This map provides a comprehensive list of registered raw milk farms in the UK, updated December 2024.
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
Each month a list of new farms is added to the forum when the map is updated. You can subscribe to the thread and will receive an email when it is updated.
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:
Unfortunately the attempts taken in 1983 did yield a ban on raw cows’ milk in Scotland.
The legislation as it stands, The 1995 Dairy Products Regulations prohibits the sale of raw or thermised cows’ milk as drinking milk and the sale of raw cream. It does however 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”. We are not however aware of any farms that sell such milk in Scotland.
The Scottish regulations are silent on farm gate sales of raw drinking milk from camels, donkeys, horses, yaks and reindeer, etc. so their direct sale is not prohibited or regulated.
The Food Hygiene Regulations 2006 prohibit the sale of all raw milk on, “the market”, which read with the 1995 Regulations does not include farm gate sales and refers to third party retail. The regulations do however allow Scottish dairy farmers to, “export” raw drinking milk to England and the EU.
There are no laws prohibiting Scots from importing raw drinking milk from the rest of the UK and indeed EU and many people do use mail order in particular from England, via overnight refrigerated courier delivery. This must also mean that there is a loophole whereby a Scot could purchase Scottish raw milk in England and then import it back to their Scottish home at the very least in their own vehicle.
It would be unconstitutional for the Scottish government to stop the import and export of raw drinking milk to and from other parts of the UK that is lawful in England, because the 1706 and 1707 Acts of Union provide for “full freedom and Intercourse of Trade and Navigation to and from any port or place within the said United Kingdom”. and the Lord Advocate of Scotland’s Courts of Session did in 1953 proclaim that Parliament is not free to change the treaty at will, hinting that there ought to be a Constitutional Convention of the various Nations of the United Kingdom to reach unanimous consent to alter the Acts of Union, see: McCormick v Lord Advocate [1953] ScotCS CSIH_2
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.