Fake freedom versus kind choices

MONDAY, JANUARY 01, 2018

Re: “Food comments are hard to stomach”, Have Your Say, yesterday. 

I wonder why “Dr Frank “is afraid to disclose his real name when he writes letters to the newspaper. Could it be that it’s easier to insult and ridicule other writers when one is hiding behind a pseudonym?
Although he wrote the other day that I had as much right to air my opinions as anyone else, he is clearly annoyed that I am doing so, for now he tells me to mind my own business and vows to keep enjoying eating flesh. I’m well aware that the “doctor”, along with everyone else in the world, will eat exactly what they choose to eat. All I aim to do in my letters is try to encourage them to make kind choices and make them aware of the enormous suffering that so many animals endure just so we can enjoy the taste of their flesh milk and eggs. I don’t want readers to be as ignorant as I was in my younger meat-eating days. 
Doctor Frank says, “I might have set my watch by Miss Moxham’s rush to get her reply into print here.” I could say exactly the same thing about him.
Jenny Moxham
Victoria, Australia