Effort to Terminate Dairy Farms is Beyond Belief!!!

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This is an interesting little update on this conundrum ....... SunnySunny Kierstyn, RN DC Fibromyalgia Care Center of Oregon 2677 Willakenzie Road, 7CEugene, Oregon, 97401541- 654-0850; Fx; 541- 654-0834www.drsunnykierstyn.com To: notmilk From: cohensmilk1@...Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:28 +0000Subject: NOTMILK - Effort to Terminate Dairy Farms is Beyond Belief!!!

Effort to Terminate Dairy Farms is Beyond Belief!!!

Guess who has come up with a plan to motivate

California dairymen to send all of their Happy

Cows to slaughter and get out of the milk business?

Land O'Lakes!

The following bits of information were taken

from the May 10, 2012 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

which describes itself as "The National Dairy

Farm Magazine".

"Strong California output has caused Land O'Lakes

to offer 30 days of paid milk production if patrons

permanently surrender their base. So far, 17

producers have exited the business..."

For a farmer milking 155 cows (the average herd size

in America), the overly generous gift from Land O'Lakes

amounts to a check for $35,000 which represents the

amount that would have been paid for a month of

potential milk payments. Why is Land O'Lakes

being so generous? Hoard's Dairyman reveals:

"Processing plants are flush with milk..."

"When compared to the same time last year,

milk per cow rose 3.2 percent while the

national herd is up 94,000 cows."

(Notmilk note: 3.2 percent per cow means just

one thing...more genetically engineered bovine

growth hormone is being used.)

"Utah led the pack, up 7.8 percent; followed

by Michigan, 7.3; Colorado, 7.1; Arizona, 6.6;

and California, 6.2."

Notmilk began in 1994. By 1995, according to a

page-333 story, the average herd in America

averaged 50 cows. Twelve years later, by 2006,

the averaged herd sized had more than doubled to

116 cows per herd. Last year, the average dairy

herd continued to approach factory-farm size,

containing an average of 155 cows.

In 1995, the average cow yielded 65 pounds of

milk per day. By 2006, that average daily yield

had increased to 71 pounds per cow. Last year,

the average cow produced 73 pounds of milk.

The one bit of good news is that the average

number of pus cells contained in a liter of milk

has decreased thanks to increased antibiotic

use. Since FDA increased the allowable levels

of antibiotics by a factor of 100 times, pus

counts of 304 million cells per liter in 1995

dropped to 288 million pus cells per liter by

2006. The very appetizing news is that last year,

the average liter of milk sold in America contained

only 217 million pus cells!

Those antibiotics work to make milk so much more

wholesome. Of course, antibiotics no longer work,

but that is a fair tradeoff.

Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

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