If you are unfamiliar with what they do and you want to make an educated response, read this:
“…the process of hardening children toward the inevitable suffering of the animals raised for meat typically begins with encouraging children to bond with animals…whom the children are later forced to sell for slaughter. That tear-jerking ritual should be recognized by now as a form of psychological child abuse…”
When I read this article, I recalled a May 1996 National Geographic article about Peru. There was a photograph of two young children with hands over their ears, eyes closed, and very disturbed looks on their faces as they tried to mute the screams and squeals of pigs who were being killed. Their mother had brought them to witness the slaughter while she collected the pig’s blood to make sausage. When Jim was five years old he walked out into the back yard of his farm home in Missouri, and for the first time saw pigs being killed. He saw their bodies hanging from a tree. What he saw and smelled and heard so traumatized his God-given sensitivities that he became seriously ill and suffered nightmares for days, and had to be taken to his aunt’s home for a while. Jim says, “I was reluctant to return to the farm. I still have a memory blackout of that time. My last memory is the image of those pigs’ bodies hanging from the tree, the tub full of heads, and the blood.” For several years after this, his family sent young Jim to his aunt when they were slaughtering animals.
What is your opinion of this?