I was disturbed to read the response S Broom received from Henry Brunwald, on a humane way of killing animals, by doing it the shechita way, in which a knife is used to sever the main vital organs and vessels.

How dare he come back at S Broom, telling him how he thinks animals should be killed?

No one will ever have any idea how death by either of these methods feels, unless you're the one put to death this way.

He also states other main animal welfare organisations are concerned about the way it's generally done by using a stun gun, which is true.

I am more concerned that he is even arguing about this and even worse trying to bring the word humane into the equation.

Humane is compassion, humane is sharing, humane is defending the defenceless, humane is letting all animals live and experience the world like we do.

The Earth doesn't just belong to us, yet we are destroying the wildlife, destroying the water courses, the rainforest, the ozone layer, causing the developing world to go hungry, causing obesity and some cancers, all this because we eat animals in the first place.

Not only are we killing millions of animals the "wrong way or right way" we are also caging them, ripping their young away from them, testing on them in painful experiments to find cures for disease that are mainly brought about by eating animals and their by-products in the first place.

What gives us the right? How greedy and selfish are we and what are we leaving for the next generation?

Mr Brunwald might have an OBE, but I qualify as a vegan for 20 years, which means I care about all animals, the Earth and people, and I'm proud to be not part of any death or torture of any kind to either.

As Ghandi said: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

In that case, I think we are in trouble.

Alex Brooks,

Woodmansey.