She tells a story of a wonderful pet goat. Until one day it was "gone to another farm", and they enjoyed goat curry for dinner.
The older siblings knew... and now they dont talk lol.
In the end it makes me feel like the people eating their nuggets but have a traumatic reaction to what created them are the odd ones.
Straight psychopath approach to child raising. The adults were all convinced this is how you made kids grow up tough
The trope is about something different - it's about intentionally making a subject bond with an animal over long time, as with a close friend, and then finally making them kill the animal as a final test of loyalty.
Doing that in real life, and for no good reason, is just sick.