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We can’t hear the carrots screaming

Re: “A tasteless approach to eating better,” column, Jan. 20. I enjoy Jack Knox’s columns on a regular basis, but I thought I might point out a slight error in Sunday’s. He states: “Part of my meal … died violently.

Re: “A tasteless approach to eating better,” column, Jan. 20.

I enjoy Jack Knox’s columns on a regular basis, but I thought I might point out a slight error in Sunday’s. He states: “Part of my meal … died violently.”

In fact, almost all of your meal died violently — only the salt was not living. We can’t hear the carrot screaming as it is pulled from the ground, but that does not mean it was not a living organism.

Yours in carnivory.

Chas Low

Victoria