In a rebuttal to my Op-Ed in the Rocky Mountain News, Aurora Organic Dairy President Mark Retzloff would have us believe that he has the best interests of organic agriculture and consumers in mind.
He does not. 
This dispute started because organic dairy farmers around the nation were alarmed at Aurora’s organic dairy practices. To be sure, these farmers were competing against Aurora, but they wanted that competition to occur on a level playing field.
Aurora had tilted the field in its own favor by skirting organic rules.
Aurora admitted it was confining its animals to feedlots (though saying it was still meeting the bare minimum requirement of "access to pasture"). Aurora was quite open about its policy, arguing in public statements that it did not believe pasture was beneficial to the health of its cows.
Retzloff says Aurora began to change its farm more than two years ago to increase pasture and that […]

Original post by Samuel Fromartz and software by Elliott Back

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