I’m not sure I fully understand your point, but I will say that if a farmer can’t be solvent using humane practices, then that person should not be a farmer. Period. And I still have not found a dairy operation that I approve of. We are much happier, and healthier as a family since ditching the dairy.

What family farm is in a poitosin to purchase quota? Dumb idea. Are we not as usual in a milk deficit poitosin? Better management practices may be appropriate for farmers but first they need to be solvent. A fair share of the milk dollar has to go to them now.

I went on a vegan challenge, if you will, for a month a year or two ago, and it was amazing how easy it was to give up dairy. Of course, I was already totally sold on rice and coconut milks and their products (I can do some soy ice cream, but soy milk gives me the itchies for some reason, and I have anaphylactic reactions to tree nuts, soooo…), but I thought cheese would be harder to remove from my diet than it actually was. Go figure. 🙂 I still can’t do fake cheeses — I literally liked NONE of them — but giving it up? Easy-peasy!

You know the rest of my thoughts on things like factory farming and all that nonsense, so I won’t bother with a long, rant-filled diatribe here. But I WILL say again, thank you for sharing this information. Hopefully it’ll lead to more people becoming more aware of what they eat, if not making actual (and, in the grand scheme, small!) changes in their lives.

The whole situation makes my soul hurt. I don’t know how anyone could knowingly support such an industry, but so many people are purposefully ignorant because they don’t want to change their routines or give up tastes they like. I think if you can’t kill the animal yourself it is unethical to use the products of others’ cruelty.

It’s the baby calf thing that really pushed me over the edge on all this.