I don't get the outrage. My grandfather raised livestock and my cousins and I fed them, cared for them, etc. during the summers. After the first steer we raised disappeared and came back in coolers wrapped in white butcher's paper we were shocked and mad...until we got our share of the hamburger and other meat. Farm kids learn early on that those animals are not going to be there forever and if they come back it will be as dinner. This doesn't encourage cruelty or anything of the sort in fact it usually has the opposite effect. The animals are well cared for because they are income and/or food.
The incident described in the article is a pretty common practice in production agriculture courses, FFA and 4-H. My friend is teacher and does a similar program with his 7th graders. We both majored in animal science in college and part of the course work was humanely raising and processing food animals. More people need to understand where their food comes from and it isn't the store. ;) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Ha-ha! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@...> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:13:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] English school children vote to slaughter pet lamb > raised from birth > > > > > > > For several weeks, I've had my eye (and mouth) set on a chicken parmesan > sammich from Zaxby's, and I finally got one today for lunch. > > I didn't name it. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: hellomahog...@... > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:26:53 -0700 > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] English school children vote to slaughter pet lamb > raised from birth > > > > > Depends on their backgrounds I think. They could be Muslim kids that eat > goat. (or somewhere else) So they aren't looking at it as being cute. They > are looking at it being lunch. > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Martin Baxter < truthseeker...@... > wrote: > > > > > > Nope. Those are the Children of the Corn 2009. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: ravena...@... > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:33:17 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] English school children vote to slaughter pet lamb > raised from birth > > > > > http://eishafu.notlong.com > > Are these Bey-Bey's kids? > > ~(no)rave! > > > > > > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. > > > > > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. >
