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longer work. Tens of thousands of Americans 8. AIR QUALITY
now die each year because of superbugs created Pasteurization has damaged our air quality.
by CAFO antibiotic abuse. MRSA and VRA Cows that are kept in CAFO system confinement
drug resistance is now a major cause of death and and fed huge amounts of grain produce massive
there are fewer and sometimes no antibiotics left amounts of methane gas. These gasses are not
to kill the bad bugs and save human lives. The good for air quality, earth health, cow health
FDA refuses to ban or limit use of antibiotics in or human health, and ensure the bad reputation
CAFO feed and instead testifies in defense of of the dairy industry for stinking downwind. A
antibiotic use by the CAFO industry (Senator few dairies now capture this methane gas as a
Dean Florez SB 362 Sac CA in 2009). resource to be sold for energy, but 99.9 percent
of dairies do not. There are almost two million
6. REPUTATION million cows in California that live on 1800 dair-
Pasteurization has killed the digestibility ies. Few (nearly none aside from a few organic
of milk and its delicious milky reputation. Now dairies) of these dairies use pastures to feed their
milk is no longer a food with a good reputation, cows. When cows are fed pasture, their produc-
and the dairymen do not even realize it. It causes tion of methane gas is a minute fraction of what
or triggers gas, allergies, diarrhea, asthma at- is produced in CAFO systems. Pasture-feeding
tacks, mucus production, constipation, gastric also allows for the sequestration of carbon and
cramping and so-called “lactose intolerance.” recycling of manure directly back to living plant
This has caused the dairy industry to lose many life.
consumers to soy milk, rice milk, almond milk
and even hemp milk. None of these fake milks 9. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
comes from mammalian animals with teats. Pasteurization has killed individual re-
The dairy industry did this to itself because the sponsibility for milk quality and even how the
processing industry runs the dairy industry. And dairy looks. When no one cares about how the
so what if the processor does not bottle milk? dairy looks because no one ever comes to visit,
The dairy processor can bottle water, soy milk, the dairy can start to look pretty darn horrible.
rice milk, almond milk or hemp milk. All the Calves in dirty hutches, cows deep in manure,
processor cares about is processing “throughput.” nothing painted, nothing clean and nothing
Last year the processors spoke about the new green. The milk quality will not matter either. It
emerging dairy product category called “branded is customary for a dairyman with poor quality
bottled water.” Dairymen have not spent enough milk to add some chlorine bleach to the bulk tank
time in the market and have delegated to the pro- to kill the bacteria and pass the inspector’s test
cessors the most important thing that they can sample. This is something that the “consumer
do: connect to consumers and tell the consumer connected” raw milk dairyman would never
their story and listen to feedback. Now the fat ever do. Some pasteurized milk producers would
fox has eaten their chickens. never do this either. However, that does not mat-
Pasteurization ter. The good milk of the conscientious dairyman

has ruined our 7. WATER SUPPLIES is commingled with all the other dairymen’s milk
Pasteurization has ruined our water sup-
water supplies. plies. Wherever a mega dairy CAFO is located, and his individual quality becomes irrelevant.
Wherever a there are huge liquid manure lagoons. These 10. JOBS

mega dairy manure and chemical-filled lagoons often leach Pasteurized milk kills jobs and is economi-
CAFO is into underground aquifers. It is nearly impos- cally, nutritionally and socially killing America.
sible to keep these lagoons from leaching into In Basic Economics the first thing the professor
located, the underground water supplies. The best new explains is that all new money in our American
there are huge technologies do protect from leaching but their economy is created at the start of the food chain
liquid manure plastic or rubber lined lagoons are extremely with mining, fishing and farming. America has
costly and older dairies are not required to install outsourced much of its food chain to China and
lagoons. them. other unwatched places, and with that, all the
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