The Organic Consumers Association’s (OCA) call for a boycott of
the nation’s largest organic dairy brand, Horizon Organic has
recently generated stories in the New York Times, USA Today, National
Public Radio, and the Associated Press. The media coverage has
highlighted the growing backlash by organic consumers against
industrial scale dairy feedlots, who are misleadingly labeling
their products as "USDA Organic," even though the animals
on these factory farms have little or no access to pasture. In
addition, most of the cows on these giant feedlots have been imported
from conventional dairies, where they were weaned on blood, injected
with hormones and antibiotics, and fed genetically engineered
grains and slaughterhouse waste. While Horizon sources half of
its milk from family farms where the lactating cows do have access
to pasture, Aurora Organic, OCA’s other major boycott target,
gets all of its milk from intensive confinement feedlots. Aurora
sells its "organic" milk to supermarket chains including
Costco, Safeway, Giant, and Wild Oats, who bottle it under their
own private labels. For more information, see the Safeguard Organic
Standards section of the OCA website /old_articles/sos.cfm
as well as /old_articles/2006/article_923.cfm
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