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. “There are many reindeer outside,” Stoelan said Friday, speaking by telephone from the preschool near the city of Steinkje, 515 kilometers (320 miles) north of Oslo, the capital. Stoelan said once parents had agreed to let their children participate, preschool employees talked to the children about the farm before and after the outing. Preschool teacher Therese Johnsen told the local daily Troender-Avisa that none of the children reacted negatively. In October 2015, a Danish zoo faced criticism and online protests for publicly dissecting a lion in front of children.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 13, 2017 16:30 UTC