{"id":58,"date":"2009-07-25T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T17:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:59:01","slug":"organic-farmers-plead-for-help-from-usda-secretary-vilsap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Organic farmers plead for help from USDA Secretary Vilsap"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by: <\/strong>Bill Suydam, Editor, Health Spectator<\/a><\/p>\n
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This posting from the Cornucopia Institute is a video that portrays an emergency meeting of organic dairy farmers in Wisconsin pleading with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to level the playing field against factory farms so that small farmers can survive.<\/p>\n

One of the ironies of this piece occurs at the beginning, when an emcee approaches the refreshment stand at the fair and notes that bottled water is selling for $2.00\u2014and milk for $0.50.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan farmers really be expected to sell milk for one quarter the price of water?\u201d he asks the camera.<\/p>\n

The farmers are protesting the fact that many large \u201corganic\u201d dairy farms flaunt the regulations, while \u201cconventional\u201d dairy farms\u2014ironically the current term used for farms that inject their dairy cows with hormones to force them to produce twice as much milk as normal\u2014may milk as many as 7200 cows a day.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, small farmers are finding it tough to survive, and more go out of business every day. This is not what we want to see if we are going to keep ourselves and our children healthy with wholesome products from small, local organic farms.<\/p><\/div>\n

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