The Dairy Disaster
unknown wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Since buying my first registeredHolstein at the age of 9, I’ve had a love affair with dairy cattle. However, I really have to wonder what’s happening with our business. We are destroying our once lauded image of “nature’s most perfect” food and completely confusing consumers by allowing marketing to get in the way of this great product. Milk is milk; it all has the same nutrients, the same hormones and all goes through the same testing. Every bulk tank of milk is tested the same, regardless of how it will be eventually labelled.
Marketing misinformation and/or greed has overtaken retail sales of dairy products. From organic to ”made from hormone free cows” to “natural to” the latest “humanely produced.” See the article in Forbes at http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/14/ap4888189.html that points to this latest attempt to corner a niche market and secure yet more of the consumer dollar.
Here’s a newflash; the inflated price of these products is lining marketer’s pockets while […]
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