Reopen local abattoirs

One of the assumptions of modern life is that there will always be something in the supermarket freezer.

However, events of recent weeks have introduced a degree of mystery into that simple idea — what exactly is in the freezer?

As our globalised world becomes ever more dependent on industrial food production it is likely that this question will become more and more pressing. How, after all, can the populations of the world’s huge cities — Tokyo is home to 45m people — be fed without vast industrial and technological food processing?