It's about "farming and ranching without the need for chemical pesticides, fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics." It's also about growing and buying locally, to cut down on all facets of the costs of long-distance shipping. In other words, local survival, the way it has been done for thousands of years.

"Dr. Jude Capper, an assistant professor of dairy sciences at Washington State University, has studied the data."

Dr. Jude Capper is owned and operated (as are most of her cohorts) by the huge chemical and pharmaceutical companies who make enormous donations to ag colleges, and when the colleges attempt to teach anything else but the grossly expensive CAFOs, the corporations threaten to withdraw their funding.

This country appears to be on its last legs, financially. If/when we go into another Great Depression, where do you think your long-term food supply is coming from?

Sue