Factory Farm Producing 'Organic' Milk Shut Down
U.S. Newswire, June, 2007
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute, 1-608-625-2042
PIXLEY, Calif., June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a seven- year-long battle between organic farmers and consumers and the USDA, the first of a handful of industrial-scale dairies, producing what they claimed was organic milk, has been shutdown by regulators. The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin based organic watchdog, announced that the Case Vander Eyk Jr. in Pixley, California, has been forced to suspend selling organic milk. The 10,000-cow feedlot dairy, near Fresno, was found to be operating outside of the organic law.
In early 2005, Cornucopia filed the first of a series of formal legal complaints with the USDA against large factory-farm operators, including Vander...
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