Fwd: [societyofpeacenetwork] Texas Action Alert: Calls & emails re: baby raccoon killed & cooked in classroom!

December 14, 2007

Veg Celeb <vegcelebrity wrote: societyofpeace <societyofpeacenetwork >Veg Celeb <vegcelebrityThu, 13 Dec 2007 19:19:10 -0800 (PST)[societyofpeacenetwork] Texas Action Alert: Calls & emails re: baby raccoon being killed & cooked in classroom! Please call/email the school district in Columbus, Texas where this horrible act took place in a high school classroom. See the

full AP News story below. This contact info was crossposted on another Texas message board and is accurate to the best of my knowledge: contact info: portwoodt (AT) columbusisd (DOT) org district Email http://www.columbusisd.org/ District website (click high school forColumbus High)pfefferj (AT) columbusisd (DOT) org Janis Pfeffer Principlehagels (AT) columbusisd (DOT) org Shawn Hagels Vice principleSchool phone#979-732- 5746School's fax 979-732-8862==================================== http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=7491111 & nav=AbC0Lwl9 Killing, cooking, eating of baby raccoon draws scutiny Associated Press - December 13, 2007 9:25 AM ET Corrected Version COLUMBUS, Texas (AP) - The killing, cooking and eating of a baby raccoon as part of a class in Columbus has raised animal cruelty questions. Police Chief Danny Jackson says usually the animals are dead when they're part of a wildlife management and harvesting class at Columbus High School. Jackson says the October incident apparently involved two students who took a live raccoon to school. Jackson told KHOU television that the students: "Started stepping and stomping on it, joking they're tenderizing the animal." He says the youths then skinned that raccoon, cooked it and ate it. Superintendent Randy Hoyer says a substitute teacher was in the class that day and did not know any better -- but it won't happen again. Hoyer says with the substitute teacher, the students in essence had permission to process the animal on site. But student Stephan Zavala says -- it was animal cruelty. Columbus is a community of 4,100, located about 55 miles west of Houston. Information from Rucks Russell of

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