Their values, love for family, their country and their God are values that I too hold dear. These men and women work around the clock tending to their business and chores, sometimes staying up in the middle of the night with a sick animal. Their jobs and lives are intermeshed because cows must eat seven days each week and must be milked three times each day.
Vacations are rare and money is often extremely tight.
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.