I imagine a huge number of people will turn vegetarian or vegan to avoid unlabelled meat.
There are a number of people who won’t be able to do this and will find out after attempting the change as quite a number of people don’t get enough iron etc. from a vegetarian diet. However, I do share your hope there will be ways of working together and getting through it. My disappointment is that we have to in the first place, but local produce, self sufficiency etc may be on the up. It depends though, as we’re working towards self sufficiency as far as we can and it’s enjoyable, but a lot of hard work. I do agree the next few months don’t look like fun.
I think one issue was barely a majority who did vote and a huge majority voted with little understanding. There was a lot of racism in the Leave campaign which goes mostly unmentioned and Cambridge Analytica was consulted and used in the early stages of the referendum by the Leave campaign. Neither of those things make me comfortable with the vote outcome. Remember the Nazi inspired propaganda poster by Farage titled ‘breaking point’? Not something that should be influencing a referendum in any way, shape or form.
I’m also concerned about medication, including some psychiatric medication which could be hard to get. Delays in that could cause relapses and significant trauma to the person and their family, it also isn’t easily swapped to something else as often these are complicated drugs with serious side effects. I believe lurasidone for schizophrenia is one of those that could be affected, but there’s a big list of medications and companies that will be at risk of shortages including pain medications, dialysis products, insulin, possibly some cancer treatments etc. That really concerns me.
Also it directly takes away from our children’s lives, which is a shame. They won’t have the same ease of travel (inc loss of pet passport scheme brought in when I was a child), they are at risk of having poor diets if this US food gets onto the shelves and increased health problems, they will have less ease of working abroad or employing those from the EU when they grow up, they’ll have a science sector that’s negatively affected, local areas that have lost EU funding, they may have to initially deal with higher food prices and higher child poverty levels (and they’re high now) as well as potential medicine shortages which they won’t fully understand. We can’t be definite on everything it means, but we can be sure it won’t be an improvement and there are plenty of negatives. I screamed on the street, took my ds to protests, tried to teach him why this is happening and why it’s a shame. We didn’t get properly listened to, but we haven’t given up. Hopefully our children’s generations can change this as we move forward, but it’ll be a big fight and with less benefits than befell our generations.