Dissecting veganism [WFJ #66]

As the Vegan Fair arrives in Frome, a question arises as to whether plant-based diets have a positive role in environmental, rural, and public health contexts

I’ve never really analysed why, but for the past five years or so, the majority of my writing has been driven by the desire to understand and explore how, if at all, a ‘sustainable’ food-producing system can exist in which animals play a part.

This has taken me, figuratively speaking, to the Mendips, where Jen Hunter and Andy Wear are showing that, when …