When I was in Dalarna, Sweden visiting dairy-farming relatives a few years ago, I was shocked to note that the family actually purchased their own milk and dairy products from the grocery store! I requested milk directly from their holding tank, and, being most thoroughly hospitable folk, they provided it to us for the weeks we were guests with them – at no small trouble, either. But, they were shocked that I'd want full-fat milk because they'd been conditioned by inaccurate and unsubstantiated Western health research to believe low and non-fat was better for their health.

At least, the cows grazed on that gorgeous pasture that grows so well in the midnight sun over there; corn and soybeans haven't made serious inroads into Scandinavia yet, I don't believe. I might add that the dairy section of the markets is most delectable with so vast a selection of milk, cream, cheese and butter products that there is an entire refrigerated room for them in the grocery stores – even in small and lovely Hedemora.

Lynn

Thanks for this info. Lynn

That's the general idea here, too. Although some folks don't see the value in pasture-grazed cows, and the USDA was debating whether to amend its organic guidelines to include milk from non-pasture-grazed cows, it doesn't take too much reasoning to see that milk from healthy cows allowed to graze and live as they would naturally is more nourishing than milk from cows confined in corrals with nothing but dirt and unsanitary conditions. Our Key to Safe Raw Milk from Cows discusses just this issue.

That said, Mr. Gumpert (who worked earlier as a journalist and is, I must say, very thorough), says: Here's a Prediction: Organic Pastures Will Still Be Around When the AP Is a Footnote in History.

Why? Because they're out of touch. That's the problem, too, with this Internet thingy … Mainstream Media is no longer in complete control of all news broadcast to the rest of us. Bummer for them. Because the rest of us can pretty easily have a voice, and we're talking and listening.