Food & Water

11/20/2019

The Dubois Farm has a big footprint in Addison County with 3,100 acres and roughly 2,700 cows. It also carries a large price tag —...

10/29/2019

By RVT Admin Posted October 29, 2019 In Essays, Food & Water Journal The dairy supplier to Ben & Jerry’s, which relies largely on milk produced by large, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), continues to process loads that are classified by state officials as being in violation of stric...

03/26/2019

What would Wally do?

10/11/2018

Hello fine people. I forgot to tell you that Food & Water is now coordinating/collaborating with Regeneration Vermont (right hand, meet left hand). Which is to say, I'm not posting here anymore. Follow our work at Regeneration Vermont if you want. https://regenerationvermont.org/

Nonprofit educational & advocacy org working to educate, unify & mobilize around ag-based solutions to the world’s climate, hunger & environmental crises.

08/22/2018

Oh glorious grass!

The solution to Vermont’s water quality and agricultural crises is a transition away from the factory/confinement dairies and putting cows back on pasture. Let them eat grass! https://regenerationvermont.org/the-regenerative-transition-an-appeal-to-reason/

06/21/2018

The Vermont agricultural narrative is stuck, clinging to the belief that the state is still farming like it used to, when cows grazed, farm families flourished and the communities thrived around them.

03/09/2018

Vermont's Ag Agency enablers keep saying all the rules are being followed and the waters are being cleaned up. The facts continue to say otherwise. Vermont Agency of Agriculture Lake Champlain International Save Lake Carmi Water Warriors

CONTACT: Laura Murphy, Assistant Attorney General, (802) 828-3186 December 20, 2017 The Attorney General’s Office announced it has reached a settlement with a Berkshire, Vermont farm to resolve claims relating to agricultural water quality. In July 2016, the silage leachate pond at Pleasant Valley...

02/13/2018

Vermont's water crisis is the result of its dairy crisis, too many confined cows in the wrong places. It's time for a change. Free the cows! Clean the water!

A two-minute primer on Vermont's dairy pollution problems, filmed in Franklin County, called the "ground zero" for these mega-farms and the water pollution t...

02/09/2018

Vermont's dairy/water problem explained in under two minutes. Hint: Manure.

02/08/2018

When su***de prevention advice comes with your milk check, you know the industrial dairy industry is in some serious trouble. Enough with the commodity model that is holding us all hostage, the farmers, the cows, the environment and our rural communities. Regenerative organic transition now!

The market price of milk is forecast to fall well below the cost of production.

02/06/2018

This legislation is spot-on, a direct hit if meaningful water quality action is the target. Come out and show your support for those who truly live downstream from industrial dairy's chronic pollution.

02/05/2018

"The dramatic rise in glyphosate use was a result of increased cover cropping on cornfields, where herbicides like glyphosate are used for what they call the “burn-down,” or killing of the cover crop,” before corn planting begins in the spring."

Instead of grass, the modern dairy cow is literally gorged with a rich, corn-based diet, all to maximize production.