Meet Your Meat
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Following official release on Netflix of the movie Okja, directed by Bong Joon-Ho, which has already made headlines with its four-minute standing ovation during its premiere at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, we are bringing back the debate on how animals are treated from birth up until they land on our plates.
Meat takes a huge part in our diet. A study from www.planetoscope.com shows that in developed countries, around 80kg of meat are consumed per person per year and more than 40 of the world’s consumption of meat comes from pork.
Intensive livestock seems to be the only way to keep up with such a huge demand: breeding living beings only to slaughter them is not enough. We now have to put them under appalling conditions to produce as much meat as possible. One example made headlines in the U.K. when farmers had to de-beak chickens in order to avoid cannibalism, a behavior that can’t be found in the wild. Chickens are not the only one living under shameful conditions: pigs, cows, horses, fishes and sheeps are living in claustrophobic spaces and are now showing abnormal behaviors.
Then when these overfed creatures are ready for plating, they are brought to a rather bloody retirement house. Over the past few years, many scandals about abattoirs have surfaced. Apart from the Sanitary conditions in slaughterhouses that we covered last month, we received recent footage of showing pigs, cows, sheep and horses suffering in horrifying conditions as they are killed for their meat.
Distressingly, the video appears to show animals still fully awake and conscious of their surroundings as they are subjected to the painful and fatal procedures. We can also see pigs being gassed with carbon dioxide, squealing in desperation as they fight for air. It also appears that the pigs sometimes wake up after being “stunned” and are still conscious when their throats slit and they are hang up by the feet. And the list of horror goes on and on…
We can only hope that the movie, with its touching characters, intriguing story and shocking images, will educate people on how our meat is made and that slaughterhouses will change their ethics.
Romain Roqueplan, www.ethic.com
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