Tag: Milk

  • Why drinking milk is good for us (and our farmers)

    Milk prices are sinking fast and UK dairy farmers are fighting to stay afloat. The ‘milk trolley challenge’ and supermarket protests have helped raise the profile of their plight but our appetite for the white stuff has never been lower. Twenty years ago we drank three times as much whole milk as we do today;…

  • Exploding Milk Bottles! When Ice and Dairy collide…

    Sub-zero temperatures can be hazardous. If frostbite, hypothermia and road accidents weren’t bad enough; now our milk bottles are exploding! In a previous post, Ruth wanted to know the answer to her milk bottle saga: “My milk was frozen this morning so that the cream erupted out of the bottle in a column. I see…