No fun in deer stalking

Angus MacMillan (Letters, 13 October) again uses the notion of greed as a smokescreen for his fixation that shooting deer is "fun". I would suggest that anyone who uses the word "fun" to describe this activity knows very little about it. Stalking is a serious and arduous activity that results in the humane death of a large animal and a freezer full of venison.

Whether Mr MacMillan prefers his meat to come from a supermarket shelf or a butcher is not my business, yet he clearly feels untroubled by dictating upon the means of how I source the meat that I put on my table.

I suppose deer could be considered a victim, but only very loosely and in the context that it lies beneath us in the food chain. This is hardly the same as condemning a large population of deer to suffer death by natural means, ie starvation, as Mr MacMillan originally suggested, purely because the idea of deer stalking offends his sensibilities.

WER BROWN

Marykirk

Kincardineshire