Yeo Organic Milk - just found out it's not made by Yeo !!

[GrumpyMuleFan]

Feeling angry and yes naive. Just been reading about the Arlo foods group using Bovaer to reduce methane, which all sounds great, but it's more fiddling with food and concerns that it causes cancer in female rats during testing.

As I was reading this, I was feeling rather relieved that we buy Yeo organic milk and sometimes own label. Then reading on, found that Arlo produce Yeo Valley Organic Milk under licence - so it's not made by Yeo Valley at all. They are a massive dairy conglomerate and manufacture for a long list of people.

I am going to have a good look at the labels next time I am near a store. I do most of my shopping online and tend to stick with brands that I like and trust. Turns out you can't trust them so much. Back to reading labels again.

Feel very swizzed by this. Anything similar happened with a brand you like?

Its Arla

It doesn't affect any of the organic products under any branding.

It's also at the request of the supermarkets - Arla are a dairy co-operative, if their main buyers come to them and say 'do this so we can reduce our carbon emissions, if you don't we will buy our dairy elsewhere' then they don't have much choice.

It's also only being trialled at 30 farms out of thousands so the amounts of milk it effects are absolutely miniscule.

What! That's a swizz! I thought it was all made in the yeo valley.

Soil association says they won’t accept the additive as part of an organic system as there’s no benefit to the cows in using it. I’ll be sticking with organic thanks!

I was put off by Arlo because of the huge amounts of cattle under one roof.

Op, I think a few people are feeling equally worried. Our Tesco sold out of organic milk at 7,30 this morning.

Yanbu

Technically, it’s not Yeo or Arla, it’s farmers. Arla is just a cooperative owned by farmers. The farm down the road from you probably sells to them.

Funny you say that, we checked our organic milk from Aldi earlier, and at the bottom of the bottle in tiny print it says Arla. Now granted it's organic so in theory those cows shouldn't have been fed Bovaer but goes to show that Arla's supply a lot of the big chains

What is Arla?

https://www.arlafoods.co.uk/

Cattle fed with the bovaer supplement cannot produce organic milk. My understanding is that Arla package organic milk / products for Yeo Valley as their own facility can’t manage the volume.

Yes Arla produce organic dairy products as well. My point was that as Yeo Valley is organic it is guaranteed to not be effected by Bovaer

What do you mean?

Arla is a co-operative? It collects milk from lots of different dairy farms of all kinds of sizes?

For now, but I wouldn’t count on it being guaranteed verbatim - the government might force this into all milk production over time as their goal is to cut down methane emissions from cows and so far they seem pretty blinked in their approach. If they want to change something they’ll do it regardless on what rules may currently exist… they’ve demonstrated this is countless occasions already

It's the supermarkets rather than the government that are pushing it at the moment.

I know that I'd rather spend an night in a garage with a cow farting away than any kind of vehicle expelling any kind of emissions. Perhaps the government could turn its attention to infrastructure projects that genuinely reduce emissions rather than chemicals to make cows fart less.

Realistically, Yeo couldn't produce all that milk and yoghurt just from cows in the Yeo Valley - they'd have to stack the cows ten high!

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"Grahams Gold Milk Bovaer,"
Interesting article in the Scotsman.