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A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid manure every year. Residents fear the irreparable damage a facility of that size could do to their air, land, and waterways, as well as to their property values and the local economy, and many fear there’s nothing they can do to stop it. As part of TRNN’s special collaboration with In These Times magazine for “The Wisconsin Idea,” TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez traveled with Cameron Granadino (TRNN) and Hannah Faris (In These Times) to Burnett and Polk counties to speak with farmers and residents in the area about their underreported struggle to protect their communities from the factory farming industry. In this interview, we speak with local farmer and beekeeper Kristy Lynn Allen about the damage the industrialization of farming has done to agriculture in general, and about the damage the new CAFO would do specifically to farmers like her. Allen is the founder of The Beez Kneez, LLC, and serves as president of the local chapter of the Wisconsin Farmers Union. #BigAgriculture #Farming #IndependentFarmers #FactoryFarming #Rural
Pre-production:
Maximillian Alvarez
Simon Davis-Cohen
Hannah Faris
Cameron Granadino
Studio:
Cameron Granadino
Stephen Frank
Post-production:
Cameron Granadino
Stephen Frank
Kayla Rivara
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Farmers hold the line don’t give up!
do bees have knees?
Be great if Farmers had stronger unions…too bad Unions were gutted by Dark Money & Conservative Supreme Court.😒
In the USA we just one big corporate experiment.
And the waste and excess is never considered.
And the world, one big toilet.
@@dulynoted2427 you have clearly never been in Europe 🤩.
The USA could only wish it was half as pretty
@@sownheard The air and seas know no borders and corporate locust know no country.
@@sownheard And Global Warming and the mass exodus and influx of people are on their way
China is a huge country, why here? These farms are torture for the animals. This is a great interview. So many need know. I refuse to eat factory farm meat. Too many stress hormones. I can feel the difference.
I thought all that was BS until my cage free eggs tasted like pure life.
China exports labor intensive products to the US, but to balance they need to import products from US. US has much more water and farmland per capita than China so the US exports agricultural products to China.
balance? like commies care anymore about balance than capitalists. 1.5 billion people in china.. everything we have is higher per capita except captia. That’s not the reason why here.
@@livefully7568 I was referring to “trade balance”. If China doesn’t buy products and invest in their export partners then they are just giving USA stuff for free.
@@maemorri lol lemme know where you got you economics degree so I never go there. For free.. lol
I saw how they destroyed rural North Carolina. Don’t let it happen in Wisconsin!
Small farms still provide for locals, farmers markets are becoming much more favorable in local community’s across the country
In NC the state is excluding local craftspeople & growers from farmers mkt.s in favor of larger importers selling food from outside the US. 😡
@@UtubeAW that’s ridiculous. And is counter productive to the concept of a farmers market
Small farmers snd back yarders will definitely continue growing with globalists such as Gates and Chinese corporations that are taking over farm land and with the threats that they and many other companies are producing.
For the rich people yes … A tiny minority which loves picking fresh veggies 😂😂 the rest of the population can goto hell ⚰️🇺🇸
This has been an issue for many years.
Also there is a lot more detriment to the river system and habitat Corridor than was brought up here.
Small farmers should unite in CoOps and process the products for the consumers themself. There are examples how you are able to compete with the agrar industrial complex. But there is a general problem how agrar products are produced. We must overcome the unhealthy and environment destroying processes of today and go back to healthier processes.
Does this apply to those Black Farmers, who have been denied any assistance, 🤔 O’ let’s NOT leave out those Black communities ” cancer alley” where China been spewing animal & chemical waste for decades. now ” As the 🌎turns” we crying now 😷
What goes around comes around
SOILANT GREEN COMING TO YOUR STORES SOON AS THEY GRIND UP VXX PASSERS AND SERVE THEM TO YOU
People like this are why we are here today.
Africa has had next to zero vaccines. Honor our ancestors and ensure the have access to the vaccine
That’s an algae growers dream
Just like it did the copperskin humans original to this land!
WOW. I’m blown away by this interview. This person is doing her best to just live a productive, simple life.
And look what she has to go through just to breathe clean air, grow clean food, and drink clean water.
Check out Via Campesina’s (International Peasant Movement) boycott of the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit and why they’re boycotting. By all means, support these folks in Wisconsin, but remember, the big boys are *transnational*.
This is just a particular view of particular people in a particular location.
Over a decade or so, however, I have heard many particular views from many particular people with their own specialised trade or professional interests and experiences discussing agriculture, ecology, transport and logistical infrastructure, banking & finance, and a fraying social fabric.
Now, I have developed a particular view based on the particular sources I have come across and been impressed by: I have the view that we are running on Autopilot to a comprehensive systems failure, the implications of which will make genocide look like just a bad temper tantrum on the part of some ideologues.
Some small farmers and comprehensively capable country folk will survive, or virtually no one will.
Time to go back to our roots…grassroots!!!