Badgering the government

I very much appreciate the widely held concern about the fall in wholesale milk prices and 
the poor returns that dairy farmers are able to achieve in the current market.

Add to this the on-going difficulties with TB control and the farce of the badger culls, and we 
have a beleaguered industry in quite a state of crisis.



Milk is a great source of energy, protein and calcium if you don't have anything else to eat. And a cow is a great way of converting vegetation that is relatively indigestible for humans 
into a steady supply of such nourishment. It's also mobile and fresh,  which is especially 
useful when you don't have a fridge. 

But the above have limited value in our society and I can't help noticing that our shops are 
now full of skimmed, low fat or even non-dairy dairy products, partly because many of the 
base constituents of milk are actually quite bad for us as adults, especially given the relativeabundance of other food types.

Is the elephant in the room not the issue that we all consume far too many dairy products 
anyway and that the industry is therefore bigger than either our economy, health or 
environment can sustain?
 
Last time I checked, I was weaned when I was about six months old.