I was reared on meat and not just in a dietary sense but economically too. Still, I’ve been very slow to make any dietary changes, largely because of the detrimental impact a contracting meat and dairy industry would have on rural Ireland. Spending six weeks without meat won’t be an easy task for me – I was brought up to recognise dinner as being something that had to have meat or fish in it. The food was delicious and filling and threatened to change my mindset around meat if I let it. – This is the first in a new weekly column by Niamh Towey about cutting meat from her diet.

Source: The Irish Times January 06, 2020 06:00 UTC