Kids send Marcus the Lamb to slaughter

[Caliga]

Goats are often kept as pets, and as a source of wool. He was much more useful being slaughtered, as it meant they could get more animals, but there were other uses for him beyond just that.

I know you and I are not disagreeing on this issue, but I know of at least one case of people keeping animals as pets and then slaughtering them.  My dad used to have a live-in manager who kept a pigpen and he and his family considered the pigs as pets, but did slaughter them for pork.  So while I guess it might be unusual it's at least not completely alien.

[Darth Wagtaros]

the school's council -- a 14-member group of children aged 6 to 11 -- voted 13-1 to have him killed.

That's very strange.  Hope they enjoy their kebabs.

First thought was that it was kind of Lord of the Flies. And they are English.  So it kinda fit.  But PETA is angry so that's a good thing.  YeaH!

[Josquius]

Yeah people have only been doing that for thousands of years.

Since when?
My uncle certainly doesn't name the animals on his farm (well...except the dogs).

[Caliga]

First thought was that it was kind of Lord of the Flies. And they are English.  So it kinda fit.  But PETA is angry so that's a good thing.  YeaH!

PETA is always angry about something or other, and if they can't find some new legit issue to froth about they go back to picking on KFC.

[Darth Wagtaros]

First thought was that it was kind of Lord of the Flies. And they are English.  So it kinda fit.  But PETA is angry so that's a good thing.  YeaH!

PETA is always angry about something or other, and if they can't find some new legit issue to froth about they go back to picking on KFC.

Should eat hamburgers in front of their HQ.

[DisturbedPervert]

PETA is always angry about something or other, and if they can't find some new legit issue to froth about they go back to picking on KFC.

That's fine with me, that usually involves a hot chick in a bikini locked up in a cage.  Dinner AND a show.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Since when?
My uncle certainly doesn't name the animals on his farm (well...except the dogs).

My uncle had a cow named Brisket.     Guess what happened to him.

[Ed Anger]

Since when?
My uncle certainly doesn't name the animals on his farm (well...except the dogs).

My uncle had a cow named Brisket.     Guess what happened to him.

Delicious.

[Caliga]

  That's awesome.  If I had cows I'd name them BBQ, Delmonico, and Big Mac.

[Ed Anger]

That's awesome.  If I had cows I'd name them BBQ, Delmonico, and Big Mac.

And a pig named  'McRib'.

[Brazen]

Good for them. Part of the reason our diet's so shit in this country is no-one teaches kids where food comes from. Most of them won't eat meat and a lot of adults won't buy and cook it unless it's an anonymous, bloodless block of protein.

I remember seeing a pig carcass being delivered to a butcher as a kid. I ate nothing but bread and milk for a week, then sson realised it was just an burden of being top of the food chain and got over it.

They should have taught the kids how to butcher it to. In this time of mass unemployment, butchery skills are in great demand and butchers are highly paid.

In other news, Reuters journalists suck. "Cull"? My fat thesaurus.

[Caliga]

One time I went to the Topsfield State Fair and was in the livestock exhibit.  There was some USDA thing with a bunch of cows.  I walked up to the edge of the fence and said "I'll see you at Longhorn Steakhouse next Friday!"  to one of the steers. The guy running it overheard me and quitely asked me to not say stuff like that because it might 'upset people'.  Me = embarassed 

[Darth Wagtaros]

One time I went to the Topsfield State Fair and was in the livestock exhibit.  There was some USDA thing with a bunch of cows.  I walked up to the edge of the fence and said "I'll see you at Longhorn Steakhouse next Friday!"  to one of the steers. The guy running it overheard me and quitely asked me to not say stuff like that because it might 'upset people'.  Me = embarassed 

Your fault for going to that tourist trap!

[Caliga]

NEVER AGAIN.  It look THREE HOURS to get there owing to the horrible traffic. 

[Brazen]

We roasted a lamb over a campfire at a living history week. The lamb had been raised in a historical farm and  the farmer brought its father out to see it over the pit