ACTION ALERT: ACT NOW TO SAVE BILL
AND LOU!
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 togenerating electricity. Over the
years, they became so well loved that they're even the profile picture for the
farm's 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.
ACTION YOU CAN
TAKE - Please contact the folks at Green Mountain College
and urge them to reconsider. Feel free to use and/or modify the letter below, or
write your own.
All you need to do is send a heartfelt, courteous email to the
following people:
Kenneth Mulder Farm Manager, Research Associate
& Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies: mulderk@greenmtn.edu
Dear Sir:
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.
Sincererly,