Letter to the Editor: Fashionistas and vegans are biggest climate threat

The long-awaited Government Action Plan is remarkable not only for what it includes, but more especially for what it leaves out. It was easy to hit all the soft targets and the usual suspects. Targeting farmers and livestock might satisfy the trendy and the influential Dublin 4 Vegan and Fashionista Constituency for now, but at what cost?

An American vegan fake meat maker which has never made a profit was recently valued at €5bn! Vegans and fashionista cults are now leading us all down another plug-hole. But before we blindly follow them, we should check the real environmental costs of their slow foods and fast fashions.