I AM a vegetarian, so don't know the difference between eating a piece of steak without the bone and the same piece of steak with the bone.

Possibly, Coun D Pearson (Letters, December 29) could tell me.

His party, when in government, chose to gamble with people's lives by denying that it was possible for BSE to affect human health.

When it did eventually admit it was wrong, it did so in such a way that it virtually destroyed the English beef trade.

This Government may well be erring on the side of caution, but at least it has the courage to put people's health first, no matter how unpopular its action may be.

Possibly, Coun Pearson would prefer them to take the same cavalier attitude that his party did.

G SMITH, Bold Street, Blackburn.

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