This Evil Company Owns ALL The Food In Your House | The Class Room ft. Second Thought
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2022
- The salt on your table, the turkey in your sandwich, the egg in your Egg McMuffin: “the worst company in the world” makes money off all of them.
You may not have heard of them, but Cargill Inc is the biggest privately owned company in America, and they have near complete control over how and what you eat, and how working people in the agricultural system are treated.
Their power and breadth has kept wages down, squashed worker power, and pushed family farms to the brink of non-existence, while manipulating prices for the consumer.
And it’s made one family-the Cargills-very, very rich.
We worked with Second Thought to show you how exactly they amassed all that wealth, and what it means for you.
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I work maintenance for cargill for the last 6 years. Worked every holiday, came in when called in the middle of the night, worked 60 hrs a week and they decided to outsource maintenance to another company. So I am getting the boot. They claim to be a family oriented company, but that is not true. They underpay everyone at the mill I work at and expect everyone to work like slaves. It’s really sad.
My first red flag when I look for a job is ' We treat our employees like family'. Imagine if they treated their family like they treat their employees.
I work at Cargill in Utilities and Maintenance dept. In my experience, the company actually took care of employees and their families during pandemic, paying their bills. I am also looking after the Sustainability for one of the sites, the efforts to reduce carbon footprints are really great.
The FAMILY they are talking about is THEIR OWN!!
@@tejasdikshit5574 What? Eating bugs!!
Sounds like a blessing to me 💯 why would you want to work for EVIL people 🤷 God holds you accountable as well once you know and then YOUR BLESSINGS lack 💯
So, now you can get blessed 🎉💪💌
I buy from local farmers and use my town’s food co-op. This isn’t a perfect way to get food that isn’t from Cargill, but it helps. Every town should have a food co-op instead of only grocery stores.
What is a food Co-Op and how does it work? Where does the food come from that's bought or sold in a food Co-Op?
@@rmf-s2460 One way to begin gathering information is by talking to local organic farmers, plus organic growers at your local or nearest Farmers’ Markets. When l lived in Vermont for 25 years, l participated in a food co-op covering 2 counties. It was started by a locally-owned & operated health food store - all by co-op members. This isn’t complete information, but it’s a beginning. Area farmers sold organic produce, dairy, & meat to this co-op, but I’d start with local farms.
Good deal if everyone did some form of this they would have to adjust themselves
@@Sunnytrailrunner yeah thank you for telling us what it is. Actually, I’m being sarcastic I still have no idea what makes a difference from the grocery store.
I do that too, plus we have a garden and our daughter has chickens for eggs.
I worked for Cargill for 12 years and for those of you who “aren’t going to buy their products” then you better start growing your own food and raising your own meat. Cargill may not have their logo or whatever on the label but be assured they touch everything at least once before it hits the store. They don’t have to own the company that produces/manufactures the product, the processing plant or mill but they’ve had it in their possession at least once. They own 85% of the company because in the late 90’s they sold shares to their employees because they needed cash. All of their “worth” was in equity holdings but they needed cash flow. Yes I agree they are monopolizing the industry and they need to be stopped but the government has to step in and we all know that’s not going to happen.
If you buy anything for growing your own food, Cargill and/or Monsanto almost certainly have their finger in your pie. Seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides.....possibly even your storage.
We grow our own food, vegetables, fruit, beans. We compost, have pigeons for fertilizer, collect rainwater and we live in a small city. Fortunately we bought our land a long time ago. We are vegan so it makes it easier.
the solution is never to create private food systems, that’s why we have monopolies and capitalist leeches in the first place
And I thought I was already having a bad day
@@dianewood2430you can’t! You need land like the rest of us homesteaders own and use to produce our own foods, medicine, whatever is needed is grown on the property from organic, non gmo seed stock.
I raise all my own meats, I trade with locals for spices, vegetables, and dairy. Haven’t seen the inside of a grocery store in over a year.
Not only is the food much better, but I know what is in it, and what’s not in it.
Right on, now if we could just accomplish that with the other 7.9 billion ppl not in your shoes
@@Gertieness everyone has something to contribute. I just traded some meat for lumber with a guy that has a sawmill. Everyone has a skill and contribute, you just have to want to do it.
All the power to ya👍
Amen. I don't consume anything processed. I garden, preserve, trade and buy everything from my American neighbors. It's great knowing my food and beverages are clean and pure, as God intended, and that we're building community food systems we can trust.
It certainly does help with peace of mind/Heart too know what and where, when is done to our food, love to grow my own.♥️♥️💕👽😁
Wow. When you’re worse than Monsanto, you’re the definition of evil.
Well Cargill & Monsanto have collaborated & worked together in the early development of GMO's science as well as other projects so your statement is not surprising at all.
how many times has cargill been accused of war crimes?
let's not dismiss a bayer owned monsanto so quickly
And DuPont
The 1% DO NEED the 99% to exist to exist.
The 99% DO NOT NEED the 1% to exist to exist.
The time for a colonic cleanse of the 1% is long overdue.
@@hitreset0291 Agreed.
I currently work for Cargill. I agree with everything this guy had to say. I would put them at the number one most greedy family in the world.
So, why do you still work for them know all that you know about them.
@@ACB2K dont anymore got a new job 👍🏼
@@chriswhite229 Great. All the best.
Sometimes we have to walk away from things that feeds our pockets but not our souls.
I wanted more so i started to study and got a better gig. Your right, money isnt everything, especially when it comes to happiness.
Why don't you quit?
They are headquartered in Minnesota. Being privately owned, they escape most public scrutiny. For years, they were known as one of the Four Sisters who controlled the wheat industry for the entire world. Apparently, they've grown since then.
The whole world?
@khalidabdi9723 Yes. The world grain market has been dominated by four companies for years.
Our evolution adapts us to thrive on food scarcity. Stop eating grains and sugar. Eat meat (that isnt grain fed) and animal fat. Grow your own shit or source locally which means build communities. You wont need big corporations or government deciding what is good for you. Then, you will see how evil they truly are.
EXPOSE THEIR EVIL PEOPLE. AS CHRISTIANS WE ARE TOLD TO EXPOSE THE EVIL WICKED DEMONIC ONES. READ THE HOLY BIBLE.
Kathy Cargill is a snobby hag.
Thank you for this. Enlightening and reinforces the fact that monopolies are evil.
I worked at McDonald's and I was busy with witnessing the system of injustice
🎯 × 1M.
Monopolies screw all workers, screw all customers.
Greedy sociopathic CEOs call that a "win, win."
At the root of every bad monopoly, you find government.
@@KC9UDX ye
It is videos like this that should be shown on Mainstream Media...this is what journalism should be and could you imagine what would happen if this was on the news??
Great job !!
It wouldn't air, they'd pay to not have it shown
Yeah but the problem is, the mainstream media is just as corrupt as the government
We don't have journalists in this country........proof the Russian collusion story wasn't true....lol
It's these corporations and their kind that control the media
In the words of the late great Mike Royko: “Journalists used to be watchdogs, but now they are lapdogs”. He wrote that in the mid 90’s and it’s just gotten worse.
A former sister-in-law works for Cargill. She thinks they're wonderful. They are huge in the Midwest. I find it funny how AT&T (used be Ma Bell) was forced to break up to prevent them from having a monopoly. I think Mircosoft had to do the same thing. Yet here we are still allowing companies to form monopolies and making laws protecting corporations from being sued.
Cargill is a private and not a publically traded company. You cannot buy shares of Cargill. It falls under different regulations.
The biggest monopoly being big pharma and not being able to sue them
It's all been changed in favor of corporations.
She thinks they're wonderful because they're wonderful to their employees... She probably has the best health benefits and compensation she can get from a company. She has absolutely no reason to question their ethics or business.
@@xephael3485 You know this how?
Ah the consequences of a free market economy with no regulations! I’m trying to leave the country because the food here is poison. I have a chronic illness that disappears whenever I eat fresh food from another country for over a week and it’s about the same price. It’s getting worse here in the US and i’ll be glad to see more investigative journalism like this detailing exactly what’s going on. I don’t know how we can even begin to solve this quickly - even a general strike may not have the outcome that will help us.
We are in the end times. Finally realizing what has been going on in our country since its inception
What country?
@@cherylmastthere is no such thing as end times.
Such good information
And a great quality video 👍🏽
THIS NEEDS TO BE BROADCAST to the American public !
Of course we also need a "media" that isn't CONTROLLED by a handful of mega-corporations
There lies the biggest part of the problem.
Preaching to the choir!
Oh, no no no. The mean old liberals own the media and use it to say bad things about the wonderful billion-heirs !
Just curious, why does this need to be broadcast to the American public, the American public can't do anything.
@@DavidAntunes-rm7dqyou can vote with your money. I buy as little as i can from these feinds. Find a farmers' market.
Government: "Cargill, we are regulating you."
Cargill: "Sure, here's a few billion dollars for you."
Government: "Cargill, we want you to do whatever you want."
The governments all over the world are deep state. Cargill is a core of the deep state operations to control the planet. So there's absolutely no difference between them, but they sometimes pretend to bicker etc to make us think they are not the exact same group and operations.
Shiuld i sell weed on the corner these wall,art ass jobs juat wanna make profit off my ass my work my l4 virtbre
@@Ave_Satana666 what no definitely not sell cocaine you’re not gonna make any money off pot
Exactly!!! Just abolish Dept of Agriculture, regulation causes consolidation by raising costs of entrance to the market. They own the media through advertising. If media reported on them, nobody would buy their products.
" It's a Big Club and you ain't in it. " Georg Carlin - Great video on UA-cam.
The other big dark company who doesn’t care who starved or dies is Nestle. They buy main water supplies in U.S. and other countries so we have to buy from them. And intentionally caused childhood malnutrition in Africa and the developing countries. They own tens of thousands of processed food companies. The other half of your pantry is probably from them. I say homesteading and local organic farming, organic seed (that you don’t have to depend on companies to be able to regrow crops that have dead seeds because they are gmo) is the way we should go if we want to live and be free.
I used to love Nestle, now I boycott them. I've heard that Bill Gates is the biggest farmer in America.
Nestle is why i can't support legal edibles. And i fckn loved edibles.
@@shwnshts9469 really? They own the edibles too? That’s crazy but makes sense. If you knew what was in those you would only make your own
@@shwnshts9469 you can make your own. Way better anyway
@@diane1390 Hey Diane, l just managed to find a RECENT post online dated 2/7/2023 stating Bill Gates is #1 of the 5 largest landowners of farmland.
The government is supposed to break up monopolies, NOT work with them.
*for
They work for them not with them
Demand term limits and stop voting for incumbents!
@@Gertienessnot happening
One of my brothers used to work at a Cargill grain elevator. He found out that the moldy, nasty corn dust at the bottom of the grain elevator is what Tyson chickens eat. He literally helped load up train cars full of the stuff for Tyson. Since then we've never eaten Tyson chicken. And my brother also hives in response to loading all that up. He was SO happy when he quit working there.
I'm not eaten Tyson Chicken, no more, thanks for letting us know. Why isn't the News Covering this?
Because it's not true, that's why the news isn't covering it
@@pzh3334they usually broadcast lies all day everyday, what happened this time?
@@miraclestar7815 bcz the media is totally corrupt & owned by corporate/government with dollar signs in their eyes..
This is very disturbing, especially on the heels of a threatened food shortage. This company has a mega monopoly over many different product areas. It’s easy to see that they can exert control over whole nations of ppl just by withholding food stuffs, raising prices insanely high or by paying unfair wages to workers. They get what they want from regulatory agencies bcuz they are likely using their vast wealth to pay off ppl under the table.
Follow the money!!
Which means that regulatory companies (state functionaries) are not the solution. The state never rectifies anything. Rather, they exacerbate problems.
@@MaximusWolfe : I wholeheartedly agree !!
In other words we're screwed
@@MaximusWolfe So because there are bad actors who take pay off and don't regulate the way that they should, we should just denounce regulation entirely and let them run free and wild. Great solution.
How does so much wealth get into so few hands?? Because we keep giving it to them!
As I got to your comment and began reading it, I heard the video playing the EXACT quote I was reading at the EXACT same time! LOL, it's always a pause moment when that happens 😳😲😆🤣😁
Because the Republican law makers allow it .
@francynelane9253 No that would be the democrats that are destroying this country and i hope you see what is happening! We are going to have a civil war because biden wants the borders open and is fighting Texas over it which a lot of states are backing up Texas so we will have a civil war again because of the dumbest president in history who is against his own country even Obama wasn't this bad and Obama didn't over step himself around other countries. Biden is making the whole world hate us. The democrats voted 🗳 for this idiot of a president, the worst president on record they are calling him.
GROW U OWN THIS WAY U KNOW WHATS ITS U FOOD. IT SHOULD BE THE SAME WAY FOR U CANABIS. MEDICAL CANABIS IS TEMERPED WITH DIRTY CRIMINALS. 5 PLANTS FOR EVERYBODY ON MED CANABIS. GOD GAVE IT TO US. GO FISHING, BE A OVO VEGAN, USE LOCAL FARMERS, F**K CARGILL, TYSON, WALMART.GET U OWN CHICKEN FOR EGGS.
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They're not selling food. It's toxic waste.
Hooray for Food Co ops. Just got one in Alaska. Others wise I support the Full Circle. Small farms produce from the Pacific Northwest. They ship a box of food I chose 2 times a month.Full Circle located is Seattle
The food is sooo good !
I trust them and love small farms
I have made a habit of never eating any “processed “ food, I like what Jack Lalanne said “ if man made it don’t eat it”. 😊
Oh wow! I remember him from way back in the 70s when I was in grade school. Watched him on an old b&w TV after school.
Man grew ith though. With Monsanto fertiliser. You'll never escape it.
And Jack was absolutely correct.
No Monsanto if you buy organic grown.
Watched Jack in the 60's! 😊
This is basically the problem with the world. Thanks for sharing who the problem is . People need to know these things
Cargill, Nestlé, and Monsanto. Evil incarnate.
I worked at a company that did the same thing about my pay it was cut all the time but the masters increase in their pay was always going up there
I use to deliver grain to different Cargills, they treat truck drivers terrible and make you wait sometimes over 8 hours to unload you,the employees seemed miserable.
@@debbiebasche7760 they definitely suvk to deal with.
That's horrible.
@@karlabritfeld7104 yah for sure karla
Was picking up load at a saw mill in Oregon they made me wait for 3 hours for that load. As luck had it I had some glass viles of stinky stuff on board and we had a ball but it did stink up the place a bit. Oh the comments, what is that smell! We did come to agree you don't waste my time I don't stink up your mill.
It's probably like going from Costco where the employees are generally happy to winco where I never see any of them smile !! It's messed up how valuable the rich people's time is but they have zero respect for anyone else's!
I just happened to see that the old "Soylent Green" film was available on our satellite service and screened it yesterday afternoon while spinning wool. I hadn't watched it since it was first released, and saw it in a double feature at the local drive-in theatre. At the time, it all seemed so dystopian, futuristic and impossible. Sadly, I see where the human race stands now, where it is headed, and the film's theme becomes much less improbable to envision. Oh, yeah, and the date that this bizarre and inhuman future was set in? Yep. It was 2022. I nearly dropped my bobbin. Have a think.
We were warned and most people did not listen. I agree with you.
Read the book.
Diabolic.
Willow Coyote-Murphy however much I would love to disagree with you unfortunately cannot!!! And I most certainly think you're spot on correct for I happen to actually know you're right!!! Which of course is extremely unnerving and downright frightening and scary to say the very least!!!! Luckily I'm invited to two bunkers so however selfish that sounds I'll not apologize for we have been warned countless many and numerous times!!! And if there happens to be anybody that has not begun to prepare simply begin now!!! For it's of the most paramount and important action needed more than any other time I'm afraid than any other in the intier history of our undeserving nation of idiots extent!!!! And good luck to everyone for its going to be an extremely troublesome and difficult time we're most certainly headed for!!! And I don't know if any of you have heard this before or are privy to this known fact but trouble rides a fast horse!!!!!!
The beginning pic clips if you slow them down show a few scenes of people wearing masks. Another scene of crushed cars note this movie was made in 1973
Lobbyists should be outlawed. Nothing good has happened to consumers as a result of their efforts.
Thank you so much for reporting and educating the public
Investigators for the Times found that Cargill hamburger patties tainted with E. coli had been sold at Sam’s Club labeled “American Chef ’s Selection Angus Beef Patties.”
According to the Times, the hamburgers, whose ingredients were listed solely as “beef,” “were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria.”47
Using a combination of sources rather than whole cuts of meat saves Cargill about 25 percent in costs, but the lowgrade ingredients are cut from areas of the cow that are more likely to have had contact with feces, which carries E. coli.
ugh. meat is poison.
Moral of the story - meat isn't meant to be consumed RAW. Cook that stuff and e.coli dies.
Very well described and said. I appreciate your sharing this info that you've learned and appreciate your research and knowledge 👍
Recalls with all types of different products happen all the time. This is nothing new or surprising
Thanks for sharing. I will not buy any of their products.
I love the line "policy failures that made them rich." Really gets to the point. ✊
what lobbiest wrote the "policy " ? Cargil's ? asking for a friend haha
I liked the one, “and people that eat food”.
@@chaserofthelight1737 Aaaaahhhhh ha ha ha that's pretty much the only kind of people I've ever heard of as well!!! Couldn't have made a better observation myself thanks sweetie!!!! Also being a person that eats Aaaaahhhhh ha ha ha thanks for the hysterical funny bone wrenching thought and find!!!!
By all means, and the point, of course, is reduce everyone to peasantry and install an Anti-Christ Tyrant of Communism into America.
How about Bill Gates?
He owns everything
Almost all the US agricultural land, is in partnership with the 69 most polluted companies in the world
How come is giving lectures about "climate change"
Why the govenmet permit that this guy
do whatever he wants?
and now he's going to impose us Mini NUCLEAR Reactors
"Terra Powers" is his company, joined by his partner
Warren Buffett.
Is a must for you to make another investigagation.
The stuff they sell in supermarkets in America is not food.
it's waste.
I subscribed thanks to Second Thought. I have watched several videos from MPU and like the content. I want to acknowledge JT for the education via his videos. It has helped move me from a liberal to becoming a socialist. And I am 62 it is never to late to learn. My life circumstances the last decade started my evolution but watching all of the Second Thought content of the last two years has given me more conviction and foundation in my new perspective. I am glad to have joined the More Perfect Union subscribers.
As one who has seen first hand what over consolidation and control does to a market segment, I am in total agreement with the views expressed in this video. There is (and should be noted/regulated) a VAST difference between a growing company and one that has grown cancerous to the nation. We can no longer trust regulators to regulate. Though I am a peaceful person, I can see a time when, pushed well beyond toleration, a general public rises up to take back some balance in the marketplace. At least they will have only a few (very clear) targets!
Professor Richard Wolff has a great video about regulatory capture.
We literally could be headed for another civil war in the not too distant future.
People are more concerned with race wars and politics to unite against the true enemies of the people. It's a nice thought though.
That's why monopolies generally fail throughout history. You end up competing against the collective of everyone, and that's like being backed into a corner.
" Though I am a peaceful person, I can see a time when, pushed well beyond toleration, a general public rises up..."
You didn't really think gun control was, "for the children," did you? Do you suppose the, "Lords and Ladies," are stupid and don't know that if they push hard enough people really will become violent? No, they want to remove the ability to revolt from the peasants. Just like every other tyrannical psychopath has for the entire history of the human species.
I just read today that Kroger who owns several of the supermarkets made a whopping billions in profit this last quarter. So much for inflation.
Not how it works! Of course they make a profit! When value of currency buys less they charge more to keep in pace or ahead of pace of inflation! Not their fault that those in charge have not put breaks on and paid on interest and dividend to prevent or control! When barack stepped in office…. Didnt matter it was barack but the debt was $10 trillion. Interest on $10 trillion??? $3 billion a day!!!! We needed to cut from the budget $3 billion a day to keep debt at $10 trillion! Didn’t happen! As s matter of fact in 8 years it was just shy of doubling to $20 trillion! Under trump it went sideways staying at statis quo! Not increasing until covid then this in 3rd year and another $10 trillon thanks to free taxpayer subsidized everything (virtually) dont work get paid for many!
Yep, and they also treat their employees like garbage
SOLID GOOD TRUTH ON THIS STORY
You have to have families, average American families growing their own food sources and bartering with other families. We can do it. It takes desire, know how, and willingness.
The problem is many people can’t afford homes to have a backyard to grow food. With these home prices and interest rate people will never be able to own a home.
Lol, don’t all sign up for that at once. Many of us can barely operate a stove let alone grow our own food.
If every employee "owned" by Cargill simply stopped working for them, they would bring the whole system down. Not realistic I suppose, but it would work.
Solidarity, United We Stand !
A foundation of bad bricks is still a foundation. Be careful what you wish for.
if something doesn’t work then how is it realistic? when was the last time you paid someone to quit their job? or even supported someone unemployed
This would work in any situation but fear is a very real thing and I get it.
Another argument for UBI.
I've known about Cargill since the 1990s and it makes me roll my eyes when people focus so much on Koch and Monsanto which are the other 2 food evils.
We have monopoly laws?! I dont understand why not applied!!
Interesting you can now get a documentary in the form of an ad. I'm just a minion semi truck worker, and it's uncanny that the other day I picked up a load of bags of Cargill salt from the Bay Area. Workers at the factory plant there were actually nice. Only hassle was a five hour process (cause so many trucks there) till I was finally loaded, and the horrendous drive out of course. But they loaded a really heavy load pretty good, although I was lucky I only had half a tank of fuel. And here I am, watching this video, eating my dinner in the sleeper, after I just delivered that load to Home Depot over here in Redlands, SoCal, CA!
I got an Ag degree and am an AGR. There are so many great people out there just wanting to provide food and corporations are monopolizing again. Last time I read that's a no no.
Excellent work! Now this is what investigative journalism looks like. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what these conglomerates are doing to the farms, transportation and retail industries. Anybody who is or knows a farmer will tell you the crap they pull to force them into contracts with the fertilizers, the grow, and the equipment. Why do you think they went after the Amish Farmer in Pennsylvania and shut him down? Most of the food you see is distributed by maybe over a dozen companies under a wide array of labels. Then they charge you more for "organic" even though it's supposedly less processed and/or not treated. Read the labels on the products, we now have Bioengineered ingredients in certain items. When you look at the supermarkets, there's really only a handful of them owned by the same conglomerates under different names. All the ones he just showed are just the largest ones. In any of these industries if you can be replaced by a robot, you probably will be.
Bioengineered isn't food . The only real food not gmo = bioengineered "same thing the fda and usda changed the name or it could be b e .so people wouldn't know what it was ". I read up on the matter 80 % of food is b e . No nature in inolved at all . All lab
Always look for non gmo with a butterfly beside it .other than that well
Nanunanu
Real journalists do not use inflammatory language, bias, or partial truths. Explain to me how "Cargill practices" were responsible for the 1930s Dust Bowl.
That's why Europe doesn't want food from the USA. Can't blame them...
Excellent work ? Hahahaha no
@@marvin2678 of course the guy Marvin has more valuable input than anyone else. Tell us Marvin, have the Earth creatures delayed your plans to blow up the Earth because it obstructs your view of Venus?
If these comments are indeed true then they should be investigated for monopolizing.
I would certainly vote for these large companies to stay broken up into smaller companies.
You never know when money becomes so attractive that they overlook safety and fairness in pricing.
If you can grow your own food, do it. We are hoping to save up for land this year. If it works out, we will have a garden and a greenhouse built before we even have a house built.
I worked for Cargill in DC, the government affairs office, aka the insider lobbyists. I was there for just over a year in 1990-1991 before taking a better position. It's fascinating to see the continued behemoth Cargill is and stranglehold it has on the global market.
What happened to no monopolies?
@@d.h.dd.h.d.5230 Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti Trust Act in 1983. Every Prez since has followed suit! ;(
I love when my two favorite UA-cam channels produce a video together!
Same 😃
Excuse my ignorance,but what is the other channel?
I'd like to watch.
@@off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez It's both More Perfect Union + Second Thought 😃 enjoy
@@RobinHerzig Thank you sweetheart 💚
Usually the TRUE EVIL'S ALWAYS hardly known by the public & truly appreciate this info!
Thank you as most of population does not understand or was aware of this monopoly
Well, all my vegetables and fruit that my family eats comes from our gardens 😀 and we have our own chickens too. It’s a start
excellant!
That’s Great for You👍Most of America don’t have the space, time or resources to produce their own food, enough to keep one healthy🤔🇺🇸
Did you know the bill under Obama where Pelosi said, "We must pass it to know what's in it" declares backyard gardens as illegal. Totally unconstitutional.
It's like we learned nothing about capitalism and monopoly in the past 150 years. GoodNESS we're stupid.
Keeping people stupid is a major market itself.
Why do you think the GOP has always screwed with the school systems that helped make the middle class possible.... In there eyes a free thinking peasant is bad for business....
@@LibraBlue1962 stupid enough to sit there and be entertained to death which is what it is really since so many don't know how to survive off the land.
We learned. We elected Joe Biden, who is the most pro-union President since FDR.
"...when it comes to support for organized labor, Joe Biden has been-without question-the most aggressively pro-union president since FDR died in office in 1945."
- Northwest Labor Press, Feb 16, 2021
@@pluribus_unum sad when you remember that biden is still firmly pro-corporation.
Nobody ever gets to the heart of this stuff. It's always smoke and mirrors.
My first job out of school was at Cargill corporate headquarters. I loved working for them and as an alumni am still treated very well.
We all need to start voting with our dollars, and buy as much as we can from small local organic farmers at farmers markets if possible. We also need to stop buying from other megacorporations such as Amazon and Walmart. This is our most powerful way to make a statement.
I avoid Amazon as much as I can, however, once in long while they have what I can't find anyplace else.
@Tomasino Romano Yes because every farmer has extra money lying around they can donate 🙄
@Tomasino Romano it was the Democrats that got rid of the antitrust laws. they bailed out Lehman bros and wall street. They always vote in favor of big Corp consolidation. We do not have two different parties, they are all owned by these guys. There has not been a true government for the people since the Kennedys. By today's standard, Richard Nixon would be considered a liberal extremist! When Nixon is liberal next to your democratic candidates of today, I would say that the dems are more "republican" than republicans!
They are all doing the same things, they are all sellouts and selling our freedom and our health. it's our own fault. Democracies get the government they deserve. If you think there is any difference between the parties and corporate interests, you are asleep at the wheel.
Agree
@Tomasino Romano lol, the fact that you think this is a Republican problem is just precious. Don't you realize that this is a 1 party system we have now? The Democrats and Republicans are in bed with these giant conglomerates. How can anyone not see this? Just look at all the bidding these companies did at the behest of our current government. They've all been working together. The 2 party system is a farce. The sooner everyone realizes that...the better off we'll all be. This entire system needs to come down and be rebuilt from scratch. But keep voting for "your party". That's worked out real well. The current system is made up of communists(Dems) and communist wannabes(reps). Get a clue
Great video! Family farms are basically a myth. I've bought meat from a few local producers but it can be expensive. Raising a cow isn't cheap. My big question concerning these huge companies is why don't they fall under anti-trust laws? I remember learning about those in school. Is the government ignoring them or is there some legal loophole?
Anti trust laws are rarely if ever enforced anymore because these conglomerates own the US government
"Big Ag" has a lot of power in Washington -- just look who got appointed head of the Dept of Agriculture over the collective protests of environmentally aware citizens: Vilsack. (Boooo!)
You can bet that a lot of people running things, have sold their souls.
@@carmenortiz5294 in order to get into power in America, you kind of of have to sell out, else the corporations will sue you and sue you, or get the feds/state actors to find something wrong with your campaign finances. You really have to be ballsy enough to be up against this kind of cutthroat behavior, something that most of them aren't.
Citizens United has made it impossible to get the government to enforce those laws. Corporations literally just buy representatives now. And it’s legal.
Evil Cargill is the reason my office's microwave always smells like popcorn
They own ALL foods?! Then they OWN everyone 's stomach! .
🤔 pretty much
I had no idea that one many is largely responsible for the Great Depression... I wish I were surprised.
JT is a great communicator. Thank y'all for sharing this.
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Cargill is indeed a family-oriented company: for the Cargill-MacMillian clan exclusively, that is.
This is why all food producers and farmers need to start co-ops. Through empowering democratically run co-ops we can take back our economy one business sector at a time and starting with farmers will allow this revolution to be well fed.
My relative works at Subway and some of the boxes I get from my relative says cargill (Ambrosia chocolate chips) the brand of chocolate chips they use for their cookies. The ingredients that are listed on every box I get will make you not want to eat anything from Subway.
Already there. I don't do fast food.
Very little of the food in my house comes from Cargill or Monsanto. I raise my own beef & pork. I have chickens for eggs. I grow a lot of my own vegetables. And I try to buy only family farm & locally produced food at the grocery store. I know that not everybody can do as much as I do to avoid the poisonous monopolies, but we all need to make some effort
The cost you put out... first for property. You are right not everyone can - think inner city of condensed population.
That's how you avoid monopolies. The very way you're doing it. I Buy locally too. The One thing I buy locally is ice cream. The best in the world, I've EVER tasted. They're local. Won one year for their ice cream. I buy only theirs. Wonderful. I'd pay $15.00 for a quart. But they're okay and don't charge huge amounts of monies. Wonderful people.
Unfortunately there are people unlike you that don't have land and are struggling to even keep themselves fed.
"There is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
Thank you for a brief taking thru Cargill history, it’s helpful!
I used to eat hot dogs or ham in the 80,90's...they tasted great, juicy and real! Now they're made out of soy, chicken paste and all the scraps from pigs....
Years ago I went the Twin Cities for a business trip. I was shopping at the old Dayton’s Downtown department store. There, in the Men’s Department, was this fit, smallish, stylish gentleman looking at some very expensive clothes. The personal shoppers were flying all over the place bring him the most luxurious products available at the the store. I was so amused by the scene, that I had see it to the end. When the gentleman selected what he wanted, he mentioned that for got his wallet. Whereby the head associate exclaimed, “Mr. MacMillan! There is no reason why you should be concern! The “Cargill Family” have been excellent clients of Dayton’s for years. We will take care of everything and have it all delivered your hotel.” I didn’t know the family, but I did know the company. I shook my head and was embarrassed to bring my small purchase of a couple of socks to the counter. However, when the associate saw my corporate card, he asked if in town on business. To which I confirmed and the associate asked for my hotel to deliver my purchase. At the end of the day, as I entered my room, there was the shopping bag waiting for me. Imagine if I had Cargill money-scary.
Mr. MacMillan was a great person to work for, well loved by the people at the office.
@@morefiction3264 Yeah I'm sure you would be pretty happy too to control a huge portion of the world.
The higher prices get the more I realize I don't need a lot of the crap they sell. We are dependent on them.
Yes! Exactly. If we don't buy that sends a message too. Amy's tv dinners cost $4.50 each just 2 years ago. Today they cost $6.59 each. How can beans, tofu, rice cost $6.59. I didn't buy it.
Thank you !! Once again a very informative non-judgmental video.
It was very impressive information
Thank You so much to share!!!
4:57 - The expansion of agriculture itself was less of a problem than the type of agriculture; monoculture and huge erosion prone fields instead of traditional crop-rotation and multiple smaller, erosion resistant fields.
Cargill, [like] most modern agriculture, doesn't care about living soil, however, because chemicals mean they don't need it alive.
Historically agriculture has always been monoculture.
@@jhenrypaul - It depends on where and how far back you want to go whether monoculture is common practice.
"The global history of monoculture is a centuries-long stumble with its origins in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean as far back as the 17th century,” explains Professor Uekötter. “The traditional methods of subsistence farming were more diverse and ecologically sound, but export to Europe driven by money and profits bolstered by cheap slave labour provided the starting point for the world to wander through a catalogue of labour conflicts, soil exhaustion, fertility issues and meteorological threats.”"
@@pluribus_unum monoculture crops go as far back as humans have developed villages and cities.
Monoculture agriculture works. It has always worked. I define monoculture as growing the same crop within a given space. Cabbage in one space. Potatoes in one space. Carrots in one space. Tomatoes in one space. These crops of course get rotated on a yearly basis in the garden to a different area. I use a garden as an easy to understand example.
Wheat, rye, barley, all for ease of harvesting are monocultured. But in a good system will be rotated on a cropping season to a different piece of ground.
The problem I have with the word monoculture is most people see a big field of wheat or beans or potatoes or what ever and believe that is some bad monoculture crop. Esp if it is organically grown it is most likely rotated to a different crop for the next growing season.
If you want to talk about bad growing practices then talk about bad growing practices. But don't just call it monoculture. Your professor needs to explain what Europeans from even the 1300's were using for a culture? 10 acres of wheat here and 15 acres of barley there. Makes each crop a monoculture in my book.
Want to know if some one is monoculture or not look at how the majority of their crops are planted. If indeed they are truly eating off it, or selling off of it; it doesn't matter most of their crops will be monocultured.
@@jhenrypaul - I mentioned the ending of crop rotation when I highlighted the problem, and didn't singularly blame monoculture.
Still, the most widespread bad growing practices are all centered around a maximized profit, chemical dependent system of mass monoculture.
That people are using 'monoculture' as a shorthand for the maximum profit, zero environmental concern bad growing practices isn't surprising because it is overwhelmingly the most common form of monoculture practiced in modern agriculture.
@@pluribus_unum I agree with you. But people like cheap food so the whole blame cannot be laid at the feet of business.
Either we change our eating habits or nature will force us to. We also seriously need to look at meat production, and crops for fuel production. Both are non sustainable.
Yikes. The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that we need serious grass-roots efforts against monopolies, maybe as much or more than efforts in other important areas. Monopolistic practices seem to underlie economic inequalities, poor wages, housing issues, environmental issues, lack of public transportation, corporate welfare and taxation, and the destruction of democracy itself. I know that unregulated capitalism, or just capitalism itself is ultimately to blame, but maybe "anti-monopoly" as a political concept is the place to start the process of changing the world to meet the needs of regular people.
did you see what happened when one supplier (Russia) , wanted to disrupt the flow of goods (oil), constant demand sent the prices through the roof.
Yep, companies like Cargill screw consumers and vendors alike. Farmers and citizens are poor while they make billions.
Co ops instead of petty tyrants is a great start! ✌️
Farrah upson, yes, Robert Reich, former Secretary of State to Bill Clinton, is an economist who points this out over and over. It's monopolies that are causing inflation. It is going to take a grassroot effort because it seems like many of our Congress members are in on the grift. It's going to take a grassroots movement to demand better from our Congress people and America! Any ideas were to start?
I fall down laughing! Socialist countries are a mess. The old CCCP had people standing is line for a loaf of bread. North Korea is pretty much a prison camp. China saw the light, and modified its business model. Now they are flourishing.
No monopoly was ever created honestly. Corruption is at the heart of all unfettered capitalism. Change has to start one person at a time making purposeful choices...farmers markets, thrift stores, yard sales...we all need to bring these monopolies down one at a time. It is a big change in the way you will spend money, putting more spending towards local foods, making a lot of your own foods on the weekends (for the whole week, canning for the winter), growing gardens, foraging, etc., but we all need to try to make a difference.
We need to learn more about things like this so that we are, and keep aware. Only if we all are more aware, can we take appropriate actions.
It's different when you own a farm, get your food from a butcher, milk from a dairy farm, and about everything else from your own garden.
No. I must run a much bigger spread, but we don’t have that cute Old McDonald set up. We go to the horrible Wal Mart like everyone else.
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Not me, want milk? go get a cow, want fish? Get a fishing pole, want meat? Go hunting, want vegetables? Go to the garden.
I grew up on an 80 ache cattle farm.
The best thing about growing up in the past. Having the ability to provide for yourself.
@@Istandby666 Good for you, but everyone has, or had, your life. Some people plain and simply cannot have a cow or hunt. Some people don't have a place to grow vegetables or plant fruit trees. Even 100 years ago people lived in cities and could not grow their own food.
Amen
And well water w/o fluoride.
Kudos to this commentator. Very articulate and easy to listen to 🎉
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this. How Many cargill factories have been destroyed in the last 2 years?
May God Almighty have mercy on us all because we are going to need all the help we can receive.
Those who control the food, control the world….
And the money supply. And those who count the votes. And the mass media. They all have a hand in controlling how we live and what we think.
You vill eat ze bugs
My father was a Grain Merchant for Cargill. That’s how I got started investing in Commodities. Working for Cargill my father always had the inside information.
To think there was a time I wanted to work for them. Oh sure, I was desperate for a job at the time, and my attempts then went nowhere, but to think I wanted to be a part of their exploited workforce...[shudder]. Throw in the fact that this was AFTER having worked two years at Amazon, and I look particularly stupid, making me even more grateful that I ultimately never worked for them.
Now let's get to breaking them and the other cartels up.
That's the really hard part. Education is the key, but that key is held by the very people whose interests would be hurt.
I think maybe the first step is to understand that government is the only force that can stop these parasites. Government is terrible, but used to be better, and it can be changed, while capitalism cannot.
By the way they still have a very big presence in Russia
Break them up into a billion pieces at the most. Meaning everybody start growing food and outlaw sardine cans, i.e., apartment complexes, etc.
Or take those apartment complexes and make them for old folks homes they don't have as far to go to visit their neighbor. But remove most of them. But you know what this will take a lot of thinking and planning so that there's no monopolies and that we the people control every aspect of the government we decide to have above us to protect us from foreign and domestic illegitimate control, i.e., big Corp, big Banks, big pharma, big military industrial complexes, etc that fits into that category.
I thought the Constitution said that the government that we established will print the money and then spend it into the economy. But I guess at some point in the history of this nation money mongers stepped in and took over just like they did in England London and I suppose around the world too since he sent his sons around the world to control the money which was gold and silver then and it wasn't fiat currency that many of us are born into using without thinking that it's not real but just debt notes in our hands.
Let's bring it back into the old days where all the kids are brought up on farms or ranches. Now wouldn't that be exciting to learn responsibility by taking care of farms or animals on ranches. Oh yeah there should be a cow or go on every piece of land that mankind owns and not big Corp using our places we live as if they're just products to flip over and over again along with the money mongers reducing the worst of our wages we earn which makes me think we're just a bunch of sheep and goats going bahhaahhh.
And making sure that such evil monopolies never arise again, ever. We do that by annihilating capitalism once and for all.
I work at Cargill right now been there 5 years but today I am resigning
This is why I raise rabbits and chickens.. and plant as much food as I can on my urban homestead. We have 6ft fences all the way around and security of multiple kinds.. I’d love to get out of town. But can’t.. so will defend mine and my neighbors till the end.
God bless you
Can't own anything when you're dead
Nothing can stop what’s coming!! For them!!!
So nice to know that the vast majority of my foods come from small farmers near me. I'm sure there are several cargill products mixed in, but it's a pervasive weed that needs to be chopped up and diversified.
You REALLY MISSED THE POINT OF THIS VIDEO😢😫. Your near by farmers are getting raked over the coals 👎🏻👿
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Well no, the point is well taken. But the nearby farmer doesn't have GPS on his tractors. The mega farmers that are required to feed the city dwellers is a different story.
When you don't have the ability to make anything but money, you're at the mercy of the giants.
@@CM-ve1bz No, you definitely missed the point. Independent farmers are forced to adopt GPS eventually if they want to stay in business competing with the corporate giants. That's a fact.
Big respect for Second Thought for helping to make a video for a growing channel, I loved this video and look forward to watching more Classroom episodes
We can all agree the punishment should suit the crime and a crime of this magnitude should be given the harshest penalty, all of of them...
No, you Dork.
It's us...the customer with a trendy mustache and a tight long sleeve shirt, is you too.
It is all of us.
I knew Monsanto was a monster but really never heard of this company or FAMILY!! WOW! May God have Mercy!! 🙏🙏👍❤️💅😘🙏🙏🙏🙏💜💜
From now on when I say eat the rich, these are the rich people I will be thinking of
I used to be an operation supervisor at Cargill. Made a good wage but worked mandatory 60 hours a week. Often worked 70 hours a week.
Any food that contains corn syrup is a Cargill product. I live a few miles from one of their larger corn syrup facilities. Around the plant one will find half a dozen connected cottage industries that are all owned by Asian companies.
To sell meat to the public you must have an on site USDA inspector, these inspectors are notoriously hard to get. If the government would simply provide more inspectors local and regional slaughter houses would thrive again. There is plenty of demand trust me I farm and raise livestock for a living. Awesome video keep it up.
As if, they couldn't pay off an "inspector". Haven't you noticed, every time there is a recall, it's months after everything was most likely sold.
There is no money to pay for things the citizens of this country really need, like clean slaughter houses, clean meat, food inspections.
These monopolies buy off legislators and government agencies like the USDA. They are literally regulating their competitors out of business. There used to be thousands of small packing plants.
Now there very few.
don't trust the beef in tubes.......I know it is not all beef, they grind up anything and anybody. when cooking it, it does not smell like beef cooking.
More government is never the solution. Consumer eduction is how you circumscribe these companies.
You guys are beacons of light, appreciate all you do in making these videos 👏👏
The thing is - there are laws on the books to prevent consolidation. The DOJ seems to have stopped enforcement over 20 years ago, though, and only the FTC seems to occasionally step in now to do the job that the DOJ should be doing.
Thank you so very much for the information.
Please do more on this.. It was perfectly done.... Thank you
Watch your back bro. When you expose the powerful and wealthy you put your life on the line
That's guts. I like it.
I was thinking the same but there’s too much big money, nothing will ever be done
So how can we, eliminate them?? There's gotta be, a starting point somewhere!!! Now's the time, for change, people.
Well we can start by stop voting for incumbents and demand term limits! Every democracies worst enemy is an apathetic populous
Our governments helped build these monopolies by allowing all the mergers, now it's their job to break them up
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Id like to know how the CEO honestly thinks it's cheaper for massive companies to haul everything across state lines than it is to keep things local. Maybe for some goods, but certainly not for EVERYTHING
There's such a thing as 'Economy of Scale', but that gradually gets diminished with advances in technology which provides more efficient logistics. The unfortunate thing is that he might be right. Breaking up a huge, highly integrated company like this may in fact cause food prices to rise if done improperly, just as phone costs increased when AT&T was broken up (and AT&T deserved it far less than these guys do).
Brilliant thank you, drove through the Midwest, I buy from local organic farms, am a vegetarian and feel sorry for the people eating toxic food and getting cancer as a result. Wake up people!
Love your profile pic
We need to come together and buy from the local farmers. We need to educate ourselves
I knew someone who was a vegetarian. She died of cancer. Never ate meat ever, not once in her life.
A bit confused, all meat is toxic and carcinogenic. I raise my own meat and vegetables organically and believe they both lack your toxins. You eat one of my steaks you would probably forget about the vegetarian thing. Does the smell of a freshly cut lawn make you hungry? Wake up bro
I've never eaten meat and never will,because I don't eat my friends.