Killing Cows To Keep Milk Prices High

tay

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No, you read that correctly. This mysterious state of affairs was revealed in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against dairy cooperatives, groups of farmers who pool their supplies but, as a whole, serve as middlemen between the farmers and dairy processors. In this case, lawyers from one of the premier U.S. plaintiffs’ firms alleged on behalf of American consumers that the cooperatives paid farmers to prematurely turn hundreds of thousands of cows into burgers in a sprawling scheme to prop up dairy prices.

Although American demand for dairy has risen steadily for almost 40 years, some farmers tried to limit the supply of milk by killing off their own cows.

Killing Off American Cows to Keep Milk Prices High - Bloomberg
 

Danbones

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Maybe there is some uranium under their land that hillary can sell to Russia, like was similarly the case around the the Bundy ranch...
 

Danbones

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I don't drink milk...
though large FRESH chicken eggs are 2.00 a dozen out at the "turkey farm"...
awesome maple syrup there too

buy local
 

Machjo

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Milk is not a necessity of life, plus it's not that healthy. So who cares. The pricier the better.
 

taxslave

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No, you read that correctly. This mysterious state of affairs was revealed in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against dairy cooperatives, groups of farmers who pool their supplies but, as a whole, serve as middlemen between the farmers and dairy processors. In this case, lawyers from one of the premier U.S. plaintiffs’ firms alleged on behalf of American consumers that the cooperatives paid farmers to prematurely turn hundreds of thousands of cows into burgers in a sprawling scheme to prop up dairy prices.

Although American demand for dairy has risen steadily for almost 40 years, some farmers tried to limit the supply of milk by killing off their own cows.

Killing Off American Cows to Keep Milk Prices High - Bloomberg

US problem. In Canada we have marketing boards which guarantee farmers a profit. Also makes it nearly impossible for cheese makers to get milk. It was set up to protect dairy farmers in (where else) Ontario and Quebec. Farmers are forced to dump excess milk on the ground.
 

TenPenny

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Farmers have quotas that they are allowed to produce and sell. If they're such poor planners that they make too much milk, they have to dump it.
 

Scooby

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In Canada, excess milk is turned into powder and shipped overseas as aid to poor countries. The dairy farmer and the processor get paid. What happens to it at the destination is a good question. I'm sure it's used as political capital somehow, but good luck getting to the truth on that.
 

taxslave

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In Canada, excess milk is turned into powder and shipped overseas as aid to poor countries. The dairy farmer and the processor get paid. What happens to it at the destination is a good question. I'm sure it's used as political capital somehow, but good luck getting to the truth on that.

No they don't. Farmers in the Fraser Valley have been forced to dump milk on the ground. Big uproar in the news for about three days then the SJWs moved on to something else.
 

selfsame

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Milk is not a necessity of life, plus it's not that healthy. So who cares. The pricier the better.

The milk is a very important food stuff and nutrient, for all age groups; the natural milk of cows and sheep is of a very high value for its content of protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and so many other essential substances and compounds including also many antibodies against the microbes and the rest of nutrient substances.

َQuran 16: 66, which means:
{Surely there is a lesson [and indication] for you [about God’s might], included in the cattle:
We give you to drink of that which is in the interior [of the udder] – from between the filth and the blood – pure milk, [uncontaminated with any filth or blood]
e, palatable to drinkers.}
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e That is because the fodder which the cattle eat, will lead to the formation of the blood and the milk and the rest will be filth or dung.

So God – be glorified – did not mean with His saying (from between): the place between the dung and the blood; but this is a parable of the might and ability; the Arab say: “From among many hundreds, it was I who succeeded.”
And “From among all people, it was I alone who could see the crescent or the new moon.”
It means: I was capable to succeed so I succeeded and I saw it.

Therefore, (from between the filth and the blood) means: the food will form the blood and the rest will become dung; but with Our might and ability, We formed another item which is the milk, for We made another set for milk formation in the udder of the female among the cattle and others, and We gave it to you to drink.

Moreover, (of that which is in the interior [of the udder]) indicates the masculine tense in Arabic grammar; it is about the inside of the udder, not about the inside the belly of the cattle, because the site of the milk is not in the abdomen of the cattle but in their udders.
And for this reason, it is mentioned in masculine tense in the aya.

http://quran-ayat.com/pret/16.htm#a16_66