# How accurate is PETA's ''Meet your Meat''?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-petas-meet-your-meat/140018>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 2, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-petas-meet-your-meat/140018 "2002-12-02T19:19:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-petas-meet-your-meat/140018/21 "2002-12-02T22:12:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Amfet \*  
> **Whack-a-Mole** I hope you are not advocating that we all model our behavior after that of beasts! \*\*

Certainly not…that’s just my point! Not that we model our behavior after beasts but that our ‘cruel’ farming practices are probably better than those of the beasts of the wilderness.

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-petas-meet-your-meat/140018/22 "2002-12-02T22:18:28Z")

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> Chickens do have nerves and flesh in their beaks, this is why they’re burnt off, not just cut off. The burning prevents the bleeding.

This is incorrect. Chicken beaks are trimmed by cutting; the trimmer is heated to cauterize the wound site. Proper trimming is limited to the non-vascularized portion of the beak. The cauterization is needed to kill the tissue so that painful, sensitive nodular tissue doesn’t grow at the endof the beak.

PETA doesn’t really expect to convert people to veganism; not many, anyway. The real purpose of their campaign is to expose the farming methods that lead to the worst consequences, and get them banned.

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-petas-meet-your-meat/140018/23 "2002-12-02T22:24:26Z")

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FWIW and to try to address the OP freeze branding has become more prevalent than hot branding. I’m not saying a bit of localized frostbite is a cakewalk but probably more human than being burned.

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-petas-meet-your-meat/140018/24 "2002-12-02T22:29:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Nametag \*  
> \*\*PETA doesn’t really expect to convert people to veganism; not many, anyway. The real purpose of their campaign is to expose the farming methods that lead to the worst consequences, and get them banned. \*\*

If that were so I could get behind PETA. Unfortunately here is a snippet from one of their campaigns from their own website.

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> [Vegetarianism: Eating for Life](http://www.peta.org/mc/facts/fsveg5.html)
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> Reducing health risks and eliminating animal suffering are just two reasons to go vegetarian…

I’d say that they do wish, among other things, for a vegetarian world.

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