Sir, - Starving cattle in a muddy paddock or field, standing dejected with hip bones projecting horribly, ribs pressed out, all skin and bone, are a sorry sight. If fodder is not available they should be destroyed, to relieve them from the pain of starvation.
Cattle are noble, yet docile creatures that have served mankind faithfully ever since the years of the Irish Elk (6000 BC) and the end of the Ice Age. - Yours etc.,
Ted Nevill, Trabeg Lawn, Douglas, Cork.