But when school officials posted photographs from the trip on Facebook, it left many people, in Norway and elsewhere, aghast. The photographs showed the children watching as reindeer carcasses hung from the ceiling of the slaughterhouse; outside, bloodstained reindeer pelts were stacked up in the snow. “We are overwhelmed by the attention,” Dag Olav Stolan, the director of the school, said by phone Friday evening. Mr. Stolan said that deleting the post was out of the question. This week was not the first time students had been brought to observe the slaughter, Mr. Stolan said.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2017 20:21 UTC