Eye opening...to say the least. If you watch, please do so all the way through. The ending is not only symbolic, but a dire warning.
The name of this video was "SAMSARA food sequence" and I wasn't familiar with the term; here's the Wiki entry for Samsāra, which means "continuous flow" and is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth (reincarnation) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Taoism, Yârsân. In Sikhism this concept is slightly different and looks at one's actions in the present and consequences in the present.
The name of this video was "SAMSARA food sequence" and I wasn't familiar with the term; here's the Wiki entry for Samsāra, which means "continuous flow" and is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth (reincarnation) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Taoism, Yârsân. In Sikhism this concept is slightly different and looks at one's actions in the present and consequences in the present.
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Watched this with my class. I don't think I'd want to see the American version of this one. More of the same but on an even larger scale I'd guess.
Yep, I wasn't for sure what Asian/Far East country this was from, but I have seen similar, shorter vids of factory farms.
I don't eat a lot of meat these days, mainly b/c it's so expensive. Hamburger seems to have jumped in price the most. Chicken has gone up, too, but it's affordable, at least. As it is, I eat too much processed meat b/c of convenience. I had some in my shopping cart a few months back and bumped into an old friend and he started in on how much sodium it has in it. I told him I wasn't concerned nearly as much about the salt content (I very seldom salt anything, even my steamed veggies) but more about the hormones and antibiotics used on the animals. He and his dad have a small cow/calf operation and they sell their calves to feedlots, so I guess he feels absolved of responsibility for that,but still... I've tried to get him interested in feeding some of his cattle out, grass-fed beef commands a hefty price but he's not interested.
I'm lucky enough to have a neighbor who raises grass fed beef. He raises Belted Galloways. Colleen calls them Oreo cookie cows because of the white band most of them have.
I can see why traditional farmers might shy away from grass fed beef. Lower yields, longer production schedule. Sure tastes good though. -bg-
When I was in High School We took a field trip to a meat place. The most gosh alful place I ever did see. The other girls were all farm girls and none of us would eat beef for months. And the teacher after took us to a nice place and said who wants a hamburger? We all turned down food!
Don't think I've ever seen that breed; around here, it's mostly mixed w/ the pure breeds mainly being Herefords and Angus. I see a lot of "Certified Angus" meat in the supermarkets and I wonder how anyone can tell...I'm sure not enough of a gourmet.
I've read a lot about chickens and was surprised at how little a farmer has to do to be "free range". Was JUST reading about the practice of forced molting, good grief. Yet another reason I would love to be able to raise my own food.
The worst thing about a slaughter house is the smell. There's one this side of Amarillo (or used to be) and...well, I've got a funny story about that, will tell it when I have more time. That smell though...would gag a maggot. They used to be big polluters, too. The one outside of town closed down a long time ago; they used to discharge their effluent into a small creek that flowed right by my home town 20 miles away. It took several years, but the pollution eventually reached the shallow water wells on the edge of town. People knew that the discharging was happening, they just thought the sand would filter everything out of it. Wrong.
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