A school in Kent bought a sheep to teach the children where their food comes from. Fair enough, you might say. But when it came to actually killing him, some people disagreed.
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He was bought with the specific purpose of teaching the children about where food comes from. Therefore everyone should have known that the day would come where he would have to be killed and made into delicious lamb chops. Not doing so would completely defeat the point of raising him in the first place, thereby making his life totally worthless. Nice one.
One mother said that her daughter had become a vegetarian as a result of this. So what? If you're not comfortable with where meat comes from, don't eat it. What has happened to this lamb is exactly the same as has happened to every other piece of meat this girl has ever eaten, with the possible difference that this particular lamb had a higher standard of living.
People need to get used to the fact that if you eat meat, cute fluffy animals die. Fact.
Marcus became a cause célèbre for the PETA crowd, who used the story to try and impose their anti- meat-eating values on everyone else. I sincerely doubt that this has had any effect on anyone other than the children themselves (because they're so impressionable), but I'll bet that the parents don't give a damn about killing animals for food, they only care about their children being aware of it.
Singling this animal out for saving, as some people want to do , is also stupid. O'Grady, for whatever reason, believes that once you personalise an animal you can't then kill it for food. WHAT?? Don't be so bloody sentimental. What is different about this animal that makes it so special? Nothing. You've given it a name, so what.
People need to shut up and get on with it.
Bet he tastes delicious with a bit of mint sauce and some roast potatoes though...
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