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13 tweets celebrating World Milk Day around the globe

Jack Yates 05 June 2018
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Friday (1 June) is the 17th annual World Milk Day, which encourages dairy consumers and producers to celebrate all things milk.

Farmers Weekly took a look at some of the best (and strangest) tweets backing World Milk Day from around the globe. 

See also: New toolkit launched to help farmers promote dairy online

The DairyMan (@dairymanNZ) gets the morning started by sinking a fresh pint of the white stuff before his morning milking.

England rugby star, Joe Marler (@joemarler) credits his his remarkable three-and-a half-week recovery  from a broken leg back in 2017  to drinking two pints of whole milk a day. Mr Marler said at the time: “I drank two pints of milk a day. It’s something I’ll keep doing because it’s really tasty.

“I always thought green top was good for you because it’s reduced fat, but they gave me licence to have blue top and the odd day I’d have gold top — the one with 1,000 calories.

“Maybe I won’t carry on with that, but blue top, it’s been really good for me.”

Worth a retweet. Dairy is an integral part of the diets of millions around the world.

Here, Cowbell (@cowbellghana) are offering to send one sachet of nutritious powdered milk to Ghana to fight malnutrition for ever retweet they receive.

Over to women’s hockey, Olympic gold medallist Samantha Quek (@samanthaquek) tells budding sports stars that milk contains the essential nutrients for post-exercise recovery.

Photographer Suzanne McNally (@contactsuzanne) with some superb shots of the Rolls-Royce of milk production – the humble British dairy cow.

Did you know? India is the world’s largest milk-producing nation with more than 10 million dairy farmers producing 163.7m tonnes of milk a year.

Here’s social media stalwart Abi Reader (@abireader) explaining how dairy goes far beyond just milk production – aiding rural economies and helping to create the countryside we all know and love.

A few close-ups of dairy farmer Phil Latham’s (@phillatham) beautiful cows.

https://twitter.com/PhilLatham/status/1002447165652860928

How about this for a throwback? A milk bar in Glasgow Central station. Hands up if you think these should make a comeback. 

Global family. Here, super charity Send a Cow @sendacow highlight how dairy farmers in Kenya are a vital component of local communities.

This milk in New Zealand going through stringent lab testing… (@dairydognz)

We’re not sure what this is but we’ll definitely be humming it all day.

Happy #WorldMilkDay from everyone at Farmers Weekly! 

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