ANIMAL CULLS ARE 'TURNING PEOPLE VEGETARIAN'

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ANIMAL CULLS ARE 'TURNING PEOPLE VEGETARIAN'

 

People have been so traumatised by the mass culls of animals they are

becoming vegetarian.

 

The Vegetarian Society has been inundated by calls from people who

have found the foot-and-mouth outbreak " the final straw " .

 

Call numbers have doubled in the past two months as people ask for

advice about a vegetarian diet, a society spokeswoman says.

 

Thousands of people, ranging from children to a woman in her 80s,

have been in touch.

 

" We have been very busy with calls, up 100% in March compared to

January's figures from members of the public, " the spokeswoman said.

 

" It is mainly people who have made the decision to become vegetarian

on the back of the foot-and-mouth crisis. People have seen the images

of animals being killed, thrown around, left dead on farms and put on

to fires.

 

" Other people just have a longer feeling of distrust with meat, " she

added.

 

Some calls were from parents whose children have been so upset by the

images that they had asked to stop eating meat.

 

" We had a call from a woman in her 80s from Jersey who had become a

veggie. Having seen and heard all about this she decided she could

never eat meat again, " the spokeswoman said.

 

The society's statement came as members of campaign group Viva are

set to dress in lamb costumes outside Liverpool Street railway

station in London and unfold a giant banner saying: " If

killing 'healthy' lambs upsets you - don't eat them " .

 

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