Dear Editor,

As a long term student at GSU, I’ve come to enjoy the George-Anne before class on Tuesday and Thursday and still attempt to finish at least one cross word puzzle a week. However, the ever-encroaching liberal bias of the paper is becoming a difficulty to bear as I enjoy the non-news aspects of the paper.  Perhaps even more disconcerting, is the sheer naiveté of said liberal view as expressed in the paper.

Firstly, saying that Justin Bieber is more influential than the Canadian military is insulting. The Canadians are resolute and loyal allies of the United States and have steadfastly served alongside American forces in Afghanistan for 10 years. In fact, it was a Canadian sniper who achieved the longest ever recorded shot in military history, putting effective fire on a Taliban machine gunner half a mile away in support of American troops, an unheralded feat in military arms. This is on top of the glorious history of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division in the face of heavy resistance on Juno Beach during the Normandy Landings in World War II. This operation was pivotal in securing the flank of the Allied advance into Nazi Occupied Europe.

Furthermore, printing a letter comparing America’s consumption of dairy products and the American agricultural industry to wanton animal cruelty is just plain offensive, if not outright wrong. Cats are bred as pets. Dairy cattle are bred as dairy cattle. Encouraging a dog to fight other dogs or to assault a stray cat is of such a different order of magnitude than America’s dairy industry, it is hard to comprehend the comparison. And the view encouraged in the letter of a vegan and vegetarian diet fails to take into account the enormous demand for dairy products outside of human consumptions and the logistical problems of said diet. Also, agriculture accounts for one percent of America’s total GDP, eliminating dairy and beef from that would be disastrous. Stephen King once said that “country don’t mean dumb,” and by that same token “conservative doesn’t mean wrong.”

Mack Culverhouse

Senior

Political Science

Thomaston, Georgia