UK Dairy farmers want inquiry into milk prices
UK - Dairy farmers today demanded urgent action from the government to ensure a fairer price for milk.
6 February 2007
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Campaigners called on ministers to hold an urgent inquiry into supermarket prices as they presented a petition to Downing Street.
Calling themselves The Great Milk Robbery, protesters from Devon claimed large retailers were forcing prices so low that many farmers had no choice but to leave the business.
A National Farmers' Union survey from December 2006 showed dairy farmers in England and Wales make a loss of £270m per year.
The chairman of the European parliament's agriculture committee, Neil Parish, joined protestors as they presented their petition.
Source: The Guardian
