Making a little stroll through the fields on the countryside to one of the windmills…

on the second day of a kindergarten outing, two fathers wander through the woods and fields of Lower Saxony. Suddenly we stand under the gigantic rotor blades of one of wind turbines you can see everywhere here in the region. Note how the blades are bent at the end by the wind (there were roughly 20 knots wind).

 

 

The view wanders over the shadow of the wind turbine and the fields to one the the numerous long, red, solar panel covered buildings between the fields:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and it is only then, when we realize that we are in the middle of several large-scale livestock farming buildings. It looks like a science fiction setting: the buildings are behind a fence and look extremely clean. Everything: the outside walls, the paved outside of the building, it looks almost sterile.

Then we discover the trace of little pebble-stones that cover supposedly the trench where they put the high-power line of the wind-turbine into the ground and we realize that the trace leads towards the red red buildings of the meat factory.

We decide to stop immediately that habit of eating unconsciously meat and sausage from the super market,  to reduce the amount of ‘unconsciously swallowed factory meat’. Instead we will buy from the organic butcher from now on. Even if that means that we’ll have meat only once a week or even less.

Walking back a green colored structure draws our attention. Clean, 6 feet high, with an attached mailbox on the side. We get closer, see there is a not secured top lid of the perhaps 4 x 5 ft. wide box we can open: inside clean again, refrigerated, a shiny stainless steel cart and we assume it might be something for dung or dirt or??? But why should it make sense to refrigerate manure? A look-up on my iPhone enlightens us:  Euratainer – oh fuck! A refrigeration box for carcasses!

Modern life on the countryside.