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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1997Vol. 67 No. 10

Cruelty to Animals

p. 10 · Read in the full issue

Dear Sir, It is obvious, Timeon loane, Makania Ehor and Polycarp Smallfield never got the message from Miss Hussein’s report: Food For Thought - (PIM Oct 1996) - the message was Cruelty to Animals - four “unused” sea turtles lay slowly dying on the beach under a scorching sun ...

Such were the facts - that was the sub ject of the report; more than necessary turtles for food were caught and then left to die on a beach. One more time Gandhi’s words: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Torture/Cruelty to animals - apparently - is a non-issue to loane, Ehor and Smallfield.

Animals for food can be slaughtered in a human way! Did I ever hear of the "Pacific Way”? Yes - Mr. Smallfield! I have lived in the Pacific for almost 18 years To loane: Stop twisting facts! I did not (in my letter to the Editor) accuse an Island Nation of using 50km long drift nets! I am not a big land-owner” in Montana, I am not an American, I did not “make nuclear tests” in the Pacific, the US

is not my “own country” ... like loane stated, all accusations are false! After my work is done in Montana -1 fly back to my “homeland”.

Inge Mathiesen

315 McDougal St.

Glendive, Montana 59330-1916