Gallery came up fine for me - no NSFW warning. Nice collection of photos
- both people and animals (and the truck pull)...
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Goodells, Michigan, site of the St Clair County 4H Fair, is the real thing.
It’s at the base of what we call the thumb, far removed from metro Detroit and
about 20 miles west of Port Huron. It’s an agricultural area, with a lot of
livestock and dairy. Many of the kids participate in the 4H agricultural
programs from the time they’re old enough to walk. They raise animals, then
show them and sell them at the fair. There are some show animals, particularly
horses, but most are what they call “market animals.” Livestock that will be
sold at auction and slaughtered at one of the local facilities that specialize
in that. The kids handle the whole deal, right up to loading the animals for
transport to the slaughter house. I asked a lady I know who has raised six kids
and countless grandchildren up there if the kids don’t get upset when their
animals are sold. “No,” she said. “That never occurs to them. They know that
dogs, cats and horses are pets, and most of the other animals are food.” She
told me that her 9 year old granddaughter, who had raised a hog named Sparkle,
asked grandma to buy her at the auction. “I want to see what she tastes like,”
she said, quite innocently. Sparkle, like the other animals is food, not a pet.
Some of this may seem heartless to us city folk. In the gallery, you’ll see
youngsters forcing lambs to pose in a way that shows off their meaty legs. The
lambs, quite frankly, didn’t see, to mind. They’ve been practicing that pose
since they were old enough to stand. The Grand Champion Wether lamb, which was
raised by a teenage boy, sold for $4.50 a pound, and he was a stout animal. (A
Wether lamb, I learned is a castrated Ram.) An interesting day to say the least.
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