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can someone remind me why I shouldn't buy Horizon?
I'm about to send an email to my local grocer asking them to start carrying more Organic Valley products instead of (or in addition to) Horizon. Specifically I am having to go to other stores to get butter, shelf stable milk paks for dd's lunch, cream cheese etc. because I won't buy Horizon. How awful that I boycott a company when I can't remember specifically why. I know their practices are/were(?) questionable. But I should at least know exactly why.
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Re: can someone remind me why I shouldn't buy Horizon?
I thought it was really kind of pseudo-organic. They do the absolute minimum to keep their "organic" labeling, but most of their product is raised conventionally??
Weren't they the ones that when the certifiers or (spies) came to check out their practices, and once the company saw the investigators some cows that had minutes before been kept in a pen were miraculously released to a field--to "graze" upon the mud/grass??
Haha, I understand that!
Horizon is a Dean foods company. They have been charged several times with not being in compliance with organic standards, including the dairy cows not having pasture time in season. They have several large 'organic' dairy lots, on the factory farm scale, which does not fit with why I buy organic, and which is where the alleged noncompliance happened.
So I'm not comfortable with the product itself, and I also don't like the company. I don't like their ethics, and I don't like that they seem to be skirting the point of organic. Dean Foods is also huge, and was recently forced to give up a purchased dairy because it gave them a monopoly in Wisconson.
On the other hand, Organic Valley (jeez, they should pay me) supports small family farms, that may otherwise not be able to survive, and has stringent standards that go beyond organic standards (especially when it comes to pasture time), and give a lot of support to their farms as far as herd care, etc.
They should pay you! How many people on this board, myself included, have switched to Organic Valley because of you passionate writing about them?
Organic Valley also support Heifer International according to their carton. Here are several articles on Horizon:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_1077.cfm
http://www.dairyreporter.com/Industry-markets/Horizon-dairy-targeted-for-lacking-organic-practices
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2006-08-17/business/ORGANIC17_1_organic-milk-organic-dairy-aurora-organic
That's their current carton, the last one was about an organic gardening book/mag/guide, I can't remember. It changes. I was happy to see Heifer Int'l on it this time.