Letter to the Editor: Imagine a vegetarian agriculture minister

John Tierney says a vegetarian agriculture minister would be "a blast of clean air in a department infused with the pinguid aroma of animal death." Picture: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos

Radical politics in Ireland would really mean something if the new minister at the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine held a vegetarian or vegan dietary preference. An agriculture minister with a non-meat, dairy,
or animal byproducts lifestyle would be a blast of clean air in a department infused with the pinguid aroma of animal death.

Depending on the how the wind is blowing on any given day, the Department of Agriculture appears to be a branch office of a farming organisation or the industrial food production sector.