Cargill Unmasked: The Dark Side of Global Food Trade | Feast, Famine & Finances Documentary
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- American multinational, Cargill, trades in food commodities. They purchase, trade and distribute all of the basic ingredients on our plates - from meat to oil and cereal. At 121 billion euros a year, their turnover is twice Mcdonald's and Coca-Cola's combined and larger than the GDP of Hungary, yet few know their name.
Today, this giant is at the centre of a controversy regarding the destruction of food crops (and local jobs), pollution and deforestation. In France, the US and Latin America, farmers and residents are sounding the alarm about the negative consequences of the global agri-business.
We investigate this multinational which is also suspected of having indirectly caused the 2008 hunger riots by speculating on certain commodities. The vice president of Cargill goes exclusively on record for us to respond to various charges.
This documentary was first released in 2015.
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I used to work in this industry as an engineer. I worked for a competitor of Cargil that is also based in Minnesota. They are all criminal companies.
Does the company name start with "N"
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@@Brannas1ADM or Archer Daniels Midland !
Mosaic, previously Cargill, previously proctor and Gamble. Same game in central Fl.
@@mommyharris1111 I worked for CHS. They play the same game. Cargil is also the largest shareholder in CHS as well as their largest competitor.
That spokesperson for Cargill literally hit every single marker for psychopathy. The deflection, the victim blaming, the arrogance and inference of intellectual superiority. It is hard to source all of my food locally, but as more people wake up to the horrors of modern Big Ag, more local farmers are able to make a living selling directly to consumers; it's getting easier to eat only what I can find locally.
As the war on farmers continues and laws keep getting harsher. We have to put our feet down!
When is the question.
At the present we here in Missouri are trying to keep Chinese from buying more farmland.
No country should buy US land. We can't buy theirs, so why do we let them?
@@chrismatteson2337because we the people have assumed our government and industry has had our best interest in mind for many years prior to the last half century
@@chrismatteson2337i think the Chinese are no different than the likes of cargill.
Should be illegal. Then they might take better care of their land & stop polluting ours.
Biden already sold entire country to China
🤬...thank you for the information you have provided. Thank you for your extensive efforts to investigate and report on this company's practices. I will be more conscious with where and what I spend my money on. A revolt on ground level is the only answer, don't give them or any affiliates the privilege of your patronage. Support the small local farmers.
Amen!
We have to take the power of corporations back to the people.
Do we? How?
@@denisl2760Stop buying their stuff.
As long as people aren't willing to produce what we consume someone will be profiting off of you and me both
@@adamF2012what they produce is toxic to the human body and the environment.
The only way to do that is to outlaw lobbying. If they can't participate in crafting regulatory legislation, they can't stomp out competition with the cudgel of the state. They'll have to actually compete with Mr and Mrs Nobody Farmer in your hometown. In terms of produce quality and land responsibility, they can't compete. Their only edge is lots and lots of low cost junk. That's another problem that will need to be addressed, but it's a complex one
It’s about time! I’ve been waiting for something like this to come out and expose this company. Both of my brothers work for this company and they’re dead. Both before 55 years of age. My dad also got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and was diagnosed at stage four but survived, in my opinion, there needs to be a class action lawsuit against this company for not using protective equipment like they should be requiring, providing showers for the employees to clean, toxic chemicals off their body before they come home, and causing one out of four people to die from cancer. I’ve looked at the statistics of Florida agriculture one and four people die. It’s higher than that. I have lost so many people from cancer. Cargill and the employees dedicated their break room to my brothers. They all worked at the same plant.
Sulfuric acids used in wet milling grains causing a nightmare of health problems. Plus very dangerous for people working around those wet milling grains companies. This is what’s poisoning animals and humans. Sulfuric acids destroying vitamins and minerals and stopping absorption of vitamins and minerals. Plus higher sulfur buildup in our respiratory tract is what Covid type viruses are living off of. This is causing autoimmune diseases like cancer diabetes. Higher sulfur levels in body’s cause’s brain cells deaths Alzheimer’s . This is just a start on this nightmare of health issues sulfuric acids are causing.
The c19 shots are producing most of the "turbo cancers " but I'm sure csrgills practices also contribute
@@debradelarue9717 neither of my brothers had the 19. My brother got cancer from inhaling toxic fumes and chemicals. It started in his mouth. Never smoked a day in his life. He had over 50 polyps in his sinuses! His Dr said he NEVER HAD a patient with so many polyps in his career. It went to his lungs despite having chemotherapy 5x a week and radiation 1x a week. My other brother had a massive stroke at 52.
Anyone who eats an unnatural vegan diet should watch this!
Local meat and eggs, seasonal fruits and vegetables are the healthiest way to live.
And you have barely even addressed the ecological impact of modern farming!
You are just ignoring the part where it says all of that soy goes to feed animals. It's animal ag that is the problem here not a vegan diet.
@@ryanp2518 Read before you respond!
You’re ignoring the part where I mention LOCAL MEAT AND EGGS.
Large scale ranching and farming is indeed where the problem lies. Not just because of the soy crop, but for animal welfare, biodiversity, and downstream water pollution.
@Carmen88888 large scale ranching and farming is for the most part, producing animal products. Maybe do some research before you make such an ignorant comment. It doesn't matter if the animal products are produced locally because the crops can still be imported from anywhere.
@@ryanp2518 You,re hilarious! You keep insulting someone, then repeating what they say!
I live in a ranching community, have run the tractor that creates the food for the cows and pigs, work closely with the people who run the cattle on federal lands. Experience comes from real-world, severe food sensitivities (especially to corn and soy), and university.
Maybe our definitions of local and large-scale differ.
Whatever it is, your arguments are making me laugh heartily!
@Carmen88888 your last remark didn't make much sense. So what you live in a farming community? Maybe that means you are covering up for Cargill because you are financial invested in the industry.
These are sorts of documentaries I’m interested in- the ones that call out the rot in the world!!
It's endless🙁
Stay strong farmers no one can care for your land more than you😊
Amen! And without God and the farmers we all die unless you have a big enough place to raise everything you need and I don't.
unhelpful trope.
@@TinaMarie869
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@TinaMarie869fairy tales have nothing to do with it
00:22 Investigation into Cargill's impact on global agriculture
05:10 Cargill is the world's top raw materials trader with a turnover larger than Hungary’s GDP and double that of McDonald's and Coca-Cola combined.
11:09 Cargill prioritizes profit over individual grower well-being
13:43 Hyperspecialization in global food trade leads to upheaval in different countries.
24:32 Cargill accused of environmental destruction
27:42 Concerns about hog waste pollution in the soil and waterways
33:08 Allegations of fraudulent activity in document regarding land authorizations for Cargill.
35:33 Cargill's avoidance of participation in the documentary
42:19 Cargill is facing demands for compensation due to environmental and legal issues.
45:01 Cargill responds to allegations of illegal construction and environmental impact.
49:40 Speculation drives up food prices
You are very brave. Thank you for this video. Eva
We disconnected from buying food from big anything several years ago. We grow most of what we eat now and our health has never been better.
all the war and MONEY in Ukraine is the WHEAT. NOW prices in Poland and EU farmers are HURT. The U.S. farmers are seeing the biggest drop in Corn, Wheat prices in my life time.
Thrive. A word which means, executives live in cushy mansions while allowing farmers to make ends meet where the media is looking at and nothing more. These conglomerates and the investors behind them are all the same.
Agreed
Crimes against humanity humanity by allowing these practices world wide
Facts 🎯 🙏🏽 we'll eventually unite, not sure how long will take or how much we'll need to suffer 😂 🤦🏽♂️
Yes!!! No one should yield this much power
In the USA use the Patriot Act to request state documents. I live in Arkansas.
I worked for seaboard foods many years ago on their hog farms, it's dispicable how the pigs are raised. I wonder if cargill has their talons in them too. Seaboard sells the pork to china then china turns around and sells it right back. That would be an interesting documentary.
This might be why some of the Cargill representative in this doc look like they're on the verge of crying.
Cargill is a cheap company
Treats employees abominable
👀👀~It frustrates me to no end... All of the nefarious activities that go on between big business and politics!!! They all do whatever they want!! Anything in the way is 'persuaded' or 'disappeared'. They have no morals!! And neither do the many on the sidelines who know what's going on but continue to be silent. Meanwhile the rich get richer and greedier. The poor get poorer and won't have anything left to give up. Sad!!
It’s pointless. This movie is too, sorry. It profits us nothing. The investigative journalists are court jesters appeasing the general public, who is very much misinformed from whatever perspective you wanna watch it. It’s over.
@@ralphbaier7793It’s not over if you stop participating in their system. This entails a minimalist highly ethical compassionate educated lifestyle.
Here are some things you can do (carefully)….
Eat only fresh juicy fruits until you wean yourselves from your eating addiction, then stop this eating habit altogether as it is causing almost all of your diseases and your death.
If you are a meat eater, start by reducing your meat eating gradually, then move on to a vegetarian diet, and then a vegan one, both raw as far as possible with plenty of fruit, culminating in a fruitarian diet.
This is not a painless process as the body starts to heal itself the minute you do that, but the discomforts come and go until a critical healing stage is reached that one must navigate carefully with a big doze of patience and endurance.
Educate yourselves first and proceed moderately to avoid real problems. Include sunning yourselves, walking, and such exercises as tai chi or its easier precursor.
Spend time in nature and meditate. Cultivate loving kindness and generosity. Do some breath work too and some fasting and back off when it becomes overwhelming.
Best wishes….
@@ralphbaier7793 It’s not over if you stop participating in their system. This entails a minimalist highly ethical compassionate educated lifestyle.
Here are some things you can do (carefully)….
Eat only fresh juicy fruits until you wean yourselves from your eating addiction, then stop this eating habit altogether as it is causing almost all of your diseases and your death.
If you are a meat eater, start by reducing your meat eating gradually, then move on to a vegetarian diet, and then a vegan one, both raw as far as possible with plenty of fruit, culminating in a fruitarian diet.
This is not a painless or short process as the body starts to heal itself the minute you do that, but the discomforts come and go until a critical healing stage is reached that one must navigate carefully with a big doze of patience and endurance.
Educate yourselves first and proceed moderately to avoid real problems. Include sunning yourselves, walking, and such exercises as tai chi or its easier precursor.
Spend time in nature and meditate. Cultivate loving kindness and generosity. Do some breath work too and some fasting and back off when it becomes overwhelming.
Best wishes….
That was so interesting, but it is all for the love of money, power and greed!! They want to scream that WE are destroying the earth, yet they have been at it for about a century, and it takes scientists to prove it!!
Blessings to all of you fir this video!!!
Excellent documentary! Thank you for keeping us informed.
Those who have control of commodities (and thus commodity markets) are, surely, not so stupid as to 'speculate' in regards to price fluctuations. Especially when logic suggests they must know: 'Certainty' being the foundation of the enterprise... With nothing ever being left to chance by those who want to keep their luxurious homes, bespoke suits and supplies of fine cigars.
What happed to your documentary on Norinder Moodi? I saw your upload but the video went away before I got a chance to watch it :( At any rate, your work is beyond fantastic!! Please never stop.
soon 50,000 south American natives will be forced to leave to give Lithium mines room who will look out for them.
Lord they are a multi-national corporation they have never heard of composting? I did not get that they were spraying raw feces at first, WTF?
Yes I came to Iowa for grandkids from WA state and I still get sad each spring when I go out to breath,and all I smell is raw manure. These practices are intentionally sickening and killing people.
the way CARGILL does swine farms is like this.
a farmer contracts with cargill, cargill will build the building (swine confinement facility), and supply all the equipment, the feed, the piglets (who are born in canada), and the land owner is paid x amount of money for every pig successfully and shipped to market minus a payment on the building and equipment. the contract length is for the time it requires to pay off the building and equipment. at the end of the term the land owner might be able to sign a new contract, but CARGILL maintains the right to no longer contract with the land owner , the landowner is responsible for getting the permits for a swine confinement facility! i knew a girl in my class whose family had several confinement buildings and contracted with cargill!
i attended college from 2009 to 2015 and was the old man in the class room!
Deforestation is also happening in the Midwestern United States.
If you're eating grocery isle breads, margarine, and seed oils, you already have big problems.
I worked for Cargill during the 1980's. The video shows the result of 150 years of building 90% of profit into NEW Business. At one time Dairy Queen was owned 100% by CARGILL but it was too "Consumer Facing" and sold off. The headquarters is on a TREE Reservation that is saving specific trees. I hade beers with James Cargill on Wednesdays in Wayzata Muni whose wife is buying property in Duluth on Park Point. I know the truth and why CARGILL supplies 3,300 plus ingredients into the shelves in GROCERY stores.
I wrote the FEED FORMULATION used by Cargill. The whole process was automated in early 1980's and still in place. A Veterinarian worked with ME to create it and the feed and pharma are used for a simple reason to maintain tracability and accountability. CARGILL Turkey is WHAT I did for them and the shareholder (producers are just one of dozens) of shareholders who grow corn, wheat soya and now TYSON is hiring 52,000 NEW Migrants. CHEAP labor by BIDEN, SCHUMER and Pelosi the CLINTONS in Arkansas and even REPUBLICANS are behind this move. Middle American is now heading towards this devastating outcomes because NO Morals, NO Values by our BIG Government. The small subsistence farmer in the USA is now OUTLAWED where a true organic farming is shut down by OUR FEDERAL Government as a danger to their customers what order directly. Ag Secretary from Iowa is paid by Cargill.
What is the truth about Cargill?
@48:51 That is very true mister. The covert way you monopolize our agriculture and destroy our planet is very complex indeed for the peasantry to understand.
Watching this documentary, everyone was afraid to even mention the agricultural companies, the reports had to lie just to get ppl to sit down and talk, and once the report mention agricultural they instantly stripped the microphones off and run out the offices.
No one and nothing backpedals like a Fortune 500 Company!
Big food, big pharma, big government = big money $$.
As an Arkansan who frequents the Buffalo. FUUUUUUCK Carkill.
Cargillordzilla!
Outrageous
Magnifique! Your research was commendable!
A good example of the danger of large multinational conglomerates whose only allegiance and motivation is to its bottom line and stock price. Scary……
That was interesting. Thanks for making this documentary
The Amazon of food...
First released 2015
Do we have any better company example, that is the opposite of Cargill?
Just as large or even close to it? None. You can't grow that big while having your conscience intact. When you worship money, everything else can be and will be sacrificed.
That Cargill manager had the "oh shit" look on his face.
Yes I know of them they are robber barons, I am a very small farmer.
money talks on everything
in Alberta federal food inpectors get lean ground beef for 0.99 a lb from Cargill we pay 5.99 a lb at the store !
You buy it,you eat it you create the demand .The market responds .
Great report, thanks!
In the midst of the farm crisis in the 1990's a few of us in Iowa and Mexico brought knowledge, power and will together with a Mission Statement on agricultural trade. I did it using the phone and fax machine at the University of MN with no salary. Long before George Floyd's death on the streets I was dragged out of my car onto the streets of Minneapolis after leaving Sunday Mass thrown in jail and released on bond my Physician Father posted. The meeting in the Iowa Capitol on agriculture was scheduled days later. The Mayor of St Paul sent his aide and gave me his car. This policeman had destroyed the brakes. I arrived at the Capitol bruised. Mexico sent a delegation also injured. The sheer fortitude of people saying "yes" to address the foreclosure of farms did it. Cargill in the 1980's raised the price of tortillas five or ten pesos in the little shops in Mexico 🇲🇽 that sold them to the families. Over 110 billion in drugs had been destroyed prior to the meeting. This film was four months ago? Forty years later and now you know why they are running to the border to exist. Water and earth and air are destroying them and theit culture. I was saved from being killed by the grace of God. The policeman was fired and his actions to me and others were made accountable. My first boss
Prior to coordinating years later "The Regional Impacts of US Mexico Economic Relations" was Walter Mondale, former Attorney General who became Senator and Vice President. The people of Minnesota had no idea of the destruction happening. The farmers and native tribes and Doctors know. Mexico has transformed this bilateral corruption with honoring the creative values of their culture and working in interdisciplinary ways. It is an incredible story of courage creativity and honesty being created. The only way out of this is bilateral working groups to understand the issues overcome the walls and pray for grace and courage from God to inspire us all. He is in control but we have a journey to "work with within and sometimes against a world pattern of systems to create change.
Listen listen listen and open stone hearts as the Holy Father said on Good Friday. This movie is true and the tip of the iceberg.
Millions of people have died. Billions of drugs have been distributed in tankers trucks and airplanes and human beings carrying them in oral cavities. Think about "The Body of Christ" "The Way of the Cross" and how you can create change and support the people who are doing it. Pray please for the millions who gave their lives to wake up the powerful and the local leaders everywhere. Informational awareness and an open mind work miracles when the impossible seems unable to change. Change is the only guarantee we have in life. May you have a profound Easter with your friends and family and pray together
who is OWNER of the HOG Facility if NOT CARGILL. Tyson? Red China? Can you find that out?
PS it's headquarters is on a affluent suburb. Not Minneapolis
Nitrate is a fertilizer....it's the concentration is the problem
Yes, liquid manure systems typically found in large hog farms like the one shown are notorious for nutrient leakage. When I was a kid in the 1960s in Ontario, our neighbouring hog farmers, who worked medium sized farms, used straw for bedding. The resulting manure was spread dry and took longer to break down -- less run-off.
It’s destroying the water table in Florida look at Indian river Lagoon! It’s nothing but citrus Grove all in Indian River County. The phosphorus leaching in the water table is causing all the disruption in algae growth and is destroying our ecosystem. Pig excrement is so high in phosphorus, cow manure has less phosphorus because they don’t eat meat.
The audio is not in sync the whole video it really bothers me
Every small farmer I have ever met would be happy to let you take pictures of their farm. In contrast the cargill farmers were threatening the photographers and chasing them away. It seems they have something to hide.
This is seriously dated. Around nine years old. Agribusiness has changed considerably. China was buying meat processing and multinational seed companies around that time.
What has changed? Please provide updates!
Pointless and hopeless. This wont stop until everything is desert
It seems shady, like there are some things they dont want people to know therefore it presumes something wrong, possibly illegal, definitely corrupt in their practices. Shame on them. Boycott Cargill like I do.
After i seen what they did to a elderly nun, i knew the oil industry, dnt have nothing on these psychopaths
I wish more people would/ could stand up to these big companies.
Very interesting and sad much destruction caused by Cargill 😢.
Cargill thinks nothing of going into the Amazon and mowing down everything in their path to grow the crop of the day.
I was thinking of the Cargill where the Pakistanis and Indians had a fight.
A friend with Agricultural interest told me years ago : Cargill owns the whole wheat crop of e.g. Hungary......
That simply doesnt sound good...
They are in Alabama, Georgia.. I used to haul products feed for animals and (tractor supply)
China owns tractor supply
Chicken farms, the river Wye, Wales. Defo seeping into the river
Nothing new here. I first started opposing their greed and manipulation in 1979. You are way late to the game.
Always Money
Weird I’m in a poor country atm I was travelling yesterday and I saw this name Cargill for second time- I wondered what they doing here my inner intelligence told me something untoward with that company 😮
not only a big company tries to get rid of waste asap , like manure , but it's also depositing a lot of antibiotics and remains of other medicine used to grow the animals . if its pigs , fish etc etc all this type of exploitation brings along
Soybeans are not sent from Brazil to Europe to feed cattle. They are sent to an oil seed refinery, where the parts that are edible for people are extracted. The inedible parts are then sent off for livestock feed. Other than that, good video
Look at the 10:00 minute marker. Is that Larry Fink with Obama? AKA Barry Sotelo.
Great Doc. Would have been much better if it didn't play like a Kung Foo movie.
It. Is. Too. Late.
They are in Nicaragua too
RFK Jr might be the only one who could fix this mess
Cargill owns the U.S. farmer. In 1980 U.S. farmer made 62 percent of the food dollar… today it is 37 percent, half the amount 40 years ago… with Cargill taking the profits from the farmer. You do the math
so what can i as an individuell do, and i really would like to know. its not saying oh i can´t do anything so what do i care.
Arkansas is oddly the most wealthy among the farming states. AS much as NYC Florida la the port states..😢
Translations from the original languages to English are for the birds.
Audio and Video dont go together.
And even when the original language is english, waht is then being shown on the AI translations, or whoever or whatever does that, is different then what is being spoken.
For an Episode or film of that importance, a little bit more care could be taken for sure?
End economic struggle! End money! Up with BLACK MARKETS NOW!
The interview wwith cargill is a clear example of how evil these people are.
Soylent Green
cargill has a meat factory in alberta Canada
When money talks, bullshit walks ! Period.
Or do we applaud Cargill and similar companies for fast tracking our extinction?
there not allowed to look at your licence there noz police and police cant do it either unless your broken a law. 😂
First time I hear about CARGILL. You ask what they are hiding ?
Tout simplement … LE DÉMON !
Vacation saw Cargills huge salt works In Bonaire
Lol at 13:40 mins says ivory coast is known for "coca" not cacao,
I'm like Cargill runs the cocaine trade!?
O wait they meant chocolate.
I was an Auditor for Associated Wholesale grocers who distributed all types of food to over 3300 grocery stores totaling 10 Billion dollars annually. We distributed meats from Cargill and companies like JBS. The meat from Cargill was considered the highest quality meat. If it was a crappy company i would say that. Nobody who slaughters animals should not and would not let anyone who is not an essential employee enter record and report. No matter what they do they will be betrayed as a villain. Why because they have worked hard and grown their company and are successful. When you approach them so aggressively they shut the door as anyone unnecessary in my gacilitnn
They are not as innocent as you think
@@dianaroach3093 All i can do is speak from my own experience.
Aren't hot dogs nearly pure nitrates?
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Why aren't the words matching with the mouth movements? That is editing 101.
You are voicing over the people you are interviewing so how do we know your voice over is what they are actually saying???
How do we know you wrote this ?
A maddening documentary to follow. It's nice that there's spoken word but then it goes into French with subtitles. Who's the person doing the narration talking about eating margarine. No one in their right mind uses that stuff. Anyway epic failures far as getting me to watch it😢😮😂
I know this company well, nothing's surprising,..there is more than just a name, I can definitely understand,...😡🇺🇸
Look for connections too many things and to other companies like Monsanto/Bayer,...You getting too the start of many stories,..😡🇺🇸
I know the names Cargill and Tyson, in the coming years there is a huge change forming as we realized current conditions,...😡🇺🇸
Leave Cargill alone!
Said the money robot
As someone who is very curious about this topic, I think this documentary is not worth your time. The problem is much more complex. The professor who suits up in hazmat suit and then tells you that the die he’s pouring in the water is not toxic is an obvious hypocrite 😢.
I never touch soya!!
I dont understand why chris buckman does what they say