awful video of what they do with roosters ****WARNING GRAPHIC****

[silkhope]

I couldn't watch the whole thing but I tend to agree with you Cassandra.

 

[SamG347]

I think what he is doing though may seem wrong to us...is really the only way to hit this and many other subjects about factory farming and egg and meat industry home. By just telling you what happens to the chicks yah you would think about it and feel bad...but sooner or later foget. But this is something that you will remember for a while. Sometimes people need to see rather than hear to make a difference.

 

[Acre of Blessings]

My opinion is that not one of those people seated around the table, with fake boo hoo tears in their eyes, had a backbone to say stop. This is pathetic. Rats are for snakes and to feed a chick to a gator, thats hogwash. I've seen them feed grown chickens to gators but you'd have to have a million of those chicks for one.

Well I heard they also put it in dog food. Well I guess when it says chicken flavored it should say "Suffocated Baby Chick Flavor".

I am not an animals rights activist or anything like that, but some of the ways they do things to animals is unrealistic. And I wonder how much those prople in the audience paid to see this? $100, $250, $500 a ticket. Wow dinner and a show, they must have thought.

My 2 1/2 cents worth.

 

[kodiakchicken]

Well, I don't know much about Jamie Oliver (don't have cable) but I got the impression that the people at the tables didn't expect to see what they did. I think it might have been the wake-up call some of them needed.

I saw one of his other videos with the battery hens and it seems as if he has embraced the farmed chicken issue and is trying to make a point. Sure, he didn't need to kill the chicks, but they probably would have ended up that way. And if he had just told people what would happen to them and let them take them home, they would have thought they did their good deed of "saving" one poor rooster from the fate they heard about. Instead, now they all have a vision of what happens to all of them and hopefully will be spurred to make a difference.

 

[Redfeathers]

Hard to watch, not pretty. But it is Reality and many people like it or not, just witnessed how life really is for these birds.
I bought straight run birds this year, ended up with three roosters that will have a happy 10-12 weeks in the sunshine before they go in the freezer. I saw this video three or four months ago and that helped me in my decision to do this.... I was really praying for all pullets, but how often does that happen?

I recognize the point he is trying to make, I don't think at all this was made with any intent towards cruelty, it was a lesson about what really goes on in the meat industry.

 

[snowydiamonds]

I just ordered blue laced straight run banty wyandottes...they won't be here for at least 3 weeks...

 

[KLH2010]

It is definitely an unpleasant task but unfortunately it seems to be one of life's realities. There just aren't enough places for all the extra roos. As long as they are treated/euthanized humanely and don't go to waste I don't see a better alternative. That room full of people would probably be equally shocked to watch a cow/goat/pig euthanized and processed for human consumption. I know it definitely makes me think twice about where my food comes from. To clarify, I don't agree with a lot (most) of what goes on in factory farming...I just don't think euthanizing male chicks in a humane manner is the main problem. Sadly, they may very well end up better off than the hens that are retained as layers in the system.

 

[hobobrando]

That is horrible but it really is an eye opener to what really go's on.

 

[KingsCalls]

I would think that they could find someone to sell these chicks to, cheap or even give them away. It is hard to watch that but, it is reality and the price we all pay for wanting more pullets than cockerals ! If I order chicks, I always order straight run. I can find someone to take the extra roo's. It's just hard to see this when we know that they're people out there starving every day!

 

[max13077]

last time I ever watch that idiot!