Ethical cooks are conditioned to disapprove of vending machines. They spit out the wrong foods in inappropriate locations like schools, hospitals and gyms.

ETHICAL COOKS are conditioned to disapprove of vending machines. They spit out the wrong foods in inappropriate locations like schools, hospitals and gyms. But recently I spotted a new purpose to vending machines, one that has made me see how they can solve a problem rather than create it.

Last week I saw a machine in the vet’s car park in Blandford Forum. The size of a typical bedroom wardrobe, it dispensed milk from a local farm, Allen Valley, into a reusable glass bottle sold by the same machine: £1 for the bottle, then £1 for every litre of creamy, whole, non-homogenised milk.

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