From cow to cup: The price of a pint of milk
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A forty year high level of inflation and soaring household bills over the last few months have quickly led to a cost of living crisis. UK businesses are already feeling the squeeze, but what does that mean for your shopping basket staples? We’ve chosen to follow a pint of milk through the supply chain, to find out what pressures are raising its price.
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Guests:
- Abi Reader, dairy farmer and NFU Cymru deputy president.
- Christine Hope, Hopes of Longtown village store.
- Faith Angwet.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | There's one story, one recurring headline that's starting to keep people across the country |
| 0:14.5 | awake at night. The government is under increasing pressure to act, to help households with |
| 0:27.3 | soaring bells. But so far, they've sometimes struggled to hit the right note. We need to have a plan |
| 0:36.1 | to grow the economy and make sure that people are able to protect themselves better whether that |
| 0:41.9 | is by taking on more hours or moving to a better paid job. There's not this views, this massive |
| 0:46.9 | views for food banks in this country, but generation after generation who cannot cook properly, |
| 0:51.7 | they can't cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget, the challenge is there. |
| 0:55.1 | Does the Prime Minister still support his chancellor's insulting statement that acting |
| 1:01.4 | now in this cost of living emergency would just be silly? |
| 1:15.1 | Last week, we looked at the big picture of rising costs across Europe as inflation reached a |
| 1:22.1 | 40 year high of 9% and the Bank of England warned of apocalyptic food prices. |
| 1:30.7 | But what impact is that already having here in the UK? How much pressure are businesses |
| 1:38.4 | and ordinary households already under? We've traced how costs are rising across the economy |
| 1:47.1 | and why food prices are being pushed up by following the story of one household essential. |
| 1:59.3 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Manvine Rano. |
| 2:05.4 | Today, the cost of living, how much is a pint of milk? |
| 2:17.6 | It's been a question that's tripped up politicians for years. |
| 2:23.4 | Do you even know the cost of a pint of milk and about 80p or so? |
| 2:30.2 | No, it's about 40 something. I mean the biggest one. |
| 2:37.5 | Unfortunately, I think that not only our camera is born, two posh boys, you don't know the price |
| 2:43.8 | of milk, but they're two arrogant posh boys. |
| 3:14.4 | But perhaps the question isn't quite so simple. Not with prices changing as quickly as they have |
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