HOW is it that when anybody protests about something there's always an armchair critic ready to point at other injustices? I refer to North Shore businessman (Letters, May 2) who states that the zoo must be OK because television programmes have shown it and experts have said it's fine to have animals performing and in captivity. Then Mr X goes on to say that we should be opposing hunting instead. However, if Mr X's philosophy is correct, then hunting too is all right because experts have said so and television has glorified it. The message here is that we all need to think for ourselves and not take too seriously what so-called experts with vested interests tell us.

M Gavin, Ashfield Road, Bispham.