Agreed. That word "slaughter" keeps troubling me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:46:24 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: English school children vote to slaughter pet lamb raised from birth
I suspect that it was the writer's point of view that seeped into the article. They are making it into something that it wasn't. First off, who would give this info to the press? The school? Or an outraged parent? It was a vote of 13 to 1. There are a lot of assumptions being made in the story that is somewhat leading the readers. It is starting to sound a bit like PETA to me. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: Are we sure the kids were all cavalier and uncaring? It said they voted--and the use of the word "slaughter", here, at least, carries major implications--but doesn't really say what the process was like. Maybe they thought it was the right thing to do, regretably. Maybe they weighed the one life against the many it would save. Don't know... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" < ravena...@yahoo.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:48:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: English school children vote to slaughter pet lamb raised from birth My stock response to the Michael Vick witch hunt: "They're dogs." That said, what is fascinating about this incident is that it is so counter to what I expected - i.e., that sweet little school children would be teary-eyed at the notion of sending their beloved pet lamb to the slaughterhouse - sort of like "Charlotte's Web"'s Fern Arable, who was raised on a farm but still didn't want anybody to eat her pig. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Jeez, what's the big deal? It's an animal. Millions upon millions of animals > are raised every year to be killed for food. Is *every* single one of the > protesters a pure vegan? Do none of them wear leather or use any products > tested on animals? Any of them eat Jell-O? Or spam? > > I love animals. Love 'em. Remember the names and deaths of every single dog > and cat my family ever owned. I abhor needless violence and cruelty to > animals. But if the kiddies want to have the lamb killed for a greater good, > it's not indicative that they're a bunch of Jeffrey Dahmer's in the making. > If this "experiment" had taken place on a straight out farm, we'd not even be > having this discussion. > > This is interesting timing. In the last two weeks I listened to probably half > a dozen various programs (on NPR, KERA's "Think") about how humans--mostly > Americans--treat animals. The programs dealt with how Americans now give > their dogs anti-depressants because the animals get down being left alone > during the day, how people spend thousands of dollars to save animals from > disease or old age, how many now literally think of their cats and dogs as > one of the family, even calling them their "children". > > I think Americans have too much time and money on our hands. Again, i love > animals to death. But they're not humans, and I'll be danged if I ever call a > dog "Spot Johnson" or something. Most of the rest of the world sees animals > as the beasts of burden, food, and clothing they've always been. Strange > world when people freak out over Michael Vick, when there are kids here in > Atlanta who could benefit from the outrage and time spent making him into a > pariah. > > I say serve up the goat with onions and gravy. Besides, this is a part of > life: kids need to understand some of the cycle of death. I'm sure some of > them don't really get what it means to kill the goat, and will break down and > freak out if confronted by his roasted carcass on a serving platter. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:26:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > 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/ > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
