Donor Redirects School Gift to Protest Animal Treatment
February 25, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Madeleine Pickens, wife of the billionaire businessman and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens, has told Oklahoma State University to find another use for the $5-million she recently gave the school’s Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, The Oklahoman reports.
In a letter to the school’s president, Ms. Pickens wrote that she has not changed her mind about donating to Oklahoma State but is “very concerned about the practices at the vet school.” She said she had been told by a veterinary student that the center buys animals from breeders and performs multiple operations before euthanizing them.
University officials did not respond to the newspaper’s calls for comment.
