DumDog:the thing about kids though. they're doing what many parents should be doing.... educating.
thats the dangers of sending your kids out into the world unarmed. if you dont teach them then SOMEONE will.
our kids need to know where their food comes from. they also need to know that not all animals suffer horribly before they are butchered for the supermarkets. if a kid is used to seeing chicken in a plastic wrapper for the first 9 years of their life, and then suddenly someone thrusts a picture of a bloody mangled chicken hanging from a hook in front of them.... yeah thats going to shock and frighten them!!
these simple things we take for granted, grocery shopping with the kids, are very very important. most parents are too busy worrying about their kids begging for junk food or toys while shopping that they miss a prime opportunity to educate their kids.
by the way i dont know about anyone else but i couldnt read the article. it locked up my computer for a few minutes before saying it was unable to load.... so if someone could kindly cut and paste the article i would be much obliged.
dumdog you are SO right. Back in the war, evacuees from the city had no idea where milk or eggs came from, let alone meat. Following on from that, a few decades ago some clever people decided it would be a good idea to teach those kind of basics in schools. I think they even had animals that the kids could learn about.... this is what you feed it, this is what it needs to live.... and that there is your gammon, there is your bacon and there are your chops....
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