The Milk Crisis : Cows dragged into a store
 

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No need to March 2 Cows
down My AsdaWalmart.

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The Supermarkets say they pay more to Farmer
and take the Cut in price , themselves.
We need Facts and Numbers

In any case I do not care if the Price Goes Up
I want my milk for Top Notch Kenya Tea.

I'm with the farmers on this one. They asked a very fair question: how come supermarkets charge more for some bottles of water than they do for four pints of milk?

I would gladly pay a bit more for milk to support British dairy farms because when they're gone, they're gone for good.

Calf food.

Milk is far too cheap.
I reckon another 50p on a 4 pint bottle would go some way to helping.
I am hoping all milk in our supermarkets is British.

I don't like seeing the cows taken through the stores,but,I do have empathy for the farmers,I'de pay more for milk.

Me To Kaz

Yeah, I would have no objection to paying more for milk at all.

walking past the cold shelves like that..

they must be Friesian

I'd happily pay 4x as much for milk...

Well, I'd happily take 4x as much from work to buy milk and put through as staff expenses and then take a little bottle of it home with me for coffee.

It's for the farmers, innit!

In all seriousness though, I buy the 2 litre containers of milk for £1 for home because it seems like the best value for money, and then 1.5 litres of it ends up going out of date and getting poured down the drain... which is quite awful, I suppose. It only gets used for coffee. So really, I could (and probably should) pay the same £1 for a small 500ml bottle and not actually notice any difference.

We go through it like water at work but, as I said above, that's not out of my pocket so... :shrug: :hehe:

LOL... then groan... then LOL again.

i don't see what selling water has to do with selling milk.

maybe the answer is that the dairy farmers are already getting subsidies from the government to keep the price affordable, but the companies that sell bottled water are not receiving any subsidies from the government?

no one needs to buy bottled water, it is a luxury, so of course they can charge whatever they like.... but milk is part of what we consider a food staple, so of course the government wants to make it as affordable as possible for the common man.

no one needs bottled water, it comes out of taps all over the country for free. milk is a nutritious commodity that all britons should have access to for an affordable price though.

are we really criticizing the government for making milk more affordable for poor people???

This. 100%

There was a protest at our Morrisons, but I missed it, unfortunately.

because bottled water is a luxury and milk is part of the basic british diet. so obviously a luxury should cost more...

any facts and figures?

I support the farmers. I would pay a wee bit extra for it to keep them in business. We go through approximately 4 x 2L bottles per week, costing us 4 x 89p (£3.56) per week. It wouldn't kill my budget or anyone else's if the milk cost me an extra quid a week.

well maybe they should set up[ a tip jar at the cash register for people like you to donate to the dairy farmers then. but don't ruin it for all the struggling people who need to buy basic groceries to feed their families. some struggling families would like to give their children a glass of milk every morning with breakfast.

They shouldn't have to pay more than they can afford just because you romanticize farms (and trust me if you saw the reality of those dairy farms you would be boycotting them) The cattle on those farms are kept in tiny pathetic cages and milked dry, milk that was designed for baby calfs (by the way, those baby calfs get shipped off to another part of the farm to either be raised for beef, or some other horrible fate)

I do see the reality of them. I'm not romanticising anything. I live in the countryside.

Cecil the Lion...

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Milk is cheap, not sure about the cows going in...

Justice for milk

when i go shopping - i have seen plenty of moody cows.

i'm reading this to the beat and melody of iggy azealia's "fancy".

because poetry!

omg :joker:

lmao