Cream and milk (and yoghurt)

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I wonmder if the reason why cream -- which I'm used to thinking of as a luxury -- seems so cheap nowadays is because it's basically a waste product of the demand for 'healthier' skimmed milk? (Which used to be regarded as a waste product after the cream had been removed for making butter!)

Incidentally, night-time temperatures in the seventies are excellent for making yoghurt; my pot no longer needs its added hot water bottle but sets solid all on its own.