California cops seize then slaughter a 9-year-old girl's beloved goat. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
Read more HERE: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair
"Every day for three months, Jessica Long's young daughter walked and fed her goat, bonding with the brown and white floppy-eared animal named Cedar. But when it was time for Cedar to be sold and slaughtered at the Shasta District Fair last year, the 9-year-old just couldn't go through with it.
'My daughter sobbed in her pen with her goat,' Long wrote to the Shasta County fair's manager on June 27. 'The barn was mostly empty and at the last minute I decided to break the rules and take the goat that night and deal with the consequences later.'*
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Jessica’s heartbreaking experience with Cedar illustrates the profound connection between humans and animals, emphasizing the importance of compassion. As the most intelligent beings on Earth, we can recognize the value of all life and strive to treat every creature with respect and care. By reflecting on the lives affected by our food choices, embracing a vegetarian lifestyle and avoiding harm becomes a meaningful way to lessen suffering and bring more kindness and warmth into the world. ❤❤🙏
@PamiShoodrani Says:
Jessica Long must not have read the fine print and terms of not withdrawing. Moreover, I can't believe she even would have entered the goat into auction, knowing how it would affect her very attached daughter.
@MsSuckmynutz Says:
This BJ Mcfarlane guy seems like a real piece of trash
@pamalahmacneily5916 Says:
This happens with 4H more often than one would know.
It is the brutality of this.
@richardgates3439 Says:
I would LOVE for TYT to interview Melanie Silva and lay heavily on the point John made about what other lessons could/should have been focused on, taught, and received (i.e., negotiations, compromise, empathy, etc.) besides and along with adherence to rules and contracts. Yet, it's likely that she would be too prideful to both agree to the interview and concede that she could've and should've done a better job finding an alternative to this - even though she would have been heralded as a hero in that little girl's heart! I hope the media lays it on her heavily for a while longer! 😂😂😂😂😂 #CruellaDeville
@richardgates3439 Says:
The caption on the video that says, "Baaad idea"... PRICELESS!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
@ShadowFoxSF Says:
So growing up all the adults in nearly all the cartoons were dummies. unobservant, and unintentionally negligent.
There are too many of these irl stories of the adults being abusive, cruel, and intentionally toxic. Full of the most malicious stupidity.
@ShadowFoxSF Says:
2:13 Honestly though you were gonna call it something like a Rancher Internship for kids or something.
@ladylaurus8493 Says:
These slaughtering fairs damage children, especially those who have been dealing with loss of loved ones.
@isaiahlarceval3192 Says:
I have participated at the same fair for 6 years, now in my 7th. This is a TERMINAL fair, which means that you sign a contract saying you will sell the animal. This was also this girl’s 1st year.
My first year was terrible, I raise hogs for this fair and the first year sucked, I about cried my eyes out when i realized i would never see my pig again. This was 100% on the family as they took the animal off fair grounds after it was sold, which means they do NOT own the animal any more and technically stole the animal from the buyer.
I apologize if this was complicated to read.
Leave any comments or concerns in the reply.
@dany_fg Says:
"they drove more than 500 miles"
the average fuel economy for a car is 24.20 MPG (gasoline)
the cost of a gallon of gasoline is 3.6$
so (500/24.20) * 3.6 = 74.38$
double that because of the way back and it's 148.76$
they wasted more than 150 dollars on one goat, and this is without the police cost and the time it took to drive the 500 miles.
wtf is this economy???
(numbers are from google so they might not be 100% accurate)
@emmajones8590 Says:
Farmers killing animals for foods, generally don't treat them as pets for months beforehand.
They don't give the animal a name, for example.
@LMLewis Says:
The fair officials obsessed with slaughtering the goat appear to share an attitude common in the meat industry, which is deeply resentful of any humane instincts among consumers. They fiercely oppose environmentalists, food safety activists and animal rights activists because they perceive those instincts as a threat to industry profits. That's the real "lesson" being taught to children at the fair: Don't intervene in the profit-making activities of industry!
@LMLewis Says:
From the Yakima Herald: ".... the young girl’s plight here is not as rare as you think. Ryan Gordon, the lawyer representing Long, said that every year, his firm, Advancing Law for Animals, is contacted by youngsters participating in fairs who are looking to save their animals from slaughter-only auctions. Several years ago, he represented the songwriter Diane Warren, who bought a lamb, Cotton, from a slaughter-only auction at a Santa Barbara County fair after the boy who raised Cotton asked for her help. “The fair refused to turn over Cotton alive and said it would only deliver his meat,” Gordon said. “Ms. Warren retained us, and we acquired an emergency court order providing a last-minute stay of execution against the slaughterhouse.”
@LMLewis Says:
Mother should sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress on a child. The county fail ghouls might think they have the right to teach children "lessons," but they have no legal basis to do so. The parent is responsible for raising their child, not the county fair!
@josealfonsocontretas5724 Says:
Is there a chance meat lobbying found out about this story and had a hand in the outcome?
@Ekkie101 Says:
The Shasta County Fair did teach the little 9 year old girl a valuable lesson. That capitalists are selfish and cruel.
@cariwaldick4898 Says:
They definitely taught her some lessons: Be a better liar and thief. Don't trust adults to consider your feelings. Stay far away from 4-H. Police are not going to protect you. Become a vegan.
I saw this on a law channel, and it turns out if the girl was the one who signed the contract, she can't be legally held to abide by it. This should have been handled by a court. I hope this mom wins big in her lawsuit, and gets enough to send her daughter to a great college.
@maddogair Says:
John says he's not a little girl. 😅😅😅😂😂
@abusing.animals.is.subhuman Says:
This is in every way a gruesome story. I find Anna's joking around about the goat's name to be highly immoral and distasteful given the story in question. John is sitting there laughing like he is dazed. There was many years ago a story discussed on this network about a woman who committed some cruelty towards animals. It was Uygur and Ana talking about it and they did not seem to take it very seriously, Ana in particular. Guys, if you find animal cruelty tedious, do not talk about it. It is disrespectful to animals and to those of us who take it to heart.
@marysullivan3881 Says:
I heard the guy who bought it was on the news about killing and bbqing it. I this not true.
@greg1685 Says:
The mother is in the wrong here. Yes they went way to far, but the mother shouldn't have entered the program if she wasn't ready to teach her daughter the point of it.
@TaureanTrish Says:
CONTROL!! That's what that was all about. It didn't even seem to be about the money? Which surprised me. AND it wasn't the fair's property!
So heartless and unnecessarily cruel.
I'd boycott all fairs until this family gets their justice.
@kathrynseton1 Says:
Anna's never heard of 4-H before? Wow! Must be a city girl. I spent years in 4-H (horses), and learned so much, kept out of trouble, and made friends (which I found pretty difficult at school; while I was an excellent student). 4-H gave me the peer group I really needed, and I absolutely loved it. I'd totally recommend it for kids. For the horsey set; I've heard Pony Club is even better if you can find it, though I believe costs are higher. 💚🖐🍀
@joebloe6263 Says:
I guess the only value animals have on this planet is to serve human needs and desires…..
@joebloe6263 Says:
Despicable (in)humanity
@joebloe6263 Says:
That’s some property protection
@livetoloveandlaughlivefora6800 Says:
But why should the police or why should the person who the goal had belong to that was auction to care that's for the mother that decision should have been planted to the child in the gecko while the child was raising the goat So I have no sympathy for this 1 I don't care You live in a farm you teach the child everyday about the formal what detail do on the stand and truly will come up with it own it Subscribe to something else If the mother was honest the child would have said if I can't have to go mommy can we buy another goat and I can keep it and it will not get auctioned or killed Life and death something I noticed this country does not wanna talk about death When today or tomorrow somebody is gone That is why gun laws is hard to pass in his country because death nobody cares Enough And they move on Not explaining the trauma behind it
@livetoloveandlaughlivefora6800 Says:
It's a lesson for both the mother and the child the mother The child has learned on fortunate hard lesson When you Borrow money you have to pay back No exceptions You have a goat you let the child use the god as a pet not explaining to the child that the goat is going to be killed you like a different pets is what she should have done Substitute the goat with another animal But she did not do that she falls Hope to the child I have no sympathy You live in a farm today or tomorrow you wake up your pet will be gone the chicken will be gone the cow will be gone the rest will be gone and somebody has it on their plate I grow up on a farm I had a little Goat went to school came back and had curry goats Happy because I love curry goat went to go look for my go couldn't find it my grandmother told me she sold it but then what I reached 8 she told me I have eaten it I mean I say you you at the goat I said eel That's the lesson any move on Because I was already aware that today or tomorrow I see the rainbow chicken and then tomorrow The rainbow chicken is on my plate
@livetoloveandlaughlivefora6800 Says:
Sorry the mom was not practical and the mom was not listening to the child in the get go oh this would have never even started this is all the mom's fault Sorry Feeling sorry after the fact when you now realizing your child cannot let go knowing What she has lost previously Was it bad idea to do that
@sjwhitney Says:
You need to dig deeper. The goat was PROMISED to a group for a BBQ!!! As you may or may not know, goat is the most consumed meat in the world but NOT in the USA. So what do you think would prompt them to be in such a panic to get this goat to his doom? Only a very few ethnic minorities in the USA eat goat. Were they merely afraid of all being called "racists" for not delivering the goat? I think so...
@bleankdallas2924 Says:
I was about 16 when my mom gave me the task of slaughtering one of our chickens.
I'd seen everyone else do it, so i thought it wouldn't be a big deal.
I got the bird, pinned it's wings down, brought the knife to its throat and immediately broke down.
I remember asking myself why it had to die and what right i had to take its life. We weren't starving so it wasn't necessary.
The tears came rolling down and i just abandoned the mission.
Thankfully i didn't have some bastard pin me down and make me kill it. She understood and took the task off my hands. She understood i was the soft one and didn't make me feel bad for it.
Let's not mistake cruelty for a life lesson. She could have learned about killing a goat some other day but not that day. If you read the little girls story and thought it was good, then I'm sorry for the years of therapy your kids will probably have to do
@witchcatt Says:
For the first time ever, I have to disagree with you. 4H is a program set up to teach children about animal husbandry. Part of the process is butchering the animals. If the girl wanted a pet, her mother should have bought her a pet. The goat was a farm animal, raised to be meat. The girl learned a hard but necessary lesson. That's part of life. If she had kept the goat, all she would have learned was, if you whine enough, you get your way. That's a lesson that's being taught way too often in our country recently.
@dj.peace.47 Says:
I'm sorry I laughed when Ana called the goat Pablo Escabar 😂 😂😂
@Cleopatra7Philopator Says:
The Basic Deal was the Goat was to be Sold and Slaughtered, Stated before it was Given and Cared for. There has been no Shared Information about the Contract, such as the Condition and Disposition of the Goat post-Auction, such as any Prohibition of Acceptance of a Live Goat, in lieu of Meat.
However, there is a Dispute over the Property, Right or Wrong, with 3 Parties claiming control of the Goat! The Raid was an Obvious Tactic to Circumvent any attempt to bring this to Court! I would feel that in Absence of a Clause that the Goat MUST be Slaughtered and Delivered as Meat, where the Court is likely to determine that the Senator is the True Owner, and in Control of its Disposition(once Costs have been Paid), and he may do as he Pleases with His Property, such as making a Deal(or Gift) with the Longs.
As to "Following the Rules", though 4H WAS following the Rules, The Shasta Fair followed the Rules, I see nothing that says Sen. Dahle did not follow the Rules. The Sheriff's Office followed the Letter of the rules in Executing a Warrant. The Longs Broke the Rules, though the Little Girl's sobbing is Irrelevant. However, any Dispute can be Decided LEGALLY by the Courts- which the Police made SURE could Not be Resolved BY THE RULES.
If the Fair wanted this handled Quietly, that should have been done in the Backroom, Not by making a Public Police Report!
Hugs, Miss Long! They all taught you a Hard Lesson in Life!
@helendancelot Says:
The fair were salivating wanting to devour the flesh of this goat 🐐
@helendancelot Says:
Police in California don't get to do cannabis raids anymore..so it's goats now.. they are addicted to doing these raids
@helendancelot Says:
I think the police are addicted to violent action
@CoryAnn666 Says:
It was a 4H project people if you know anything idiots the animals are auctioned off to be EATEN! The real story is the mother let her daughter treat it like a pet, fall in love with it & got upset that someone bought it to be slaughtered. The mother took the goat to a farm, which technically she stole it because it was bought already. The man wanted his property & they found it & ate it. Parent is upset now 😢 cry me a river maybe you shouldn't of let your daughter join a school 4H club when you should know they auction off the animals. Piggly wiggly does that they will buy the animals. It's called life folks sorry if it upsets you but that's where food comes from slaughtered animals farms & gardens! Not a magical store lol
@ColburnClark Says:
I ♥ goats
@MsJennayyy Says:
- 4th Amendment is meant to prevent unlawful searches and seizures. Police had a warrant to search one area, but not the area where they ended up finding Cedar.
- Also, destruction of evidence (here, the goat Cedar) should not be condoned.
- It was fine for Shasta Fair to involve the police. However, the police did not handle this well.
@truegrit2060 Says:
(3:20) #Steal
🤔
(9:48) They're also super tasty.😋
@dem7615 Says:
Explain to children..adults can get away with anything.. but not you. We need to teach you how to kill properly... And follow those rules we break right up to the top level.. really?
@kenkappler9352 Says:
How is it that the fair could claim control (ownership) of the goat after it was sold to and purchased by the senator. Like the the man said, "wasn't it the senator's goat at that point" and the fair had no legal standing to dictate or intervene in the destiny of the goat once the gavel went down at the auction. The fair was completely out of the picture the moment the hammer hit the wood. And, the senator agreed to "sell" the animal to the mother of the girl and had the complete legal right to do so. It was hit goat!!!! The fair was promised due compensation and had nothing to lose and no damages to claim. The fair was just totally out of line in every way imaginable. Morally, financially, legally the fair wins the top prize for the stupidest unjustified and inhuman actions. "Teach children to obey the rules". Dumbest statement ever vocalized when the fair broke every rule and LAW that is applicable to the situation. Teach the children that you can literally steal something that you sold, and by all rights you have relinquished your claim to it, take it back, and do whatever you want to with it. GREAT LESSONS FOLKS YOU WIN THE HYPOCRITE TROPHY!!!!
@LomoPlateAldo Says:
this story is like if a Disney movie, gets cut right at the end and Tosh.0 inserts their fan made movie ending.
@JBond-zf4dj Says:
Usually the 4H animals around here are treated super well, and live their lives out pretty happily.... usually because they become more attached to these animals than on a normal farm situation. But I'm in Canada, we do things differently here, I suppose.
@sarahelko Says:
That Fairground just created several more vegetarians from this story. Which is the exact opposite of what they were going for.
@honoreyoung844 Says:
WTF Charlotte?? Where were you?! Damn spiders are sleeping on the job!
@SciHeartJourney Says:
What they're trying to do is DESENSITIZE human beings into becoming the kind of person that can slaughter an animal for food. Think of that the next time you head for the fridge!
@jackrobinson6277 Says:
The same damn people who do not care when there is yet another school shooting and 10 kids are killed. "Nope, we just love our guns too much, and we wouldn't even care if it were our own kids that were killed, the guns are way more important"
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