No more bath milk BS: Australian dairy farmer shuts down

One of the main dairy farmers pushing for the introduction of legal raw drinking milk in Victoria has shut down his farm after sales dropped by 70%.

raw.milk.aust.sep.15The death of a three-year-old boy in 2014, which was linked to the consumption of unpasteurised bath milk, prompted changes to dairy licences in Victoria, including the mandatory addition of bittering agents to stop people drinking what was being marketed as cosmetic milk.

Reg Matthews, from Lakes Entrance in Gippsland, said he had now shut down his Miranda Dale Dairy and sold off his cows because he had not been able to recover from the changes.

“We had a five-year plan put in place, and that came to fruition in late 2014, just about the same time that the raw milk was discontinued,” he said.