Has anyone seen this on the grocery shelves?

[EC]

Horizon Organic Milk

http://www.horizonorganic.com/products/index.html





If so, where?

[mulsh]

1. safeway

the local safeways here in Oakland, Ca carry it.

[EC]

3. Thanks, now I have to figure out who

is comparable here, it says on their where to find page Super Savers, but they were all renamed here and I cannot recall which is which anymore since they have changed so many times...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Safeway here too. It's good stuff.

[EC]

4. I'm guessing it's a bit more expensive than the

doctored up stuff?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. I can't remember the price but I think it is a bit more. On the order

of %25 - %30 more.

[RebelOne]

5. It's sold in all the supermarkets here in Georgia. n/t

[likesmountains 52]

6. Albertsons and City Market (Kroeger) n/t

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

7. Almost everywhere in NY

Foodtown, Gristides, Food Emporium, D'Agastinos

[bertha katzenengel]

8. Try Stonyfield Farms Organic - also hormone free, I believe

[seemunkee]

9. Giant in MD.

[redqueen]

11. I have... Kroger and Tom Thumb and Albertson's.

I buy that brand... expensive but I think it's worth it.

[AlCzervik]

12. yup, a always buy their "Cage free" organic eggs--Bel Air in California

[LisaL]

13. Wild oats. I haven't tried it, though. Is it good?

[cally]

14. I try to not buy Horizon milk

I buy other local brands of organic milk. Salon had a scathing article about Horizon.:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/13/milk/

The happy cow on the label of Horizon organic milk flies across the carton like some grocery-store superhero. The ubiquitous red milk carton in your local supermarket is like a stop sign for consumers: go no further, your quest for healthy milk ends here. The back of the carton assures us that Horizon milk is produced on certified organic farms, where "clean-living" cows "make milk the natural way, with access to plenty of fresh air, clean water and exercise." Horizon cows are not hopped up on antibiotics, continues the cheery copy. "Happy, healthy cows produce better milk for you and your family."

Just now, though, at one of Horizon's dairy farms in central Idaho, the cows don't look too happy. Perched amid a stark landscape of sagebrush and expansive brown fields, long silver barns that hold 4,000 cows are linked like barracks in some covert operation. I drive down a narrow, cracked road toward the dairy's main office and pass open-air sheds about 20 feet away, where cows laze in crowded pens atop the brown hardpan of the Idaho desert. Just outside the milking barn, more cows are jammed into an outdoor corral. Amid clumps of dirt and snow, they are lined up, their bodies touching.

In recent weeks, as revelations of Horizon's farming practices have come to light, a collection of consumer groups and organic dairy farmers have erupted in protest. Horizon and similar dairies are capitalizing on the boom in organic foods, they say, but diluting the true meaning of the term. Contrary to genuine organic practices, which entail raising cows on open pastures, where the animals feed on grass, experts say that a substantial percentage of cows at farms like Horizon's are confined to pens, fed a diet of proteins and grains, and produce milk that, while free of hormones, is not as healthy as it could be.


At a recent meeting of the United States Department of Agriculture's organic advisory board, 25 dairy farmers gave public testimony, and 8,000 farmers and consumers sent letters, claiming that by allowing "confinement dairies" such as Horizon and Aurora Organic Dairy, a 5,300-cow operation outside Denver (started by the founder of Horizon), to continue to market themselves as organic, the label's original promise of excellence is lost.

[EC]

15. Thanks,

I guess I'll just keep on with the locals too, then, just thought it could save me the traveling to the county...