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IN YOUR VIEW
Research has shown that less
than a quarter of the current
farmland would be needed if
Britain consumed a plant-based
iiet.
In a hungry world with limited
resources, half of the world's food
h.arvest should not be fed to farmed
mimals so that some people can
ontinue to eat meat while others
,tarve. This is certainly not the
idnd of world I want for our
hildren.
KELLY SLADE
:ampaigns Officer
nimal Aid
Abattoir truths
rHE letter from L Wilson (SA,
fhursday, July 23) defending the
3ating of meat (or the decomposing
1esh of dead animals) would be
'tinny if not very sad.
The harmful effects of eating
neat are well publicised and
1ardly a week goes past without
mother report linking the eating of
neat with cancers and heart
:lisease.
If people do not care about their
)wn health there are plenty of
)ther ways to get ill without being
mvolved in animal abuse.
L Wilson makes the absurd
:omments that farm animals would
)e culled if they were not bred for
neat - what on earth does he
:hink happens now?
Cull, kill, murder is all the same
:0 the poor animal.
Calves lucky to reach four
nonths old if not thrown into a
;kip at birth, lambs slaughtered at
1 few months.
The organic livestock farmers
A juvenile green woodpecker in a garden in Wroughton
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claim the moral high ground but, For every item of conspiracy almanac and the mission manifest
when challenged, have to admit evidence, there is an explanation and guess what? The landing site
there is no such thing as an organic why it just simply doesn't stack up, was sunlit at the time.
abattoir. and the more I delve, the more I still await a satisfactory
All animals destined for NASA'sclaims hold true. recreation with equipment
slaughter go through the same One of the claims I think Des is available in 1971proving that a
cruel, inhuman process. referring to is that the shadows of hammer and feather can be
Slaughterhouses, like vivisection the upright objects on the NASA dropped on Earth, apparently fall
laboratories, attract the same sort lunar surface photos are not at 1/6th g and both objects hit the
of workers and I will leave it to the parallel (and hence done on a ground at the same time (as
readers' imagination as to what movie set) because the conspiracy demonstrated during Apollo 15).
type of people they are. theorists claim "light from a single Your readers might be interested
There is one local farmer who distant source (the sun) projects to know that the LRO satellite is
assures me he accompanies his few perfectly parallel shadows." right now circling the moon and
animals to the slaughterhouse and You can disprove this claim for has so far taken pictures of all but
watches them die, but he is the yourself, with your own eyes right one of the six landing sites.
exception. here in Swindon. I don't claim this as outright
PHILlP BEAVEN
Merton Avenue
Just look at the shadows cast by
iron railings during a low sun (as it
proof that the landings happened -
your readers can look them up on
Swindon was for all the moon landings so the internet and judge for
that the lunar temperature was themselves - don't take everything
Wheel out cash manageable for the space suits).
One book claims that the Apollo
you see and read as genuine!
ROBERT HORWAT
13landing site would have been in Wheeler Avenue
IN view of the Government's darkness - check the appropriate Swindon
intention to make a second issue of
banknotes, may I suggest that in
anticipation of devaluation your
readers make haste and visit their
nearest builders' yard or garden
centre and purchase a reliable
wheelbarrow?
GLH WHEELER
Whitehill Lane
Wootton Bassett
Mooning around
SO Steve Halden and Des Morgan
both believe there was no Moon
landing. Good for them I say!
I have studied the conspiracy
theory for some years now, and I
am disappointed that once you
delve into the conspiracy claims,
how quickly they fall apart.
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