Piglets Can Have a Better Life Down on the Farm

Booth Moore’s original dim view of PETA’s anti-meat campaigns was correct, and an encounter with real frolicking pigs should not have changed her opinion (“Animals--and Kids--Deserve a Break Today,” June 15). Raised by farmers, these animals will live longer and in greater numbers than they would running wild. I assure you that if left in nature, all the piglets would quickly be devoured by larger animals with sharper teeth--animals that care not a bit that they are cute.

If the folks at PETA were operating with a clear purpose, they would concentrate on improving conditions for livestock, not running expensive ads that insist everyone become vegetarian. Their attempts to reinvent human biology make them look like fools.

--GREG STANTON