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(As an introductory note, I've been absent because I've been swamped by attempting to get ICARE's website up and running-- wordpress is a great platform to work with, until you decide you'd like to use it as a CMS for an organization... so I'll be back more regularly once I've beaten it into submission-- whenever that is)
So, the West's dairy CAFO operators have the audacity to implicitly compare financial aid to industry with civil rights legislation (note the emphasis on "equal" treatment, etc.), and then, on top of that already offensive notion, add insult to injury by claiming that they're the ones being treated unequally. Read more...
On October 27th, Idaho's Magic Valley-based Times-News blared: "Dairy's Social Impact Studied." The article, not surprisingly, is a joke.
Rather than do his journalistic homework and compare the actual methods and data found in the so-called "study" (which you can access in full here) with the researchers' and industry's glowing spin--dairy was the Magic Valley's economic lifeboat during this economic downturn, uninsured underpaid dairy workers don't overly burden hospitals, and similar familiar tripe--the writer, Joshua Palmer, clearly takes what they have to say for granted. Read more...
