Anne Paddock has exposed their dirty secrets – yeah, you knew it was going to be dirty didn’t you? – and I wanted to share her post with you but the Reblog button isn’t working properly today so I’ll just copy and paste some highlights here. But do go over to Anne’s brilliant blog and read the whole thing.

She writes:

Dairy Management Inc (DMI) is the big organization that most people haven’t heard of because unless you’re a dairy producer, work in the dairy industry, or work in the corporate offices of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Dominoe’s, or KFC, you would have no reason to know that this non-profit, tax-exempt 501 (c) (6) is the most powerful non-profit dairy organization in the country.

Considered a “check-off” program authorized by Congress but responsible to their members, DMI’s mission is to increase consumption of dairy products by finding more ways to get dairy products to the public including assisting fast food companies with menu items.

“DMI’s mission is to increase consumption of dairy products by finding more ways to get dairy products to the public”

How does DMI do this? By requiring America’s 37,000 plus dairy producers to pay 15 cents (and dairy importers to pay 7.5 cents) for every 100 pounds of milk (a gallon of milk weighs 8.6-11.6 pounds so 100 pounds of milk is roughly 10 gallons, meaning US dairy farmers pay DMI about 1.5 cents per gallon for their services).  These funds are used to “fund programs aimed at promoting dairy consumption and protecting the good image of dairy farmer, dairy products, and the dairy industry” this includes paying some employees up to $2.7 million annually.

What they don’t tell you is that in order to produce milk for human consumption, the cows have to be pregnant (primarily by artificial insemination) or given birth to a calf, who is taken away from the mother to either be grown to become a dairy cow (females) or slaughtered at a few months old for veal (males) or raised as a beef cow. Those images of the happy cows in the fields by a barn are simply not the truth for most cows in the industrialized dairy industry.

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This is a tax-exempt charity???!!!!!!

Get over to PaddockPost.com and find out about so many rich, self-serving “charities”.