Health benefits of a plant-based diet

14 January 2006

Apart from the health benefits of a plant- based diet vegetarian and vegan diet (Super Green Me, January 7), the ecological  and environmental benefits are great, too. Some 55 billion animals are raised and killed for meat every year. Our planet is simply not big enough to sustain these numbers. The result is destruction of rainforests, spreading of deserts and massive methane gas emissions. The amount of grains fed to these animals could feed almost 4 billion people. To safeguard the planet for future generations, a return to vegetarian and vegan diet is imperative.

Nitin Mehta
Croydon