Letter: Why not let British dairy farmers join Fairtrade?

Tuesday 12th April 2011, 6:00AM BST.

Letter: From supermarkets I can buy Fairtrade goods so that producers from all over the world receive a good price. I can buy meat, chickens and eggs from sustainable good practice British farms, I can buy fish from sustainable oceans.

So why can I not buy milk from sustainable British dairy farms?
Why can’t the supermarkets pay Fairtrade prices for milk so that British dairy farms can stay in business?
At the moment they are dying because this living food is the same price as water in supermarkets.
A factory dairy farm for 1,000 cows is planned near Welshpool next to our school. This will only keep the supermarkets happy and the price per litre so low that more sustainable dairy farms will go out of business.
Imagine 1,000 cattles in sheds.
I will not drink milk produced in this way. If you feel as strongly as I and many others do, please contact your MPs, Welsh AMs, councillors, mayors, supermarkets etc and with enough support we can ban these factory dairies, especially in Wales’s green and pleasant land.

Read more: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/04/12/letter-why-not-let-british-dairy-farmers-join-fairtrade/#ixzz1xTj1ZLJE