A dairy cooperative (co-op) is a company consisting of dairy farms. The co-op purchases milk from the member farms and then processes that milk into butter, cheese, and other dairy commodities which are then distributed to markets. There have been so many examples of dairy co-op fraud. One CEO and his wife and his bookkeeper stole over $1 million from a Montana co-op a few years ago. In another case of a California co-op, $22 million in profits were stolen from a group of 11 dairy co-op members by the co-ops managment team. In a third case, $600,000 was embezzled from Dairylea co-op over seven years by one key employee. Recently, one of Americas largest dairy co-ops, Associated Milk Producers, was found to have withheld $16 million dollars in tax payments due the IRS. And of course, there is that $3 million bribe paid to then-President Richard Nixon on March 23, 1971 which crime was recorded on a Watergate tape which Notmilk obtained a few years ago after filing a Freedom of Information Act request. That bribe financed Watergate. See: notmilk/trickydick.html Pete Hardin, owner and editor of a pro-dairy monthly (The Milkweed) has also uncovered dozens of instances of lies, fraud, and deceit, from some of Americas largest dairy co-ops in his meticulous investigations. Obscene salaries paid to insiders are just a small example of the lack of ethics co-op managers have perpetrated against their own members. Unethical behavior within these private companies has been the traditional rule, and not the rare exception. The unethical behavior directed by co-op boards against their members is only exceeded by the lack of decency extended to the milk and dairy-consuming public. They actually expect us to believe that cows living and dying on factory farms are Happy Cows? The October 10, 2014 issue of Hoards Dairyman (The National Dairy Farm Magazine) includes a chart (page 631) revealing the top 50 co-ops in America. The chart lists the top 5 as: Dairy Farmers of America, (DFA) California Dairies, Inc., Land O Lakes, FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative, and Northwest Dairy Association. These five accounted for 89 billion pounds of milk in 2013, which represented 44 percent of the milk produced in the United States. These are fascinating data, particularly when reading in between the lines. For example... The 7,711 member farms of the #1 co-op, DFA, produced 39.4 billion pounds of milk in 2013. The number two dairy co-op representing California, California Dairy Inc. produced 17.6 billion pounds of milk. California Dairy Inc. is made up of just 470 farms. How is it that the #1 co-op produced 2.24 times as much milk as #2, while having sixteen times as many dairy farms? Purdue Universitys Animal Education Network reports that the average dairy herd size in America is 135 cows, and that the average cow produces 21,000 pounds of milk per year. Assuming that the Purdue number regarding average milk production per cow is correct, then according to the Hoards chart, the average DFA farm (containing 135 cows) has 1,876,000 cows producing their milk. Applying Purdues numbers, typical California Dairy Inc. farms contain 1,750 cows. According to the California Milk Advisory Board, the average California dairy farm is home to 1,200 cows. The numbers just do not seem to add up. This could mean just one of two things. 1) Milk from California farms represents magnificent dairy-farm management... OR... 2) Happy Cows from California farms are being injected with copious amounts of the genetically engineered version of bovine somatotropin, or BST. Conclusion: Combine the dairy industrys continuing bull-stuff (B.S.) with that hormone-laced white pus consumers drink, and we have a society filled with a new genetically engineered B-S-TEA! Genetically engineered milk always contains increased amounts of bovine IGF-1, which happens to be identical to human IGF-1, and which also has been identified as the key factor to the growth and proliferation of every human cancer, and knowing all of the above, I despair for every woman who has been sold a false bill of goods by the dairy industry that drinking milk is the key to good health, when in actuality, is the key to breast cancer. Am I so foolish as to be despaired by these thoughts? * * * * Despair is the conclusion of fools. - Benjamin Disraeli
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:43:50 +0000
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