The pain in the ass: a life Pig (Infrared)

[Christophe]

After having "attacked" Coca Cola (see the controversy that followed) the motherfucker goes after industrial pork ...

Broadcast yesterday evening on France2 Infrarouge: http://www.france2.fr/emissions/infraro ... 013_148769

Pig life

After Coca-Cola, Olivia Mokiejewski became interested in another essential recipe for French food, “ham and butter”. Two million of these sandwiches are sold every day in France. One of its components, the famous white ham, is also one of the ten most
sold from large retailers. But behind the image that the industry sells, that of a simple and healthy product, the pig almost never appears. Olivia Mokiejewski followed the journey of these pink beasts, from breeding to the plate, to try to understand, thanks to the testimony of certain players in the sector, what hides one of the most opaque and discreet sectors of the food industry, further affected by a serious crisis.

A review here: http://www.france2.fr/emissions/infraro ... 013_148769 or on pluzz for those who can ...

[Janic]

what strikes (here as elsewhere) is the hardening with respect to death (of others) with the self-justification that accompanies it, but also and above all the emotional relationship that takes hold with respect to the future sacrificed like the old-fashioned pig farmer. Unconsciousness or hypocrisy? A sage said that as long as there are slaughterhouses there will always be Treblinka
Auschwitz
Bergen Belsen
Buchenwald
Mittelbau Dora
Chelmno
Dachau
Majdanek
Mauthausen where up to 18.000 people were "shot" every day!
Arté Tuesday 12: shoa 1 / 2,2 / 2.
But slaughterhouses would not exist if there were no demand, there would be no demand if meat was not a symbol of social success and if advertising did not deviate from the deep meaning of death. But the death trade is a juicy economic sector from all points of view and which benefits all of society, from food to healthcare, to agrochemicals, to cancers and other junk.

[sen-no-sen]

But slaughterhouses would not exist if there were no demand, there would be no demand if meat was not a symbol of social success and if advertising did not deviate from the deep meaning of death.

It has been a long time since in France, meat has passed the stage of social symbology.
At the present time, meat is part of a "normality", hence the immense difficulty in changing mentalities ... and not to pass for an abnormal when it comes to vegetarianism.

Paradoxically, this generalization of meat consumption results in a very clear decrease in the number of quality butchers:

For several years, the traditional butchery sector has been in difficulty. Despite a positive price effect (continuous increase in meat prices), the turnover of the sector stagnates in value.

Two main factors weigh on the sector:

- the decline in meat consumption linked to the fall in household purchasing power and successive health crises,


- competition from GSAs (large food stores) which penalizes the activity of professionals. Majority in the sale of food products (2/3 of the market share), the latter have many advantages (low prices, breadth of the offer, time saving, staging of the offer…) and respond to the changes in consumption patterns in favor of products that are more practical and quick to prepare (boneless products, precooked meats to consume cold ...).

http://www.jesuisentrepreneur.fr/-boucherie-.html

[Janic]

It has been a long time since in France, meat has passed the stage of social symbology.

Oh no! It is simply less put forward and justified by the argument of the intake of “noble” proteins (which the average consumer does not know what it means elsewhere). This symbolism reappears when people are in financial difficulty and which is expressed by: I can no longer afford to buy meat "Bringing together medium and product. Not one said, " as long as I can buy something to eat, no matter if it's meat or vegetables or fruit ».

At the present time, meat is part of a "normality", hence the immense difficulty in changing mentalities ... and not to pass for an abnormal when it comes to vegetarianism.

Certainly ! But it is like the automobile, the smartphone or nuclear electricity and like any questioning it is part of an interior work to which all do not engage as much, or rather each questions the part which sensitizes it most.

Paradoxically, this generalization of meat consumption results in a very clear decrease in the number of quality butchers:

As with all industrial products! It is the same for the bakery where rare are the real old-style bakers with quality flour freshly ground, complete and "pushed" with real leaven without the addition of yeast preventing good assimilation of the product and also promoting diseases cardiovascular. It is therefore each time the same scenario: either to manufacture industrial products at low prices so that the maximum number of buyers can supply themselves; or else products of superior quality and therefore accessible to a smaller number of individuals (not because of the price but because of its greater rarity!)

[sen-no-sen]

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This symbolism reappears when people are in financial difficulty and which is expressed by: I can no longer afford to buy meat "Bringing together medium and product.

At 1,70 € for the four slices of ham, I don't think the economic argument has become serious for depriving yourself of meat ...

As with all industrial products! It is the same for the bakery where rare are the real old-style bakers with quality flour freshly ground, complete and "pushed" with real leaven without the addition of yeast preventing good assimilation of the product and also promoting diseases cardiovascular.

This a direct consequence of food industrialization, the more you submerge the market of a product, the more it affects its quality.
The paradox is that the return of vegetarianism would be good news for traditional butchers!

[Janic]

The paradox is that the return of vegetarianism would be good news for traditional butchers!

I doubt! On the one hand because the real vegetarians, by choice, are very few (the figure of 2% indicated is largely overestimated) and often are considered to be VG which is called flexitarian, ie predominantly VG, but not fully, not permanently. Then if it is by obligation (increase of the population, difficulty in ensuring the quantity of water necessary for the food intended for the animals, etc ...) that will not increase the quality, but simply the limitation of the productions which will remain industrial but with prices that will soar. (supply / demand ratio and no longer the reverse)

[Christophe]

At 1,70 € for the four slices of ham, I don't think the economic argument has become serious for depriving yourself of meat ...

How much is the kg ??? Do you find it cheap?
Not me! Ah you may want to say that because it is offered at this price is that it sells ...

Good there is hope (a little) in pigs: http://www.rue89.com/2013/11/11/chez-he ... bio-247376

Chez Henri, Breton happy in the midst of his 120 organic pigs

Former Larzac and Plogoff, the breeder has long denounced a deadlocked productivist agriculture. But understand the anger of the Red Caps.

First, there is a smell. That of pork in sausages, pies, sausages, chorizos. A dry and dense bouquet. Nothing to do with the suspicious aroma of the deli section. Here, you feel that there was a beast before. That it squeaked, groaned, lived. That it is not a barbaque full of abscesses.

Then there is Henri. The fifty packed, twenty years of organic, memories of Larzac and a tooth against the "always more, always bigger" of Breton agriculture. Henri who leaves his "laboratory" where hang sausages and hams. Henri cuddling his piglets. Henri, very proud that his pigs have tails.

"They believe they must feed the planet"

(...)

[sen-no-sen]

At 1,70 € for the four slices of ham, I don't think the economic argument has become serious for depriving yourself of meat ...

Do you find it cheap?
Not me! Ah you may want to say that because it is offered at this price is that it sells ...

Yes it is relatively cheap! .... unfortunately!
How much does a package of cakes of the same weight cost?

Good there is hope (a little) in pigs

Hope for the breeder but for the pigs!
The latter will end up like the others ... at the slaughterhouse!

[Janic]

Hope for the breeder but for the pigs!
The latter will end up like the others ... at the slaughterhouse!

And breeders, organic or not, will say that you have to live ... on the death of others! So this speech accompanied by a false empathy for the animal:
Here, you feel that there was a beast before. That it squeaked, groaned, lived.
Henri who cuddly his piglets. Henri, very proud that his pigs have tails.
He "hugs" to lead them, confident, to the slaughterhouse Clearly, I kill for love !? . What would we say if instead of pigs, chickens, they were cats, dogs? Unconsciousness or hypocrisy?
As the saying goes: "he is worse blind than he who does not want to see"

How much does a package of cakes of the same weight cost?

these two elements cannot be compared to the extent that the meat is considered to meet a basic need while the cakes are not part of it (this in no way justifies that!)

[Christophe]

How much does a package of cakes of the same weight cost?

No idea ... it depends on the thickness of your slices lol ... but cooked ham "reconstituted" at more than 15 € / kg is not uncommon and it's a shame!