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David Levy – What has been going on Behind Closed Doors? – Oct 21

If like me you wake early and share breakfast space with Radio Four, you will have heard that many global things have been happening.

One of them has been about the melt down in global shipping, with ports relatively stagnant and the price of container shipping having increased from roughly £800 a container to currently £4,000 per container.

Reasons given were that COVID caused this state of affairs, but is this the true reason given that we have lived with these outcomes for nearly two years already?

I think not.

I believe that global leaders, behind very secure closed doors, have used the present opportunity to tackle global warming and our carbon footprint by axing cheap transport by sea and raising prices so that the economics are reformulated.

We know that all countries have to pay the tariff of global warming, and that means things do have to change.   Global consumption of resources will be one such target that appears logical and an easy fix.

The benefits are less polluting engines at sea, less congestion, and the brake on consumer consumption is already happening — empty shelves, shortages and transport driver shortfall.   All these factors, along with Brexit, go to impact on our consumer expectations.

Already we are becoming used to less choice, and I for one have taken the time to review what I need on a weekly basis.

When I was growing up we only had a meat joint once a week and left-overs played a greater role in our family budget.   We had more meals where the protein was not meat and we were healthier for it.

I believe we should take this opportunity to campaign for the eradication of factory farms for chicken, eggs and pork and move back to a healthier way of animal husbandry with family farmed produce rather than the cheap mass produced products aimed at the supermarkets.

The onus falls on us the consumer to fit in with current trends, and to recreate our shopping habits where animals and humans benefit from healthier choices.

What say you?