Sir, - I would like to protest about the media coverage of the current cattle-slaughtering campaign across the EU.
On both our newspapers and our televisions we see graphic pictures and representations of cattle both before and after slaughter. What purpose is achieved by this kind of coverage? It is gratuitous and offensive to the sensitivities of readers and viewers to see these harrowing scenes.
The BSE crisis came into being because of human folly and it is distressing that the results of this folly are being beamed into our homes by human callousness and insensitivity. - Yours, etc.,
Mrs Eileen Walsh, Upper Kilmacud Road, Stillorgan, Co Dublin.