Letter: Agriculture and Anti-Asian violence
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: As a probationer member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV), my attention was drawn to your article 'Pin-up exposed: why Marky Mark is taking the rap' (10 May), in which this august association (the CAAV) is described as the 'Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence'.
With the proliferation of action groups and organisations, is there not a register of acronyms through which one can claim legitimate use of certain initials? If not, I wonder whether the CAAV referred to in your article can claim the use of their namesake's (worthy) motto 'Do what is right, come what may'?
Yours faithfully,
JAMES BRIDGLAND
Lewes,
East Sussex
11 May
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