Why should we give land to the Indians when it clearly says from the paper it belongs to the farmers?

We surely you must realize that this is their home. These indigenous tribes have been living on this land for hundreds of years. Listen, this world is not fair.

Some people win, some people lose. The whole world thinks they can tell Brazil what to do with her land. Sorry, no. We do what we please.

We live on an incredibly beautiful planet, a home that we will hopefully pass on to generations to come.

But as years go by, it's becoming increasingly hard to imagine what kind of a world we're leaving behind us.

We've spent the last four years traveling around the world filming the stark reality that people now face from the threat of ecological collapse.

It's now become very clear to us that there's one thing driving the destruction of our ecosystems faster than anything else. Let us show you how this very same thing might just also be our salvation.

Climate and environmental scientists warn that we are fast approaching the point of no return. If we don't make a substantial course reversal, we'll see really serious catastrophic effects in the next few years.

Certainly in the next decade or two, the world will be completely different from the way it is now.

We began to work together to move this issue onto the global center stage. There was a lot of discussion about the contribution from buildings and from industrial factories, but I became aware during that same period of time that there was another factor that was going undiscussed, and that is the role of animal agriculture, which I could see was playing some significant role around the planet, but this was the elephant in the room no one wanted to talk about.

Whatever environmental issue you want to look at, from species loss to water pollution to water use to climate change, animal agriculture is one of the top causes.

The critical widespread negative impact of animal agriculture on our planet is undeniable.

Severe global crises, from climate change and environmental damage to species extinction, hunger, poverty, disease, and antibiotic resistance, all of these have direct connections to animal agriculture and the massive inefficiency of our current food production systems.

The choice has on global warming is very significant.

Eating meat is huge for global climate, and that's something where personal choice is the determining factor. So that's the only case I can think of where individual human choice would have a big effect would be food.

We're now over the line, and the idea that we're going to double meat production between now and 2050, this is just unsustainable.

This is going to have to give. Our diet is taking us to an abyss.

A significant reason why livestock production has been having such a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions is because of the large surfaces of forests that have been destroyed in order to make room for pastures and for the growth of soybean and maize for feedstock production.

Almost all the Earth's surface now bears the mark of some kind of human impact, and most of that is livestock production.

Agriculture has transformed the planet like nothing else. To produce milk, we farm an area about the size of Brazil.

To produce beef, we farm an area about the size of Canada, the United States, the whole of Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador combined.

to produce eggs, we found an area the size of Sweden. To produce aquaculture feed, an area about the size of the UK. A plant-based diet would reduce the amount of land required to produce our food by 3.1 billion hectares.

That's an area the size of the entire African continent.

things we have in the world is our rainforest. But the rainforests are literally being chewed away by farmers who know they can make money by cutting another acre and then another acre and then another acre for need.

So there was actually a report that came out in 2018, and they found that the world's top five livestock corporations now release more annual greenhouse gas emissions than ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP.

It is crazy when you think about it because the EU is spending 24 billion pounds of taxpayers' money on livestock farming each year.

And this is at a time when we are facing an ecological collapse and we drastically need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

So it's no surprise that people are asking a lot of questions now about the fact that there seems to be some serious conflicts of interest going on here.

There's some very heavy lobbying going on of government, and I think that happens throughout the world and it's just a historic thing that needs to be, I think, rebalanced.

As I've mentioned to you over the phone, um, I've worked with a number of large livestock companies around the world.

So, the way it works is that a representative from Bezos, he usually ups to half a million euros. We then target the relevant politicians from different governments around the world, and motions are made to pass legislation in favor of the company's business strategies.

For environmental policy, we can be very persuasive in order to abolish our heavily relaxed environmental regulations in government, so our clients have more freedom in their work.

I mean, the other day we managed to kill proposed legislation that would have had a huge impact on the industry based on a report from the UN FAO.

You know, the industry is just concerned with growth, but the environmental data that's coming out now, it's really making that difficult for them.

Today, democracy does not always function as well as it should because of the huge influence that agribusiness corporations and livestock producers in particular exercise on decision-making.

A former director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Dr. Samuel Johnson, warned as far back as 2010 that interventions by agribusiness lobbyists were blocking reforms that would offer better standards for human health and preserving the environment.

Big animal agribusiness corporations and food producers' influence over political decisions about the regulation of their industry has long been a concern for campaigners who see the narrow interests of the industry taking widespread control.

If we have any doubt about how powerful this influence is, we can recall that, for example, when the advisory committee on dietary guidelines in the U.S. made recommendations to the U.S. government as to how dietary guidelines should be shaped, they were blocked by this very powerful lobby of agribusiness interests.

There are close ties between the research organizations and governments and government policy and industry. It's very pervasive because livestock industries depend on government policies that support them.

We have few reports. It was prepared within the FAO by specialists of agriculture and livestock production, not by specialists of the environmental issues associated with agricultural production.

I believe that the more serious concern, of course, is that the International Meat Association was involved in preparing the report, which does raise the question of the independence with which the study was prepared.

Government policy in that regard is not for the benefit of the land.

It's for the benefit of the industry. When I was a child, the idea of a dead zone in the ocean, it was not even in our vocabulary.

But in the 20th century, as agriculture began to greatly expand, the areas around the coast began to show signs of wear and tear.

The first most notorious spotlight area, I think, was off the Gulf of Mexico, and it has simply grown over the years.

It's an annual phenomenon. It is coincident with the application of massive amounts of fertilizers. There are hundreds of dead zones that have developed all around the coastlines of the world.

And okay, people say that's too bad for the fish, so sorry fish, but we need to understand that what we do to the ocean, we're doing to ourselves.

I want others to see and to see for themselves, this is all we've got, this little blue miracle.

opportunities for European fishermen with more than 5 billion euros and benefiting more than 50,000 fishermen.

The catches agreed today will continue to make the European fishing industry highly profitable also in 2019.

foreign foreign foreign foreign starting with Hobby and it's grown until it's a billion Euro industry today and seafood is the second largest export industry in Norway and fish farming accounts for two-thirds of the export value of seafood.

So recently, we found out that you also have shares in one of the largest fish farm companies in Norway.

Do you not feel that that's a conflict of interest?

Of course there could be a conflict of interest, but this is a fact that's been known since before I got this position and I've been open about it.

I'm not involved in the business from day to day or at any so it's and if this we have and I have so I have to do you have to start over again.

So all the decisions that I made will either be for the whole industry, not specially for this fish farm where it's only an advice to the politicians and the politicians setting the limits and the actual regulations.

So if there's an actual case handling regarding this company, then I will step aside when on a few children I was working here over the years as a diver, we used to go into fish farms cleaning the diseased fish from the nets and fix the nets, etc., after storms and on occasion we'd seen some of the boats coming in to clean the lice off them.

There's quite a lot of dead fish, you know, diseased.

They'll have died. There's a lot of pink mush, you know, not a healthy look.

Having seen what I've seen and worked on the various sites around about where I've been in Scotland, I wouldn't eat farmed salmon, no.

I'm pretty, pretty rank. Salmon is marketed as healthy. It's also marketed in a very devious way, deceptive way that they think it's a wild product.

So it's a fake product, it's a fatty product, it's contaminated. It's marketed as healthy, but it's not.

So salmon, if you see salmon, alarm bells should start ringing. We'd groom when you dive down to the bottom of the cages, because you know we always see the bottom full of dead fish.

And it's basically because many of these fish are so diseased, so parasite-ridden and laden with chemicals that they become sick and they live out their sad, short lives basically looking like zombies.

You know, you don't see this when you go to the restaurant or the supermarket, but this is basically what a lot of the fish actually look like before it ends up on our plates.

So tonight, Don wanted to show us how much of the farmed fish actually dies because of the very unnatural and unsanitary ways that they are kept.

And they have rows of very large metal containers that they are constantly filling up with the dead fish.

And I have to say that the smell as we get closer is actually pretty disgusting. So this is the sordid side of salmon farming in Scotland.

This is the dirty secrets the industry don't want you to see. This is disease-ridden farm salmon.

It's 15 to 20% fat. That's where the contaminants, the cancer-causing contaminants, PCBs, dioxins and the artificial colorings are.

So this is something to be avoided at all costs. This is the salmon farm just here. We got free information data from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency showing the use of over 50 tons of formaldehyde, not just at this site, but other sites across Scotland.

Is formaldehyde may cause cancer, suspected of causing genetic defects, toxic if swallowed, may cause respiratory irritation, causes damage to organs. Do not breathe.

One of the fish farm workers told us that the workers come down to the farm early in the morning spraying the chemicals into the fish cages.

So they're obviously spraying something down there in the water. The guy who gave us the tip-off said that toxic chemicals are widely used across Scotland, including formaldehyde and also hydro peroxide.

And these are supposed to treat the diseases and lice problems, which are both rampant across the fish farms.

You know, these are not chemicals that you want in your body.

Whatever he's spraying must be pretty powerful if he needs to wear a full protective chemical suit and a face mask.

You know, our oceans have become humanity's sewers. Everything eventually flows into the sea. So if you had a, you know, time machine that could go back before the Industrial Revolution, it might be a different story.

But now the highest levels of many of these persistent organic pollutants we're talking about, you know, DDT and PCBs and dioxins, the highest levels in our food supply are found in the aquatic food chain.

Fish are not the safest choice anymore. So Tony, it's great to see you. Good to see you as well.

Thanks for coming. Not at all. Thank you. Pleasure being here. So I wanted to ask you if you could share with us what is what exactly it was you began to feel when you realized something was going wrong.

I was exhausted more than usual, and then I was losing short-term memory.

and that scared the hell out of me. And then I tore my rotator cuffs in a really intense snowboarding accident and the doctor said, "You want to do your metal stuff?

" I said, "I got my mom that 25 years ago." He goes, "There's so many metals in by me, you should do it." So I did.

I get a phone call a week later and I said to my assistant, "Just have him send the report." He said, "No, it's an emergency.

He has to speak to you." I was like, no one wants to hear that. And so I called him up and he said, "Tony, I showed your blood tests.

You have extreme mercury poisoning. On a zero to five scale, which is what you measure, five being toxic, you're 123." The doctor said, "How long has this man been in the hospital?

" And I just got off stage. So I, I said, "I can't understand this." So I went out and they thought, you know, maybe someone's trying to poison me because the number was so high.

And I was very disciplined. I was a vegan for 12 years, and then I just went salad, fish, salad, fish.

And they bought the medical group out here and they looked at it and I found this man named Dr. Shade, who's the only guy who has an ideation process where you can see where the mercury came from.

And it was fish. It's been three years, and I had some severe moments.

It burned a hole in my esophagus and I literally collapsed. I lost a third of my blood supply.

I could have died. I lost half my hemoglobin. People begin to lose their hair, their memory, they lose their memories as you were doing, as you would notice that they can also have headaches, they can complain of fatigue, they can also have depression.

What we're seeing now is with the toxic environmental exposure and especially with the mercury, mercury in fish is that everyone has got to be careful because the levels are going up.

You don't tell me because your specialty is in this, how do you get the fish oils that we all need for the brain and for the body, if we can't have fish?

What do you suggest? We used to get them from fish oils, yes, and but we can actually get them from vegetables.

Flax is the richest source of Omega-3 that everybody thinks should come from fish oil. If you get enough of that as starting material, your body will make what the fish oils make and it'll be clean.

Many people take fish oils or have fish for the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, and you have to ask yourself the question, well, where do the fish get them from?

And it turns out they get them from the algae in the ocean, they get them from plant food.

So if you want the purest form of the long-chain ready-made omega-3 fatty acids, the best way of doing that is simply to take an algae supplement, because then you've got the purest form of it and you don't have the extra risks of having the toxins and the heavy metals and the saturated fat and the cholesterol that you would get from eating a fish.

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