Animal Cruelty - Part of "We Feed the World"-docum

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Animal Cruelty - Part of "We Feed the World"-documentary.

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Just watched "We Feed the World", a documentary about the huge food industry. I wrote about it in the ratings thread, but decided to take the screenshots here as they are too many. These are screenshots of three minutes of the 1.5 hrs film.

My review of the film can be found at the very bottom.


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Here is where they keep the eggs warm in order to breed the animals. They get turned around every hour by the machine.

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In the background you can see the pallets of little chicks.

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On this production line, the chicks are taken out of the basket they were "born" in.

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On this production line they are sent through a machine that injects them a gene manipulation solution that makes them grow faster.

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Here is where they are kept for a few further weeks. Does it remind you of something that Nazis did with Jews?

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They are still alive!!!

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That's what they are killed with. Before that they are sent upside down with their head through some water that is loaded with electricity in order to make them pass out.

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We Feed the World - 5/5
An Austrian documentary about food industry. Among many things it is about:

Why are tomatoes grown in Almeria, Spain, supported by the European Union, by the millions on an area as far as the horizon? Why are these tomatoes sold in Senegal at the supermarket for a lower price than those of local farmers?

Why do we throw 200.000.000 kg of unsold bread away every single year, while at the same time we feed our cattle with soja, grown in Brazil, on an area that is as big as France and Portugal together, that used to be tropical jungles?

Why is Nestlé one of the biggest bastard corporate?

Whoa! I sure won't eat any mass production anytime soon. Especially meat, be it chicken or cow. Man, they breed fledglings on their own, for a life of 8 weeks in a slaughterhouse, where they are treated like usual goods, transported on production lines, thrown around as if they were nothing. And after I saw that I knew what I would show to people the next time they tell me how brutal and cruel Muslims and Jews treat their animals when it comes to killing them. The meat I eat when I'm in Jordan always comes from a local farmer and at least, the animals on his farm used to have a life on a farm. They weren't "produced" for the gain of a company and only to grow and then die.
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The sad thing as far as eggs go ultimatley people will watch the documentary and then go to the supermarket and by eggs from battery hens.

Maybe not today but they will. People don't "really" give a stuff, all they think about is their pocket. Me I've only ever bought free range, but I realise most people by far go straight for the cheaper battery hen eggs.

I'm not at all surprised by those shocking and grotesque images. If animals are killed at least make it humane!

I've seen trucks loaded to the brim with calves on the way to work, it makes me sick.

The fact is most people don't consider animals important and in fact nothing. Unless they are A: their pet or B: cute, and people ask me why I'm vegetarian.
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It's equally absurd the amount of wasted food the West throws away yet millions are starving in Africa every year.

Moving to Debate unless you'd like it moved back.
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You know, I've always been absolutely mystified about non-muslims who whine that Halal slaughtering is inhumane! I mean really, at least some human skill is involved - you get in, slit the buggers throats and get out. No more cruel than a predator taking it down in the wild, which I bet you these same whiners sit on their arse watching on their weekly wildlife shows whilst feasting on a big tub of KFC. :D
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Post by Shen »

i can only reccomend the documentary "meet your meat" its floating about on torrents...

but slaughterhouses are terrible, i mean 90% of the animals they kill they dont die immediatly like they say, but live for some time afterwards going through other processes first, making it an incredibly painful death.

i agree with Brad, unless its cute or a pet then people dont give a shit as long as it tastes good lets just close our eyes to thecruel and abominable way they are slaughtered.
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Disgusting :(
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Makes me sick.

I always buy free range.
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Markgway wrote:I always buy free range.
Good man. It's not as if the cost is even that much more.
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We always have free range in our house too (or try to) AFAIK.
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