Teenager refuses to kill her chicken for a class project

[Organics North]

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Thats each persons PERSONAL choice..
Each person may do it differently,..

Yes it is personal.. I can not put the mental/spiritual process in words on a chicken forum... I will try::::::
;;;;It is a deep humbling experience, each and every time I put a chicken in a killing cone and slit its throat. The energy of its spirit is released, the energy of its physical self will nurture and sustain my family, the parts we can not eat are converted to compost to nurture our garden which in turn provides for our family.
We are grateful of the chicken or other animal, we are indebted to its gift to us, We are humbly made aware of our lowly place as just another omnivorous creature that roams mother earth..........

NOTHING is wasted, in a physical sense. On a spiritual level the burden must be carried by me, reminding me that my very existence impacts the life of this planet... Which in turn makes me humbly aware of the continuous circle of life that is being started and completed every fraction of a second on every inch of ground on this earth.

Peace
ON

 

[knittychickadee]

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She said that she liked to eat chicken BEFORE this project. She's also stated on her FB page that since this project neither she nor her family has eaten chicken or any other meat.


Concordia has a population that is less than 6,000 people. I'd imagine that a higher % of teens there know where food comes from than students in, say, Chicago or San Francisco, where few have ever seen or been on a farm.

She stated a lot of things on her facebook page that clearly show you where she was coming from- She said she already was a 'borderline vegetarian'. Going to the zoo makes her cry because the animals look so depressed and lonely. Her dog is like her son. Not only did her mother and stepfather know that she was going to steal the chicken, her stepfather offered to drive the getaway car. Her mother contacted the 'unmentionable' groups to tell them about her "brave" daughter stealing the chicken. She admits that at the beginning of the semester, the students were told they might be participating in the broiler project, she chose to take the class anyway. While she and her parents knew what was going to be done with those chicks, none of them talked to the teacher, principle, or a school board member in all those weeks to say "we found out about the broiler project and do not want our daughter to take part in it", or, "can I get an alternate project". Instead, she and her family planned something illegal together, and then called people and bragged about it. Family members congratulated her in online messages. She's complaining a lot about this parental permission, but her parents didn't do squat about it when she told them, except to offer her a ride?? This girl and her family KNEW that she had a personality that in no way was going to let her kill a chicken, pet or no, and she should have left the class the first day or asked for an alternate project, which she did not.

 

[Ferrret]

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The chicken for the project was intended to die and be served as food. The chicken's final intent was for meat.
I feel you are overreacting to the statement made. Omitted.
Chickens are not people. Dogs, cats, pigs, deer, turkeys, cows, catfish are not people. Relating the two will only lead to harsh words and foul discussion.

OK I will give you that. a chicken is not a HUMAN!! .. However I see the connection in the attitude when making flat statements about anything solely based on genetic make up. You can not deny that line of thinking is generally at the root of racism, and genocide.

I apologize for being extreme in order to make a point......., but destiny for every living thing is in flux... Nothing has a predetermined destiny.. Open your eyes and your mind, see through a teen's eyes that is asked to care for a bird and gets attached... DO you have kids? Come on.

ON

Some people believe in predetermined destiny. No one knows the outcome before it happens, all we can do is guess and assume.
I know what you are trying to say, I understand your point, (omitted).

I do not have children as I do not want them. There are many factors into that, age is a big one.
I do understand attachments to animals and not wanting to give them away, let alone kill them. The students were not required to kill their chickens, but they were required to pluck and clean them. The teacher should not have assigned individual birds to students to prevent such an issue. Allowing students to do the deed itself is a risk for the school that should have had parental consent.
The situation in it's entirety was handled poorly, but it is done with and the past is unlikely to change.

 

[Organics North]

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Lets drop my analogy OK?
Yes my father fought in WWII for the USA in Germany too... Most of my family was on the other side and died.... SO what ever..... My father was a hitler youth before he left germany... I have an opion on what kinds of attitudes breed the evils of genicide!

So what if the chicken only lives a week... I am saying it is not our place to judge this girls emotions to the chicken!!! Meat chicken, earthworm, spider whatever....

THE point is it is her emotions.........
Geezzz
ON

 

[Organics North]

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The chicken for the project was intended to die and be served as food. The chicken's final intent was for meat.
I feel you are overreacting to the statement made. The are very sensitive subjects and have no place being brought up in this conversation.
Chickens are not people. Dogs, cats, pigs, deer, turkeys, cows, catfish are not people. Relating the two will only lead to harsh words and foul discussion.

OK please edit your quotes of mine..

ON

 

[Ferrret]

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The point is she acted rashly last minute based on emotions and has gotten a school system and reasonable agriculture program a lot of bad press over a chicken.
She had from the beginning of the semester when she was first informed of the project to raise issue with it. She brushed it off thinking there wouldn't be funding.
She had 6 weeks to complain when the chicks arrived, but did virtually nothing.
She had weeks to tell her parents, other students, and the community of the project and her objections to it.
Nothing was said until after the incident when she was being hailed as 'brave' for snagging a chicken and running off with it. She could have made a bigger statement for herself by staging a full protest and halting the entire project saving all the chickens, but instead smuggled one off of the property in a last ditch effort of defiance.

Yes, she acted out according to her morals and beliefs. Hooray for her. She has also brought a media hell storm and potential lawsuits upon a school that was trying to educate their students. To a lot of people she has caused more trouble over a single chicken than need be.

 

[deerman]

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Lets drop my analogy OK?
Yes my father fought in WWII for the USA in Germany too... Most of my family was on the other side and died.... SO what ever..... My father was a hitler youth before he left germany... I have an opion on what kinds of attitudes breed the evils of genicide!

So what if the chicken only lives a week... I am saying it is not our place to judge this girls emotions to the chicken!!! Meat chicken, earthworm, spider whatever....

THE point is it is her emotions.........
Geezzz
ON

Well to compare my line of thinking to those of Hitler.......I don't need or want to hear your comment.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Now that I understand y'alls feelings about the matter more clearly...

I am really scared of y'alls.

 

[arabianequine]

I was asking more along the lines if you don't like your child to be taught to slit its throat then how would you teach them to kill the chicken? It will look ugly either way.

 

[Cat Water]

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Yeah, really!