I hadn’t either until I was asked to speak at a regional WAPF conference here in Co Limerick in 2015.

There was a big fuss on RTÉ’s Prime Time recently when An Taisce’s Green Schools Programme with support from the National Climate Change Action and Awareness Programme recommended schools implement ‘Meatless Mondays’ and encourage children to eat less meat and dairy.

Surely people know by now that pure natural butter is good for us and that other edible ‘food like substances’ predominately made in laboratories are most definitely not, writes Darina Allen