Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fishing, Food, and Forestry

Agriculture Problems
Farm Seizures – Netherlands
The Dutch are some of the most prolific farmers on the planet. The Netherlands, a small country just slightly larger than the state of Maryland, is the 2nd largest agricultural exporter in the world. Growing such an abundant harvest of crops on such a small area of...
Farm Seizures – South Africa
DocumentariesTV SpecialsCommunist Government Seizes Farms of White Farmers without Compensation Dispute after state authorized expropriation of farm - News24 ‘I have the right to defend my property by force. And I will’: EXCLUSIVE – White farmer who is set to become...
Farm Seizures – Zimbabwe
DocumentariesTV SpecialsIn 2000, Mugabe's Communist Regime Started Seizing the Farms of White Farmers2000 Farm seizures start with widow's eviction - The Guardian Mugabe farm seizures backed - The Guardian Mugabe land seizures force hundreds of farm owners to flee -...
Farm “Collectivization” – Murder by Starvation
Russia - 1921DocumentariesAmerican Experience Chapter 1 The Great Famine Season 23 Episode 8 - PBS Facts and Stats Russian famine of 1921–1922 - Wikipedia Soviet Union - 1930-1933Facts and Stats Collectivization in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia Soviet famine of...
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
TV Special 50 Billionaires Receive Unnecessary Farm Subsidies - Forbes Billionaire governor’s family farms get subsidy - AP Billionaires and aristocrats biggest beneficiaries of farm subsidies - The London Economic Billionaires Received Millions From Taxpayer Farm...
Foreign Owned Farmland
News ReportsU.S. 'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned - NPR As foreign investment in U.S. farmland grows, efforts to ban and limit the increase mount - The Counter Booming demand for hay in Asia, Middle East driving agribusiness in the California desert -...
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...
Agriculture Solutions
Farmers Protest – Netherlands
Farmers Protest - 2023 - News VideosFootageMainstream News Dutch Farmers Protest Government Farm Closures On Eve Of Elections - The Daily Caller Farmers, environmental activists hold demos in The Hague - ABC News Farmers, environmental activists hold demos in The...
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...
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
Short FIlmPresentationsFungiDocumentariesShort FilmsPresentationsInstructional Fungus network 'plays role in plant communication' - BBC News Fungal Networks Play Role In Plant To Plant Communication – Planet Permaculture RhyzosphereShort FIlmAnimated Slideshow
Vermiculture and Vermicompost
Vermiculture Instructional VideosVermicomposting Instructional VideosFacts and Stats Vermicompost - Wikipedia Cartoon
Water Harvesting
Videos of Epic Water Harvesting ProjectsInstructional PresentationsSlopesSwales vs. No SwalesHarvesting Water the Permaculture Way - Bitchute
Animal Husbandry Problems
Grazing Cattle – Bundy Ranch
~ BUNDY, the True Story — Official - YouTube ~ Range war 2014 Cliven D Bundy! - YouTube ~ The Bundy Ranch Saga - YouTube ~ The REAL Bundy Ranch Story- Feds Forced to Surrender to American Ctizens - YouTube A rancher’s claim to tribal land...
Grazing Cattle – Bunkerville Protest
~ Armed Oregon Militiamen Speak Out From Occupied Refuge - YouTube ~ Armed Ranchers Sieze Oregon Wildlife Facility - YouTube ~ FBI Investigating Supporters in Bundy Ranch Standoff - YouTube ~ Fire Side Chat, Oregon Wildlife Refuge - YouTube ~ Oregon StandOff- Pete...
Grazing Cattle – Hammonds
~ BLM Destroying Ranches by Fire - YouTube ~ Defending the Hammonds - Ammon & Local Citizens, Burns, Oregon Malheur Refuge pt.1 2016 - YouTube ~ Hammonds need our Help - YouTube ~ The Ore. Ranchers Got A Militia's Help Whether They Wanted It Or Not - Newsy -...
Grazing Cattle – LaVoy Finicum
~ One cowboy's stand for freedom- Natural rights - YouTube ~ American Standoff Documentary Part 1- Bundy Hammonds LaVoy Finicum! - YouTube ~ American Standoff Documentary Part 2 - Bundy Hammonds LaVoy Finicum - YouTube ~ Ammon Bundy talks about the...
Grazing Horses – Dann Sisters
~ American Outrage - The Story Of The Dann Sisters ~ Our Land, Our Life - YouTube Bureau of Land Management Threatens Dann Impoundment - Indian Country TodayBLM protests trespass decision - Las Vegas Sun NewspaperBLM, Western Shoshone headed for another...
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...
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 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...
Crop Solutions
Cover Crops
~ FALL COVER CROPS WISH I KNEW This 10 Years Ago - YouTube ~ Cover Crops Database - Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program
Food Problems
Edible MRNA Vaccine
VideosMainstream News Can one grow Covid vaccines? Researchers say lettuce, spinach can replace the traditional mRNA shots - Hindustan Covid-19: Researchers working on making edible plants like spinach, lettuce as mRNA vaccines; check details - The Financial Express...
Food Addiction
The Science of Engineering Food Addiction1 in 8 Adults Have Food Addiction 1 in 8 Older Americans May Be 'Junk Food Addicts,' Poll Finds - US News One in eight Americans over 50 show signs of food addiction- Much higher percentages of possible addiction to processed...
Food Additives – Food Dye
Dangers of Food Dye Artificial Food Dye: Delicious or Dangerous? - ABC News Food dye amounts revealed in brand name products - CBC News Food Dyes Linked to Allergies, ADHD and Cancer- Group Calls on US to Outlaw Their Use - CBS News Living in Color: The Potential...
Food Additives – Food Preservatives
VideosImmune System Chemical found in 1,000 processed foods may harm the immune system - Live Science Chemicals found in over 1,200 foods linked to immune damage - New York Post Concerns raised over safety of common food preservative - New Atlas Food preservative may...
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 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...
Food Packaging
News Food packaging is full of toxic chemicals – here's how it could affect your health - The Guardian Food sold in recycled cardboard packaging 'poses risk' - BBC News More than 3,000 potentially harmful chemicals found in food packaging - The Guardian Plastic Food...
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 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 Solutions
Root Cellars
VideosArticles DIY Root Cellar- The Fundamentals of Cold Storage – Mother Earth News Root Cellars- Types of Root Cellars and Storage Tips - The Old Farmer's Almanac Underground Root Cellar Plans – Mother Earth News Facts and Stats Root cellar - Wikipedia
Fishing Problems
Fish – PFAs
News Reports Eating 1 fish from US lakes, rivers equal to a month of drinking 'forever chemicals' water, study says - FOX 4 Eating just 1 portion of freshwater fish may expose people to toxic chemicals - New York Post Eating one fish from U.S. lakes or rivers likened...
Fish Farms – Salmon
Documentaries Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon - New Scientist Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction - phys Fish farms transmit viruses to endangered wild Pacific salmon, new evidence shows - The Conversation...
Fishing Subsidies
VideosMainstream News End fishing subsidies to save fish, U.S. urges - NBC News Government Subsidies Encourage Dangerous Overfishing - Bloomberg How the world subsidizes overfishing, in two charts - Vox Putting an end to billions in fishing subsidies could improve...
Overfishing
DocumentariesShort FilmsMainstream News China's super trawlers are stripping the ocean bare as its hunger for seafood grows - ABC News Overfishing is emptying our seas – despite countries pledging to stop it - National Geographic Independent News China’s Monster...
Forestry Problems
Deforestation
DocumentariesShort VideoMainstream News Amazon Rainforest- Highest deforestation rate in six years - BBC News Rates of Deforestation & Reforestation in the U.S - Seattlepi Independent News Burger King Linked to a Whopping Million-Plus Acres of Deforestation -...
Timber Mafia
DocumentariesMainstream News How the mafia is destroying the rainforests - New Scientist Organized Crime Is Responsible For Up To 90 Percent Of Tropical Deforestation, U.N. Report Indicates - HuffPost UN Report: 90% of Illegal Logging May be Linked to Organised Crime...
Forestry Solutions
Agroforestry
Short FilmsToursPresentationsAlley CroppingShort FilmsPresentationRiparian Forest BuffersTV SpecialsShort FilmsPresentationsSilvopastureShort FIlmsPresentationsWind BreaksShort FilmsPresentations
Food Forests
TV SpecialsShort FilmsToursDemoArticles CityStream- Beacon Food Forest - seattlechannel.org Create a Permaculture Food Forest - Tenth Acre Farm Creating a Food Forest - Step by Step Guide - Permaculture Apprentice How to Establish a Fantastic Edible Food Forest Easily...
Reforestation
DocumentaryShort FilmsPresentationArticles Strategy 11 Planting Trees - Ratical Info Reforestation - Wikipedia