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Anger over school sheep slaughter

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Discopoo:

--- Quote from: J.D. on September 11, 2009, 11:07:47 ---Oh for heavens sake. Its a sheep, they are bred for two things - wool and meat. Surely this must be explained to the poor, spoilt,  mollycoddled little babies at some point in their life?

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Well 3 actualy if you're from New Zeland

V8MoneyPit:
If they were expecting the kids to stand there watching while the animals were slaughtered, I could understand. But just the fact that they are going to get the chop (sorry!) is no reason to bleat on about it (double sorry!).

lightweight-love:
What a good teacher! actually puts in the effort and has set up a little farm involving the kids, brilliant!
Amazing she got that set up really in these days.

carbore:
As a small holder I have no problem with the concept here and it does sound a bit like one person kicking up a fuss.

However I do think that its important to get the kids expectations correct all the way through this. I feel that (whilst its hard to generalize) there are two types of human>animal interaction human to "pet" and human to "livestock". The issue COULD be that the relationship they school children we allowed to form was too much "Pet" orientated and not more "Livestock" orientated. e.g. naming, petting, saying "ahh" etc. We don't really know as the media is the media, but thats the scope for error in my mind (if in fact any errors were made, which I doubt)

This way of thinking is interesting (to me) as it includes the "Why do we eat sheep but not horses" question, they do in france, they eat cats and dogs in other places. Issues of welfare/slaughter aside its the difference between a Pet relationship and Livestock relationship, whihc are all affected by culture, religion, and upbringing.

Now wheres my Airgun, I see Rabbits!

piggysteve:
Rabbits !!! I feel a chilli stir fry coming on  :D

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