ALERT UPDATE: OCA’s Boycott of Horizon Continues as Company’s Stock Plummets


ALERT
UPDATE:
OCA’S BOYCOTT OF HORIZON CONTINUES AS COMPANY’S STOCK PLUMMETS


April marked the one year anniversary of OCA’s boycott of factory
farmed dairy products produced by Horizon Organic and Aurora. Ninety-six
percent of Organic Bytes readers, in an online survey in 2006, voted
to launch a boycott of so-called "USDA Organic" brands
sourcing dairy products from intensive confinement feedlots where
the cows have little or no access to pasture, and where many of
the calves have been purchased from conventional farms. A loophole
in the USDA Organic Standards has allowed two companies, Horizon
and Aurora, to buy their milk from "organic" factory farms
where as many as 10,000 cows are packed into feedlots. Although
Horizon claims the OCA boycott has not affected sales, Executive
Gregg Engles recently admitted to investors that profits for the
year have been much lower than projected. The company’s stock market
price has recently dropped 11 percent. In addition Wal-Mart, Wild
Oats, Safeway, Costco, Woodstock Farms, Publix, and other private
label vendors of Aurora’s feedlot milk are coming under increasing
criticism from consumers.
Learn more about this campaign and take part in the boycott:
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