"The threatened lawsuit is the latest salvo in a seven-year-long dispute between family organic farmers and the USDA.""A broad cross-section of the organic industry repeated petition the USDA on an increasing number of industrial scale factory farms has down on, the 'organic' milk, produce", said Mark Kastel, senior analyst at the Wisconsin-based Cornucopia Institute farm policy.
In the center of controversy are two large agribusiness companies, Dean Foods and Aurora Dairy. Dean's horizon produced by Aurora (marketed by Safeway, wild oats, Trader Joe's and Wal - Mart, among others) have estimated a commanding market share as high as 70%, brand and private label milk by ramp to feedlot dairies, which more than 2000 to 10,000 cows milk won.
"Organic consumers if you pay premium prices, believe that you support a different kind of environmental responsibility, humane animal husbandry promotion and economic justice for family-owned businesses," said attorney David G. Cox, the cornucopia on other matters which is represented using the USDA and organic certifiers Columbus, Ohio."If consumers find out that their milk is factory farms in desert States, whose Ausmaß operations threaten livelihoods of hard-working families come and milk delivered then all around the country feel betrayed you."
The huge farms have their animals instead of pastures limit, as the rules which said Cox, is a violation of the law been accused.
"" There are five sections in the federal environmental standards on pasture and grazing beziehen.zusammen taken leave little doubt what the organic animal producers is expected"," said Jim Riddle of the University of Minnesota and former Chairman of the National Organic Standards Board."It is no coincidence that except for the handful of mega farms, all organic dairy farmers of the nation, and most of you understand the certifiers that you examine that grazing is required and operate their farms in accordance with the law."
"It seems the other way searches the USDA by providing this confinement dairies not pasture for your lactating cows," added Riddle.
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