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3 unusual facts about The Skeptics


AFFCO Holdings

AFFCO is the subject of a song by New Zealand band The Skeptics which is best known for its music video that includes graphic scenes of animal slaughter.

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Due to its graphic content, the video has rarely been broadcast on New Zealand television, but has been screened at various art exhibitions in New Zealand and at Film Archive screenings and is now freely available to watch online.

In August 1987 the Skeptics made a video for the Skeptics III track "AFFCO", named after the New Zealand meat processing company AFFCO.



see also

The Skeptics Society

In addition, the Skeptics Society hosted the "Origins Conference" in October 2008 with Nancey Murphy, Hugh Ross, Leonard Susskind, Sean Carroll, Paul Davies, Stuart Kauffman, Christof Koch, Kenneth R. Miller, Donald Prothero, and Victor J. Stenger.