Posted on Feb 27, 2017
By Ellie Laks, Founder of The Gentle Barn
Future Farmers of America and 4H youth development programs teach children all about livestock farming. Children are given the opportunity to raise, love, and care for animals with the knowledge that they will inevitably have to send them to slaughter. When given the opportunity, two sisters choose to save their baby cows from being destroyed. Their story is a look into the process of desensitizing children to the experience of livestock farming.