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Our choices as consumers have huge potential to contribute to climate change, from the food we buy and the clothes we wear to how we fit out and maintain our homes.  As a general rule, locally sourced and ethically traded goods are most likely to have a lower environmental impact than mass produced alternatives and choosing pre-loved or second-hand items plays a vital part in creating a low carbon circular economy that we need to protect the planet.

In recent times we have started eating substances constructed from novel molecules and using processes never previously encountered in our evolutionary history – ‘modified starches, invert sugars, hydrolysed protein isolates and seed oils that have been refined, bleached, deodorised, hydrogenated and interesterified.’ What Tulleken points out is that the human body has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to select from and eat what is available in their environment and our bodies are marvellously adapted to this.