The Real Price of Milk

Not a very handy representation I understand, I knicked the idea from Royal Association of Brittish Dairy Farmers' Facebbook page.

But what I'm trying to highlight is the HUGE injustice currently affecting British dairy farmers.

To make a litre of milk, it costs the farmer about 29p.
The farmer is paid about 27p for his litre of milk.
A litre of milk costs you and I about 75p.

Now of course, there is cost in processing and transporting it....but where does all the money go? Not into the hardworking dairy farmers pocket....that's for sure. And if the milk processors cut the price of milk by 2p per litre....the dairy industry will well and truely be on their knees.

Yesterday at Westminster, in front of 2,500 dairy farmers, Jim Paice (DEFRA Minister for Farming) suggested that dairy farmers should look more to reducing their production costs. Dairy farmers have been forced to do this for the last 28 odd years, since milk quotas started. And from where I see it, the only way they could furter reduce costs is to (further) compromise cow welfare. And it will be dairy cows who will pay the real price of milk.

So please sign the petition campagning for a fairer milk price.

EDIT:: another little point....the more expensive Organic milk does not necessarily mean the farmer is making any more per litre, and it certainly does not always mean that the cows are high welfare.