An abandoned family farm.
Last week while on our monthly grocery trip, we were shocked to see that milk was selling for $1.50 a gallon at ALDI in Big Rapids.
$1.50.
“Limit five,” the sign said
Clearly, most shoppers’ reaction to these prices was to say “wow, $1.50!” and to then stock up.
For us, our hearts sank. Those farmers, their families, their cows. How in God’s name can they survive $1.50 a gallon?
This week, Dean Foods gave notice to 140 small family dairy farms in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that after May 31 of this year, there will be no truck to pick up their milk. Walmart, the largest buyer of Dean’s milk in the region, has vertically integrated and will now be processing their own milk. But not from those farms. Those farms are too small for Walmart to waste their time with. And now, Dean has no avenue to sell those farms’ milk. After years of low prices, it is, likely, the final nail in the coffin for those […]
Perhaps if we stop craving milk that was given by a cow for her calves, we could solve this problem!! the suffering of the cows and their calves for something we simply do not need shows humans to be selfish and non compassionate.
Though I am a vegetarian this article brought not only reflection but tears. We, in this country in particular, have sold our souls to the Lord Money. Instead of milk the preferences have gone to processed liquids called milk. We seem to have been brainwashed to accept what corporations decided to ram down our throats.
How can life persists on this planet or this country? As human beings can we as a nation regain humanity? Will it take a revolution? Countries a lot older than us have had a few…
I know we live in a city and have to pay a lot for our water. Even if we only use a small amount, just for washing dishes and flushing toilets it costs us over $80 a month. I have had to pay as much as $300 a month a few years ago when we had to water our garden during a hot streak of a few months, and being on social security, that really hurt. They also charge us for sewage, even though the extra water is going on our garden not down the sewer. I am fed up with the high price of water in the city when we have plentiful supplies from two reservoirs on either side of our city. It is a total rip-off when you look at it through the perspective that we do not use sewage lines when we water our garden. I wish we could move to an area where we get our own water from a well. That is all I can do is wish though, since prices of homes are so high now, compared to when we bought our home. Oh, and we are also vegetarians and depend upon our garden for most of our food. We eat from our garden every day, with a few exceptions in the spring. I feel sorry for those who do not have water, and I know many will die in the future from the lack of water. All we can do is hope those already existing drought areas will have less population growth now and in the future.