Horizon's Dairy is Not Organic

OCA has Pressured USDA to Stop Massive Feedlots from Labeling Products as "Organic"
As discussed in previous issues of Organic Bytes, since 2006, OCA has called for a boycott of Aurora and Horizon's (Dean Foods) dairy products, due to these corporations' practices of cramming thousands of dairy cows onto feedlots, with little or no access to pasture, and then misleadingly labeling their milk and dairy products as "organic".

The Organic Consumers Association has filed a series of petitions, with thousands of your signatures, calling for an end to this label fraud and rampant violation of organic standards. OCA has also supported its farmer-based ally, the Cornucopia Institute, in filing a number of legal complaints with the USDA, asking them to decertify factory farm-style feedlots. Many of our network members have also joined in a nationwide class-action lawsuit, directed against Aurora and Horizon, as well as giant chains such as Wal-Mart, to force them to stop selling bogus organic dairy products. Serving as a guardian and standard-bearer for our 850,000 members, volunteers and subscribers, the OCA has pledged to continue to put the heat on the USDA and organic companies to behave ethically and maintain strict organic standards. In October the USDA finally responded to OCA and organic community pressure and issued new proposed federal regulations that would tighten up pasture and organic forage requirements for organic dairy farms, hopefully putting an end to intensive confinement dairy feedlots calling themselves "organic."
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