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00:03:25But that really is true.
00:03:32Never before have we been so well informed about nutrition, in theory.
00:03:39In practice, in everyday life, we succumb to mindless cravings.
00:03:43We devour instant meals, gobble cafeteria fare, and stuff our faces with fast food.
00:03:49And practically always contained in these products, meat.
00:04:14Despite all warnings, we are eating more and more meat.
00:04:18There is no day without meat, no feast without meat, no break without meat.
00:04:23It's a normal part of our diets because it's tradition, it's cheap, and because it tastes good.
00:04:30My diet for 65 years was the sad diet, the standard American diet.
00:04:39I ate meat, and chicken, and fish, and fowl, and lots of butter, and anything that tasted good.
00:04:52In 2010, at the age of 66, Sharon Kintz started to think about her eating habits as the result of a dramatic event.
00:05:02At that time, I already had been diagnosed with high blood pressure, so I was aware of that.
00:05:08But having a heart attack was a complete surprise to me.
00:05:19The only symptoms that I had leading up to that was heaviness in my arms, pain in my jaw, and I would be tired, more tired than usual.
00:05:35This health nightmare put Sharon Kintz in the intensive care unit.
00:05:45During the heart catheterization, it was determined that I had 100% blockage in one artery, and 65% in one, and 75% in the other.
00:05:59So there actually was very little options open for me other than open heart surgery.
00:06:10Cadwell B. Esselstyn is an expert in the field of heart disease, a well-renowned surgeon and researcher, and one of the best doctors in the United States.
00:06:20Today, the 82-year-old directs the Cardiovascular Prevention and Reversal Program at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute in Ohio.
00:06:32Back in the 1980s, Dr. Esselstyn had already begun questioning the methods for treating heart disease.
00:06:39They only combated the symptoms, but didn't get rid of the cause.
00:06:43Intensive research led him to the conclusion, our cardiovascular diseases are caused by our eating habits.
00:06:52When we look at this cause of heart disease, let's not be confused to blame it on genes, or just blame it on somebody's age, or blame it on the luck of the draw.
00:07:04Heart disease is a food-borne illness, and we now know that every time certain foods will pass your lips, you will further endanger and injure the endothelial cell capacity to make nitric oxide.
00:07:23Endothelial cells are crucial to our blood vessels and heart. They line our blood vessels and produce protective nitric oxide.
00:07:31And nitric oxide has these marvelous functions of keeping your blood flowing smoothly. It's the strongest vasodilator in the body.
00:07:41It also protects you from getting hypertension because it keeps your artery wall from getting stiff, inflamed, or thickened.
00:07:49And most importantly, a plentiful normal amount of nitric oxide will prevent you from ever developing blockages or plaque.
00:07:58Scientists know that cardiovascular disease starts with progressive damage to the endothelial cells. This is precisely where our diets come in.
00:08:07The excessive consumption of animal-based or processed foods damages our endothelial cells.
00:08:13Regular consumption of these products increasingly diminishes the protective nitric oxide supply in our blood vessels.
00:08:20This leads to inflammation and a hardening and narrowing of the blood vessels.
00:08:25These can have life-threatening consequences, like heart attack or stroke, or cause arteriosclerosis.
00:08:32Years of research and personal experience have provided doctors with a clear picture of the effects of endothelial cells on our blood vessels.
00:08:40But what about the effects of endothelial cells on our blood vessels?
00:08:44This leads to life-threatening consequences, like heart attack or stroke, or cause arteriosclerosis.
00:08:58Years of research and personal experience have provided Dr. Esselstyn with conclusive evidence that a plant-based diet can not only prevent the progression of heart disease, but can also reverse its effects.
00:09:14Dr. Esselstyn has successfully treated hundreds of patients with this program. It consists of a low-fat, purely plant-based diet.
00:09:23When you're willing to take the time and have the patients understand the science behind this,
00:09:29and they really realize that they have caused this disease by the foods that they've eaten,
00:09:35they suddenly realize that you are empowering them as this locus of control to halt their disease.
00:09:41They don't have to depend upon a cardiologist or an operation or a drug that may have significant side effects.
00:09:48They are being empowered to do this themselves.
00:10:00With Dr. Esselstyn's help, Sharon Kintz, too, completely restructured her diet, doing away with all animal products.
00:10:09She turned down the heart surgery recommended to her by her doctors.
00:10:14Sharon Kintz decided to use food as medicine.
00:10:23I was on it for four weeks, and the pain went away in my arms, the pain went away in my jaws, and I had much more energy.
00:10:32So I took Dr. Esselstyn's program very seriously.
00:10:42When Sharon Kintz was first diagnosed, she could hardly walk anymore.
00:10:47And nearly two years after her treatment with Dr. Esselstyn, she is physically fit again.
00:10:52And she has fulfilled one of her dreams.
00:10:55In 2012, at the age of 68, she successfully took her first heart surgery.
00:11:00At 68, she successfully took part in a half marathon for the first time in her life.
00:11:10I know people are cramped for time, but you're talking about your health.
00:11:15If you want to live a long, healthy life and be able to contribute something, then you have to take care of your body in order to do that.
00:11:24You have to, in my opinion, eat plant-based.
00:11:31We also consume too much milk.
00:11:38And the availability of dairy products continues to grow.
00:11:44But do these products actually agree with us?
00:11:47After all, nearly 75% of the world's population and 20% of Europeans are lactose intolerant.
00:11:54In other words, they are lactose intolerant.
00:11:56And 70% of Europeans are lactose intolerant.
00:12:00In other words, unable to properly digest dairy products.
00:12:04Dairy products contain no complex carbohydrates or roughage and very few vitamins.
00:12:11Instead, they are full of saturated fat, cholesterol and animal protein.
00:12:20When we're young and growing up, everybody wants to try to feed people dairy products
00:12:24and make sure you have milk every day.
00:12:27But the science really now is at a point where that cannot be sustained.
00:12:32There is ample evidence from wonderful investigators like T. Colin Campbell,
00:12:38who clearly showed that casein, which is the major protein in milk, is really one of the strongest promoters of cancer.
00:12:48T. Colin Campbell is a world-renowned nutritional scientist
00:12:52In a series of experiments, he was able to prove that animal proteins, casein in particular, promote all stages of cancer growth.
00:13:08In experiments, rats were given carcinogenic substances.
00:13:13Afterwards, half were fed a 5% casein-enriched diet and the other half 20%.
00:13:1920% roughly corresponds to the amount consumed in Western diets.
00:13:29With a 5% casein-enriched diet, the animals did not develop cancer.
00:13:34With a 20% casein-enriched diet, however, cancer growth was stimulated significantly.
00:13:42Professor Campbell went a step further.
00:13:44Every three weeks, he altered the rats' diet.
00:13:48So the next thing we did, we did some studies to start out with animals here,
00:13:54and then let the cancer start to grow with 20% casein.
00:13:59And then we switched it to 5%, it went off.
00:14:02We gave the 20% back again, it came back again.
00:14:07We put it on 5%, it came off.
00:14:10So we could turn on and turn off cancer development.
00:14:14Just by switching the amount of casein being consumed.
00:14:22These findings are also supported by evidence with humans.
00:14:29We also know that all the saturated fat and the casein in dairy
00:14:33helps to accelerate and promote heart disease.
00:14:36And then we have this whole problem of fractures in the elderly.
00:14:40So here we have this problem of increasing cancer, increasing heart disease,
00:14:46and increasing fracture.
00:14:48Not a good thing.
00:14:50Dairy really should be out.
00:15:11And dairy also has, and there's good evidence for this,
00:15:15it has some allergenic properties.
00:15:18It tends to be associated with allergies.
00:15:22Either directly associated or enhancing the allergies coming from another source.
00:15:28And so we see things like, in the case of teenage boys,
00:15:33they tend to have more allergens.
00:15:36And so we see things like, in the case of teenage boys,
00:15:41we get this acne, they get this acne sometimes, this skin problem.
00:15:45A lot of that is due to their consumption of dairy.
00:15:48Stopped dairy goes away.
00:15:50Dairy is associated with migraine headaches.
00:15:53I know a lot of people who have these migraine headaches.
00:15:57It's kind of an allergy kind of thing.
00:15:59As is acne, it's kind of an allergy kind of thing.
00:16:02You stop that, it goes away.
00:16:03And it's very fast.
00:16:06And I used to say that was great reluctance.
00:16:09Because I was raised on a dairy farm.
00:16:12I grew up milking cows.
00:16:14And then when I went away to do my doctorate dissertation,
00:16:19I actually did my dissertation on the idea of promoting more milk consumption.
00:16:26So I'm not saying these rather negative things about dairy
00:16:30for any ideological reasons or any personal reasons.
00:16:34I'm saying it in reference to the evidence, the data.
00:16:37That's what it shows.
00:16:41The excessive consumption of animal products such as meat, fish,
00:16:46dairy products and eggs puts a strain on our bodies.
00:16:50That was also what Frankfurt-based physician Lothar Wendt found in his research.
00:16:55My father Lothar Wendt first formulated the concept of so-called protein storage diseases in 1949.
00:17:03We further developed this in the years that followed.
00:17:07And the core thesis is that this makes too much animal protein in the diet sick.
00:17:18T. Colin Campbell arrived at the same conclusion.
00:17:21He has been at the cutting edge of nutrition.
00:17:23He has been at the cutting edge of nutritional research for more than 40 years.
00:17:27And in the 80s and 90s, he directed the China-Cornell-Oxford Project,
00:17:32better known as the China Study.
00:17:34This is the most comprehensive nutrition study in the history of biomedical research to date.
00:17:40It confirmed Campbell's theory.
00:17:48We tend to want to consume protein, which means we want to consume meat.
00:17:51Because that supposedly makes us strong. It makes us healthy.
00:17:56That's been an old story for a long time.
00:17:59But in reality, as we put more and more protein or meat into our diet,
00:18:05we see these diseases start to appear.
00:18:08The China Study, as well as numerous other studies, demonstrate one thing above all.
00:18:15The higher the consumption of animal products,
00:18:17the greater the frequency of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and countless other chronic diseases.
00:18:25Even small amounts of animal products can have a negative effect on our health.
00:18:37The 53-year-old electrical engineer Arthur Soteros also became a victim of his diet.
00:18:43Excessive amounts of meat, fish, and dairy products.
00:18:47The consequences caught up with him.
00:18:52My first health issues started about 20-some years ago.
00:18:56About 20 years ago when I was about 30, 32 years of age.
00:18:59I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
00:19:02About 10 years later, propagated into heart disease.
00:19:06My first encounter with heart disease was at age 42.
00:19:09What I exhibited was just heartburn.
00:19:12Turned out to be a blockage.
00:19:14I went to the emergency room and found out it was a blockage,
00:19:18and then they required an intervention and stent.
00:19:20That was my first encounter.
00:19:23A stent is an implant designed to hold a vessel open.
00:19:27Arthur Soteros needed to have five such stents implanted.
00:19:31He repeatedly suffered from chest pain and a narrowing of his blood vessels.
00:19:35Finally, he needed double coronary bypass surgery.
00:19:39So I was assured that about after doing the bypass surgery,
00:19:44that I would be free and clear of any heart issues for at least upwards to about 10 years.
00:19:49That happened not to be the case with me.
00:19:51About a year into that, I developed angina again,
00:19:56and what turned out then to be the vein graft that they used in my bypass surgery had now blocked.
00:20:01Which then required another stent, and then a few months later another stent.
00:20:06So the frequency of those stents then became just two weeks apart.
00:20:11The quickly returning vessel occlusions baffled the doctors.
00:20:16Soteros left the hospital without hope.
00:20:25I wept and I cried like a baby, because I wasn't ready to die.
00:20:29And I cried out to God for some options.
00:20:35I think God saved my life.
00:20:37I think it was God's mercy and grace that actually gave me options,
00:20:41and set my path straight, and pointed me in the direction of plant-based.
00:20:46Through a member of his church community, Arthur Soteros learned about Dr. Esselstyn
00:20:51and his nutrition-based therapy.
00:20:54He consulted the doctor, and with his help, he restructured his entire diet.
00:21:05I was a little bit nervous.
00:21:07I didn't know what was going to happen.
00:21:09I didn't know what was going to happen.
00:21:11I didn't know what was going to happen.
00:21:13Within 30, about 30 to 40 days from that point,
00:21:17the angina that I was experiencing again,
00:21:20and the facial numbness that I experienced during my heart disease, it was gone.
00:21:25And it was then, by following this diet of going plant-based,
00:21:30within about four to, I think it was five months from that point on,
00:21:34when I was doing a follow-up with my cardiologist and family physician
00:21:38who has been monitoring my diabetes,
00:21:39said that my diabetes was gone.
00:21:42And then I followed up at that same time in October of 2010
00:21:46with my optometrist.
00:21:48The prescription glasses that I was wearing,
00:21:52they looked at them and said, why was I wearing these things?
00:21:54That all I needed was just reading glasses.
00:21:57So then with the reversal of my diabetes, my eyesight got better.
00:22:04Arthur Soteros' heart condition was no longer a problem.
00:22:07Arthur Soteros' heart condition has disappeared.
00:22:11His blood test results are normal,
00:22:13and he's been able to markedly reduce his medication.
00:22:17He also lost 20 kilograms of excess body weight.
00:22:22I feel better now at age 53 than I did at age 30.
00:22:26Through the years, I've had lots of students, a lot of colleagues,
00:22:31plenty of money to do all kinds of research.
00:22:34And I found out that what I believed early was wrong.
00:22:38That a diet that's high in animal-based foods is a problem.
00:22:42A diet that's high in processed foods is a problem.
00:22:45That a diet that's high in processed foods is a problem.
00:22:48That a diet that's high in processed foods is a problem.
00:22:50That a diet that's high in animal-based foods is a problem.
00:22:53A diet that's high in processed foods is a problem.
00:22:56Many different ways.
00:22:58The only solution is a whole food, plant-based diet.
00:23:00It's that clear.
00:23:02And when people use that, they not only prevent future disease,
00:23:06they actually are able to cure existing disease in people who have a disease.
00:23:20I was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end stage in December 2006.
00:23:25Metastases had developed.
00:23:27The lymph nodes had collapsed.
00:23:29The tumour was removed.
00:23:31The lymph nodes as well.
00:23:33After that, I was recommended a chemotherapy.
00:23:36I rejected it.
00:23:38Instead, I consulted a doctor who prefers healing with plant-based remedies.
00:23:43I listened to his advice.
00:23:45And today, I'm cancer-free.
00:23:47Because I didn't consume animal products.
00:23:51Because I didn't consume animal products.
00:23:54And because I preferred to consume plant-based products.
00:23:57And because I preferred to consume plant-based products.
00:24:00But here, in the first place, the untreated, the nature-dependent,
00:24:03the plants, vegetables, fruits and other foods,
00:24:07which are not heated up and are not used for treatment,
00:24:11and which were able to pass on a maximum of nutrients to me.
00:24:15That is the reason, in my opinion, why I'm cancer-free today.
00:24:28My wife, Karen, was diagnosed with a serious kind of cancer,
00:24:33stage 3 melanoma.
00:24:36She refused to take the chemotherapy.
00:24:38She refused to have the surgery.
00:24:41Then she got really strict about her diet.
00:24:44Now it's about nine years later.
00:24:46No problem.
00:25:09Plant-based foods give us sufficient protein and healthy fats.
00:25:13They are rich in complex carbohydrates and antioxidants,
00:25:17as well as certain vitamins,
00:25:20chemicals and other essential vitamins.
00:25:23The plant-based foods are a great source of protein.
00:25:27And the plant-based foods are a great source of fiber.
00:25:31And the plant-based foods are a great source of fiber.
00:25:35as well as certain vitamins, trace elements and enzymes.
00:25:39Plant-based foods contain what humans need for a healthy diet.
00:26:04Of course, they want to make a profit.
00:26:07And they want to sell as many products as possible.
00:26:12On the other hand, there is no interest group
00:26:17that values keeping people healthy.
00:26:22Who has a financial interest in keeping people healthy?
00:26:27No one.
00:26:29The medical industry
00:26:31deserves to be able to treat people.
00:26:36The medical industry can only make money from sick people.
00:26:42The pharmaceutical industry also only makes money from sick people.
00:27:01I also infiltrated the government.
00:27:06And I know both because I'm in academia.
00:27:09That's been my entire life.
00:27:11I see what they do.
00:27:13Maybe they bring some money to have some research done.
00:27:15Also in the policy area,
00:27:18I spent about 20 years in national policy development.
00:27:21I was on export panels for the government.
00:27:24And so we were doing things.
00:27:27We have committees.
00:27:28Unfortunately, the industry is so powerful
00:27:31that they, in many cases, are controlling who's going to be on the committees.
00:27:35They have too much money for the politicians.
00:27:40It's all legal,
00:27:42but it's not fair to the consumer.
00:27:58How did you become a vegetarian?
00:28:06I was actually raised eating a typical diet.
00:28:09And when I was about 22 years old,
00:28:11I became a vegetarian.
00:28:13And about five years later,
00:28:16when I was 27,
00:28:18I went to a completely plant-based diet.
00:28:20And that's been 33 years now.
00:28:22I'm 60 years old,
00:28:24and it's been terrific.
00:28:26I feel great.
00:28:28And it's not just me.
00:28:30People that I know who are also a long time on a plant-based diet
00:28:33are doing great as well.
00:28:34The Seismic Revolution in Health
00:28:58The Seismic Revolution in Health
00:29:00is just not ever going to occur
00:29:01occur from inventing another pill or drug. It's not going to come from
00:29:05inventing another procedure or an operation. But the seismic revolution in
00:29:10health can come about when those of us in the healing profession are able to
00:29:17share with the public what is the lifestyle that would protect them from
00:29:20these chronic common killing diseases. And the way we do that really was the
00:29:25top of the list is to show them about plant-based nutrition.
00:29:55In 20 years, we will be so many people and so many animals on the planet Earth that there won't be enough food left.
00:30:02And then we will eat the earth bare.
00:30:26The worldwide human population will rise to 9 billion by the year 2050.
00:30:32The global livestock population will double to 50 billion. It's going to get crowded.
00:30:56The growing consumption of meat accelerates climate change and species extinction.
00:31:02It damages the soil, water and air and it spurs global starvation.
00:31:08Appetizing vacuum-packed portions of meat suggest none of this.
00:31:15Most of the grain that's being grown on the planet is not going.
00:31:20Most of the grain that's being grown on the planet is not going for food for human beings.
00:31:36We're growing plenty of food to feed everyone.
00:31:39The problem is we're feeding most of that grain and the legumes like soybeans to animals while people are starving.
00:31:51Worldwide, 1.8 billion people are starving.
00:31:57Every six seconds a child dies of malnutrition.
00:32:02That's nearly 15,000 children a day.
00:32:06A sign of poverty, not for the poor, but for the rich.
00:32:12Only 2% of the soya in the United States is being eaten by human beings.
00:32:19About 70% goes for animal feed.
00:32:23About 28% is going for biofuel, diesel made from soya bean.
00:32:29So it's meeting the hunger of profits, not the hunger of people.
00:32:42Corn, about 10% of the corn in the world is being eaten by humans.
00:32:47Most of it is going to torture animals.
00:32:50I don't say feed animals because animals did not want to be fed with grain.
00:32:55It doesn't suit their digestive system.
00:32:58So we're talking about a system that is creating hunger on the planet in the name of feeding people.
00:33:12Currently, one out of every three seeds of grain harvested in the world is used as animal feed.
00:33:18However, industrial nations can no longer produce these huge amounts of fodder themselves.
00:33:24Thus Europe already imports three quarters of its animal feed,
00:33:28including 35 million tons of soybeans alone, mainly from South America.
00:33:42The land used for growing this feed does not consist of empty fields,
00:33:47but valuable rainforests forced to yield to the monocultures of the agricultural corporations.
00:34:12One of the really shocking things about this desire of more and more people to eat more and more meat
00:34:19and to eat it more and more cheaply is the awful effect that it's having on the environment.
00:34:25So whole forests cleared to graze livestock or to grow grain to feed livestock.
00:34:33And it's having a shocking effect on the environment.
00:34:42Global Deforestation
00:34:50Because of this practice, over the past two decades,
00:34:54roughly 20% of the worldwide largest rainforests in the Amazon basin have been destroyed forever.
00:35:02Globally, deforestation irreversibly destroys an area the size of a soccer field every two seconds.
00:35:17And this, although tropical rainforests are among the Earth's most valuable treasures,
00:35:22nowhere else is there such a rich diversity of species.
00:35:26Moreover, these forests stabilize the world's climate as enormous reservoirs of carbon dioxide.
00:35:33That makes them more valuable than meat.
00:35:56Meat
00:35:59There is a calculation of how carbon-damaging a kilogram of meat is.
00:36:02If we take a kilogram of beef, then that's about 12 to 13 kilograms of CO2.
00:36:09If you convert that to a car kilometer, if I take a small car, then I can drive about 100 kilometers.
00:36:15That corresponds to a kilogram of beef.
00:36:18With poultry and pigs, it's similar.
00:36:21Then it's 50 kilometers that correspond to a kilogram of pork or poultry.
00:36:26If you take vegetables, you end up with 600 grams.
00:36:30So that's just a few kilometers.
00:36:33You can already see how climate-damaging animal husbandry is,
00:36:38or how climate-damaging my meat consumption is.
00:36:41So if I want to do something for the climate, of course I should drive less cars,
00:36:45but I should also eat less meat.
00:36:52Among the side effects of the meat and dairy industry is the production of methane gas.
00:36:57It is primarily generated in the stomachs of ruminants like cattle.
00:37:02Experts estimate that methane is 25 times more detrimental to the climate than CO2.
00:37:09An even greater concern than methane is nitrous oxide,
00:37:13which is nearly 300 times more harmful to the climate than CO2.
00:37:19It is released through the use of synthetic fertilizers.
00:37:25These and many other factors make animal agriculture a catalyst for climate change.
00:37:33There are increased reports of a new drought of the century,
00:37:37or a new flood of the century, a new storm of the century,
00:37:42or the progressive melting of the glaciers and the poles.
00:37:54Intensive animal farming doesn't just stink to high heaven.
00:37:58The excrement produced is also polluting our soil.
00:38:01For each kilogram of meat produced, roughly six kilograms of slurry are generated.
00:38:07Among other things, slurry releases ammonia,
00:38:10which poisons the surrounding air and causes long-term damage to the soil.
00:38:23Not only that, slurry and its nitrates also threaten our drinking water,
00:38:28of which we need inordinate amounts to make animal products.
00:38:37For one kilogram of eggs, 3,300 liters are needed.
00:38:43For one kilogram of chicken meat, 3,900 liters.
00:38:49For one kilogram of pork, 4,800 liters.
00:38:53For one kilogram of cheese, a whopping 5,000 liters.
00:39:01And an all-time high of 15,500 liters are needed to produce one kilogram of beef.
00:39:09Plant production has a much better track record.
00:39:14Cultivating one kilogram of grain requires 1,300 liters of water.
00:39:20A farmer needs just 900 liters for a kilogram of potatoes.
00:39:28And a kilogram of apples barely requires 700 liters of precious water.
00:39:40This entire meat industry has today become a scandal on the planet.
00:39:46It should not exist in the form in which it exists.
00:39:51To force everyone into destroying the Earth's resources is a crime against the Earth.
00:39:58And it's a crime against our bodies, because our bodies weren't designed for this kind of diet.
00:40:07Altogether, this is a recipe for biological disaster, biodiversity disaster, water disaster.
00:40:16Climate disaster, health disaster.
00:40:19This form of agriculture, the way we've set it up today,
00:40:24actually only in the last 50 years,
00:40:27is not sustainable in this form.
00:40:29It can't go well.
00:40:31Everyone who has the mind to think,
00:40:33and the eyes to read,
00:40:35and the ears to hear,
00:40:37knows that.
00:40:40And you have to wonder why nothing is changing.
00:40:45We were made to believe that meat-based diets are superior to plant-based diets.
00:40:50A lie that has been exposed by medical experts again and again and again.
00:40:56So what do we need to do?
00:40:58We need to bring diversity back into our farms.
00:41:02We need to bring harmony back into our farms.
00:41:05We have to celebrate diversity.
00:41:07We have to work with farmers.
00:41:09We have to know our farmers.
00:41:15We have to start realizing food is what keeps the world going.
00:41:19Food is the energy of the world.
00:41:21And we have to know exactly where in that chain we entered,
00:41:26so that we don't do more harm.
00:41:28We reduce the harm.
00:41:30And in the process we celebrate food as life, and life as food.
00:41:45Through its way of life, the Langerhorst family in Upper Austria
00:41:49exemplifies the practice of farming without monocultures and intensive animal husbandry.
00:41:54It's been running a vegan organic farm with mixed cultivation and permaculture for more than 40 years.
00:42:00The family grows vegetables, fruit, berries and nuts
00:42:04and avoids animal-based and chemical fertilizers
00:42:07using green manure, plant-based compost, rock flour, mulch and wood ash.
00:42:14The Langerhorst family has been growing vegetables for more than 40 years.
00:42:19Plant-based farming has shown us
00:42:21that we can also live from a small farm instead of a large one.
00:42:26We only farm 3.5 hectares, and we live off that in full.
00:42:31And we are really very grateful that this is possible and also practicable.
00:42:36The Langerhorst family has been growing vegetables for more than 40 years.
00:42:41The Langerhorst family has been growing vegetables for more than 40 years.
00:42:46If you want to eat as environmentally friendly as possible,
00:42:49you should of course eat as much plant-based food as possible.
00:42:52Regionality, seasonality and, of course, organic products are preferred.
00:42:56Then a round of vegetarianism will come out.
00:43:12Nature shows us how to solve our problems,
00:43:15our personal problems and the ones that involve the whole world.
00:43:21We just need to take action.
00:43:27If we look at the chances,
00:43:30according to human possibilities, human intelligence,
00:43:35human longing for good, decent food,
00:43:38I think the chances are extremely high
00:43:41that we could all live on a good, healthy, organic, plant-based diet.
00:44:06LANGERHORST
00:44:24We love the notion of romantic rural life.
00:44:26Happy animals in a healthy environment,
00:44:29well provided for by Mother Nature.
00:44:32It's really quite tempting to get this meat on your plate.
00:44:36But let's face reality.
00:45:03MEAT
00:45:08Meat is less expensive today than ever before.
00:45:11A cheap product.
00:45:13About 98% comes from factory farms,
00:45:16where conditions are beyond imagination.
00:45:19Rarely in the past has the term industry
00:45:22smacked of a contempt for life as it does today.
00:45:32We no longer see animals as individuals,
00:45:35but as mere means of production,
00:45:38such as tin cans, car spare parts,
00:45:42or merely as consumables with the aim of the highest possible economic gain.
00:45:55Chickens are by nature social, curious and intelligent animals.
00:46:00But in the merciless factory farm,
00:46:03their lives are reduced to short and joyless agony.
00:46:09Chicks hatch not in the maternal nest, but in the incubator.
00:46:13As soon as they can stand, they are sorted, vaccinated,
00:46:17packed up and sent to enormous feedlots.
00:46:22In these animal prisons, they reach slaughtering weight in record time,
00:46:28never seeing daylight and under extremely crowded conditions.
00:46:43The normal life expectancy of a chicken is 20 years.
00:46:47Broilers only live up to 42 days.
00:46:50During this brief lifespan, they must gain roughly 2 kilograms.
00:46:55No organism can withstand such brutally rapid growth.
00:47:17In the end, both the mass of chickens and the mass of broilers
00:47:22lie on their own breasts,
00:47:26because the mass of the limbs can no longer withstand the increasing weight.
00:47:48Some animals don't survive this abnormal growth.
00:47:52They can't drag themselves to the feed and water troughs.
00:47:56Others die of breeding-induced cardiovascular diseases.
00:48:00They succumb to stress or fall victim to cannibalism.
00:48:05All these are facts we are often not aware of when eating meat
00:48:09and which the meat lobby is glad to keep concealed.
00:48:23This is the end of the story for today.
00:48:26Thank you for watching.
00:48:35This is a mother sow.
00:48:37This highly intelligent and extremely sensitive animal
00:48:41spends most of its life in crates,
00:48:44in cages hardly any larger than themselves.
00:48:48Instead of straw, they lie on bare concrete.
00:49:06In nature, mother sows build big, soft nests for their offspring.
00:49:12In factory farms, however, this isn't the case.
00:49:16The mother sows have to work in the fields,
00:49:19to feed their young and to take care of their young.
00:49:23The mother sows have to work in the fields,
00:49:26to feed their young and to take care of their young.
00:49:30In nature, mother sows build big, soft nests for their offspring.
00:49:35In factory farms, however, this isn't possible.
00:49:39The sows farrow in gestation crates.
00:49:43Confined, they are neither able to protect nor care for their young.
00:50:01Not long after birth, the piglet's tails are docked
00:50:05as a precaution against cannibalism.
00:50:08In addition, male piglets are castrated by ripping out their testicles.
00:50:13Everything without pain relief because an object's pain doesn't matter.
00:50:31Many animals are born weak, handicapped or sick.
00:50:36It is not economical to keep them alive.
00:50:40Their fate, an undignified and cold death.
00:51:01In the agonizing lack of space,
00:51:04the immobilized mother sows sometimes crush their own offspring.
00:51:23At the age of three weeks, the piglets are separated from their mother.
00:51:28What follows now? Rearing and fattening.
00:51:32Although pigs can live up to 25 years,
00:51:36they are slaughtered as children, a mere six months old.
00:51:41They spend their brief lives in cramped quarters.
00:51:45EU norms require a minimum area of just 0.75 square meters
00:51:50for a porker of up to 110 kilograms.
00:51:58As many as 10% of the animals do not survive these conditions.
00:52:13In spite of this, only a few people are willing to do
00:52:17without a pork chop or a schnitzel.
00:52:22And cattle fare no better.
00:52:25Many animals spend their lives in narrow stalls,
00:52:28the lucky ones in open pens.
00:52:31Many, however, vegetate in tether stalls.
00:52:44One step forward, one step backward.
00:52:47One step forward, one step backward.
00:52:50That is all the freedom of movement they have.
00:52:55A life expectancy of 30 years?
00:52:58That's something industrial age cattle can only dream of.
00:53:18There are huge, huge herds.
00:53:21And they get bigger and bigger.
00:53:24No one notices when a cow is sick.
00:53:27Only the milk robot notices.
00:53:30It detects that the milk output is declining.
00:53:34Or the other machine notices that the feed has not been eaten.
00:53:39And so it is only registered that an animal or several animals are sick.
00:53:48Infections are one of the biggest problems in factory farms.
00:53:53The crowded conditions promote the rapid spread of bacteria.
00:54:01Overbreeding, a lack of hygiene and ignoring natural needs
00:54:06put a huge burden on the health of the animals.
00:54:09The only antidote the industrial meat producer knows
00:54:12is the massive administering of drugs.
00:54:15Up to three quarters of all antibiotics end up in factory farms.
00:54:39The routine and improper use of antibiotics in factory farms
00:54:45presents a big health risk, not just for the animals.
00:54:49Because more and more bacteria strains are becoming resistant,
00:54:53which renders antibiotics ineffective.
00:54:57If these antibody-resistant bacteria infect humans, we get sick too.
00:55:03But often medication no longer works.
00:55:06Globally, more than 700,000 people die from infections
00:55:10because the bacteria they have consumed has become resistant to antibiotics.
00:55:25But the animals are not only affected physically.
00:55:28Industrial farming harms them on all levels.
00:55:40Since the beginning of humankind,
00:55:43there has been no such march on animal husbandry as in our time.
00:55:48This applies to both quantity and intensity.
00:56:11Having once seen pigs in one of these intensive farms, I was sea-shocked.
00:56:19It's unbelievable to me that people could treat animals
00:56:25as though they're just things without feelings.
00:56:29And so many people say to me,
00:56:31oh, but they're being bred to eat, so it's OK.
00:56:34But it's not OK.
00:56:38There's a lot of animal abuse in research, in education,
00:56:42in circuses and rodeos and zoos.
00:56:45But factory farming is the worst.
00:56:47If you summed up all the pain that we cause animals,
00:56:52the pain and suffering from industrial farming,
00:56:56the pain and suffering from industrial farming,
00:56:59the pain and suffering from factory farming,
00:57:02the pain that we cause animals,
00:57:05the pain and suffering from industrial food preparation
00:57:10is far greater than all of the pain in any other venue combined.
00:57:16So it's really the worst.
00:57:18It brings out the worst in human beings,
00:57:21and it makes animals suffer greatly.
00:57:24They not only suffer their own pain,
00:57:27but they also feel the pain of other animals
00:57:30at these horrible factory farms.
00:57:44Not only our meat consumption promotes the suffering of animals,
00:57:48but also our growing demand for milk.
00:57:51Cows are forced to achieve higher and higher outputs.
00:57:55In the 60s, a cow produced an annual average of 1,500 liters of milk.
00:58:00Today, that amount has risen to 10,000 and more.
00:58:08I have quite a few vegetarian friends who consume dairy products.
00:58:15And they believe this false idea
00:58:23that dairy products are a benign animal product,
00:58:27that there's no harm connected to milk.
00:58:33Because they figure, well, once a cow starts giving milk,
00:58:36she just gives milk.
00:58:38And they don't realize that cows can't give
00:58:42adequate amount of milk for production unless they're pregnant.
00:58:47And cows have the same gestation period as humans, nine months.
00:58:51A pregnant hind once give birth.
00:58:54Within 24 hours, maximum 72 hours,
00:58:58you take the calf away from the cow
00:59:00because you need the milk for production.
00:59:22You know, it's a terrible business.
00:59:25I mean, there's more suffering in a glass of milk
00:59:29than you can find in just about anything.
00:59:33The calves will, you know, bawl and bawl and bawl.
00:59:37The cows will just, they'll look for them.
00:59:42Cows will often mourn their children for days or weeks.
00:59:48The calves will, you know, bawl and bawl and bawl.
00:59:51The cows will just, they'll look for them.
00:59:57Cows will often mourn their children for days or weeks.
01:00:06They do miss their calves, the calves miss their mothers.
01:00:26It's really, it's a heartbreaking thing to watch.
01:00:44In factory farms, calves are being born constantly, but they serve no useful purpose and are soon
01:00:51put to different use.
01:00:55Let's say a cow is alive for four years, she'll have four calves, just genetic roulette,
01:01:05two are going to be male, two are going to be female.
01:01:08The two males are of no use to the dairy industry, they're going to go to auction within a day
01:01:14to two or three days after birth.
01:01:17You only need one female to replace the mom.
01:01:20So three out of four calves go to slaughter right after they're born.
01:01:38We know in our bones that harming mothers who are just giving birth to babies and nursing
01:01:45those babies and nurturing those babies is something that is against our own compassion
01:01:52and kindness.
01:01:53And so when we're eating animal foods, eating dairy products, that's exactly what we're
01:01:58doing.
01:01:59We're paying people to impregnate animals, steal their babies, steal their milk, and
01:02:03then kill them.
01:02:28I always say to people, especially women, imagine that.
01:02:33Imagine that you were pregnant, you got your breast ready to give milk, and somebody took
01:02:40your baby away, and then another animal came and took your milk.
01:02:47It's almost, for human beings, it's almost impossible to imagine, but that's what many
01:02:52animals go through.
01:02:54And some people think, oh, goat's milk is better than cow's milk.
01:02:58Well, the goat is also a living thing.
01:03:00The goat also produces milk, not for human consumption, but for the consumption of a
01:03:06little baby goat.
01:03:07And that's who the milk should go to.
01:03:23People wonder whether animals, including farm animals, have emotional lives, and the
01:03:34science tells us that they do.
01:03:37If people read and understand what Charles Darwin had to say about evolution, he said
01:03:44that the differences among species are shades of gray, not black and white.
01:03:50So if we have something, then they have it too, they being other animals.
01:03:56So the science tells us that many animals, including farm animals, have very rich and
01:04:01deep emotional lives.
01:04:19The main thing is that, you know, these farm animals, when you know them as individuals,
01:04:24they're just wonderful.
01:04:25I mean, there's nothing like hearing the wicker of a horse when you come, and he's pleased
01:04:31to see you, and the cows chewing the cud, and the sweet breath that they have out in
01:04:36the fields.
01:04:37And pigs, well, pigs are as intelligent as dogs, and more intelligent than most.
01:04:43And when I was a little girl, I used to want to have a little troop of pigs and train them
01:04:49and go to a circus.
01:04:50Well, now I know circuses are bad, but when I was a little girl, you know, pigs are amazing.
01:04:55Just incredible.
01:04:56Weep.
01:04:57Weep.
01:04:58Weep.
01:04:59Good.
01:05:00Come on.
01:05:01Come on.
01:05:02Good boy.
01:05:03Good boy.
01:05:23People want to think that cows are stupid, that they're dumb, that they're slow, and
01:05:28all they do is eat grass.
01:05:29No, they have community.
01:05:31They have social structures.
01:05:32They babysit for each other.
01:05:35They mourn for the loss of loved ones.
01:05:40They're a community, just like any human community.
01:05:42They just look different.
01:05:44That's all.
01:05:45It's the only difference.
01:05:46They just look different.
01:05:47We don't speak their language.
01:05:48It's the only difference.
01:06:00We know, for example, that chickens display empathy.
01:06:04They feel the pain of other chickens.
01:06:06We know that cows and pigs are very smart.
01:06:09They miss one another.
01:06:10They love to be around friends.
01:06:13Cows and pigs are extremely intelligent.
01:06:16They can learn very complex tasks.
01:06:19So I like to say that the animals who we eat are very smart and they're very emotional.
01:06:28They're not what we eat.
01:06:30So if there's an animal on the plate or at the end of a fork, it's who's for dinner,
01:06:35not what's for dinner.
01:06:37Because when we use the word who, we're referring to an animal who has a very strong inner life
01:06:42and subjective life.
01:07:29So, for example, when pigs and cows and dogs and cats and wolves play, it's very clear
01:07:42that they enjoy themselves, that they're feeling happiness.
01:07:46They're feeling very gleeful.
01:07:48They're feeling a lot of pleasure.
01:08:48They're feeling a lot of joy.
01:09:14They're feeling a lot of joy.
01:09:34They're feeling a lot of joy.
01:10:02They're feeling a lot of joy.
01:10:22They're feeling a lot of joy.
01:10:50They're feeling a lot of joy.
01:10:58Bulls are kicked in front of their hooves, cows are kicked in front of their udders.
01:11:05The nose ring of a bull, if it has one, if they are heavy bulls,
01:11:10they are turned around so that the nose is almost turned 180 degrees so that the animals can walk.
01:11:15And that's all with pain, that's not without pain.
01:11:18With strong pain, I would say.
01:11:20Or you can't do it any other way, it doesn't work.
01:11:22It definitely doesn't work.
01:11:24I don't believe that I have a lot of animals and I bring them to the truck or the tax office
01:11:34or even to the slaughterhouse.
01:11:36That doesn't work.
01:11:37It's always brutal, it's always brutal.
01:11:55Slaughterhouses have their reasons for not welcoming visitors.
01:11:59In large industrial slaughterhouses, pigs are often stunned by machine.
01:12:04An electric shock triggers a kind of epileptic attack.
01:12:08This leads to unconsciousness.
01:12:11In smaller operations, stunning by electric current is generally done by hand
01:12:16before the animals are suspended from a conveyor and their throats slashed.
01:12:22And pig slaughtering itself is just so difficult, also for the people,
01:12:27because the animals scream without end.
01:12:30They scream without end.
01:12:32It sounds like, I used to say, it's like little children screaming.
01:12:36Why do little children scream?
01:12:38Because they are afraid.
01:12:39With the animals, it's no different.
01:12:52In large meat factories, gas chambers are standard practice.
01:12:56The pigs are herded into a gondola and lowered into a chamber
01:13:00where they are gassed with a mixture of carbon dioxide and air,
01:13:04leaving them unconscious.
01:13:11In large meat factories, gas chambers are standard practice.
01:13:15The pigs are herded into a gondola and lowered into a chamber
01:13:19where they are gassed with a mixture of carbon dioxide and air,
01:13:23leaving them unconscious.
01:13:26The CO2 poisoning is a relatively cheap procedure.
01:13:30It has the advantage, like other gas poisoning procedures,
01:13:34that several animals can be poisoned at the same time.
01:13:38So you don't have to tear the group apart.
01:13:41The significant disadvantage of CO2 is, however,
01:13:45that the animals have a feeling of suffocation for a considerable period of time,
01:13:48from 15 to 20 seconds.
01:13:50So a feeling of significant shortness of breath.
01:13:53The animals often strive to scream loudly.
01:13:57Right.
01:14:14Once they have been stunned, the pigs' throats must be quickly and properly slashed,
01:14:19otherwise the animals wake up and land in the cauldron of boiling water, fully conscious.
01:14:24This is no uncommon occurrence, since the whole process takes place so quickly.
01:14:54He has to pull the pig's leg into position, so to speak.
01:14:57He has to take the knife out of the cauldron.
01:15:00And then these five seconds are almost over.
01:15:04That means he has no chance of correcting a stung pig in any way,
01:15:10if he is of the opinion that he has not caught large vessels or filled large vessels.
01:15:16This is certainly a problem for the effectiveness of the bleeding.
01:15:24I have seen very often how animals were not properly stunned.
01:15:29Pigs that have fled from the cauldron, or jumped,
01:15:33tried to get out, where the head went wrong,
01:15:37and then hit it again with an iron rod.
01:15:43This is actually standard. This is completely normal.
01:15:53All pigs can meet this fate.
01:15:56Animals from organic farms are no exception.
01:16:05Once it is cut into pieces,
01:16:07the animal has finally endured all the agony the industry has to offer.
01:16:24Chickens are processed fully automatically and at a high speed.
01:16:28On average, 10,000 animals per hour can be stunned, killed, cleaned,
01:16:33and cut into parts in a modern slaughterhouse.
01:16:40Europe's largest poultry slaughterhouse is in Germany.
01:16:43It can handle up to 27,000 animals an hour.
01:16:47That's 432,000 chickens a day.
01:16:52The slaughter of cattle starts with a captive volt stunner,
01:16:56which has been standard procedure for decades.
01:16:59The animals are driven along a chute into a narrow box.
01:17:03Not every animal goes to its death willingly.
01:17:08These animals are shot with a bolt,
01:17:11which is a bolt that cuts the skin of the animal.
01:17:19It's not a bullet, it's a piece of leather
01:17:23that goes into the animal's throat.
01:17:26The animal has to swallow this leather,
01:17:29then it's cut into pieces and thrown into the slaughterhouse.
01:17:37and the brain is partially destroyed.
01:17:41The animals usually break down immediately
01:17:45and are unconscious in a matter of seconds.
01:17:49It is problematic if the shot is not right,
01:17:53if the bolt-action devices cannot be used correctly
01:17:56or if the animal moves its head at the last moment.
01:17:59Then we have so-called misfires.
01:18:02The animals are either only light or not at all stunned.
01:18:05This is of course critical for animal protection
01:18:10because then the second shot, which must then take place,
01:18:14usually does not work properly either,
01:18:16because the skull capsule is already open
01:18:19and this pressure effect, which is there in the first shot,
01:18:21is no longer there in the second shot,
01:18:23so that I can actually have problems
01:18:27to stun the animal effectively.
01:18:36Why do we have to force humanity,
01:18:39the consumers of the slaughterhouse, away
01:18:42when it would be so right? Why?
01:18:45In no pre-christian production one has to look away.
01:18:49In every bakery there are show bakeries,
01:18:52but there is no show-badgery at all.
01:18:56So probably all the spectators should fall in line
01:19:00because it is so brutal.
01:19:04Because it is simply brutal.
01:19:23Somewhere you reach the limit where you say
01:19:25you continue or you don't continue.
01:19:27But for me the limit was really
01:19:29that I had to slaughter the calves
01:19:31because the blood had already spread when I came in.
01:19:37I was supposed to shoot when she was inside.
01:19:40Tears rolled out of my eyes.
01:19:43Then I shot the gun in the air.
01:19:46Then I said, wait, I'll go to my boss,
01:19:49the owner of the shooting device, Jan Tidröckner,
01:19:51and I said, wait, I'll send my papers home.
01:19:55I was nothing more than the order, the killer,
01:19:58or the mercenary for all those who eat the meat.
01:20:01I was the mercenary.
01:20:03That means I killed the cows,
01:20:05for that I kill the animals.
01:20:08And when I realized that, I stopped.
01:20:28I stopped.
01:20:47Humans are creatures with many contradictions.
01:20:50What is especially paradoxical is our relationship to animals.
01:20:55We can adore a pet
01:20:57but at the same time we let other animals be killed
01:21:00without the slightest compassion.
01:21:03Dr. Melanie Joy calls this phenomena carnism.
01:21:08Carnism teaches us to place animals in categories in our minds.
01:21:13Some animals we love.
01:21:15Dogs and cats are our companions,
01:21:17our family members, our friends, for instance.
01:21:19Other animals we eat.
01:21:22Carnism teaches us to see animals as objects.
01:21:25To refer to the turkey on our plate as something rather than someone.
01:21:32And carnism teaches us to see animals as abstractions,
01:21:35as lacking in any individuality or personality of their own,
01:21:38and instead simply as abstract members of a group
01:21:42about which we've made generalized assumptions.
01:21:45A pig is a pig and all pigs are the same.
01:21:51Carnism, says Dr. Joy,
01:21:53is a belief system intended to prevent us
01:21:56from recognizing the violence and cruelty
01:21:59of the system behind eating animals.
01:22:02We suppress and deny.
01:22:04We ignore our head and our heart
01:22:07when it comes to animals that we classify as edible.
01:22:14Choosing one animal to eat and one animal to be a pet
01:22:18is just, some people call it speciesism,
01:22:21but it's more than...
01:22:23It's a kind of racism, it's a kind of favouritism,
01:22:27and it's a kind of just following a particular culture.
01:22:32Now, what we have to do
01:22:35is we have to build a culture and tradition
01:22:38that's based upon compassion.
01:22:52The highest form of living, the highest value, is compassion.
01:22:58And when there is compassion, we maximize well-being.
01:23:02After all, the word wealth comes from well-being.
01:23:06It did not mean money in the hands of a few.
01:23:09It meant well-being shared across life's spectrum.
01:23:15It meant well-being shared across life's spectrum.
01:23:46I think once we admit that we humans are not the only beings
01:23:51with personalities, minds, and feelings,
01:23:54once we realize that we are part of the animal kingdom,
01:23:58then it becomes quite as important how we treat animals,
01:24:02all animals, as how we treat each other.
01:24:06And so only when we show respect and consideration
01:24:10And so only when we show respect and consideration
01:24:15and concern for other living beings
01:24:18can we imagine a world that's more peaceful than the one today.
01:24:41We are at a threshold where, across the world,
01:24:45people are seeking the liberation of life
01:24:48from this stranglehold of objectification,
01:24:52the view that the Earth is dead matter
01:24:55and our beings are just objects.
01:24:58We have to rise in subjecthood, of an interconnected subjecthood,
01:25:02where no life is less important than any other life.
01:25:06And human beings are definitely not the emperors
01:25:09over the rest of life,
01:25:12are just one strand in that web of life.
01:25:32I think the reason that so many people don't change their behavior
01:25:37is because they feel, what's the use?
01:25:39I'm just one person, so what I do actually can't make any difference.
01:25:43And nor would it make any difference if it was just one.
01:25:56But more and more and more people are coming to understand
01:26:00what the problems are and what they ought to be doing.
01:26:08What can we do to make a difference?
01:26:14Never ever think that one person can't make a difference.
01:26:21We tend to focus our energies on looking for leaders,
01:26:25say like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi.
01:26:31But they were just one person.
01:26:34They didn't set out in life to be a leader
01:26:37and they were very humble people.
01:26:41It's just that circumstances in history drew them to the front.
01:26:48But if we're looking for leaders,
01:26:50all we have to do is go home and look in the mirror,
01:26:53because each one of us can make a difference.
01:26:55And we do.
01:26:57It's just making a conscious decision
01:27:00that we are going to make a difference in our lives.
01:27:03We're not on this planet for a long time,
01:27:06so we need to do what we can in the time we've got to make a difference.
01:27:34We are all role models
01:27:43For me it was always important to emphasize
01:27:46that we, as adults, are all role models.
01:27:50We can't choose this role model function.
01:27:53We can't say, I don't want to be a role model at all.
01:27:56But we are being taken as a role model,
01:27:59be it by children, by relatives, by colleagues or by sports fans.
01:28:04And I believe that this fact,
01:28:07that we are being taken as a role model,
01:28:10should motivate us to behave like a role model.
01:28:29Every one of us can make a difference.
01:28:32Every one of us eats at least two to three times a day.
01:28:36And every act of conscious eating,
01:28:39of knowing what the consequences of your eating are,
01:28:42knowing what you're eating,
01:28:45is an act of changing the world.
01:28:59We are all role models
01:29:19I think the most important message that I have
01:29:22is to remember that you,
01:29:26when I'm speaking to you, watching this film,
01:29:29you make a difference.
01:29:31You as an individual make a difference.
01:29:33What you do each day actually is affecting
01:29:36what's going on in the world each day.
01:29:39So your life matters. You matter.
01:29:42And use your life wisely.
01:31:26You matter.
01:31:29You matter.
01:31:56You matter.
01:32:26You matter.