Organic Spies Volume II: Dean Foods, Land O'Lakes and Monsanto. Part 2

[kitcatlib]

Has the OTA board been reformed yet?

[tommyk40]

Chuck Marcy needs to step down

[earthpet]

Thanks for this video. I see now that the label "organic" has absolutely no integrity anymore. American agriculture has turned into a nightmare.

[foreverflavorful]

effing christ bunch of self righteous know it all people, no wonder organics has a bad rap, ya fight each other and the enemy

[TheGregH67]

blah blah

[doc7474]

well done documentary.

[TheGregH67]

this is another reason why we need to return to local and regional food production.. on a localised scale..producers can never get this large..which then just leads to corruption

[j2callie]

The Organic Trade Association has board members who actively lobby against organic standards. Horizon is a factory farm and claims organic status because they lobby against strict organics standards --- like buying calves from organic farms, avoiding GE feeds, pasture requirements. Organic is a marketing plus --- the small farmers who have created the organic movement are shoved aside by corporate farms who want to make it harder for those smaller farms to succeed.

[blueydleprechaun]

I wish people would realize that humans are the only animal species ingest dairy as adults....milk and dairy is for BABIES!!!! HUMAN milk, not cow milk!!!!! I could go on for days about this, but youtube is only giving me 255 more characters ;-/

[TheGregH67]

@blueydleprechaun ok..true enough..but europeans evolved to use milk products as a base food source in a tough environment....europeans have been using dairy as a food source for a thousand years.. and what about kenyan masai.. they harvest the bllod, sperm amd milk of the cattle a staple food source.

[blueydleprechaun]

@TheGregH67 Thank you for reaffirming the definition of the word "humans." I respect your opinion but do not agree. Countries with the highest dairy consumption also have the highest osteoporosis rates. Although dairy has essential vitamins and proteins, they are not in "human" form, they are in bovine form, and therefore our bodies have a more difficult time absorbing them than the dairy industry wants you to believe, meaning we aren't getting all that much from milk to begin with...

[blueydleprechaun]

@TheGregH67 ...On top of that, milk contains bovine fatty acids which leach calcium from human bones and cause a much higher osteoporosis rate than non-dairy consuming cultures. What good does it do to drink milk and put calcium in our bodies if the milk is only going to leach it right back out? If you want calcium, then take a calcium supplement or get it from other food sources. I respect that your opinion is different, but I challenge you to research this on your own and form your own opinion

[kami3233]

@blueydleprechaun you are correct but your arriving at the conclusion incorrectly. It is the pasteurization process which makes the calcium in milk unable to be absorbed into our body. With the pasteurization process all living enzymes are gone. This applys to all yogurt toting probiotic claims. These are false, sadly.

[blueydleprechaun]

@kami3233 Yay! We do agree on something ;-). I totally agree with you on the yogurt, but there's more to it than just the pasteurization process that makes us uncompatible. The most glaring are the genetic differences. However, I think we're at a point to peacefully agree to disagree. I think the most important thing is what is highlighted in the video and making sure to get the message out to others!

[kami3233]

@blueydleprechaun i sure agree with you there! :P

[TheGregH67]

@blueydleprechaun Sir/Madam, I never stated that europeans are the only human beings or suggested that the definition of human is european(caucasian) in anyway..to infer that is false and seems to only be motivated by a need to be spiteful and RIGHT..as most of US human beings seem do all the time..god help us..

[blueydleprechaun]

@TheGregH67 I in no way meant to be rude, and sincerely apologize if my comment was taken that way. To me, singling out certain groups of humans and justifying why they drink milk (financial crisis, resource availability, etc) in no way means that it's healthy to drink milk. That's the point I was trying to make. Nothing more. As humans, we are all entitled to our opinions, and obviously ours are different. That's fine, and I respect that, but that's not going to stop me from sharing mine.

[honestactionfilms]

this is just more reason why we all should do our part to fix the crap in the world. we wont get another chance

[mark70smith]

I care !!!!!!

[terrillcase]

who cares

[tkieffer63]

disgusting to see how STUPID our farmers have become!

[nakedrussian]

Enlightening and depressing..

[gabsave]

Great job Organic spies!!

Profit motive of corporations(mostly of it's owners and majority shareholders) is the number one reason for dishonest practices in their business. Organic farmers and Organic movement groups should encourage only Not for profit companies, Farmer Co-operatives and 100% Employee owned companies. They should discourage and not have any representatives from Listed For Profit Corporations because their motive profit and not well being of farmers and customers.