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<blockquote data-quote="burroughs85" data-source="post: 1729337" data-attributes="member: 42429"><p><strong>Can I sell milk off the farm in my state?</strong> I don't know. It sounds like organic farming has low feasibility for large-scale operations marketing foods for public consumption. The reason why most people can't get the most healthful farmed foods (using true organic farming as that gold standard) is that it is not within the means of most people to pay such high organic food prices and that there are too many people in this world in numbers to begin with. I had a vision of producing animal-cruelty-free organic foods for the masses, but I don't know if that is even possible. Having a farm with cows hock deep in manure is not what I fancy. I fancy a lot of green pasture. I fancy cows on clean bedding. I don't fancy cowchit piling up everywhere. The barnyard cowchit can be collected by a laborer daily with a wheelbarrow and a shovel and composted for crops. We lived healthier lifestyles when there were many fewer people in the world and a much greater percentage of people in ag, indeed. Mass producing things from cars to food means a loss in quality control often. To answer your question, a commercial (true organic) dairy is what I had in mind if that's how you define it. Who can afford to pay $11-12/gallon for "certified organic" milk at the supermarket? A bank executive? It sounds like the organic operations already in existence now cater only to the rich and can only do that to stay in business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="burroughs85, post: 1729337, member: 42429"] [B]Can I sell milk off the farm in my state?[/B] I don't know. It sounds like organic farming has low feasibility for large-scale operations marketing foods for public consumption. The reason why most people can't get the most healthful farmed foods (using true organic farming as that gold standard) is that it is not within the means of most people to pay such high organic food prices and that there are too many people in this world in numbers to begin with. I had a vision of producing animal-cruelty-free organic foods for the masses, but I don't know if that is even possible. Having a farm with cows hock deep in manure is not what I fancy. I fancy a lot of green pasture. I fancy cows on clean bedding. I don't fancy cowchit piling up everywhere. The barnyard cowchit can be collected by a laborer daily with a wheelbarrow and a shovel and composted for crops. We lived healthier lifestyles when there were many fewer people in the world and a much greater percentage of people in ag, indeed. Mass producing things from cars to food means a loss in quality control often. To answer your question, a commercial (true organic) dairy is what I had in mind if that's how you define it. Who can afford to pay $11-12/gallon for "certified organic" milk at the supermarket? A bank executive? It sounds like the organic operations already in existence now cater only to the rich and can only do that to stay in business. [/QUOTE]
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