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Japan’s “Class of Life” is a controversial school project that aims to teach students about valuing their food and the environment by having them raise and then eat animals like fish and chicken.

We first featured the Class of Life a couple of years ago, when a video showcasing its implementation at an agricultural high-school in Japan’s Shimano Prefecture went viral on Chinese social media, leaving most viewers in a state of shock. The footage showed students preparing chicken eggs for hatching, raising the chicks for several months, and finally killing, cooking and eating the chickens. The Class of Life has been a part of Japanese curriculum at certain schools for over six decades, so most Japanese people are familiar with it, but even they were stunned recently when they saw elementary school children taking part in the class.

A controversial video currently doing the rounds on Japanese social media this week shows children as young as seven-years-old at Kakezuka Elementary School in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, crying as they struggle to eat bits of fish. It’s not that they don’t like fish, but that they themselves helped raise those fish from babies, only to them have them being killed and sliced in front of their eyes, as part of the Class of Life.

Part of a news report by Japanese television TBS, the shocking footage shows the young children wearing headscarves and medical masks as they look at a teacher slicing the fish into pieces with chef knife. A few are even asked to slice the fish themselves. Some can barely stand to look at their pets being turned into foods in front of their eyes, so they close their eyes shut and cover their ears with their hands.


https://www.odditycentral.com/news/controversial-class-of-life-has-primary-school-children-eating-fish-they-helped-raise.html