Sunday, 26 January 2020

I am not a Plant!

There has been a flood of stories about a new enthusiasm for a whole range of exotic fungi for food preparation in the UK driven by a desire to develop 'plant-based foods' as alternatives to meat and seafood (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/25/vegan-veganism-exotic-mushrooms-shiitake-meat-substitute). I know it will be seen as hair-splitting but fungi are an entirely separate Kingdom of life from the plants. It would be more accurate to describe the new foods as being 'non-animal based'. If we are going to eat another Kingdom, we might as well be Biologically accurate.
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