SIR - March is Veggie Month, a time to celebrate the vegetarian diet, which is not only ethical but healthy and easy too.

In the UK alone, almost 1,000 million animals are slaughtered for food every year. Most will have been raised in factory farms in crowded, filthy, disease-ridden conditions, before meeting a brutal end in a slaughterhouse. Such conditions have led to a spate of disease outbreaks, including BSE.

If you would like to turn over a new leaf and order a free Veggie pack, call 1732 354032 or online at www.animalaid.org.uk

KELLY SLADE,

Animal Aid, Tonbridge, Kent.