IMPORTATION OF CANADIAN CATTLE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Spectator, you have assured your readers, is " not indifferent " to the sufferings of Canadian cattle imported across the Atlantic, and has always assumed that they can be carried under humane conditions. A well-informed correspondent, whose letter you have published with your usual candour but without comment, pointed out in your issue of July 31st that the equipment necessary for humane transport cannot be provided without prohibitive expenditure. Unless it can be shown that he is mistaken, the question seems to be one of Free Trade versus Humanity. Some of your readers would be interested in that case to know which of these two alternatives the Spectator is prepared to accept.—I am, Sir, &c., Mount Irwin, Tynan, Co. Armagh. II. C. IRWIN.
[Unless we decide to be vegetarians we must slaughter cattle. We must, however, slaughter humanely. In the same way we must have cattle brought here by sea, but we must bring them as humanely as possible. The evidence appears to us to show that the suffering of the cattle brought from Ireland is quite as great as, perhaps greater than, that imposed on those coming from Canada.—ED. Spectator.]
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