24 January

So many animal rights activists are so incredibly angry. When you’re young you sometimes feel that sort of righteous anger, it’s healthy, but then you’re supposed to grow out of it. This anger does damage I think. For example many people are now converging on one super-important idea. That the landscapes we live in need animals, plants and people, to survive. Herded animals, hunted animals. The extreme vegan view that we’d all be better off eating nothing but plants would decimate the world’s landscapes. Even plants eat meat, they need phosphorus. The only workable source of that ‘naturally’ is - blood and bone.