Killing fields: the true cost of Europe's cheap meat

Much of the cheap meat and dairy produce sold in supermarkets across Europe is arriving as a result of serious human rights abuses and environmental damage in one of Latin America's most impoverished countries.

In this film, produced by the Ecologist Film Unit in conjunction with coalition of pressure groups including Friends of the Earth, Food and Water Watch and Via Campesina, documents the experiences of some of those caught up in Paraguay's growing conflict over soy farming.

It also reveals, for the first time, how intensive animal farming across the EU, including the UK, is fuelling the problem. To read the article that goes with this video go to: http://bit.ly/13iZfA

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News & Politics

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• soya
• meat
• gm
• genetic modification
• environment
• food
• agriculture
• social justice
• friends of the earth

[schatzperson]

Just why does almost nobody take a logical, if dispassionate view of the situation.

Increasing world population will need more and more larger amounts of food and energy.

There might be more "moral" ways to meet these demands, but at the end of the day, population growth WILL have its way.

Sure, battery extensive farming of animals is cruel ; Of forests the size of continents will disappear to make way for farming. But just how does anyone propose to feed increasing population densities ?

[Sahakaara]

There's no need to eat meat at all, it is unhealthy and wasteful.

[ronfonteine]

Keep up the good work.... it is time to end this INJUSTICE

[rzuhler]

@mphello Thank you for your work, keep going, we need more people like you :)

[mphello]

The religious nuts are out in force in the comment section, I see, trying to undermine serious attempts to combat rampant corporatism by injecting their bullshit religious god-devil fantasy crap, rather than attacking the real causes of land usurpation: corporate and consumer greed. I think the corporations pay them to do that to make "our side" look bad. Well, it will NOT work.

[mphello]

I've been fighting to outlaw the needless breeding, confinement, and murder of animals since 1980. Lifetime confinement in a factory farm IS torture.

[amstersambuca]

What kind of people are we? How can we do this to each other??? Surely there is an alternative to this?

[lossieduplessis]

i never knew soya caused so much distress and pain....

[albertsneijMD]

the more we know...

[vitamingrlforYeshua]

Help them Father!