From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France
You reviewed a book arguing that animals should be treated as though they are conscious, with care and consideration. And yet in the same edition (p 22), there is an argument for the reintroduction of predators such as the European lynx and Tasmanian tiger, saying sheep farmers can be compensated when their animals are killed. But maybe the farmers have care and consideration for their sheep? And shouldn’t we also have pity on the deer and the capercaillies that lynx would kill? It isn’t pleasant to be killed by a lynx, or a Tasmanian tiger, for that matter (1 February, p 26).
