I notice that recently there has been higher awareness of the cruelty being inflicted on animals.

The cruelty suffered by the dog Star highlighted the problem.

I am not young and maybe my mind is getting confused, but are birds not animals?

If this is so, then doesn’t shooting and killing birds fall under cruelty to animals?

If my reasoning is right, then why do the associations campaigning against cruelty to animals not protest against hunting?

Why were so many people shocked at the cruelty meted out to Star and yet nobody says anything about the cruelty being inflicted on birds in Malta?

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