YOUR LETTERS: July 17 2008
A ROUND-UP of your letters from the July 17 edition.
Want to air your views? Email us a letter by clicking here or write to us at: Letter's Page, Rugby Advertiser, 2 Albert Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 2RS.
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Village PO is vital
AS a former vicar of Clifton and Newton, I wholeheartedly support the campaign to keep local post offices open. The one in Clifton is a vital cornerstone for the community, and not only for the elderly and those without cars.
Removing cornerstones is not good for stability. Whether they are villages or parts of towns, the local community is increasingly important to people's (and the environment's) well being and safety.
Post office and other closures seriously undermine communities in the direction of becoming car-owning dormitories, This trend needs to be urgently reversed rather than accelerated.
What is scandalous in the face of all this except in the Alice in Wonderland world of all too much modern executive pay is the report that the Chief Executive, Adam Crozier, 'earned' more than 3million last year.
I am not the only person who wants our government to require the person in his job to use their expertise not to close post offices, but to help them become financially viable, in the face of the challenges of email etc.
The government has to be seriously committed to this too, rather than sacrifice post offices on the altar of that false god of the 'free' market, which in fact is all too expensive in many ways. Instead, life is being made more difficult for post offices and many of their customers.
Our post offices are at present certainly not 'safe in their hands'
David Charles-Edwards
236 Hillmorton Road, Rugby CV22 5BG, UK
Direct: +44 (0)1788 569212
CWA.David@btinternet.com
Bare facts about society
I OFTEN take my dog for walks along the canal towpaths. The last thing I would expect to meet would be a naked walker.
What if I had my daughters with me? We would certainly find it a threat, however he might try to justify such ridiculous behaviour. This character has claimed that he is simply trying to make the world a better place. I can think of far better things he could do to achieve that!
The idea that a person can do whatever he or she wants as long as it doesn't hurt others is a truly wonderful one in theory.
Unfortunately, it just doesn't work out like that in practice. A society has to have standards of some kind.
In an 'anything goes' society, everything DOES go, whether you want it to or not. There is a time and a place for everything. This person can always go to a proper nudist area if he really wants to show himself off like that. Then we'd all be happy - himself included.
My dog will actually threaten people who she thinks might be a danger to us. So if this gentleman really does value his nether regions, then I suggest he keeps them very firmly under wraps next time he goes for a ramble along the canal footpaths!
Mrs. Rebecca Culling
Hadfield Close
Clifton
Stench, filth and death
IN response to Dave Fisher's sarcastic remarks re: The plight of chickens and pigs, and then having the audacity to say there may be 'some' truth in it (Advertiser's letter page, July 3).
There has been substantial video evidence taken in factory hell - pig and chicken farms. There is no 'maybe'. The stark truth reveals stench, filth, stuttering, cruelty and death. Ignorance is bliss. Dave Fisher's view that there is not enough farmland to sustain a non-meat eating population is ridiculous. Well, have I got news for him!
One sorry fact is that livestock farming is extremely wasteful. Land that can support two meat eating people can feed up to 60 people on plant foods. There are so many farmed animals that huge quantities of food are imported from the developing world - often the same countries whose chickens die from starvation. By giving up meat you remove yourself from the cycle of exploitation.
According to the United Nations, the amount of grain required to end extreme hunger - 40 million tonnes. The amount of grain to feed animals in the west - 540 tonnes. It takes about 10 kg of good quality plant protein, such as wheat and soya to produce 1kg of meat protein. Ninety per cent of the UK's animal feed protien comes from poor countries.
Digest this: More than 43 billion farmed animals are killed every year worldwide. Rain forests are felled and their ecosystems are burned to provide their grazing. Precious water is squandered on growing fodder and billions of gallons used for the billions of animals locked away in factory sheds. Additionally over-grazing is turning one-third of the planet into desert. He ridicules the fact that death, disease and filth is rife. in an attempt to keep animals alive regular does of antibiotics are administered. And yet, millions die. Animal farming is indeed a costly commodity to the planet. More than 90 per cent of all agriculture land in Britain is used to feed animals.
D. Knighton Jones,
Newbold Road,
Rugby.
Editor's Footnote: And apparently more damage is done to the ozone layer as a result of 'emissions' from livestock than all the cars, planes boats and trains put together!
Fowl play at Tesco?
I IMPLORE Rugby Tesco shoppers to request the supermarket to go free-range with its sale of chickens.
Shockingly, Tesco shareholders have not backed Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's recent plea that they adopt new standards for rearing birds, thus improving welfare standards for chickens. Fewer than 10 per cent of the shareholders backed the plan.
I say: 'Stop being rotten to chickens' and help lift these innocent creatures from the horrors of their appauling conditions by backing the Chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall.
CIWF say that Sainsbury's and the Co-op are already taking the welfare of chickens seriously by pledging to improve their standards for chicken and stop selling eggs from caged hens.
Conditions for intensively-farmed chickens are often filthy because the crowded sheds are not cleaned during the short lifetime of the chickens. The high ammonia levels cause skin burns and damage to eyes.
'Every little helps' Tesco, so please help the chickens.
Please visit: ciwp.org/ chickens or call 01483 521 950 for more details or visit: www. chickenout.tv to join Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall's chicken out campaign.
Janet Cummings
Tower Road,
Rugby
A spokesperson for Tesco's central press office said: "We do stock free range chickens, but not in every store. It depends on the size of the shop.
Print their expenses
AS members of Parliament have rejected the proposal for a tightening up of the expenses system, (reference second home allowances and the call for external audit), could I ask that you publish details of expenses claimed by our MP every year.
I believe that such information is in the public interest, to be easily accessible to all voters in the area.
Perhaps the same information could be made available for borough and county councillors.
As tax and ratepayers, greater transparency readily viewable would be a great reference to us all when deciding the value of candidates at elections.
W.J. Browning,
Bilton Road,
Rugby.
Lovely surprise
IT was a lovely surprise on reading the Advertiser (June 19) to find a photo of my late great uncle and great aunt Alec and Emily Doyle, of Frankton.
They were in one of the photos in your article about Rugby Rokeby Lions. I don't think they were members, but probably joined one of the Lions' pensioner trips to London.
Betsy Stonehouse,
Hood's Way,
Bilton.
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