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To: Scythian

From a link in your article.......I say ugh since I like Horizon milk because it doesn’t go bad as quickly as others....but...........

One company that had an excellent opportunity to meet consumer expectations by supporting the growth of organic acreage in North America was Dean Foods, makers of the industry’s leading soymilk, Silk. Instead, after buying the Silk brand, Dean Foods quit purchasing most of their soybeans from American family farmers and switched their primary sourcing to China. This cost-cutting move helped them build their commanding soy milk market share using soybeans of questionable organic certification from China.

“White Wave (the operating division of Dean Foods that markets Silk and Horizon organic milk) had the opportunity to push organic and sustainable agriculture to incredible heights of production by working with North American farmers and traders to get more land in organic production, but what they did was pit cheap foreign soybeans against the U.S. organic farmer, taking away any attraction for conventional farmers to make the move into sustainable agriculture,” said Merle Kramer, a marketer for the Midwestern Organic Farmers Cooperative.

http://www.cornucopia.org/2009/05/new-report-many-organic-soy-food-brands-importing-beans-from-china/


40 posted on 05/20/2009 12:47:52 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (The problem with socialism is that you eventually, run out of other peopleÂ’s money Margaret Thatche)
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