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that it doesn't
matter anymore.
Something has
to be said.
It is nasty in here.
There's dust
flying everywhere.
There's feces
everywhere.
This isn't farming.
This is just
mass production,
like an assembly line
in a factory.
When they grow
from a chick
got a five-and-a-half- pound chicken,
their bones
can't keep up
with the rapid growth.
they can take a few steps
and then they plop down.
It's because they can't
keep up all the weight
that they're carrying.
That's normal.
There's antibiotics
that's put into the feed
and of course that passes
through the chicken.
The bacteria
builds up a resistance,
so antibiotics
aren't working anymore.
I have become allergic
to all antibiotics
and can't take 'em.
When it's dark inside the houses,
the chickens lay down.
It's less resistance
when they're
being caught.
Traditionally, it's been
African-American men.
Now we're seeing more
and more Latino catchers--
undocumented workers.
they don't have any rights
and they're just not
gonna complain.
The companies like
these kind of workers.
It doesn't matter
if the chickens get sick.
All of the chickens
will go to the plant
for processing.
The companies keep
because of the debt
that the farmers have.
is anywhere from $280,000
to $300,000 per house.
And once you make
your initial investment,
the companies
constantly come back
with demands
of upgrades
for new equipment,
and the grower
has no choice.
They have to do it
or you're threatened
with loss of a contract.
This is how they keep
It's how they keep them
spending money,
going to the bank
and borrowing more money.
The debt just
keeps building.
To have no say
in your business,
it's degrading.
It's like being
a slave to the company.
The idea that you would
need to write a book
telling people
where their food came from
is just a sign of how far removed
we've become.
It seems to me that we're entitled
to know about our food--
"Who owns it?
How are they making it?
Can I have a look
in the kitchen?"
When I wanted to understand
the industrial food system,
what I set about doing
was very simple.
I wanted to trace
the source of my food.
When you go through
the supermarket,
what looks like this cornucopia
There is an illusion
of diversity.
There are only
a few companies involved
and there're
only a few crops involved.
What really
surprised me most
as I followed that food
back to its source,
I kept ending up
in the same place,
and that was
a cornfield in Iowa.
So much of our
industrial food
turns out to be clever
rearrangements of corn.
Corn has conquered the world
in a lot of ways.
It is a remarkable plant.
a farmer in America
could grow maybe 20 bushels of corn
on an acre.
Today, 200 bushels
is no problem.
That's an astonishing
achievement
for which breeders
deserve credit,
for which fertilizer
makers deserve credit,
all deserve credit.
That's largely driven
by government policy,
government policy that,
in effect,
allows us to produce corn
below the cost of production.
we're paid to overproduce,
and it was caused by
these large
multinational interests.
The reason our government's
promoting corn--
the Cargills, the ADMs,
Tyson, Smithfield--
they have an interest in purchasing corn
below the cost of production.
They use that interest and that
extensive amount of money they have
to lobby Congress to give us the kind
of farm bills we now have.
A "farm bill,"
called a "food bill,"
codifies the rules
of the entire food economy.
because you can
store them.
as much corn as they can grow,
to get big,
to consolidate.
We subsidize farmers
by the bushel.
We produced a lot of corn
and they came up
with uses for it.
We are now engineering our foods.
We know where to turn to
for certain traits
like mouth feel and flavor.
And we bring all of these
pieces together
and engineer new foods
that don't stale
in the refrigerator,
don't develop rancidity.
in recent years
was high-fructose
corn syrup.
You know,
if you go and look
on the supermarket shelf,
I'll bet you 90% of them
would contain either
a corn or soybean ingredient,
and most of the time
will contain both.
Corn is the great raw material.
You get that big fat
kernel of starch
and you can break that down
and reassemble it.
You can make
high-fructose corn syrup.
You can make maltodextrin
and diglycerides
and xanthan gum
and ascorbic acid.
on the processed food--
it's remarkable how many of them can be
made from corn.
Plus, you can feed it
to animals.
Corn is the main component
in feed ingredients
whether it's chicken,
hogs, cattle-- you name it.
Increasingly, we're feeding
the corn to the fish
whether we're eating the tilapia
or the farmed salmon.
We're teaching fish
how to eat corn.
The fact that we had
so much cheap corn
really allowed us to drive
down the price of meat.
I mean, the average American
is eating over 200 lbs
of meat per person
per year.
That wouldn't
be possible
had we not fed them
this diet of cheap grain.
Since you're selling corn
at below the price of production,
the feedlot operator
can buy corn
at a fraction
of what it costs to grow,
so that all the animals
are sucked off
of all the farms
in the Midwest.
There is a spiderweb
of roads
and train tracks
all around the country
moving corn
to these CAFOs.
Cows are not designed
by evolution to eat corn.
They're designed
by evolution to eat grass.
And the only reason
we feed them corn
is because corn is
really cheap
and corn makes them
fat quickly.
Where are you putting your hand?
I'm actually
inside the rumen--
that first compartment
of the stomach.
And it's--
it's not--
it's kind of hard to see.
You can see
the liquid part here.
Wow.
- Does that hurt the cow?
- No.
There's microorganisms--
bacteria in the rumen,
millions of 'em.
The animals evolved
on consuming grass.
There's some research
that indicates
that a high-corn diet
results in
E. coli that are
acid-resistant.
the more harmful E. coli.
So you feed corn to cattle
and E. coli, which is a very
common bug, evolves,
a certain
mutation occurs
and a strain called
the "E. coli 0157:h7"
appears on
the world stage.
And it's a product of the diet
we're feeding cattle on feedlots
and it's a product
of feedlot life.
The animals
stand ankle deep
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