Never be in fear of farming products

Sir — I feel The Lancet and vegan daftness have gone too far and they seem to be only interested in grabbing headlines. Dairy and farm produce have been healthy, safeto-eat products for consumers every day for thousands of years. As farmers, animal and environment welfare is our business. It is in all our interests to save the planet, so the carbon offsetting approach is the only way to go.

By this I mean any carbon dioxide we produce should work with tech systems devised to save energy that would otherwise have used carbon products to generate that energy. Now ask what The Lancet and vegans are doing to protect our planet beside blowing hot air?

Are they doing any carbon offsetting in their own lives? We can all make this world a better place and people must be fed nourishing food to regenerate their bodies to cope with loss of energy. Their sensational headlines will only fuel eating disorders which are already at historic levels among young people.

I believe that the growth in young people suffering from anorexia and bulimia isn’t an accident, and is been driven by false or misleading information being peddled by people with a different agenda promoting their own products or name — often by fear tactics.

My proof to young people of the quality of food produced on the farm is that they need never be in fear of farming produce because their parents and grandparents eat these products every day and have lived a long and healthy life. I rest my case.

Michael Flynn, Carrick-on-Suir,

Co Waterford