Cull disgust

From Peter Monck I have spent some time thinking about a response to your reporting of the culling of Marius the giraffe (15 February, p 7).  Make no mistake, animal rights protesters were not the only people to be dismayed by this action. I am not an animal rights protester, nor are most of my friends and acquaintances, yet  we all felt this action was barbaric and morally repugnant. Many zoos, for example, were publicly critical at the seeming lack of compassion. Marius’s subsequent public butchering was little short of an obscenity given the outcry about his death. It would be nice if you got off what I am beginning to see as your high horse (giraffe?) and became more aligned to what I suspect are the opinions of your readers.