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So why are they selling it if the fruit is a great part of their staple diet🤦🏿‍♀️❓️

Deus te abençoe sempre. Deus te proteja!!! 🙏🏼

We can use drones now

It's so sad to see such natural beautiful environments destroyed by ignorant human indulgence.

When I lived in Bahía, near Pelourinho, I stumbled upon this delicious goodness. Ate 2 cups for breakfast and never felt better.
But açaí consumption is getting out of hand. Just pay the farmers well instead.

"they say we´re poor, but we are rich in spirit"

So sad we do this all the time. Almost every "exotic superfood" people chug because they're too lazy to institute change in thier lives, is just ripping necessary commodities from other people

"We say we're poor, but we are rich in Spirit." 😌

Which part of Brazil I can find this

It's a poor community but we're rich in spirit 🗣️💯💯

What people are supposed to do? Stop eating açai and making the life of people who farm it even worse??😂 you guys probably noticed that the unprocessed açai is cheap because 95% of it is the seed, so of course it will be way more expensive when it reaches cities far away in Brazil or US. Instead of being happy that açai is being farmed instead and less pressure would be put on native plants you guys criticize it? I knew the world was becoming stupid, but not at this level

nice man

Never heard of this Acai🤔nor have i ever seen it in stores😏

Typical liberal BS!! Find out that children do some of the work, ignore the fact it's been going on for centuries and is a 'teaching thing' so they can survive as adults. Then tell the world how they should be angry and stop eating it, thereby reducing consumption and hurting the farmers.
Is it any wonder liberals are so hated?

First time hearing about Acai ... fascinating report and total respect to those climbers of those trees.

Start charging more to harvest! Go on strike!

They do it for money. Nothing more nothing less

When you listed the health benefits, all but one of them (cognitive function and even then, it may still be connected) are related. So if it helps with blood pressure, don't be surprised if it also helps with weight, and heart disease. You don't have to be a doctor to see that. Thats not to say that it will magically cure you, but anything that helps shouldn't be scoffed at. No one cares about the culture, btw.

Good Work
But All This Trees Are Planting And Growth Only By Animals
Humans Got Credit Fully

Well it's not like they're risking their lives just for export market, they're doing it to feed themselves. I don't see how "true cost" is relevant.

Just get a ladder

why they not use rope when go up no need to go down and go up again ?

I'm healthy without ever needing to eat Acai 😂

"So-called, "trendy"? Why the attitude? Hardly objective. People work hard all over the world and get little to show for it, including the West This family gets to eat it pure and fresh. Acai is far from so-called, if you knew anything about it. It's great stuff that makes you instantly feel better with polyphenols and minerals. Acai is a super fruit. No contest.

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Açaí

They should make their own plantations, if their parents and the parents before them started making one, they'd have no problem at all, the real reason why these people live like the wage men in Japan, is because they don't modernize or capitalize on resources, they had the ability to at least try to start a small plantation to make it easier, but they don't, also, the reasons the money number sounds so low is because their noney is worth less than ours, in America its literally impossible to buy the minimum amount of food for 1 person at 900 a period. In conclusion, modernization is key, nobody wants to but over-priced barrys from singles tree plants instead of massive plantations, and your money is not equivalent to theirs monetarily.

Edit: yes they have grown their own trees, but they didn't do it right, they need to select better spots, clear out other large plants that will slow growth. And plant in organizing positions to maximize efficiency and growth.

Brazil is like the corporative cancer of the world, I've never seen so much ambition for the cost of the ecosystem, this country will be the verge of nature extinction....

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I feel so angry at the corrupt, useless government of Brazil that does nothing for these people.

They might be poor but still ther are happy and that does make a difference may God bless them ❤❤

This is what vegans makento people around the world.

their community is just wholesome af 😭❤

The farmers should work smarter, train monkeys to climb the trees and pick the fruit, like they do in Thailand for harvesting coconuts.

Eu morei no Pará (Brazil) e vejo que toda plantação de comida no mundo tem seus prós e contras, mas no caso específico do açai, melhorou demais a vida de todo ribeirinho que trabalha com isso, pois antes da popularização do açai a miséria era grande e a devastação para produção de madeira era enorme, agora a floresta está protegida pois o açai a é a melhor fonte de renda deles e ela só produz bem na floresta. Existe uma cadeia de vendas e tudo tem seu custo. Discordo completamente desse video, foi muito unilateral, só mostrou um lado que não é verdadeiro. Todos são felizes produzindo e consumindo açai.

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im pretty sure blueberries are more of a superfood... cheaper and readily available

Indian farmers have developed a machine to climb tress with less risk

Running out of actually dangerous job to do videos about sucks, not gonna convince me, that the tree climbing I did as a child is equal to such a 'dangerous' job.

Well live in jersey. And i never try it hahaha. Looks like blueberry

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My yard is literally surrounded with açaí palms

wow!

I only buy bags of frozen açai intendant to make juice and do my own smothie bows mixing in the blender still frozen with some bananas and a bit brown suggar, too bad its hard to find quality açai even here in brazil, the bags I find is only what market call "medium açai" wich is 11 to 14% of açai the rest is water, in my state in south Brasil I never found the special bags with more than 14%. But I see a slowy change some produts called here "gourmet" with no artificial colors and no syrup added but most the açai found in markets is problaby what market call "açai fino" or thin açai wich is 8 to 11% açai and the rest is water and a bomb of industrialized stuff to make it look and taste sweeter. probably the good stuff 100% pure no water added pulp wich I only see in classifications table are going to the US and Europe. But market now find a new type of açai called in Bahia juçai wich is extracted by a cousin of Pará's açai plant that grows is south hemisfere all the way down From Bahia to South Brazil and they can even breed each other and new species of palms are coming soom specialy because the palm hearts called here palmito they are very apriciated too but to extract the plant needs to be cutted and the Juçara palm doesn't re grow as the Para's palm but new breeded plants of Juçara now can regrow too and we can have palmito and açai cheaper I hope lol

Truly different times nowadays, using a piece of cloth instead of a vine to climb trees. Amazing.

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These bunches of fruits are favorite of elephants???

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Rich community.. rich in spirits.. wow..
Salute to their spirit..