Live Chicks Aggressively Tossed In A Tub Of Dye To Give Them That Walt Disney Look In Time For Easter


A video of live chicks aggressively tossed in a tub of dye to give them that Walt Disney look in time for Easter has upset the internet in a big way.

Live chicks aggressively dyed all the shades of the rainbow to give them that Walt Disney look in time for the Easter rush is opportunistic capitalism at its worst, or best, depending on which side of Mammon’s throne you sit.

Either way you slice and dice it, it’s not nice for any young hatchling to be submerged in a bowl of dye and swirled around like so much cake mixture by an indifferent hand, just so sentimental oafs can feel like they’re living in a Walt Disney movie when they give you as a present to their nearest and dearest this Easter.

Yet a disturbing video which has gone viral succinctly demonstrates that nothing is sacred or off-limits when it comes to rampant consumerism and the ancient art of turning out a gimmick just to turn a buck.

The Daily Mail reports that a video featuring chicks being aggressively dyed in time for the Easter rush has been posted by Arizona-based media company 19 on Facebook.

The video, which was filmed in an unknown part of the world and has since been shared three million times, was posted to draw attention to the outrageous fashion of dyeing chicks to look like something out of a Walt Disney film and then selling them on to people who will no doubt get bored of them quicker than they do when gorging themselves senseless on chocolate eggs.

“There’s a box in a market full of multicolored balls of fluff cheeping madly. Are they Hasbro’s new have-to-have talking furby? The new interactive Build a Bear trend? Sadly not – the cardboard crate is in fact stuffed with live tiny chicks who have been aggressively colored in dye in the run up to Easter.”

There’s no denying the chicks in the footage look cute and could easily add a Walt Disney element to your Easter, but the process by which young chicks are transformed into the sort of fluffy blue, orange, pink, and yellow creatures that would fly happily around Cinderella’s head while she sings them a song is really quite barbaric and upsetting.

Here’s how to make you own Walt Disney chicks this Easter in seven sinful and simple steps.

Chicks Dyed
An ‘egg cellent’ idea? Or simple poultry abuse?” (Image via Facebook)

Step one involves the unsuspecting chicks being savagely thrown into a bright red plastic bowl before a green slime-like substance is squirted all over them.

Step two involves a gloved hand aggressively tossing the chicks like a salad as they’re churned around and around to get an even coating of dye.

Step three involves remaining stoic in the face of the fact that the chick’s fragile bodies may be broken or at least damaged considerably in the process, their downy feathers matted with thick gloomy glue and their tiny minds terrorized by being treated like a particularly difficult cake mixture.

Step four involves pouring the chicks into another crate and brutally rubbing your hands over them to ensure every part of their bodies are now alien to what nature intended.

Step five involves complete indifference to the fact that the once chirpy chicks are barely moving and their subdued nature would seem to indicate that their spirit has finally been broken.

Step six involves kicking the crate aside and whistling cheerfully as you move onto the next batch.

Step seven involves making lots of money.

Easter Rush
“Did They ‘Dye’ For Our Sins?” [Image via Facebook]

The internet, of course, remained horrified by the aforesaid video, and as they munched viciously on their buckets of KFC, web users had this to say.

“I know food coloring won’t hurt them but beating the chicken around like so salad was making me sick to my stomach.”

“That’s disgusting, why would they do that to the poor chickens? They are not toys.”

“It’s not the coloring that is cruel, it’s when people take them home and give them to their children to play with and starve to death that the cruelty begins.”

A valid point, especially when one reader on the Daily Mail website commented, “Soooo cute! I want one in every color. Where can you buy them? My cat would just love these.”

Is it any wonder the Easter bunny is keeping a low profile these days?

[Image via Facebook]

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