Integrity of Irish food - Credibility cannot be put at risk

THERE are many, many issues surrounding food. For us, in a land of abundance, it has become one of society’s dividing lines, wavering between an ostentatious fashion statement and a sustenance issue.

In Ireland food has become primarily a concern of business, treated as a commodity, with consumer and environmental interests too often taking second place.

This imbalance grows the more we depend on industrialised and ambiguously labelled food.