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1,932,140 views Mar 19, 2024 As A Man Thinketh PODCAST - Making Sense of Agriculture and Society 0:08 Oregon enforces laws to shut down small farms in the name of water conservation, affecting many farmers. 4:26 Legal battle in Oregon impacting small farmers and agricultural practices. 8:50 Oregon implements restrictive water regulations impacting small farms, potentially labeling them as confined animal feeding operations. 12:51 Government crackdown on small farms in Oregon impacting market gardeners and farmers. 16:51 Government regulations impacting small farms and animal farmers despite sustainable practices.

Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished. Two thirds of British adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as obese. In the first of this three-part series, Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionising our eating habits, to find out how decisions made in America 40 years ago influence the way we eat now. Peretti travels to America to investigate the story of high-fructose corn syrup. The sweetener was championed in the US in the 1970s by Richard Nixon's agriculture secretary Earl Butz to make use of the excess...