Kill It, Cook It, Eat It | January 28, 2011 | Comment on this video (7)

A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

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After watching up close as cows, lambs and pigs become the day's evening meal, six volunteers are shocked to learn that they'll be the ones slaughtering chickens before turning them into nuggets. Those up to the task will stun a chicken and then slit its throat, watching as it bleeds to death.

Ever wonder where your food comes from? In each episode of "Kill It, Cook It, Eat It," a diverse group of participants is challenged to procure their main course the old-fashioned way: by hunting and killing their chosen prey, butchering it in the slaughterhouse, helping to prepare it in the kitchen, and ultimately sampling it at the dinner table. Some may enjoy the process while others recoil, but for each diner it's an intense journey that just may change their perspectives -- and appetites -- forever.

Watch the premiere of "Kill It, Cook It, Eat It" on Tuesday, January 11 at 10/9c on Current TV.
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7 comments // A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It // Video

  • MotherForTruth
  • s_peak
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      s_peak  

    • A few months back... I thought: "I should start watching Current TV again to see if it's still any good!" ....

      Great to know that I'm not missing anything. Your new shows turn you into a grotesque version of the E! Network. Is this show getting a good response from the Current TV crowd? Because I can't imagine anyone online digs it. I'm also an ex-chicken owner... and I despise animals being treated as things.

      I used to ONLY watch current TV when I turned on the TV (Not an exaggeration) because the user-made approach, to me, seemed like the next logical step of television. It seems as though that part, the ONLY revelatory part of Current TV, is going the way of the buffalo... am I wrong? Actually, you should make the next episode about EATING buffalo. Brilliant!

      Good luck with that.

    • 1 year ago
  • omacadams
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      omacadams  
    • s_peak:

      Actually - it's doing pretty well for us. I think people feel it's an interesting way to discuss food politics. It's all about confronting where our food comes from. Seems like pretty on-brand for Current.

    • 1 year ago
  • s_peak
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      s_peak  
    • omacadams:

      Fair enough. It's not eating animals that I am against... it's mistreating them and farming unsustainably, and both of those things go hand in hand with most farms.

    • 1 year ago
  • omacadams
  • Corvus
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    • omacadams:

      How can people call anything these people do to animals "responsible". I consider myself to be a responsible animal caretaker and none of mine have had razors taken to them without anesthetic, nor have they been strung up and bled out for my taste buds.

    • 1 year ago
  • Corvus
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      Corvus  

    • Why, after seeing these animals' lives and personalities, are you still referring to them as "it". They are living beings, not things- which is obviously one of the messages of this show. This chicken is not an it. None of these animals are.

      Also important to note, 99% of the hundreds of millions of chickens that die every year will not even have the courtesy of stunning. They are hung on assembly lines, and their throats are rapidly slit before they are dunked into boiling water. Many are not even dead by the time they are boiled.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r9xxREqL-I&feature=related

    • 1 year ago
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