Just in case my comments to this propaganda piece don’t get published–I’m posting them here:

“Milk is Milk” is the campaign cry of the just anti-organic, anti-small farmer, anti-raw milk, pro-chemical, pro-gmo, pro-Industry Hudson Institute. There is a plethora of information about Dennis Avery, the Center For Global Food Issues, and the Hudson Institute on the internet. Do not take Mr. Wheeler’s word for it, do the research. This is propaganda pure and simple.

True, we should all get to know a farmer, sit down with them, buy them a coffee or beer, buy their products directly, locally, and support their environmental efforts–but don’t be dazzled by flashy words, flattery and flim-flam of Big-Ag speaking through a “small farmer”.

Organic farming does more to sequester carbon and reduce global carbon emissions than anything else. Grass-Fed cattle emit far less methane and carbon dioxide than their grain fed counterparts. Look it up! Maintaining “twice as much” land for an organic system is hardly increase a wasteful global carbon footprint–it is proper stewardship of resources. And how can organic milk produce “double the amount of other by-products” than conventional milk? It is not a rational argument–Like most that the Hudson Institute make. They try to confuse consumers and create diversions where none should exist. Milk is not milk–it can be good, bad, or poison–ask the families of the men in MA who just died from drinking Pasteurized Milk!

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