Bacteria are cousins too

IT WILL be interesting to see whether, in his next rant, Chris T-T explains whether he also disapproves of killing rodents and insects which consume grain stores. They're sentient creatures, after all.

Or whether his disapproval stretches to delousing - the lice are sentient creatures as well, ones which, in his words, "we happen to be unable to communicate with."

So far as Richard Dawkins is concerned, the problem for Chris T-T is that Dawkins demonstrates not only that trout are distant cousins but plants too - and even bacteria (see The Ancestor's Tale).

WILLIE THOMPSON
Sunderland