Let’s go nuts

Re: “Don’t forget the elephants”, (PostBag, Oct 17).

The saying that Ron Flietman refers to: “You can judge a country by the way it treats its animals” was made by Mahatma Gandhi. So when we animal rights supporters are called nuts, we can tell people that one of the greatest “nuts” in history shared our views. In fact before we completely destroy our planet and all the inhabitants in it — human and nonhuman — I think the world could benefit from having a few more “nuts”.