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Boycott Horizon and Aurora Dairy
Products
Horizon and Aurora have
been lobbying the USDA to keep pasture and feed requirements vague.
USDA will soon propose new federal organic dairy standards. They
will allow so-called organic factory farms to create the impression
that their milk cows are grazed on pasture. Unscrupulous certifiers
and bureaucrats in the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) will
allow them to get away with “symbolic access to pasture.”
Intensively confined, stressed-out dairy cows are briefly chewing
their cuds outside giant milking parlors in between their
three-times-a-day milkings.
Stonyfield Farm,
Organic, Valley and Humboldt Creamery have joined
Horizon and Aurora in lobbying the USDA to keep
requirements non-enforceable. OCA is asking organic consumers and
farmers to contact these companies. Ask them to formally rescind
their previous statement to the USDA. They must formally and
publicly state that new NOP dairy regulations must require a minimum
of 30% of feed from pasture. Otherwise consumers will continue to
lose faith in the USDA Organic label on dairy products.
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Organic Consumers Association
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Winter
2008
Thousands of organic consumers and many retailers have dropped
Horizon and Aurora products. This includes the private label milk
brands supplied by Aurora. They are sold by Wal-Mart, Costco, Wild
Oats, Safeway, Giant, UNFI and others. The Organic Consumers
Association (OCA) has launched a boycott of all of their products.
