Provide a place to lay their eggs
BMonarch butterflies are beautiful creatures that light up the summer skies with their wings. As your article said (“Alarming decrease in monarch butterflies prompts extinction fears,” Jan. 21), they are totally dependent on the milkweed plant for their survival. It is the only food they’ll eat, but these plants have been drastically reduced by development, agriculture and the herbicides that are used to clear land.
We could fight this decline by planting milkweed in our gardens and by urging our governor to plant it on the medians of our state highways. As its name implies, it grows like a weed, but its flowers are fragrant and it can be confined to designated areas.
It is easy to find seeds online that are easy to grow and you can then have the satisfaction that comes with doing something to preserve our natural world. Ed Temple
Justin Tempee
Thank you for your editorial that asked the question: When it comes to animal rights, where should we start and stop, and why (“Happy news,” Dec. 18)? Maybe we can start with this: Animals have the right to be free from senseless suffering at the hands of humans. For example, the overwhelming majority of animals farmed for their flesh, eggs and milk are systematically tortured. Standard and legal practices of factory farming rival those of Dark Age dungeons. Animals on fur farms are intensively confined and the methods used to kill them are gruesome. All of that is done for fashion or status statements.
James Scotto
Olga Miller
Eddie Taibi
A great point from Voicer John Yalango on the News’ one-day expanded Aqueduct entries last Friday — however, the next day it was drastically reduced and on Sunday, non-existent! Nice consistency, Daily News!
Steve Bevacqua
I am sorry, but can you please explain the word “ingores” used in one of your recent papers? It is not listed in my dictionary. What qualifications do your proofreaders have?
As I read the Daily News yesterday, starting with the front of the newspaper, I noticed a few interesting things. The first 14 pages were dedicated to two things, praising Joe Biden and attacking Donald Trump. Really, people? You haven’t gotten over your Trump Derangement Syndrome? The man is now a private citizen. He is out of your hair. Let it go! With all of your Trump-bashing and praising of Biden, you seem to have forgotten your journalistic requirements. You failed to report about Antifa and/or Black Lives Matter riots (that occurred the night of Biden’s inauguration) in Denver, Seattle and Portland. Can’t blame Trump? Then I looked at the letters to the editor. There were 14 letters: two anti-Democrat, one climate change, three COVID-19 and the remaining 57% all antiTrump. Seriously, you couldn’t even publish one positive letter about Trump?
Talking turkey
John Ray
I could not help but shake my head at the insinuation by your paper that President Trump is in any way responsible for the conditions in which pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys are kept at Virginia Tech (“Turkey misery,” Jan. 17). First off, do your math: The first set of pardoned turkeys were sent to this school by former President Obama. Nowhere in this article do you similarly blame him. Second, the subject of the article is how Virginia Tech treats the turkeys; Trump has nothing to do with the turkeys’ care, but clearly you’ll do anything to drag Trump’s name through the mud. Your hypocrisy is showing, and I wonder what you’re going to fill your newspaper with once Trump is out of office.
Update
Manhattan: I would really like to know if Pat Lynch and the PBA still think it was a good idea to endorse Trump for reelection and whether they would still endorse him now. I also would like to know if Lynch and the PBA think the election was stolen.
Barack Obama was courageous enough to go out of his way to author a new manual that contained instructions about what to do should the White House receive a warning from a foreign government about a major outbreak in their country. When he took office in January 2016, what did Donald Trump do? He trashed it because he does not like Obama. Can you beat that?
Peter Van Pelt