What's in Your Organic Milk?

The USDA is supposed to require that all cows have access to pasture if their milk is labeled "organic."

But this rule is largely undefined, and as a result, major factory farmers have been selling their milk as organic when really their cows are kept in cramped feedlots - only let out to pasture when they're not producing milk.

What's worse, according to the Organic Consumers Association: “a routine practice on these giant dairy feedlots, many with thousands of cows, is to continuously import calves from conventional farms where animals have been weaned on blood, fed slaughterhouse waste and genetically engineered grains, and injected or dosed with antibiotics.”

If this is the standard which constitutes organic, why are we paying double for tainted milk?

Agribusiness is pushing to make this labeling loophole into law. Think about the precedent this would set: if milk coming from cows raised in feedlots and fed genetically modified grains can be called “organic,” what are acceptable standards for organic meat, cheese, eggs, and produce?

Sign the petition demanding higher standards for organic farming.

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