Experts have made a case that in the event of the End of Days, it would be important for such dietary needs to be taken into consideration. “In psychological shock, they need to have things they are familiar with and comfortable with,” said Professor Tim Lang of the Centre for Food Policy at City, St George’s, University of London. “They [the population] have just experienced new things – explosions, energy outages – and you don’t want… vegetarians and vegans to have to eat meat.”
But you know what, Professor Lang is absolutely right.
Pop culture is terrific at creating visceral scenes of desperate people driven to eat all sorts as society breaks down: dogs (High Rise); turtles, possums and rattlesnakes (The Walking Dead); and Bonnie Langford (that weird episode of Doctor Who based on High Rise).
In the UK of 2025, we have more or less forgotten what real hunger is like, and we have not had to endure a food supply catastrophe. Hopefully, we never will, and the KFC crisis of 2018, when people bombarded police phone lines in response to local stores running out of stock, will remain the worst it gets.
Perhaps it’s that cliche: “How do you know someone is a vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you”. But even this needs some interrogation. I believe it’s true in most cases, but what is rarely thought about is why it’s true. And I think, cheeringly, it’s tied to Britishness.
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I find this sort of thing fascinating. I remember reading once that even George Orwell – who once wrote that “we are more or less subject to this lunacy of believing that whole races or nations are mysteriously good or mysteriously evil” – conceded that some stereotypes are true, and that, for example, Italians could not have a conversation without using their hands. But why should that be the case?
Which brings us back to the post-apocalyptic vegan, and why it is quite right that they are provided for. Because, what is it that distinguishes us from the animals we use and consume? Our choices.
However savage and bleak things get, being able to maintain our ability to choose what we put into our stomachs is fundamental. No longer giving a vegan a chance to remain so would strip them of something that is essential to them at a time when that would be more important to them than ever.
So I’m going to stick up for my more hardcore animal lovers. Let’s try and make sure there is a bit of tofu put aside for the end times. Making provision would allow people to still have the choice to be who they are, and in so doing, to remain human.
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