Dairy farmer Kevin MacLean is challenging a report in the Ecological Economics journal that claims Canada’s dairy farmers dumped more than six million litres of milk since 2012.
He said he dumped milk only once and that was during the Covid-19 pandemic and said none of his dairy-farming neighbours have dumped milk.
He uses any milk that he can’t sell to feed calves or pigs or to make cheese and said that’s likely what other dairy farmers do.
They could also donate it to the Ontario Provincial Foodbank System, he said.
“If you want to learn more about the dairy industry, MacLean suggests reaching out to any dairy farmer. They’d be more than happy to answer your questions,” MacLean said in an interview with E. Chatwood of 90.5 myFM radio station in Exeter.
