Name: 如何結束工廠化養殖 | Lewis Bollard | TED (How to End Factory Farming | Lewis Bollard | TED)
Uploaded: 2025-09-28T13:23:58.000Z
Duration: 11 min 17 s

Today, I want to talk with you about one of the most important moral issues we never talk about, and that's factory farming.

今天，我想和大家談談我們從未談論過的一個最重要的道德問題，那就是工廠化農業。

But first, I want to share with you the story of how I came to be here.

但首先，我想與你們分享我是如何來到這裡的故事。

I grew up in New Zealand, and yes, we had a sheep farm.

我在紐西蘭長大，是的，我們有一個養羊場。

It was small, 100 acres of rolling hills, and the sheep would graze the hillsides by day, and then retreat to the hilltops to circle up and fall asleep at night.

羊群白天在山坡上吃草，晚上退到山頂圈起來睡覺。

That's me, ready to farm right after my pickback.

這就是我，在回挑之後就準備耕種。

The sheep ultimately went to slaughter, but I always felt like at least they'd lived good lives and had quick deaths.

羊最終還是被宰殺了，但我總覺得至少它們活得很好，死得也很快。

Frankly, if I'm ever reincarnated as a sheep, which, as a New Zealander, is not unlikely, I'd like to live their life.

老實說，如果有一天我投胎成了一隻羊，作為新西蘭人，這也不是不可能的，我想過他們的生活。

When I was a teenager, we traveled to Vietnam, and in the back streets of Hanoi, I stumbled into a live animal market.

十幾歲時，我們去越南旅行，在河內的小街上，我偶然發現了一個活體動物市場。

I still remember seeing the site, stacks upon stacks of cages, crammed full of animals of every species, trembling in fear, staring out at me in distress.

我仍然記得看到的情景，一摞一摞的籠子裡擠滿了各種動物，它們在恐懼中顫抖，痛苦地望著我。

I was shaken, but when I returned to New Zealand, I figured things were different.

我被震撼了，但當我回到紐西蘭時，我覺得事情已經不一樣了。

I mean, you can see the cows and the sheep in the fields.

我是說，你可以看到田野裡的牛羊。

Still, I started to wonder how we treated the animals that you couldn't see.

不過，我還是開始好奇，我們是如何對待那些你看不見的動物的。

How in particular did we treat the pigs and the chickens?

於是，我就像你當年那樣做了。

I picked up a phone book, and I looked up some pig and chicken farms.

我拿起電話簿，查找了一些養豬場和養雞場。

And one by one, I called, and I naively asked if I could just come visit.

我一個接一個地打電話，天真地問我能不能去拜訪一下。

Finally, I got hold of a major slaughterhouse and connected with a farm boy.

最後，我找到了一家大型屠宰場，並聯繫上了一個農場男孩。

Now, this slaughterhouse didn't do visitors either, but Liam and I bonded over sheep, and he agreed to get me in.

現在，這家屠宰場也不接待遊客，但利亞姆和我因羊結緣，他同意讓我進去。

Honestly, the slaughterhouse wasn't as bad as I'd expected.

老實說，屠宰場並沒有我想象的那麼糟糕。

It was the state of the animals arriving there that shook me.

讓我震撼的是到達那裡的動物的狀況。

I remember seeing pigs coming down off a transport truck, some shaking, some squealing, some limping in pain.

我記得看到豬從運輸車上下來，有的在顫抖，有的在尖叫，有的痛苦地一瘸一拐。

Liam, I said, why are those pigs limping?

連姆，我說，那些豬為什麼一瘸一拐的？

Before I tell you what I learned, let me say I'm not here to tell you what to eat.

在告訴你我學到了什麼之前，請允許我說，我不是來告訴你該吃什麼的。

In fact, I don't think this should be on you as an individual consumer at all.

事實上，我認為這完全不應該由作為消費者的您來承擔。

When the factory farms came in and replaced the old family farms, they didn't tell you they were doing it.

當工廠化農場出現並取代老式家庭農場時，他們並沒有告訴你他們在做什麼。

They didn't relabel the meat as now for miserable animals.

他們並沒有把肉重新貼上標籤，因為現在的肉是給可憐的動物吃的。

They labeled it as all natural and farm fresh.

他們將其標註為全天然和農場新鮮產品。

In fact, the industry has created an entire system to stop you from seeing how your meat is produced.

事實上，肉類加工業已經建立了一整套系統，讓你無法看到肉類是如何生產出來的。

They've even passed ag-gag laws in US states to make it a crime to record conditions in factory farms, which makes it all the more important that we see what they're trying to hide from us.

他們甚至在美國各州通過了禁言法，將記錄工廠化農場的條件定為犯罪，這使得我們更有必要了解他們試圖對我們隱瞞的事情。

So I'm going to show you images of three common factory farming practices.

是以，我將向你們展示三種常見的工廠化養殖方式的圖片。

I deliberately didn't choose the most gruesome or out-there practices I could find.

我故意不選擇我能找到的最可怕或最離奇的做法。

These are everyday realities involved in the production of most pork and eggs globally.

這些都是全球大多數豬肉和雞蛋生產過程中的日常現實。

This is why the pigs at the slaughterhouse were limping.

這就是屠宰場的豬一瘸一拐的原因。

They were female breeding pigs who had been confined to crates like these, unable to walk or even turn around for their entire pregnancies.

它們都是雌性種豬，在懷孕期間一直被關在這樣的箱子裡，不能行走，甚至不能轉身。

Once they gave birth, they were moved to slightly larger birthing crates and then back into these crates to get pregnant again, and again and again for years on end.

一旦分娩，它們就會被轉移到稍大一點的產箱中，然後又回到這些產箱中再次懷孕，如此反覆數年。

A friend of mine who worked undercover at a pig factory farm told me the worst thing he has ever done was to force these pigs back into their crates after they gave birth.

我的一位朋友曾在一家養豬廠農場臥底，他告訴我，他做過的最糟糕的事情就是在這些豬分娩後把它們強行關回籠子裡。

他們拼命掙扎，不想再進去了。

This is a photo I took of a battery cage on an egg factory farm.

這是我拍攝的一張蛋雞工廠化養殖場的籠子照片。

Most of the world's eight billion egg-laying hens, roughly one for every person alive on earth today, are confined right now in cages like these, unable to so much as flap their wings.

全世界 80 億隻產蛋雞中的大多數，也就是今天地球上大約每人一隻，現在都被關在這樣的籠子裡，連扇動翅膀都做不到。

And this is a trash can full of live baby chicks.

I honestly didn't believe this one when I first heard about it.

老實說，我第一次聽到這個消息時並不相信。

It just sounded like comic book villain stuff.

聽起來就像漫畫書裡的反派角色。

The egg industry has no need for the seven billion male chicks born annually.

蛋雞產業不需要每年出生的 70 億隻雄雞。

So it kills them on their first day alive in this world, typically by throwing them in the trash or into a giant meat grinder.

是以，在他們活在這個世界上的第一天就會被殺死，通常是被扔進垃圾桶或巨大的絞肉機。

我還可以繼續說下去，不過別擔心，我不會說了。

I'm guessing you're not a fan of what you just saw.

我猜你不喜歡剛才看到的內容。

And you're not alone. 88 percent of Americans told a recent survey that they think gestation crates and battery cages are unacceptable.

你並不孤單。最近的一項調查顯示，88% 的美國人認為妊娠籠和電池籠是不可接受的。

Try finding any other issue that 88 percent of Americans can agree on today.

試著找找今天有 88% 的美國人能夠達成共識的其他問題。

We, as a society, have already decided that animal cruelty is wrong.

作為一個社會，我們已經認定虐待動物是錯誤的。

If you treated your dog the way that a factory farm treats their pigs, you'd be committing felony animal cruelty in most US states.

如果你像工廠化養殖場對待豬那樣對待你的狗，那麼在美國大多數州，你都會犯下虐待動物的重罪。

Factory farms, which densely crowd together hundreds of thousands, even millions of near-genetically identical, immune-compromised individuals, are the perfect breeding grounds for disease.

工廠化養殖場密集地飼養著數十萬甚至數百萬個基因近乎相同、免疫力低下的個體，是疾病滋生的絕佳溫床。

They control these diseases with antibiotics.

In fact, even as we face an antibiotic-resistant crisis in humans, we are feeding far more antibiotics to farm animals than we use in all human medicine.

事實上，即使在人類面臨抗生素耐藥性危機的時候，我們給農場動物餵食的抗生素卻遠遠多於所有人類藥物的使用量。

But antibiotics can't stop viruses, which is why we have a bird flu pandemic sweeping through America's factory farms right now.

但抗生素無法阻止病毒，這就是為什麼現在禽流感大流行席捲了美國的工廠化農場。

After I learned all this, I dedicated my life to ending the worst abuses on factory farms.

瞭解到這一切後，我畢生致力於結束工廠化農場最惡劣的虐待行為。

And the good news is, I've seen more progress in the last decade than in all prior decades combined.

好消息是，我在過去十年中看到的進步比之前幾十年的總和還要多。

On these three practices, we are close to a tipping point.

在這三種做法上，我們已接近臨界點。

Advocates have won bans on them in 11 US states, from California to Florida.

從加利福尼亞州到佛羅里達州，倡導者已在美國 11 個州贏得了禁令。

The Brazilian pork industry, led by giants like JBS, is moving away from the crates entirely.

以 JBS 等巨頭為首的巴西豬肉業正在完全摒棄板條箱。

Advocates have won promises from the world's largest supermarket and fast-food chains to stop sourcing eggs from caged hens.

倡導者贏得了全球最大的超市和快餐連鎖店的承諾，停止採購籠養母雞的雞蛋。

McDonald's is now 100 percent cage-free in its US and Canadian egg supply, and Costco is nearly there, too. 44 percent of US hens are now out of cages, up from less than 10 percent a decade ago.

目前，麥當勞在美國和加拿大的雞蛋供應已經實現了 100% 的無籠養，好市多也幾乎實現了這一目標。現在，44% 的美國母雞已經離開了籠子，而十年前這一比例還不到 10%。

Innovators have developed a novosexing technology that allows the egg industry to only hatch the female chicks.

創新者已經開發出一種新絕育技術，使蛋雞業只孵化雌雞。

Thanks to that, Germany recently banned the killing of day-old chicks entirely, and France and Italy are largely doing so, too.

正因為如此，德國最近完全禁止宰殺雛雞，法國和意大利也基本禁止宰殺雛雞。

Other innovators are developing alternative proteins, made from plants, algae, even animal cells, to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein without more factory farming.

其他創新者正在開發由植物、藻類甚至動物細胞製成的替代蛋白質，以滿足世界對動物蛋白質日益增長的需求，而無需更多的工廠化養殖。

And yet, for all this progress, the problem overall is still growing worse.

然而，儘管取得了這些進展，但總體問題仍然日益嚴重。

More animals are suffering at human hands today than at any prior point in our history.

今天，在人類手中受苦受難的動物比我們歷史上任何時候都要多。

We raise and kill 210 billion animals globally every year. 210 billion.

我們每年在全球飼養和宰殺 2100 億隻動物。2100億

That's more than the number of humans who have ever lived on earth.

這比地球上曾經生活過的人類數量還要多。

We are the only species to have ever inflicted so much suffering on so many other animals.

我們是唯一給其他許多動物帶來如此多痛苦的物種。

But we are also the only species to have ever acted to protect other animals from cruelty.

但我們也是唯一曾採取行動保護其他動物免受虐待的物種。

One day, humanity will end the worst abuses on factory farms.

終有一天，人類會結束工廠化農場最嚴重的虐待行為。

And when we do, our descendants will look back and ask what we did to help end them.

到那時，我們的後代回首往事時，就會問我們做了什麼來幫助結束它們。

那麼，您能做些什麼來幫助我們呢？

You can advocate, donate, even devote your career to this cause.

您可以倡導、捐贈，甚至將自己的職業生涯獻給這項事業。

But if you do just one thing, I ask this.

但如果你們只做一件事，我請求你們：

Tell the corporations you buy from, the politicians you vote for, that you expect them to adopt at least basic animal welfare standards.

告訴你購買的公司和你投票支持的政客，你希望他們至少採用基本的動物福利標準。

Tell your friends and family what you've learned about factory farming.

告訴您的親朋好友您所瞭解的工廠化農業。

Factory farming thrives in the dark, shielded by a cone of silence, ignored by our politicians, our media and society at large.

工廠化農業在黑暗中茁壯成長，受到沉默的保護，被我們的政治家、媒體和整個社會所忽視。

I was thinking about this when I was back in New Zealand a few months ago with our three-year-old son, Willie, visiting my childhood farm.

幾個月前，我帶著三歲的兒子威利回到紐西蘭，參觀我兒時的農場時，我一直在思考這個問題。