Posted on 03/30/2023 12:50:41 PM PDT by Morgana
A woman has sued a California county and its district fair after her daughter's pet goat was sold for $902, slaughtered, and barbecued despite the family wanting to withdraw its entry for auction.
Jessica Long's family bought Cedar the goat, a seven-month-old white Boer, in April 2022 and the animal soon formed an attachment to her nine-year-old daughter - who fed and cared for it everyday.
However, the family decided to enter Cedar into the Shasta District Fair’s junior livestock auction on June 24, 2022 - where the animals are sold off to be used as meat.
But long before the auction started, the Long family changed their minds and wanted to take Cedar off the ticket. The fair denied the request and sold it - so the mom brazenly stole the goat back before it was given to the buyer.
What followed was a wild goat chase - sending officers hundreds of miles across the county to retrieve the goat via a search warrant, before handing it to individuals who are believed to have killed Cedar and roasted him on a barbecue for their guests.
The federal civil rights lawsuit lodged by the Long family, seen by the Sacramento Bee, is now demanding actual, general and punitive damages. It wants to establish the young girl’s 'free expression or viewpoint with respect to livestock in future livestock activities.'
Cedar, described as a beloved white goat with beautiful chocolate-colored markings, was sold at the Shasta District Fair for $902 to a representative of state Senator Brian Dahle.
The mother, after seeing her daughter sob by the goat's pen at the fair, decided to steal back the animal at the last minute and 'deal with the consequences later.'
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I thought California had a $950 free shoplifting rule. They don't chase you if you burn down half a city rioting, but they have that much time for a stolen goat?
They seem to miss that this the point of 4-H and all of this. I remember growing up we raised lots of different animals and my brother and I reminded people at the dinner table who we were eating by name. Didn’t go over well. But that is life, too few people realize where food comes from.
I bought goat while in Jerusalem, asked the guy the best way to eat it, he said, with a fork.
During the depression, my Dad and his brothers (children at the time) raised rabbits. They named one of them “Steve”.
One evening, they had fried Steve for dinner. The boys weren’t too happy about it, but it was the depression ... They didn’t name any more rabbits. And I learned, at a very young age, not to name livestock.
Well I think the goat suffered the most.
The paperwork and sales contract is signed when the animal is weighed in as a market animal. There are non market categories to enter.
I am suspicious that mom is an animal rights activist deliberately setting up a test casr.
I hope the fair board countersues.
If she had pumped it full of aintibiotics it would have been disqualified and not fit for meat consumption.
Wow, you raise meat goats (Boer) and they get used for meat? Color me shocked.
where’s the beef...
Sometimes they are auctioned for breeder stock.
So you think people have a right to renege on a signed contract via theft because “feelings”.
Dumbasses like you is how we will all end up with mealworm burgers.
This couldn’t be an April Fools joke. Oh … wait ….
Doesn’t sound like a successful law suit. Sad she lost her goat. But, she did enter it in an auction. A shame the fair took it so seriously and didn’t allow her to withdraw from the auction.
The issue is with the mom who signed the forms, knowing it would be used as food.
these auctions IMO are generally run to help the country kids earn money and the bids are much higher than normal for that reason....
this woman is a liar and a cheat.
4H and state fair livestock auctions always go for far above market value. It’s part of how the game works.
The girls mom is an idiot.
“However, the family decided to enter Cedar into the Shasta District Fair’s junior livestock auction on June 24, 2022 - where the animals are sold off to be used as meat.”
Why did the family do this if they wanted to keep it as a pet?
Just get another goat.
Why is it everybody else’s fault that they screwed up?
That just means the muslims wander around looking pitiful during daylight hours and party hearty after sunset.
I hope the county sues for lawyer fees and punitive damages for a frivolous lawsuit.
Old story
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