That is not the case, from the start the kids knew that the animal was going to be sold for food. they called the animal "Marcus", because he was going to the Market, and the student council was made up of 14 kids, I doubt that there is an adult on the planet that could convince all but one to vote in a way that was against the their nature, and they voted for taking the animal to market to be sold so they could buy more. My daughterand her friends are of an age where they are deeply passionate about things being ‘fair’, and had the teacher not told the kids repeatedly about the end of the school project, then that would have been unfair, and the kids would react negitively but from the very start, all the kids knew.
Truth be told I think the kids were fine, but a couple of overly sensitive parents forced their child in to a heightened emotional position, by repeatedly banging on about how “animals were barbarically tortured” before being “murdered”, and that is what has unset the two kids mentioned as having sleepless nights. If you read the facebook site, the emotive nonsense that most of the posters are writing you can easily see just how conflicted the kids would end up, if a parent or care giver was spouting on about animal right and PETA bullspit.
Meat is not murder, and whilst it may not be the best choice for all, telling the truth and educating kids as to where it comes from and how is it raised, is better than lying to kid about the shrink-wrapped bland insipid foam tray meat that the supermarket do their utmost to disguise as having nothing to do with the animals that kids enjoy watching in the fields as they drive past at high speed on the motorway, for that is as close as most kids get nowadays to the meat that they eat.