As a meat-eater, I agree with Kerry McCarthy that eating meat is like smoking - and should be treated as such

I am a meat eater, and it does not take me more than a minute to realise that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy is right: meat-eating should be treated like smoking. That doesn’t mean I am going to give up all meat – far from it. But it does mean that I’m able to wade through the mire of ‘militant vegan’ smears suggesting that McCarthy is unable to do her job because of her nutritional choices, and understand that Corbyn’s appointment was actually very astute.