‘I’m losing £1,800 a day’: the stark reality for Britain’s dairy farmers

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• climbing_caker@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then stop producing milk and grow produce. There are plenty of plants that grow within the UK’s climate. Use some land for solar power and use the rest for vertical farming plants, the UK should be more self-reliant when it comes to fruit/veg. Why go into debt for traumatising cows? youtu.be/GjU03hu5Uqk

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• unknown@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man should switch to farming oats for milk instead.

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  • Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then why don’t you have all the cows slaughtered and just leave the fields empty? There you go, perfect cost saving business solution.

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is little that the government can do. The main buyers aren’t paying enough for milk and the other buyers aren’t able to buy enough volume. An option is subsidies, but we thenwe need to add that to the UK tax. Tax that’s avoided by the biggest buyers of milk…

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  • okwithmydecay@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unless there is a future need for all this milk, or an argument for food security, couldn’t the government incentivize the farmers to grow different crops, or even rewild their farmlands?

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