Tonight!! The show "Dirty Jobs" has an episode called "Chick Sexer"

[flvegan]

The "host" will be separating males from females. If there's any justice at all, Discovery will show what REALLY happens to the males (tossed in a dumpster, plastic bag to suffocate, thrown in meat grinder, etc) that are useless in a battery he environment.

9pm. Tonight.

[shockra]

1. Oh, man.

For real?

I have a feeling there won't be any justice. :(

[flvegan]

2. Okay, first commercial break. I'm...offended.

They showed the way a number of the chicks are separated. It's a production based job, so numbers are important. Therefore, holding a wing and tossing the bird in a big bin is okay. They like it, or so they say.

Indeed.

Later in the show...the byproducts of beer fed to cows, and oysterhunting.

Why is it all animal related? Oh, right...Dirty Jobs...

[Elad]

3. I have no interest in watching that show

I saw the previews, and it seems like a majority of the jobs involve torturing animals in some fashion. I have no need to watch that, and I resent the message the show sends that kind of glorifies the jobs ("Meet the people who make our lives civilized." or something like that was the line used in the previews).

[flvegan]

5. My interest is this:

I agree with you, Elad, in everything you stated.

I can only speak on this show, as I've watched most of it.

If I were the average person, and watched the show (and I'm trying VERY hard to think along those lines) I'd want more information on how those precious little chicks were moved about the country and treated. They're not treated kindly in the factory (they showed that pretty well). They're shipped w/out food nor water, (they showed and discussed that). They showed the very rough treatment that these animals endure in the chick factory.

Were I a feminist, I'd want to know why the female chicks are worth more, as they stated. Were I a chauvanist, I'd want to know why the males are worth less. Googling "baby male chicks" brings up an important #1 hit from Farm Sanctuary, http://www.poultry.org/eggs.htm. Well done, Baustons.

It's not PETA, which folks will dismiss. It's entertainment that the avg Joe will watch and digest (at least some of it). I think that showing that the animal industry is just that, an industry, much like building a car or a DVD player is good, especially when it's a cute, fuzzy little animal. Sure, that might be exploitive if you asked the chick getting tossed in the bin. However, that chick would be all for it if it meant it was abolished sometime soon, or that instead of sorting 20,000 chicks today (yes, a true figure) it were half that.

[Dastard Stepchild]

4. Hmmm....

I don't get the Discovery Channel... didn't even know a show like this existed. Maybe I'll meander over to the website. Or maybe not, since it appears to play lightly with the complete reality of these dirty jobs.

[flamingyouth]

6. I couldn't watch that.

I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. Maybe tomorrow too. :(

[Piperay]

7. I don't watch

shows like that. I already know about all the cruelty and it upsets me too much.