Thursday 19 July 2012

The UK dairy crisis

As I believe I've previously mentioned, we get our milk from the milkman in order to try and do the best ethical thing. But it seems harder and harder to do the right thing when it comes to big businesses.

Recently the UK dairy industry has begun to implode. Supermarkets and milk processors are squeezing farmers to the point where it costs farmers more to produce milk than they get when they sell it. It's ultimately unsustainable, but no-one seems to know what to do.

I wrote an article on Storify (the best way to put together stories from multiple online sources imho) about my experiences and ethical agonies in this. Please give it a read at http://bit.ly/MooIUfl (hee hee, moo).

Our dairy industry needs YOU!


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