Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fishing, Food, and Forestry
Agriculture Problems
Billionaires Getting Farm Subsidies
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) put together a list of 50 billionaires on the Forbes 400 List of Wealthiest Americans who have received federal farm subsidies. The list includes billionaire families like the Pritzker Family whose company Chicago Mill &...
Family Farms in Peril
Family Farms are Being Taken Over by Big Corporations The decline of the small American family farm in one chart "Peak farm, as it happens, happened almost 80 years ago in the United States. The number of farms in the country has fallen by some 4 million between then...
Farmer Suicide
Why are America’s farmers killing themselves? "The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested that male farmers in 17 states took their lives at a rate two times higher than...
Farm Subsidies
Corporate Subsidies for the Rich are Destroying Family Farms How Farm Subsidies Became America's Largest Corporate Welfare Program "Farm subsidies are distributed not on the basis of need, but with regard to two other criteria: (1) the type of crop grown, with 90...
Land Usage is Unsustainable
Land Use Only a small amount of land is needed to provide all of the grains, fruits, and vegetables that humans require for food (77m Acres). Almost twice as much land is used to provide feed for livestock (127m Acres). And about 8.5 times as much land is used for...
“Organic” is Not Always Organic
VideoIndependent News Full List of Non Organic Ingredients Allowed in Organic Food - Food Babe The Organic Narrative & Whole Foods Red Flags - coreysdigs.com WARNING! Products Labeled -Organic-, with GMOs, SEWAGE Sludge, TOXINS - Eco Peaceful When is Organic Not...
Paid Not to Farm
The Government is Using Our Tax Dollars to Pay Elite Farms Not to Grow The USDA is spending billions of tax payer dollars to subsidize corporate farms that don't do any farming, and haven't even planted any crops in years. A report from the U.S. Government...
Repair Bans
VideosMainstream News Should you be able to repair your own tractor or farm equipment? - ABC 7 Denver Tester says -Right to Repair- bill will keep family farms viable - KPAX 8 Independent News Farmer Organizations File “Right-To-Repair” Complaint Against Deere, Urging...
Seed Monopolies
VideosMainstream News Fighting the seed monopoly- 'We want to make free seed a sort of meme' - The Guardian High Price of Monopoly- Why American Farmers Must Buy From Just One Seed Company - HuffPost Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds - The Nation Seeds of Life-...
Seeds of Suicide
Seeds of Suicide by Vandana Shiva Patents on seeds are unjust and unjustified. A patent or any intellectual property right is a monopoly granted by society in exchange for benefits. But society has no benefit in toxic, non-renewable seeds. We are losing biodiversity...
Animal Husbandry Problems
Factory Farming
Factory Farms Dairy is Scary - Industry Explained in 5 Min What's Wrong with Eggs? The Truth About the Egg Industry Turkey Day
Zoonotic Disease
Flu Factories ~ George Monbiot ‘It’s time to bail out the planet’ - YouTube ~ How to prevent the next zoonotic pandemic- - COVID-19 Special - YouTube ~ Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? Pandemic-Proofing our Plates - YouTube ~ Swine Flu...
Crop Problems
Cocoa – Chocolate and Child Slavery
DocumentaryVideosMainstream News Child slavery in West Africa- understanding cocoa farming is key to ending the practice - The Conversation Children at Work, Cocoa, Use of child labour on cocoa plantations in Ghana - BBC Chocolate and Child Slavery: Say No to Human...
Food Problems
Bottled Water – Microplastics
Videos Everyday items that could be wrecking your hormones - Express Digest If you drink bottled water, you could double how many microplastic particles you ingest, study says. You're ingesting more than 70,000 microplastic particles each year - CNN...
Bottled Water – Nestle
Videos Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For - Bloomberg Nestlé's Troubled Waters - Story of Stuff The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles - The Guardian ArizonaCalifornia As California’s wells dry up,...
Toxic Baby Food
Videos - Toxins Found in Baby Food High levels of toxins found in more baby food brands, government report says - CBS News New report ranks toxins in baby food - ABC 15 Report finds 95% of tested baby food contained toxic chemicals - AZ Central Some Baby Foods Contain...
Food Insecurity
Food insecurity, or the lack of access to enough healthy food, is a significant problem in the United States, and has gotten worse due to the government shutdown of the economy. Millions of people go hungry including children, elderly, and military families. One in...
Food Banks with Mile Long Lines
~ Americans wait in miles-long lines as food banks struggle to keep up with demand - Fox News Video Watch the latest video at foxnews.com ~ Cars line up for emergency food pantry at Three Square in Las Vegas - YouTube ~ Demand For Food Aid Across The...
Food Banks Running Out of Food
~ 'Crisis Level' Collin County Food Pantry Distributes Nearly 30 Times Usual Supply Last Month - YouTube ~ Demand at food banks surge as donations plummet - New Day NW - YouTube ~ Food banks on the edge - YouTube ~ Food Pantries Are Running Out Of Food -...
Food Waste
Food Waste in the U.S. In the United States, about 40% of all food produced is lost or wasted, which is equivalent to about 133 billion pounds of food per year. In the United States, food waste is estimated to cost about $160 billion per year. In the United States,...
Food Stamps
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, is a government program that provides financial assistance to low-income individuals and families to purchase food. The program is intended to help those in need access a more nutritious...
Food Subsidies
The U.S. government provides subsidies for commodity crops such as corn, soy, and wheat, which are often used as ingredients in processed and junk foods. These subsidies contribute to the high rates of obesity and related health problems in the U.S.. A 2016 study by...
Food Monopolies
There is a high level of concentration in the global food industry with only a few major companies controlling a large portion of the market. These companies have a dominating influence over the production, distribution, and pricing of food products. Many of these...
Agriculture Solutions
Aquaponics
~ Internet of Farming- Arduino-based, backyard aquaponics - YouTube ~ Aquaponics Made Easy - Bitchute ~ Sepp Holzer Aquaculture - YouTube
Dryland Restoration
50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything | Short Film Showcase
Greenhouses
Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow Sunken greenhouse wraps home & feeds suburban antifragile co-op Glasshouse Vegetable Production in the Netherlands, Part 1 Glasshouse Vegetable Production in the Netherlands, Part 2 Chinese Design -...
Hügelkultur
~ Annual Hugelkultur Raised Bed Maintenance - Getting Ready For Spring Gardening! - YouTube ~ Building HUGELKULTUR Garden Beds - Shallow Dig Method - YouTube ~ How to build a Hugelkultur Bed - YouTube ~ Hugelkultur ~ Hugelkultur - the ultimate...
Mushroom Farming
~ Mushrooms as Medicine with Paul Stamets at Exponential Medicine - YouTube
Permaculture
~ Farming with Nature- A Case Study of Successful Temperate Permaculture - Bitchute ~ Geoff Lawton Intro to Permaculture - YouTube ~ Geoff Lawton- Surviving Collapse, Designing your Way to Abundance - YouTube ~ Permaculture Garden Tour and Harvest,...
Soil Microbes
~ Soil Basics- Soil Microbiology - YouTube ~ The Living Soil- How Unseen Microbes Affect the Food We Eat (360 Video) - YouTube ~ 3-Steps to Rapid Soil Regeneration Part 1- Finding the Beneficial Microbes in your Location - YouTube ~ 3-Steps to Rapid Soil Regeneration...
Water Harvesting
~ 5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects! - YouTube ~ THIS FARM CRACKED THE CODE #1- Water Wizard of Oregon - YouTube ~ Harvesting Water the Permaculture Way - Bitchute ~ India's Water Revolution #4- Permaculture for Wastelands at Aranya Farm -...
Animal Husbandry Solutions
Sustainable Animal Husbandry
Sustainable Animal Husbandry Videos Raising Animals Sustainably on Pasture - FoodPrint Sustainable Farming- Making a Living on the Homestead with Joel Salatin - Homesteaders of America
Crop Solutions
Cover Crops
~ FALL COVER CROPS WISH I KNEW This 10 Years Ago - YouTube ~ Cover Crops Database - Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program