Columnist Teri Sforza writes that, yes, future farmers know it’s living meat, not a pet. But sometimes they change their minds.
Jessica Long’s daughter holds a photo of Cedar, the goat at the center of a legal fight. Phry was raised by a Fullerton Union High student in her school’s FFA program who asked Farm Sanctuary in Acton to take him as a rescue.
AB 3053 would alter the terms of “terminal sale” competitions at county fairs . Junior exhibit entries could be withdrawn, and winning bidders could choose to pick up live animals rather than slabs of meat.Kids and their parents agree to rules prohibiting the withdrawal of animals from the terminal sale process when they enter these competitions, they argue. Kids “are taught the purpose and process of raising, exhibiting, marketing, selling, and final destination of the livestock they raise.
If one kid is allowed to change his mind and pull out, aren’t all the other kids going to want to do that as well? Isn’t that going to set a bad example? Isn’t that going to open the flood gates? “It just allows people to walk away in these rare instances when they want to, without having to go to court and all the brouhaha,” she said. “And if it’s really the case that all the kids do want to pull out, then maybe we should allow for non-terminal sales.”
Another Fullerton Union High School student did the same in 2019, sending Bruce, Pam, and Kevin and Shawn and Phry to the Farm Sanctuary in Acton rather than to the fair’s livestock auction.When Cedar the goat’s family tried to do the same — even after the buyer agreed to forego the sale — deputies tracked Cedar down and he was slaughtered. The family faced theft charges in federal court.
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