I enjoy reading the recipes in the food section of the Lancashire Telegraph, but why aren’t there more vegan recipes?

By going vegan, an individual can help to end animal suffering, reduce their carbon footprint and boost their health.

What other diet has such overwhelmingly positive benefits?

Animal products are not essential for a healthy diet.

In fact, a large number of studies show that a balanced and varied 100% plant-based diet is ideal for optimum health and lowers the risk of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, some cancers and other diet-related illnesses.

If you care about animals, consider this: every year, millions of day-old male chicks are gassed or shredded alive, as they are deemed useless to the egg industry.

Male calves born to dairy cows are also considered ‘waste by-products’, so are shot a few days after birth. At the end of their short existence, all egg-laying hens and dairy cows end up at the slaughterhouse where their worn-out bodies go into cheap meat products.

D Brown, Blackburn.