TruthArchive.ai - Related Video Feed

Smithfield Foods built a slaughterhouse in North Carolina capable of processing 30,000 pigs daily. Wendell Murphy, a state senator, passed 28 laws making it illegal to sue factory farms and partnered with Smithfield to create warehouses called Murphy 1100 to raise pigs. This dropped pork prices from 60¢ to 2¢ a pound, putting 28,000 independent hog farmers out of business. Farmers who signed contracts with Smithfield mortgaged their homes to build hog sheds and lost control, becoming "surfs" on their own land. Smithfield dictated farming practices and controlled 80% of hog production in North Carolina. Iowa adopted the same system, leading Smithfield to control 80% of US hog production. Smithfield then sold itself to China. This industrial agriculture threatens American democracy by taking control of landscapes and undermining independent family farms.

I'm a chicken farmer, and here's the truth about egg prices. We eat over 9 billion chickens a year, and in 2023, we had over 382 million egg-laying hens in the US alone. The story about bird flu causing high prices doesn't add up, especially when only 300 million birds have been lost worldwide. These big facilities often neglect their birds. They skip essential vitamins and supplements, leading to disease and death. But instead of admitting neglect, they blame bird flu every time a bird dies. They're not telling you the whole story.

I'm a chicken farmer, and here's the truth about egg prices. We consume billions of chickens annually. In 2023 alone, there were over 382 million egg-laying hens in the US. The bird flu is not the only issue. Large facilities often neglect their chickens. They don't provide essential vitamins and supplements, leading to disease and death. Instead of admitting neglect, every bird that dies is blamed on the bird flu. They're using it as an excuse to inflate prices. Don't be fooled.

Speaker 0: You trust Costco with your family's dinner, but their meat undergoes a controversial process that's banned in several countries. Speaker 1: Everyone loves Costco chicken or even that rotisserie chicken from Walmart or your favorite grocery store. But what if that label on that rotisserie bird isn't telling you the whole story? What you're about to learn could change the way that you buy protein forever. Costco chicken is beloved and seen as a great deal. I know this. But recent discussions about preservatives, labeling accuracy, and contamination has put that belief at risk. Guys, look. Speaker 2: Costco is facing a lawsuit over its popular rotisserie chickens. A group of shareholders filed the lawsuit against the company over its treatment in raising chickens. Speaker 0: You trust Costco with your family's dinner, but their meat undergoes a controversial process that's banned in several countries. Most shoppers have no idea this is happening right under their noses. The real question isn't what they're doing. It's why they're allowed to do it. You know that famous $5 rotisserie chicken at Costco? The one that's been the same price since Obama was president? Well, there's a juicy secret they don't want you knowing about. Speaker 1: They label it as no preservatives, guys. And this goes hand in hand with Walmart and your probably your favorite grocery store. This is what I would call a huge scandal. There's a reason why those chickens have been four ninety nine since 2009. It's to get you in the store. It's to get you to spend a ton of money, and they've cut a lot of corners to make sure that it's cheap and easy to produce for you. Welcome, guys. My name's Cohen from Riverside Homestead. What I do is I give you guys value. I do the digging so you don't have to do it. So if you appreciate that, hit the thumbs up right now. Let the community know where you're chiming in from, what state, and let me crush your dreams on rotisserie chicken like ugh. Trust me. I know. So watch. This chicken is labeled as no preservatives, guys. And this goes hand in hand with Walmart and your probably your favorite grocery store. This is what I would call a huge scandal. There's a reason why those chickens have been four ninety nine since 2009. It's to get you in the store. It's to get you to spend a ton of money, and they've cut a lot of corners to make sure that it's cheap and easy to produce for you. Welcome, guys. My name's Cohen from Riverside Homestead. What I do is I give you guys value. I do the digging so you don't have to do it. So if you appreciate that, hit the thumbs up right now. Let the community know where you're chiming in from, what state, and let me crush your dreams on rotisserie chicken like ugh. Trust me. I know. So watch. This chicken is labeled as no preservatives, organic, healthy as it gets. We've talked about this before on this channel. Loopholes. Speaker 0: Costco injects every single rotisserie chicken with a phosphate solution before it hits those warming lights. Think you're buying pure chicken? Think again. You're paying for water with a side of poultry. This liquid injection makes each bird weigh significantly more, So you're essentially buying a sponge that's been soaked in chemical juice. Speaker 1: Did you guys know that these chickens are only about six weeks old because of everything that they pump into them? It's a marketing ploy to get you through the door for the cheap chicken and buy everything else. And there's active lawsuits right now. This is especially bred chicken in horrible conditions. Speaker 3: Grown and fattened on likely corn and soy that's GMO to create this chicken in six weeks that you're eating. They take it to a mass slaughter house where they dip it in chlorine and other toxins to make it safe, and it's leaving those residues on the chicken. And this bird isn't just seasoned with normal herbs and spices. They have preservatives in here like sodium phosphate that's linked to liver and kidney damage and carrageenan, which can degrade into polygenin, which is a known inflammatory agent and possible carcinogen. Speaker 1: Yeah. I found information on that from another doctor. Speaker 4: Doctor Tanya, what's one thing you never buy from the grocery store? Rotisserie chicken. Why? The bag the chicken is stored in is plastic, and it leaches chemicals that get into the food when it's sitting under the heat. Most stores inject the chickens with additives so that they can last on the shelf longer. Chickens are often marinated in a preservative solution. We opt for preservative free cosmetics, and then we're eating preservative infested chicken. And carrageenan. This is a chemical that precooked poultry is injected with to make it tender and juicy, but guess what? It can also inflame the gut. Carrageenan is banned in Europe, but not in The United States. Speaker 1: Yet again, another ingredient item banned in other countries, but allowed in The US. I know we love it because it's such a good deal. It's cheap. It's easy. It's taste great. I'm on the struggle bus with you guys on this one, but I'm reading countless articles, discussion about preservatives, labeling accuracy and contamination that has put all this belief at risk. Now I recently was at a Costco filming this right here. I was there. I saw it. It says no added hormones or steroids in a chicken that is fully developed in six weeks. Right there at the bottom, you can see it says no added preservatives. And have you ever wondered why it's in a plastic bag that you can put in your microwave? Microwave safe, plastic bag, put the two and two together. Speaker 3: Right out of the oven stored in a plastic bag. Nobody really knows what type of plastic bag this is, but it's likely a mix of polyethylene terephthalate. Remember that word phthalate? It's a known hormone disruptor, and this is microwave safe. So you're putting hot food into a plastic bag that can leach these hormone disrupting chemicals, and a 117,000,000 of these are eaten each year in The US. So share this video with your friends. Speaker 1: This is what I'm talking about. Hundreds of thousand millions of these chickens are sold in The US a year. This is why you need to share this out. Sorry folks, but they're just cutting too many corners these days. And it comes down to us. And who's gonna suffer? Us. They're gonna make a ton of money. So if you dive into the legal term no preservatives, they found loopholes to where they can actually put this legally. This is where the class action lawsuit or the lawsuit from a couple people in California are like, hold up. Wait a minute, you guys are using this stuff and this is preservatives, but you guys are saying it's no preservatives. In short, the processing agents that they're using can be deemed not to be called preservatives. Oh yeah, you're getting something with no preservatives, organic as it gets. Yet at the end of the day, you and I would look at that cross eyed and be like, Yeah, what they're using works the same way. It's not what you think it is. That's just what it is. I'm not sure if you guys have seen what these large scale poultry processing facilities look like, but it's not happy chickens walking around a field eating green grass and bugs. Think about the cross contamination that occurs and what safeguards exist and where they fail. For certain that these huge plants they fail. Great thing for Costco is they can scale. They can pump out millions of birds in six weeks and give it to us for a low price even with them losing money. That's right. Like I said, scammedemic kind of they will take a loss on this because they're producing at such a large scale and cutting corners just to get you through the door for that $4 and 99 rotisserie chicken so that you put hundreds of dollars of their stuff in your cart and check out. Other stores, Walmart, other grocery stores, they have caught on to this. They know what Costco found out. They're all doing the same thing. This is information that you need to consider. Speaker 5: Alright, guys. Here are three scary facts about Costco chicken that'll hopefully make you never buy this shit ever again. Alright. So I had to move on over to Lowe's to show you part two of this video. So they start by bathing the chicken in chlorine. They actually put it in a chlorine bath, and it soaks in this chlorine for about thirty minutes. Why does that and should that matter to you? I'm gonna tell you. Next thing they do is they inject the chicken with a chemical compound called TSP. It's trisodium phosphate. Guys, I'm just at Lowe's pulling this stuff off the shelves. This is crazy. I mean, this is the shit that you're allowing into your body. Read the warning label on this and tell me that this is a good idea to ingest in the human body. And then the last thing, which is I don't know if it's scarier than the other two things. They're all really bad. But they they let the chicken sit in these plastic bags, and they sit there for days on end, hours, days, whatever. It's sitting in your fridge for probably a long time. There are microplastics being released into the chicken from the plastic bags that are getting into your body, and it is unbelievably bad for you. Mean, there's microplastics showing up in human hearts, in in in men's testicles. Like, it's really, really bad, guys. So here's the deal. Everyone's gonna ask me, what do I do? Buy your chickens local. Go to your local farmer's market. Go to your local farms. They are a little bit more expensive, so just eat less or go or or just be resourceful and find deals. But stop buying this shit because it's literally killing you. Speaker 1: When I go to Home Depot and I pull TSP off the shelves, what kind of chemical is that? Speaker 6: So when you grab TSP at Home Depot, you're holding trisodium phosphate. It's a heavy duty cleaner, often used to degrease and prep surfaces before painting. Powerful stuff. Just use it with care. Speaker 1: What's the caution label say? Speaker 6: The caution label on TSP usually warns about skin and eye irritation. So gloves and goggles are a must. It'll also say not to inhale the dust and to keep it away from kids. Basically, respect the power and you'll be good. Speaker 1: What if you eat it? Speaker 6: If you ingest TSP, it's no joke. It can cause serious irritation. Think burns in your mouth, throat and stomach. The label will tell you to seek medical help immediately. No waiting. Speaker 1: So yeah, definitely not a seasoning. Speaker 1: But if you go down the rabbit hole on that one, it's gonna say that it's a different type and it's the safe version and the FDA would never allow that specific one in your food. Just a different one. So when they put it in like rotisserie chicken, they're probably just putting safe amounts of it. Speaker 6: Oh no, don't worry. They're not putting TSP in your rotisserie chicken. That'd be a disaster. Some food safe phosphates might be used in processing, totally different and regulated, but the cleaning product TSP strictly for walls, not wings. Speaker 1: Are you sure it's not the same thing? Because a lot of reels say it's the same thing. Speaker 6: Yeah. I get why those reels pop up, but trust me, food grade phosphates and TSP cleaner are not the same. The food versions are heavily regulated for safety. If they try tossing the Home Depot stuff in your chicken, the FDA would have a feel day. So no worries. Speaker 1: I'm telling you guys, it's a deep dive in half. Make informed decisions. Realize that these big companies are all about making the money, not about bringing you the safest product. And trust me, it's a little bit of a stab to me too because I like easy, I like tasty and we need that sometimes. But in this case, they may have jumped through too many hoops too many times, and it's putting Us consumers possibly in a bad position. Speaker 1: I've got two other great videos. If you guys didn't see these videos, you gotta watch these. These will blow your mind equally as much. Please let me know what you think down in the comments. Thumbs up. Share this out and subscribe because I've got a lot more coming down the pipe. Keep prepping, keep learning, keep doing. We'll see you guys on the next one.

"Most chickens are bathed in small amounts of it during processing to kill pathogens." "These baths often contain antimicrobial chemicals that can include chlorine." "A tiny amount gets absorbed into the meat." "U. S. Government regulators say this use of chlorine is safe and effective." "Since there is controversy about using chlorine and other chemicals in poultry processing, they have decided to keep our poultry out of countries in the European Union for nearly two decades, costing US poultry farmers hundreds of millions of dollars each year." "Now people are gravitating toward a different approach, the one used in Europe and at a few American plants, where freshly slaughtered birds are blasted with very cold air for several hours to lower the body temperature and kill harmful pathogens." "This air chilled chicken costs about $2 more per pound." "The USDA insists that antimicrobial agents like chlorine used by the poultry industry have been deemed safe and suitable by the Food and Drug Administration."

One company, 100% Chinese-owned, produces 60% of US pork. Four companies control over 80% of the US meat industry. The US food supply allows over 10,000 additives. 99% of chickens, 95% of hogs, and 78% of cattle in the US are raised in confinement. 80% of antibiotics consumed in the US are fed to animals; in 2016, 18.4 million pounds of antibiotics were sold for livestock. Suicide rates amongst farmers are higher than any other profession, including veterans.

Six weeks from peep to chicken. Wherever rotisserie chickens are sold, force fed grain is likely GMO grain, glyphosate. Law of biological concentration, eating all that grain to get fat in six weeks. That's bioaccumulating in the tissues of this chicken. It's so toxic. They're dipping in a chlorine. It creates carcinogenic byproducts and the chlorine gets inside the chicken. You start injecting preservatives into this thing. Carrageenan, which through the cooking process turned into polygenin, which is also toxic to our bodies. Then we put it in a plastic bag that's likely a blend of different plastics, but one of them being PET, polyethylene terephthalate. Phthalate. One of the worst testosterone robbing hormone disrupting compounds on the planet in that bag with a hot chicken, then we eat it. It needs to be in the garbage can. It's a slam dunk out of your diet.

I'm in Sherwood, Connecticut, discussing why entities like Gates and China are buying up American farmland. My experience with factory farms highlights this issue. For 20 years, I sued large producers like Smithfield Foods, which built a massive slaughterhouse in North Carolina. Partnering with a state senator, they passed laws making it illegal to sue factory farms. This led to the demise of 28,000 independent hog farmers, replaced by a few large factories controlled by Smithfield. They dictate farming practices, leaving farmers with no control. As a result, Smithfield now controls 80% of hog production in North Carolina and sold itself to China, threatening the vision of American democracy rooted in independent family farms. This industrial agriculture not only compromises food quality but also undermines our landscapes and democracy.

Most US poultry plants use chilling baths containing antimicrobial chemicals like chlorine to kill pathogens such as salmonella. A tiny amount of chlorine gets absorbed into the meat. US government regulators claim this chlorine use is safe, breaking down into safe byproducts. However, European officials disagree, fearing chlorine causes cancer. The EU has banned US poultry for nearly two decades, costing US farmers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Some believe this is a matter of political science trumping sound science. An alternative approach involves blasting freshly slaughtered birds with very cold air to lower their temperature and kill pathogens, costing about $2 more per pound. The USDA insists that antimicrobials like chlorine used by the poultry industry have been deemed safe and suitable by the FDA.

I'm here to address why figures like Gates and China are acquiring farmland. I spent 20 years involved with factory farms and saw firsthand how Smithfield Foods transformed North Carolina's pork industry. Smithfield built a massive slaughterhouse and partnered with a state senator who made it nearly impossible to sue factory farms. They then introduced warehouse-style pig farming, driving pork prices down and forcing 28,000 independent hog farmers out of business, replacing them with 2,200 factories. Farmers who remained became controlled by Smithfield, losing autonomy over their land and practices. This model spread to Iowa, and eventually, Smithfield sold itself to China, giving them control over a large portion of American hog production. This shift undermines the vision of a democracy rooted in independent family farms and poses a significant threat to our democracy by consolidating control of our landscapes.

"Americans are living six years less than our European counterparts." "USDA was created to ensure a wholesome food supply." "They're making war on the small farmer, and they're making war on public health." "you have to eat eight carrots today to get the same nutritional value that one carrot would give you a generation ago." "the carrot is then loaded with all of those chemicals with atrazine, with neonicotinoid pesticides, with glyphosate, and this entire universe of terrible terrible chemicals for which none of them have been adequately tested for safety." "Chemicals when they're approved by FDA, USDA, and EPA, the burden of proof is on the agency to prove that the chemical is dangerous." "The assumption is that all chemicals are good for you unless proven guilty."

Most US chickens are bathed in small amounts of chlorine during processing to kill pathogens. These chilling baths often contain antimicrobial chemicals, and a tiny amount gets absorbed into the meat. US government regulators claim this chlorine use is safe and effective, breaking down into safe byproducts. However, most European officials disagree, fearing chlorine causes cancer. The EU has banned US poultry for nearly two decades, costing US poultry farmers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Some claim political science has trumped sound science. An alternative approach involves blasting freshly slaughtered birds with very cold air for several hours to kill harmful pathogens. This air-chilled chicken costs about $2 more per pound. The USDA insists that antimicrobial agents like chlorine used by the poultry industry have been deemed safe and suitable by the FDA.

Speaker 0 explains that the time from hatched egg to market for chickens has dramatically shortened over the years. He notes it was four months when he started fifteen years ago, then eighteen weeks, then sixteen, fourteen, and twelve weeks, and recently reads that organically raised chickens are going to market in eight weeks. He questions how the industry can claim there are no hormones, given these rapid changes. He asserts that the key lies “in the field” and describes the practice of modern farming: a farmer buys fertilized eggs and signs a contract to buy food only from that egg supplier, with big multinational companies involved. He adds that the farmer also signs a contract prohibiting any attempt to find out what is in the food, stating that it is proprietary. He asserts that this lack of disclosure is accepted and enforced by the government. He emphasizes, “We don’t use hormones, but we won’t tell you what we give them,” highlighting a lack of transparency. The overall claim is that the industry maintains there are no hormones, while underlying contracts and proprietary practices control information about the feed, and government support reinforces this arrangement.

I'm at Sherwood Island in Connecticut, discussing the issue of farmland ownership by Gates and China. My experience in factory farming, particularly with Smithfield Foods in North Carolina, illustrates this problem. Smithfield built a massive slaughterhouse and partnered with Wendell Murphy, who passed laws making it illegal to sue factory farms. This led to the closure of 28,000 independent hog farmers, replaced by 2,100 factory farms controlled by Smithfield. Farmers who contracted with Smithfield lost control over their operations, becoming dependent on the company. As a result, Smithfield now controls 80% of hog production in North Carolina and expanded this model nationwide before selling to China. This shift undermines the vision of independent family farms and poses a significant threat to American democracy and our agricultural landscape.

I'm here to discuss why companies like Gates and China are buying up farmland. I spent years suing factory farms, including Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer. Smithfield came to North Carolina and, with a partner, created large-scale hog warehouses, dropping pork prices from 60¢ to 2¢ a pound. This put 28,000 independent hog farmers out of business, replaced by 2,200 factories controlled by or contracted to Smithfield. Farmers became like serfs on their own land, losing control over their practices. Smithfield dictated everything. Because of the price drop in North Carolina, Iowa had to adopt the same system. Eventually Smithfield controlled 80% of US hog production and then sold itself to China. Now China owns a large part of our hog production, threatening Thomas Jefferson's vision of a democracy rooted in independent family farms. This industrial agriculture gives us substandard food and threatens American democracy.

Chicks are transported to factories via conveyor belts where workers check their health. Healthy chicks receive a vaccination and are sent to farms, while those with problems are discarded. At the farms, the chicks consume high-grade feed containing growth hormones. Due to this feed and limited movement, their legs weaken under their increasing weight, restricting their mobility. Broiler chickens are sent to processing plants around 40 days old. There, they undergo automated processing into semi-finished products for packaging and sale.

Chicks are transported to factories via conveyor belts where workers check their health. Healthy chicks receive a unified vaccination and are sent to farms, while those with slight problems are discarded. At the farms, the chicks consume high-grade feed containing growth hormones. Due to this feed and their limited activity, their legs weaken under their increasing weight, restricting their movement. Most broiler chickens are sent to processing plants around 40 days old. There, they undergo automated processing into semi-finished products for packaging and sale. The chicken you eat may not have walked more than three meters in its entire life.

Moms across America discovered aviary contraceptives and narcobazine in Chick-fil-A sandwiches, raising significant concerns about their consumption. The addictive nature of these sandwiches adds to the worry. Additionally, Chick-fil-A has reintroduced antibiotic chicken. Following the revelation about the aviary contraceptive, the company removed the claim of "no antibiotics ever" from their website, replacing it with "no antibiotics important for human health."

"In this episode, I sit down with farmer Joel Salatin. He and his family owned Polyphase Farms, and he's the author of 17 books including Everything I Want to Do is Illegal, War Stories from the Local Food Front." "You notice there's no flies, there's no smell. These are unvaccinated, unmedicated, no pharmaceuticals, none of that." "You can't have a porta potty, so now you're at $50,000 to put in a certified septic system in order to have a kitchen that passes compliance." "Salatin believes that what America desperately needs is a food emancipation proclamation." "Which basically says, you and I can engage in a food transaction without the government's permission." "In my lifetime, I have watched this erosion of farmer access to retail dollars." "The question is, is it all gonna go to Vanguard, BlackRock, Bill Gates, the Chinese?"

There is a concerning connection between Monsanto and regulatory bodies, with Justice Clarence Thomas being a former Monsanto attorney. He wrote the majority opinion in a case that allowed companies to prevent farmers from saving their own seed. Monsanto had close ties to both the Bush and Clinton administrations. Over the past 25 years, our government has been dominated by the industries it was meant to regulate. The issue lies in the interests these regulators choose to represent. This centralized power is being used against farmers, workers, and consumers who are kept in the dark about their food.