How can Wendy Warren say she is concerned about animal welfare and write in favour of cloning, killing badgers and mega-dairies (Mailbox, December 14)?

Ms Warren is obviously unaware of campaigns initiated by major animal welfare organisations against these proposals.

On cloning, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) warns of a "welfare disaster on a massive scale" and the RSPCA points to high levels of miscarriage, organ failure and gigantism among newborn clones.

The Independent Scientific Group spent 10 years studying evidence on various options for bovine TB control. It concluded that "licensing farmers to cull badgers would not only fail to achieve a beneficial effect, but would entail a substantial risk of increasing the incidence of cattle TB and spreading the disease".

CIWF and WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) said they would fight a "united, high profile, science-based and consumer-led campaign against plans by developers" for a mega-dairy.

Farm use of antibiotics have caused antibiotic resistance to medical drugs in several types of food poisoning, including salmonella, campylobacter and Ecoli.

Thanks to modern animal farming methods we now have superbugs and let's not forget swine flu, bird flu, BSE and vCJD, to name just a few current threats to human health.

Whether animals are intensively reared or not they are still slaughtered. A recent investigation of a number of abattoirs revealed such appalling brutality that the installation of CCTV in all slaughterhouses is being recommended.

Ms Warren said she would favour stricter regulations for pet ownership. What a contradiction! Humans have chosen to care for and pamper some species, mainly cats and dogs, but are happy to stick others in the oven and eat them!

And the UN has stated that "diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable".

Elizabeth Allison, Aylestone.