Oh yes.
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Just read in the article below that Arla is the biggest supplier in the UK for diary.
Bit surprised, as the UK has a tradition with diary as well?
Arla is Danish and has a large market share in NL and D, but are afaik not the biggest player in either market.
Funny that all the Dutch cooperatives I know from my youth, Friesland, Frico, Domo, Coberco, Campina, Menken and Melkunie have in the mean time merged and are now all under one roof. Sounds cheesy, but they survived 
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Isn’t arla a farmer owned co-op?
I think a lot of uk dairy farmers have a stake in them.
There are not many ways to sell your milk as a farmer. The supermarkets killed off the milkmen and Home delivery for all but a few.
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Looks like that’s right
Although they also source stuff from elsewhere too.
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Cool, I didn’t know that.
Happy to hear that it is a cooperative where the farmers have their stake.
In NL farming gets so much more difficult due to ever stricter regulations and policies, that some don’t want to continue the family farm that has been build up through generations. Number of small farmers have been cut by almost half in twenty years.
It’s a long time since I’ve been around a farm but it’s not an easy prospect in the UK either.
There were stories of high suicide rates amongst farmers here not so long ago with lots of family farms going to the wall.
There has been a resurgence of small holdings and organic farms though.
I think all the major UK supermarkets buy from Arla.
None of the milk is imported as far as I know.
One of the ‘inside the factory’ episodes was at the Arla milk factory and they explained where the milk was sourced i.e from farm cooperatives.
Do like that show and Cherry Healey goes a long way to offset Greg Wallace’s annoyingness.
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Patronising should be 100++++
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Agreed.
Utter cunt.
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I like the base, base, base, base.
I like the buttery biscuit base.
Wobble
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Hold on,
- has little idea what he’s on about but has opinions galore
- eats dessert with oversized spoon
- apparently suffers from OCD / hypochondria
- seemingly does little but earns a high wage
- obsessed with sweet treats.
Would score highly in AA top trumps. His low scores on VTA and power supply withstanding.
Christ! The fucking pair of them!
Look at the eyes. … The cold, dead eyes. … The eyes of a Predator.
Last time I saw eyes like those they were dragging a baby antelope into the Zambezi River… 
Final Result: Would-not-leave-unattended-with-a-3-year-old/10
Betwixt: flaming bbqs & pizza ovens, nuclear power supplies, bandsaws, performance cars, valves, wim hoffers, creepy time piece masturbators, shoe fetishists and sporting gun fans. I’m not sure AA is the most wholesome place for a 3 yr old either.
VOTE GREGG
*The keen of eye will note the omission of death laser specialists, alcoholics and itinerant ramblers as they are “givens”
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To be fair to our esteemed membership, the greatest threat we pose to the average 3YO is boring them to death with gratuitously-contrarian debate, prolix anecdotage, and musical references so anachronistic they require carbon-dating…
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The deaths were mostly ACCIDENTS ! The paperwork SAYS SO !
3 yr olds would be perfectly fine. They are too short to see above the edges of the optical tables.
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Frankly that applies to most of my friends and peer group too.
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