Jared Gaby-Biegle
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Spilt Milk: COVID-19 and the Dangers of Dairy Industry Consolidation
Consolidation in the dairy industry has created separate, inflexible supply chains for consumers and commercial markets. When COVID killed commercial demand, perfectly good milk and cheese was wasted.
How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
Consolidation in the dairy industry has created separate, inflexible supply chains for consumers and commercial markets. When COVID killed commercial demand, perfectly good milk and cheese was wasted.
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INET Working Paper on the consolidation of the dairy industry is cited in Homeland Security Today
鈥淟arger dairy farms inevitably mean a system less geographically dispersed, larger environmental challenges with farm waste, and a less resilient system. The 八卦爆料 detailed these impacts in a recent report on the pandemic鈥檚 effects on dairy farmers, Spilt Milk: COVID-19 and the Dangers of Dairy Industry Consolidation: 鈥淭he COVID-19 pandemic led to the collapse in commercial demand as restaurants, caterers, schools and other institutional customers were forced to close. Dairy plants serving supermarkets and grocery stores were already operating at close to full capacity when the coronavirus struck. Capital equipment specialized to produce for commercial customers were incapable of producing for consumers served by supermarkets or food banks. Some farmers had no choice but to dump milk.鈥漑9] For the smaller dairy farmers, international (primarily Canadian) competition and price fluctuations are daily economic challenges.” — Charles Luke, Homeland Security Today … [9] Eileen Appelbaum and Jared Gaby-Biegle, 鈥淪pilt Milk: COVID-19 and the Dangers of Dairy Industry Consolidation,鈥� 八卦爆料 for Economic and Policy Research, August 15, 2020, /uploads/papers/WP_134-Appelbaum-and-Gaby-Biegel.pdf