Letter: Wrong about animal rights

SO, according to your leader, farm and laboratory animals "should be made to suffer" but "as little as possible". Animal liberationists love animals, but especially furry ones; their real motivation, however, may be hatred of humans; they are intellectually challenged, "not ... given to nuanced thought"; Hitler liked dogs; this, however, was "sentimentality"; the likes of Barry Horne are possibly psychopaths. What a catalogue of miserable cliches!

Regarding "nuanced thought", I could without difficulty list, among those who have espoused and defended the concept of animal liberation, a dozen distinguished professors in the fields of philosophy, theology, physiology, biology, biophysics, anthropology and law.

RUARC GAHAN

Hollywood, Co Wicklow, Ireland