Speakout

Want to be an animal?

Mr Editor. Would anyone in this society like to be deer that no one needs to kill for the meat? Would anyone like to be a dove? How about a rodeo animal? Wouldn’t that be wonderful to be a rodeo animal? Or to be a pig, squeezed into a pen where you can’t even turn around, living on a grate. No one cares what happens to you, how you’re killed. They say when a pig is killed it sounds just like a human scream. How about that? Or would you like to be a mink, killed for a mink coat? I understand they jab an electrode up their anus to kill them. And that scream is supposed to be something horrible to hear. Would you like to be a chicken? Or how about a cow? Only allowed to live two years when you might live 30. How would you like to be that?

What is Gallagher’s salary?

Mr. Editor, can you inform the American taxpayer, in particular here in Sikeston, what the salary and benefits of this Steve Gallagher amount to. Looks like he does pretty well as a SEAL from what I’ve seen. I’d just like to know. Don’t you think that salaries paid to public people by the taxpayers should be public?

Do you mean Eddie Gallagher? You can look up online what the salary is for a Navy SEAL.