Martin Finne wrote:

Here in Norway we also drink lots of coffee.
But you are right about the dairy consume. Dairyprodusers in Norway have
been subsidized by the state.

Dear Martin,

Here in the United states we subsidize the feed programs, buy back
surplus milk, pay farmers to destroy cows producing that surplus, give
tax free incentives to pharmaceutical companies producing genetically
engineered versions of bovine hormones which increase the amounts of
milk in an already over-saturated market.

Is there a similar dairy lobby in your country?  Is your dairy industry
as powerful as ours is?  Here, for every 100 pounds of milk a farmer
produces, he must give 15 cents to the National Fluid Milk Processors,
the marketing arm of America's dairy industry.  That adds up to hundreds
of millions of dollars each year.  Our dairy industry wisely spends that
money in a brilliant advertising campaign.  In addition, they pay
enormous sums of money to our political leaders (which insures price
controls and favors).

Do similar things happen like that in Norway?

Robert "NOTMILKMAN" Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com