Message-ID: <199608302036.QAA09598@jericho.american.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:36:19 -0400 From: Yvonne Sobers <mailto:asante@COLIS.COM> Subject: Re: Confining goats To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
From: Association for the Liberation of Holy GoatsWe have been grazing on this list for some time now, and have noted the many threats to our freedom by our oppressors who demonstrate clearly that the whole world has gone to pot or grass or whatever. We note such politically incorrect statements and insensitive sentiments as:
>> We are
>> having some problems confining the goats to the experimental area of
>> campus and keeping them out of the academic area.
We goats have had a lot of problems with humans. We have endured centuries of colonisation and goaticide, and now you want to confine us to reservations and restrict our access to academic pursuits.
>
>Hire a student?
Where are the fair employment practices here? Aren't goats good enough to police themselves? Are you saying that you accept pigs as students? There seems to be no end to discrimination against goats.
>Make a grad student do it for free
We do not support compulsory service or exploitation in any form. We know what it is like to be squeezed dry.
>>Enroll Post Grad behavioral or veterinary students and make them pay for
>>the "learning experience".
Typical of capitalists, to reduce life-and-death goat issues to dollars and cents.
>
>Eat them! :-)-O
This kind of attitude has had us in a stew for generations. Is there no justice in a world in which goats can be eaten without their consent? Must the masses continue to die while the elite merely diet?
>> Enroll the goats as undergrad business majors?
Of all the injustices, this seems the most extreme!
>If they were Australian goats half of them would drop out before
>completing the course. So that may not solve the problem.
And where is the empirical data on which these conclusions are based? We goats are quite capable of filling the questionnaires (thrown away still blank) which we so often eat. We have completed rocky arduous courses before now, and did not drop out or off, even when the path was steep.
>No no no! Form a committee to make discuss possible options!
This seems to be the solution we find most palatable. The committee will meat to decide when to meat. Then it will have to decide why/how/whether to decide. After a few months, it will submit a report which will then be referred to another committee for validation and to still another for authority to act. By that time, hopefully, the holy goats will have risen.
This statement is submitted through:
Yvonne McCalla Sobers Vegetarian and friend of goats mailto:asante@colis.com ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ