The setting is peaceful, but the scene at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt., is anything but that.
A storm of protest that greeted the school’s decision to slaughter a pair of 10-year-old oxen that symbolize its farm program and then serve their meat in the campus dining hall has spread. Surrounding slaughterhouses were so inundated with hostile e-mails and phone calls, the school said, that Green Mountain is postponing the deaths of the oxen, Bill and Lou.
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The cows had a good life and were treated humanely.
The animal rights activists might help animals more by targeting factory farms, which are atrocious, where most meat in the USA is raised, cheaply and with little care given the animals.
I wonder how the protesters feel about abortion.
Leave the college alone! It's teaching young people how to perform sustainable agriculture.
Sustainability of agriculture is part of this whole issue. But the most bothersome portion of it places an academic bureaucrat from a city college (UMass/Boston) in charge of a farm decision... That's like putting Harvard Law Professor Granny Warren as president of Citibank. . . . In this case, ignorance is not bliss for the oxen
This sounds like the republican plan for older workers. Work 'em till they're lame then put 'em out of their misery! If the college president wants to kill Bill and Lou, he should do it himself!
I'll do it for him as long as you are willing to help me by just holding the rope. It'll be quick and we'll all feel a whole lot better when it's over.
Red meat......nom, nom, nom!