The Chaos of America's Food System

The best documentary I watched in a long time. I have a very high respect for our farmers. I wish this documentary would be shown to middle schoolers nationwide.

Every American needs to watch this documentary…there are corporations that are literally patenting certain foods that make it illegal for individuals to grow…that’s a problem! Being disconnected from where your food comes from is a disaster! Blessings

What an amazing documentary. I too grew up in a small Illinois farm much like those. I'm maybe 10 minutes from the end of this video, and the elephant in the room with this entire situation, is the massive donations the 4 major food producers pay to our politicians on both sides, to keep the regulations, and subsidies where they are. Only THEY get wealthy. Only their shareholders are making record profits, while the consumers are being squeezed more and more. I also agree one of the best documentaries I've seen in a very long time. Thank you.

This video is the kind of life I grew up with. We did not use commercial fertilizers and no herbicides that poisons the soil. Instead, we rotated crops with wheat, hay, corn, different kinds of beans and oats. We also planted half acre of buckwheat for the bees to work in later in the summer. All the farmers around us used all the poisons and planted corn in the same field for twenty years. If you don't rotate crops, the corn bores will damage the ears on the corn. What one crops puts in the soil the next crop needs to grow. We had cattle and used the manure for fertilizer with no meds used in the cattle as others do. The restaurants in and around Chicago are fortunate to have farmers to bring in nutritious food. I have read where much of the food in the grocery stores have glyphosate in them, so people are consuming poison, no wonder cancer is so prevalent.

I feel so obligated to also comment that this regenerative model of farming would drastically cut into the big chemical companies pockets. They donate millions to political campaigns. Also discussing growing your own seeds, most people aren't aware THAT'S NOT LEGAL, a literal CRIME with most major seed companies, has been for decades. Today's farmers do not OWN the seeds they buy. They're just using them to produce a crop. They can not use any of their crop for future seeds. I met a very elderly man in Alabama that was arrested and jailed for refusing to follow this. Again, like virtually every aspect of agriculture, the mega wealthy CONTROL nearly every aspect of it. Until we can have major campaign finance reform, and break up the very few agriculture and chemical producers that are clearly monopolies, nothing will ever change. Both political parties are equally liable for allowing this atrocity.

I’ve lived in Iowa a long time, and when I see the fields, I always wonder, why don’t they grow something people can eat.

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I really respect these people and hope they continue this amazing journey and God Bless Everyone of Them.

If you have any critique of this video, go back to the very beginning of it and see how every civilization before ours has doomed itself by destroying the soil. Do not let history repeat itself. We have a choice right now.

Excellent documentary ! Keep up the good work❤😊

In all honesty I needed this video after so many other videos that highlight the aspects of what’s wrong without solutions. This is informative, wholesome, and part of the solution. For health and community. Simply fabulous and bravo to those farming and to those filming. Appreciate what you’re doing and what you’ve done.

Phenomenal video. Make this a mandatory part of school curriculums across the country.

The big shock is going to be (already started in some places around the world) when our ability to produce food at the industrial scales we currently do, starts to break down. At this point anyone is going to be happy they spent some time and thought on how to produce some of thier own food. You can do it in a city Scape (many projects already exist if you check around your locality), so don't need to be deep in the countryside.

Lovely story. Lovely folk! Selling to restaurants is a good start in regards to awareness. However, the people who eat in restaurants with exotic menus, aren’t the people who need a better food infrastructure. But they are the people who need to reject the corporate lobby- paid ass hats in office….& force better options. Monsanto (& the like)should be publicly shamed & jailed. Not sure what my part is…yet

en Argentina esta pasando lo mismo. los agricultores con la soja y el maiz, a su vez tienen retenciones y el monocultivo, asi y todo siguen, 400 millones de litros de glifosato se le echa a la tierra. por suerte hay mucha gente que trabajan de forma sostenible. pero el daño que se ha hecho es muy grande, gran documental.

Joel Salatin has been regenerative farming for decades too and has written a few books.

i like this, and share it, after i watch it twice, i love it... knowinng me and 5 older siblingd were stolen by the state of michigan on lies because we were completely off gird minus the electricity on the houses my grandma and dad built... just to shut us down they ruine peoples lives on lies...

The thing that pests me is that fruits in the supermarkets, like pears, apricots, peaches & their likes, are always hard as billiard balls & will stay that way even if you boil them, their smell is gone & a sign like "fruits" would look rather out of place The most scary symptom is that flies, that love fruits, are nowhere to be found

Ein wunderbarer Film. Menschen, Nahrungsmittel und Natur werden durch ein Überbewusstsein zusammen gehalten. Idealisten halten alles zusammen.

Food as a commodity, sad but true. If you can make a profit from something, make it scarce..

There a lot of people in the USA and the other countries that are doing regenerative agriculture. Iowa is the 2 in the nation to do cover crops and has restored 416,000 wetlands . Iowa is number one in conservative tillage .Pigs and chickens can’t live off of grass to long they have to have grain with grass .Cows and goats and sheep can live off of grass . As for 2024 for the crops of 2023 50 percent went to humans and 36 percent went to livestock and 12 percent with to other material . If every one went that way it would be better for the environment . And bring fresh food into local grocery stores . There is a lot of misinformation on agricultural.