I just watched the video 'Meet your Meat' and i was wondering, is it really that bad or does PETA exaggerate?

Question

I just watched the video 'Meet your Meat' and i was wondering, is it really that bad or does PETA exaggerate?

Answer 1

it does/can happen, but PETA exaggerates horrendously. my dad worked in a meat packing plant for years, and he said it was never like that, at the very worst, someone kicked a cow.

Answer 2

Both... its really that bad (at some places) and PETA exaggerates (almost all of the time).

That's not to say those things never happened, the video is proof that those things do actually happen.  Does that happen everywhere?  No, but it happens at enough places to be a  cause for concern.

Answer 3

You are seeing the worst of the worst. PETA members also get jobs in slaughterhouses so they can stage events as well.

EDIT: Yeah like with all of the outrageous things PETA does they wouldn't infiltrate a slaughterhouse and stage footage. Please.

Answer 4

i'm sorry, but i refuse to take the word of PETA on anything; they kill the vast majority of the animals they encounter, and it's not beyond them to stage a video or two if it serves their purposes...they are part of the far left 'the ends justify the means' crowd, and also aid domestic terrorists

Answer 5

A video cannot lie but the creator of the video can. Animals were abuse and mistreated in the video yes. But there is no telling if Peta itself did the abusing and mistreatment in order to make the video or just took  the footage. Or was it an isolated incident that was sensationalized to gain media mileage. Or are the people identifiable? If there are guilty people, name them. Time stamps are useless since they can be changed anyway. It seems weird that Peta who has never shrunk from controversy is hesitant to name names of people or companies directly involved in the abuse. Nor did it file any complaints in court or proper authorities. they do that all the time with other abuses, why not on this one. Maybe they did but it is not mentioned.

I don't deny that abuse happens. However I question he source. Its tactics and its motives and its morals and general lack of ethics are questionable at best.

Answer 6

It really is that bad, unfortunately. Other organizations like Mercy for Animals, Compassion Over Killing, and the Humane Society of the US have done their own investigations and found the same abuses.

Chickens (and other birds) are exempt from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, so most are still conscious when their throats are cut open. Many are literally scalded to death in the feather-removal tanks after missing the throat cutter.

About 98% of meat in the U.S. comes from factory farms. The Meat Your Meat video represents what goes on at the vast majority of farms and slaughterhouses.

(There's no need to "stage" events, as someone has suggested. The animals are so routinely confined, mutilated, and mistreated that slaughterhouse investigators have plenty to document on film, as it is.)

Answer 7

It's really that bad. How could a video exaggerate?

Answer 8

It's really that bad.

In some places it is worse.....as others have said, PETA didn't stage that - actually, many of the cameras were under cover and the folks didn't know they were being taped.

How horrific! And what's even scarier is that there are actually people who roam this Earth who are heartless enough to do that to other living creatures.

Answer 9

I have actually gone undercover in a few local factory farms and slaughterhouses while making a documentary film for one of my college classes (I'm majoring in film). We teamed up with a local animal rights group and were able to go with them into the factory farms and slaughterhouses. It was the reason that I became a vegetarian and then vegan. It IS as bad as seen in PETA films, and worse in some cases.

Some places are going to be worse than others. But knowing that the meat industry does this to animals even some of the time was enough for me to walk away from meat forever.

Answer 10

The whole meat industry CAN NOT be based off one video.

peta also kills more animals than they take in. check out

peta-sucks.com or peta-sucks.com/smf (forum)and see for yourself both sides and then make decisions.

Answer 11

It is really that bad and worse at some places.  Killing animals in a more humane way would cost more, therefor cutting into the profits.  There are very few laws to regulate slaughtering animals.  When people are cheap and the laws are lax that's what you get.

I won't risk it.  I can't support that.  You can tell yourself it's not that bad if it will make you feel better about eating meat, but I personally can't erase that image from my head.  If you eat meat there is a huge chance that the animals went through that and more.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian.

EDIT:  CeCe is right.  A video can't exaggerate.  AND PETA did not stage any of those things.  There were machines set up to do those things to those animals and PETA sure didn't build them just to get those places in trouble.

Answer 12

It's really that bad.

Answer 13

If you search on the internet you'll find PETA has it's fair share of skeletons as well.

You can't judge the entire meat industry from what goes on in a very small handful of slaughter houses.

Answer 14

the way that animals are treated on farms will vary.....some farms are better to their animals than others.

the majority of them treat their animals like what you saw on "meet your meat".....some are even worse.

again, not every farm treats their animals that way....but why take the chance?  by the way, just because something is "organic" does not mean that the animals were treated well, which is a common misconception.

Answer 15

Evidently it was that bad at that location and time.  Personally I feel that PETA is so extreme that they would not be above 'staging and scripting' such senarios to film for their propaganda efforts.

Answer 16

Like any propaganda or campaign message the truth will be bent a little and laced with emotive words.

but the basic message is still there, underneath all the hype.

I prefer more "postive"  campaigns that acutally present a way forward rather than just showing whats wrong.

Groups such as CIWF ( Compassion in World Farming )  offer this more postive approach if you are interested in this sort of thing, http://www.ciwf.org/

These investigations might be of interest :

http://www.ciwf.org/investigations/archi...