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Subscribe to RSSA quick internet search says the world produces 500 million tons of milk per year - this represents only a tiny fraction of that, but it's still an awful lot of spilled milk.
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Farmers with 400 tractors dump around 4 million liters of milk into a field in Ciney, Belgium, 16 September 2009, as anger mounted over falling prices. European Union farm ministers recently failed to agree on an aid package for the sector during a meeting in September.