Them bones need calcium after all.
Dairy-free diets may have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years, but it’s hard to imagine a day when milk will stop becoming a staple of Irish households.
Right now, it seems, milk is still very popular in this country, with a report in The Irish Times revealing that the average Irish family will spend approximately €60 a month on milk between now and the end of the year.
That figure comes in a report which details the cost of producing dairy products in Ireland ahead of an expected increase in dairy production following the scrapping of EU quotas that have stood for 30 years.
The report suggests that the average Irish family will spend €600 on milk between now and the end of the year and with ten months of the year still to go (we’re counting March because it’s a good while ‘til April yet), that works out at around €60 per month per family.
With the cost of a litre of milk working out at around €1.06 per litre (according to Numbeo), the average Irish family will consume just under 60 litres of milk per month, or approximately two litres per day.
The Irish Times report also details the sizeable difference in cost between branded milk and own-brand milk and the difficulties that presents for dairy farmers trying to make a profit from their produce.
If it continues, the possibility of a doomsday scenario where UHT milk could be become common in Ireland – as is the case in Europe – becomes very real.
Nobody wants to see that, of course and we all know why…
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