Campbeltown Courier - Letters to the Editor 21.2.25

Why is the NHS not developing its own bank workers in Kintyre and other rural areas instead of paying agencies exorbitant inflated prices? If private companies can do it, why not the NHS?

In addition, I think it is scandalous that after the community came together with funding to help the NHS develop the local kidney dialysis service, this has now been “paused”. 

What are the added costs to the NHS in travel and subsidy to other authorities, in addition to the emotional and financial costs and damage to patients, family and friends? 

Is it time for the senior NHS planners to manage responsibly and with compassion?

Andrew Hemmings, Sound of Kintyre.

Call for ban on laboratory-grown meat

I am writing to express my strong opposition to the introduction of laboratory-grown meat in the United Kingdom. 

This artificial product poses a serious threat to our traditional farming industry and raises alarming questions about food security and consumer health.

British farmers and crofters have worked tirelessly to uphold high standards of animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. Yet, their livelihoods are now at risk from corporate-backed synthetic alternatives designed to replace real meat with an inferior laboratory-manufactured substitute.

Not only does lab-grown meat undermine British agriculture, but its long-term effects on human health remain largely unknown. 

We should not allow multinational corporations to dictate our food supply while bypassing the time-tested traditions that have sustained our rural communities for centuries.

It is imperative that the UK Government bans laboratory-grown meat before it erodes our farming industry and hands control of food production to global interests. 

Real food comes from real farmers, not test tubes.

Councillor Alastair Redman, Kintyre and the Islands ward.