Letter: Not too sensational

Ingrid E. Newkirk
Monday 27 September 1999 23:02 BST
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Sir: Please don't buy into the artist Damien Hirst's disclaimer that the animals he uses in his work "are already dead" (report, 24 September).

While it is true that Mr Hirst didn't actually wield the cleaver, he might as well have. The mother cow and her calf, the sheep and the other animals he pickles and cuts through with a chainsaw didn't die in their sleep. They were specially ordered by Mr Hirst from the slaughterhouse.

It is a small consolation that some people emerge from this man's exhibits so ashamed of what human beings do to animals that they resolve to stop contributing to the slaughter of innocents.

INGRID E NEWKIRK

Director

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

London SW18

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