Dear Editor:

Bob Hunter’s column of May
20 warrants a word or two in
defence of B.C."s harassed and
somewhat maligned pulp and
paper industry. ‘While the latter
represents an easy target, several
of Bob's arrows seem on an errant
course.

Your columnist laments the
need ia express his views on
newsprint, that killer of trees.
What would he suggest as an
aiternative — papyrus, stone
tablets?

Cutting down forests might be
an ecological crime as Bob asserts.
However, the production of
newsprint and pulp can hardly be
blamed for this. We cut few trees
in B.C. for the manufacture of
newsprint and pulp. Rather, this
sector depends for its raw material
on the residues of the lumber and
plywood industries: chips; shav-

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Hunter doesn't see forest for trees

ings; trim: broken ends: sawdust,
etc.

As long as an exponentially ex-
panding population insists on
shelter, this is unlikely to change.

Modern newsprint furnishes
consist of 85 to 100 per cent
mechanical pulp, none of which is
chlorine bleached.

On a daily basis. the U.S.A.
produces some 400.000 tonnes of
waste. Of these, 35 per cent are
paper and paperboard products.
About eight per cent of the latter
are old newspapers (ONP), hardly
the single biggest item taking up
space at landfills as claimed by
Bob.

Canadian figures, while
unknown, are unlikely to differ
appreciably from the U.S. rates.

The recycling of ONP is old hat
and need not involve solely
newsprint manufacturing.
Publishers might have wished for
recycled newsprint but also in-

‘Bunny-hugger’ supports

Dear Editor:

Re: Bob Hunter's June 3 col-
umn on the leg hold trap and
other cruelties practised on
animals.

He says he is a ‘‘bunny-hugger
who can't stand the sight of
animals in pain.**

I’m another. A short time ago I
bought a Jive crab and was told to
plunge it into boiling water alive.
It will be delicious, 1 was told.

This sounded cruel but I
thought a form of life so low as a
crab can't have any feelings so I
did as | was told. The poor little
crab, until then quiescent, went
crazy, frantically trying to get out
of the pot. Of course its struggle

Bye, bye Bob

Dear Editor:

Re: Bob Hunter’s column of
May 23.

1 do not know where Bob lives
but if he is on the North Shore
perhaps the Squamish Indian
Band would like to claim their
native lands and kick him and
everyone else on the North Shore
off ‘‘their lands.’”

D. Weir
Port McNeill

lasted only a moment. It must not
be killed first, I was told.

Some years ago I bought stock
in a company that dealt in the
raising and marketing of frying-
size young chicken. I thought it
would be interesting to see their
operations (no pun intended) so I
went there.

The noise was deafening from
the screaming chickens. They were
suspended from a wing to a mov-
ing chain where a man with a
sharp double-edged knife plunged

sisted on quality parameters which
until recently proved beyond the
range of this product.

! admire and share Bob's quest
for an ecologically sound en-
vironment. Industry — be it the
forest, mining, agriculture — is
the effect, not the cause. of the
problem. The rapid growth of
population and our ever higher
standards of living ensure the con-
tinuing ravage of our resources —
forests, water, air, wildlife, etc.

Bob’s efforts might be better
devoted to promoting population
control rather than attacking the
newsprint producers. If a commit-
ted environmentalist fails to see
the forest for the trees, then we
are venturing on a dangerous
course,

P.S. Yes, t do work for a forest
firm.

H.L. Martin
West Vancouver

Bob Hunter

it down the bird’s throat, after
which it would be dropped into a
vat of boiling water.

Often the wing would be torn
off or so damaged that it would
be removed.

The cruelties to animals in the
rodeo shows is horrible to witness.
Surely the SPCA should do some-
thing.

Thank you for your column,
Bob.

W.T. Money
West Vancouver

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