The images
in the following program
are very sensitive
and may be
as disturbing to viewers
as they were to us.
However,
we have to show the truth
about cruelty to animals.
Today’s Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants
will be presented
in French,
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Chinese, English,
French, German,
Indonesian, Japanese,
Korean, Malay,
Persian, Portuguese,
Russian, Thai
and Spanish.
Concerned viewers this is
the Stop Animal Cruelty
series on
Supreme Master Television.
In his latest book entitled
“The Meat Industry
Threatens our World,”
Fabrice Nicolino,
a French journalist,
author and
environmental advocate
explores the history
of the bloody and violent
livestock industry.
The people, the public
needs to know exactly
where meat comes from
and how the animals
are treated.
We delegate it in fact
to men and women who
are far removed from us,
geographically, socially,
and mentally.
We delegate them to treat
the animals as objects.
We delegate them
to take care of
killing the animals
in slaughterhouses and
we don’t want to see that.
“As long as there will be
slaughterhouses, there
will be battlefields.”
I agree 100% with that.
I think that
there is a deep link,
symbolic and mental,
between slaughterhouses,
this terrible way
of treating the animals,
and the dreadful way
that humans are treated
in certain crises,
in certain appalling wars.
The book,
published in late 2009,
has received great attention
in France as it is
the first work ever
in French that investigates
the nation’s factory farms.
In the book
Mr. Nicolino also
analyzes the production
of animal products
across the globe
and concludes
that the entire system is
a clear and present danger
to the survival of humanity
and our planet.
The people
who create this system
want to earn money
of course.
We return
to the start of the animal
production science;
they were wondering
how to make
the most money possible
from these animals.
How can we do it?
So, to get there,
it is relatively simple,
they ignore
the needs of the animal.
The animal cannot exist
anymore as a living being,
because a living being,
whether animal or human,
has a need to move,
has a need to run,
has a need to go outside,
has a need to enter again,
needs to have friends,
needs time, needs
to breathe air outside,
needs to do nothing –
all things
which are incompatible
with factory farming.
It is incompatible.
The sickening truth
behind the meat industry
is purposely hidden
from the world;
many people
are simply not aware that
the neatly packaged corpse
for sale was once
an actual living being
that was inhumanely raised
and then murdered.
I’ve been asking myself
and I’m asking myself
and I’m asking everybody,
“How could we end up
treating living beings
like this?”
That’s an extremely
important question to me.
I think that we’ve
deprived these animals
of all reality.
On a dairy factory farm
there is absolutely
no consideration for
the welfare of the cow.
She is continually
impregnated through
artificial insemination
and repeatedly injected
with hormones
to force her to produce
unnatural quantities of milk,
with utterly devastating
health consequences
such as mastitis,
a painful inflammation
of the mammary glands.
A calf, for instance, if you
let it live the life of a calf,
a little calf, it will
stay to suckle its mum
for eight months.
Do you realize that?
Eight months is
a very long time.
On factory farms,
the same calf is taken away
from its mum after one
or maximum two days.
The mum continues
her lactation, continues
to have milk in her teats
of course,
so the milk is taken.
By the way, know that
between 1945 and today,
we moved from
2,000 liters of milk annually
provided by one cow
to 12,000 liters of milk
so it has been multiplied
by six; it’s colossal.
At the end of their short,
anguished and pained lives,
the dairy cows are
mercilessly slaughtered
for pet food
or hamburger meat.
Female calves are
sentenced to a same fate
as their mother,
while male calves
are usually kept
completely immobilized
and later killed only after
a few months of life.
Veal is the flesh
of a horrifically abused,
frightened baby cow and
another unconscionable
by-product
of the dairy industry.
They take the calf,
lock it up,
restrain it in the dark
and prevent nearly
any movement, why?
For a very simple reason:
if he moves, if the animal
is able to move,
he will of course
move his muscles and
if he moves his muscles,
the meat will
not be white anymore,
but risks becoming pink.
And the meat industry,
the industry will tell you
straight, without flinching,
that the consumers
want white calf’s meat.
To make sure it is white,
the animal cannot move.
So the animal is locked
in the dark, and the life,
not even a life, is that!
He is locked in the dark
and he cannot move
his hooves.
Countless animals
are murdered every day
in the name of profit
and greed.
Mr. Nicolino next
speaks about the
severely detrimental effects
of this non-stop slaughter
on humanity.
In France,
we kill more than
a billion farmed animals
every year,
to feed the French people.
More than one billion
and they are
not only killed
but killed in terrible
and barbaric conditions.
So, this outbreak of
barbarity in a society with
a peaceful appearance,
a democratic appearance,
a happy appearance,
well what consequences
does that have exactly?
I consider that
with factory farming,
with the meat industry,
the human psychology,
the human psyche,
has been touched
in the heart, deeply,
extremely deeply.
I think that
without us realizing it,
by accepting the way
the farmed animals
are treated,
we have cut off
in fact a notable part
of our humanity.
I think that
the consequences are
extraordinarily serious,
but that we are
absolutely not aware.
Mr. Nicolino does sees
hope for a transformation
of humanity that
finally ends the violence.
Factory farming has existed
only a few dozen years.
So, what has been done,
what has been knitted,
can be undone
the other way,
that’s for sure and certain.
Obviously,
that cannot be done
in a blink of an eye either.
We need
a social mobilization,
a mobilization
of the society that will
put forward other values
and at the forefront
of those values,
respect for animals,
respect for their
physiological rhythm,
respect for their
mental needs, because
animals have mental needs,
have psychological needs,
they are not inert pieces,
they need
a certain number of things.
So a big scale
social movement, which
rises with new values,
among which
is respect for animals.
We salute
Mr. Fabrice Nicolino
for his work that is calling
to the attention
of the people of France
and beyond that
we immediately need
a new era filled with peace
and loving care
of all animals.
May this beautiful time
soon come to pass.
For more details
on Fabrice Nicolino,
please visit
Fabrice-Nicolino.com or Bidoche-Lelivre.com
“The Meat Industry
Threatens Our World”
is available at
Amazon.fr
Thank you
for being with us today
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Please join us
next Tuesday for Part 2
of our interview
with Fabrice Nicolino.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May all humanity
adopt the compassionate
organic vegan diet
to protect all life.
Dr. Gary Steiner,
a university professor
and author from the US,
calls himself an
“ethical vegan,” meaning
he believes humanity
has a moral obligation
towards all .animals.
I really want to separate
the question of what
people feel like doing
or what people think
they can accommodate
in their lives.
I want to separate
that kind of question
from what I think is a
moral question, which is,
do we have a right?
Are we entitled
to eat animals?
And I want to be very,
very clear that,
in my judgment,
we don’t have that right.
Learn more of
Dr. Steiner's perspective
on animal and
human relations on
“Dr. Gary Steiner –
A Vegan Diet
is a Moral Obligation”
this Friday and Saturday,
February 19 and 20,
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
The images
in the following program
are very sensitive
and may be
as disturbing to viewers
as they were to us.
However,
we have to show the truth
about cruelty to animals.
Today’s Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants
will be presented
in French,
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Chinese, English,
French, German,
Indonesian, Japanese,
Korean, Malay,
Persian, Portuguese,
Russian, Thai
and Spanish.
Peaceful viewers this is
the Stop Animal Cruelty
series on
Supreme Master Television
featuring Part 2
of our interview
with Fabrice Nicolino.
In his latest book entitled
“The Meat Industry
Threatens our World,”
Mr. Nicolino,
a French journalist,
author and
environmental advocate
explores the history
of the bloody and violent
livestock industry.
The book,
published in late 2009,
has received great attention
in France as it is
the first work ever
in French that investigates
the nation’s factory farms.
In the book
Mr. Nicolino also
analyzes the production
of animal products
across the globe
and concludes
that the entire system is
a clear and present danger
to the survival of humanity
and our planet.
The sickening truth
behind the meat industry
is purposely hidden
from the world;
many people
are simply not aware that
the neatly packaged corpse
for sale was once
an actual living being
that was inhumanely raised
and then murdered.
Indeed, I think that any
person with good sense
can ask himself
the question, “Why do we
accept such a thing?”
We transformed
the animals into things,
and merchandise.
We decided that the
animals were only pieces
and that we needed
to commercialize them
as quickly as possible.
Thus simple and
human feelings
such as compassion
disappeared completely.
We prostrate ourselves
today for an industry that
considers animals like –
less than nothing.
And in addition, and that
is really the last straw,
this meat is detrimental,
very bad for human health,
really bad,
and also disastrous
for the ecosystems,
the principal ecosystems
of the planet.
It does knock down
entire tropical forests,
it damages in fact
the climatic equilibrium
because
the livestock industry
emits enormous quantities
of greenhouse gases.
So the big question is
how we did arrive there?
Why we did arrive at
this disastrous situation?
The frightening
consequences of intensive
animal agriculture have
manifested themselves
in one region in France
where it has caused
a huge increase in algae
that emit the toxic
and lethal greenhouse gas
hydrogen sulfide.
In 2009, a horse
walking along a beach
in Brittany died in just
a few short minutes after
breathing in the fumes.
The livestock industry
is leading us
towards a global
planetary catastrophe.
I’ll give some examples.
We need to make sure
that it is clear –
a very simple example
which is French, but
which stands for other
countries in the world.
In France, in Brittany,
which is the milk and
meat factory of France,
and really a region
where an enormous
amount of animals
are concentrated
on only seven percent of
the landmass of France.
In Brittany,
there are what we call
“green tides.”
There are regularly tides
of green algae
on the coast, before
only in the summer, but
now also in the winter.
We have known
this already for 30 years.
There are studies
which are piled up,
countless studies, we
have known for 30 years
that 98% of those
green tides are produced
by a surplus in nitrogen.
There are
two sources of nitrogen:
on the one hand,
there is the liquid manure
of the animals,
and on the other hand,
the fertilizers used by
industrial agriculture.
We can say that
more than half
of the phenomenon
is caused by the manure
of the animals which
cannot be cleared and
is spread over the fields,
but the rain brings
the nitrogen
of the liquid manure
in the rivers, and the rivers
bring the nitrogen
to the coast and
this provokes explosions
of green algae, which
produce green tides.
Mr. Nicolino says that
historically in many nations
the livestock industry
has always wielded
enormous power.
He feels the world simply
cannot continue to
let this appalling industry
destroy the planet
and massacre billions
of animals annually.
It is madness.
It is a system which has
escaped all social control.
It is a system
which has expanded,
which has a lot of power.
In the United States
for instance,
the meat trusts
were considered
the most powerful
industrial trusts.
There is a famous novel
in the United States
called “The Jungle,”
translated into French,
named “La Jungle,”
from Upton Sinclair.
It is a book from 1906
which tells everything
already.
And it also talks about
the mafia-like
arrangements between
the meat industries
to build real empires.
So it’s certain
that this industrial empire
has acquired
a colossal power which
makes the entire world
tremble, starting with the
politicians, and nobody
dares to attack it openly.
But it’s sure
that it is a system
without a future.
It cannot have a future,
and it is bringing us,
through the force
of its power, in a totally
catastrophic direction
in my opinion.
When Stop Animal Cruelty
returns,
we’ll have more
from our interview with
Mr. Fabrice Nicolino,
author of
“The Meat Industry
Threatens Our World.”
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Because we are saying,
from one end
of the planet to the other,
that the climate issue
is the most important one
of all.
It is more than serious,
as it puts all the human
civilizations in danger.
People who do ask
themselves very, very
general questions, about
the state of the world,
about the state of the planet,
find it sometimes difficult
to question themselves
about what they have
on their plate.
This is
the Stop Animal Cruelty
series on
Supreme Master Television.
Fabrice Nicolino is
a French journalist,
environmental advocate
and author of
“The Meat Industry
Threatens our World,”
an acclaimed book
that exposes the ghastly
and savage practice
of factory farming
and its tremendously
negative effects on
humanity and our world.
On factory farms,
animals like chickens
are jammed
by the thousands
into small enclosures
where they never see the
Sun and live in utter filth
as their waste is rarely,
if ever, cleared.
They are fed massive
doses of drugs to
make them grow faster
and to just keep them
alive as diseases are
rampant in their obscene
living conditions.
These illnesses
do not stay confined
to these facilities,
rather they eventually
spread to humans
with lethal consequences.
Nowadays,
there are many studies;
there are dozens
and dozens published
in the biggest magazines
of the planet.
In other words,
it is not me,
Fabrice Nicolino, who
is inventing these things,
there are really studies
published in the biggest
journals worldwide.
What do these studies say?
These studies prove that
there are links between
a high consumption of
red meat or cooked meats
and very serious illnesses
such as obesity, diabetes,
cardiovascular illnesses,
and certain types of cancer.
These things
have been proven,
they are not ramblings;
they are established issues.
So the health consequences
are rather dreadful, and
more so as they double
another phenomenon,
the epizootic diseases,
which are diseases
that are spreading
like lightning
in the livestock industry.
Five years ago,
experts announced
that the avian flu, which
came into existence from
poultry farming in Asia,
risked to kill
tens of millions of humans.
Meanwhile, there
have been other warnings
of the same kind.
There has been
the swine flu which is
now called the H1N1 flu,
but it is a swine flu,
which originated
in the industrial pig farms.
And what seems to be
absolutely certain to me
is that, sooner or later,
apart from
the health problems
which I mentioned,
there will be
an epizootic disease
that will be transformed
into a human pandemic;
that seems
absolutely evident to me.
A paper
by environmental experts
Robert Goodland
and Jeff Anhang
which was published by
the WorldWatch Institute
concluded that
the livestock industry
is responsible
for more than 51% of
all human-caused global
greenhouse gas emissions.
In addition,
the number one source
of the highly dangerous
greenhouse gas methane,
which has 72-times the
global warming potential
of carbon dioxide
over a 20-year period,
is livestock raising.
The livestock industry
is responsible for
a big part of the
greenhouse gas emissions,
and the best way -
because it is the easiest way,
the most direct,
the most handy –
the best way to fight
against the climate crisis
today would be to organize
in a democratic way
the reduction
of our meat consumption.
We should say very calmly:
“Ladies and gentlemen,
we see that the system
that we have created
is bad, causes problems,
maybe insurmountable.
So we have to
take a step back,
we have to find a junction,
we have to find a new way
and this means
a sensible reduction
of our over consumption
of meat.
Everybody would
get something out of it,
as the health problems
would diminish,
the problems
of epizootic diseases
would potentially
be less dangerous,
and in the same way
the climate crisis
would be much reduced.
Mr. Nicolino sincerely
wishes the world would
immediately wake up
to unite against the savage
factory farming system
and encourages action now
to end the deep suffering
and anguish
of our animal friends.
I want
the livestock industry
to disappear, because it
is simply too dangerous!
It is too dangerous
for humanity and
of course for the animals.
That speaks for itself.
If this movement
gives itself
as priority to make
the livestock industry
disappear, then we might
have a chance to stop
this infernal machine,
because
it is an infernal machine!
So that we might
have a chance to stop
the infernal machine
before everything explodes!
That’s my feeling.
It is indeed an appeal
for a revolt.
There is no doubt.
In the book I wrote,
there are fundamentally
two things I would say:
It is a sentiment
of deep sorrow,
deep sadness for the fate
of the animals.
It’s a book
that I’ve really dedicated
explicitly to the animals,
dead without having lived,
and that’s very important
for me.
There is this sentiment
that obsesses me,
a real sadness.
I tell myself, “Why
have we humans dared to
treat animals in this way?
How do we dare
treat them like that?”
I think we’ve taken
a very bad road,
and we definitely
have to return back;
to look for another way
to coexist with the animals.
Be Veg,
Go Green,
Save the Planet!
We would like to
convey our appreciation
to Mr. Fabrice Nicolino
for his strong advocacy
on behalf of the animals
by publicizing the reasons
why factory farming
needs to end
immediately.
May his important message
awake the people
of France and beyond.
Let us all adopt
the compassionate,
sustainable organic vegan
diet so that all animals
may live in peace
and to protect
the planet’s future.
For more details
on Fabrice Nicolino,
please visit
Fabrice-Nicolino.com ou bidoche-Lelivre.com
“The Meat Industry
Threatens Our World”
is available at
Thank you
for your presence today
on Stop Animal Cruelty.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May our world be filled
with love and kindness.
The images in the following program are very sensitive and may be as disturbing to viewers as they were to us. However,we have to show the truth about cruelty to animals. HOST (IN FRENCH): Concerned viewers this is the Stop Animal Cruelty series on Supreme Master Television. In his latest book entitled “The Meat Industry Threatens our World,” Fabrice Nicolino, a French journalist, author and environmental advocate explores the history of the bloody and violent livestock industry.
Mr. Nicolino (m): The people, the public needs to know exactly where meat comes from and how the animals are treated.
Mr. Nicolino (m): We delegate it in fact to men and women who are far removed from us, geographically, socially, and mentally.
We delegate them to treat the animals as objects. We delegate them to take care of killing the animals in slaughterhouses and we don’t want to see that.
Mr Nicolino (m): “As long as there will be slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” I agree 100% with that. I think that there is a deep link, symbolic and mental, between slaughterhouses, this terrible way of treating the animals, and the dreadful way that humans are treated in certain crises, in certain appalling wars.
HOST: The book, published in late 2009, has received great attention in France as it is the first work ever in French that investigates the nation’s factory farms.
In the book Mr. Nicolino also analyzes the production of animal products across the globe and concludes that the entire system is a clear and present danger to the survival of humanity and our planet.
For more details on Fabrice Nicolino, please visit
Fabrice-Nicolino.com or
Bidoche-Lelivre.com“The Meat Industry Threatens Our World” is available at
Amazon.fr