Adver Letter - Moon Hoax

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Research has shown that less than a quarter of the current farmland would be needed if Britain consumed a plant-based iiet. In a hungry world with limited resources, half of the world's food h.arvest should not be fed to farmed mimals so that some people can ontinue to eat meat while others ,tarve. This is certainly not the idnd of world I want for our hildren.

KELLY SLADE :ampaigns Officer nimal Aid

Abattoir truths

rHE letter from L Wilson (SA, fhursday, July 23) defending the 3ating of meat (or the decomposing 1esh of dead animals) would be 'tinny if not very sad. The harmful effects of eating neat are well publicised and 1ardly a week goes past without mother report linking the eating of neat with cancers and heart :lisease. If people do not care about their )wn health there are plenty of )ther ways to get ill without being mvolved in animal abuse. L Wilson makes the absurd :omments that farm animals would )e culled if they were not bred for neat - what on earth does he :hink happens now? Cull, kill, murder is all the same :0 the poor animal. Calves lucky to reach four nonths old if not thrown into a ;kip at birth, lambs slaughtered at 1 few months. The organic livestock farmers

claim the moral high ground but, when challenged, have to admit there is no such thing as an organic abattoir. All animals destined for slaughter go through the same cruel, inhuman process. Slaughterhouses, like vivisection laboratories, attract the same sort of workers and I will leave it to the readers' imagination as to what type of people they are. There is one local farmer who assures me he accompanies his few animals to the slaughterhouse and watches them die, but he is the exception. PHILlP BEAVEN Merton Avenue Swindon

Wheel out cash IN view of the Government's intention to make a second issue of banknotes, may I suggest that in anticipation of devaluation your readers make haste and visit their nearest builders' yard or garden centre and purchase a reliable wheelbarrow?

For every item of conspiracy evidence, there is an explanation why it just simply doesn't stack up, and the more I delve, the more NASA'sclaims hold true. One of the claims I think Des is referring to is that the shadows of the upright objects on the NASA lunar surface photos are not parallel (and hence done on a movie set) because the conspiracy theorists claim "light from a single distant source (the sun) projects perfectly parallel shadows." You can disprove this claim for yourself, with your own eyes right here in Swindon. Just look at the shadows cast by iron railings during a low sun (as it was for all the moon landings so that the lunar temperature was manageable for the space suits). One book claims that the Apollo 13landing site would have been in darkness - check the appropriate

GLH WHEELER Whitehill Lane Wootton Bassett

Mooning around SO Steve Halden and Des Morgan both believe there was no Moon landing. Good for them I say! I have studied the conspiracy theory for some years now, and I am disappointed that once you delve into the conspiracy claims, how quickly they fall apart.

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almanac and the mission manifest and guess what? The landing site was sunlit at the time. I still await a satisfactory recreation with equipment available in 1971proving that a hammer and feather can be dropped on Earth, apparently fall at 1/6th g and both objects hit the ground at the same time (as demonstrated during Apollo 15). Your readers might be interested to know that the LRO satellite is right now circling the moon and has so far taken pictures of all but one of the six landing sites. I don't claim this as outright proof that the landings happened your readers can look them up on the internet and judge for themselves - don't take everything you see and read as genuine! ROBERT HORWAT Wheeler Avenue Swindon