United States | A full-fat fiasco

A national milk-carton shortage sours America’s dairy industry

Who’s to blame for an embarrassing packaging problem?

An eight year old boy drinks from a milk carton during lunch at school.
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“THEY KEPT saying, ‘oh, it’s going to be coming’,” remembers Scott Stoner of Cream-O-Land, a dairy supplier. It was early September, just as many schools in America’s north-east were reopening after the summer break. He had not received deliveries of milk cartons. He quickly used up all his stock.

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