David Levy – Joint Experience – May 21

What I have found to be true is that an issue shared is an issue solved.

Times that by more effort, and even a reluctant council or government can be persuaded to move from their blanket support for industry to understanding the concerns of their electorate.

I would go further and say that this thinking can help to maintain their political life rather than leaving a millstone around a community for decades.

This should be a fitting epitaph for anybody.

Marinet has tried to share issues with other parties, but we always seem to falter when we stand firm on what we see as the issues that need addressing.

The opportunities for change are few and far apart, and when we have what we call a winner we are still surprised how other organisations stick to their plan for petitions and other nebulous actions rather than support a change in law.

So this leaves Marinet having to gain the support from party politicians, rather than from other environmental organisations which would normally be considered as our natural allies.

Believe me when I say to you: you can trust these characters no further than you can throw them.   Only then do you have the measure of them.   From our experience, politicians like Dr. Andrew Murrison MP and Katy Clark MP are truly rare.   They stand up for their constituents or for what they see as being right, and even buck their own parties for these principles.

We need more politicians like this, and quickly too.   I say this because too many decisions are being made where our way of life is being changed for the worse.

Most people will not know this but cheap chicken and ready available pork for the supermarket is only available at the cost of the small farmer being gobbled up by factory farms.   Be aware, this is the price.   Factory produced products, as well as our eventual health, will be changed by the conditions that animals are being kept in and by the antibiotics that they are force fed.

Already diseases are finding ways to be anti-biotic resistant.   We upset the balance in our bodies at our own risk.

I find that I have a greater understanding of the people who are standing up for the small scale farmer like the Bio-Dynamic Association and Farms Not Factories, and I would encourage those of you who can afford it to do the same.

I wish I had done so earlier in my life.

David Levy