Sir, - I was appalled when I learnt about the making of pate de foie gras (Magazine, December 9th). To treat ducks like this is very cruel and I think that it should stop. Ducks have a right to live without being treated cruelly. If everybody refused to buy this pate it would not be made. And ducks would have a much happier life. - Yours, etc.,
Clare Gleeson Eavan Gleeson (Aged 10), Kincora Park, Clontarf, Dublin 3.