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    Commentary: Where’s the humanity? County fair chose to slaughter a girl’s goat to teach her lesson

    by Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times Apr 10, 2023 3 minutes
    Jessica Long's daughter holds a photo of Cedar, the goat she raised that was auctioned in the Shasta County Fair before her family had a change of heart and took him back.

    The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County, California, fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting with a search warrant for the animal after the girl decided she didn’t want it killed. The goat got slaughtered. But the fair officials got pretty beat up on social media.

    Jessica Long’s daughter — identified in a pending lawsuit only as E.L. — raised the big-eyed, floppy-eared Cedar as part of a 4-H youth project. She

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