Common Ground | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
Sobering yet hopeful, Common Ground exposes the interconnectedness of American farming policy, politics, and illness. Fo | dG1fNi1NNEhxME1LRkE
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - What I'm about to tell you is a matter of life and death.
00:08 If the soil dies, we die.
00:14 - The facts have been proven.
00:19 Roundup does cause cancer.
00:21 - If you burrow deeply enough,
00:24 there is a pipeline of money from the pesticide industry
00:29 into those universities.
00:30 They're getting the kind of science that money can buy.
00:34 - Nature is the mother of us all.
00:42 And if mama ain't happy, we're (beep)
00:45 - One, two, three, four.
00:47 (upbeat music)
00:50 - But there's a way to save our precious soils.
00:54 It's called regeneration.
00:57 (upbeat music)
01:00 Regeneration is not just restoring the land
01:03 to the state that we found it at,
01:05 but actually making it better.
01:07 - We have added over 96 tons of carbon per acre
01:14 into our soil.
01:15 Can we mitigate climate change?
01:18 Absolutely.
01:18 - We're gonna check the underwear and the regenerative
01:22 versus the conventional soybean field
01:24 and see if we can tell a difference
01:26 between the microbial activity.
01:28 - We've eliminated insecticides, pesticides, herbicides.
01:37 We are saving upwards of $400 an acre.
01:40 It works out to be about $2 million a year in savings.
01:44 That is serious cash.
01:47 - I forgot my suit.
01:52 I feel like I'm underdressed.
01:54 - But if you are the people who can make a change,
01:57 well, it's high time to finally get
02:00 regenerative agriculture.
02:02 Let's prioritize the farmer.
02:04 ♪ Out here in the fields ♪
02:09 ♪ I'll fight for my meals ♪
02:12 - It's a connection to the land.
02:14 It's a connection to those that came before us
02:16 and those that are gonna come after us.
02:18 ♪ Sally take my hand ♪
02:21 - We can change everything.
02:23 There's hope.
02:24 - I said this letter is a warning,
02:29 but it's also a promise.
02:31 So I'm gonna fight like hell to save your future
02:35 and my children.
02:35 - 'Cause I love you.
02:38 ♪ Let's get together ♪
02:40 ♪ Before we get much older ♪
02:44 (upbeat music)
02:46 (upbeat music)
02:49 (upbeat music)
02:52 [BLANK_AUDIO]