It would be much better for the children to grow vegetables and be
taught about animal sentience. Pigs, like all animals experience joy,
sadness, fear, pain, happiness and misery, just the same as humans do.
Pigs are intelligent, more intelligent than dogs, and don't deserve to
be used and abused for human taste preferences. No animal does.
Teach the pupils about healthy diets, compassion to all living things
and concern for our planet, not how to use and exploit animals for a product that we don't need and isn't healthy.
Instead of needlessly slaughtering the pigs, they could be kept to teach the
children animal sentience, or be found a permanent, safe home.
Teach the children to value all life, not just human life. Teach compassion, not
how to kill.
Apparently the children will be designing food labels and recipes. These things can and should be done using fruit, vegetables and healthy food.
It's highly unlikely that the primary school children will be taken to visit a factory farm to see tail docking and teeth clipping carried out without anaesthetic, or sows cruelly confined to farrow crates, nor will they be likely to visit a slaughterhouse and see the fear and pain the animals go through.
If the children did see these things they surely wouldn't be happy to send the pigs they are raising to such horrors.
Peasenhall are presenting the children with a false image of the farming industry.
The hypocrisy is beyond words.
The three pigs should be allowed to have what is rightfully theirs...their lives.
