She Baaaalked
Krista Brandtner, 15, a student at Clackamas (Ore.) High School, was given a choice between making apple cider and seeing “the livestock process,” which, the school warned, could be gruesome, though students weren’t actually required to watch a slaughter. Brandtner chose the livestock route out of “curiosity,” but said hearing a sheep’s neck being broken “scared me more than anything.” Her mother called the school to complain, but school Superintendent Ron Naso says there will be no changes. “The birthing and the raising and the slaughtering of sheep is part of the cycle” of agricultural life, he said. (Portland Oregonian) ...Kids already know where meat comes from: the supermarket.
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