AIBU not to support the British farmers

[WitchofScots]

My Facebook is full of people saying they don't mind paying more for milk because they support the British Farmers.

If milk is more expensive then that's going to deprive children from families on/below the poverty line of a healthy drink, fruit is expensive, organic meat is expensive, ditto vegetables but milk is relatively cheap.

BBC (less trashy) says 90% of Northern Europeans carry the gene to digest lactose

Umm, that's exactly what the article I listed said... The point is that Northern Europeans are fairly unusual in their ability to digest thte breast milk of any species beyond childhood. The rest if the world mostly loses this ability, and does not treat the breast milk of another species as some sort of essential food group.

We are Northern European. What's the problem? You claimed most people were Lactose intolerant. Your link, as you say yourself, confirms 90% of us are not. Not sure what your point was

Most people in the world are lactose intolerant....

Someone upthread pointed this out, it was disagreed with, and I was merely showing that they were correct.

Yes but it's irrelevant. We're talking about British people supporting British dairy farmers. How is Chinese people not eating dairy relevant to the thread?

The poster who spouted that little non stat also said no one should drink milk