[Tonchi]

You would understand how little these mega-producers care about either the cows or the customers after reading something in our paper this morning. Without ever having to pass any legislation, the dairy producers and their purchased politicians have kept the price of dairy products maintained artificially high for nearly 70 years now. They just ran an independent producer out of California, after successfully blocking his sales to Walmart and other chains, because he sold at up to 20 cents less per gallon.

When I lived in Arizona in the 80s, the politicians told all the Arizona dairy producers to get rid of their herds because allegedly the subsidies which kept some of them in business were being eliminated. I don't know to what extent that came true, but hundreds of thousands of perfectly healthy dairy cows were slaughtered, although some international agencies managed to rescue some of them and ship them to desperate Third World countries (and especially Russia), so that they could upgrade their own herds and achieve better food production.

Now the expansion of dairies is back with a vengeance. Stay tuned for the coming environmental disaster as global warming makes Central California an increasingly unpleasant place for these massive herds and the accompanying water polution and insects.