Joris Minne heads to a special dinner at Laurelbank Farm in Saintfield White bean mash The politics of food and its impact on our mental and physical health cannot be underestimated. Everywhere you turn there are warnings and alerts about ultra processed foods and what they are doing to us, survey results which show that butter is good and bad for you, that red meat, red wine and red velvet cake are killing the planet and our livers. There is also a growing awareness and consequent distrust of big food business and the tight grip it has, particularly on budget breakfast cereals and the like.
Not just that but the legislation that allows rivers and lakes to be destroyed by leaching fertilisers, pesticides and other permitted chemicals used by farms have now become intolerable..