PERRYVILLE, Ark. – Seventh-graders participating in a Heifer International program that recreates living conditions in third-world countries voted to have rabbit for dinner, and some were horrified when the animal was butchered before their eyes.
After students from Kirksey Middle School in Rogers elected to have meat for dinner, a worker in Heifer’s Global Village program broke the animal’s neck, cut off its head and prepared the meat for dinner.
“If I had known my daughter was going to watch them slaughter a rabbit, she wouldn’t have went,” said Mike Story, whose daughter began crying when asked how the trip had gone. “To her, a rabbit is a pet, so it was like watching a pet die.”
Heifer officials said the challenge _ slaughter a rabbit or go meatless _ has been presented many times before to Rogers students without objections. Two parents complained after their daughters returned home from the two-day trip Tuesday.
sounds like the guy who said this
“If I had known my daughter was going to watch them slaughter a rabbit, she wouldn’t have went,†said Mike Story,
should go back to the 7th grade
This fellow need another lesson in English/grammar. This is almost as bad as the media reporting that someone “went missing”!!
They should not be slaughtering innocent rabbits, whether she “went ” or not.