I bought my first little calf
when I was seven
I had to break my piggy-bank
and still had not enough
But I used to do small summer jobs
I used to work with my father after school
and I threw mysef into animal farming
more or less at eight
The first birth I experienced
has stayed with me all my life
because the calf was still-born
something that for many
would mean the end of their debut
but for me it worked in
the opposite direction
motivating me to work harder.
I accepted that nature
is black and white
it's life and death
the poles are very close to each other
Then in speaking again with
the farm where I used to go
to learn French and farming
they told me that in their family
there was someone that was
going to retire in Hamoir
So we bought the farm
which is not an easy feast
for a boy of 19
to go and live somewhere far
without knowing anyone around
Financially we always make projections
of numbers and costs
but we can never account
for all the factors involved
we depend on so many things
that we cannot calculate in advance
There was for instance the mad cow
disease that was beginning in England
and the whole market came down
there was no profits to be made
so we had just begun and all the calculations
we had made in advance
did not match anymore
So it reminded me of when I had
my first still-born calf
I found myself again in a pile of shit
so to say
and we had to get out of there!
It may seem strange
to bring the whole herd to just get a cow
but it is like this that we keep
the animals calm
And you see she is looking
at the herd because she wants
to get back with them
I have a friend that is bringing
a bull later
and when he arrives
he is not going to feel well
but when there are two girls
to keep him company
he is comfortable
With the transport he can be
stressed
but when we give him company
he is reassured
if this was not the case
he would wonder what is going on
So all of this is to keep him
calm!
You are a master of being calm!
In another life you might
have been a meditation master
Noooo but it is...
I think you were a Yogi
on top of a mountain!
Well it is something that works
95% of the time
but there are still times when it is not easy
Here there is a bunch of weeds
but when the cows have eaten
what they need and there is too much
of it left we pass the lawnmower
and pulverise the lot and that's it
we see nettle in the prairie
but it's not a drama
And tell me Guy
these are the feces that we see
dry later
They are very liquid to begin with!
That is because in this prairie
there is a lot of clover
which means a lot of protein
and therefore the excrement
is more liquid
You can find prairies with harder grasses
where the excrements are harder
This dries and becomes this
and in this there is a lot of insects
and life that prospers
Often when we take a piece of
excrement like this...
well if I smell it... it does not smell bad
at all!
Well like compost! Compost too
when it has been worked does not smell
The smell is like when you cut grass!
When we see more holes on top
it means there are more larvae
but with certain chemical products
such as de-wormers for cows
the cows goes to defecate
and there is no more life in it
the chemical cuts off nature
You see here you can see well
the small holes are beginning...
And well recently we have had a period
of real cold and that has slowed down
most insects because it was too cold
but now we are getting back
to warmer nights and
I am sure that if the temperature
keeps on this level and we come back
in a few days and look under
there will be 10 times more life
She is one of the eldest of the herd
She is losing her fur?
Well it's the season for them to do so
that is why she has completely lost it
but the other one there
still has some on the side
they are changing to a summer fur
There are some humans that are
a lot more dependent on the group
and other that are fine being...
Yes that are more individuals!
and so in relation to cows you say
it is the same!
Yes eh!
That is the cow we were talking about
the one who has a strong temperament
Do find some animals are really
special in their behaviour?
Yes, absolutely, there is a tie
like in all big families
and there are of course some small
preferences! There are cows
we like better than others
Wow really! For pigs as well?
Yes among pigs as well!
For me it is easy to relate to
what you are talking about
if we talk about cats and dogs
Well it is less strong than that
but it is a bit like that
When I had some chickens
there were chickens that when I arrived
would come towards me
there was one that loved to be hugged
she would allow me to take her
and caress her like a cat
and the others would run away!
I confirm that well...
slowly one grows a desire to nurture her
Right!
How much time will it take Guy
for that calf to arrive at maturity?
Well to be ready for meat
about 8 months
So we kill the animal
when it is really young
For calf meat yes but for cow meat
it is cows of all ages
that are not apt to produce calfs
and are "reformed" we say
and that is cow meat
and for calf meat it is calves that
are as old as the one we saw earlier
of more or less 8 months
I find it a kind of macabre the fact
that humans have built a market that
thrives on the killing of small animals
Yes you are right! There are some
people that eat only adults because
they have had the time to grow
but there are two issues
and that is that all the male calves
when we want to let them all
free to grow on the priaire
when they come to maturity
they are full of testosterone
and it is going to be difficult to
keep the group together
it is always going to degenerate
into a battle for dominance
so that is one reason one males we like
to eliminate early
or else they should be castrated
and for the females calves
we keep them to replace the cows
that go for meat
but there are also some young
females that do not have the type of hip
to give birth alone
and so there is a selection to do
and those females go for meat
So it is not only the consumer's demand
It is both demand and selection
because when we keep all the females
we inevitably decrease
the percentage of births done on their own
If we have for instance 20 female calves
and we keep all of them
to replace the other cows
that is not the right technique
one needs to keep the five or ten
that have the desired characteristics
for being good mothers
a good hip to give birth naturally
and genes necessary for enough milk
for the calves
That is a way of selecting
So you were saying in relation to vaccines
this is a vaccine for tetanus
and remind me! It is two times...
Yes two times with a recall
in 4 weeks from the first shot
And then they are done for life?
Yes, right!
And we vaccinate the sheep
for tetanus too before they give birth
So to be more precise about treatements
How many times do we admnistrate
antibiotics in one year?
Well in traditional farming
such as us before with the Blanc Bleu
antibiotics were given about 300 hundred times
per year
3 times per year
300 times per year
300 times per year!!
And here you have given
in the last year
only two times for an animal
No! One time for two animals!
It is on the scale of human use
perhaps even inferior
Moreover an animal that is treated
several times with antibiotics
in his lifetime
will be automatically excluded from
meat consumption
So the probability that a client
will be affected by the injection
of antibiotics is extremely low!?
It is extremel low also because
when an animal is treated
the time of delay before his use is double
that of traditional circuits
[Yessss! This means that
if you win it's going to be a good
morning for you because on top of
the 200 Euros we are giving you...]
This is the bridge with which
everything began
It is during the construction of it
that you met that person that...
that has the butcher shop!
And that person wanted to change job?
He was himself in transition right!?
Right! Right!
And he wanted to open a butcher shop?
Yes!
Why? Were his parents in the domain?
No, not at all!
How did he get into this business?
Well, he wanted to do something
completely different for himself
a butcher shop or a fish shop
All right!
Don't laugh because if we fall here
everone is going to see it!
[laughter]
We don't play smart here!
Here it is a piece of meat that is not bio
you can see it directly by the texture
because it does not hold together
it's quite wet you see?
Organic meat is more compact
And this is meat that was cut yesterday
it is stil good but it is already
beginning to change color
Is this not normal?
It is normal for this kind of meat
but for organic meat it would not
Organic meat would preserve a uniform
color everywhere
The Limousine species has more fat
in the meat and it is for this
that it preserves better
We can keep this meat three weeks
or even a month in a fridge
and make no losses because it has
this much fat on it.
And the color is deep red
compared to the Blanc Bleu
wich is very pale and light in color
because it is an animal that is
always in the cowshed
under artificial lights and nourished
for the short term and killed often young
after a year and half
and this cow here has ten years
and has always eaten grass
which contains ion from which
the red color is derived
In four or five days
the inside too will be oxidised
but with organic meat not
Organic meat is touched on the outside
but not in the inside
Non organic meat oxidises outside
and then inside
To take it off the bone
if it stays a couple of days in the fridge
it is a lot more difficult than
non organic meat
This type of meat even after two weeks
you can take it off the bone
even with your hands!
About 12 years ago in the south of France
I met those farmers in France
with the same number animals
but that sleep all the nights
of the year in full
and that showed me their stocks
of two small containers of
500-700 Kilos
and that I saw at my place that
we got delivered the feeding for the
Blanc Bleu with 15 tons trucks!...
I started slowly to think:
"Do we, in Belgium, by following
the farming of Blanc Bleu that
everyone practices
Are we really on the right path?"
Then there was another time
I was touched
When we started the Sharlese sheep
we went to buy them in Buxiere les Mines
near Dijon
and there the farmer had perhaps
double the number of bovines
but when I saw the life-quality he led
and the comforts he had
compared to me with the Blanc Bleu
I once more asked myself the same
question.
And there I began to think that by
having a much more natural cow
that can do all naturally
with the grass on the prairies
It is true that it was going to be
difficult to commercialise it
but on the positive side of things
the risk would be minimal
to begin with because we do not
have to receive every 15 days
tons of grain or mais
and all of that
We redue the risks because it is a lot
less costly
After all how can we justify a bovine
that needs a caesarian intervention
99% of the times?
A bovine that is raised in a cowshed
from birth to death
how to justify this to a consumer
that thinks about what he eats!?
I told myself "I am going to
risk it and detach myself completely
from the traditional system
but if so I will have to work hard
to find a way to sell the products
by myself
There is a lot of consumers that
I did not imagine before
that think like me about everything
before doing anything
Good consumers today are worried about
the planet and respects the environment
and so he consumes products that reflect this
and I think that it is because of them
that we have the chance to sell all our products
To do like everyone does
and to not reflect on what we are doing
and to think that
because everyone does it
it must be good
puts us completely in the wrong place!
Human consciousness is at the same
time as being a form of awareness
sensitivity and understanding
it is also a form of ignorance
the ordinary everyday consciousness
that we have leaves out more
than it takes in
and because of this it leaves out
things that are terribly important
it leaves out things that would if we
did know them allay our anxieties
and fears and horrors
we would have a deeper interior peace
now the question that is absolutely basic
for all human beings is:
"what have you left out?"
We pay attention to the things within
the field of consciousness
to the outlines to the objects
to the so called things that are in the field
of vision
the sounds that are in the field of hearing
but what it is that ever it is
that embracecs all of that?
We do not pay much attention
to it!
You
as an aperture through which the
universe is observing itself
cannot be a mere fluke
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