Mike Rowe video on lamb castration and sacrificing some sacred cows

[Sundae]

Meh.
Wasn't convinced that one farmer's opinion outweighed the Humane Society's opinion. I'm not a fan of PETA, but they at least have some more feedback than one single farmer.

And the idea that roadkill scrapers whistle while they work? Yeah, I'm sure they do.
They're happy in their work? Yes I'm sure they are.
Is this for everyone? Hello! WFT are you doing in front of a microphone if that's the way for the whole world to go? You go scrape roadkill.

And yet the flipside - he idolises people who value money more than safety.
Why were those fishermen out there disregarding their own safety?
So they could whistle?
No, because they want MONEY. Because the more dangerous the work, the more money they get. Tell you what - tell those fishermen they can get half the money for their catch, or twice the money on the talk-show circuit. See where they go.

Working men are decent in their own way.
I know - I came from a family of them.
But I admit they are despised by the average Americans - at least as far as conversations on this board have gone.
When I've said my Dad and Grandad have worked hard but not profitably, they have been disparaged for not wanting to have two jobs and go to night school and hew logs and get a degree etc etc.
They wanted to do their dirty jobs, earn what they were worth and get the pensions they were promised.
The fact my Grandad believed in the Welfare State, the fact my Dad's pension fund was robbed by his boss (Robert Maxwell - look it up, it's a fact) were not really their fault.

You can't have it both ways.
Unless of course the American ideal is to work, to strive and not to yield... as long as you come out with money. And that's not a balanced equation.