It’s highly disappointing to see so many remarks have been deleted associated with this article. It appears on the surface that free thinking individuals aren’t allowed to express their reasonable views even though some of them go against the widely held opinion here that animal rights is the be all and end all of the universe.

Is this forum becoming another nanny/police situation, where everyone has to be politically correct, which according to some is horrifying? Or is it that some of the editors have let some power go to their heads? Otherwise, have they been allowed to be dominated by the fear and paranoia of a small number of people or by a few that were distressed by what was written? Either way, the possibly of any of these scenarios is exceedingly terrifying!

I have been watching with interest as this forum unfolds and most of the comments that have been taken down were adult even though some were a bit critical and judgemental. The comments that included name calling, including dk, needed to go but the rest were OK. If anyone were upset over them I think they are overly sensitive and need to take a step back for a while to calm down. (Unfortunately I can’t seem to find the comments that were deleted at indymedia.org.nz/newswire/hidden/index.php or at similar internet page, so people can’t determine for themselves if they needed to be pulled or not.)

I hope that the editors here won’t be so overbearing and heavy-handed in the future. Also, they won’t go overboard in the censorship.