SIR – Mr [Jon] Burgess should check his facts before pontificating on this letters page ‘Aggressiveness is not the way forward’ (Worcester News, March 12).

VIVA, incorporating the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation, has recently been awarded charitable status, registration no 1037486.

If anyone is aggressively forcing their doctrine it is the meat industry, with its massive financial backing, and Mr Burgess, who displayed a touching faith in our posters’ power to turn Malvern vegan overnight by getting them removed.

Vegans on the other hand, with little financial backing, can only attempt to inform the public of the reality of animal farming.

We cannot force anyone to change their diet.

We have regulations to stop all sorts of abuse of humans but recent revelations show they don’t stop that either, so it’s extremely naive to believe that regulations are enough to stop animal abuse.

ROBERTA BALFOUR

Malvern