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Originally Posted by Cyfr

That is also exactly as I understood it. Thus it does reduce greenhouse gas if you use UHT milk.

UHT means Ultra Heat Treated so they save on refrigeration and spend more on treating the milk. Now I wonder how much energy it takes to heat milk at room temperature to 145 degrees C as opposed to cooling milk from room temperature to a few degrees above 0 C?

See http://www.dairyconsultant.co.uk/pages/UHT_Process.htm or http://www.howstuffworks.com/question147.htm

The instead of local milk going to local dairies it will have to go to UHT centres and there a precious few of them. Of course there are plenty in France. So there will be additional transportation costs there and back.

So where is the reduction in greenhouse gasses?

This is yet another example of the government interfering in our daily lives and putting yet another precedent nail in the citizen control coffin. Once they have enough nails embedded it will come to tranquillisers in the water to keep the mob quiet.

In years to come we, well you actually because I won’t be around then, will be wandering around in a mental fug doing exactly as the government of the day dictates from waking up to going to sleep. They might even find a way of controlling what you dream about.

Far fetched? Possibly! But big oaks from little acorns grow.