For the past four weeks I've been a vegetarian. I actually found it an easier lifestyle change to make than I thought it would be. I've only really been vegetarian (and fizzy drink and chocolate free) for four weeks to prove a point to myself and to others, but I must say the time has flown by. I think it's an admirable choice if people want to live their lives like that but - personally - I enjoy eating meat and am looking forward to eating meat again on Friday.

I do think that the conditions in which many farm animals are raised is cruel and I do think that more should be done to improve conditions, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't eat meat as a result of those things. I'm glad that there's been more of a media and governmental focus on these conditions in the past few years and I hope conditions will continue to improve at home and abroad. I do think that part of the reason why the cruelty is there in the first place is in order to keep prices down and I think if animals were raised with sufficient care and quality of living, then people would be upset about a possibly rise in the cost of meat, but that doesn't justify it.