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If anything, it's because we have demanded
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The Pollinators

If anything,it's because we have demanded an alarmingly small diversityof grains mostly...

If anything,
it's because we have demanded an alarmingly small diversity
of grains mostly that feed us, and that's pushed
the food system that we have into the place it's in

Full Transcript

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If anything, it's because we have demanded
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an alarmingly small diversity of grains mostly that feed us,
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and that's pushed the food system that we have
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into the place it's in.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:14
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Stonykill Films

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Movie Summary

A cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat.
So, it's a reflection of us. - The Pollinators 00:04
So, it's a reflection of us.
-Crop rotation is just really moving plants around - The Pollinators 00:07
-Crop rotation is just really moving plants around
Rotation in general - The Pollinators 00:06
Rotation in general
It reduces the potential of accumulated pathogens. - The Pollinators 00:05
It reduces the potential of accumulated pathogens.
It exercises the soil - The Pollinators 00:11
It exercises the soil
Kind of moving through sort of a procession of plants. - The Pollinators 00:06
Kind of moving through sort of a procession of plants.
You're balancing the soil and working with that system. - The Pollinators 00:05
You're balancing the soil and working with that system.
It's our choice - The Pollinators 00:14
It's our choice
If we could really look close at the Plains, - The Pollinators 00:07
If we could really look close at the Plains,
And not just the animalsmoving across in the way they do - The Pollinators 00:09
And not just the animalsmoving across in the way they do
What made the Great Plains is that movement and change. - The Pollinators 00:05
What made the Great Plains is that movement and change.
We have some of the most beautiful soil on this planet - The Pollinators 00:08
We have some of the most beautiful soil on this planet
There's more that could be addedwith the corn and soy. - The Pollinators 00:05
There's more that could be addedwith the corn and soy.
We came to a place that had virgin soils - The Pollinators 00:09
We came to a place that had virgin soils
And when the soils were depletedon the East Coast, - The Pollinators 00:09
And when the soils were depletedon the East Coast,
And when those soils were depleted and distraught, - The Pollinators 00:06
And when those soils were depleted and distraught,
Manifest Destiny is about chasing - The Pollinators 00:09
Manifest Destiny is about chasing
And so the question now is a real inflection point - The Pollinators 00:08
And so the question now is a real inflection point
You think about how we produce food - The Pollinators 00:05
You think about how we produce food
We really have to create a system, - The Pollinators 00:09
We really have to create a system,