

Food for thought, part three
Christina Matthies, speaking for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Letter, Monday), is most indignant in responding to David Martosko’s dissenting opinion on PETA’s Fish Empathy Project.
In the same breath with which she pounds Mr. Martosko, she speaks of her father’s quintuple bypass surgery, presumably due to years of misguided dietary habits. I wonder if her father accepted anesthesia during that surgery. Or if he used pain medication postoperatively. Or if he now uses anti-coagulant medication.
After all, every one of those medications was developed using animals. What will Miss Matthies do when it is her turn to undergo surgery? As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
DR. STUART TOMARES
Bethesda
Protect our borders
President Bush was in Chile pandering to foreign presidents over immigration (“Immigrant plan revived,” Page 1, Monday), while Secretary of State Colin Powell does the same thing in Mexico. When will they realize they are supposed to be representing Americans?
The majority of Americans are screaming for immigration reform. Illegal immigration must be ended and legal immigration drastically reduced.
Immigration is harming the United States socially, culturally, medically, academically, criminally, environmentally and economically. Unfortunately, Democratic leaders seek cheap votes, while Republican leaders, especially Mr. Bush, seek cheap labor.
Immigration is based solely on chain migration instead of the needs of the United States.
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