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Vegan Advocate Loses His Job Over Facebook Post Dissing Dairy Industry

by Jessica Ramos
December 19, 2014
5:30 pm

Vegan Advocate Loses His Job Over Facebook Post Dissing Dairy Industry

Meet Keith Allison from rural Ohio. He’s a vegan, and he works in education at Green Local Schools. Unfortunately, one of his Facebook posts, written on his private account and in his own time, proves that veganism and education don’t always mesh if the dairy industry is involved. But one Care2 petition is looking to change that.

The Facebook Post

As reported in KFOR, Allison worked as a second-grade teacher (although another source says he was a part-time tutor with a one-year contract). He was a committed teacher who would work with students struggling in language arts and math. His students, their parents and his supervisors never had any problems with Allison’s work.

But a local farmer did have a problem. It had nothing to do with what Allison did in the classroom — it had everything to do with what Allison did outside the classroom. Defying the status quo, Allison is a vegan, an animal advocate, and apparently a threat to the local dairy industry.

The turning point was when Allison went on his private Facebook page to share his thoughts. He snapped a shot of crates used on a dairy farm to house baby calves. Like any of us on our social media accounts, he also wrote his thoughts:

“As someone who grew up feeling parental love and support, and now as a parent who gives love and support, I reject the claim that separating babies from loving mothers to raise them isolated in boxes can ever be considered humane.”
Source: I Stand With Keith Facebook Page

Source: I Stand With Keith Facebook Page

Needless to say, the local dairy industry didn’t love Allison’s compassionate point of view or that he expressed it (even though there’s a little legal thing called freedom of speech). The dairy farm from the picture decided to do something to neutralize the threat.

“I Might Want to Look into Doing Something Other Than Teaching”

When it came time to renew his contract, Allison found out exactly what the dairy farm had decided to do; they had complained about Allison’s post to his employer.