BILL & LOU HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED!!!!!!!!!
Planeta Animal
United Poultry Concerns - http://www.UPC-online.org/
16 October 2012
Protest to Green Mountain College in Vermont: Needless Killing of Two Elderly
Oxen, Bill and Lou, Planned. Urge Compassionate Retirement to VINE Sanctuary!
This alert was posted by VINE, the Vermont Sanctuary that has offered to adopt
Bill and Lou. Scroll down to read the letter Green Mountain College
administrators are using to justify their murderous intentions toward these two
gentle creatures.
ACTION ALERT: ACT NOW TO SAVE BILL AND LOU!
VINE Sanctuary Website: http://vine.bravebirds.org/
Green Mountain College is poised to kill two oxen named Bill and Lou who have
served their college farm for ten long years. ACT NOW to prevent it!
Bill and Lou have been a working team of oxen at Green Mountain College in
Poultney, VT for ten years. They were pressed into service by staff at Cerridwen
Farm - the teaching farm on campus - to do everything from plowing fields to
[1]generating electricity . Over the years, they became so well loved that
they're even the profile picture for the farm's [2]Facebook page!
A few months ago, Lou became unable to be worked any longer. Bill won't work
with anyone else. Therefore, the college has concluded that both of them must be
killed.
DEATH is their reward for 10 long years of hard work.
Yes, Green Mountain College has decided that Bill and Lou's long lives of
service should be rewarded by their slaughter - and for what? According to their
own press releases, the school will get, at best, a couple of months of
low-grade hamburger out of their bodies.
This is especially heartbreaking because they have an excellent home waiting for
them.
VINE Sanctuary has offered to provide Bill and Lou with permanent homes. We have
the ability and resources to care for them for the rest of their natural lives.
Sadly, though, the college is determined to kill them instead.
For ten years, they served the needs of those more powerful than they are.
Now it's time to let them serve their own needs.
Please contact the folks at Green Mountain College and urge them to reconsider.
It would be especially powerful for people from Vermont to contact them, so if
you know someone from Vermont, please forward this notice to them as well. Feel
free to use and/or modify the letter below, or write your own. Please send the
letter to the following people:--------------------------------------------To : Bill Throop Provost and Vice President for Academic AffairsKenneth Mulder Farm Manager, Research Associate & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Dear Provost Throop and Manager Mulder:
I am writing to urge you to allow Bill and Lou to live out the remainder of their natural lives, in peace and contentment, at VINE Sanctuary, a reputable organization which has offered to care for them.
Should you choose to reverse their death sentences, the rewards garnered by Green Mountain College will far exceed whatever paltry sum their slaughter would bring to the school.
Conversely, whatever small amount of cash would be made by killing them will be far outweighed by the negative press which will follow in the wake of their deaths.
Bill and Lou have served your college well for ten long years. Students and faculty alike have expressed how much they care about these individuals. They deserve to be given the rest of their lives to live as they choose. Just because they are not human does not mean they do not care about their existence.
We will be watching to see what decision you make.
Sincerely:how would you feel if you had to retire,
and the powers that be decided you
should expire.
bill and lou are living creatures,
with feelings like yours, just
different features.
please allow VINE sanctuary
to give them a chance
to live a safe, leisurely life,
on their wonderful expanse.
thank you for reading my heart
felt poem.
for bill and lou’s sake
i sure hope it hits home
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZOn0FKuNO0&feature=player_embedded
