I don't think it was necessary to sacrifice a bullock. Thor's Whore , posted 19 May 2001 by NuniaBiz Nah. Thor's been in rehab these last few centuries. He wouldn't know a bovine sacrifice if it bit him on the thunderbolt. I agree, children should not take for granted the killed, cleaned, and cooked animals on which they feed.
Someone somewhere has to do the dirty work, as it is with all things of convenience.
Of course, that depends upon whether the demonstration was calculated to be a somber realization of the value of a cow's life, or a vicious pep rally of a carnivorous glee club. I suspect the protesters were the sort who object to the desensitizing influence of repeated exposure to graphic violence. Speaking of graphics, I'd like to mention that I personally prefer vector violence to raster violence, but that's probably only because I played Spacewar on a PDP-12 tonight. Not my PDP-12. I played it at the Retro Computing Society, a museum filled with antique supercomputers.