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Follow up on earlier post: Wanna' know about that meat you're buying?

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Food for thought, folks.

No pun intended.

Chicken killing controversy in Concordia, Kansas

It seems a student, one Whitney Hillman of Concordia, Kansas is a good student, making good grades, attending school regularly and then, all of a sudden, went off the chart.

You see, Whitney took an "Animal Science and Food Production" class and in it "...each student would be given a baby chick to raise for six weeks in preparation for slaughter."

And I have to say, I think that's sick, having a kid to raise a chicken, virtually as a pet, and then slaughter it in class.

No wonder she reacted the way she did.

I have a friend and had a Grandfather who both went, as children, to a meat-packing plant and that was it for them for the rest of their lives--no meat.  (At least the Grandfather couldn't touch beef.  He'd eat pork only but only then if it were cooked so dry as to make it nearly flavorless).

For clarification, I'm like Whitney's Mom, according to the story.  She questioned "...why students essentially were allowed to bond with the chicks, only to be asked to kill them later."

I know if we all had to do this--kill our own meat as children--a whole lot more of us would be vegetarians.

And we'd be healthier, too, for it, singularly and as a nation.

Now, where's that little Mexican place I like so much?

Link to original story:  http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/22/2344581_teen-saves-pet-chicken-from-slaughter.html?storylink=omni_popular