On Jun 3, 12:37*am, Janet wrote:
You can't keep propping up businesses on emotive arguments about doe-eyed
cows and sad farmers.

* Nobody did. *The supermarkets, having cornered the market in retail milk
sales, collectively stopped paying a fair price to farmers for what they
produce, so that they could rake off a doubled profit for themselves.

* It is fantastical, that these same supermarkets woo customers
consciences with "fair trade" exotic goods such as tea and coffee, with a
promise that the third world producers get a fair deal and can make a
reasonable living. At the same time supermarkets manipulate the milk *
market to deny the same fair deal to UK home producers.

* *Janet

"Fair trade" is a load of ********.
Possibly supermarket ********.

They give some poor coffee farmer a few extra pence for his crop. Then
they pile on the pounds for the consumer.
It's just a cunning ploy to increase profit.
ie, The increased price you pay is nowhere near the amount passed on
to the farmer.