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	Organized and extreme exploitation of those people is happening every day. There is a systematic misuse of contracts for work labour and an intransparent system of sub- and subsub-corporations. That means the majority of workers is not employed directly in the meat factory but works for corporations who make money by lending their workers to other corporations so, there´s hardly any control of the work conditions possible. And this phenomenon is now also increasing in the dairy industry.		Organized and extreme exploitation of those people is happening every day. There is a systematic misuse of contracts for work labour and an intransparent system of sub- and subsub-corporations. That means the majority of workers is not employed directly in the meat factory but works for corporations who make money by lending their workers to other corporations so, there´s hardly any control of the work conditions possible. And this phenomenon is now also increasing in the dairy industry.

	The workers earn between 2 and 4 Euros per hour and often receive their wage late or sometimes even not at all. They have ~~inbearable~~ working hours: between 12 and 15 hours, often with no or few breaks. There is a lot of time pressure: in average the workers have only a few seconds to kill or trench an animal. That often leads to injuries on the side of the workers and a longer suffering for the animals because of the unclean work. The work places are either very hot or very cold, covered in blood and fat and ~~there`s~~ a high risk of infection.		The workers earn between 2 and 4 Euros per hour and often receive their wage late or sometimes even not at all. They have unbearable working hours: between 12 and 15 hours, often with no or few breaks. There is a lot of time pressure: in average the workers have only a few seconds to kill or trench an animal. That often leads to injuries on the side of the workers and a longer suffering for the animals because of the unclean work. The work places are either very hot or very cold, covered in blood and fat and there’s a high risk of infection.

	Workers from abroad mainly live with many people in very small rooms near the factory grounds and have to share a bed with persons who work different shifts. And for those small rooms and shared beds they often even have to pay quite a high percentage of their wage.		Workers from abroad mainly live with many people in very small rooms near the factory grounds and have to share a bed with persons who work different shifts. And for those small rooms and shared beds they often even have to pay quite a high percentage of their wage.

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	=== Work conditions ===		=== Work conditions ===

			In Central Europe and especially in Germany the mass meat industry managed to create a low wage hell for migrants from mainly Eastern Europe without the public noticing it.

			Organized and extreme exploitation of those people is happening every day. There is a systematic misuse of contracts for work labour and an intransparent system of sub- and subsub-corporations. That means the majority of workers is not employed directly in the meat factory but works for corporations who make money by lending their workers to other corporations so, there´s hardly any control of the work conditions possible. And this phenomenon is now also increasing in the dairy industry.

			The workers earn between 2 and 4 Euros per hour and often receive their wage late or sometimes even not at all. They have inbearable working hours: between 12 and 15 hours, often with no or few breaks. There is a lot of time pressure: in average the workers have only a few seconds to kill or trench an animal. That often leads to injuries on the side of the workers and a longer suffering for the animals because of the unclean work. The work places are either very hot or very cold, covered in blood and fat and there`s a high risk of infection.

			Workers from abroad mainly live with many people in very small rooms near the factory grounds and have to share a bed with persons who work different shifts. And for those small rooms and shared beds they often even have to pay quite a high percentage of their wage.

			Also, the people working in the meat industry often suffer from psychological consequences not only of the hard work conditions but also of the brutality and violence they have to see and commit every day. Some people develop post traumatic stress symptoms, many get short tempered and aggressive, especially against the animals but also against other people and often people start drinking to forget the pictures in their minds. People also report that they got emotionally numb after a while and that you can`t survive, if you don`t become hard inside.

	=== World market ===		=== World market ===

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	Calcium is contained in seeds, nuts, pulses, grains (whole-meal) and many vegetables (particularly green ones).		Calcium is contained in seeds, nuts, pulses, grains (whole-meal) and many vegetables (particularly green ones).

			== Further information ==

			* Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_production Environmental impact of meat production]
			* Movie “Earthlings” (available online, for example on YouTube)
			* Book “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows” by Melanie Joy

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	On the Biketour, all common meals and all things bought by communal money are vegan. This means that they should not contain neither any animals (meat, fish, chicken, gelatine, shrimps, lobsters, carmine, leather, etc.) nor any products produced by animals (milk, eggs, honey, bee’s wax, wool). In case you are wondering why the Biketour is vegan and what veganism has to with environmental and social justice, here is an overview over the the ethical, social, environmental and health problems that come with the consumption of animal products.		On the Biketour, all common meals and all things bought by communal money are vegan. This means that they should not contain neither any animals (meat, fish, chicken, gelatine, shrimps, lobsters, carmine, leather, etc.) nor any products produced by animals (milk, eggs, honey, bee’s wax, wool). In case you are wondering why the Biketour is vegan and what veganism has to with environmental and social justice, here is an overview over the the ethical, social, environmental and health problems that come with the consumption of animal products.

	~~''(To be written)''~~

	== Animal Rights ==		== Animal Rights ==

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Candid at 18:14, 27 April 2016

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	What about people who live in places where growing plants is not possible and killing animals is the only source of food? In the same way as no one would argue that it is immoral for me to kill someone who is about to murder me in defense, even though I would argue that they have the right not to be killed, no one would argue that it is immoral to kill animals for food if there is no other choice (although some people might argue that in some cases, the people living in those places should consider moving somewhere else). The important part is that in Europe, we are not in this situation.		What about people who live in places where growing plants is not possible and killing animals is the only source of food? In the same way as no one would argue that it is immoral for me to kill someone who is about to murder me in defense, even though I would argue that they have the right not to be killed, no one would argue that it is immoral to kill animals for food if there is no other choice (although some people might argue that in some cases, the people living in those places should consider moving somewhere else). The important part is that in Europe, we are not in this situation.

	== ~~Environment~~ ==		== Environmental consequences of animal farming ==

	=== Water consumption ===		=== Water consumption ===
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	* Emissions (Farting + Transport + Smell)		* Emissions (Farting + Transport + Smell)

	== Social ==		== Social consequences of animal farming ==

	* Antibiotics		=== Antibiotics ===
	* Working conditions
	* Subsidies (costs + world market) (link to capitalism)

	== Health ==		Because of the catastrophic conditions under which animals are kept in factory farms, the only way to prevent diseases from spreading is to pump all the animals full of antibiotics. 80% of all antibiotics produced are given to animals.

			There are many different types of antibiotics, but each one becomes useless after a while, after bacteria have evolved to be resistant to them. We are already at a point where for some diseases and for some patients, there are no functional antibiotics left, and in the future, there will be less and less available. Factory farming plays a major role in this.

			=== Work conditions ===



			=== World market ===

			The animal industry is highly subsidised in Europe. Because of this, European animal products can be sold cheaply all over the world, keeping local farmers poor and destroying local economies in countries of the Global South.

			At the same time, the high demand from Europe and North America for animal feed raises the prices for crops on the world market, making food even less affordable for many people in the Global South.

			== Health aspects ==

	* Antibiotics		* Antibiotics
	* Diseases		* Diseases
	* Vitamins (B12, iodine, iron, calcium, etc.)		* Vitamins (B12, iodine, iron, calcium, etc.)

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 == Environment ==
-* Water consumption
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-cow drinks 180 l per day
-* Soya
+A cow can drink as much as 180 l of waters on a hot day. Producing one kilogram of beef uses up about 15000 l of water (pork: 5500, cheese: 5000, chicken: 4000, egg: 3500, rice: 2500, wheat: 1500, potatoes: 130).
-* Pollution of water and soil
 * Land
 * Emissions (Farting + Transport + Smell)

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	On the Biketour, all common meals and all ~~food bough~~ by communal money is vegan. Here are some different aspects of how a vegan diet/lifestyle is connected to the other Biketour values.		On the Biketour, all common meals and all things bought by communal money are vegan. This means that they should not contain neither any animals (meat, fish, chicken, gelatine, shrimps, lobsters, carmine, leather, etc.) nor any products produced by animals (milk, eggs, honey, bee’s wax, wool). Here are some different aspects of how a vegan diet/lifestyle is connected to the other Biketour values.

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	You might understand some of the reasons for a vegetarian diet now, but what has veganism to do with it?		You might understand some of the reasons for a vegetarian diet now, but what has veganism to do with it?

	* Milk/egg production		Producing milk or eggs is not possible without killing animals.
	* Conditions in ~~factory~~ farming (+ organic)
	* No choice?		A cow only gives milk for a while (maximum milk production for about 4 months, after that the produced milk gets less and less) after having a child. So if you keep a cow to get the milk, you have to make sure that she gets pregnant at least every once in a while. Cows usually live for about 20 years, so you can either kill the cow after she had one or two children, or you have to kill the children, because otherwise you will have more and more cows. Both is done on all cow farms, no matter if they are factory farms, small farms, or organic farms. Milk cows are usually killed after 5 years (because the milk production gets lower as they grow older), they are inseminated once a year, and the male children are killed after a few weeks.

			About 50% of the eggs that chickens lay would create a male chicken. Male chickens are not needed for egg production, so they are usually killed (in the gas chamber or in a grinder) on the day that they hatch. In addition, like all birds, chickens lay a new egg when you take the egg away that they are brooding. So when you take away the egg every day, they will lay a new one every day, otherwise they would only lay one every month. (Although there are some breeds that have been bred to not brood, so they lay an egg once a day by themselves.) Laying so many eggs is very stressful for chickens, and while usually growing 5–7 years old, chickens who have to lay an egg every day die at half that age. Additionally, in factory farming, most chickens are really unhealthy because of the constant laying and have calcium deficiency. So even if the chickens weren’t getting slaughtered, taking their eggs away still kills them.

			Many people argue that they only consume organic animal products, or only buy animal products from a farmer they trust. First of all, if this is at all true, it probably only applies to meat, milk and eggs that they buy directly, but not to all the products that have meat, milk or eggs added to them. Second of all, the conditions of organic factory farming are often only slightly better, sometimes even worse than those of non-organic factory farming. For chickens for example, the space per chicken in battery caging is about half an A4 page per chicken, in floor-raising about one A4 page per chicken, in free-range farming about 1½ A4 pages and in organic farming about 2 A4 pages. In organic farming, chickens have to have a space outside the barn, but often farmers don’t allow them to go out because of the danger of spreading diseases, as they are not allowed to use antibiotics. Despite the differences in how the animals are kept, all methods of dairy and egg farming have in common that they have to kill most or all of the animals that they are keeping.

			What about people who live in places where growing plants is not possible and killing animals is the only source of food? In the same way as no one would argue that it is immoral for me to kill someone who is about to murder me in defense, even though I would argue that they have the right not to be killed, no one would argue that it is immoral to kill animals for food if there is no other choice (although some people might argue that in some cases, the people living in those places should consider moving somewhere else). The important part is that in Europe, we are not in this situation.

	== Environment ==		== Environment ==

	* Water consumption		* Water consumption
			cow drinks 180 l per day
	* Soya		* Soya
	* Pollution of water and soil		* Pollution of water and soil

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 * Milk/egg production
 * Conditions in factory farming (+ organic)
 == Environment ==

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On the Biketour, all common meals and all food bough by communal money is vegan. Here are some different aspects of how a vegan diet/lifestyle is connected to the other Biketour values.

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== Animal rights ==

* Ethics (speaking, relationships, pain, imagination of death, thinking, expressing emotions)
* Milk/egg production
* Conditions in factory farming (+ organic)

== Environment ==

* Water consumption
* Soya
* Pollution of water and soil
* Land
* Emissions (Farting + Transport + Smell)

== Social ==

* Antibiotics
* Working conditions
* Subsidies (costs + world market) (link to capitalism)

== Health ==

* Antibiotics
* Diseases
* Vitamins (B12, iodine, iron, calcium, etc.)