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Farewell to steak: 4 lies about meat
No doubt consumers love meat. Europe produces more than 45 million tonnes per year and world consumption has increased fivefold in fifty years. The steak is a symbol of strength, gastronomy, and nature. In France, there is no good table without a piece of beef. And, on both sides of the Rhine, the advertisements rhyme cows and pastures. But what if it was all deception? This is shown in the documentary by Jutta Pinzler, which describes the behind the scenes, voice over by Nathalie Baye in support.
First lie: the outdoors. In reality, the 70 kilos of meat that a Frenchman eats each year comes for a large part from industrial farms, in which the animals hardly see the day. Example: these 38 chickens from a German farm, stuffed with antibiotics from birth. By pure prevention. With the consequence of the appearance of resistant germs, which would be responsible for more than 000 deaths per year.
Second lie: meat is good for health. Even though it is known to be responsible for overweight, cardiovascular disease and cancer. In China, these diseases have seen a sharp increase since red meat came to the table. "In the next twenty years, 21 million Chinese will suffer from cardiovascular diseases, warns a doctor. They could be fatal for a third of them."
Third lie: animal welfare. You just have to visit a fattening farm in Denmark, the second largest pig producer in the world. Pigs crowded under neon lights, sows in cages eight months a year, doped with hormones ...
The fourth lie, finally, concerns rural Latin American populations faced with the explosion of fodder crops destined for European farms. And pesticides, responsible for diseases and malformations. Why these dramatic situations? "It is the market which decides", slice Roger Waite within the European Commission. Words that sound like insults to human dignity.