The march of violence-free food onto our supermarket shelves continues apace.

How do you make a profit from selling vegetables or nuts? Pretend they are animals.

For anyone with a reasonable, disposable income there are few fundamentals of life more influenced by the whims of fashion than food and diet.

People are being urged to go vegetarian two days a week as part of new health guidelines.

The words of the French poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo, “there is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come”, are not something you call to mind when doing the weekly grocery shop.

Valerie O’Connor has spent the last six months on a whole-food, plant-based diet but finds that eating in restaurants now has become really boring — though tasty options are straightforward with a bit of imagination.    

Valerie O’Connor enthuses on the many advantages of having your own herb garden, be it little or large.

Cork may soon have its own vegan bakery on George’s Quay after a local baking entrepreneur set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to fit out a unit in the city centre.

Should my kids eat meat or not? As more people choose not to eat meat for moral and environmental reasons, more parents are deciding to rear their children as vegetarians. We hear from two ‘veggie’ mums — one didn’t feed her young children meat and another who decided the choice was theirs

Vegan diets, once considered extreme, are becoming more mainstream, but the jury is out on health benefits, says Sharon Ní Chonchuir.

“I don’t like that they chop animal-people up”.