I doubt it'd be very related to one specific bank, if any. The octopus card in HK certainly isn't, which is what this sounds like.
Octopus card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because you're assuming that these kids aren't mature enough to be "confronted with death" and that understanding the circle of life and the cycle of livestock is a bad thing.
It's nothing about innocence - that's crap and you know it. How do you think kids on real livestock farms live? Are they tainted like apparently these kids are?
Grow up.
Wtf? There's a news article on this? Every year my old high school gets two steers, fattens them up, and shows them at the Easter Show - alive and dead. What's the big deal?
As someone who doesn't believe in a higher power, I don't think it's scary at all. Look at the universe with a sense of wonder for its existence, not fear of its loneliness.
We don't have an official declared religion, except that which we inherited from the Queen (which doesn't have any real effect here). In practice, we are a secular nation with a majority Christian demographic. We are not a Christian nation.