Letters to the editor

August 19 2017 - 4:25am
Koalas and many more treasures are still under threat because of the proposed Shenhua coal mine, says Susan Lyle.
Koalas and many more treasures are still under threat because of the proposed Shenhua coal mine, says Susan Lyle.

SUSTAINABLE BEEF HERD

IF THE back page article regarding increasing the beef herd by 10 million (“Can we add 10m beef cattle?”, The Land, August 3, p72) was not tongue in cheek, then the writer must be living in some age past, where sustainability was not a known and lucid aim. To use feedlotting to achieve that end would be an unmitigated environmental, social and probable economic disaster.

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