Those who live in England will surely know of Delia Smith, who has pleased us with her cooking tips and books for thousands of years. Speaking not so recently, she wisely claimed :

If the entire planet became vegan, we’d die. It’s not practical. We wouldn’t be able to feed ourselves; you can’t grow vegetables in hilly country. My relatives come from Wales and you struggle to grow vegetables there, but the lamb is wonderful.

Our dear Delia obviously has no knowledge of land requirements, or indeed land structure outside Wales, for a vegan against a meat-eating diet. She would, presumably, prefer the “alleged” cutting down of rain forests for our ever growing need to satiate “protein” intake.

I have no problem with points of view. What annoys me is someone who professes to be knowledgeable in an area shows how stupid that person is. Another example, taken from her site :

On Junk Food : I’m one of those people who don’t believe there’s any such thing as unhealthy food. No recipes on their own can be unhealthy, if the rest of the diet is balanced.

Well, take a look in a dictionary once and a while and you’ll see junk food described as having little or no nutritional value, but with high sugar content.

Delia, you are a fool.

N.B. I do actually understand the point that Delia made about junk food, and agree with her. I just got a bit bothered by her first quote and wanted to continue a good old-fashioned defamation. Needed pedantry to do it, though.