Unfortunately, modern-day activities has led to a great deal of deforestation in the region. Cattle ranching, a lot of illegal activities-- narco trafficking and so forth-- has created this unfortunate environment that,sadly, allows us to see things.
And then what you do is you get cattle in, to come in and graze all of it. Cattle is not their-- that's not their cash crop.The cash crop is soybeans.
Livestock has increased eightfold on this planet. Cattle , sheep, pigs, poultry, and other forms of farmed animals for our food production, basically, have grown eightfold globally.Wildlife has collapsed. When I was your age or in college, populations of wildlife have plummeted.
Now what's really interesting about the soy farming aspect is, often, when we talk about the environment and animal products, we talk about red meat, don't we? Cattle , sheep, pigs, perhaps.But we often think that chickens and, of course, eggs are sustainable alternatives.
Now it's no surprise or it's not really new knowledge for us to know that huge amounts of the Amazon are being destroyed to make way for cattle grazing either. Cattle being used for their flesh, beef, and for their skin, for leather.Actually, a lot of the wildfires can be directly related to those agricultural practices.
It's not funny." Now you might wonder why is this curved? Cattle have a knack for behavior to go back to where they come from, that's why it's curved.Half the cattle in this country are handled in the equipment I designed.
that the food is the new frontier in sustainability uh the way we raise cattle the ways the way we raise high volume uh corn and soy uhjust dumps all sorts of methane and and
using fences okay what you do is you build lots of small paddocks and then you form your cattle into one big herd and you put them in each Paddock for a day or two and that way you're mimicking the waythey would have moved on a natural grassland like the Serengeti it's the Serengeti but on a farm essentially and
have to chuckle a little bit because it's not your food is not really going to taste like my food even if you follow cattle really support our fisherman we need to be able to support them with real
noticed that it was metal and there was reflection could you tell that the story well when I first started out my work cattle hand L I go around all these different feed yards in Arizona and I noticed that in some of the facilitiesthey had for vaccinating the cattle the cattle went through some of the facilities really easily and there were other facilities where the animals just
dip that they don't use them anymore now because they now have injectable drugs and things like that that you give the cattle but they didn't have that in the 70s so I was hired by fed yards to design dip that I already knew a lotabout cattle handling I didn't know much about dip Vats so the first thing I did was I went and visited every dip vat I
We're good friends. And we helped her when she first started opening too. So cattle is the biggest take-up.
We're good friends. And we helped her when she first started opening too. And cattle is not even from here.
It's just unbelievable. They loaded up all these people. The cattle cars-- the smell could kill you. They transported sheep, or what do you call it, goats, horses, cows, in these cattle cars, but they never washed them.
And They have a second stomach in which cellulose ferments and it creates methane, which mostly comes out as burps, contrary to popular opinion. If cattle were their own nation, they would be the third largest emitter after China and the US. So this is no small problem.
And when you exceed that, you start to have these very serious ecological problems, and that's what we're seeing across the West, now. So cattle are being grazed on public land, so the government is basically, subsidizing this grass in order to graze these free-range cattle , but the Bureau of Land Management, which manages this land, is not ensuring that it's being managed properly to prevent
Of course, we didn't know where we were being taken. The cattle car doors opened. Thousands of people poured out onto a little strip of land called the selection platform.
the actual domestication of animals. Of cattle in this case. We've already seen this type of figure with upraised arms in that last reconstruction.
or cattle ranching. They're not asking us to use it for commercial purposes.
World cattle dung-- and people in India collect that.
Now cattle will make a category.
cattle but they didn't have that in the 70s so I was hired by fed yards to design dip that I already knew a lotabout cattle handling I didn't know much about dip Vats so the first thing I did was I went and visited every dip vat I could find measured it watched it work then I went to the I called up the USDA I got their drawings I called up
Even cattles give more milk by listening to certain kind of music.
We're good friends. And we helped her when she first started opening too. So when cattle was introduced in the 1800s, the cattle ate a lot of the wrong plants.
They slaughtered all the cattle .
The cash crop is soybeans. So they get the cattle to come and graze it and lay it flat. And then it's ready for soy production.
You can imagine how it felt there. And after-- the cattle car can be divided like two levels, with planks they put in the middle, the lower one and the upper. The upper is better, because in each corner there's a little window.
It wasn't a cattle car train.
put on an open cattle car with their father-- they were born here as well, as well as their mother-- and put on that open cattle car where it rained
And these are young cattle .
The older cattle were off in the hills.
attacking sheep and cattle , and then the villagers retaliating.
Malt goes into our cattle feed, and our dog food, and our Cheerios in the morning kind of thing.
On the cattle car, doors opened.
and have more cattle .
and then some cattle baron's herds would trample it, and they would all be alfalfa, and you would have wasted your time.
and trying to raise cattle , trying to raise crops, trying to raise children, trying to keep yourself going in a very difficult environment.
And where the cattle had grazed the land bear, what you get is bare ground.
This is a cattle truck.
little better than cattle .
And then the cattle trains came, and they told us that we need to be relocated to the vineyard in our own country
When I saw the cattle trains, I asked my father, why are we going to work in cattle trains?
There were three long cattle trains packed with people waiting to get off.
When we passed the cattle trains, a handsome SS man wearing white gloves and a baton-like stick in his hand,
They had cattle . And then they were pushed off their lands.
They convinced enough cattle growers and meat packers to grow their beef without hormones and antibiotics.
So if you drive-- especially in Marin, Petaluma, that area-- you might see these bucolic-looking cattle grazing on hillsides, and it looks very nice. But most of those cattle are then shipped to industrial feedlots, where they're fed corn and soy intensively for the last few months of their lives to fatten them up to reach market weight.
Playing with the cattle and rustling the cows.
Even though they abandoned cattle herding, some of them did, but they're still engaged in other businesses by traveling to other regions and other countries.
that is cattle but this