As milk price hearings take place in Washington and dairy co-ops across the country are concerned about the floor price of milk, it is shamefully clear that America's dairy farmers are on the brink the lucky ones bailing out while they have something left, with countless others forced into bankruptcy.
Nothing is further from the truth.
With millions of American children living below the poverty line the demand for milk is terrifically great. And dairy farmers who produce such a vitally needed commodity think they've been taken for a cruel ride. Despite glowing reports that the U.S. economy is healthy, the crisis of American farmers and the cries of hungry children continue. The desire to profit regardless of the consequences is the reason for the great disparity between the rising farm costs and reduced farm income some dairy farmers are receiving 1970 prices for their milk. Contempt is behind the volatility of prices, that have been cruelly manipulated and inflated to consumers as shareholders of multimillion-dollar food corporations make exorbitant profits.