Animal Cruelty
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* Re “Goodbye Gobbler,” Nov. 26: Kimberley Smith’s students may have learned some veterinary science, but one hopes that they will learn something more important as they continue to reflect on the slaughter of their turkeys.
One student commented: “As long as I don’t see it, it’s all right. . . . It’s one of those things that has to be done in life.”
One hopes that he might come to realize, on the contrary, that cruelty and slaughter don’t change moral status when they are hidden, and that the killing of sentient beings for nonessential human preferences is not something that has to be done at all.
KATHIE JENNI
Orange
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