A little girl's family wants to know who slaughtered her pet goat. Shasta District Fair officials won't say
Nearly two years after a 9-year-old sobbed and pleaded that her pet goat, Cedar, not be sold and slaughtered for meat, Shasta District Fair officials still refuse to answer the question: Who killed the goat?
The fate of the white and brown goat became international news last year after the girl's parents filed a federal lawsuit against the district fair. Jessica Long's daughter had raised the brown and white goat to enter into the fair's 4-H program, which teaches children about the process of raising and caring for livestock to provide food, as ranchers and farmers do. But before the animal was to be slaughtered, the young girl begged not to give up the goat that had become a beloved pet.
Long surreptitiously retrieved the goat
