Local Organic Dairy
Buying local, organic milk from pastured cows
means that not only are you providing your family
with the safest, most animal friendly option, you
are also supporting your community and the
environment. When you spend money on a local
dairy, it is reinvested into labor costs, local
taxes, the town veterinarian, and anything else
you can think of a dairy might need. You’ll feel
good knowing you’re keeping meaningful, steady
jobs in your community, and dollars in your
neighbors pockets.
A local dairy is going to have better oversight
than a huge operation producing milk for people
they don’t even know, too. Who do you trust more:
a farmer who gives school tours of her barns and
milking parlor, or a five thousand head CAFO with
a big NO TRESPASSING sign on the gate?
Milk produced locally doesn’t need to be shipped
in refrigerated trucks across county and state
lines either, it’s as fresh as you can get
without buying your own cow.
Radiance Dairy, my local
hometown dairy, provides the best milk I’ve
ever tasted. The first time I ever tried the
whole milk it was an absolutely sumptuous
experience, I had never tasted such creamy,
rich, flavorful milk in my entire life. It
was like tasting the grass, the sunshine,
and the happiness of the cows lives in every
sip, I’m absolutely not kidding! It made me
simultaneously joyful, that milk could be so
good, and sad, that so many people have
never and may never have this experience.
Although record numbers of local dairies have
gone bankrupt and vanished in the past few
decades, I’m confident that a single taste of
real milk for every American would turn this
trend around. The difference between organic,
grass fed, local milk is comparable to the one
between a rock hard, pink, grocery store tomato
and a home grown heirloom. There’s just no
comparison! Once you taste the real thing you
won’t be satisfied with that white water that
passes for milk in most grocery stores ever
again!
Francis Thicke, the co-owner
of Radiance Dairy, is running for Secretary
of Agriculture for the state of Iowa and he
has my vote.
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