School Pupils Sell Sheep For Meat Money, Idiots (Including O'Grady) Bitch And Whine
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[quote=BBC]Parents at a Kent primary school are angry that a sheep hand-reared by pupils is to be slaughtered for meat.
Meat from neutered male Marcus, one of three sheep cared for at a farm set up in the spring at Lydd Primary School, is to be raffled to buy more animals.
Mother Jo Davis said it was a disgrace that the sheep fed by hand by her eight-year-old daughter Megan was to be slaughtered and sold.
Head teacher Andrea Charman said the school council voted for the slaughter.
Ms Charman started the farm, which also has rabbits, guinea pigs, cockerels and ducks, after she joined Lydd Primary in January.
I am trying to prepare children for the adult world in every sense
Head teacher Andrea Charman
The lambs were bottle-fed by the children and taken into assembly.
Last term the school council, made up of 14 seven to 11-year-olds, voted 13 to one in favour of sending Marcus to slaughter rather than keeping him.
Tickets are being sold in shops in Lydd to raffle the meat. Money raised will go to buy pigs, from which sausages will eventually be made.
"I feel this is the same as my daughter coming home from school to find her pet rabbit bubbling away on the stove in a stew," said Ms Davis.
"My daughter was told it was no different to buying lamb from the supermarket.
"I really don't think this is the same thing."
The school is on Romney Marsh, an area famous for sheep farming.
Ms Charman said she wanted to teach the children about the food chain and the local economy.
"I am trying to prepare children for the adult world in every sense," she said.
"When they are 15, when they are 20 they are not going to remember what they got in their Sats when they were 11 years old.
"But they will remember they had a farm and that they made decisions."[/quote]
So basically; school decides they need to teach kids about farming and where meat comes from, buys sheep and other animals, kept in little farmy thing. Sheep is hand reared by children. [b]Same children[/b] vote that sheep should be killed for meat, you know [b]as sheep actually are[/b], some parents, who it has nothing to do with, say that their children will be traumatized by the horrible brutal murder of the poor little sheepy weepy, despite the fact they want him to be killed. And then Paul O'Grady steps in and tries to save it. Yes, a man who as far as I know isn't vegetarian is trying to save one sheep from being killed just because it was raised in a school. I won't copy the whole BBC article, but he is going on about how it is morally wrong to kill a sheep that you treated as a pet, even though people do fairly regularly. My grandma and aunt fairly regularly hand rear sheep and sell them to be killed.
Oh, and then the media jumped on the whole thing and started to turn the pupils into demons for voting to kill one whole sheep, despite the fact about one and a half million are slaughtered each year. The Independent wrote this about them:
[quote=The Independent][b]Marcus the sheep falls victim to ruthless primary school pupils[/b]
Pupils at a Kent school helped to raise Marcus, the pet sheep, by hand – and then raised their hands in favour of having him killed.
Their ruthless display of realism had parents demonstrating yesterday in the hope of saving the doomed sheep. Scores of children aged three to 11 had taken part in hand-rearing Marcus, the neutered ram. But when they were given a choice of keeping him or selling him for meat so that they could buy other animals, they voted to send him to the abattoir.
But Marcus was offered a lifeline last night after the comedian Paul O'Grady offered to buy him. He said it could join his own sheep on his land and he would ensure the school pupils were kept updated about its progress.
Mr O'Grady, who lives near Ashford, said it was "wrong" for children to be allowed to hand-rear and name a sheep before being told it could be sent to an abattoir.
He told BBC Radio Kent: "I've got 11 sheep of my own that have all been hand-reared. I will pay the school for him and bring him over here and he can go in with my sheep and have a ball. "And I'll keep the kids updated. I'll let them know on the show how he's doing and I'll send photos."
Teachers at Lydd Primary School in Romney Marsh say rearing Marcus has taught its pupils the reality that meat comes from animals. But yesterday, the school was picketed by irate parents, who claimed that some children were in tears over Marcus's fate.
Jo Davis, whose eight-year-old daughter helped to raise the sheep, said: "This is the same as my daughter coming home from school to find her pet rabbit bubbling away on the stove in a stew. My daughter was told it was no different to buying lamb from the supermarket. I really don't think this is the same thing."
Another parent, who did not want to be named, described it as "more like Lord of the Flies than a normal day at primary school".[/quote]
More like Lord Of The Flies? What the fuck? How can you compare children becoming savages and killing each other to democratically voting to have one sheep slaughtered? And it's not like children have never ever had anything to do with killing animals at primary school age; loads of kids grow up on farms. Fuck, one of my friends skinned a cow while she was still in primary school. Killing an animal does not make you a ruthless murderer. As I said, 1 and a half million sheep are slaughtered in the UK each fucking year!
More media stupidity:
[quote=Sunday Express]IT is a row that has left a primary school looking decidedly sheepish and split right down the middle.[/quote]
16 to 1 is so split down the middle.
Non Media Stupidity
[url]http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129652064791[/url]
The Save The Sheep Facebook group!
[b]IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHERE MEAT COMES FROM, YOU SHOULD NOT COMPLAIN UNLESS A) THE ANIMALS ARE KEPT IN HORRIBLE CONDITIONS (IT WASN'T) OR B) YOU DON'T FUCKING EAT IT.[/b]
I'm a bit confused,
is it saying that the pupils had kept the sheep as a sort of school pet? And then it was sent to be killed?
[QUOTE=Echidna666;17283411]I'm a bit confused,
is it saying that the pupils had kept the sheep as a sort of school pet? And then it was sent to be killed?[/QUOTE]
Looks like it.
Parents like any excuse to complain about things these days; consider that you can't for example, photograph your kids in school play at present, because other parents will object to [i]their[/i] children being photographed.
[QUOTE=Echidna666;17283411]I'm a bit confused,
is it saying that the pupils had kept the sheep as a sort of school pet? And then it was sent to be killed?[/QUOTE]
They had like a little school farm thing, and then the kids voted whether to send it to be killed for meat money or not.
[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17283418]Looks like it.[/QUOTE]
Then i think it's a bit harsh as well :(
[QUOTE=Echidna666;17283431]Then i think it's a bit harsh as well :([/QUOTE]
Indeed. Letting children make a life or death decision.
Dude what the fuck is going on in the OP
I'm hungry now
[img]http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/24/81/b4/roast-lamb-dish.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Somebody_404;17283454]Dude what the fuck is going on in the OP[/QUOTE]
RaaaaGE mostly.
[QUOTE=Somebody_404;17283454]Dude what the fuck is going on in the OP[/QUOTE]
Kids raised a sheep, had the decision to keep it or kill it for money. The kids voted to kill it.
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[QUOTE=Latias;17283459]I'm hungry now[/QUOTE]
Lamb is good, but damn expensive.
[QUOTE=Negrul2;17283381] [b]Same children[/b] vote that sheep should be killed for meat, you know [b]as sheep actually are[/b][/QUOTE]
Uh, aren't sheep kept for wool too?
Maybe that's why it's illogical?
[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17283461]
Lamb is good, but damn expensive.[/QUOTE]
I know
I haven't eaten it in two years
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;17283489]Uh, aren't sheep kept for wool?[/QUOTE]
Where do you think lamb comes from?
[QUOTE=Negrul2;17283500]Where do you think lamb comes from?[/QUOTE]
Yes, and if they are actually teaching someone how to keep a farm, why the fuck would you kill your limited resources off for meat instead of utilizing a renewable resource if all you have is a few sheep.
Either way you look at it the kids are stupid.
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;17283527]Yes, and if they are actually teaching someone how to keep a farm, why the fuck would you kill your limited resources off for meat instead of utilizing a renewable resource if all you have is a few sheep.
Either way you look at it the kids are stupid.[/QUOTE]
If you sell the one sheep you can buy other animals.
Sheep is fucking delicious, and every year I get to see one sheep slaughtered infront of me.
It's not really that bad.
Unless you like bludgeon it to death or something.
Why can't you just shave them, sell the wool and buy a new animal?
Oh no an animal is being killled, boo fucking hoo. Your kid probably stamps on insects for fun anyway. Oh but you probably wouldn't care about that, they're not [I]cute[/I].
I always knew primary kids were ruthless. I mean it's realistic, I know - but seriously, I would have thought they'd want to keep it.
[QUOTE=TurtlePower;17283582]Oh no an animal is being killled, boo fucking hoo. Your kid probably stamps on insects for fun anyway. Oh but you probably wouldn't care about that, they're not [I]cute[/I].[/QUOTE]
Obama swatted a fly look how far that went
What we need are the animals like in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that [I]want[/I] to be eaten.
[QUOTE=Latias;17283618]Obama swatted a fly look how far that went[/QUOTE]
But Obama's a President and everyone is looking for every fucking way to complain about him.
[sp]because he's black[/sp] :v:
This sheep was probably treated a lot better than most of the sheep in the meat industry anyway. I'm still a little surprised they voted to kill it though. Plus, I'm sure some kids didn't vote for that and that's kind of fucked up that their pet is gonna get slaughtered because the majority ruled.
[QUOTE=Uberslug;17283662]This sheep was probably treated a lot better than most of the sheep in the meat industry anyway. I'm still a little surprised they voted to kill it though. Plus, I'm sure some kids didn't vote for that and that's kind of fucked up that their pet is gonna get slaughtered because the majority ruled.[/QUOTE]
But that's democracy for you.
That sheep has no idea what is going on. I do not really care how this turns out.
[QUOTE=Uberslug;17283662]This sheep was probably treated a lot better than most of the sheep in the meat industry anyway. I'm still a little surprised they voted to kill it though. Plus, I'm sure some kids didn't vote for that and that's kind of fucked up that their pet is gonna get slaughtered because the majority ruled.[/QUOTE]
It was treated better so the meat might taste better too. There's only one way to find out.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;17283598]I always knew primary kids were ruthless. I mean it's realistic, I know - but seriously, I would have thought they'd want to keep it.[/QUOTE]
I depends how much they were taught about where meat comes from and stuff, I suppose.
I have 3 words to say about this, and they can sum it up nicely.
Stupid, Stupid, and Stupid.
This doesn't teach kids good life lessons. Contributing to the killing of a large mammal is an extremely distressing experience for someone who has never done it before. To ask a child to do this is not giving them a balanced view on eating animals. This is quite disgusting in my opinion. Though I'm sure almost everyone on FP will probably disagree with me because I care about another living thing.
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