Without farmers, you'd be hungry, naked and sober | Eric Sannerud

Reviewer: Intan Andini

Apa saran yang biasa diberikan saat Anda hendak bicara di depan umum?

Bayangkan saja kalau hadirinnya telanjang.

(Tawa)

Saya akan terapkan perbedaan malam ini,

So what do people usually say when you're about to give a public talk?

dah saya akan bayangkan dunia ini tanpa petani,

It's to imagine that your audience is naked.

dan yah, sama saja.

(Laughter)

Well, I'm doing a different trick tonight,

[Tanpa petani Anda akan kelaparan, telanjang, dan sadar]

and I'm going to imagine all of us without farmers,

(Tawa)

Petani kita jasanya lebih banyak

and well, it's not so much different.

dari sekadar memberi sandang, pangan, dan minuman enak.

[Without farmers you'd be hungry, naked and sober]

(Laughter)

And our farmers do so much more for us

Petani kita bagian penting di semua komunitas kita,

than simply feed and clothe and provide us excellent things to drink.

khususnya komunitas pedesaan.

Selain itu,

Our farmers are an important part of all of our communities,

petani merupakan pendorong kuat ketahanan ekonomi.

particularly our rural communities.

Pikirkan ini:

Saat pembuat bir membeli hop dari saya, yang ditanam di Minnesota sini,

And more than that,

they're a strong driver of resilient economics.

90% dollar itu tetap di negara bagian kita,

dibanding dengan hanya 10% saat mereka beli di tempat lain.

Think about it this way:

When a brewer buys hops from me, grown here in Minnesota,

Ia berarti banyak.

90% itu berarti pekerjaan lokal.

90 percent of that dollar stays in our state,

Ia berarti pendapatan pajak untuk perbaikan sekolah dan jalanan.

compared to just 10 percent when they buy it from somewhere else.

Ia berarti dukungan untuk koperasi, bengkel,

What that means is a lot.

dan semua karyawan yang diperlukan agar pertanian makmur.

That 90 percent means local jobs.

It means tax revenue for better schools and roads.

Petani adalah pengelola bumi terbaik.

It means support for the co-ops, the mechanics,

Kutipan ini, menurut saya, menunjukkan jasa-jasa petani bagi kita

all the support staff that are needed for a farm to thrive.

dalam mengelola sumber daya kita.

And they're our best stewards of the land.

“Bahwa bumi itu komunitas adalah konsep dasar dalam ekologi,

This quote, I think, exemplifies what our family farmers do for us

in stewarding our shared natural resources.

tapi bumi harus disayangi dan dihormati termasuk dalam budi pekerti.”

"That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology,

Petani melakukan banyak hal baik untuk kita semua.

but that land is to be loved and respected as an extension of ethics."

Dan semua petani kita hebat, kita pasti setuju.

Namun,

Now, they sure do a lot of good stuff for us.

tren pertanian saat ini sangat buruk.

Usia rata-rata petani di Amerika

And our family farmers are great, we'd all agree.

menurut sensus pertanian terbaru --

However,

58,3 tahun.

the trends in agriculture today are dire.

Dari semua petani,

The average age of a farmer in America,

33% di atas usia 65.

according to the latest agricultural census --

Itu karikatur kecil kakek saya.

(Tawa)

58.3.

Of all the farmers,

Beliau masih bertani,

dan usia beliau jauh di atas 65.

33 percent are 65 plus.

Agar lebih bisa dimengerti,

That's a little caricature of my grandpa.

pekerjaan pelayanan umum lain, pendidikan,

(Laughter)

He's still farming,

usia rata-rata guru adalah 42.

and he's much older than 65.

Petani kita sangat tua di negara ini.

But to put that in perspective,

Dan sayangnya,

another important public service job, teaching,

saat mereka pensiun, jika mereka pensiun,

average age of teachers is 42.

Our farmers are pretty old in this country.

mereka tidak digantikan.

Dari semua petani yang kita tambahkan

And unfortunately,

di antara 2008 hingga 2012,

when they retire, if they retire,

di seluruh Amerika Serikat --

we're not really replacing them.

coba cari perbedaannya --

Of all the farmers that we added in this country

kita menambahkan 2.000 di bawah usia 30.

between 2008 and 2012,

Saya salah satunya.

across the entire United States --

Anda boleh minta tandatangan habis ini, kalau mau.

see if you can catch this difference --

(Tawa)

we added 2,000 under the age of 30.

Petani kita semakin menua

I'm one of those.

dan kita tak mengganti mereka --

I'll be around to autograph some photos later, if you'd like.

apa yang terjadi di sini?

Apa yang akan kita lakukan?

(Laughter)

Ada alasan mengapa orang tidak prihatin,

But, you know, our farmers are getting older

dan itu karena harga.

and we're not replacing them --

Mari lihat gambar-gambar ini.

Susu: Ini rata-rata harga eceran segalon susu di AS.

what's going on here?

What are we going to do?

And I think there's a reason folks aren't coming into it,

$4,49.

and that's prices.

Petani dapat berapa?

We're going to go through a couple of slides like this.

1 dolar 32 sen.

Milk: This is the average retail price of a gallon of milk in the United States.

Kita ulangi dengan roti.

Rata-rata harga eceran roti di AS, $3.49

Four dollars forty-nine cents.

How much do you think the farmer gets?

Petani mendapat...

12 sen.

Dollar thirty-two.

Penonton: Oh!

We'll try again with bread.

Bagaimana kita bisa punya petani lokal yang kuat

Average retail price of bread in America, three forty-nine.

Farmer gets ...

jika begini?

Apa yang harus kita lakukan jika tak ada petani lokal yang tersisa?

Twelve cents.

Audience: Oh!

And so how are we supposed to have strong local farms

Ini bukan masalah bagi petani saja,

in this scenario?

bukan petani seperti saya saja yang harus bertindak.

What are we supposed to do if there aren't any local farmers left?

Ini masalah kita semua.

Masalah ini ada di pedesaan, kota, dan seluruh negara.

And this isn't just a farmer problem,

it's not just something for the few of us farmers to sort out.

Jadi apa yang harus kita lakukan?

Nanti saya beri tahu.

This is an all-of-us problem.

Pertama-tama, ada cerita.

This is rural and it's urban and it's statewide and it's nationwide.

Gerakan hijau, yang kita semua kenal,

So what do we do about it?

mulai pada 1960-an, menanam pohon.

I'll tell you that.

Kini, kita sampai di sini.

But first, a story.

Hijau adalah bagian kehidupan sehari-hari kita.

The green movement, we're all kind of familiar,

Hijau bagian dari kehidupan sehari-hari perusahaan Fortune 500.

started in the '60s, planting trees.

Ia dibahas dalam perjanjian internasional,

And now we've come such a long way.

juga debat presiden.

Green is part of our day-to-day lives.

Anda dan saya, kita mengganti bola lampu,

It's part of the day-to-day lives of Fortune 500 businesses.

menggunakan tas ramah lingkungan.

It's the subject of international treaties,

Kita ikut gerakan hijau setiap hari.

the subject of presidential debates.

Namun...

You and I, we switch our light bulbs,

dan inilah gagasannya --

we use reusable bags.

pergerakan pangan,

We participate in the green movement each and every day.

lebih muda, tapi terkenal, saya kira.

Yet ...

Anda pergi ke toko,

and this is how we get to the idea --

Anda lihat tulisan “Beli produk lokal,”

Anda ke pasar, ke koperasi,

the food movement,

relatively younger, but also somewhat familiar, I imagine.

Anda membaca buku penulis ternama.

You go to the grocery store,

Pergerakan pangan hari ini

you see a sign that says "Buy local,"

bisa diibaratkan dengan mengikuti pemilu dengan garpu.

you go to the farmers market, you go to the co-op,

Gagasannya yaitu: Anda menarik dolar dari dompet --

you read books by prominent authors.

yang Anda beli berdampak pada sistem pangan.

The food movement to date

Anda mendukung petani lokal.

could be summarized as voting with your fork.

Itu cukup bagus, tapi ke mana arah kita?

The idea is: you pull a dollar out of your wallet --

Bagaimana kita sampai di puncak energi terbarukan

how you spend that dollar affects the food system.

It supports farmers close to home.

seperti gerakan hijau?

Saya pikir, ini yang harus dilakukan,

And that's all well and good, but where are we going?

hanya memilih dengan garpu tak akan mengatasi masalah

How do we get to our renewable-energy moment

yang tengah dihadapi petani.

like the green movement did?

Jadi kita harus bertindak lebih.

And this, I think, is what we need to do.

Kita harus beralih dari memilih dengan garpu

Just voting with our fork is not solving the issues

ke memilih dengan hak pilih.

Kita harus gunakan dolar kita

that our farmers are facing.

And so we need to do more than that.

untuk membeli produk lokal.

I believe we must move on from just voting with our fork

Kita juga harus ada di kotak suara untuk petani kita.

to voting with our vote.

Ini lebih besar dari sekadar beli stroberi lokal

We need to take our dollars

setahun sekali.

and continue to spend them locally.

Ini usaha bersama yang dilakukan sepanjang tahun

We also need to show up at the ballot box for our farmers.

demi perubahan yang diperlukan.

This is bigger than just buying local strawberries

Perubahan seperti harga adil untuk petani.

once a year at a pick-your-own.

Termasuk kuota, pengelolaan pasokan,

This is a year-round effort that we must make together

harga tetap.

to make the change we need.

Perubahan seperti perdagangan adil dan terbuka.

Changes like fair pricing for farmers.

Artinya akhiri perang dagang.

That's quotas, supply management,

Dan ya, kita harus memilih.

guaranteed prices.

Kita sudah tahu itu.

Changes like fair and open trade.

Contoh, ini berhasil.

That means ending trade wars.

Siapa ya itu?

(Tawa)

And yeah, of course it means voting.

Tahun ini di Minnesota,

Now we all knew that one already, though.

kredit pajak bersejarah yang pertama di negara ini disahkan.

For example, it's working.

Hey, who's that?

Kredit Pajak Petani Awal.

(Laughter)

Kami diberi insentif untuk transisi lahan

Just this year in Minnesota,

dari generasi ini untuk generasi selanjutnya.

we've passed a historic, first-in-the-country tax credit.

The Beginning Farmer Tax Credit.

Ini dilakukan oleh beberapa petani muda seperti saya --

It incentivizes our transition of land

kami tak punya uang, Anda lihat tadi.

from the existing generation to the next generation.

Kami tak punya pengalaman politik.

Tapi kami datang dan pastikan suara kami didengar.

That was done by a handful of us young farmers --

Berkat dukungan dari petani dan non-petani,

we certainly don't have money, you saw that earlier.

hal luar biasa bisa terwujud di negara bagian ini.

We don't have political experience.

But we showed up, and we made our voices heard.

Jika kami bisa melakukannya, siapa saja juga bisa.

And thanks to the support of farmers and non-farmers alike,

Sekarang, ini mengharukan dan membahagiakan.

we got something incredible done here in this state.

Hadirin yang skeptis di sini,

saya juga, jika di sini.

If we can do it, anybody can do it.

Yang skeptis berpikir,

Now, that was all light and fuzzy and feels pretty happy.

“Apa yang perlu diubah dari sistem pangan kita?”

Skeptics in the audience, you're here.

Petani itu hebat.

Kita punya makanan yang tak terbatas dan murah juga.

That would be me, if I were here.

Skeptics are thinking,

Enak, ’kan?”

"Wow, what do we need to change about our food system?"

Sayangnya,

pada 1980-an dan 1990-an, negara ini menjalani kebijakan

Farmers are great.

We have unlimited food, and it's real cheap, too,

yang digambarkan sebagai “get big or get out.”

isn't that great?

Well, unfortunately,

in the '80s and the '90s in this country, we went down a path of policy

“Get big or get out” artinya Anda memaksimalkan produksi

sambil meminimalisir harga.

that could be described as "get big or get out."

Di permukaan, itu terdengar mudah.

And what "get big or get out" means is you maximize production

Namun, perpindahan itu mengubah petani kita dari kelas terhormat

while minimizing costs.

On its face value, that sounds pretty simple.

dan kelas berharga di masyarakat

menjadi harga yang harus dikurangi.

However, that shift turned our farmers from a venerated class

Perubahan itu membuat buyut saya,

yang mencari nafkah untuk keluarga dengan 6 ekor sapi,

and a valued class in our society

into a cost to be minimized.

produk susu yang sama,

jadi harus mencari nafkah dengan 600 ekor sapi hari ini.

That shift made it so that my great-grandfather,

Lahan berisi 6.000 ekor sapi sudah biasa.

who supported the family with six cows,

that same dairy,

Apa jadinya jika ada satu peternakan sapi perah

trying to support their family, has to be 600 cows today.

di seluruh negara,

Six-thousand-cow dairies are not unheard of.

di mana dulu ada ratusan?

Hal yang sama bisa dikatakan tentang jagung, kacang, atau palawija.

What happens when there's this one dairy farm

Apa jadinya saat orang perlu 40 km persegi lahan untuk hidup?

in an entire county,

where there used to be hundreds?

The same could be said with corn or beans or field crops.

Dulu hanya perlu 0.16 km persegi saja.

Kita tahu apa yang terjadi, kita membacanya di berita.

What happens when it takes 10,000 acres for one person to support themselves?

Secara luas, penurunan di pedesaan,

When it used to only take 40.

tapi sekolah ditutup atau digabungkan,

kantor pos tutup, toko tutup.

We know what happens, we read about it in the news.

Orang-orang pergi,

Broadly determined, rural decline,

komunitasnya menderita dan bubar.

but schools close, schools consolidate,

Saya yakin kita di sini yang punya hubungan dengan pedesaan Minnesota

post offices close, grocery stores close.

tahu cerita ini.

People leave,

the community suffers and goes away.

Ini bukan hal yang bisa diselesaikan dengan pasar petani atau niat baik.

I believe all of us in this audience with ties to rural Minnesota

Kita harus bertindak lebih untuk petani kita.

know this story well.

Kebijakan menciptakan masalah ini,

This is not a problem that we can solve with farmers markets and good intentions.

dan kebijakan bisa mengatasinya.

Petani Amerika semakin tua, sedikit, dan miskin,

We have to do more for our farmers.

Policy got us into this mess,

and policy can get us out.

tapi mereka amat penting bagi negara bagian kita.

Mereka pendorong dalam komunitas pedesaan kita.

American farmers are only getting older, fewer and poorer,

Mereka penggerak pertumbuhan dan stabilitas ekonomi

yet they are crucial to our state.

dan mereka pelindung terbaik dari sumber daya bersama

They're the vibrancy in our rural communities.

di tanah, air, dan udara.

They're the drivers of economic growth and stability,

Jadi kita harus membalas budi.

Jadi, ikuti saya.

and they are our best protectors of our shared resources

Mari berjuang untuk petani.

Anda bisa lihat,

of land, water and air.

kami sudah lakukan di Minnesota, dan berhasil.

So we have to do better for them.

So join me, would you?

Dan bersama, kita bisa melakukan lebih.

Let's fight for our farmers.

Kita harus.

You can see it,

Jadi kita memilih dengan garpu sebelumnya,

we're already doing it in Minnesota, having great success.

dan kita ingin melanjutkannya.

And together, we can do even more.

Tapi saya ingin memberi Anda satu gagasan,

And we must.

So we were voting with our fork before,

gunakan hak pilih Anda.

Agar akhirnya,

pada hitungan ketiga, mari kita hitung bersama.

and we want to keep doing that.

But if I could have one idea for you to go home with today,

Anda siap?

it's vote with your vote.

Baiklah, satu,

And so to that end,

dua,

on the count of three, I'd like all of us to say it together.

tiga.

Penonton: Gunakan hak pilih.

Are you ready?

Bagus, terima kasih.

Kini Anda mengerti.

OK, one,

(Tepuk tangan)

two,

three.

Audience: Vote with your vote.

Very nice, thank you.

I think you got it.

(Applause)