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Just a wee bit of commentary here...
"Wow."
-It's about all I can say to the disinformation- (which is NOT to be confused with misinformation). -Definitions below
While watching the TV last night, Glenn Beck was on the Fox news channel.
Yes, I was trying to garner an image, (better than the negative one I have), of him.
He was 'trying' to make a point, and I don't even recall about what.
He had $7.00 in one hand and a gallon of milk in the other.
And his line of thought(?), went something like this...
What will you pay for this milk when the truck drivers have to pay $7.00 for a gallon of diesel, and the farmers pay $7.00 for the gallon of fuel.
How much do you think they will charge us for the milk?
Mr. Beck, I have never known any farmer that could set his own price.
I changed the channel shortly after I realized my mouth was hanging open.
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Me, aka "The Flintville Farmers Daughter"
PS
California cows? Those commercials are funny.
No offense, but dairy cows actually produce more milk in cooler climates.
Talk about a bum steer! HAHAHA! ... Click.
Click on the words below:
* disinformation
* misinformation
The difference clearly lies with intent.
I would say I would have to hear the entire point he was making , not just the part you did not agree with. Was he saying that if the government deregulates the dairy subsidy, which by the way varies from area to area by our government.Then the farmer would set the price. Or was he saying the price of gas sets the price of anything hauled by truck sooner or later? Or maybe he was trying to make another point. I do not know I did not watch him yesterday. But it would be nice to know what his point was.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct of course.
ReplyDeleteBut you would have to look it up.
I don't think he would be worth my time on dial up to do so.
And whatever his point was, dairy farmers do NOT set their own ppgrm
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Me
I think the point of the California cows is more about the quality of the milk than the quanity.
ReplyDeletethey started them for the same reasons outlined in your link. The small dairies in California were suffering from the blight of massive commerical farms. So they started the California milk processors board "california cows" campaign. you can tell at a glance which products are from those farms. There are lables on the products.
Buy local.
http://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/content/about-california-milk-advisory-board
ReplyDeleteThe video on this page tells you a lot... and bonus,, it has my kinds of cows there (brown swiss.)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/happycows
oh, and for the record... these are all the same things that make WIsconsi milk great too~
ReplyDeletetreat the cow with respect and dignity.
buy local
We named our cows, I think that might qualify as respect
ReplyDeleteHi Mommy,
ReplyDeleteI say we make him try to farm for a living and then he will realize that farmers don't set any kind of prices at all... Or they wouldn't be drowning in debt all across this country... That is one thing that I think our nation really needs to work on is respect and just treatment for our nation's farmers... They deserve a whole lot more than what they are getting...
Oh, and about the California Cows issue... I don't agree with the fact that California farming doesn't set an amount of cows per sqare acre law like Wisconsin does. This prevents farms from cramming in as many cows as they can and therefore being unable to treat each animal with the space and treatment it so deserves... I can't stand when farms get big just for money purposes and start to disrespect the animals they own... That's not right, and I don't care who you are, you don't do that kind of stuff... Sis is right, they need to treat every cow with respect and dignity...
This is the reason I do not buy California dairy products... That, and I come from Wisconsin, so we must buy our own farms stuff first just to help our local farms out... But honestly, I do not taste an actual difference in the products, and don't think I ever could!
Love you MUCH MUCH!
~Casey
ReplyDeleteFYI
ppg/rm = Price Per Gallon Raw Milk
You are correct to a point.
ReplyDeleteSee Casey's reply.
Even my father faced that decision...
The higher the milkfat content of the herd, the better the price.
Jersey, Swiss, even Angus and Guernseys produce the higher fat content.
BUT, they also produce lesser amount of milk.
When a family farm is faced with the option of creating their herds, you will note that Wisconsin family dairy farms, by and large, have more Holsteins. This is because the farmers do not have the option always of building on, adding more stalls to cover the smaller milk supply with the highest fat content.
We did add on- But it takes years to then change a herd. It is a vicious circle for most here.
You keep the best, you cull the rest.
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Me
ReplyDeleteI promise to get to your links in a little while.
Each of our calves were also named!
ReplyDeleteI could probably recite about a hundred that I recall offhand.
(But I won't)...
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Me
he would think that the smell is too bad for him.
ReplyDeleteWhere we would smell money- he would smell poo-poo.
About the Cali laws. You have made an excellent point!
Wisconsin is limited.
Only the biggest farms survived into the 21st century.
And that is damnably sad.
The reason you do not taste a difference is because the 'recipes' have to be the very same to be called whatever product you are using.
If you taste a difference, there is something wrong with the product.
Lots of taste differences can come through via the difference in cattle- I would guess that not too many of these selective dairy product producers remain.
Huge difference in goat products though...
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me
I lived it remember? You are correct it is very hard to compete against the big commercial guys. this is the reason we always had holstiens with five percent or so brown swiss.
ReplyDeleteIt is a horrible fact of life. The small guy in America just can not compete with the big bucks folks.
as I said, the whole point of "happy cow" people is to try to promote the family farmers over the commercial guys who pack cows in every spare inch of field they have.
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Pea.
Thank you. They will do a better job explaining than I can.
ReplyDeleteWe named ours too...
ReplyDeletehttp://beck.cnnbcvideo.com/?p=ed33e24f9c6ed0d2a8b04f64099231fb&id=19314-17313833-UEIaH8x
ReplyDeleteHere's the note that came with that link...
ReplyDeleteFox host Glenn Beck has gone to ridiculous lengths to attack President Obama, progressive leaders—even the idea of progressivism itself.
But now he's taken it one step further: Beck has gone after YOU. (Or at least, that's what our fun new video makes it look like.)
Check out the video to see yourself as the center of an out-there Glenn Beck conspiracy theory—then pass it on to all your friends.
Now y'all know I can't watch this from home, but thought it worthy of posting in this review.
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Me
Wouldn't it be easier to spend an hour a day for one week and really see what he is about instead of sound bites? Just sayin
ReplyDeletePersonally, I would much rather read...
ReplyDeleteWhile I generally have the tv on in the background, when I sit and watch, it is something I have recorded. (No commercials that way).
It was a fluke of my own telly~habits that I even came across him and decided to watch him for those few moments.
If I want to see what he has been accurate on I check here.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/glenn-beck/
See, I wait for the "facts" before I post anything political.
I do not make up my mind simply because 'somebody said so'
Watching him will not give me the facts, and I prefer to garner the facts.
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Me
Just the facts.
ReplyDeleteRe: Beck
Click here if you want to see exactly how truthful this person is when it comes to the really political things.
(Just a heads up though, there is ONLY ONE thing he got right).
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/glenn-beck/statements/
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Me
SweeTee;
ReplyDeleteThe following link is not a sound bite.
http://flintville.multiply.com/links/item/239/More_On_Glenn_Beck.
ROTFLMBO...
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Me