I HAVE just read last week's Globe article on the farm at Bebington Sports College.

As an animal lover and campaigner for animal welfare I was pleased to see that the co-ordinator of this college course tells us he teaches young people "where our food is sourced, how it is grown and the care needed to ensure the animals have a good life before they end up on our plate."

Promoting good animal husbandry is, of course, the right and proper way to educate young people, however, has the school considered giving their students information to make an informed choice as to whether animals really do have to end up on our plate?

A healthy and cruelty-free lifestyle can be obtained by becoming vegetarian.

In the UK alone, more than two million land animals are slaughtered daily and almost 600,000 tonnes of fish are killed each year.

Seventy per cent of pigs reared in the UK are farmed intensively and factory farmed birds today grow three times as fast as they did 50 years ago.

Mrs Kathy Owen, Little Neston.