BY DANIEL JUPP

Today, I’m taking an unnecessary 10-mile round trip just to get some milk. I’ll be doing this about three times a week from now on. I live in the heart of a town with 100,000 people, and there’s a shopping centre just two minutes’ walk from my flat. I can easily walk to two or three supermarkets. Yet, instead of using these convenient options, I’ll be driving out into the countryside. Why? Because the supermarkets, the Food Standards Agency (FSA), and various politicians have decided it’s acceptable to put toxic substances in the milk that millions of Brits consume daily.

I think laws are meant to protect us from poisoning and that a sensible society wouldn’t add harmful chemicals to the food chain. There are others who agree with me. For example, Hope Cottage Farm Shop does a better job than the supermarkets and the FSA:

We just want to reassure everyone that we DO NOT nor EVER WILL feed Bovaer to our cattle. While some say that only milk will be affected, the cows producing it will also enter the food chain later, as they reach the end of their milk-producing life. While this may not be a concern for premium cuts, burgers, mince, and ready meals will soon contain that meat.”

Bovaer is an artificial feed additive already mandatory in Denmark for farms with more than 50 cows and is now used across Europe. The UK’s largest milk supplier, Arla, announced it would add this substance to its cows’ feed. Several major UK supermarket chains are also part of the Bovaer trial.

But Bovaer is toxic. It requires handling with protective gear and has been linked to cancer, deformities, and fertility issues. It can shrink testicles and cause sterility. The milder side effects include skin and eye irritation and breathing problems. According to tests in Japan, Bovaer’s active ingredient, 3-NOP, causes testicular shrinkage, reduced sperm count, and impaired sperm mobility. It also leads to tumours. In animal tests, it shrank the ovaries of cows too, though we still don’t know how it affects trans cows or rats.

Isn’t it reasonable to ask why anyone would want to put this in our milk? Well, the same people who oversaw a 20% increase in excess deaths after “saving” us from COVID are now deciding what’s safe to put in our food. It even has its very own BBC Verify article.

But rest assured, Bovaer has been “rigorously tested” — for just 90 days, with no long-term studies, and only a single herd in the UK. Two cows even had to be euthanised, but the reasons weren’t explained. All this data is available on the FSA’s website, under the reassuring banner of “Food You Can Trust,” with the comforting promise:

We are determined to drive change in the food system so that it delivers better outcomes for consumers… we protect the public by ensuring that food is safe and as it should be.”

Great. But could you stop putting toxic substances in our MILK?

Safe milk is simple: cows eat grass and natural feed, free from pesticides and harmful additives. Healthy cows produce healthy milk, which people can safely drink. That’s how it’s worked for over 10,000 years since the domestication of wild oxen. No artificial poisons, no deformities in the calves, and no cancer in the food chain.

How could anyone screw up what Ozi the Herdsman got right thousands of years ago, while armed with a 30-word vocabulary and the belief that rain was the Sky God’s urine? Ozi didn’t have a £140-million budget (like the FSA has). He didn’t have a whole agency dedicated to consumer protection, nor did he get a fat salary to sit in an office and worry about the safety of his milk. But his milk was safe.

Ozi may have believed the rain was a divine event, but he wasn’t stupid enough to poison his cows with a substance so dangerous it burnt his skin, blurred his vision, and gave him a coughing fit. Ozi knew that feeding toxins to cows would make them sick.

Compared to the FSA, Ozi was a genius.

Compared to executives at Marks & Spencer — “UK supermarket giant Marks & Spencer is investing in a feed additive to reduce the methane production of its pool of dairy farmers” — Ozi is a genius. Compared to the decision-makers at Asda, Morrisons, Lidl, and Aldi (all selling Arla milk with Bovaer, unlabelled, so their customers can unknowingly play the Bovaer Poison Lottery), Ozi is a genius.

Why not scrap the FSA and put a 10,000-year-old herdsman in charge? Ozi had more common sense than they do.

After the Covid malarkey why should we trust any government agency with the health of our families? That is the tragic point I wish to make.

So now, to be safe, I have a few extra drives to make each week. I wonder what my carbon footprint looks like?

Welcome to modern life in Clown World, Dear Readers, where we drink milk from cows we cannot be sure have not been poisoned.

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Daniel Jupp is the author of A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilisation, which was published in 2019. He has had previous articles published by Spiked, The Spectator and Politicalite, and is a married father of two from Essex. Daniel’s SubStack is available here.