After my long blog on food here is a shorter one on milk.\u00a0 Last week a guy turned up on the doorstep telling me he was from a local dairy.\u00a0 His story was they were sick of being ripped off by the supermarkets and wanted to sell direct to the consumer.\u00a0 Would we like to commit to a trial?\u00a0 I was sympathetic and agreed.\u00a0 Later I had doubts.\u00a0 I usually as a point of principle never buy anything on the doorstep.\u00a0 The guy scrawled everything in a notebook and had no business card.\u00a0 However, I had agreed to buy 4 pints of milk once and not handed over any money in advance.\u00a0 I emailed the company and its genuine so we will give it ago.\u00a0 The food miles should be lower.\u00a0 A problem is we buy variable amounts of milk in any one week.\u00a0 We usually buy one bottle from the corner shop to top up and the milk we are being offered is more expensive than that from that source, although not by much.\u00a0 The supermarket milk is an order of magnitude cheaper than either of course.\u00a0 But as I posted earlier and as is covered in an article in today’s Observer newspaper (about all sorts of different foodstuffs) if we drive our farmers out of business we are going to be in trouble in a few years time as food prices really rocket due to the oil price and climate induced disaster.<\/p>\n
Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After my long blog on food here is a shorter one on milk.\u00a0 Last week a guy turned up on the doorstep telling me he was from a local dairy.\u00a0 His story was they were sick of being ripped off … Continue reading