You don’t fix a flat tire on a bicycle by
letting the air out of the other tire.
IN TRYING TO HELP CALIFORNIA DAIRY FARMERS, AB 31 deals a crippling
blow to California cheese makers — threatening the 191,000 workers whose jobs
depend on us, and risking a market that now buys over 40 percent of the milk
dairy farmers produce.
By arbitrarily inflating the cost of milk, AB 31 drives production costs to
unsustainable levels, forcing many cheese makers out of business or into other
states, shrinking the very market dairy farmers depend on to buy their milk.
Mutually assured destruction of two vital California industries isn’t a solution.
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For more information, contact Rachel Kaldor at the Dairy Institute of California at (916) 441-6921.
DAIRY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA