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The Truth about Horizon ‘Organic Milk’ and Silk ‘Natural Soy Milk’

Monday, April 02, 2007

by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Interview: Organic Consumers Association's Ronnie Cummins tells the truth about organic milk that isn't

With consumer demand for organic products continuing to grow, more large corporations are entering the organic market. To maximize profits, some of these companies don't follow organic standards but still label products as organic. For example, Horizon Organic and Aurora Organic, sold by Wal-Mart and other retailers, continue to produce "organic" milk under factory-farm conditions that few reasonable people would consider truly organic.

According to the Organic Consumers Association, half of Horizon's "organic" milk today comes from what can only be considered "factory" dairy feedlots -- and much of Aurora's organic milk does as well. Rather than buy organic calves that have been raised from birth on organic farms, these companies seemed to have discovered it's cheaper to buy conventional calves that have been raised on conventional farms, install them in factory feedlots, then milk them and call it organic.

The situation has become so alarming that the Organic Consumers Association ultimately called for a boycott, and many knowledgeable consumers are now avoiding the Horizon brand entirely.

The organic milk controversy extends to organic soy milk as well. Horizon Organic's parent company, Dean Foods , also bought out Silk, the leading organic soy milk brand in the United States. Dean Foods has pushed for lower organic standards in the United States and to allow industrial-style production to be called "organic."

Full article [Natural News] (email address required to read entire article)

Links:

Organic milk ratings [Cornucopia.org]

Dean Foods pulls bait-and-switch on ‘organic’ Silk soymilk [Natural News] Nov 10, 2009