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Farmer-Rick

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5. Dairy has been slowly collapsing in the US

Reply to janterry (Original post)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 09:34 AM

Aug 2021

Eversince New Deal price subsidies policy was finally removed in 2014 and free trade agreements allowed increase imports of foreign dairy products.

Demand is down too but it may be due to the poor quality of imports. Whatever is causing demand to drop, dairy farming in the US is just another victim of neoliberal and "free" trade policy.

Almonds are so full of pectisides and glysophates, the thought of drinking them like milk gives me the creeps. I've seen how farmers grow almonds, and I would never drink them.

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Horizon Organic, to terminate contracts with Vermont farmers [View all] janterry Aug 2021 OP

I looked at the Horizon website appears to be based in Colorado Tadpole Raisin Aug 2021 #1

millennials drink all that plant based milk thinking it is superior janterry Aug 2021 #2

Yah I drank almond milk until I learned this. That and the fact that it required lots of energy to Tadpole Raisin Aug 2021 #3

The almond growing industry UpInArms Aug 2021 #4

Dairy has been slowly collapsing in the US Farmer-Rick Aug 2021 #5