GOING CLIMATARIAN

Over the summer holidays, sitting in our campsite at Hahei and reading about the Australian bush fires, we made a decision. I wouldn’t say it was a snap one – it’s been coming for a while – but the horror of the fires pushed us over the line: we’ve decided to become climatarians. In short, that means giving up meat, mostly, cutting back on dairy, and generally thinking about how far something has travelled or how much energy it took to make.

It’s not the first time. Last time I went vegetarian, it was for reasons of ethics and animal welfare. For most of my 20s, I didn’t eat meat, just at a time when I was learning to cook properly, as an adult responsible for feeding myself and, usually, a tonne of flatmates. We were pretty broke, apart from anything else, so meat was a luxury. Meat