a couple of wait and burned in south africa. people with disabilities more likely to lose their jobs. in the pandemic black lives matter pass, shine a spotlight on racially motivated police violence, same sex marriage is being legalized in more and more countries. discrimination and inequality are part of everyday life. for many, we ask why? because life is diversity. to make up your own mind d. w, made for mines for eating animals eating animal products is one of the biggest, if not the biggest moral problem of our time. 9 out of 10 people in europe eat meat. busy i call it a wonderful problem. the wonderful problem because this problem has in itself the solution to many other problems, to satisfy the world's appetite for meat. we have created a gigantic global industry. we kill and eat more animals in a year than the number of human beings who ever lived on the planet from whenever we crawled out of the swamps with devastating consequences for the earth's ecosystem. and for billions of living beings thus lives must be the suffering that we inflict on animals. we can't even imagine it, not in our worst fantasies, not in the most horrific horror movies often. and it's not as if we're unaware of it. 73 percent of germans, and as many as 82 percent of french people reject the modern form of animal husbandry. so why do we live with a system that no one actually wants? this series searches for an answer. we tend to assume that only begins and vegetarians follow a belief system, but the only reason we may learn to eat pegs that not dogs for example, is because we do follow a belief system. ah, we must confront the ethical questions that concern the core of our humanity. the thoughts of it, the fact that we are moral beings comes from having been trained only a millennium of a 3 hunting or be co operative to new and to take social relationships seriously. johnston and where does the suffering come from? when was the 1st time a living being felt something. the story starts out a little over a half a 1000000000 years ago with c scum highmark ocean floor. it's called a microbial mat. our search takes us from the origins of the earth to a future in which meat is created without animals. media is being prepared in one tank and then it feeds these to your address souls. they can produce 500 kilograms of meat. this is essentially a cow a day in a room that is more or less the same of people as living room. it ends with the question, will our children and grandchildren grow up in a vegan world? if we don't destroy ourselves, we could be here literally, and could be around 410000 hundreds of 1000 millions of years longer. so can you, can you imagine that all this time we will continue to keep eating animals? know, at some point is going to stop, and if it's not the center, which will be the next, i use our journey begins in present day bo housed in the german region of vestments. talent. do you mean house is a factory farmer? thus equally until i learned animal husbandry was socially accepted at the time. all of a sudden that's wrong. one of emerson's fudge on his farm, $6500.00 pigs, are born, fattened, and sent to slaughter every year, or even at the mustang. and this here is the fattening stable. this is the last station for our pigs to you in terms of animal welfare. this corresponds to a level 2 bomb tickets, which is now a standard requirement. we have no point 854 square meters per pig. i'm it on all the number of the bond seems very full when they are lying down, but now they can move around wednesday. they have this nicely back there. you can see the manure area right. this here is the eating area, right? there's the drinking area that so the pigs also structure the pan themselves of their b. animals like 99 percent of their peers spend their entire lives indoors and gain about 850 grams every day. much valuable and for that are fattening pig lives around a $180.00 days. and the pigs in nature have a life expectancy of 15 to 16 years. so it is still a very early stage falling on. a death custodian, a full grown pig weighs about 250 kilograms, but fattening the animal for that long is not worth it. the integral just put on every day the pig needs through to live, just like we humans to see the longer an animal stays in the stable and all you spend on maintenance. alarm the ratio of kilograms of free lose to kilograms of me gains is still ok up to weight of a 120 kilograms. okay. after that the ratio becomes negativity, right? modern fattening is a highly engineered process. there is a pre fattening mid fattening and finishing feed, lay different protein and an energy content at any given time, the computer knows how many pigs are in each pen. how old they are and which feed mixture they require lifts. and with this, i can choose the amount of how much of the feed goes into the side load on the truck will come with the feed tomorrow. the latest on the feed enters the barn automatically through a pipe system. theses are collected under the slotted floor and transported away, as i found out of everything that goes in and out of the animal runs automatically . and all that was necessary to be able to continue to be a farmer to continue to keep animals. yeah, the price pressure in recent years has been the we is a farm. now have to have $3.00 to $4000.00 takes to generate an income and i'm conservative. margins in the industry are minimal, and the fluctuating prices are mainly determined by the large slaughter companies. there is a certain dependence because we don't have much of a choice. i can no longer choose between 10 different slaughterhouses, instructor. there are ultimately 2 big ones for me. i goes in, there are a few small ones, i know, but most of them are already a capacity. so for now that i'm dependent on these to, to pick up my pamphlet. in the past, almost every municipality have its own slaughter house. but today the 10 largest farms slaughter 80 percent of the pigs across the country. they dictate the precise standards with which livestock must comply is trying to once much be their power to form the takes a measured by alter phone, which means the dead slaughtered animal is pulled through a probe full with a whole caucus as measured by ultrasound degree. but when we then receive a certain number of points per kilogram of cutlet, the kilogram affiliate a kilogram of ham. and the points and then converted into money is an ultimately you could say we're basically suppliers of cutlets that fit into the all the packaging and has cancelled like the animals must be neither too small nor too large for the slaughter house standards. if a hand weighs more than 21.49 kilograms, there are deductions, and we did ethical see the one that's running away, that one is ready to go, so he will leave my life before shipping. the animals ready for slaughter have to be carefully selected. and i that i think i because the ham is one of the decisive factors that you might have, i always have to stand behind the pig to inspect it. usually i listen to music while i'm doing it because you really have to concentrate on the animal when i want to see which one has it and which one doesn't get up. and when i have one, he gets a line on the back and then knows what's going on. okay, he doesn't know what's happening. but we know this takes a lot of time if it takes me about half an hour to make a selection. because that ultimately, this is going to sound really bad. yeah. but it's like a harvest. it's what we've spent half a year cultivating and nurturing with us. and if i were to sell it at the wrong time, any off, i would have much lower proceed along because of all the fact is i have to take into account if you could. so that's why you need a lot of time for it. that's the way it is, is as i go for the know the entire life of the animal is designed around putting the right amount of fat and muscle on the right part of the body as confusing classes. mika, if i could, i, this, this classic term, much species appropriate, and the little we can never achieve, that has a wild boar lives in the forest of the ellipse, freely allocate lives in small groups. that would be species appropriate, that we can't offer that high stuff when you're with the pigs every day. then you can sense if the animals are doing well, considering the situation, then we're not taking anything away from the animal because it doesn't know any different. if an animal lift outside on the pasture, and i looked it up after a year on it than it may miss, will have this relationship to the outside that. but they don't know that with us once they we grew up here in the country. i couldn't imagine living in the city, most of the city child is used to the cities. it's the same game. it's a very extreme comparison, of course. but i think that's kind of how you have to look at it. but is mr. one that chick fil a. no one is born, an animal abuser or an animal exploiter. you grow into it, you adapt, you get none. that's why, even though such people are my opponents in the fight to end animal exploitation, which i don't feel hatred time, 1 o'clock at night, somewhere in southern germany, the animal rights group. so co 2 shots is on a mission fleet which moon and his team have set out to uncover the scandalous conditions in factory farming. widely lot we want to show people that it's not just the exception. it's the true face of an industry which does not show people it's ugly side to side to night. they're on their way to a turkey farm to find out if the animal welfare laws are being violated. when the animals are transported to the slaughter house. if they don't slammed the door, shall not let's look if so, so call signs up banana, apple lemon. let's do a test one, test to toner. feel good. he couldn't. they look for clues as to when the next transport will take place lemon to banana or clear. tens of thousands of turkeys are kept in sheds. the law allows $58.00 kilos per square meter. that's about 3 males or 5 females. if we keep to the left, there's a motion detector. life in the barn follows the rhythm of the machines. the ventilation and feeding system are deafening lout. the smell is accurate. no frantic movements or noises i sent you this. marvin smith who tom, every time i see a turkey farm, i find it touching because i know what great intelligent animals turkeys envoy, totally curious. they have social behavior. and here they crammed together in a shed like this. i just feel sorry, 4 nights. newborn chicks weigh less than 100 grams. within a few weeks, they'll wait 15 to 20 kilograms. somebody lot lives in the cellphone or by the time they're ready for slaughter, that's also such a horrible term and they still baby animals and as we eat, well i don't but people eat baby animals. sonia a turkey can live 15 years and we kill them at 5 months. they're actually bloated, chiclare to cooper, the toner, vista to him. despite the young slaughter age, 110th of turkeys die before they reached the slaughter wait. from the consequences of extreme greeting and husbandry. at other tanika ever been, some of the dead animals have terrible injuries. to hang the, that animal has its guts hanging out the back. their feet are infected from walking on excrement. their feathers are torn off and their bodies are littered with wounds . is it ma, here you can also see that the beak is much shorter at the top than the bottom. that's mutilation young. aton with unable to forage for food on the ground like their wild ancestors fattened turkeys exhibit massive behavioral disorders such as mutual feather, pecking, or cannibalism. almost every chicks, life begins with the removal of part of the upper beak. the procedure does not eliminate the disturbed behavior, but with the shorter beaks, the birds do less damage. does this i think guns, club fish, dorski. this is actually a clear violation of the animal welfare act which prohibits mutilation. is a specific paragraph that states this clearly, you're not allowed to cut off testicles cut off, tails cut off ears. i grind over teeth shall cut off the beak yet it's done again and again. there are millions of exemption our snob mccadney mccolan will complete for for a fleet which moon this is just an example of how the financial interests of the industry override animal welfare concerns with mustn't here little this is a factory farm. if i had the chance to go through it, i'd find many more violations. this footage was captured at a different turkey farm. and wish telephone diflucan leading to the she only i found animals lying on their backs unable to turn around and being suffocated by their own pictorial muscles. i found animals with bad injuries. this turkeys with picked out eyes a common i've seen that all too often vanish. i simply cannot fathom how such a thing can be allowed. there are thousands of sun bombs in germany glitch, hundreds of thousands worldwide 100. in principle, they all looked the same. dempsey of cindy, alec ly, shows fortunate the animal rights activists have accomplished their mission. they now know when they can film the animals being transported to the slaughter house, which will try so. so it's likely that the transporter will come on monday or tuesday because they are pretty much ready. but even if they find evidence of animal welfare violations, they won't be able to change the animals living conditions quickly. this is the theme essence. why, but i shall get tired. i am a claw. the criminalists talk to them. the system is divided into 2 areas. short. on the one hand, there are a clear criminal structures claim which are in violation of the law must and, and on the other, there is legalized crime at all whether in peak fattening, fuel turkey, farming, my chicken farming. good. actually, if you read the animal welfare act, we'd find that none of these is permissible to booked, but it was legalized under pressure, from the lobby, it's tolerated. and it's our job to keep putting our finger in the wound and say, what we have here. yeah, keeping a pig and 0.75 square meters about routinely cutting the peak of turkeys. what you putting a sao in a narrow cage where she can't even turn around and training a cow the it's all forbidden, cool. unspoken, i english is thus alice for born tissue because that the animal welfare act also states, for example, that that animals should be kept in species appropriate conditional. clearly a p kept in less than one square meter. meet on a slash law is not a b, she's appropriate when it's so bad that if the animal welfare act were really enforced or my mass animal husbandry would end at once, the other, the mustn't you had to admit, i am luck, a lead it the numbers produced by the global factory, farming industry are so large, they are difficult to comprehend. just since you choose in 9200 cattle have been killed on the planet. every 2nd 9 more are added in the same amount of time. 19400 turkeys, 33300 sheep and goats. 42200 pigs. 105000 ducks and 2300000 chickens have been slaughtered all in the last 16 minutes and 41 seconds. if we stacked on top of one another, all the animals we kill and eat in a year, we would reach the moon and back 40 times fish dying, such large numbers that we only measured them in tons. ah it out you go, girls, time for milking. i doesn't of the boys. i do like grazing in the lower odor valley national park. these cows live the way marketing would have us believe is the norm . any ellie come rhona mara? that's it. you're fine. on your a dead ski, who knows each of her 170 cows by name calls herself a cow whisperer and he asked he did, i did a merry flagger. many people asked me, isn't it much too cold for the cows or when it rains? shouldn't they have a stable inch? no, that's what we humans think because we have such the thin skin and always have to put on our rain jacket. jack and cattle have leather jacket and in winter it is also well lined with fat. yeah, i think and yes, i think it's good for animals to be exposed to the elements and that we don't over protect that sheet and ah, each cow here has 10000 square meters on conventional farms. they get 2.5. in fact, on your red ski does almost everything differently. nick, who the cow doesn't want to walk on concrete. if it has the choice between the road and a grass trip next to it, it will walk on the grass strap it wants to run on the grass and not on the concrete where one can pile the craft together nicely and come in the dairy industry. there's an unchangeable law of nature to get milk. you need a pregnant cow. cows need to give birth every year in order to continually produce milk. they are separated from their calves shortly after birth. often the mothers call for their young for days. i live on kensington. every parent can add that either. how cool would it be to be told in the hospital. okay, we have to take your baby away now, but please don't forget to keep pumping. your melvin is down to units of a mention. i don't mean to humanize the animals, but these are mammals like us, and we think we have the right to take their babies away so we can have their milk damage hadn't been here though. calves are allowed to stay with the cows. isn't asked run only through their 1st in line and get as much milk as they want directly, and then we humans take the rest finish i. i think that's the right way of doing it . this attitude is the absolute exception. a knish within in each, in germany there are only about $100.00 dairy farms where calves and mothers are kept together. that's just 2 per cent of organic farms. and all organic farms together produce only about 3.5 percent of the country's milk. anya's convinced it is possible to farm animals in species appropriate conditions. but the basic rule of animal husbandry also applies to her. keeping an animal alive is only worth while, as long as it performs. for him shows the summer before its shot. there is always a moment of a total stillness as if everyone were waiting. and in that moment i think of the animal gun and let it go with gratitude, understeer. and so that the soul can also gum disease. okay mm hm. it is spiritual to day. it's maria's turn. she will not die in the slaughter house, but where she lived, the thing is of in it's definitely more pleasant to shoot her in the past charities as if she were a dear. i hear it said that the grass is nice. here you have chosen the tastiest spot. each animal slaughtered this way in the pasture, must be individually registered and approved by the authorities, and official veterinarian inspects each animal. what cost? so large slaughterhouse put a few cents costs anya, around 40 euros per animal. death should come as suddenly as possible, surprisingly and without fear. the specially commissioned hunter shoots noreah at close range between the eyes. when when we think about where our meet comes from, we like to imagine that the animals lived and died the way noreah did. but the truth is, unless we've made a very conscious decision to do so, we've probably never eaten such meat ah, 600 kilometers to the south animal rights activists lead. which moon also believes that any genuine change has to start with the demand? when the hulking doesn't cause the medical community to throw a colorful didn't cannot, to my main opponents of the consumers who are buying the stuff? who are pushing the button that sparks this whole chain reaction. mm hm. but in order to reach them, i have to deal with all kinds of lackeys in this industry where the suffering is happening in order to show my main opponent the people. hey, this is what you're causing this suffering thus was 2 foot was us. does the style life read which moon has been researching the meat and food industry for almost 30 years? he and his team have long since professionalized their operations and the us with nothing yet. and i got my 1st night vision device from my 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