{"id":759043,"date":"2019-12-13T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759043"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:42:20","slug":"nine-lambs-at-center-of-colleges-animal-rights-fight-are-missing-no-one-will-say-where-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759043","title":{"rendered":"Nine Lambs at Center of College’s Animal Rights Fight Are Missing. No One Will Say Where They Are."},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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When 9 lambs disappeared from their pasture there were no organized search parties, no flashlights waving about in the darkness, no ears cocked to hear a distant bleat, no portraits on milk cartons. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

OLIVIA MESSER:<\/strong> ‘When nine sheep disappeared from their pasture in Yellow Springs, Ohio, there were no volunteer-organized search parties. No flashlights waving about in the darkness, no ears cocked to hear a distant bleat, no portraits on milk cartons. The months-long battle between the impassioned activists who hoped to save the animals, and Antioch College \u2014 who planned to slaughter them \u2014 will end with a three-hour vigil in honor of the lambs. Because [it is believed] the animals are dead… The lambs were part of a \u201cliving laboratory\u201d and sustainability program on the Antioch College Farm, and the school said that\u2014once they matured into sheep\u2014they would feed students in the nearby dining hall.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the next several months, fevered activists led by Dr. David Nibert, a neighbor of the college and a sociology professor at Wittenberg University, conducted a relentless campaign to save the creatures\u2019 lives. They offered to buy the lambs, found a place willing to re-home them, collected more than 88,000 signatures on a Change.org petition, sent impassioned pleas from over 100 scholars, bought television commercials depicting bloody lambs in slaughterhouses, and peppered the liberal arts college campus with countless protests, fliers, emails, and phone calls.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nibert\u2019s campaign caught PETA\u2019s attention, which led the animal-rights group to write an open letter to Antioch College President Tom Manley comparing the \u201csenseless violence\u201d of killing the lambs with the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 4, in which 10 people were killed and 27 others were injured… Matthew Hamity, campaigns director at In Defense of Animals, claimed that the school\u2019s refusal to acknowledge the death of the lambs was evidence that it \u201cimplicitly recognizes the obvious truth: no amount of transparency can transform killing into kindness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Antioch College has refused to confirm what happened to the lambs to The Daily Beast or to anyone else… In a statement, a spokesman said \u201cEven as the Antioch College community endured harassment and death threats, we gained enormous support from people locally and across the country as they learned about our internationally-recognized farm-to-table dining program and sustainable farming practices. We continue to be proud of our educational program where principles of ecological agriculture and self-sufficiency are explored”.’\u00a0<\/em> SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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