I LOVE animals. I hate cruelty to all animals. However, I take issue with the so-called animal rights activists. I should like to ask these fanatics if they can be certain that they, or their family, have never had to use medicaments which have been tested on animals.

For myself, I take three pills each day which may or may not have been so tested, but I am alive.

My wife has to take seven pills a day to stay alive and, quite honestly, I would cheerfully sacrifice a thousand animals to ensure my wife's continuance on this earth.

Mr A G Reeson,

Huntington Road,

York.

Updated: 10:55 Tuesday, May 16, 2006