This map provides a comprehensive list of registered raw milk farms in the UK, updated January 2025.
The Weston A. Price Foundation has supported free access to certified whole, raw milk from grass fed cows since its beginnings and Dr Price extolled its benefits in his writings. This is due to the health giving properties of raw milk and the harm that is caused to these properties by processing. To find out more on this topic, visit our website: realmilk.com
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2014 attempt to ban raw milk:
The Weston A. Price Foundation was part of the campaign to stop the FSA from banning raw drinking milk in 2014. The argument was won when it was exposed that they had no evidence of any outbreaks or of poor hygiene from registered raw milk producers. All of the evidence of contamination was from farms that pasteurise their milk, who do not need to care so much about hygiene. You can watch the videos here of the consultation event, click here.
1983 attempt at banning raw milk:
The UK Government tried to ban raw milk nationwide in 1983 but thanks to the campaigning by Sir Julian Rose and his team raw milk remained legal in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as documented in the video below from a Weston A. Price Foundation event run by Ben Pratt.
Scottish situation:
Scotland first introduced mandatory pasteurization of raw cows’ milk in 1983. This was the same year that Sir Julian Rose and friends first thwarted a similar raw milk ban for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Until recently we thought that Scotland was a lost cause but a bit of digging has revealed that the ban is not as all-encompassing as previously thought.
The 1995 Dairy Products Regulations[1] prohibit the sale of raw or thermised cows’ milk as drinking milk and the sale of raw cream. However, The Food Hygiene Regulations 2006[2] expressly allow Scottish dairy farmers to, “export” raw drinking milk to England, Wales or Northern Ireland and to third countries (countries outside of the EU), setting out the regulations that this milk must satisfy. It would arguably be unconstitutional for this trade to be restricted given that the Acts of Union that formed the United Kingdom provide for “full Freedom and Intercourse of Trade and Navigation”.[3]
This opens up a vast market for Scottish dairy farmers who can have raw milk overnight refrigerated couriered to the doorsteps of more than 60 million people living in the rest of the United Kingdom. If some Scottish dairies can develop a market this way then it is hard to that the Scottish Parliament could subsequently resist liberalisation of the raw market in Scotland.
It is ironic that a Scot could travel to England to purchase exported Scottish raw milk that they could then themselves drive back to Scotland, that they are banned from purchasing at home.
Secondly, the 2006 regulations allow and regulate the sale of raw ewes’, goats’ and buffaloes’ raw milk as drinking milk “from the occupier of a licensed production holding direct to the ultimate consumer at the farm premises where the aminals from which milk has been obtained are maintained.” and “The milk must be sold in containers filled on the premises, closed and fastened hygienically in a manner satisfactory to the food authority”. The regulations appear to be silent on raw milk from other species including camels’, donkeys’, horses’, yaks’ and reindeers’ raw milk, etc. so it is possible that raw milk from these species at the farm gate is neither prohibited nor regulated.
We are not aware of any farms exercising these rights but it is hoped that greater awareness may open the door to a raw milk market in Scotland, followed by reform to bring Scottish raw milk laws in line with the rest of the UK.
[1] The Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 1995 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1372/schedule/3/made
[2] The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006 www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/3/schedule/6
[3] Union with England Act 1707 www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1707/7/section/IV
Other resources
- Raw Milk Ireland for the Republic of Ireland.
- realmilk.com for North America
- Raw Milk Institute for North America.
- Get Raw Milk: for USA.