Their profit margins are measured in pennies per hundred pounds of product produced. That wonderful balance in their lives is now threatened by the Dairy Education Board. I take no pleasure is causing pain to these good people. However, I have to consider the pain that their product causes to an entire society. To me, these dairy producers are death merchants and their product is no better than heroin or cocaine grown by equally hard working farmers and drug dealers in South America.
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