Foggy Kumar
Sep 4, 2009
Globalization of economies has wrought the current price crisis in our
industry and has allowed a small oligopoly of manufacturers (DFA/Fonterra,
Kraft, Dean, Saputo, etc.) to consolidate and solidify their choke-hold
on both domestic pricing and international trade of milk products.
Absent any imports, the USA is a net negative producer of milk relative
to domestic demand. Where is the sense in selling discounted product to
our government, thereby increasing our own individual tax liabilities in
the future (not to mention the overhanging product inventory), while we
import at face value from other countries. Globalization and
international trade is legalized theft from America's dairy farmers.
Let's produce to be self-sufficient for our home markets, then export
what might be leftover.