Pondering a post-Brexit fate

Sir, – I attended a lecture recently, titled Scotland the Brand, which was really about farming in Scotland and what will happen to farming after Brexit.

This could have been summed up in very few words – after Brexit, there will be no farming in Scotland within five years.

And the threat is not only to farmers.

Today in America, big companies will not take on full-time employees, since they don’t have to pay for medical care and other benefits for parttimers. If you take a job in Walmart you automatically qualify for food stamps. Who is in partnership with Walmart? Asda. And who wants to buy over Sainsbury’s? Asda/ Walmart?

It is not a big leap from there to what will happen after Brexit and a trade deal with America, giving American food companies an outlet for their chlorine-washed chicken, battery pigs, hens and eggs, steroid beef and cattle feed on GM maize.

And if you wish to see what such a diet will do to future generations and our NHS take a look at the average obese American.

No wonder May and her Brexiteers want out of the EU customs union – they don’t want to be tied up in EU food standards.

We must be vigilant, to prevent the conquest of ourselves, our minds, our humanity, our selfrespect. If we remain silent, victory over us is assured.

September 11 2001 was the catalyst to dismantle the American Bill of Human Rights, and trial by jury here in the UK. Brexit will further erode that by ending human rights through the European Court of Human Rights.

It’s time to get proactive. Devolved powers must return to Scotland from Europe after Brexit. Otherwise, we only have one option; we must take back those powers through Scottish independence.

Walter Hamilton. City Road,

St Andrews.