The veal deal

FOR the past few years there has been a big mutton revival going on in Britain, championed by top chefs and the Prince of Wales.

Others, like Fergus Henderson of St John, have given offal a cult following. The most recent development was the veal campaign at the recent Organic Food Awards in Bristol.

This initiative should interest Irish dairy farmers and has potential for the bull calf industry. Intensively reared veal has long carried a stigma among chefs and diners because of the negative image of the system used to produce white veal. Chefs are now calling for high welfare veal to be more widely available.