Posted on 09 August 2012.
Oscar De Allende, an official at the local environment ministry responsible for wildlife, was suspended over his “controversial statements on pigeon consumption,” Cordoba Governor Jose Manuel de la Sota said in a statement.
Earlier this week Mr De Allende proposed that Paicor, a government program for distributing food and clothing to poor students, serve pigeon meat at public schools.
“We estimate we have 600 million (pigeons) in Cordoba,” De Allende told a local radio station.
via Argentine official suggests poor children should be fed pigeons – Telegraph.
18 January 2013
State schools should copy the private sector and set up army cadet forces to help build character and instil a sense of self-discipline in their pupils, Labour said today. Schools should also recruit more ex-armed service personnel to act as mentors to their pupils, according to the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg. Speaking at a [...]
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18 January 2013
A 10-year-old boy was today hailed Britain’s most dedicated Cub Scout – after earning all 54 badges in just two years. Tristan Gee has achieved one new badge every two weeks since he joined his troop in 2010 and has so many he almost ran out of space on his cub jumper. The schoolboy joined [...]
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20 April 2012
In the long-running tradition of cute kids narrating things on YouTube, BBC America presented this gem Thursday: children supposedly auditioning to replace narrator David Attenborough on its hit nature series Planet Earth. In honor of Earth Day, BBC America is playing the full, uncut version of the nature docu-series for the first time on April [...]
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