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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Free Range Milk?
I buy all the meat our family eats free range. But I don't know what to do about the milk? Are milk cows mostly free range? I know my family in Wisconsin talks about how milk cows are turned out to pasture, and come back in twice a day to be milked. How do I know the cows are being raised humanely, like the free range/humanely raised meat we buy?
Re: Free Range Milk?
Know your producers.
There is such a thing as humane certification but there aren't a lot of products with this rating. http://www.certifiedhumane.org/
Organic dairy regulations require pasture time during growing seasons, but regulation has been really lax. Many Horizon Organic dairy farms were found to be much like traditional factory operations.
I buy Organic Valley Co-Op milk only, because its a co-operative of smaller family farms and distributed locally.
I also buy Organic Valley milk for the same reason.
This site gives info about dairy companies: http://www.cornucopia.org/dairysurvey/index.html. I find it to be a good starting point.
On a related topic, you can use http://whereismymilkfrom.com/ to find out where your milk came from (particularly useful if you are interested in finding out how local it is).
and if you want your cows to NOT be given growth hormone, the label HAS to say no rBGH, not just hormone free.
It has to have the rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone)
you might want to google rBGH.