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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Ash Amirahmadi of Arla: ‘I thought milk was boring. Little did I know’

Ash Amirahmadi in a auit and open-necked shirt crouches by some cows in a barn, lifting up
Ash Amirahmadi: ‘This is the source: this is where it all really happens.’ Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

Drinking a mug of tea, Ash Amirahmadi is musing on the similarities between humans and cows. “You wouldn’t think it, but the pregnancy period is the same, nine months; they have the same number of teeth as us; obviously they are mammals as well.”

Amirahmadi could be forgiven for thinking about our bovine friends more than most business leaders, given his role running the UK’s biggest dairy co-operative.

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