Text I posted a few months ago about PETA coming to target our school, and now they have come. What do you think?
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American animal-rights activists have targeted kids at Earl Grey School for their anti-milk campaign.
Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will demonstrate outside the Fort Rouge nursery to Grade 8 school on Dec. 17 in a bid to convince students that drinking milk endangers their health and makes them responsible for the torture of dairy cows.
"Oh, goody," Earl Grey principal Gail Singer said sarcastically when she heard the news yesterday.
"I think it's an awful message, scare tactics," Singer said. "There's a lot of anger (among parents) that they would go to kids." Nevertheless, Singer said, "I don't think they would be effective here in getting kids to change."
Singer doubted she would call the police, but said the school will be reminding children not to talk to strangers.
"We would try to turn it into a teachable moment" by having classes discuss animal rights and freedom of speech, Singer said. "Any opportunity to teach the kids is good."
On the other hand, she pointed out, the provincial health curriculum says milk is good for children. "Fundamentally, as a school, we're curriculum-based."
Winnipeg School Division board chairwoman Liz Ambrose said the division would likely not be asking police to observe the protest, though trustees believe that children have the right to walk to and from school without interference from adult strangers. "We have sent a directive out to principals and schools, reminding kids not to talk to strangers. My preference is to leave it up to the parents -- they may want to come and escort their children home," Ambrose said.
PETA's Milk Sucks campaign distributes gross trading cards to kids that claim drinking milk will make them break out in zits, pass wind, get fat, or spew up massive balls of phlegm. The radical vegans also claim milk causes cancer and heart disease.
Andrew Butler, who will lead the local protest, said recently that the activists have the right to take their campaign to little children, and want to target kids aged 10 or younger.
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American animal-rights activists have targeted kids at Earl Grey School for their anti-milk campaign.
Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will demonstrate outside the Fort Rouge nursery to Grade 8 school on Dec. 17 in a bid to convince students that drinking milk endangers their health and makes them responsible for the torture of dairy cows.
"Oh, goody," Earl Grey principal Gail Singer said sarcastically when she heard the news yesterday.
"I think it's an awful message, scare tactics," Singer said. "There's a lot of anger (among parents) that they would go to kids." Nevertheless, Singer said, "I don't think they would be effective here in getting kids to change."
Singer doubted she would call the police, but said the school will be reminding children not to talk to strangers.
"We would try to turn it into a teachable moment" by having classes discuss animal rights and freedom of speech, Singer said. "Any opportunity to teach the kids is good."
On the other hand, she pointed out, the provincial health curriculum says milk is good for children. "Fundamentally, as a school, we're curriculum-based."
Winnipeg School Division board chairwoman Liz Ambrose said the division would likely not be asking police to observe the protest, though trustees believe that children have the right to walk to and from school without interference from adult strangers. "We have sent a directive out to principals and schools, reminding kids not to talk to strangers. My preference is to leave it up to the parents -- they may want to come and escort their children home," Ambrose said.
PETA's Milk Sucks campaign distributes gross trading cards to kids that claim drinking milk will make them break out in zits, pass wind, get fat, or spew up massive balls of phlegm. The radical vegans also claim milk causes cancer and heart disease.
Andrew Butler, who will lead the local protest, said recently that the activists have the right to take their campaign to little children, and want to target kids aged 10 or younger.
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