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Farmers Slaughtering Dairy Cows Rather Than Lose Money Producing Milk

Farmers Slaughtering Dairy Cows Rather Than Lose Money Producing Milk

By Meg Marco June 22, 2009

It’s so expensive to produce milk right now — due to low demand and high feed costs — that farmers are being paid to slaughter dairy cows in order to “shift the pain to consumers,” says Bloomberg.

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