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Title: The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont)
Author: Pattrice Jones
Narrator: Dana Brewer Harris
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-03-17
Publisher: Lantern Books
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology

Publisher's Summary:
When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow 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 social media erupted.
Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends. How and why the threads of this story unspooled, as Jones reveals, raises profound questions - most particularly about how ideas rooted in history, race, gender, region, and speciesism intersect and complicate strategy and activism, and their desired outcomes. In the end, notes Jones, we must always ask, "Where's the body?"

Members Reviews:
A compelling story and case study on animal activism
A smart, straightforward, thoughtful book with important points about social justice, intersectionality and effective activism by someone with experience.
I had the good fortune to hear pattrice jones, co-founder of VINE (veganism is the next evolution) Sanctuary, an ecofeminist, LGBQT, solar-powered, animal sanctuary in Vermont, speak at the first Intersectional Justice conference Toward a Whole-Earth Community at The Whidbey Institute. There, she said that this was the book of hers to read so I put it on my to-read list and was drawn into the story as soon as I began.
The book is told in two parts. Jones begins with the story of the failed attempt by numerous animal activists using a variety of methods to save the lives of two beloved oxen, Bill and Lou, who were used as part of a farm program at Green Mountain College and became symbols of the school and mascots.
The second part of the book is Jones' analysis of the failure, a case study on activism.
Jones is a fantastic teacher. Read it!

Couldn't Put it Down
I'd give this book 10 stars if I could. It reads like the best mystery novel, only the events it describes are all true. It's full of vivid descriptions of people, places, and motives; fascinating buried histories; and razor-sharp interpretations of a series of events that became internationally notorious, all told by someone who was at the center of it all.
You might have heard of the plight of the Green Mountain College oxen. GMC (in Vermont) was experimenting sentimentally with 19th century forms of agriculture, and used two elderly oxen, Bill and Lou, for plowing and other farm tasks. Bill and Lou were college and town mascots, supposedly beloved by all, until one day, Lou sustained a (relatively minor) injury and the college decided that both of the "beloved" oxen should be slaughtered and served up in the student cafeteria.