Thread: Does 4-H desensitize kids to killing?

They forgot to mention that 4-H must be a hate group because the participants are (almost all) white.

4-H stands for "Head, heart, hands, health" and apparently a fifth - for "haters."
To many, 4-H Clubs are all about nurturing sweet little calves, adorable children winning ribbons, urban garden patches and proud future farmers grooming prized pigs for show. To others, it's a calculated system for turning the youth of America into cold, unfeeling animal killers.
When Eatocracy ran a 5@5 feature with chef Kelly Liken on the topic of Five Reasons to Buy from Your Local 4-H earlier this week, we quickly identified within the comments two distinct perceptions of the organization - which was originally set up by the United States Department of Agriculture to train the rural youth of America in hands-on skills like agriculture and raising animals. One was that 4-H promotes responsible animal husbandry and the cultivation of food resources in a responsible, ethical way and the other was that it serves to desensitize children to the suffering of animals.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/06/23/...ing/?hpt=hp_c2

Oh man. Has it really come down to this? 4-H is a great tool for White kids and a wonderful organization to join. It must have been the late 1980's when I joined for a very, very brief time. I wish I could have been in it longer (my mom had three kids and there was some babysitting and time issues there).

Everything is hateful!