The images in the following program are very sensitive and may be as disturbing to viewers as they were to us. However, we have to show the truth about cruelty to animals.

Today’s Animal World: Our Co-Inhabitants will be presented in French, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Thai and Spanish.

Concerned viewers this is the Stop Animal Cruelty series on Supreme Master Television. In his latest book entitled “The Meat Industry Threatens our World,” Fabrice Nicolino, a French journalist, author and environmental advocate explores the history of the bloody and violent livestock industry.

The people, the public needs to know exactly where meat comes from and how the animals are treated.

We delegate it in fact to men and women who are far removed from us, geographically, socially, and mentally. We delegate them to treat the animals as objects. We delegate them to take care of killing the animals in slaughterhouses and we don’t want to see that.

“As long as there will be slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” I agree 100% with that. I think that there is a deep link, symbolic and mental, between slaughterhouses, this terrible way of treating the animals, and the dreadful way that humans are treated in certain crises, in certain appalling wars.

The book, published in late 2009, has received great attention in France as it is the first work ever in French that investigates the nation’s factory farms. In the book Mr. Nicolino also analyzes the production of animal products across the globe and concludes that the entire system is a clear and present danger to the survival of humanity and our planet.

The people who create this system want to earn money of course. We return to the start of the animal production science; they were wondering how to make the most money possible from these animals. How can we do it?

So, to get there, it is relatively simple, they ignore the needs of the animal. The animal cannot exist anymore as a living being, because a living being, whether animal or human, has a need to move, has a need to run, has a need to go outside, has a need to enter again, needs to have friends, needs time, needs to breathe air outside, needs to do nothing – all things which are incompatible with factory farming. It is incompatible.

The sickening truth behind the meat industry is purposely hidden from the world; many people are simply not aware that the neatly packaged corpse for sale was once an actual living being that was inhumanely raised and then murdered.

I’ve been asking myself and I’m asking myself and I’m asking everybody, “How could we end up treating living beings like this?” That’s an extremely important question to me. I think that we’ve deprived these animals of all reality.

On a dairy factory farm there is absolutely no consideration for the welfare of the cow. She is continually impregnated through artificial insemination and repeatedly injected with hormones to force her to produce unnatural quantities of milk, with utterly devastating health consequences such as mastitis, a painful inflammation of the mammary glands.

A calf, for instance, if you let it live the life of a calf, a little calf, it will stay to suckle its mum for eight months. Do you realize that? Eight months is a very long time. On factory farms, the same calf is taken away from its mum after one or maximum two days. The mum continues her lactation, continues to have milk in her teats of course, so the milk is taken. By the way, know that between 1945 and today, we moved from 2,000 liters of milk annually provided by one cow to 12,000 liters of milk so it has been multiplied by six; it’s colossal.

At the end of their short, anguished and pained lives, the dairy cows are mercilessly slaughtered for pet food or hamburger meat. Female calves are sentenced to a same fate as their mother, while male calves are usually kept completely immobilized and later killed only after a few months of life. Veal is the flesh of a horrifically abused, frightened baby cow and another unconscionable by-product of the dairy industry.

They take the calf, lock it up, restrain it in the dark and prevent nearly any movement, why? For a very simple reason: if he moves, if the animal is able to move, he will of course move his muscles and if he moves his muscles, the meat will not be white anymore, but risks becoming pink.

And the meat industry, the industry will tell you straight, without flinching, that the consumers want white calf’s meat. To make sure it is white, the animal cannot move. So the animal is locked in the dark, and the life, not even a life, is that! He is locked in the dark and he cannot move his hooves.

Countless animals are murdered every day in the name of profit and greed. Mr. Nicolino next speaks about the severely detrimental effects of this non-stop slaughter on humanity.

In France, we kill more than a billion farmed animals every year, to feed the French people. More than one billion and they are not only killed but killed in terrible and barbaric conditions. So, this outbreak of barbarity in a society with a peaceful appearance, a democratic appearance, a happy appearance, well what consequences does that have exactly?

I consider that with factory farming, with the meat industry, the human psychology, the human psyche, has been touched in the heart, deeply, extremely deeply. I think that without us realizing it, by accepting the way the farmed animals are treated, we have cut off in fact a notable part of our humanity. I think that the consequences are extraordinarily serious, but that we are absolutely not aware.

Mr. Nicolino does sees hope for a transformation of humanity that finally ends the violence.

Factory farming has existed only a few dozen years. So, what has been done, what has been knitted, can be undone the other way, that’s for sure and certain. Obviously, that cannot be done in a blink of an eye either.

We need a social mobilization, a mobilization of the society that will put forward other values and at the forefront of those values, respect for animals, respect for their physiological rhythm, respect for their mental needs, because animals have mental needs, have psychological needs, they are not inert pieces, they need a certain number of things. So a big scale social movement, which rises with new values, among which is respect for animals.

We salute Mr. Fabrice Nicolino for his work that is calling to the attention of the people of France and beyond that we immediately need a new era filled with peace and loving care of all animals. May this beautiful time soon come to pass.

For more details on Fabrice Nicolino, please visit Fabrice-Nicolino.com or Bidoche-Lelivre.com
“The Meat Industry Threatens Our World” is available at Amazon.fr

Thank you for being with us today on Stop Animal Cruelty. Please join us next Tuesday for Part 2 of our interview with Fabrice Nicolino. Coming up next is Enlightening Entertainment, after Noteworthy News. May all humanity adopt the compassionate organic vegan diet to protect all life.

Dr. Gary Steiner, a university professor and author from the US, calls himself an “ethical vegan,” meaning he believes humanity has a moral obligation towards all .animals.

I really want to separate the question of what people feel like doing or what people think they can accommodate in their lives. I want to separate that kind of question from what I think is a moral question, which is, do we have a right? Are we entitled to eat animals? And I want to be very, very clear that, in my judgment, we don’t have that right.

Learn more of Dr. Steiner's perspective on animal and human relations on “Dr. Gary Steiner – A Vegan Diet is a Moral Obligation” this Friday and Saturday, February 19 and 20, on Animal World: Our Co-Inhabitants.

The images in the following program are very sensitive and may be as disturbing to viewers as they were to us. However, we have to show the truth about cruelty to animals.

Today’s Animal World: Our Co-Inhabitants will be presented in French, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Thai and Spanish.

Peaceful viewers this is the Stop Animal Cruelty series on Supreme Master Television featuring Part 2 of our interview with Fabrice Nicolino. In his latest book entitled “The Meat Industry Threatens our World,” Mr. Nicolino, a French journalist, author and environmental advocate explores the history of the bloody and violent livestock industry.

The book, published in late 2009, has received great attention in France as it is the first work ever in French that investigates the nation’s factory farms. In the book Mr. Nicolino also analyzes the production of animal products across the globe and concludes that the entire system is a clear and present danger to the survival of humanity and our planet.

The sickening truth behind the meat industry is purposely hidden from the world; many people are simply not aware that the neatly packaged corpse for sale was once an actual living being that was inhumanely raised and then murdered.

Indeed, I think that any person with good sense can ask himself the question, “Why do we accept such a thing?”

We transformed the animals into things, and merchandise. We decided that the animals were only pieces and that we needed to commercialize them as quickly as possible. Thus simple and human feelings such as compassion disappeared completely.

We prostrate ourselves today for an industry that considers animals like – less than nothing. And in addition, and that is really the last straw, this meat is detrimental, very bad for human health, really bad, and also disastrous for the ecosystems, the principal ecosystems of the planet. It does knock down entire tropical forests, it damages in fact the climatic equilibrium because the livestock industry emits enormous quantities of greenhouse gases. So the big question is how we did arrive there? Why we did arrive at this disastrous situation?

The frightening consequences of intensive animal agriculture have manifested themselves in one region in France where it has caused a huge increase in algae that emit the toxic and lethal greenhouse gas hydrogen sulfide. In 2009, a horse walking along a beach in Brittany died in just a few short minutes after breathing in the fumes.

The livestock industry is leading us towards a global planetary catastrophe. I’ll give some examples. We need to make sure that it is clear – a very simple example which is French, but which stands for other countries in the world. In France, in Brittany, which is the milk and meat factory of France, and really a region where an enormous amount of animals are concentrated on only seven percent of the landmass of France. In Brittany, there are what we call “green tides.”

There are regularly tides of green algae on the coast, before only in the summer, but now also in the winter. We have known this already for 30 years. There are studies which are piled up, countless studies, we have known for 30 years that 98% of those green tides are produced by a surplus in nitrogen. There are two sources of nitrogen: on the one hand, there is the liquid manure of the animals, and on the other hand, the fertilizers used by industrial agriculture.

We can say that more than half of the phenomenon is caused by the manure of the animals which cannot be cleared and is spread over the fields, but the rain brings the nitrogen of the liquid manure in the rivers, and the rivers bring the nitrogen to the coast and this provokes explosions of green algae, which produce green tides.

Mr. Nicolino says that historically in many nations the livestock industry has always wielded enormous power. He feels the world simply cannot continue to let this appalling industry destroy the planet and massacre billions of animals annually.

It is madness. It is a system which has escaped all social control. It is a system which has expanded, which has a lot of power. In the United States for instance, the meat trusts were considered the most powerful industrial trusts. There is a famous novel in the United States called “The Jungle,” translated into French, named “La Jungle,” from Upton Sinclair. It is a book from 1906 which tells everything already.

And it also talks about the mafia-like arrangements between the meat industries to build real empires. So it’s certain that this industrial empire has acquired a colossal power which makes the entire world tremble, starting with the politicians, and nobody dares to attack it openly. But it’s sure that it is a system without a future. It cannot have a future, and it is bringing us, through the force of its power, in a totally catastrophic direction in my opinion.

When Stop Animal Cruelty returns, we’ll have more from our interview with Mr. Fabrice Nicolino, author of “The Meat Industry Threatens Our World.” Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television.

Because we are saying, from one end of the planet to the other, that the climate issue is the most important one of all. It is more than serious, as it puts all the human civilizations in danger.

People who do ask themselves very, very general questions, about the state of the world, about the state of the planet, find it sometimes difficult to question themselves about what they have on their plate.

This is the Stop Animal Cruelty series on Supreme Master Television. Fabrice Nicolino is a French journalist, environmental advocate and author of “The Meat Industry Threatens our World,” an acclaimed book that exposes the ghastly and savage practice of factory farming and its tremendously negative effects on humanity and our world.

On factory farms, animals like chickens are jammed by the thousands into small enclosures where they never see the Sun and live in utter filth as their waste is rarely, if ever, cleared. They are fed massive doses of drugs to make them grow faster and to just keep them alive as diseases are rampant in their obscene living conditions. These illnesses do not stay confined to these facilities, rather they eventually spread to humans with lethal consequences.

Nowadays, there are many studies; there are dozens and dozens published in the biggest magazines of the planet. In other words, it is not me, Fabrice Nicolino, who is inventing these things, there are really studies published in the biggest journals worldwide. What do these studies say? These studies prove that there are links between a high consumption of red meat or cooked meats and very serious illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses, and certain types of cancer.

These things have been proven, they are not ramblings; they are established issues. So the health consequences are rather dreadful, and more so as they double another phenomenon, the epizootic diseases, which are diseases that are spreading like lightning in the livestock industry. Five years ago, experts announced that the avian flu, which came into existence from poultry farming in Asia, risked to kill tens of millions of humans.

Meanwhile, there have been other warnings of the same kind. There has been the swine flu which is now called the H1N1 flu, but it is a swine flu, which originated in the industrial pig farms. And what seems to be absolutely certain to me is that, sooner or later, apart from the health problems which I mentioned, there will be an epizootic disease that will be transformed into a human pandemic; that seems absolutely evident to me.

A paper by environmental experts Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang which was published by the WorldWatch Institute concluded that the livestock industry is responsible for more than 51% of all human-caused global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the number one source of the highly dangerous greenhouse gas methane, which has 72-times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, is livestock raising.

The livestock industry is responsible for a big part of the greenhouse gas emissions, and the best way - because it is the easiest way, the most direct, the most handy – the best way to fight against the climate crisis today would be to organize in a democratic way the reduction of our meat consumption.

We should say very calmly: “Ladies and gentlemen, we see that the system that we have created is bad, causes problems, maybe insurmountable. So we have to take a step back, we have to find a junction, we have to find a new way and this means a sensible reduction of our over consumption of meat. Everybody would get something out of it, as the health problems would diminish, the problems of epizootic diseases would potentially be less dangerous, and in the same way the climate crisis would be much reduced.

Mr. Nicolino sincerely wishes the world would immediately wake up to unite against the savage factory farming system and encourages action now to end the deep suffering and anguish of our animal friends.

I want the livestock industry to disappear, because it is simply too dangerous! It is too dangerous for humanity and of course for the animals. That speaks for itself.

If this movement gives itself as priority to make the livestock industry disappear, then we might have a chance to stop this infernal machine, because it is an infernal machine! So that we might have a chance to stop the infernal machine before everything explodes! That’s my feeling. It is indeed an appeal for a revolt. There is no doubt. In the book I wrote, there are fundamentally two things I would say:

It is a sentiment of deep sorrow, deep sadness for the fate of the animals. It’s a book that I’ve really dedicated explicitly to the animals, dead without having lived, and that’s very important for me. There is this sentiment that obsesses me, a real sadness. I tell myself, “Why have we humans dared to treat animals in this way? How do we dare treat them like that?”

I think we’ve taken a very bad road, and we definitely have to return back; to look for another way to coexist with the animals.

Be Veg, Go Green, Save the Planet!

We would like to convey our appreciation to Mr. Fabrice Nicolino for his strong advocacy on behalf of the animals by publicizing the reasons why factory farming needs to end immediately. May his important message awake the people of France and beyond. Let us all adopt the compassionate, sustainable organic vegan diet so that all animals may live in peace and to protect the planet’s future.

For more details on Fabrice Nicolino, please visit Fabrice-Nicolino.com ou bidoche-Lelivre.com “The Meat Industry Threatens Our World” is available at Thank you for your presence today on Stop Animal Cruelty. Coming up next is Enlightening Entertainment, after Noteworthy News. May our world be filled with love and kindness.