I was not familiar with the Cornucopia Institute until today when they announced a new study titled, “Maintaining the Integrity of Organic Milk.” I visited their website and was quite happy to see that they’re blogging. They even use the same software as World Dairy Diary. So here’s what their new study is all about:

A smoldering five-year debate in the organic community had gasoline thrown on it when one of the country’s preeminent organic watchdogs released a report this week alleging a handful of leading marketers are shortchanging organic consumers.

“Consumers who pay premium prices for organic products do so believing that they are produced with a different kind of environmental ethic, a different kind of animal husbandry ethic, and social justice for family farmers,” said Mark Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst for the Institute and the report’s primary author. “Our report, Maintaining the Integrity of Organic Milk, and the accompanying dairy brands scorecard will empower consumers and wholesale buyers who want to invest their food dollars to protect hard-working family farmers who are in danger of being washed off the land by a tidal wave of organic milk from these factory mega-farms.”

You can find the report here.