WARNING: After watching this deeply disturbing and unsettlingly graphic 2-minute video, you will never eat gummy candies ever again.
If you like gummy bears, one of the most popular gummy candies in the world, you likely would have get an idea that your favourite candy treats contain gelatin. Chances are, you would also understand that gelatin — a more translucent, colorless, odorless, and tasteless gelling agent in gummy candy — is made from animal by-products such as pig skin, cattle hides, and farm animals’ bones. Essentially, gelatin is a food product derived from prolonged boiling of leftover bones and cartilage — leftover in meat industries — means waste generated during animal slaughtering and processing.
But, perhaps this outward knowledge is not inadequate for you to remain detached from your love of gummy candies.
Therefore, a Belgian filmmaker, Alina Kneepkens, has created a brief terrifying video to bring forth the gross truth about how gummy candies Are made. Produced by Flemish TV show Over Eten, the video Takes us backward through the production line of gummy candies; Beginning with the gummy candies being consumed, Kneepkens winds back time To demonstrate their gory inception.
Perhaps you would like to have a look at it first, because, as they say, “seeing is believing”:
The nauseating video shows shots of a pig flesh moving along a conveyor belt; a machine peeling off skin from the pig’s carcass; while another slices the meat by a mechanized blade. As music beats in the background, pigs are dragged around the factory by their hind legs after having their skin melted off by vats of hot water and specialized flamethrowers. The graphic video ends with a heartbreaking shot of a sad pig raising its pink head to blink slowly at the camera.
The makers explain on Vimeo:
This ‘Gelatin’ video tells the reversed story of how gelatin candy is actually produced. Starting from wrapped candy, going all the way back to the living pig. Just by showing a series of reversed images it reveals a detailed and truthful story on daily foods and its origin. This video ‘Gelatin’ is one in a series of reversed stories on sugar, crisps, black pudding, rabbit stew, lamb burger, pastry and mozzarella.
