Global Warming: Defra Wants To Snatch Our Milk
IN “Stop using fresh milk,” the Times notes that officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs propose that we stop buying fresh milk and use UHT (Utterly Horrible Taste) long-life milk.
This is part of a Government strategy to ensure that 90 per cent of milk on sale does not require refrigeration. Fresh milk needs refrigeration but refrigeration is bad.
And know that this is part of the “dairy road map”. Politics loves a road map. Tony Blair’s administration produced a “detailed road map” to the legalisation of drugs in Britain.
The Middle East has a road map. According to the US State Department it is a “performance-based and goal-driven roadmap, with clear phases, timelines, target dates and benchmarks aimed at progress through reciprocal steps by the two parties in the political, security, economic, humanitarian and institution-building fields”. It is a triumph of democracy imposed from overseas with a goal already established.
Over in the barn, the dairy industry will deliver a tangible quid pro quo that dairy farmers will go the way of the Belgians, where 96.7 per cent of all milk sold is UHT.
Of course, market forces may yet prevail and we will hunt out fresh milk, paying a premium for it, making it an exclusive drink for the landed gentry and non-doms.
And Gordon Brown will tuly be the heir to Margaret Thatcher - milk snatcher.
Oh, brave new world…
Pic: The Spine
October 15th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
“Fresh milk needs refrigeration but refrigeration is bad.”
This isn’t more of that save the Earth stuff is it? We haven’t even remedied the rainforests or Africa yet!
A road map? Perhaps they could look into GPS? It could be a Wizard of Oz/robot set-up.
“Of course, market forces may yet prevail and we will hunt out fresh milk, paying a premium for it, making it an exclusive drink for the landed gentry and non-doms.”
Is this a coup for breastfeeding or excuse-ready brothels?
October 15th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Breast-feeding- I like it. And if we can get the seals to express, we may yet save the seal pups too…
October 15th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I love his earrings. Plus I’d like to get my hair done like that.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Just goes to prove that DEFRA is stacked full of people desperately trying to come up with any ideas, no matter how daft, to justify their inflated salaries!