This short film, which is narrated by Alec Baldwin, is an extremely well-made, compelling, informative and life-changing movie. If you care even an iota about human beings, animals or the planet, you will be very glad that you took 12 minutes out of your life to watch this movie. You can be guaranteed that you will learn new and valuable information and come away a better and more inspired person. You will now be able to make informed food choices that are based on reality and not marketing hype and hyperbole. Finally, if you want to know who is pulling the strings behind big corporations and why, this is the film for you. To summarize, then, this film is recommended for everyone, but especially: parents, humanitarians, people who care about animals, people who care about the environment, and people who are skeptical about the motives of giant corporations.
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carrotsman21 June 2010If you eat meat, you should watch this short, yet insightful film. You will be moved. This film will take you to where few ever dare go. The images are graphic and for some, disturbing. Yet it is a film which will leave you questioning your eating habits and what we have all grown-up believing. That farmed animals live happy lives. That the people who handle them are kind and considerate. When we eat meat we are helping our bodies and definitely not hurting the planet on which we live. This film has been seen by millions of people. Some were on the street, some were in their homes. All of them remember the 15 minutes they took out of their day to watch. You will to. See "Meet your Meat".
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alkachandna21 June 2010This short documentary packs a punch. Pulling back the curtain on the transformations in animal agriculture in the U.S. over the past 60 years, narrator Alec Baldwin describes the standard agricultural practices used on American factory farms: animals endure routine mutilations (baby chicks have their beaks seared off with a hot blade; baby pigs are castrated without anesthesia; horns are sawed off of cows) before being packed cheek to jowl by the thousands or tens of thousands in massive sheds.
Be warned: The film's depiction of legal and standard (but hideously cruel) treatment of animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses has been so compelling that many people have changed the way they eat after watching this film. People who decide that their choices should reflect their values have also taken to the streets with this film to educate consumers on exactly what they pay for when they buy milk, eggs, and meat. -
xmaspoophat23 April 2023I just watched this. I did not expect anything light-hearted at all, but I did not expect this. This will not convert me to veganism, or being a vegetarian, but it will make my cry. This is one of the few movies, let alone media that has made me cry. Watching this, knowing these animals are in pain, having the narrator describe that they are sentient might as well make this a horror movie. This is not a horror movie for being terrifying because there's a murderer after the protagonist, this is horrifying for knowing this is real. The graphic imagery will almost guaranteed make anyone petrified. My hand was over my mouth the whole time I watched the "cows" and "pigs" section, these sections are horrific when analyzing how these animals are treated and how they die. Please, if you want to be vegan or a vegetarian, don't watch this. This will literally leave you trembling with fear of knowing that what you are for breakfast was once an alive animal who experienced this, despite how outdated these practices may be right now for being a 2 decade old movie, the scene of the pigs crying and getting mutilated will scar me for the rest of my life.