Download The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont) AudioBook Free
When Green Mountain University in Poultney, Vermont, declared that two oxen called Invoice and Lou would be wiped out and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her co-workers at local VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative solution scenario: to permit the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and public media erupted.Part true-crime puzzle, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is an excellent unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all worried about the lives and deaths of the two pets or animals to neglect to achieve their ends. How and just why the threads of this story unspooled, as Jones unveils, raises profound questions - most especially about how precisely ideas rooted ever sold, contest, gender, region, and speciesism intersect and complicate strategy and activism, and their desired final results. In the end, notes Jones, we must always ask, "Where's the body?"
