Good one, sort of lost on those of us down here though. :)
You're right, 4-H is not about mistreatment of animals. The animals are all raised for show and eventually will be killed. There's a very fine line between becoming too attached to your lunch too. They are all still killed in the end and I think it's splitting hairs on the method. If you've never seen it, try and catch one of the nature shows where the baboons are stalking monkeys (or maybe not if it really bothers you). They eat their prey alive.
Steadily working on the tagteam and trying to persuade as many as we can along the way! :)
I guess my metaphor came straight out my perch here in the CO Rockies. Which the wind almost blew me out of last night. I think it was the worst I've ever heard in 22 years here. Any harder than that and I'll be posting from Kansas.