http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/23/does-4-h-desensitize-kids-to-killing/?hpt=hp_bn8
I'm so outraged by this I can't even think what to say. To attack 4-H like this is just
despicable, and what's more the people attacking haven't even been in 4-H. Now, I don't raise live stock, but I know people who do and to say that they are "desensitized" and basically calling them murderers is slanderous and appalling. 4-H teaches kids the humane and ethical way of raising animals, something we need in a society where most of our meat comes from inhumane factory farms! Kids in 4-H learn much more than raising animals. They meet new people, new friends, learn social skills, learn work skills, and teaches them about the world around them. Overall, 4-H is about helping kids be the best they can be, "to make the best better". Maybe if the commenters were in 4-H they wouldn't be so close-minded and ignorant. The fact is that slaughter is part of raising and animal. It has been a part of human culture since homo sapiens transitioned from hunter-gathers to farmers (without which, civilization never would have started). We are omnivores and require both meat and vegetables to get our essential amino acids, to survive. If you don't want to eat meat and supplement your amino acid intake other ways, that's fine it's your opinion. If you feel that you can't raise animals for food, that's perfectly fine too. But you can't force your opinion on others and attack an organization that you know absolutely nothing about. It is simply bigoted, slanderous, disgraceful, cruel, and shameful.
The kind of ignorance you talk about is rampant unfortunately. You run into it throughout life. People acting as if opinion is fact. As a parent of a 4-H'er, I have seen firsthand the high-caliber of person that is involved in this organization. In my opinion, the proof is in the pudding - if 4H desensitized people, we would see that in the interactions of club members. Would LOVE to see them prove their hypothesis with actual facts. :D
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