars they're just being fawned over and they get swag bags with free Apple watches point is you should still be upset about this because animal agriculture is killing us and corporate media is fantastically pathetic on this topic they never mention meat production they never mention that a quarter pounder takes 660 gallons of fresh water to create that's the that's the equivalent of showering for two months so one usually underestimated impact of livestock production is a huge amount of fresh water required for that production to be maintained and to be increased the problem is that in many places water is being used much faster than the natural renewal rates overall in the world 1.8 billion people are living in areas with severe water scarcity the livestock sector is the single biggest water user in the world one third of the water use in the world is being used for producing animal products meat and dairy and it's not because those animals drink so much it's really because there's a lot of water required to make the feed for the animals if we want enough fresh water for future Generations water alone dictates that we must change our diet away from meat and Dairy all over the world we can see evidence of a global shift towards animal-free foods that is enough to give us some hope in 2021 a record 580 000 people signed up to the UK's veganuary campaign and it's estimated that there are now over 4 million people identifying as vegan across the United Kingdom in Canada it's estimated that 10 of the population are now either vegan or vegetarian and in the U.S over 50 percent of chefs have added vegan items to their menus with a 600 increase in the vegan lifestyle in the last three years [Applause] a few years ago it was quite a challenge to get hold of good vegan food but today we're pretty much sport for choice and there are vegan options everywhere thanks like as in like or is this like plant-based or something because it is actually parking yeah it's really nice I prefer it because I don't really eat meat that much so this is good I like meat in a toast yeah for not being mean would you be happy with that yeah I love meat too much so I feel like if I went part-based admission but if this like stuff tastes the same yeah I'd be very happy with this [Music] that's a winner yeah I'm amazed if Burgers always tasted like that would you be happy to just not eat a beef burger yeah yeah I'd like you to eat it is plant-based and which one is real meat foreign which one of these is animal meat and which one of this is plant-based [Music] me too not me you're not sure you're not sure yeah I'm not sure meet you yes are wrong oh okay okay but you think the second one was chicken the second one was actually plant-based no way yeah and the first one was chicken yeah yeah I didn't I couldn't have guessed that I definitely thought the first one yeah definitely it seems that changing what we eat to a more sustainable diet can also coincidentally be very beneficial to our health there is a growing understanding that we can actually prevent and in many cases even reverse some of our most common diseases all through a shift towards a whole food vegan diet humans can survive on many different kinds of diet but many decades of research has now shown us that the best way of not just surviving but truly thriving is on a whole food plant-based diet a human can be healthy on a plant-based diet without any animal products the major dietetic associations around the world including the British dietetic Association have produced statements to say exactly that that a diet made up of whole plant Foods is healthy for humans all stages of their life and not only can they be healthy but they can restore or reclaim their health adopting a plant-based diet there are certain areas certain populations around the world that have extraordinary Health and Longevity for example a large number of centenarians people that live over a hundred these so-called blue zones what's really interesting about the blue zones they actually have more centenarians than anywhere else in the world and a centenarian is someone that lives at least a hundred years but what's really interesting about the blue zones is when people reach these Advanced ages they are still productive so the blue zones have taught us a lot and the bottom line is we really want to try to emulate what the people of the blue zones are doing the five regions known as the blue zones are Okinawa in Japan Sardinia in Italy icaria in Greece nikoya in Costa Rica and Loma Linda in California so the question is well what do they all have in common they have a predominantly plant-based diet they have a diet rich in fruits and vegetables whole grains beans soy lentils chickpeas they have a diet rich in all these nutrients and that's one thing that they have in common so the Epic study is the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition it followed over half a million individuals from 10 European countries for more than 15 years those in the Epic study that were eating predominantly plant-based or eating high levels of fruits and vegetables lived longer had lower incidence of cancer and heart disease about two and a half thousand of the individuals in the Epic Oxford only ate plant Foods so they were vegan and even though they weren't the most healthy vegans or healthy plant eaters you could show that these plant eaters were healthier they had lower incidence of heart disease diabetes and cancer from everything we have discovered on this journey it seems that moving away from animal foods to plant-based Foods instead can not only give us a whole host of amazing health benefits but also gives us a chance to be able to leave a sustainable planet for future generations to come perhaps the single most meaningful change that we can make as individuals is ultimately deciding what ends up each day on our plates running out of time the world Community must acknowledge that animal agriculture is the most destructive industry on our planet we can't wait for government policies and other organizations to create a better life for ourselves we need to stand up now and make our voices heard globally for the typical consumer avoiding meat and dairy is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on Earth without addressing uh what we eat we simply won't make it this is a number one priority this is a next step in taking responsibility for our communities our planet our biosphere our fellow species [Music] The Collector choices we hear about airplanes and cars and we're still going to use those things but the choices we make in our diet this agricultural business where we use animals as the primary source of protein the one thing I think we can all do is individuals is make our own individual choices how we're going to live how we're going to eat plant-based diet makes all the difference in the world just make some choices that are good for you and been good for you will be good for the planet this planet is our home and it is up to us what happens now history has shown that when we stand together United in a common cause we can achieve great things before us lies an opportunity to build a world in which we can thrive but the clock is ticking time [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: PLANT BASED NEWS

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Keywords: eating our way to extinction, kate winslet, plant based news, leonardo dicaprio, environmentalism, film, documentary, climate change, jack harries, climate change 2022, climate change documentary

Id: _Ls2KEyb19E

Length: 81min 28sec (4888 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 31 2022