IT is so sad that, in this day and age, certain members of the general public are driven by this compulsion to knock the pigeon.

Get your priorities right. Are there not many more important issues that require our attention and concentration, which are a danger to mankind, than the feeding of pigeons?

On the risk to public health, I am not aware of any cases of death directly associated to the pigeon or the rat, and do not forget that the rat was here first, and that the human animal has invaded his territory.

I am aware, however, that there are hundreds, and perhaps even thousands of people who have gone into hospital only for their eventual demise to be directly associated to a man-made disease.

As an experienced health and safety officer of long standing, I question much of the present legislation as being unnecessary and over the top.

We are already destroying nature at an alarming rate, which is unforgivable, and should be the main focus of our existence in a future world.

Live and let live, do not knock the pigeon.

Arnold Harrison, Manchester Road West, Little Hulton