Milk Price war

BUCK

If you have a farm foods near you they sell 4 Pints whole milk semi skimmed
and skimmed for 85p or you can buy Two for £1.50

DjSatansfury

Asda is selling 4 pints of Cravendale for 98p. Imo it tastes nicer than "normal" milk (as its filtered) and it usually has a expiry of at least a few weeks on it.

LEE69_2

Two small local shops,one a newsagent/post office and the other a convenience store both sell 4 pints of milk for 75p

thetope

my local butcher sells 2 litres for 79p. i like to think the milk comes from happier cows than tesco milk. it's most likely not the case!

sundin13

I've moved back to buying from my milkman because I can't bear to think about the amount of plastics going into landfill just because of my family's four pints a day habit.

Sorry to sound like an old hippie, but our generation's obsession with plastic wrapping everything has got to stop sometime, before the whole country becomes a filthy rubbish dump. Don't believe me? Go for a walk along a beach and see how much plastic cr*p is washing in on the tide. Go to a football pitch in your local park and see how there's dozens and dozens of plastic bottles strewn everywhere. Look at your own kitchen bin and see how much of the stuff in there is plastic, which will never, ever biodegrade - just sit in some landfill somewhere, or get incinerated to poison the atmosphere further. :mad:

I hate to rant, but plastic milk jugs and bottled water are my pet hates at the moment. Milk should come in glass bottles, water should come from taps.

End of sermon :silenced:

TOBRUK

I've moved back to buying from my milkman because I can't bear to think about the amount of plastics going into landfill just because of my family's four pints a day habit.

So pleased there are people who care for the next generations, and people should teach their children about these issues as it will become a habit and second nature for them to recycle and care for the environment - THEIR future environment.

I won't preach to parents - I don't have children myself, but it worries me of the don't care attitude of some adults towards recycling who have children - what hope is there when the children grow up and have the same attitude!

In our area plastic containers like milk cartons ARE collected for recycling, however as I said in my previous post, I have my milk in a glass bottle delivered by the milkman. I can save money other ways rather than destroy the future of our farmers and home producers, not to mention peoples jobs who rely on them.

deanos

I agree i wouldnt mind paying more for milk if the farmers get a fair deal, the price war means more suffering for the animals as they try and get more milk out of the same cows, buy orgainc milk if you can at least the cows roam the fields in the day not stood in concrete sheds all day trotting around in there own poop there was a documentary about this about 2 months ago on C4.

sarahluv

thetope wrote:

my local butcher sells 2 litres for 79p. i like to think the milk comes from happier cows than tesco milk. it's most likely not the case!

it's probably the same cows.

also if you buy from a local dairy they will be paying the farmers the same (or less!) than the supermarkets do.

sarahluv

deanos wrote:

I agree i wouldnt mind paying more for milk if the farmers get a fair deal, the price war means more suffering for the animals as they try and get more milk out of the same cows, buy orgainc milk if you can at least the cows roam the fields in the day not stood in concrete sheds all day trotting around in there own poop there was a documentary about this about 2 months ago on C4.

many non organic cows also go outside. organic cows will be brought in for parts of the winter too, especially when it's been so wet that they would sink in the fields.

deanos

Yes i understand that but many of the non organic ones are in sheds all year round