Free vegan offer for Mattie McGrath

Vegan Ireland, the Vegan Society of Ireland, are tempted to ask what planet is Mattie McGrath living on.

In a recent outburst in the Dáil, and in the very week when Nasa announced that astronauts on their Mars mission would be living on a vegan diet, Deputy McGrath asked whether we would have to become cannibals if we cannot kill and eat animals. He asked this ridiculous question during a speech on the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2012 on Jul 18 in which he appealed for reasoned debate.

Deputy McGrath is in danger of sounding completely out-of-touch. He studied horticulture in Kildalton College, so it is certain that he knows a good deal about the production of vegetables and fruit. What seems uncertain is whether he’s heard of vegans or vegetarians, the former of which eat a wholly plant-based diet.