WALES: Raw milk sales rocket - (Wales on Sunday)
October 22, 2007 – 12:59 amThe latest food fad to hit Wales is… raw milk.
Straight-from-the-cow, unpasteurised milk is regularly drunk by more than 100,000 Californians and is equally popular in New York.
Now the craze is hitting our shores with farm shops in Wales are reporting a sharp increases in sales.
Advocates of raw milk, which is sold in green- topped bottles, claim that it is high in immune-boosting nutrients and disease-fighting antibodies.
Steve Oultram, who owns Newbridge Farm Shop in Ewloe, was cited as saying that his family had been selling raw milk for more than 50 years, but had noticed that it had become more popular recently, adding, “Theres no doubt that the demand for raw milk is increasing all the time as more people are made aware of it. We have people coming here from considerable distances, not just from Wales, but from as far as Aberdeen and Brighton. Weve even started sending it out […]
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