Silent majority: animals are not mute people

Ted Cronin (Letters, Feb 21), lamented that if animals could speak, we would all cry listening to their stories of the cruelty humans inflict on them.

If animals could speak, they would also be able to vote, be able to pay taxes, obey laws and live similarly to humans, but in a larger, different society than the one we have today.

I do not argue in favour of animal cruelty — it is reprehensible and those who cause it, or who inflict it, are defective human beings.