But Linda would have found Peta's Milk Sucker cards unsophisticated. Linda McCartney was an intelligent, witty woman who didn't ram her opinions down your throat, but charmed you into considering her point of view.Each day we are bombarded with messages telling us not to do things, mostly from the inept Health Education Council. Women must consume no more than 14 or so units of alcohol a week, otherwise they will suffer brain damage. We must fasten our seatbelts, stop smoking and shun soft drugs because they'll certainly lead to heroin addiction. Add not eating meat to the list and no wonder it seems the right to free choice is under attack.There is one issue where we would have expected the Peta warriors to march to battle yet they have been strangely silent.
Where were they during the foot and mouth epidemic? I haven't noticed any Peta members slinging themselves on animal pyres in Cumbria or preventing the mass slaughter of cattle in the West Country. They've simply said that they hope the epidemic turns more people off meat. Each day hundreds of animals are being cruelly dispatched but because they are part of the "evil" dairy farming industry they don't count to the militant veggies at Peta.As a reasonably intelligent meat-eater, I hope the result of the current crisis is a farming industry that treats its animals humanely and with dignity. But it is an industry, and there will always be a large market for delicious, organic, happily reared meat no matter what scare tactics Peta employs More from Janet Street-Porter. Normally I am wary of contradicting Mr Reg Gutteridge, the boxing writer, about his field of expertise.
He was dismissive of Mr John Prescott's efforts in this area. Normally I am wary of contradicting Mr Reg Gutteridge, the boxing writer, about his field of expertise. He was dismissive of Mr John Prescott's efforts in this area. I find myself more on the side of Mr Ken Jones, who covers the same subject (among others) for The Independent and considered that Mr Prescott had delivered a technically correct punch. I likewise was impressed by the speed both of reaction and of the blow itself. There are aficionados of the fight game who believe that he should have followed the left jab with a right cross. But it is often more profitable to carry on, as Mr Prescott did not, with a succession of straight lefts, an approach favoured by one of our lightweight champions, Mr Billy Schwer.
