Surplus Animals
I am an educated man. I am a professional. I am reasonably intelligent. In your article, “Anger Is Rising in the Australian Outback” (Dec. 31), I read that Australian farmers shot and buried 12 million surplus animals because they “couldn’t give them away. . . .”
At first I thought it was a typo--12 million? While millions of mankind, some here in California, are starving? No Sphinx could pose such an enigma.
My education, my personal and professional experience all failed me. Am I missing something? Is it so ridiculous to ask how this could occur? Am I naive?
A follow-up article would have this reader’s avid attention.
DAVID JON LEE
Irvine
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