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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

We still have *real* dairies like your grandparents up here in No. 
California.  Hundreds of acres of green pasture, some irrigated, some not 
but still 100s of acres of it for the cows to roam through.

We're talking the old type farms.  I know Camozzi's is 615 acres (Petaluma) 
and St. Anthony's (Two Rock) is 339 acres, Stornetta's (Pt. Arena) is 550 
acres.

The average dairy looks like this in Humboldt County 
http://photovalet.com/9793

So, if you want milk from real cows at real dairies and you can't raise it 
yourself, I recommend Humboldt Cremery or Clover-Stornetta.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>


Having been on my grandparent's dairy farm as a kid - where the cows were 
turn out and rotated thru various tracts of land during the day,,,, I was 
shocked, I mean drop dead shocked when I saw how dairy cows are treated here 
in NM. I now wonder if this is what dairy farms have become all over the 
country.

There are literally hundreds of cows enclosed in a hot sunny, manure filled 
pens, with a central metal roof. The pen is fenced around the permiter with 
the "things" the cows put their heads thru to eat food. The workers spread 
alfalfa all around the perimeter, and the cows eat whenever they want. Then 
they lay in piles of manure chewing their cud. The smell can be smelled a 
mile away.

And there are pens after pens after pens,,,, The largest that I have seen so 
far is along I-10 between Las Cruces, NM and El Paso, TX

No wonder they need antibiotics! The cows were filthy. I'm sure they must go 
thru some kind of a shower before milking but what a waste of water in the 
desert. On top of truly horrible conditions for those cows.

Maybe the NYT needs photos of where milk comes from....

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: [Homestead] Excellent NYT editorial
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:02 AM


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/opinion/11kristof.html?_r=1

As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should
reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a
position renamed "secretary of food."

Lynn Wigglesworth

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