Dairy farmers have hit back at claims by celebrities Jimmy Doherty and Jamie Oliver about the superiority of free-range milk. A 10-minute segment on their Friday Night Feast programme sought to promote the merits of pasture-based grazing systems for dairy herds to UK consumers, while questioning the welfare and health of those animals in housed systems. See also: Jamie Oliver campaign to stamp out egg ‘wastage’ Although general sentiment among the public had been positive to a free-range “pasture promise”, the dairy […]
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