Reading a recent item on which foods are best for the environment, Stalker was encouraged that mushrooms did not get any negative connotations. Unlike meat and diary which the experts seem to be hitting heavily these days, as major producers of greenhouse gases in their production.
In another news report on the state of nature in Ireland, the expert in question was basically saying that the natural world around us is falling apart.
It isn’t even climate change that has caused the destruction of nature as yet, it’s other man-made intrusions.
Then according to others, we all should be ethically and environmentally vegan - as a committed omnivore Stalker doesn’t necessarily agree.
And even on the environmental front, whole swathes of Brazil rainforest have been felled in order to meet soya demand.
But it is an emotive subject and one that continues to challenge the 21st century consumer.
