I was glad to see you post this new thread Melb. I was before I saw you had.

I would encourage every forum member to tell all there chiken eating friends and family members about this program after watching a preview for the show.

Sacha

Oh and I forgot to mention I will be watching it tomorrow night......

He did show killing day old chicks, and killing a fully grown chicken.  I found the living conditions much more disturbing than the slaughtering. The guy killing the chicks obviously wasn't happy about doing it.  They only showed gassing them (quite graphically) they didn't show the putting live chicks through a mincer option, though it was mentioned.  If people eat animals, they should be prepared to see how they are slaughtered, and that's what he does, and the River Cottage guy too.  One of the biggest problems is that people don't even think of what they are eating as having been alive before they eat it.  Showing stuff like this does make that connection, and in making that connection it raises awareness.

The show wasn't about the ethics of eating animlas or not, it was about the ethics of consuming something with a poor quality of life, and how a better quality of life makes it taste better anyway.  It didn't get into a better quality of life usually means it will also have more nutrients, but you can't expect everything to covered in a 1hr show.  It was also about raising awareness of where food comes from.  So many kids these days don't even know that peas come from a pod, even in vege shops they sell shelled peas.  Some people think spaghetti grows on trees.  There is a huge disconnect between where food comes from.

I don't know how anyone could eat a hotdog after watching what the MRM (machine reclaimed meat) was made out of! I knew what MRM was, I knew it's a big part of pet food (a vet many years ago told me if you took an x-ray of a tin of kitty kat pet food it showed up virtually as solid bone because it was so much mashed up bone, and it caused huge problem for cats due to the high bone content), I knew chicken nuggets etc were made from it, but actually seeing it like that.....  yuk!

I've taped it but haven't watched it yet, I'll wait until after exams I think...

My cousin owns a broiler chicken farm in Hastings, he absolutely refuses to eat any factory farmed chicken even though he grows them.

I understand the consumption of conventional raised chickens has gone down BUT the consumption and popularity of free-range chickens has risen.

So if vegans were hoping to get people to stop eating chickens from this show, I am not sure it has really worked out they way they imagined.
 
My cousin in England has said free-range products are entering mainstream popularity, mainly in thanks to Jamie Oliver promoting them on his shows.

Anyway, just thought I would mention that.