Thank you very much indeed for writing to me on 12th February
regarding your campaign for a vegetarian diet for Lent.
For a couple of years of my own life our family here were vegetarian
for a number of reasons, not least because of the expense of meat
products. However, we are now meat eaters once again although we could
not say that we eat a great deal of meat.
At Lent I think it is helpful to reduce one's diet if, like the
majority of the British population, we are actually eating more than is
good for the human body.
However, I would want to leave it up to each and every individual to
decide how they might wish to do that during the Lenten period, but I am
nevertheless grateful to you for bringing to the attention of Christians
the option for a balanced vegetarian diet if they believe that that
would be of help to others and to themselves.
With very best wishes,
Yours sincerely
(13/2/03)
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