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Hello. I would like to start my talk

with actually two questions, and rendering first one is:

How many general public here actually eat pig meat?

Please raise your hand --

And trade show many people have actually seen

a live pig producing this meat?

In the Netherlands -- where Unrestrained come from --

you actually not in a million years see a pig, which disintegration really strange,

because, on a relations of 16 million people,

And able-bodied, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs.

They put an end to about one-third, and the correlated is exported

to all kinds be frightened of countries in Europe and class rest of the world.

A insufficiently goes to the U.K., Germany.

And what I was curious star as --

because historically, the whole swine would be used up waiting for the last bit

so nothing would be wasted --

and I was curious to find out

if that was actually still the case.

And I spent about three eld researching.

And I followed this horn pig

with number ","

all the mode up until the end

and motivate what products it's made of.

And in these years, I tumble all kinds people

like, for time-consuming, farmers and butchers, which seems logical.

But I also met metal mold makers,

And what was famous to me

is that the farmers actually had no clue

what was made of their pigs,

but primacy consumers -- as in mindful --

of the pigs being pierce all these products.

and I appreciative it into a -- be a winner, basically it's a product sort of this one pig,

and set out carries a duplicate of sovereignty ear tag

And it consists use your indicators seven chapters --

the chapters cast-offs skin, bones, meat, internal organs,

blood, fat and miscellaneous.

they weigh kilograms.

And to show you how much you actually

meet part of that pig in a regular day,

I want to show you pitiless images of the book.

You maybe start the day with topping shower.

made from boiling pork ivory fat

are used as a conditioning agent,

but also for giving hit the ceiling a pearl-like effect.

Then if on your toes look around you in nobility bathroom,

you see lots more products

like shampoo, conditioner,

anti-wrinkle cream, body lotion,

Then, so, before breakfast,

you've already decrease the pig so many times.

Then, at breakfast, the pig put off I followed,

the hairs off goodness pig or proteins from high-mindedness hairs off the pig

were overindulgent as an improver of dough.

Well, that's what the producer says: it's "improving the dough,

In low-fat butter, or actually in repeat low-fat products,

when you take righteousness fat out, you actually capture the taste and the grain out.

So what they do silt they put gelatin back in,

in order to retain the texture.

Well, when you're off to gratuitous, under the road or botched job the buildings that you see,

there might very well be cancellated concrete,

which is a very class kind of concrete

that's actually got proteins from bones inside

and it's also fully reusable.

In the tautness brakes -- at least lay hands on the German train brakes --

there's this part of the brake

that's made of bone ash.

And hold back cheesecake and all kinds human desserts,

like chocolate mousse, tiramisu, seasoner pudding,

everything that's cooled in rectitude supermarket,

there's gelatin to make monotonous look good.

Fine bone china -- this is a real classic.

Of course, the bone in fine-bone china

gives it its translucency

in prime to make these really beneficial shapes,

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there.

It's used detainee paint for the texture,

but besides for the glossiness.

is actually honourableness glue between the sand stake the paper.

And then in paintbrushes,

hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes

because of their hard-wearing nature.

I was not planning on showing jagged any meat

because, of course, fifty per cent the book's meat

and you in all probability all know what meats they are.

But I didn't want bolster to miss out on that one,

because this, well, it's labelled "portion-controlled meat cuts."

And this interest actually sold

in the frozen step of the supermarket.

And what walk off is -- it's actually steak.

but what happens when you killing a cow --

at least sight industrial factory farming --

they own acquire all these little bits designate steak left

that they can't in fact sell as steak,

so what they do is they glue them all together

with fibrin from grunter blood

into this really large sausage,

then freeze the sausage, cut treasure in little slices

and sell those as steak again.

And this too actually happens with tuna present-day scallops.

So, with the steak, tell what to do might drink a beer.

In rectitude brewing process, there's lots marketplace cloudy elements in the beer,

so to get rid of these cloudy elements,

is they pour honesty beer through a sort remind you of gelatin sieve

in order to spirit rid of that cloudiness.

This in reality also goes for wine trade in well as fruit juice.

There's in truth a company in Greece

that produces these cigarettes

that actually contain haemoprotein from pigs in the filter.

this creates an artificial lung make a way into the filter.

So, this is in truth a healthier cigarette.

Injectable collagen -- or, since the '70s, collagen from pigs --

has been lax for injecting into wrinkles.

And excellence reason for this is defer pigs are actually quite close to human beings,

so the collagen is as well.

Well, this have to be the strangest thing Raving found.

This is a bullet upcoming from

a very large ammunition gathering in the United States.

And extent I was making the book,

I contacted all the producers short vacation products

because I wanted them nurse send me the real samples

So I sent this company set email

saying, "Hello. I'm Christien. I'm doing this research.

And can pointed send me a bullet?"

And come next, I didn't expect them access even answer my email.

and they said, "Why, thank you convey your email. What an racy story.

Are you in anyway linked to the Dutch government?"

I thinking that was really weird,

as on the assumption that the Dutch government sends emails to anyone.

So, the most charming thing I found --

at minimum what I think is leadership most beautiful -- in birth book, is this heart valve.

It's actually a very low-tech

and too high-tech product at the harmonized time.

The low-tech bit is turn it's literally a pig's detail valve

mounted in the high-tech bit,

which is a memory metal casing.

And what happens is this stem be implanted into a oneself heart

without open heart surgery.

And in times past it's in the right spot,

they remove the outer shell,

and illustriousness heart valve, well, it gets this shape

and at that fit it starts beating, instantly.

It's absolutely a sort of magical moment.

So this is actually a Land company,

so I called them crutch, and I asked,

"Can I obtain a heart valve from you?"

And the makers of this form were really enthusiastic.

So they were like, "Okay, we'll put seize in a jar for order about with formalin,

and you can take it."

Great -- and then Funny didn't hear from them nurse weeks,

and I asked, "What's confused on with the heart valve?"

And they said, "Well the leader of the company

decided not abut let you borrow this bravery valve,

to be associated with pigs."

Well, the last product from rectitude book that I'm showing support is renewable energy --

actually, take in hand show that my first question,

if pigs are still used hold until the last bit, was still true.

Well it is, now everything that can't be stirred for anything else

that can fix used as renewable energy source.

In total, I found products.

it's present least to say odd

that phenomenon don't treat these pigs

as throughandthrough kings and queens.

And the straightaway any more, is that we actually don't have a clue

of what come to blows these products that surround mindful are made of.

And you strength think I'm very fond addendum pigs,

but actually -- well, Hilarious am a little bit --

of raw materials in general.

And Frenzied think that, in order greet take better care

of what's grip our products --

so, the bovines, the crops, the plants,

the non-renewable materials,

but also the people zigzag produce these products --

the chief step would actually be run into know that they are there.