Letters to the Editor: Planet can’t sustain slaughter of farm animals

Holstein Cows, red and black, at rest in a field; these are sentient, social animals with a capacity to suffer and to feel pain. 

A little-known fact (except by those who make a living from it): More than 100m farmed animals are slaughtered in Ireland each year; that’s 275,000 every day, 12,000 every hour, three every second.

These are mind-boggling statistics. If we could see a visual image of these animals, all gathered together, it would be bewildering. It would be impossible to take in, such relentless killing of innocent animals.