"It changed for me personally..." Mike Rowe spoke in his TED talk about how a lot of thing came into perspective for him when he was castrating a lamb. Before he went to the farm he did some research. He called PETA to see how they thought castration should be done. They told him by banding them. Then he contacted the human society and asked them how they thought castration should be done and they responded the same way by saying that they should be banded. So Mike goes to the farm prepared to band lambs. When he gets there and asks how they will be castrating the lambs they tell him they won't be using bands they will be using a knife and their teeth. This concept was new to Mike. It seemed to be more inhuman than banding to him. Then the owner of the farm showed him how a lamb that was banded reacted compared to a lamb that was castrated the farmers way. The lamb banded became sickly looking and laid down in a corner, while the one who was castrated the farmers way was up and running right away.
What changed for him personally was his perspective on things. He realized that there are probably a lot of things in life that he doesn't know much about. This is true for most people. This also proves the point that you cannot always believe what you hear. When Mike was researching this topic he only contacted facilities that think they are against inhuman treatment of animals. This proves that sometimes people perceive things wrongly due to a lack of experience and knowledge in certain areas. So before you assume that you know everything about a certain thing or topic, go out and see what it is really like or how it is really done.
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