Milk is Milk Blog Addresses Harmful Demands from Grocers, Food Companies and Activist Groups
Non-profit education campaign on misleading milk and dairy marketing warns consumers about marketing and activist scams.
Churchville, VA (PRWEB) February 4, 2005 -
This week “Milk is Milk” Blog author Alex Avery addresses unquantifiable “consumer demand” often cited by food companies and activists seeking to force production restrictions on farmers from whom they buy milk and cheese. A disturbing trend among such groups finds dairy farmers face to face with mandates to abandon safe, scientifically tested animal health and productivity practices like antibiotics used to treat mastitis or supplemental somatotropin (rbST) to help boost productivity.
Avery contends limiting the tools farmers have to safety produce affordable milk for black marketing schemes and other activist political agendas creates a downward spiral in the market place causing an increased costs and reduced demands for dairy products. Avery takes a detailed look at the tactics of these groups revealing a cycle of costly and never-ending demands by activists and a resulting black marketing by a growing number that falsely disparages some dairy products and misleads consumers about the safety of milk. As a result, Avery claims farmers suffer economic damage while consumers pay more and consume less dairy products.
The Center for Global Food Issues “Milk is Milk” consumer education campaign Blog has created a buzz among the dairy industry and continues to draw significant traffic from media, industry experts and farmers during its first month of existence. Read Alex’s latest entry at http://www. milkismilk. com/blog. htm (http://www. milkismilk. com/blog. htm).
The Center for Global Food Issues is a project of the Hudson Institute, a tax-exempt non-profit public policy organization, providing factual, science-based information on important food and farming issues.
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Http://www. cgfi. org (http://www. cgfi. org)
Http://www. milkismilk. com (http://www. milkismilk. com)
Http://www. milkismilk. com/blog. htm (http://www. milkismilk. com/blog. htm)
Http://www. stoplabelinglies. com (http://www. stoplabelinglies. com)
Http://www. mad-cow-facts. com (http://www. mad-cow-facts. com)
Http://www. highyieldconservation. org (http://www. highyieldconservation. org)
Http://www. earthfarmfriendly. com (http://www. earthfarmfriendly. com)
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