CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Sir,-The real cruelty done to animals both in the Dominion and elsewhere is the ruthless slaughtering in the prime of life of weaker living beings solely for the benefit (largely monetary) of the slaughterers. The slaughter-house is the greatest blot on human civilisation. Those ethically inclined might even see in the.coming atom war, in which homo sapiens will do his best to commit mutual suicide, the inevitable penalty of the strong doing to the weak what they would not like a still stronger to do to them. There is thus a kind of "wild justice," as Bacon might say, in the grim thought that the slayer actually
j slays himself.
N. M.
BELL
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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117CRUELTY TO ANIMALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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