Greenpeace begins its tour through Germany with a three-meter-high pork chop and black-light boxes at a Lidl supermarket in Hamburg. The informative stand offers consumers the opportunity to test their bought meat under black light for residue of antibiotics. The stand also shows information on the negative consequences of the use of antibiotics in factory farming.
Antibiotics residue is deposited in bone-material of the pigs that were treated, which can be still made visible in the cut meat under black light.
Due to an increasing use of antibiotics in factory farming, the number of multi-resistent germs in farms and the environment is also increasing. This results in common antibiotics becoming ineffective.
Discount supermarkets such as Lidl use their low-cost policy to force factory farms to produce low-cost meat at the high cost of animals and the environment.