Sorry, all untrue! :disappointed:

Cravendale (& all Arla dairy products) are owned by the dairy farmer! Arla is a dairy cooperative & so all 'profits' are returned to us! We are very proud to be Arla dairy farmers.

Cravendale is made with milk from the 2,700 British Arla dairy farmer owners.
See http://www.arlafoods.co.uk/overview/farmer-owned/arla-farmer-owned-cooperative/


No idea about how long standard milk lasts as we drink it straight from the tank!
Cravendale stays fresh for 21 days unopened, and seven days once opened. :sunglasses:


Arla tanker picking up our milk.


The "Farmer Owned" logo tells you a product is made with milk from the farmer owners of Arla dairy cooperative. :sunglasses:


It's great to hear about everyone who loves Cravendale.
Thank you for supporting us - it's greatly appreciated. <3

Hot :smile: only milk I will drink nice one

100%. It's like milk silk

Does cravendale taste better than supermarket milk?

Hot :smile: only milk I will drink nice one

Does cravendale taste better than supermarket milk?

7 days after opening still ok to drink

grrrrrrrrrrr was there today and didn't check the price. :disappointed:

havent seen it this cheap for ages. heat

​agreed :-)

I'll try one tomorrow and compare it to a four pinter from farm foods at 75p.

Dammit, I JUST stocked up on the 2 for £3 offer.

Good price since Asda 2L went up to 99p. Might try this when I need milk.

Cheap, but can't help wondering how much of that £1 goes to the dairy farmers... Still, it won't bother Arla (the owner of Cravendale) if some of them go out of business, since it's the 7th-largest dairy conglomerate in the world, has a near monopoly in the Scandinavian market, and is now pushing to extend that monopoly to the U.K.

Rant over :smirk:

Also, bog standard non "pure" milk easily keeps for a week. Not sure there's much point buying this stuff if you drink so little that it's sitting there for longer than that, unless you live miles from the nearest shop...

thanks op

Hot.. Just stocked up. Thanks

I love milk!!! I could drink a whole cow.

Most importantly produced by British herds.

Hot deal, normally pay £1.60

Sorry, all untrue! :disappointed:

Cravendale (& all Arla dairy products) are owned by the dairy farmer! Arla is a dairy cooperative & so all 'profits' are returned to us! We are very proud to be Arla dairy farmers.

Cravendale is made with milk from the 2,700 British Arla dairy farmer owners.
See http://www.arlafoods.co.uk/overview/farmer-owned/arla-farmer-owned-cooperative/


No idea about how long standard milk lasts as we drink it straight from the tank!
Cravendale stays fresh for 21 days unopened, and seven days once opened. :sunglasses:


Arla tanker picking up our milk.


The "Farmer Owned" logo tells you a product is made with milk from the farmer owners of Arla dairy cooperative. :sunglasses:


It's great to hear about everyone who loves Cravendale.
Thank you for supporting us - it's greatly appreciated. <3

Would be interesting to hear from a dairy farmer's point of view the difference between organic and non organic milk as I now only drink organic after hearing about the multitude of drugs and growth hormones etc found in regular milk compared to organic ( if you have time of course).

I just read this & I'm eating porridge,thanks :neutral_face:

Oh dear :confused: maybe don't watch 'Food Inc' before your lunch then, next thing you know you'll be a vegan!

This is lovely. The aldi long life milk comes from Arla too. only 2 I like.
Tesco one is horrible - tastes 'meaty'

You've answered the question I was going to ask. Will be buying Cravendale in future.

Dread to think where you've read that! :confused:

We're conventional (or non-organic) dairy farmers & I can assure you that there's not a "multitude of drugs & puss" in our milk!
As I've said, we drink our own milk straight from the tank, ie. unpasteurised, & we certainly wouldn't if it wasn't fit to drink!

All farmers use antibiotics, including organic farmers, except they have slightly longer medicine withdrawal periods to adhere to, ie. before the animal's milk can be put in the milk tank to go for consumption.

A sample of milk is taken from every farm collection & tested for antibiotics at the dairy before it is unloaded. If any test is postitive then the whole tanker load is rejected & the milk is returned to the offending farmer for them to dispose of. The farmer is also responsible for the cost of the loss of all the other farmers milk that was in the tanker.

Neither organic or non-organic uses antibiotics unless it's absolutely necessary.
Not only are they very expensive to use & but we're all aware of the potential danger of antibiotic resistance from overuse.

I'm guessing your term 'puss' means white blood cells ..???
If an animal (or human) is unwell their body naturally produces white blood cells to fight the infection.
A cow (or human) will naturally produce extra white blood cells in the area of their mammary glands in response to infection (mastitis).
We test every cow's milk for Somatic Cell Count (SCC) monthly. We usually know (& are treating) any cow with high SCC anyway, but it often is a useful pre-indication of a possible infection before we notice - we do a visual examination of each cow's milk before attaching the milking clusters.
Again every farm's milk tanker collection is tested too.
Our milk price is based on milk quality & cleanliness and so it's not financially viable to be letting high cell count milk into our milk tank.

It all comes down to keeping our cows as healthy as possible so all their milk can be collected by the milk tanker & we can achieve the best possible milk price possible.

Our priority is of course to have happy, healthy cows.
#LoveCows

Any other questions, please ask. :smiley:

The fact this stuff stays fresh for longer can be really useful if you're camping. It stays fresh unrefrigerated for MUCH longer than other milk so it's very handy when you don't have power.

£1.80 in my local asda

You should add. "we then kill the healthy cows when we do not need them any more. The healthy baby males cows are killed as they do not produce milk."

These cows are not happy.

is this ok to boil then drink or add to say ovaltine?

Thanks OP!! My husband can't taste the difference between this milk and normal milk! I sooo can

I have been buying Cravendale milk for awhile (over a year now)

not going back to normal supermarket milk and plus expiry date is much longer then your normal supermarket milk

Tastes horrible

thanks! i use to get supermarket milk but have switched to cravendale, after finding it lasts and the expiry date is much longer than supermarket milk!
i worked out i use to get supermarket milk once a week and that would be how long it lasted till it went off, and there would be at least 1/4 bottle left so was a waste, so switched to cravendale and noticed it lasts 2wks, maybe more and works out cheaper for me too :smiley:

because i dont think a small 1 (supermarket milk) would last me all week so cravendale works well for me because i know it wont go off after a week and it'll last me

I know effectively it's all the same stuff (milk) but somehow they make cravendale taste so much nicer than standard milk, it tasted that good it's really no surprise the cows want it back

Why would we kill healthy cows? :confused:
Why would we rear a calf, look after her until she was almost 3 yrs old, get her incalf, calve her ... & then kill her ..???
Killing an animal costs money too - the knackerman doesn't take them for free!
But why would we invest all that time & money, & then kill a healthy animal?
If she was surplus to needs she'd be sold to another dairy farmer.

Again, why would anyone kill a male calf if it had an economic value?
Personally we have never killed any of our male calves. We've always had a buyer for them, who rears them for beef.

Years ago there was a limited market for some breeds of male calves from dairy farms - some of these were killed at birth because it cost more to tag & take them to market.
This practice wasn't particularly widespread but the media, etc has made-out that it was ... & they insist it still is ... every bull calf! :disappointed:
But it wasn't ... & it certainly isn't now!

An old cow produces less milk. Old cows are still healthy, yet killed due to poor profit on return and little economic value. They do not die of natural causes.

The male cow grows and is killed for beef. They are not happy to die. They do not live their natural life.
A cruel industry.

An old cow doesn't necessarily give 'less milk' !
A cow will only be culled for incurable health & fertility reasons - why on earth would you want to get rid of a productive cow otherwise?
They're never culled just because they're "old".

Here are details of the 12 oldest cows we have in our herd.

(Lac No is lactation number, ie. how many calvings they've had)

All farm animals have full purposeful lives & are looked after & cared for.

Yes, there's always 'bad' in all walks of life, but the manipulated images spread by 'some' are definitely not reflective of all the whole British farming industry.

Notice you've 'editted' your original comment to add 'growth hormones'!

Growth hormones are banned in Europe & UK.
See http://www.thisisdairyfarming.com/discover/dairy-farming-facts/are-dairy-cows-given-growth-hormones/

They are used in USA & may be a concern if future trade agreements include importing American milk & dairy products.

Caring does not mean killing the animal if it is no longer fertile. It means allowing it to graze and live until its natural death, in the same way human animals are (yes, humans are animals, not plants or minerals).

In a perfect world we'd love to keep these animals on, but economics don't allow us to do that! :disappointed:
Farming is a business, if we're not viable then if affects the welfare of all our animals & we can't allow that to happen.
There's plenty of instances in animal charities where animals that the public have funded them to care for, euthanise perfectly healthy animals, for non health reasons ... but that's a different topic!

A business without morality that treats living animals like commodity products, just as humans treated slaves in the past. Admirable.

Be honest. You want to make as much money as possible and do not care about the animals once they are no longer any use to you. Just admit it. Honesty is appreciated. We all understand the business economics!

When you are old and of no use to society you expect to be taken care of. :wink:

I don't drink milk anymore unless absolutely necessary. I drink almond and soya milk.
Interesting reading the comments and although I don't agree with the industry I think milk2gogo has made some constructive posts.
Hot deal for people that do drink milk :smiley:

Still live. Bought another 6 cans today!