Marcus the six-month-old lamb has now been culled, the head teacher of the primary school in Kent confirmed on Monday, after the school’s council — a 14-member group of children aged 6 to 11 — voted 13-1 to have him killed.
The decision has provoked fury among animal-loving celebrities, animal and human rights campaigners and the parents of some of the children, and led to threats against Lydd primary school and its teachers, according to a member of staff.
“Kids send Marcus the lamb to slaughter”, Reuters Oddly Enough News
Out of the mouths of babes, motherfuckers: loving and respecting an animal is not in any way inconsistent with understanding that the animal is meat. These children came together and made an innocent, rational, economical and perfectly sensible decision that the lamb they had hand-fed and raised from birth should be used to feed people, a fantastic step towards a life-long respect and appreciation for the food on their plates.
Slaughtering the lamb is a move for local farming, for understanding the origins of food, for disassembling factory farms, for caring that animals are treated humanely regardless of whether we eat them. The level of maturity inherent in that act far outweighs the threats and protests of activists who clearly care more about the mutton than they do the children.
This should have been an enriching learning experience. Now — who knows. You want to talk about humane treatment? Leave the kids alone.
