© iStock.com/Sir_Eagle“Gigging” is an especially barbaric form of hunting that involves stabbing small animals through the body with pitchfork-like spears called “gigs,” causing victims to endure slow, agonizing deaths from shock, organ failure, or blood loss. Despite a public outcry, a Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation program in DeKalb County is encouraging students and other members of the community to gig up to 15 frogs each as part of its annual “Giggin’ for Grads” fundraiser to benefit one graduating high school senior. The event is scheduled for June 19, so your voice is desperately needed today!
Please urge Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation and DeKalb County School District officials to put a stop to this exceedingly inhumane event, and then share this alert widely. Remind them that there are many ways to raise money that don’t involve cruelty to animals.
Polite comments can be directed to:
- Lacy Upchurch, President
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation
615-597-7751
lupchurch@tfbf.com (or please click here to send an e-mail)
- Patrick Cripps, Principal
DeKalb County High School
615-597-4094
crippsp@k12tn.net (or please click here to send an e-mail)
- Danielle Collins, Interim Director of Schools
DeKalb County School District
615-215-2116
dcollins@k12tn.net (or please click here to send an e-mail)http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/urgent-frogs-impaled-school-fundraiser/
Exposing the Big Game 
Are you kidding???
And these idiots are enabled to teach such atrocity to kids? And after do we expect to grow future adults whom will take care of the planet Earth…
I feel so sorry, not only for the poor frogs but as well for these kids.
(You say “polite comments”?! I better first have a short meditation…)
But here you may start a petition worldwide…
http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare
claudine
OK did send the e-mail at the President of the farm bureau fed.
this the text in part copy-pasted
“Gigging” is an especially barbaric form of hunting that involves stabbing small animals through the body with pitchfork-like spears called “gigs,” causing victims to endure slow, agonizing deaths from shock, organ failure, or blood loss.
Despite a public outcry, a Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation program in DeKalb County is encouraging students and other members of the community to gig up to 15 frogs each as part of its annual “Giggin’ for Grads” fundraiser to benefit one graduating high school senior.
Isn’t there any other way to get fundraising?
This is abnormal and devastating, we shall teach kids to love animal and their habitat, to love and respect our planet Earth…
Think about it! Give your children the good example to became good world citizen, not killer of small defenseless creature.
Cancel the event scheduled next june 19th.
Claudine Giovannoni
Switzerland
Where in the world this this idea come from? Humans are really barbarians at heart, aren’t we. Every time you think you’ve seen the very worst of our behaviors, we always find something even lower. I really wish Southerners would not act like stereotypes. No and hell no to this.
Graduates? I didn’t think Bubbas completed high school.
Moderators: If you feel the above comments are inappropriate, please feel free to delete. Sorry – I just lost it for a minute reading about a barbaric pastime that for some ungodly reason still exists today in the 21st century, for fun and charity!
Never apologize for calling a spade-a-spade!