Jamie Oliver

I really didn't like watching them cut off the piglets tail, castrate the piglet and then slaughtering the pig. I think that it is good though that he is raising awareness to how the sow stall pigs live etc. A lot of people wouldn't have known anything about it and may think twice now.

the worst thing was that they were LAUGHING seconds after seeing a beautiful little pig die

Jamie Oliver spent half the program cooking pork and praising how fantastic it is
I'm so disappointed, I thought he was going to look more at the inhumanity
But every time he pointed out something terrible, he would joke or follow it up with a "positive" story.

On a lighter note, how cute were those little pigs that lived in a house and were playing games with shapes and stealing stuff out of the cupboards? That was adorable

I'm never going to forget seeing that little piglet get its tail snipped off, or the other one who was castrated like that. I'm so angry.

Hmm I missed the tail being cut off. I do admit I intentionally looked the other way a couple of times haha.

It's 'kind of' good what Jamie does, but I probably wouldn't refer to him as being passionate.

fair enough... but it's a hell of a lot better than him doing nothing. People listen to him, and people everywhere have just had their eyes opened.

To be quite honest, a lot of it pissed me off. Just when you think, "wow... maybe some people will make a change" Jamie immediately slipped a joke in, which i think, desensitized people.

Obviously, any change to the current state of factory farming is a good thing. However, what i think is in some ways worse that the castrating, sow stalls, gestation crates etc is the fact that people eat animals when there are a ton of different, cruelty-free options. That, in many ways to me, is as unfair to the animals as the sow stall is.

i am way out west and it starts in 20 minutes here...sounds like it is only worth watching if i'm in the mood to get angry tho...bugger. still, perhaps it will at least be useful as an affirmation for us lot, if nothing else.

well, i'd better start preparing my 'outraged' face. sigh.

I agree Matt, he shouldn't have been chucking in the jokes, and the "tempting" cooking.

My non-vegetarian brother and his girlfriend watched it, and at the time they were horrified... But I feel now they don't have that lasting image in their minds as Jamie ended his show on jokes and humour.

Still, hopefully a few people took notice.

The show made me so angry. He makes a point of something (eg. sow stalls being inhumane) then brushes off everything he's just covered with an "oh well- let's cook!" attitude.

I think he is worse, for what he knows and being so disconnected from it and also encouraging that disconnectedness in others, than someone who is ignorant and would not care to know.

For people who stick with him throughout the entire show, it's possible their brains are receiving the message to acceptably associate this common form of animal cruelty with their dinner. And that is not OK.

yep. ignorance in many ways can be forgiven; turning away and ignoring the problem on purpose simply cannot.