A lamb named Marcus, raised by a group of 250 schoolchildren, aged 6-11, as part of an "educational farm," was slaughtered after a 13-1 council vote.The council consisted of those 6-to-11-year-olds.
And the rest of the world, save those kids, are upset.
This farm thing was designed "to educate the children in all aspects of farming life and everything that implies," meaning that when the teachers read Charlotte's Web, Wilbur likely met a different fate.
The article mentions that "the intention had been to buy pigs with the money raised from slaughtering Marcus" — and then, I'm guessing, the pigs will be slaughtered to buy more sheep.
That, my friends, is the circle of life. Read more...
sono Barack, il protagonista del romanzo blogspot, chiedo scusa ma oggi mi sento molto più vicino All'Agnello Marcus Che non agli esseri umani, per questo vi dico Che non mangio carne di animali ma oggi asseggerei volentieri carne di bambino
ReplyDeleteBased on a crude online translation, the above means:
ReplyDeletebarack are, the protagonist of the novel blogspot, excuse me but today I feel much closer to the Lamb Marcus than to human beings, for this I say I eat meat of animals not but today asseggerei [he likely means "assaggiare" or "taste"] willingly meat of child
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