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What the Ad Says:
The dairy industry is flocking to New Mexico, leaving regions like the Chino Valley in California and the Bosque River region of Texas, leaving behind waste and environmental catastrophes.
They claim they like New Mexico because of our climate and our "dairy friendly" attitude. Are we "dairy friendly?" Or just "dairy dumb?"
Once You Know the REAL FACTS, You Might Not Feel So FRIENDLY.
Did you know that America is drowning in milk?
Dairy producers overproduce so much milk that ONE BILLION of your taxpayer dollars have been converted into dry milk, stored in caves in Kansas City and warehouses across the country. And another 20 to 25 million pounds of the stuff was arriving every week. That's a BILLION taxpayer dollars. And storage costs ALONE are costing the American taxpayer almost $20 million a year.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am:
A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF DRY MILK??? You've GOT to be Kidding....
Here's a picture of just SOME of the dry milk, stored in warehouses and caves (Photo courtesy The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/usbudget/budget-fy2004/agriculture.html):
According to an article in USA Today: "It would take 635,000 cows an entire year to make all that milk."
Click HERE to read about the dry milk issue at the White House's web site, which states: "USDA purchases nearly half of all domestic nonfat dry milk production and currently stores 1.2 billion pounds of nonfat dry milk in caves and warehouses in Kansas City. If each bag in storage were laid out end to end, a line of nonfat dry milk would stretch for 12,000 miles, or twice the distance from California to Vermont and back again."
And another quote from the White House web site:
"Another example of a farm bill program causing market distortions is in the dairy sector. USDA’s dairy price support program has resulted in huge quantities of government-owned stocks of nonfat dry milk. Even though dairy prices have been stagnant to declining in the past few years, production levels have not adjusted, as the government is obliged to purchase dairy products. The annual costs to run the dairy support program were well below $1 billion throughout most of the 1990s. The current estimated spending on these programs, including income support payments, is expected to exceed $2.8 billion in 2003 and $1.4 billion in 2004. USDA recently lowered the price the government will pay to purchase nonfat dry milk, in an effort to stem the growing inventory. This change will be closely monitored and future action taken if government stocks continue to grow."
