Animals rights group's campaign against school pig scheme (From Gazette)
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Animals rights group's campaign against school pig scheme
5:30pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News
ANIMAL rights protestors have bombarded a primary school with objection emails over its scheme to rear pigs.
Colchester Animal Defenders has sent more than 400 emails to Peasenhall Primary School in Suffolk.
The group is opposing the school allowing its 25 pupils to raise three pigs before they are sent to be slaughtered for their meat.
A spokesman for Peasenhall Primary School said some of the emails were "foul and abusive".
Liza Moore, head of Colchester Animal Defenders, defended the vocal campaign.
Comments(9)
Boris
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6:37pm Fri 8 Mar 13
So why don't "Colchester Animal Defenders" take care of their own patch, instead of bothering Peasenhall primary school?
sandgronun64
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7:04pm Fri 8 Mar 13
OK, we get it that some people do not eat meat on ethical grounds. They have that right, but why try and deny others, their legitimate dietary choices?
personally I think the idea - that of a limited amount of controlled and well supervised livestock production in schools - is a truly wonderful one and only wish it could be rolled out more widely in schools.
Urbanites often lack a sense of perspective in respect of food production and origins, not because of any personal shortcomings on their part, but simply because they have never been exposed to (or involved with) any of the process; particularly that involved in agricultural livestock production.
The idea that an animal can be kept for reasons other than its being a pet are alien to many adults, yet they still eat meat. learning to appreciate, care for and understand animals raised purely for the table is as important an area of the curriculum as many other aspects of modern day living.
As for the emails that were sent, those that were foul and abusive should (and can) be traced to the sender and that/those person(s) be made the subject of some kind of sanction. I mean really! People sending foul and abusive emails to a primary school?
Are we the all members of the sort of society that thinks this is acceptable?
sandgronun64
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7:07pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Skinner1963
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9:39am Sat 9 Mar 13
Everyone needs the ability to choose in life and part of education is showing children all sides of life. This is a part of our life, we produce animals to eat.
Coming from a farming background I do feel very strongly that all aspects of how we get our food is fairly represented.
It's a fantastic idea, and I'm sure the pigs will have a happy life.
concernedrefuture
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11:33am Sat 9 Mar 13
Grow up people and turn your attention to the breeders of fighting dogs!
Diandre
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10:44pm Sat 9 Mar 13
Apart from being incorrect in her own assumptions regarding what constitutes a healthy diet, she has contrived to create problems for a village Primary School and its staff which has culminated in staff being threatened and abused.
For someone of her years to act so irresponsibly and to entice people to harrass staff (and possibly pupils also) should become a Police matter.
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Boris
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11:04pm Sat 9 Mar 13
Diandre wrote:I hope she is prosecuted for her threatening behaviour, which is a criminal offence.
It appears that Ms Liza Moore (aka Liza Isa Vegan on 'facebook' site of Colchester Animal Defenders) is denying ANYONE the right to eat meat. Or even to understand at a young age where meat actually comes from.
Apart from being incorrect in her own assumptions regarding what constitutes a healthy diet, she has contrived to create problems for a village Primary School and its staff which has culminated in staff being threatened and abused.
For someone of her years to act so irresponsibly and to entice people to harrass staff (and possibly pupils also) should become a Police matter.
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jamest
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10:50am Mon 11 Mar 13
Citizen 139 says...
5:43pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Clueless isn't the word.