A dairy giant gets milked
A dairy giant gets milked
Got milk? These days, chances are maybe not. Americans have been saying no thanks for years now, and changing consumer tastes have been bad news for what used to be the nation’s largest milk processor, Dean Foods.
GUESTS
Jeff Goodby — co-creator of Got Milk?, Co-Chairman and Partner at GS&P
Rich Silverstein — co-creator of Got Milk?, Co-Chairman and Partner at GS&P
Andrew Novakovic — Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University
Kirk Kardashian — author of Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm
Marion Nestle — Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, creator of Food Politics
Kayla Gaines — barista at Big Bear Cafe
Wes Kent — dairy farmer at Winding River Farm
Andrew Scurria — deputy editor of bankruptcy at the Wall Street Journal
Jessica Peters — dairy farmer at Spruce Row Farm
SELECTED SOURCES
Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm — Kirk Kardashian
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat — Marion Nestle
U.S. Antitrust Officials Allow Dairy Cooperative to Purchase Dean Foods Plants — Andrew Scurria, The Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2020.
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