Meet Your Meat
Meet Your Meat is a documentary about factory farming created by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), narrated by Alec Baldwin, and directed by Bruce Friedrich. The documentary exposes some of the horrific cruelty within modern animal agriculture (also known as industrial agriculture or factory farming). The film runs 13 minutes long and is rated PG-13.[citation needed]
Some of the cruelties documented in Meet Your Meat include:
- Egg-laying hens live in crowded cages, six or seven hens to one battery cage the size of a file drawer.
- Cattle are castrated, their horns are ripped off, and third-degree burns (livestock branding) are inflicted on them, all without anesthetic.
- Cows used for their milk have their babies stolen from them shortly after birth. These calves are sent to veal farms.
- Chickens bred and drugged to grow so quickly that their hearts, lungs, and limbs often can't keep up.
- Mother pigs (sows) are confined to gestation crates that are so small that the pigs cannot turn around or even lie down.
- Chickens' and turkeys' beaks are burned or cut off without anesthetic.
See also
- The Meatrix - a multiple award-winning short animated film that criticizes the methods of industrial agriculture and factory farming.
- Earthlings - a documentary about human dependence on animals for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and use in experimentation.
- Peaceable Kingdom - documentary about a few farmers who refuse to kill animals and converted to veganism.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Factory farming.
External links
- "Meat.org: The website the meat industry doesn't want you to see" - the website for Meet Your Meat and similar videos
- "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" - the official PETA website
- "Choose Veg" - a guide to vegetarian and vegan living from PETA