The Fair Price for GM Free Milk Alliance - a broad coalition of farming and food organisations - met recently with senior Sainsbury representatives to demand policy changes to save small farms and sustainable agriculture in Britain.
The alliance is calling for farmgate milk prices that will guarantee an income over the typical cost of production.
In conjunction with this they are also demanding a date for the final phasing out of the use of GM animal feed in the production of all Sainsbury’s milk.
The talks followed a recent blockade by representatives of the alliance at Sainsbury’s headquarters, and over nine months of campaigning at the supermarket stores, as well as direct action at their depots.
Gerald Miles, representative for the Farmers Union of Wales, explained: “Farmers and then public are united in wanting supermarkets to support small farms and sustainable GM-free agriculture. Farmers want to give their animals safe GM-free feed. Neither can happen without fair farmgate prices.”
The alliance is calling for farmgate milk prices that will guarantee an income over the typical cost of production.
In conjunction with this they are also demanding a date for the final phasing out of the use of GM animal feed in the production of all Sainsbury’s milk.
The talks followed a recent blockade by representatives of the alliance at Sainsbury’s headquarters, and over nine months of campaigning at the supermarket stores, as well as direct action at their depots.
Gerald Miles, representative for the Farmers Union of Wales, explained: “Farmers and then public are united in wanting supermarkets to support small farms and sustainable GM-free agriculture. Farmers want to give their animals safe GM-free feed. Neither can happen without fair farmgate prices.”
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