Nine innocent lambs are slated to die at Antioch College in Ohio as part of the college’s ill-conceived farming program — unless a donor forks over $1 million, which the school says they’ll use to purchase more animals for slaughter, anyway.
The private liberal arts college acquired the “living laboratory” of lambs last spring and intends to serve them to students as food.
The lambs attracted the attention of animal rights activist Dr. David Nibert, who is outraged that the college is treating sentient beings as disposable. Nibert is a professor at nearby Wittenburg College, and lives across the street from Antioch.
“I am both disappointed and appalled that Antioch College, once one of the most progressive and forward-thinking colleges in the country, is now objectifying animals, raising and killing them, and teaching the students the practice is noble and sustainable,” Nibert told Lady Freethinker.
From the beginning, Antioch rejected requests for meetings with animal rights advocates and offers from those willing to purchase the lambs’ freedom, according to Nibert.
“The college sidesteps the discussion on their plan to actually kill the lambs by statements about the purported sustainable nature of their program,” Nibert said. “They have not responded to critiques about the environmental harm related to raising animals in pasture. And the college has not addressed any of the ethical issues involved in their use of the lambs.”
Antioch recently banned Nibert and other activists, including his Committee to Save the Antioch Lambs group, from even stepping foot on campus.
A mother named Barbara Pearl, whose son Jason Seth Houten became a vegan at Antioch before perishing in a tragic accident, asked the school to release the lambs in her son’s honor. However, the college allegedly refused, naming a price of $1 million to spare their lives. But even if she paid that exorbitant price, they reportedly would only to use the money to buy more animals and butcher them for food.
We must speak out to save the lambs’ lives.
Please respectfully contact Antioch College President Tom Manley at 937-319-6164 or [email protected], requesting the release of the lambs. Please remain polite — previous threatening emails have only caused the school is to double down on their stance and denounce all of those fighting to save the lambs.
Nibert has also created a petition calling on Antioch to release the lambs to one of the several sanctuaries who are offering to provide them with safe forever homes, including Farm Sanctuary.
Click here to sign the petition, which has garnered over 79,000 signatures so far.
Please help to protect all animals.
I think they should shut the school down doesn’t teach people how to respect animals whoever is in charge should be fired bunch of idiots
How can Tom Manley call himself President of Antioch College this is not right to take the lives of these innocent lambs who should be enjoing their lives.Shame on you and your horrible college students.Shame Shame Shame.
I truly do not understand how animals are so disrespected in countries , there is always a species that is abused for the human being, be it for, food for testing on, for breeding for earning dirty money, for clothing for anything . This is so wrong . This is their world too. Every country should evolve and respect life ,what ever body its in ! Animals do not cause wars , they do not ask for anything and they Love and feel love , stop discarding them as if they are merchandise they are not !!!
PLEASE STOP doing this to animals…….. College is meant for learning NOT killing animals I that don’t need to be killed, go dissect a frog
Want them stopped? Withdraw all government funding until they remove this practice from their curriculum for good..Money..or lack of it…is the only way to get these idiots attention. And make it clear no money will be forthcoming to them in the future if they start this practice up again
WTF…. Are they educating these students for? To become murderers or serial killers? Heinous and criminal. These so called educators should be fired immediately.
While there is slaughtering of many animals for food for people and pets, this program at Antioch sounds quite sickening to me. How about Antioch turning a 360 and giving courses in vegetarian farming and diet. This is becoming the new trend,
and one of the good things in the midst of human folly, killing, and general craziness. If anyone has ever been to a health food store or a vegetarian venue, that food is absolutely amazing. Best for health, too!
PLEASE LET THE ANIMALS LIVE IN PEACE!!!!!!!
STOP THE ABUSE!!!!!
Sounds like extortion to me in addition to a barbaric ceremony.
Just sent an email to college president
In support if release of unharmed animals
In support of the release of unharmed animals
Is there a petition to stop this?
This is new levels of disgusting! Why are the students, parents, faculty, and town not up in arms about this? If my child was attending this college, he or she would be done there. $1 million for nine lambs is outrageous. Clearly the administration of the college has no moral compass whatsoever. When colleges and universities across the nation are teaching real sustainability without animal products, this college needs to get in the 21st century.
Killing anything is NOT educational!
No!
This is shocking. Please act.
Serious justice only will stop these psychos who go on to kill.
We need a deterant. I know what I’d like them to have sadly the law is an arse and wouldn’t allow it!
Killing is not education. Treating animals with care and compassion is education. Please don’t do it. These poor lambs don’t deserve such a horrible fate. Don’t kill them. Try to be more up-to-date in your education methods. You’re moving backwards instead of forwards. This is purely barbaric and uninformed. I always believed Antioch was a progressive university but you’ve changed my mind forever if you go through with this.
WE SHOULD BE EDUCATING STUDENTS TO HAVE COMPASSION, RESPECT AND TO FIND WAYS TO HEAL SOULS NOT DESTROY THEM! IF YOU TEACH DISREGARD FOR LIFE , YOU’RE TEACHING EVIL!
WE SHOULD BE EDUCATING STUDENTS TO HAVE COMPASSION, RESPECT AND TO FIND WAYS TO HEAL SOULS NOT DESTROY THEM! IF YOU TEACH DISREGARD FOR LIFE , YOU’RE TEACHING EVIL!
What is happening with humans in this world?? Leave animals alone!!!
this is hardly education.. its more an exercise in sadistic behavior and needs to stop now…
Cant keep comments nice. Have people brutally killing animals for thrill or for whatever. No way to kill 9 lambs for education. Really!!?? They dont deserve the lambs the lambs deserve their freedom to live their lives out.i hope some animal activist stop them. Sorry sobs.No way.
Animal agriculture is destroying the planet. Teach the children the truth.
Please save the lambs.
May the most enabled and equipped do act against these outrageous horrible acts Amen!
How absolutely disgusting and sickening that this so-called college is even running this ‘programme’ What’s next on the school curriculum, how to slaughter the sheep whilst they’re fully conscious, skinning them and dismembering them whilst they’re still alive???? Shame on this college and the parents that send their children there to learn how to abuse and kill animals, just for the sheer hell of it.
Please show some compassion and spare their lives
You know who’s worse than Antioch college it’s the fools who attend Antioch college that pay tuition to a filthy, evil learning institution and stand by and do nothing. They’re the monsters! I would demand my money back and yank my kid out of there in a New York second.. wake up idiots I thought college students was supposed to be liberals and progressives where’s your liberalism and progressivism now towards these poor sheep
What else can we do to help Happy get released? Is there an email address we can write to? I am in tears about all these different stories. I emailed the Commerford Zoo too.
Absolutely horrific that this is allowed to happen. Why aren’t the parents of these students up in arms over this?
I have observed over the years, that many Ph.D’s seem to have a shortage of common sense. I guess they got more “education” because they needed to follow (ducare, latin for “to lead”, from which, if my Latin is right, is where the word “educate” comes from) authority.
Barbaric ritual. Nothing noble in this. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Insanity Fire President Tom Manley and appoint a humane President
Bastards
What the hell. If these animals are slaughtered I hope they choke on them. I would not send a child of mine to this facility.
Barbarians from the last century…..! Educated people are planning to kill innocent, helpless babies for filling stomachs? Disgusting, sick brains! They should teach their students how to live vegan…..!
This is a sad day that an educational institution indulges in animals sacrifice. Christ died so that this practice went out of use i.e. two thousand years ago. Sadly Muslims still practice it in Mecca
Exactly what is the point of this? What are you teaching your students? That it’s OK to slaughter innocent young lambs? Are they studying slaughter house techniques? This is so unnecessary and so cruel. I fail to comprehend the motives behind this. Could someone justify this please?
You should not do this.
No! Don’t be so cruel. What kind of people are you.?
I would not want you teaching my kids. Or near my animals.. People are more and more sadistic each day.
Completely disgusting. And heartbreaking.
This horrific slaughter of innocent animals is repugnant practice. There’s no excuse for the MURDER and Torture of helpless, sweet innocent animals, even if it is a University.
Actually, that’s worse ! Professors in a university ,and students are well aware of the current worldwide outrage at Animal Cruelty and Torture. They know that.
Maybe ,they don’t CARE, but WE DO.
STOP live experiments on animals.
They have feelings and intelligence and can feel terror and pain and fear.
Do the right thing. STOP.
who is running things at this horrible place so called higher education,, seems pretty Low to me
These University Experiment Laboratories are disgusting. These professors are highly educated Ph.D’s. and they MUST be aware of the growing worldwide action for Animal Rights.
They are completely without excuse in the slaughter of innocent vulnerable. precious animals.
This slaughter of sweet innocent animals NEEDS to STOP.
These universities are very well aware of the Torture and MURDER of innocent animals.
Maybe they don’t CARE. We do.
WTF did I just read that this place wants to slaughter innocent lambs and threaten if they dont her more money by a donor which they would use to slaughter more lambs or other animals what is the purpose of all this and I dont believe this is teaching education it showing to kill so now people love violence against innocent animals the human race sucks and god needs to wipe us all out and let animals live on in the world stop this act upon animals and get a real life
I used to wonder about slaughter and vivisection being present in schools. After years of being an activist (subsequent to walking out of a physiology class where dissection of pre-tortured cats was part of the curriculum), it occurred to me that evil really does dominate this world, and that there is no doubt big money behind bringing these abominations into the classroom, in order to desensitize and indoctrinate the youth.
Hitler wasn’t the first person to realize that it’s important to start roping them in at a young age.
If murdering little lambs is “education”, let’s be uneducated.
This is despicable and must not be allowed to happen.