Like A Bad Joke

It reads rather like a bad joke; how many federal investigators does it take to figure out why dairy farmers have been receiving record breaking low payments for their milk while consumers are failing to see comparative savings on the retail level? It’s one of those questions that has most people asking if it’s a trick question because the answer seems so obvious. Somebody is lining their pockets and it’s certainly not the dairy farmers. Investigations are scheduled to begin by the federal Antitrust Division to possibly uncover anticompetitive behavior in the dairy production system. They probably won’t come up with too many surprising or unexpected answers for this one. The nation’s largest dairy processors have been systematically squeezing dairy farmers and the consumers while they scrape the “cream” off the top. The Feds need to hurry and get the “rats out of the milk” so to speak before American dairy farmers are driven completely and irrevocably out of business.