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“GC Socialist” (Letters, 2/10) appears not to have done his or her homework when it comes to finding cheap parking in the Broadbeach precinct.
There happens to be one very popular car park beneath the Phoenician complex which costs $8 all day until midnight.
There are others with free parking if you attend an associated restaurant. You can get very affordable meals too, not the $70 for a breakfast for two.
ERIK CESLIS, ISLE OF CAPRI
A STUFFED cow, an Adelaide pizza restaurant, angry diners.
What’s wrong with this picture? Diners are confronted at seeing the remains of an animal who lost her life so humans could have a fleeting taste sensation.
PETA commends Etica for hanging up the body of slaughtered cow, Schvitzy to give people a taste of where their food comes from.
The dairy industry takes babies from their mothers at birth, so humans can take the milk for shakes and pizzas. The mothers bellow and cry for days for their lost calves – I grew up on a dairy farm and am still haunted by their obvious grief.
The babies are transported, hungry and terrified, to slaughter or, if female, may replace their exhausted mothers. Often suffering from mastitis, dairy cows are “spent” and slaughtered at about five to seven years old, less than a quarter of their potential life span.
Perhaps some customers will be shamed by the thought that for a fleeting taste, living, feeling beings like Schvitzy are denied all hope and joy in life – and are ultimately denied life itself.
We urge Etica to go a step further and add videos showing the abuse of cows, which we will gladly supply to them.
DESMOND BELLAMY, PETA AUSTRALIA
IF YOU saw a headline that read “65 billion killed in acts of violence in one year” you’d probably think it was a misprint. But this statement is correct. In the last 12 months, 65 billion individuals were violently killed for their flesh milk and eggs.
These individuals were not mindless blobs. They were intelligent beings who valued their lives every bit as much as we value ours.
World Day for Farmed Animals was on October 2. The day is dedicated to drawing attention to the tragic plight of these innocents who suffer, not only at slaughter time but all throughout their lives.
Most are confined in cramped, factory farms and subjected to agonising mutilations.
Given we humans are not natural carnivores with no requirement for any animal products in our diet, how can we justify condemning so many to such a cruel fate?
JENNY MOXHAM
A THUG coward punches a man, 70, in the face who rushed to the aid of a woman he was beating.
In our day bashing the elderly was unheard of, the young ones had too much respect for them, but if they would have, the tough unforgiving magistrates of those days (that criminals were terrified of), would have jailed the offender and thrown away the key.
KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS