You know when things are getting serious – they make a logo for the news item.

This week I saw my first horse meat logo on TV and it officially means this saga will run and run.

In the coming months we can expect a big inquiry after which the big businesses that were serving us the stuff without doing the checks they should have been doing will walk away scot free.

We all know that in a few months further down the line we will still all queue up at these same big stores. Because that is what we do.

The whole saga got me thinking – do we have a little obsession with meat?

I go into some households and all they do is eat meat. If it isn’t lamb it is chicken. Maybe it is time we changed our diets for the better. I recollect as a kid only ever being served a chicken or lamb dish once a week.

It was a special thing to have meat and the rest of week we had an array of vegetarian dishes. I don’t think it was about saving money but more that our mother realised it was good to have a balanced diet.

Okay, I think she also budgeted better than anyone else I have ever known.

The problem is now, it doesn’t matter where I go rarely will anyone ever order a vegetarian dish.

In the Asian community there is a huge expectation to serve meat at almost every dinner or outing. I think this has much to do with showing people that you are serving only the very best food.

I was in conversation with a gentleman the other day and he told me how he had to have a meat dish every day. He hadn’t had a vegetarian curry for years.

His wife cooked him chicken, lamb or beef and if he visited anyone’s house he simply didn’t touch vegetarian dishes.

Sometimes he was known to have told the host he was ashamed there was no meat dish in front him.

Maybe it is time we stopped eating meat altogether. Potatoes, cauliflower, spinach and lentils. You utter those words in some my friend’s homes and they think you are being offensive.