Posted on 02/04/2014 7:35:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
WOODLAND HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Parents say they are considering taking PETA to court over an innocent-looking comic handed out to children at Calabash Elementary School in Woodland Hills that contained graphic images of mutilated cows.
Claire Borsheim and many other parents at the Woodland Hills campus were outraged after PETA handed out the pamphlets to their children the same day a baby cow was on campus for a lesson about dairy farming.
The pamphlet appeared to be a cartoon comic and was titled “A Cow’s Life,” but the images inside were horrifying, parents said.
“My 6-year-old daughter was handed one of these comics, saw the insert of the mutilated cow that I ripped away right away, she started flipping through it and saw pictures of baby cows being electrocuted, factory farms with machetes, I mean, just graphically horrifying images for a 6 year old,” Borsheim said.
“The images are pretty graphic,” parent Shawn Belschner said. “They’re of mutilated cows, infected cows, cows being dehorned, cows in bad conditions. I don’t think it’s good for any child.”
The graphic leaflet showing cows being dehorned and cows with infected udders was PETA says is a kid-friendly pamphlet about dairy cows – literature they say is meant to be educational.
Katie Arth of PETA says that it may have all just been an innocent mix up.
“PETA creates material for kids and for adults,” Arth said. “And it looks like there was just a mistake and our volunteers put the materials together to get them out quicker.”
Either way, parents say PETA crossed the line.
“They don’t understand what it is, they just see these graphically horrifying images that stay in their minds,” Borsheim said. “It’s like seeing a bad movie, a scary movie for them and they can’t get it out of their minds.”
Los Angeles Unified School District officials released a statement regarding the PETA pamphlet distributed to students. It read in part:
“No one at the school, or the District knew that animal activists would give children a comic book containing graphic images inserted of cows with a sore; an infection; chained and covered with fecal matter. The pictures are inappropriate for elementary students.
“Principal Esther Gillis would never have authorized the distribution of those pictures or the message that milk is unhealthy. L.A. Unified is committed to providing a safe and respectful environment at our schools.”
My guess would be close to 100%.
You mean you immediately mutilated the cow. Don't think you used a machete though.
***Don’t think you used a machete though. ****
Do you know how hard it is to butcher a cow with just a two inch dull pocket knife and a handsaw? (Actually the woman we were helping had butcher knives in her kitchen, so we just skinned the cow and phoned the beef processor to do the hard work).
The person who wrote the PETA pamphlet must have gotten their ideas from APOCALYPSE NOW, where the natives butcher a cow by hacking it up.
We used one of those on our calves and young cattle before their horns got big. My dad had a set of those BIG ones for larger cattle.
He also had a small spoon shaped one for very young calves. It looked like a gouge for woodwork.
If you missed the root cells of the horn, the horn would continue to grow in a weird shape.
***What are we to make of a world where eating other living self-aware things is our only path to survival? ***
I always remember a scene from HOMBRE in which a upright woman is offended because the Indians often ate dog to survive.
SHE: “I would NEVER eat dog!”
HOMBRE: “When you are hungry enough you will eat dog and fight over the bones!”
If we ever reach a point where each person must grow their own food for survival, you WILL fight for the bones!
***I will be happy when science makes it so we can grow meat in a vat,***
But, won’t that be super highly processed soy burgers? We’ve been warned about highly processed foods by the same groups PETA associates with!
Forty years ago, scientists found how to make artificial beef with fungi.
The problem was, to make it taste like beef, you had to soak the growth medium with beef blood. So, a cow has to die to make artificial beef.
Very true. But that has nothing to do with my original question.
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