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00:00This is not an anti-meat video.
00:04We've all heard the arguments against meat,
00:07and yet in the EU and US, only between 1 and 6% of people don't eat it.
00:12Meat is just too tasty, convenient and ingrained in our culture
00:16for most of us to consider giving it up.
00:18Also, food is personal, and nobody likes to be morally lectured.
00:23At the same time, we love animals.
00:25Most of us have pets and believe in animal rights.
00:28Few things make the internet as angry as animal cruelty.
00:31Both are true. We love meat, and we love animals.
00:35Unfortunately, most animals we eat live in truly horrible conditions.
00:40We don't torture them for fun,
00:42but because it makes meat just a little bit more incredibly cheap.
00:46If we all paid just a tad more, we could avoid most animal suffering,
00:50often just for a few pennies per meal.
00:53Disclaimer, farming is complicated.
00:56Many farmers are genuinely trying to give their animals the best life possible,
01:00but they're trapped in a complex system
01:02with extreme market pressure to keep prices low.
01:05No two countries have the same standards,
01:07no two farms are equal,
01:09and solid data is often scarce.
01:11We've done our best to combine data from different regions
01:14and the prices you pay in the end.
01:17To keep things simple, we're going to classify farming practices
01:20into three broad groups.
01:22Decent, prisons, and torture camps.
01:25This is a bit sketchy,
01:27and you've probably seen many more categories in the supermarket,
01:30like organic or grass-fed.
01:32We'll come to that later.
01:34So, fellow omnivores,
01:36what would it cost us to avoid animal torture
01:39and still have our fried chicken?
01:42Chickens.
01:44At any given time, there are about 26 billion chickens alive on Earth,
01:49as many as all other birds combined.
01:51Chickens seem dumb,
01:53but they're social, can communicate, solve problems, and feel empathy.
01:58And yet, we keep the vast majority in insane torture.
02:03Let's start with eggs.
02:05Worldwide, about 90% of laying hens live in torture camps,
02:09crammed in extremely tight cages where they can barely move.
02:13They're unable to show any natural chicken behavior
02:16like nesting, roosting, foraging, or pecking at the ground,
02:19so they become extremely frustrated and end up hurting each other badly.
02:24To stop this, many farms clip their beaks.
02:27In the US and Europe, legal bans and consumer initiatives
02:31have improved the situation a lot in the last few years.
02:34But still, more than 50% of hens remain in cages.
02:38The insane thing is that this doesn't even save a lot of money.
02:41Let's say a dozen eggs cost you around 3.60 euros or dollars, 30 cents per egg.
02:47How much does it cost to free the hens?
02:50The main alternative to cages are barn systems.
02:53Hens are still kept indoors, but have twice as much space and roam freely.
02:58Barns are prisons. Still not amazing, but so much better.
03:02In the EU, barns increase the consumer price by about 2 cents per egg.
03:07The somewhat decent alternative is free-range,
03:10where hens are allowed outdoors, often with proper access to vegetation.
03:15In the EU, this increases the price by about 7 cents per egg.
03:19Housing aside, one of the cruelest practices is chick culling.
03:23Male chicks don't lay eggs, so they're killed right after birth,
03:26usually by gassing or grinding.
03:29This is a really widespread practice used for caged, barn, and even organic eggs.
03:347 billion baby chickens are killed this way each year.
03:37France and Germany have banned this, so many breeding eggs here are scanned early,
03:42and only female birds hatch, which may have increased costs by only 2 to 5 cents per egg.
03:48So if you pay 85 cents more for a dozen eggs,
03:51you can make a difference between serious chicken torture and pretty decent chicken lives.
03:57And for another 60 cents, you can help end chick culling too.
04:01Chicken meat is a different story.
04:03Most meat chickens today are genetic freaks, bred to reach amazing weights incredibly fast.
04:09Their internal organs are under a huge amount of stress,
04:12and they can't even walk properly because of their weight,
04:15which causes them a lot of pain for much of their lives.
04:18It's hard to give exact numbers here,
04:20but if farmers were to switch to breeds that grow slower and suffer far less,
04:24a serving of chicken breast that you buy at one and a half dollars
04:27would become 9 cents more expensive in the US.
04:3090% of meat chickens in the EU live in prisons or torture camps.
04:35They're kept indoors in extremely crowded conditions,
04:37with sometimes dozens of birds per square meter,
04:40often in the dark and with poor ventilation.
04:43So what if we moved them all to prisons?
04:46One EU study found that giving them 30% more space, perches, fresh air and daylight
04:51would increase the price by another 13 cents per serving.
04:55Probably less than 5% of meat chickens live free-range in relatively decent conditions.
05:00This meat is actually noticeably more expensive, double the price of regular chicken.
05:05But chicken is the cheapest meat,
05:08so depending on the cut, you'd pay 35 cents to 1 euro or dollar more
05:13for a serving of chicken that had a decent life.
05:18Pigs are basically dogs.
05:20They're as intelligent, social and playful as our wolf buddies
05:24and make lovable pets.
05:26So pigs really feel how they live and arguably have it the worst of all animals we eat.
05:31Probably more than 90% of all pigs live in torture camps.
05:35They spend their entire lives indoors, in extremely crowded spaces,
05:39on concrete floors without straw or bedding.
05:42Since this is far from what they need, they get frustrated and often fight.
05:46Piglets have their tails docked to stop tailbiting.
05:49Most males are castrated after birth so that their meat will taste better,
05:53often without pain relief to save time.
05:56Mothers are kept in crates, extremely tight metal straitjackets
06:00where they can't move at all.
06:02This leads to extreme suffering for the mother and for the piglets,
06:05which are held in a barren area separated by metal bars
06:08and taken away at just 3 weeks old.
06:11Imagine treating dogs like that.
06:13First, let's get to the prison level.
06:16Getting rid of crates would raise the cost of a 2 euro serving of pork by about 20 cents.
06:21Anesthesia for castration costs almost nothing, around 1 cent per kilogram of meat.
06:27And a study in Denmark found that giving pigs more straw and bedding material
06:31and 30% more space and other things that are more animal friendly
06:35would increase the price per serving by another 20 cents.
06:38This is still an awful life for an animal this intelligent, but obviously much better.
06:43For 40 cents more per serving.
06:46Going one level further and giving pigs outdoor access for at least 40% of their lives
06:51and 300 to 400% more space indoors would increase the price per serving by another 80 cents.
06:58Just over 1% of pigs in the EU live in these or similar conditions.
07:03We can't know if this is really okay for such a smart and social animal,
07:07but it starts resembling something decent.
07:10And all for about 1.2 dollars or euros more per serving of pig.
07:15Cows.
07:17Cows raised for meat have it the best because they usually spend about 2 thirds of their lives outdoors,
07:22making their lives pretty good.
07:24If they were in the wild, it would be basically the same thing, but less safe.
07:28Their lives are far from perfect though, especially at the end.
07:32The vast majority of cows spend the last months of their short lives in finishing feedlots,
07:38either prisons or torture camps, where they are threatened to reach their slaughter weight as fast as possible.
07:43Probably less than 5% of beef cattle in the US have lifelong access to outdoor pasture.
07:49And yet, a recent German study found that it only increases the price of beef by around 15%.
07:56The life quality of cows varies widely even within countries and regions,
08:01depending on the available land, climates and farming traditions.
08:05So it's really impossible to make more easy and cheap suggestions to make their lives better.
08:11Dairy cows do have it much worse.
08:14They are often kept indoors for most of the year and suffer pain, soul ulcers and lesions from standing on concrete.
08:21But once again, none of these things seem to be needed to have affordable milk.
08:25In Germany, outdoor pasture increases the price of the milk by about 10 cents per liter.
08:31We could go on with many other animals and farming practices, but the summary is clear.
08:36For the animals we eat the most, upgrading their living conditions from outright torture to somewhat decent
08:42may cost you about 15% more for beef and milk, 50% for eggs and pork and 100% for chicken meat.
08:55Meat has gotten so cheap that we have to torture animals to keep the prices insanely low.
09:00This really is all there is to it.
09:02Food in developed countries is the cheapest it's been in history.
09:05In the US, the largest meat consumer in the world, an average person spends $337 a month on food.
09:12$88 on meat, eggs and dairy.
09:15If these became an average 50% more expensive, that would increase the monthly expenditure on food by about $43.
09:23This may sound like a lot, but relative to income, this only means paying as much for food as US consumers did in 1987.
09:31In Germany, the average person spends about €70 a month on meat, eggs and dairy.
09:36If we increased prices by 50% on average to make the lives of these animals better in a really meaningful way,
09:43this would rise by about €35 to about €100.
09:47If this still sounds too expensive, it may be because around 20% of all meat people buy is simply thrown away.
09:54Meat got so cheap that we often don't eat it before it goes bad.
09:59It's no longer valuable.
10:01Okay, so if you go shopping, what can you do?
10:05It can feel like you can't do anything as an individual consumer, but this is not true.
10:10The market follows demand.
10:12So if you don't want to buy torture meat, look at the labels on holding conditions.
10:17If there is none, it is torture meat for sure.
10:20If there is, well, it's complicated.
10:23It's often unclear what different labels mean, if they're strictly enforced or legally binding.
10:29Some are great, others whitewashing.
10:31And we haven't talked about the most expensive meat so far, organic meat.
10:36You've probably noticed that many price estimates we've given here don't quite match your experience in the supermarket.
10:42This is in part because some retailers consider ethical products luxury goods and charge an even higher price,
10:49and also because many labels like organic, natural, ecological, bio, or the worst of all, biodynamic,
10:56often contain a lot of extras or pseudosigns that have nothing to do with animal welfare.
11:01Many, but not all of these labels include some of the best practices mentioned before, but not necessarily all.
11:08Organic brands often include, for a lack of a better word, stupid measures, like forbidding GMO feed.
11:15As we covered in another video, banning GMOs doesn't do anything good for you or the animals.
11:20It just makes your food more expensive and seem more natural,
11:24while you are consuming unnatural animal breeds, living a deeply unnatural life.
11:30Unfortunately, the label situation in many countries is extremely confusing, often on purpose.
11:36All too often, we don't know what we're really buying.
11:39Grudgingly, if you can afford it and want at least a high chance of torture-free meat, go for the label.
11:45If you can afford it, buy organic.
11:47If you can afford it and have time, research local farms and get your meat from a place you've seen yourself.
11:54There's one exception, too good not to mention.
11:58Mussels.
11:59They suck up carbon and filter water, making coastlines cleaner.
12:04Calling mussels dumb is giving them too much credit.
12:08With no central nervous system and probably no thoughts or pain, they're basically moss.
12:14Really, everyone should eat more mussels.
12:17Okay, let's wrap up.
12:19You don't need to be vegan to think the current situation is unacceptable.
12:23The conditions of most animals we eat are hard to stomach and could all be avoided if we paid as much for meat as our parents did.
12:31Things are slowly getting better, at least in the West.
12:34Consumers can push the industry in the right direction if we bite the bullet and pay more.
12:39If you can't afford this, maybe eat a bit less meat.
12:42Don't throw meat away.
12:44Maybe avoid the worst torture meat like pork, at least sometimes.
12:48And push for legislation that bans the most horrific practices.
12:52We can help make the lives of billions of animals dramatically better.
12:57It really is that simple.
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