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October 01, 2008

Milk Does Not Come From Cows!

Sally White

Milk does not come from cows – it comes from multi-nationals! That message has come over very clearly in the last few weeks. Milk ads may feature bucolic cows grazing in pastoral idylls, but don’t be taken in, this is big business.

From China there is a horrific scandal unfolding showing what can go wrong in the industrial process. New Zealand dairy giant Frontera raised the alarm on melamine, an industrial chemical normally used in plastics, being added across China to diluted milk to make it appear higher in protein after problems with sick infants were reported by its local affiliate. Yet Ireland has just highlighted an altogether different international story, and very positive one – the growing financial success of...