A River of Waste
This documentary looks at the potential hazards caused by factory farms in the United States, particularly by waste disposal.
Beginning with a history of the American food system, River of Waste shows its evolution to large-scale corporate farms where pollution and use of growth hormones threaten both individual health and the future of our planet.
A River of Waste exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production.
Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as mini Chernobyls. In the U.S. and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments.
The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed.
How appetizing. Go vegan.
One percent of the population is controlling ninety-nine percent of the rest of us.....what is our problem??????? Do the math... wake up, speak up and quit buying what they are selling. Easy math. Too bad that ninety-eight percent of the population is still asleep.
This is a critical issue but this documentary is so appallingly didactic and preachy that it is incapable of effecting anyone except those already in agreement with its one armed polemic. Bad film making that ultimately dulls the public to skepticism via boredom and adds to the apathy it preaches about. Consider the idea that supermarkets are feedlots for humans and maybe we could demonstrate an argument that compels people to act. But not with lazy film making like this documentary.
This is not a issue with meat. This is an issue on how we are producing food and other products on a whole.Medicines, gasoline, energy, food, and that poisoned container you are drinking your pure water from. Open up your eyes and mind, and see how everything we are doing is causing devastation. GMO crops don't feed us as a whole. They feed the organism that ends up on your poisoned packaging at Mac Donald's. I have no problem with one farmer only being able to feed 20-30 people. Families in this country need jobs. If you show them how to raise a good rack of ribs, or a crop of tasty safe corn, we are starting a economy and ecosystem to take care of ourselves. Relying off of companies selling GMO's, chemicals and mass produced products, is not how people take care of our own. If we continue to feed into the system, we will eat only the evil they sow.
Personally if we push Congress to eliminate the subsidies and tax breaks the CAFO gets it will do some good. We also need to boycott the largest producers wherever possible since the pocket book is what actually speaks.
My sister and her daughter are vegetarian now. I'm down to meat every 15 - 20 days and hope to stop... hell, after watching that, screw it. I'm stopped.
I did vegetarianism for 5 years after I read the book Factory Farms, but then I went overseas and couldn't find enough alternative protein. When I came back, I kept eating meat.
I have suffered for it: IBD, allergies, arthritis, and tendon issues. But you know what? My last count, there are 17 categories of chemical, energy or situational regimes impacting Americans. Our entire country is now so toxic (physically or psychically) that most people (especially in urban areas) can't really think straight anymore.
Here it is:
1) Food Additives - Deliberate - Multiple types with inedible sugars leading
2) Food Additives - Production - Roxarsone, et al.
3) EMF Pollution - Cancer clusters around cell towers, ear canal cancer, fatigue, brain fog, etc. (long list here)
4) GeoEngineering/Chemtrails - Aluminum, Barium, Strontium and a whole bunch of other things they say will cool the planet but actually heat it. The metal nanoparticles they are using are highly toxic and rain down on us afterwards. This has been going on for 14 years.
5) Antibiotics - Why can't they ozone shock the hospitals to clean the air ducts?
6) Flouride - Toxic and synergistic w/Lead and Mercury; Hispanics and African Americans more vulnerable than Caucasians.
7) Air Pollution - All kinds
8) Vaccinations - Big mess here with lots of casualties
9) Water Infrastructure Creates Dead Water - Chlorinated tap water and bottled water produce water that is devoid of microbes. This dead water kills the good bacteria in our guts and gives us digestive problems over time.
10) Water Pollutants - Non-removable - They can't get it all out.
11) Industrial Impact to Residential Areas - More cancer clusters and these CAFOs are a perfect example.
12) Financial Stress - The Minimum Wage documentary says that 150 million Americans are living check to check with no financial security. That is VERY stressful.
13) Parasites/Candida Overgrowth - Addiction to sugars and yo-yo dieting leading to obesity can be traced back to Candida. EVERYONE with weight issues probably needs probiotics.
14) Sick Relatives
15) Aging Relatives
16) Natural Disasters
17) Workplace Abuse and Discrimination
I could probably go on. I wonder how much crap our government thinks we will absorb before the blowback process begins? It is probably monitoring our twitter traffic right now to get an idea whether they can get away with anymore chemtrails. Then again, those chemtrails might not be created by our government. Who knows?
Tucker Jones, Its really simple people need to stop eating meat. We don't need it for human health, the facts are clear now and both human health and the environment cannot handle it any longer. Plain and simple really. Human tastebuds are to blame thats it. We don't need a better strategy to keep chickens, pigs and cows. We just need to stop it full stop.....
I grew up, live, and now operate a 5th generation, 6000 acre row crop farm, 20,000 head SWINE operation, and a 650,000 head POULTRY operation. Therefore, it is safe to say I have vast knowledge and first-hand experience and insight on the "CAFO" industry. With that being said much of the information being presented in this documentary is completely one sided and very much skewed to make certain situations appear worst than what they are. Documentaries like this turn a snowball into a avalanche with their misrepresentation and explanations of information, statistics, and so called experts. Without these large scale farms America could very well be in the same crisis as areas such as Africa and other poverty stricken nations. In the 1960's one US farmer was able to feed just 26.8 individuals, however thanks to new technologies, GMO seeds, more efficient techniques, and... oh yeah the introduction of CAFO's this number has increased by almost 600% to 155 individuals. How many of you lawyers, bankers, plumbers, carpenters, salesman, managers, CPAs, etc. could even feed the 50 year old statistic of 26.8 individuals? American farmers and farming in general have and always will be a vital staple in the US success and longevity of this nation. How many of you can do and provide for this nation and the world on such a large scale like farmers do?
It is not my damn fault. I am a consumer at the mercy of the food I can buy. I cannot forage so I must take what I can buy or die. It is as simple as that. This message is for the producer and then get some laws to change this situation but no, that will never happen! The people who should see this are not us but those in control of this horrendous situation!
Soilent Green... says it the best 1972 movie..
The answer is simple . Eat Plant Based Foods. That solves most of our problems. Don't cry about how things are. do something about it.
Start Now!
Meat Lovers? Think about the growth hormones, odors and dust, animal welfare, bacteria and disease, arsenic, etc. etc. Think about how we can get cancer!!
Funny how Humans made civilizations in order, to be "Safer and work together."
Now that time passes the civilizations began to decay in there own unique way. Wars over resources , Attempts to De-stabilize each-other And Degradation of information leading people to connect dots in a whole world where things are interconnected by design.
Some say that most of our problems are caused by N.W.O, Gods or Demons.
But take this into account.
What if we just Traded One Jungle for Another?
And all we have achieved in human history is nothing more than simply Re-learn our new environment and start from scratch in our version of what Nature should be according to only US. There fore Only giving the illusion of Progress.
Maybe none of this information matters, maybe it does. I dont know. :)
Some people believe in having no government at all and let the capitalism thrive. I don’t agree. On the contrary, we need a government but not a dysfunctional and corrupt one. We as people, cannot tackle these corporations by ourselves and we need to somehow convince those manure heads in the congress to think about their children and grand children --- if not themselves. Although we are encountering the consequences of these malicious and criminal practices by the food industries every day, the complete destruction is yet to come. If one thing there is to wipe out the man from this planet, is GREED. I see some folks talk about bunkers that these so called ‘Manure heads’ have built for themselves to survive when catastrophes make life impossible on the ground; they won’t survive because they have altered the ecosystem to annihilation point and planetary recovery won’t happen during their lifetime --- if there is any recovery at all!
It is an insult to many human beings to call these greedy criminals ‘Human beings’. I am not sure what to call them because even the animals would be outraged if I call these criminals ‘Animals’. They have built a corrupt and strong system, particularly in US that dealing with them requires going through a lot of legal mumbo jumbo. In fact, these criminals themselves have created this type of justice system to protect them. They have, and are, and will doing so by either bribery or extortion. Then why we blame Russia or China for corruption and Mafia activities?
Those who follow this party or that party, this ism or that ism should know that all are the same, ‘generating wealth for few, and leaving the rest behind in misery.’ They convince their fans by fancy words and false promises and make them to rally behind them with appealing slogans and banners! So, wake up. Select you representatives and leaders carefully – though it’s hard since the majority of them are amongst Manure heads! In any case, remember, you have to participate in democracy rather than being just a spectator.
Also...
As someone who is into the whole "energy" issue, it does occur to me that the usually savy corp's might be missing a trick here. Manure and other farm waste can be broken down by a process called "Anaerobic Digestion" to produce biogas. Such a huge volume of waste could easily be reused for such purposes, yielding a modest but tidy little revenue stream, nevermind the reduction in pollution you'd be achieving.
Of course, I've often found the problem with right wing conservatives is getting them to get over this whole "real men don't use solar panels" mentality.
You know its things like this that make me glad we have an EU! Indeed our food regulations this side of the pond are much tighter. They caught a farmer in my county a few years ago using growth hormones and he got sent to prison, something that's common practice in the US. I was in America a few years back for a couple of months and given what I saw going past any "farms" (if that's the correct term for them!) I seriously thought about going vegan for the duration of my stay!
Of course the meat packing lobby will say that no, if we impose EU style regulation then the costs of meat in the US will soar. Funnily enough I remembering noting that the price of meat in American supermarkets wasn't that much cheaper than it is in Europe...and the bulk of that price difference is probably down to VAT!
So really the only people who gain from America's lax farming practices are a couple of greedy executives in a small number of companies.
I'm feelin sick now, tried to eat some money, but it was contaminated too.
or do you?
No wonder so much U.S. A. citicens are moving out, should I say "invading" into Mexico, fleeing from what is obvious. U. S. A. is going to (gonna) (for Texan Bush) harvest your crops, what you have seeded. G.W. Bush You do not have the guts to face me face to face, such a coward you are. With best regards, Christian Klinkwort Guerrero
The real problem is money.
Ahhh !!! Why didn't somebody tell me what this film was about! I'm eating KFC right now! Oh god... I think I'm about to barf!!
sad it doesn't touch on the fact that for it to be considered "free-range" or "organic", all that needs to be done is for the last week or 2 before slaughter the animals are out of their pens or fed no anti biotics/hormones. Those labels are not anymore healthy for you, at all.
The way to be part of the solution and not of the problem, is simple...
STOP EATING MEAT.
You dont buy, they dont sell. Problem stopped...
Peace
Thats what you all get when you don't want to PAY MORE for better healthy food.
Short term thinking.
Don't buy American ****, and don't eat at Mac.Death etc.
And keep your grow hormone meat at your side of the pond.
Greetings from Europe. :-)