Episode 73: Grocery Update: Understanding The Dairy Industry

The U.S. dairy industry is vast, complex and misunderstood. Plant-based advocates dismiss it as cruel and inhumane while local farm activists tout the assumed sustainability of family run-dairies. But there is so much more to how it all works, who it works for and how it is failing farmers, consumers and workers.

Join Errol Schweizer, Grocery Nerd and Host of The Checkout, as we dig into Danone’s harsh decision to cut off contracts to 79 Northeast Organic dairy farmers and use this crisis as a jumping off point to analyze and explain the massive U.S. dairy sector.

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