'Today the world produces enough cereals to provide everyone with almost 3,000 calories and 65 grams of vegetable protein daily. But a third of these cereals goes to feed the cows, pigs and chickens of the rich nations.

'Several million tonnes of oil cakes - mostly soyabeans and peanuts - which are fit for human consumption go into animal feed. Thus in the fields of the Third World, soyabeans are ousting black beans, the poor man's protein... Even wheat, rice and maize are becoming 'cash crops' as they are being grown for animal feed abroad.'
- Reprinted from The Guardian (25/6/82)

Meat industry worried

'Between 5% and 10% of the population of the UK are now vegetarians. Don't be misled by the welfarists. They are not all cranks, they are well-lead.'
- Professor Peter Wilson at the Poultry Industry Conference, November 1983

'A disturbing feature is the extent to which vegetarian dishes are now appearing on menus in the catering sector, particularly in schools.'
- Jim Munday, director of the Meat Promotions Executive (Farmers Weekly, 25.11.84)

'The acceptability of meat among the young is not as high as it should be.'
- Farmers Weekly, 13 April 1984, discussing the Meat Promotions Executive multi-million pound campaign to counter a growing move by young people away from meat eating.

Necessity the mother of invention

On a pre-Christmas raid at a Merseyside turkey farm ALF members entered the farm, one dressed as Father Christmas - and carried the birds away in a sack.

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