It’s easy for meat lovers to trim costs without compromising on flavour (Money hacks, 19 May). Just stop buying it. You will be wealthier and healthier, and so will the environment. Your food will also taste better knowing that no animal has suffered. Time for the Guardian to stop supporting the most greedy industry on the planet.
Barbara Stewart-Knox
Professor of food psychology, University of Bradford
• Tim Dowling’s column was very disturbing as I was expecting the delivery of my granddaughter’s tortoise for its holiday (The tortoise has been plotting his escape for more than half a century, 17 May). She has had it since she was about six years old. I am 76 years old and now have a heavy responsibility to keep it enclosed and to provide shelter from the rain expected later in the week.
Stephanie Harrison
Bedford
• A white stripe on the back of an errant tortoise will certainly make it easier to spot. Better still is to paint its home postcode and house number, for easier return. Postage stamp optional.
Tim Gossling
Cambridge
• “I fought off a polar bear with a saucepan,” says the headline on Pen Hadow’s article (Experience, 16 May). But what was the polar bear doing with the saucepan in the first place?
Melanie van Niekerk
Alva, Clackmannanshire
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