4-H desensitizes kids to killing
but teaches them that bacon tastes good.
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June 24th, 2011 at 10:10 am
My daughter raised a lamb and a pig for FFA (Future Farmers of America) her senior year in High School, and showed them at local and state level exhibitions. Didn’t win anything, after all that hard work every day with the animals, but did learn a lot.
One thing she learned is that a gelt (female pig) is worth several hundred dollars as a breeder to a small farmer, even though it won no prizes, and a lamb that got nary a second glance from the judges at the state fair results in a large check based solely on the weight of the animal.
Some girls cried as their lambs were led up the ramp to the truck that carried them away from the show to the sheep ranch, to a future of further fattening and eventual slaughter. My daughter didn’t. She suggested leg of lamb for Sunday dinner that week.
June 24th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
We have a cattle farm (beef Angus) and my wife won’t let me take one of our cows to have it slaughtered and converted into delightful beef cuts. It’s her farm and she makes the rules.
We sell cattle to feed lots at auction, but that is apparently more impersonal (or at least the bovine equivalent of impersonal).
I wanted to take a course at UT’s Ag Extension program on butchering so I could kill, slaughter and eat our own cattle.
Guess I will have to settle for picking cotton this fall.
June 24th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Rationalizing the normal into the bizarre seems to be a kind of hobby for people these days. Helmke made a living at it. Maybe he can get a job with PETA, though he’d look a little silly in a “Meat is Murder” t-shirt. Still, he beclowned himself often enough with the Brady Center. He’s qualified!
June 24th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Our over-urbanized culture is too far removed from real life.
June 25th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Since moving to a more rural area of Washington, we are looking at getting our girls into 4H…my wife and I both feel that 4H is a much more useful club to belong to than Girl Scouts.
Leg of Lamb > Girl Scout Cookies.
June 25th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Or, it teaches children about the natural life cycle so they don’t flip out in emotional distress when their pet dog dies. This is coming from the same crowd that tells their kid animals on the side of the road are “sleeping”. Fat lot of good they are doing their kids for real life lessons.