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Diet Drama

“AFTER READING THE HEADLINE, I EXPECTED TO FIND PROFILES ON ETHICAL PRODUCERS...”

THE BORING TRUTH

I wonder if North & South would consider a follow-up article to December’s In Defence of Meat and Dairy, which would highlight how recognition of the high nutritional value of meat and dairy products is in no way incompatible with recommendations to reduce meat and dairy consumption. Such an article could help us to go beyond the superficial and adversarial “for and against”, “all or nothing”, “either/or” frame in which these conversations about nutrition so often take place (and that your article claims to take issue with).

The title might be something like “In defence of a balanced and global approach to food and nutrition”. Cover catchphrases might include “The boring truth – why healthy eating is influenced by a large number of factors including food supply, culture, environment, media, industry, government, genetics and behaviour” and “Stop the hunt for the superfood: how humans across the world evolved eating a diverse range of foods, for better and worse”.

LAURA SKEAFF, GISBORNE LETTER OF THE MONTH

IN DEFENCE OF ANIMALS

I get my vegetables delivered, but I wasn’t expecting a hunk of raw meat to turn up on my doorstep in the form of your latest cover story, . Still, it piqued this vegetarian’s interest, and I looked forward to reading a robust defence against the usual charges that the meat and dairy industries create pollution, emit carbon and

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