Letter: The need to fight for animal rights

Friday 05 July 1996 23:02 BST

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Sir: Roger Scruton concludes (3 July) that animals have no rights. He is certainly at odds with some of the greatest philosophers of our time who were all concerned at mankind's brutality towards animals. To name a few: Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Wordsworth, George Bernard Shaw and many more. They all happened to be vegetarian too. What is needed is a charter of animal rights.

NITIN MEHTA

The Young Indian Vegetarians

West Croydon,

Surrey

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