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This is standard butchering practice. There are several means of obtaining a quick, clean, merciful kill for a meat animal. Bleeding is one of them. You need to educate yourself instead of reacting to everything with emotional impulses based on lack of knowledge and experience. :)

Exactly. I'd worry about someone who didn't find it at least a bit solemn. It needs to be done with respect, but it also needs to be done when the time comes. Some lucky few roosters get to become flock roosters. For the rest they get a good life and, if we do our part right, a quick, clean...

That's why all my chickens have food names.

The act of killing a chicken for food should certainly be approached with respect and a degree of solemnity, but there is tremendous satisfaction to be found in cooking a meal that you raised and processed entirely from scratch. :) I've used the broomstick method for butchering. The blood...