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At the risk of being controversial. DEFRA and the forces of dark and evil. |
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| After DEFRA, and its agency’s little foray into Foot and Mouth, we need something else to drive the dairy farmers of Britain completely mad. DEFRA has come up with the bright idea that most of this country's milk , should, by the year 2020 be UHT, (Ultra Heat Treated). The genius behind this idea, is that this is to help the dairy industry to help itself, reduce its carbon footprint. Oh, and by the way, this is what they do in France and Spain, so it must be all right. The fact that the French and the Spanish eat snails, frog’s legs and go bull fighting, drinking UHT milk fits nicely with that lot. | ||||||
We are told that this will help reduce the amount of refrigeration needed. Presumably the milk companies will sell all their refrigerated lorries, the fact that the cream, cheese , yogurt and other perishables will still need refrigeration seems to have passed them by completely. Then of course the milk won’t need to be refrigerated in the shops and supermarkets, the fact that the supermarkets have metres and metres of chill space and the percentage for milk is relatively small, has also passed them by. For instance we have the new phenomenon of ready meals, food that has already been made into a meal and then been frozen, even worse, or has to be kept chilled. The point to be made here, is that you are able to purchase most of the ingredients in the same shop, at ambient, keep them at ambient, then cook them and eat them with in the hour and the word chill gets nowhere near the food. Then to finally follow the chain to the home, and of course we will all be doing away with our refrigerators or going out and buying smaller ones, we could, but we will not, and pigs might fly. Clearly none of this stacks up, this is what they call blue sky thinking. |
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All this comes on the day when the dairy industry just starts to see some light at the end of the tunnel, the day the supermarkets suddenly find themselves fighting over what is left of the British dairy industry, and we dairy farmers are actually being paid for the milk and not having it stolen off us. | |||||
| This move is not about the Blue Sky thinking, it is all about the Forces of Dark and Evil, and there is no Harry Potter out there to blow the whistle. This is much more about big supermarkets in the future being able to scan the world for cheap milk, have it UHT treated, and that is another issue, it has to be heated to 135’C, and presumably no carbon footprint here, then having the milk shipped in supertankers, and selling it in nice little boxes, with ‘Produced in Britain’ on the bottom. |
UHT tanker. |
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| Sadly, in recent years the big supermarkets have taken Britain’s food culture away from us, everything comes filtered, homogenized, colored, sanitized and highly salted, and if we are only left with one thing let it be the ‘Fresh pinta’. Don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting that we don't address the issues of global warming, dairy farmers have in recent months, had the issues of cows and methane, rammed down their throats, but it is a naturally occurring phenomenon, which is more than I can say for , strawberries from California, bottled water from France, and a thousand other food related issues and their packaging. Now let’s think of some real carbon savings. 1. All DEFRA staff should cycle to work. 2. There are countless billions of bottles of Coke, Pepsi, and Fanta, sat in fridges around the world. They are an ambient product, and come out so cold you cant drink them. Back to the drawing board DEFRA, you are an embarrassment. |
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