I support my local farmer and get milk delivered to my doorstep, I hope he gets enough support to enable him to carry on.
It was only a couple of years ago that there was a brouhaha about the same subject and I seem to recall that supermarkets admitted they were in the wrong and commenced paying dairy farmers a more favourable price.
If we lose dairy farms we will be destroying the quality and quantity of our insect and bird life - in other words we will be breaking the links to our food chain. ...... "Grazing has additional
benefits as it supports traditional meadow management ... This means that a whole range of
wildlife moves into a
cowpat to set up home!
Don't buy milk from Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl or Londis, say dairy farmers | Money | The Guardian
Dairy farmers are telling consumers not to buy milk at
Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl or Londis – and think twice about Asda and the Co-operative – as the battle over prices spills on to the high street.
The row centres on the "farm gate" price paid to Britain's 14,500 dairy farmers, most of whom will, from 1 August, receive just 25p a litre for the milk they produce compared with around 30p before.