Question: What is your favourite food?

Emma Markham answered on 8 Jun 2019:

Good question! Food is so personal and important to people, providing happy memories of family dinners together or special celebrations. It it not just nutrients but linked to culture and tradition, and describes who you are as a person.

For me, I really love lamb, but I’m also aware that eating meat has an impact on the environment and meat production creates greenhouse gases. Some of the work I currently do involves supporting farmers to make meat production more sustainable and improve animal welfare, but I also aim to adjust my diet to be more sustainable and eat less meat and more seeds and nuts. I don’t think I will become a vegetarian but I want to cut down and only eat meat as a treat. I have recently discovered a vegetarian fake crispy duck which I love and honestly can’t tell the difference, and I think that’s the way a lot of the food industry is going, creating new innovative foods from plants which can replace meat to be more sustainable for the planet and environment.