KidNation Slaughterhouse!

So on KidNation tonight, they decided to show the kids how food is made...and maybe even teach them a fact of life. They subjected the kids to a little "gather 'round the killin' log!" That is, they invited them to watch a couple chickens getting their heads chopped off. Including the headless flapping of wings and reflexive twitching.

I propose that this is not a "fact of life". Beheading a chicken to eat it is a choice. Only in the most dire circumstances may one be forced to eat meat. So I find it cruel and unusual to forcefully show this to a bunch of children. Conversely, I do think people should see how their food is made, when they are intelligent enough to make their own food choices outside of what Mommy and Daddy cook for them.

"But Wes, this is how the world eats. It is a fact of life. The chicken has to die anyways for the kid to eat it, so why not let them see it."
To that I say... Sex is a fact of life. The human race would be extinct if we didn't procreate. You wouldn't be a kid unless your Daddy and Mommy bumped uglies. So since sex is a fact of life, we should obliterate the minimum age to buy porn. From now on, kids will be allowed to rent the hottest new porno releases. Sex is a fact of life, so the kids are gonna see some sex, dammit!

Why is it different? Preposterous! The insane meat consumption in the world, with the out-of-control population, will eventually destory our natural resources. It is especially bad in this country, where it has become commonplace to eat meat for 3 meals a day. Were we ever intended to eat that much meat? The medical establishment overwhelmingly states that 30% of cancer is linked to meat-based-diets, and that not eating red meat can drastically reduce your risk of cancer (that is, red meat causes cancer). In fact, they recommend a vegetarian diet to prevent cancer. So training kids to eat meat without giving them the choice is pretty dangerous stuff. Maybe not as psychologically damaging as showing them porn. But equally damaging to their bodies, as you are conditioning their diet for life. And they are still objectifying women by age 15 anyways, MTV and beer commercials do the trick just as well as porn...

Oddly, they edited much of it out of the TV show, yet the kids got the full, real-life picture. Therefore, we are not able to handle the way food is made...but a group of 10-year-olds are.

*Disclaimer - I don't watch the show, I just flipped on it the moment it was happening. KidNation can burn in hell. Burn their flag, stomp on it, and piss the flames out.