To the editor: As billions of animals yearly are raised beneath hideous circumstances and killed with comparable lack of care, I’m pissed off by the fuss over one man’s remedy of an already useless sea lion (“California man accused of decapitating sea lion, placing head in plastic bag. All lies, he says,” Oct. 2). It brings to thoughts the media frenzy round Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remedy of useless animals, a bear cub and whale carcass, earlier than he was secretary of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies.
Now, as Kennedy pushes beef tallow over seed oils, we have now true trigger for concern for each animals and the setting. His stance appears particularly odd given his professed environmentalism and what the cattle business does to our planet.
Let’s reprioritize and focus extra, legally and within the media, on our remedy of reside, sentient beings.
Karen Daybreak, Santa Barbara
This author is the founder and director of animal advocacy nonprofit DawnWatch.
