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Bet 95% of the faculty and students eat chicken!! #731959
05/25/08 09:48 PM
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What is wrong with the system when 50 letters from the freaks in this world can destroy a program teaching people that food is a staple good in life that must be utilized to LIVE??

Pressured by animal-rights groups, school chops ‘chicken project’
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By Jessica Pierce, staff writer
Daily Messenger
Sun May 25, 2008, 02:56 AM EDT
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Canandaigua, N.Y. -

After heavy lobbying from animals-rights groups including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Canandaigua Academy Principal Lynne Erdle has terminated the so-called “chicken project” which has a class of students each year raising chickens and killing them.

Lindsay Rajt, manager of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said Friday that Erdle sent an e-mail to the organization saying that school officials “recognize the concern” and had discontinued the project, which had been part of a high school ecology class for the past three years.

“In no way were we trying to create a controversy,” wrote Erdle in the e-mail provided by PETA. “This is a project adopted from a 4-H project that we have done for years.”

Animal-rights activists from across the country, including PETA members, lobbied school leaders to end the project. School district spokesman Andy Thomas said the district has received as many as 50 letters from activists. “I think Lynne’s feeling is, ‘Enough is enough,’” Thomas said. “We think it’s a great class, but sometimes a controversy makes it not worth it to pound on through.”

Thomas added, “Their opposition to the program, to me, is somewhat shortsighted — there’s a chance that some of the kids that go through this program will consider vegetarianism much more seriously.”

Thomas expressed frustrations with how the program — aimed at giving students a close-look at the true cost of today’s diet — has been portrayed by PETA and another group, United Poultry Concerns. In announcing the school’s decision, PETA issued a press release Friday that said, “School Had Been Holding Mass Decapitations of Birds in Classroom.”

PETA also said “slaughtering” animals fosters a dangerous mindset “that glorifies and even rewards violence.”

Rajt commended Erdle for ending the program.

“Now, students — and faculty — have a golden opportunity to learn one of life’s most valuable and enduring lessons: compassion for others,” she said in a prepared statement.

Last fall, students raised 22 hens in pens outside Eric Cosman’s ecology classroom. Starting from when they were chicks, they fed them, gave them water and cleaned their pens. Then, in groups of three or four, the hens were killed, plucked and gutted for a December barbecue day.

Reached by phone Saturday, Cosman said he had not been told that the program had been ended. “It wasn’t anything that was discussed at school with me,” he said, noting that the project is “much more than a project that kills things.”

“That’s the end result,” he said, “but my goal is to educate people to the true cost of today’s diet.”

Cosman said that, as part of the elective course, he has always shown a PETA film called “Meet your Meat,” and he invites the school’s vegetarian students to offer their insights to fellow students. “I approach it from an environmental point of view, not a slaughter point of view,” he said. “If we would all eat a little less meat, it could change a lot of things.”

The program drew ire from Canandaigua activist Joel Freedman, who said the program could “bring out the callous side of students.” He met with school officials before Christmas to plead on the birds’ behalf and ask that they be sent to a farm sanctuary.

Freedman said he was pleased with Erdle’s decision. “The school should be teaching kindness to animals, not cruelty to animals,” he said. “What was going on with the chicken project was a very cruel endeavor that never should have gone on in the first place.”

As for the district, Thomas said, “it’s never a happy feeling saying you’re bowing to a public pressure you don’t agree with, and yet we all make those decisions from time to time.”

Jessica Pierce can be reached at (585) 394-0770, Ext. 250, or at jpierce@messengerpostmedia.com.

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Re: Bet 95% of the faculty and students eat chicken!! [Re: Mira Trapper] #732208
05/26/08 07:17 AM
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Another sad day for educators...


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Re: Bet 95% of the faculty and students eat chicken!! [Re: Snuffy] #732215
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WHAT THE!!!!!??????


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Re: Bet 95% of the faculty and students eat chicke [Re: bsd] #732237
05/26/08 08:13 AM
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"Bring out the callous side of humans"


We are omnivores that require meat to survive thus solidifying the point that such a class is AMORAL and no shame should be attached to the lessons.


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