'Cahoots with the devil'

It is also clear that not all people share Mr Charlesworth's viewpoint. For example, as part of our work we interviewed a lady from Herefordshire who said that she felt so strongly about the landscape impact of all the polytunnels that had been erected in her county she would buy strawberries from anywhere except Herefordshire.
All in all, the thing that came out most clearly from the responses was how strongly people held beliefs about food, and how quickly they became angry when I questioned those beliefs.
This has been an important lesson for me, and it was a point also noted by someone writing under the name of Foulopinion: "However, the best bit is all those annoyed who write in to complain - when a scientist says something you don't agree with, he is obviously in cahoots with the devil, or rather a big oil company in the words of this 21st Century religion."
Sometimes I wish I was in cahoots with the devil, and then maybe I wouldn't have to spend hot July days writing articles about local food!