Got $23 million dollars a year to spend on celebrity endorsements and a national ad campaign? The dairy industry does! Commercial dairy farmers Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are surely, and not-so-slowly, monopolizing the world of milk. Straight from the cow’s mouth: There were 65,000 milk cow operations in 2009 compared to 97,460 in 2001, a…
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Why I Literally Cannot Stomach Buying CAFO Anymore
This past holiday weekend, at a seemingly innocent celebratory social gathering with friends at the beach, something awful happened to PH and I. Stomach-turningly, gut-disruptingly, immune-compromisingly…awful. We each partook of a completely normal, barbecued rib eye steak bought at the supermarket. It was…gritty. Chewy. Stringy. With end notes of environmental pollution and sulfuric gas. It…