To the editor: Congratulations, Shasta County Truthful officers, for standing your floor and sticking firmly to your guidelines that the 4-H animals entered for terminal public sale will likely be slaughtered. No compromising. No exceptions.
You took what might have been a cute, feel-good story a couple of youngster who bonded with the goat in her care right into a bloody and tragic farce.
What was the purpose of sending sheriff’s deputies to confiscate the goat for slaughter? To show yourselves as heartless bureaucrats with no frequent sense? What a waste of time and public assets, and what an abuse of energy. How a lot cash did this all value?
All so you might slaughter a goat! You couldn’t have given yourselves, the truthful or 4-H worse publicity than for those who had really tried. Shasta County deserves higher.
Barbara Richardson, Huntington Seashore
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To the editor: I cried once I learn concerning the goat who had turn into a domesticated pet to a 9-year-old.
Once I was 7 years outdated, my grandma gave our household a child chick that grew to become my pet. It was ultimately slaughtered and served for dinner. I used to be an emotional mess and have become a vegetarian.
The Shasta Truthful Assn. needs to be held accountable for dismissing the emotional well-being of this younger lady, particularly realizing she had just lately misplaced three grandparents. She begged for the goat’s life to be spared. The mom provided to reimburse the truthful and had additionally made contact with the profitable bidder, who had agreed to being reimbursed.
However truthful officers couldn’t discover it of their hearts to cease the method. Disgrace on them.
Georgette Rieck, Santa Monica
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To the editor: My grandsons have been by means of this course of at the very least a dozen instances, and the primary time will be painful for kids since they’ve bonded with their animal.
However remember the fact that the lady’s household was properly conscious of the principles when she started her venture and didn’t should enter the competitors. To be clear, these animals are initiatives, not pets.
The blame needs to be directed at her mother and father for instructing her to not preserve her commitments and as a substitute steal others’ property. So far as I’m involved, the authorities concerned are treating them with child gloves.
Paul Burns, Granada Hills
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To the editor: I grew up on a farm and in highschool joined the Future Farmers of America. I raised animals to be proven on the truthful after which be auctioned off for slaughter. I used to be mature sufficient to grasp that with the intention to feed a principally meat-eating inhabitants, animals had been raised to be killed.
Yearly I recalled seeing some younger 4-H youngsters within the pens with their animals hugging them round their necks or stroking their fur and weeping. These youngsters had bonded with their animals as pets. How would we really feel about giving up our canine and cats to the slaughterhouse?
4-H is an excellent group. The organizers do numerous good, however maybe they need to contemplate sparing their youthful members the trauma of lovingly elevating their animals solely to present them as much as be killed and eaten.
Paul Ali, Sunland
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To the editor: The animal advocacy motion is house to quite a few individuals who had been traumatized as youngsters by surrendering their beloved animals to 4-H organizations.
Cedar the goat actually would have most well-liked a life chomping weeds to slaughter. We within the developed world don’t should kill animals to be properly nourished.
Disgrace on the Shasta truthful and the sheriff for his or her vengeful idiocy.
Debbie Elliott, Pacific Palisades
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To the editor: I hope the younger lady and her household who’re suing the Shasta Far Assn. have determined to not eat meat or increase animals for consumption.
Caroline Spoja, La Habra
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To the editor: What of the Shasta County truthful officers? Didn’t they learn “The Service provider of Venice” in highschool? I quote:
“The standard of mercy is just not strained; it droppeth because the mild rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It’s twice blest; it blesseth him that provides and him that takes.”
And so forth. Lookup and browse the entire passage. It’s stunning. Shakespeare was the GOAT — the best of all time.
This additionally factors up the worth of English lessons and English academics.
David T. Jones, Los Angeles
