Let’s focus on animals who are still alive rather than carcasses

To the editor: As billions of animals yearly are raised underneath hideous circumstances and killed with related lack of care, I’m annoyed by the fuss over one man’s remedy of an already lifeless sea lion (“California man accused of decapitating sea lion, putting head in plastic bag. All lies, he says,” Oct. 2). It brings to thoughts the media frenzy round Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s treatment of dead animals, a bear cub and whale carcass, earlier than he was secretary of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies.

Now, as Kennedy pushes beef tallow over seed oils, we have now true trigger for concern for each animals and the surroundings. His stance appears particularly odd given his professed environmentalism and what the cattle business does to our planet.

Let’s reprioritize and focus extra, legally and within the media, on our remedy of reside, sentient beings.

Karen Daybreak, Santa Barbara
This author is the founder and director of animal advocacy nonprofit DawnWatch.