The blind steer Oatmeal raised by Kendyll Williams, a 13-year-old young girl from Huntsville, Texas has captured the hearts, minds, imaginations and souls of everyone that has a propensity for feeling compassion whether they are vegan, vegetarian, carnivore or omnivore. The life of this young lady and her steer Oatmeal, who was sold for more than $8,000 in the Fort Worth Stock Show’s Sale of Champions, has opened the eyes of the nation.
Read our Newsletter on the story here.
Read the following press release for yourself to see how the Fort Worth Livestock Show handled a problem that they according to their own words had never seen happen.
http://www.fwssr.com/pdfs/news/StockShowSaleRelease.pdf
STOCK SHOW PRESS RELEASE
MORE LINKS TO THE STORY AS IT UNFOLDED: (NOT IN ANY ORDER & I’M SURE THERE IS MORE IF YOU WANT TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.
http://www.fox4news.com/news/88782751-story
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant-county/saving-a-steer-from-the-slaughterhouse/39706863
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/fw-stock-show/article59530736.html
It has always been so distressing to me that children are encouraged to raise (and get attached to) animals who will then be sold for slaughter. What the hell are we doing? Teaching them to “let go” is a ridiculous use of words to describe an experience that will affect them negatively for the rest of their lives…just ask any adult who went through that “educational experience” as a child. Every photo of a child saying goodbye to their “project” (as the clueless Matt Brockman…”publicity manager” for the Ft. Worth Stock Show refers to those living, breathing, feeling animals) is the best advertisement for living a vegetarian life. Get it together, you good old wild west people, and stop torturing children…and their pets. And a meatless world would be much more environmentally friendly also.