Shooting Times & Country

Eat game, fight climate change

The world is teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Temperatures are rising, entire nations are at risk of, quite literally, disappearing beneath the waves. Day by day, we watch on our televisions and out of our living-room windows as storms roll in, roads flood and buildings are destroyed.

The big issues are well known and well understood — fossil fuel consumption to generate power and to transport people and goods — but how we live our lives and how we eat plays a huge role, too. Daily, we are lectured to cut down meat consumption and eat more ‘plant-based foods’. But do the arguments stack up when it comes to game? How do game meats compare with vegetarian favourites

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