Price rise complainer needs glass of reality

Running a dairy farm these days is much harder work than being a teacher

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A 30 per cent rise (in milk) is simply extortion and exploitative (Eloise Rowe, Tannum Sands).  Why is it that all teachers are a little bit nutty (me, probably a big bit nutty)?

Even primary and high school teachers live in ivory towers.  My take is if even a tiny bit of this increase goes to the dairy farmers it is actually worth it. They are the ones doing the hard yards.  And if it comes to that, there are so many people buying liquid stuff called milk that in no way comes from any mammal on earth, and I am sure that that stuff is even more expensive than "the staple milk" that I would say to Eloise, "Please go and have a holiday on a dairy farm and see what it is like." That is a hard hard life and far harder than a teaching job. Have a glass of milk on me. Bon appetit! Glenda Carroll Bundamba