The author of this article is Daniel Jennings who works for Off the Grid News. He has a professional outlook on the situation and is empathetic towards the cows. The article was written on September 17th, 2016 regarding events about the slaughtering of half a million cows. This article was written for the people to know the injustices of cow killings and milk prices. It's also for dairy farmers so they can see how selling their cows to slaughter won't benefit them.
Big farms and small forms both made a deal with the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) so they could kill the cows in order to keep the milk supply down. This goes along with supply and demand. In order to have a higher demand for milk, thus higher prices, they needed to have less milk, thus less cows. The milk prices rose 66 cents per hundredweight between the years 2004 and 2008. This may not seem like a huge price jump but to the NMPF it was enough to murder 500,000 cows. Does that make sense? No. Also it ran them into legal problems because it went against a federal law called the Capper-Volstead Act. The law bans fixed pricing on supplies, such as milk. The reason farmers went along with this injustice is because they only get paid less than a third of the retail price of milk, so if milk is cheap they don't get much revenue. The milk industry settled with the plaintiffs for 52 million dollars. This money will be redistributed to residents who live(d) in Arizona, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin or the District of Columbia between the years of 2003 and 2016. Although this isn't a tax, it reminds me of "taxation without representation" because it has an impact on people who live in certain areas and charges them more money.
Prior Knowledge: I didn't have any prior knowledge to this event. Because of this it left me even more shocked that an industry would go that far for money.
I mean the oil companies do similar things too. Why not the milk companies. They are both controlling their liquid prices.
ReplyDeleteTell that to a vegan and ask if they believe they're the same haha.
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