PETA GRRR ISSUE 3 2004

ANIMALS ARE NOT OURS TO EAT

Many programs offered by 4-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA) encourage kids to lovingly raise and care for baby pigs, cows, and other animals—then sell them at auction to be killed and turned into hot dogs, hamburgers, and other meat. No wonder so many frantic kids call PETA for help to get their animals out of the county fair and into a safe haven!

4-H’s Cruel Lesson
People who think it’s good to teach kids to turn their backs on their animal friends should be sent to the funny farm. Animals raised on today’s farms aren’t brushed and petted with caring hands as they are in 4-H and FFA programs. For the animals doomed to be burgers and nuggets, just about the only time they are touched by human hands is when farm workers hold them down and chop off their tails, beaks, or horns. The animals live in filthy enclosures where many suffer—and die—from diseases and injuries that aren’t treated. At slaughterhouses, animals are thrown, kicked, and prodded to the killing floor, where many are skinned alive.

Student Fights for Little Pig
Miami high school student Leonora Armas led the battle to save unkindly named “Bacon,” a pig who was raised for slaughter by classmates involved in the Future Farmers of America Club at her school. Babe star and PETA supporter James Cromwell joined the fight to save the imperiled pig, as did a school board member who not only offered to purchase Bacon, now renamed “Daisy,” but vowed to get all of the school’s “raise-to-kill” programs banned. Their efforts paid off—Daisy was whisked away to a sanctuary in Tennessee, where she will never have to worry about becoming “Bacon” again.

BITE BACK PETA’s “4-H’s” can save lives honor animals by adopting a humane, meat-free diet and help them by handing out information to others about vegetarianism. Visit PETAKids.com for details.

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