Cysts in meat? What’s next—blood, bones, and cartilage?! A video of someone squeezing pus out of a chunk of animal flesh has apparently shocked and disgusted many Instagram users. News flash: Eating someone’s hacked-up body parts is wrong, with or without the pus.

The Meat, Egg, and Dairy Industries: Oozing With Cruelty

Can’t stomach the video? Wait until you learn about the disgusting practices of the meat, egg, and dairy industries, which exploit and kill billions of sensitive animals each year. Farms that raise animals for their flesh, eggs, and secretions—including those that use “humane” or “free range” labels—cram animals into filthy sheds or mud-filled pens, sometimes amid their own waste. At slaughterhouses—where workers hang animals upside down and slit their throats—animals’ blood, guts, and feces spill onto the floor.

Just like humans, other species get abscesses, deadly illnesses, and cancerous tumors—and farmers don’t care as long as they can sell their body parts. Most butchers cut off the visible pus-filled parts, but flesh can be contaminated with dangerous pathogens you can’t see—like Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli. That’s because when humans exploit animals like commodities, illness, pain, and suffering are rampant. Cows and other animals need you to help.

And it’s not just meat that can contain pus. Up to 50% of cows exploited for milk suffer from mastitis—a painful udder infection resulting from the grueling, abusive milking routines that dairy farms subject them to. Their infected udders ooze pus, contaminating the milk that ends up on supermarket shelves.

Call It Quits BEFORE You’re Eating Zits

Every animal is someone, from protective mother cows who nurture their young to chickens who establish highly complex social hierarchies.

These animals don’t want to be exploited and killed for a fleeting taste of flesh. Please, go vegan today:

The post Have You Seen This Video of Pus-Filled Animal Flesh? Go Vegan! appeared first on PETA.