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letters | deciding the fate of college’s farm animals

Killing animals for their meat is a choice we can reject

Editor’s note: After a controversy over a plan to slaughter two oxen at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt., and serve the meat in the campus dining hall, one of the oxen was euthanized over the weekend. The other remains on campus.

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it's food. they should have given it to a shelter

killing an animal for food is normal.  Killing a PET animal for food is like cannabalism, or incest or whatever bad thoughts come to mind,