SOMETIMES the things I hear on the news make my blood boil and here is a good example.

Are we really contemplating buying a vital part of our diet (milk and its products) from abroad when we have the best dairy farmers in the world?

I realise that price has to play a part when considering from where to obtain products that everyone needs, but can we, in all conscience, save what is surely a pittance by ignoring our own dairies and dairy farmers, to say nothing of the living animals which have proved of such importance to us all in the UK?

We cannot let these vital parts of life in the UK that have supported us for generations disappear without trace.

I cannot imagine the UK without its dairy farms and all that go with them, animals and people.

The country would surely change beyond recognition and not for the better. I realise that the real villains are the supermarkets in their determination to fill their shelves with the cheapest products, if not the best.

But I hate to think that the country will lose such a familiar and important commodity as fresh, home-produced milk.

Heather Causnett, Escrick Park Gardens, Escrick, York.