Just gonna vent here if thats ok, but shits so bleak.
Doomerposting about animal cruelty
Like Petersson & Findus for instance really cute right:
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The animals can talk and participate, have agency etc. The brainworms aren't that bad right? Well I brought a P&F of those Tonies for his Toniebox home and it's about Petersson bringing home a rooster. And the rooster is annoying everyone with his crawing (except the hens who all flock to him but the misogyny regarding the hens is a whole other thing) so Petersson tells him that he needs to craw less, and quoting the story Petersson says: " 'he would have to go back to [where he bought him from]' and the rooster knew what that meant..." Later Findus pretending to be Petersson outright threatens him with cooking a soup out of him he doesn't stop crawing altogether except once in the morning. What the fuck?!
Try teaching animals to a toddler without having some cutesy rendering of enslaved animals being all happy.
Another book where an "evil bear" is chasing the rabbit and so you shake the book and on the next page the bear is all dizzy and can't walk straight while the rabbit is laughing at him.
Picture books about foods, depicting corpses, all the songs about farm animals, toy cows and pigs and sheep which are obviously enslaved.
And now in kindergarden we at least have a vegetarian option so he isn't eating straight corpse, it's more of a pedagogical thing but I do not how I can breach this topic with him. Like "Yeah you know all those cute animals around us? They're being genocided and you already participated in it. That yogurt you get every morning? A child had to die for it. Yeah the other kids yogurt too. "
I watch myself planting the anti-animal brainworms but don't know how I can help it.
Oh also the racism. Particularly against native americans?? So many depictions of a tipi and feather-ed people completely out of left-field and wholly unnecessary. "Shake the book to put out the fire" Why did that need a racial stereotype? Native american mucklas, not pertinent to the story or even the picture, just thrown in because???
So to answer your question: No. Best I saw was a kid's book about farms that actually explained and depicted how animals are held and treated. But it's more matter of factly "This is how the world works kiddo"
Just gonna vent here if thats ok, but shits so bleak.
Doomerposting about animal cruelty
Like Petersson & Findus for instance really cute right:
The animals can talk and participate, have agency etc. The brainworms aren't that bad right? Well I brought a P&F of those Tonies for his Toniebox home and it's about Petersson bringing home a rooster. And the rooster is annoying everyone with his crawing (except the hens who all flock to him but the misogyny regarding the hens is a whole other thing) so Petersson tells him that he needs to craw less, and quoting the story Petersson says: " 'he would have to go back to [where he bought him from]' and the rooster knew what that meant..." Later Findus pretending to be Petersson outright threatens him with cooking a soup out of him he doesn't stop crawing altogether except once in the morning. What the fuck?!
Try teaching animals to a toddler without having some cutesy rendering of enslaved animals being all happy.
Another book where an "evil bear" is chasing the rabbit and so you shake the book and on the next page the bear is all dizzy and can't walk straight while the rabbit is laughing at him.
Picture books about foods, depicting corpses, all the songs about farm animals, toy cows and pigs and sheep which are obviously enslaved.
And now in kindergarden we at least have a vegetarian option so he isn't eating straight corpse, it's more of a pedagogical thing but I do not how I can breach this topic with him. Like "Yeah you know all those cute animals around us? They're being genocided and you already participated in it. That yogurt you get every morning? A child had to die for it. Yeah the other kids yogurt too. "
I watch myself planting the anti-animal brainworms but don't know how I can help it.
Oh also the racism. Particularly against native americans?? So many depictions of a tipi and feather-ed people completely out of left-field and wholly unnecessary. "Shake the book to put out the fire" Why did that need a racial stereotype? Native american mucklas, not pertinent to the story or even the picture, just thrown in because???
So to answer your question: No. Best I saw was a kid's book about farms that actually explained and depicted how animals are held and treated. But it's more matter of factly "This is how the world works kiddo"