Gah Grace!
Or Rather Unthink!!!
Although back in 2005 when I was 17, I saw two Horned Bulls go at it through a Barbed wire fence.......Not Pretty
Posted on 02/04/2014 7:35:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
WOODLAND HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Parents say they are considering taking PETA to court over an innocent-looking comic handed out to children at Calabash Elementary School in Woodland Hills that contained graphic images of mutilated cows.
Claire Borsheim and many other parents at the Woodland Hills campus were outraged after PETA handed out the pamphlets to their children the same day a baby cow was on campus for a lesson about dairy farming.
The pamphlet appeared to be a cartoon comic and was titled “A Cow’s Life,” but the images inside were horrifying, parents said.
“My 6-year-old daughter was handed one of these comics, saw the insert of the mutilated cow that I ripped away right away, she started flipping through it and saw pictures of baby cows being electrocuted, factory farms with machetes, I mean, just graphically horrifying images for a 6 year old,” Borsheim said.
“The images are pretty graphic,” parent Shawn Belschner said. “They’re of mutilated cows, infected cows, cows being dehorned, cows in bad conditions. I don’t think it’s good for any child.”
The graphic leaflet showing cows being dehorned and cows with infected udders was PETA says is a kid-friendly pamphlet about dairy cows – literature they say is meant to be educational.
Katie Arth of PETA says that it may have all just been an innocent mix up.
“PETA creates material for kids and for adults,” Arth said. “And it looks like there was just a mistake and our volunteers put the materials together to get them out quicker.”
Either way, parents say PETA crossed the line.
“They don’t understand what it is, they just see these graphically horrifying images that stay in their minds,” Borsheim said. “It’s like seeing a bad movie, a scary movie for them and they can’t get it out of their minds.”
Los Angeles Unified School District officials released a statement regarding the PETA pamphlet distributed to students. It read in part:
“No one at the school, or the District knew that animal activists would give children a comic book containing graphic images inserted of cows with a sore; an infection; chained and covered with fecal matter. The pictures are inappropriate for elementary students.
“Principal Esther Gillis would never have authorized the distribution of those pictures or the message that milk is unhealthy. L.A. Unified is committed to providing a safe and respectful environment at our schools.”
I've witnessed dehornings, castrations and slaughterings. I used to shoot chickens in the head for Sunday dinner so Grandpa could chop their heads off without a lot of fuss. It bothered the hell out of me. But I still eat meat. This is a fundamental ethical problem for me. What are we to make of a world where eating other living self-aware things is our only path to survival?
“What PETA did was indefensible, but how many in here are going to defend the horrific treatment of food animals in the 21st century by using the “God wants us to treat them this way” argument.”
Hey, it was Allah who made them taste good, not me. Go ahead, kill a camel, make chessplayer pay for the cleanup!
[ “What PETA did was indefensible, but how many in here are going to defend the horrific treatment of food animals in the 21st century by using the “God wants us to treat them this way” argument.”
Hey, it was Allah who made them taste good, not me. Go ahead, kill a camel, make chessplayer pay for the cleanup! ]
I will be happy when science makes it so we can grow meat in a vat, until then remember this quote:
“It’s not safe out there. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it is NOT for the timid.”
So, PETA can hand out pamphlets to six-year-olds that have not been reviewed by school administrators? I wonder if the Gideons are given the same liberties.
I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone stood up for and supported torturing animals.
When I was about 10 the Boy’s Club at Gainesville FL took us on a “field trip” to a chicken farm. It was one of my most traumatic instances until I went to Vietnam. But I never stopped eating chicken, and went back to Vietnam with my daughter in 2000.
Gah Grace!
Or Rather Unthink!!!
Although back in 2005 when I was 17, I saw two Horned Bulls go at it through a Barbed wire fence.......Not Pretty
I am 75 years old, all of my paternal relatives were dairy farmers....Huge dairy farms, hundreds of cattle and bulls, I spent ALL of my summers there and I have no idea of what you are babbling about.....I certainly saw butchering, killing of chickens, but cruelty.....never!!
Studying emotion in psych and in a video they mentioned the same thing about other animals after nearly being killed, even after a lion attack. would be a good study to find out why but the reason could very be that we wonder why.
hmmm. I wonder if PETA would have the same standards for pictures of aborted babies.
“I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone stood up for and supported torturing animals.”
I really like raw oysters - they’d be even better if they would scream as I munch them up.
My 10 y/o GD dissected a cow eye in science a few weeks ago.
Why is PETA being allowed to come to the schools in the first place?
Can I get fries with that?
Crap. I didn’t read the comments first.
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