THERE SEEMS to be no let-up in the amount of conflicting advice given by scientific research, the health service, pressure groups, environmentalists and climate change activists about how much – and, more specifically, what – we should be eating.
One recurring theme, which crosses several of these boundaries, concerns the amount of meat we eat every week and whether it is good for us or indeed good for the planet. The consensus is that some reduction in our average weekly meat intake would be beneficial to our health and that we should consider changing to at least one or two meat-free days in
