Norwegian school hit for reindeer killing ‘tour’
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A preschool in Arctic Norway is facing online criticism for taking 5-year-old children on an outing to view the slaughter and skinning of reindeer at a nearby farm.
The criticism erupted on Facebook after the school posted photos of eight children looking at reindeers, a culled animal hanging above a blood pool, a child dragging bloodied skins in the snow and snowsuit-clad children tossing carcass bits into a container.
Dag Olav Stoelan, head of the Granstubben Barnehage preschool, says Tuesday’s daytrip was designed to teach the children about the indigenous Sami who live in northern Norway and are often involved in reindeer herding.
Hundreds of thousands of reindeer roam freely across the region and provide work for those in the country’s sparsely populated northern wilderness.
“There are many reindeer outside,” Stoelan said yesterday, speaking by telephone from the preschool near the city of Steinkje, 515 kilometers north of Oslo. “This is not the first time we have done it.”
“It is important to show where the meat comes from,” he told reporters, adding “we will do it again.”
The preschool has had previous outings to see pigs being slaughtered at other nearby farms.
But the reaction on the schools Facebook wall was not so positive.
Some people wrote that “the kindergarten is making sure we get more psychopaths among us” and “people who are killing animals are not far away to killing human beings.”
Public dissections of animals are common in Scandinavia.
In October 2015, a Danish zoo faced criticism and online protests for publicly dissecting a lion in front of children.
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