Horizon milk not so great after all

Crap. A lot of folks, not just pregos like me and parents, have been trying to buy organic milk to avoid the scary scary hormones and cow torture and such. According to Salon, though, those cows aren't so perky. From this article, I quote: "Just now, though, at one of Horizon's dairy farms in central Idaho, the cows don't look too happy. Perched amid a stark landscape of sagebrush and expansive brown fields, long silver barns that hold 4,000 cows are linked like barracks in some covert operation. I drive down a narrow, cracked road toward the dairy's main office and pass open-air sheds about 20 feet away, where cows laze in crowded pens atop the brown hardpan of the Idaho desert. Just outside the milking barn, more cows are jammed into an outdoor corral. Amid clumps of dirt and snow, they are lined up, their bodies touching." Guess it's another brand for me (if I can find it, and afford it). There's got to be an economically feasible way of raising healthy animals for large-scale production. Or, with the way gas prices are rising and squashing our Walmart/mass-distributed econony, maybe it's time for the return of the local dairy farm, buying fresh eggs and milk from the dude down the road. Some friends raise chickens and I gotta tell you, a fresh egg is an awesome thing. I have no idea what real milk tastes like.