Chewing over butcher piece

Charles Perry’s article on full-service butchers (“The Butchers Are Back,” May 18) prompted several readers in L.A. and Orange counties to write in and say how glad they were to have one in their neighborhood. But one reader had a different take.

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At the current rate of our population growth, we will need to rethink our eating habits.

For instance, there is already a limited amount of grain the earth can produce, and that grain is being consumed by cattle. If humans were to eat the grain instead of the cattle, we would be a lot more efficient.

Then your article declaring, “The Butchers Are Back.” Boy, if ever there was a reason not to “keep up with The Times.”

E. Joy Oakes

Los Angeles