09-05-2012, 06:39 AM
I don't know about the science of course, and I do distrust hormones especially in milk, but one thing I am very clear on, is that organic milk promotes a much healthier life for cows.
I was speaking with an old farmer in Vermont a few years ago bemoaning how most of the farms were no longer leaving the cows graze in the field, because it was too expensive. Instead they just kept them in all of the time, which of course made caused a lot of more sickness, for which they would have to inject the cows with a lot of stuff.
My friend was not an organic farmer, but did sell his milk to Ben and Jerry's which had lots of hormone rules, and so had to keep his cows out the fields even though it was more expensive, because it is of course healthier ( also, the life on a diary cow on a small farm is pretty darn nice... if you don't think about what happens when they stop producing or are male ).
I see organic farming in that way. The fact that they are organic, means they have to be more careful with how they raise their food, and I appreciate that.
I was speaking with an old farmer in Vermont a few years ago bemoaning how most of the farms were no longer leaving the cows graze in the field, because it was too expensive. Instead they just kept them in all of the time, which of course made caused a lot of more sickness, for which they would have to inject the cows with a lot of stuff.
My friend was not an organic farmer, but did sell his milk to Ben and Jerry's which had lots of hormone rules, and so had to keep his cows out the fields even though it was more expensive, because it is of course healthier ( also, the life on a diary cow on a small farm is pretty darn nice... if you don't think about what happens when they stop producing or are male ).
I see organic farming in that way. The fact that they are organic, means they have to be more careful with how they raise their food, and I appreciate that.