Comments on: Jamie Oliver Gasses Chicks

By: Eat Your Eggs | superhumanoids blog

Eat Your Eggs | superhumanoids blog — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:18:27 +0000

[...] Jamie Oliver is one of my favorite chef’s but this stunt pushed my respect for him outside of his cooking abilities and into his value as a member of society at large. Maybe it is time to go vegan (sans-cheese which I don’t think I could ever give up). Via Smashing Telly: [...]

By: TND

TND — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:15:39 +0000

dveej (&anon),

Good points. Actually this vid is quite pertinent, just not from the usual (and often hypocrite) vegetarian perspective. “Bubble worlds” is keyword here. The fitting follow up:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6mUitg6oKhc&feature=related (3:00)

By: anon

anon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:17:38 +0000

The extent of shock on the faces of the people seeing the chicks dying is a bit of a testament to how sheltered from the reality of the workings of the world so many people are today. While i’m sure its very sad to see something you had in your hands minutes earlier be gassed, that method of putting them down is incredibly humane, and its not as if the carcasses go to waste. These are animals bred for a purpose, they are not pets and it is foolish to get sentimental about their death. That does not excuse the mistreatment of hens bred for meat or eggs- if you have a sick, stressed bird youre going to get meat and eggs which reflect this.

I often wonder how people today would cope if rationing was brought back and we all had to breed and eat our family pets. We have became SO domesticated and complacent in our overly sanatised, censored bubble worlds.

By: dveej

dveej — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:27:57 +0000

No, no, TND: you don’t understand! It’s OK to get all weepy about killing *chicks* – they are fuzzy, small, cute, and cheep in an adorable fashion!

Tiny bugs, on the other hand, are ugly, not cute, not fuzzy, don’t cheep in any sort of adorable fashion, and have yucky face parts like mandibles which don’t excite our maternal instincts. Therefore, it’s OK for us to kill them in horrible and painful ways. Got that?

You’re welcome! Glad to be of assistance!

By: TND

TND — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:51:35 +0000

Are you aware of the amount of chemicals used to produce all those good looking vegetables that allow vegetarians to call us meat eaters “hypocrites”?? Are you aware of the amount of tiny bugs that are gassed, the amount of toxic material getting into the wild food chain?

You’re an hypocrite (if you eat vegetables) too. Maybe we should all live in caves and spend our days climbing trees eating wild fruits…

Oh, by the way, I eat eggs from a farm where there are no gassed chicks. I even get them for free – lucky me.