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Shep

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Time to step forward with your marketing degrees folks, and analyse this one in that context. You first...
Its quite easy, milk comes from cows which are made from meat, they also produce calves which are also made from meat. Now all these things have to happen in order to make milk. The culls and calves have to be sold into to food chain and someone has to eat them!
It shows a very short term, short sighted outlook from the marketing department and anyone who thinks it is a good idea must be truly brainwashed, they have created an open goal for the climate, vegan loons who can now say "well Dale farm supports going meat free" how are they going to support the very sector which supplies them after jumping on this band wagon? Unless they have future plans for synthetic milk, which wouldn't surprise me at all.
Its like kicking their own producers in the balls and telling them they're doing them a good turn.
 

Stuart1

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First time growing rye, looks like it’s struggling to me. Get fert on ASAP?
 

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The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
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Its quite easy, milk comes from cows which are made from meat, they also produce calves which are also made from meat. Now all these things have to happen in order to make milk. The culls and calves have to be sold into to food chain and someone has to eat them!
It shows a very short term, short sighted outlook from the marketing department and anyone who thinks it is a good idea must be truly brainwashed, they have created an open goal for the climate, vegan loons who can now say "well Dale farm supports going meat free" how are they going to support the very sector which supplies them after jumping on this band wagon? Unless they have future plans for synthetic milk, which wouldn't surprise me at all.
Its like kicking their own producers in the balls and telling them they're doing them a good turn.

And this is the best effort so far. Apart from the last line. It's business, so try not to get too emotional.

My guess is someone in marketing was trying to find another way to pluck the goose, which is what they are paid for. To reach a wider audience. I don't think it was a good call this time. It's simply that hashtag. Nothing wrong with a dish with no meat in it, but it's the association between meat free and dairy free which is a problem. Every day's a school day!
 
Its quite easy, milk comes from cows which are made from meat, they also produce calves which are also made from meat. Now all these things have to happen in order to make milk. The culls and calves have to be sold into to food chain and someone has to eat them!
It shows a very short term, short sighted outlook from the marketing department and anyone who thinks it is a good idea must be truly brainwashed, they have created an open goal for the climate, vegan loons who can now say "well Dale farm supports going meat free" how are they going to support the very sector which supplies them after jumping on this band wagon? Unless they have future plans for synthetic milk, which wouldn't surprise me at all.
Its like kicking their own producers in the balls and telling them they're doing them a good turn.
It's a recipe in a "cook book" not a declaration of war on farming. I'd eat it.its called choice
 
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Cowlife

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Has anybody fitted Goodyear tyres and would like to share how they re doing.
We had the old ones on but depending on who you ask the new ones are the same or completely different
 

Shep

Member
It's a recipe in a "cook book" not a declaration of war on farming. I'd eat it.its called choice
I'd eat it too, it sounds lovely, but you seem to have missed the point somewhere.The problem is not the recipe or the "cook book" nor choice either, but the fact Dale farm did seem to be endorsing meat free Monday, which was weird considering meat is a consequence of milk production.
Apparently it has been taken down, so even they must have realised the error even if you don't.
 

jay

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Location
Co Down NI
Will any of the Dale Farm producers have the stones to contact Dale Farm directly and complain about this or is grumbling under a pseudonym on a members forum deemed good enough?
I sent a message to one of the directors last night, no point in complaining here. The reply was that I wasn't the first. I think it's probably a case of naivety in the marketing dept, or a lack of understanding of how closely the dairy and beef sectors are linked at farm level. Apparently the post is gone now, I'd have thought it only needed the removal of the meat free references.
 

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read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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