Friday, 28 August 2015 05:30

Use our milk or else….

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Ignore our milk at your peril; that’s the message from UK farmers who are taking their protests against low prices to supermarket doors.

Tesco is the latest supermarket to be singled out by dairy farm protesters, who have switched their focus to cheap milk imported from the Continent and turned into butter, cheese and yoghurts; they claim less than half the butter and cheese eaten in Britain is made using milk from British farms.

Protesting farmers used tractors to blockade one of its biggest distribution centres in the UK; recent protests have concentrated on Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl, which had previously refused to raise milk prices.

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