Although there is a need to stimulate our own production, there is some controversy about the incorporation of skimmed milk in animal feed.
Many other countries throughout the world have a skimmed milk problem.
On the other hand, we must face the fact that there are large accumulated stocks of skimmed milk powder.
As we all know, though it was skimmed milk, it had exceedingly good food value in it, utilisable for many purposes.
An earlier version of the proposal for disposing of surplus skimmed milk powder stocks had already been debated as part of the price package.
That is the difficulty into which we get in the debate on skimmed milk powder.
That is what is happening, and that is what happened over skimmed milk.
The debate is really nothing to do with skimmed milk.