Beyond Folly

The right side of history meets the right side of reality.

The Peasant Wedding — Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1567)

Please spare a thought for Douglas Ramsey, director of mystery ‘meat’ firm, Beyond Meat. Ramsey has endured a terrible week.

First came the incredible news that a species which owes its remarkable brain to eating meat has little interest in eating pretend, plant-based ‘meat.’ Second, poor famished Rams…