Horizon Organic Milk

Written by greenandcleanmom on Sep - 09 | Comments | Related : Green Food Choices, Green Goods and Reviews, Green Health, Green Parenting, Green Shopping, Green Solutions and Tips, Green Sprouts

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Green & Clean Mom says, "Go Organic!"

Packing a healthy school lunch or a lunch on the go for our little green sprouts, it’s something we all want. Buying organic milk without hormones and nasty antibiotics is a priority for many green moms and a great place for moms to start when they’re beginning to buy organic. For me, it was the first place I started. There are lots of brands out there and some bigger companies are labeling their milk hormone free because the farmers pledge to not use hormones. If it is a small company and I can see the cows, meet the farmer, okay maybe but otherwise I say choose Organic and Horizon Organic Milk is a great choice!

Horizon Organic Milk is the only milk with DHA Omega Three and they even provide a lactose free milk. I know many of you might think it is too expensive but here is my thought: make choices and cut out other unnecessary items on the grocery list to afford organic milk. For my family that might mean no soda or junk food, which we shouldn’t have anyhow. With my children drinking organic milk that is more expensive we are less wasteful and the children drink every last drop because I am not pouring pennies down the drain!

Recently, the children and I tried a wide variety of the milk boxes, which are perfect for on the go lunches and a must have for my sons lunch box! We sampled the strawberry, vanilla, low-fat milk and the chocolate and yum, yum! My son did not like the strawberry but my daughter wanted more! What I love best about these milk boxes, they don’t have to be refrigerated. Once you refrigerate them they should stay refrigerated and cold and that’s how they taste best. I order them in bulk from Amazon and always have them on hand for traveling and packing lunches.

If you haven’t visited the Horizon Organic website I suggest you surf on over there for some great tips and information. If you sign up for their newsletter you’ll probably score some coupons and that’s a plus! My son enjoyed playing games at the site and learning about the farm and I liked the tips for going organic and recipes.

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Janet Cox

Horizon Organic milk company is misleading consumers and dealing unethically with producers. They claim to get their milk from small, family-owned farms when they are actually driving these exact farms out of business. Horizon is not honoring contracts with small farmers, but instead getting their milk from their OWN company mega-dairy. They are misleading consumers by stating, on their website and in their literature, that they are comprised of small family dairies, when in fact, much of their milk comes from dairies with more than 500 cows.

One dairyman, Mr. Don Halverson, the owner of a small 50-cow dairy in Idaho, has shared his story of Horizon committing verbally to take his milk once he completed the expensive organic certification process, only to refuse to honor that agreement after he'd invested the thousands of dollars and time required. You can see more information here: http://sites.google.com/site/integrityinbusiness/

Michelle Gudmunsen

I've always heard that Horizon doesn't have "happy cows" and that their milk production process, though organic, is as factory farm as ever. I would sure like more information about this company, but not from their own website!

My family is yet to make the switch to organic milk.

Greenstylemom

There is also the issue that Horizon has been lobbying to loosen the organic standards. We try to buy other brand if at all possible.

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Rebecca (Green Baby Guide)

A while back I posted something on the Green Baby Guide about choosing local milk over organic milk. The best of both worlds would be local organic milk, but that wasn't an option for me at the time. I figured supporting a local dairy that didn't use hormones would be better for the environment than spending money on organic milk that came from a distant state. Now I am lucky because there are a couple local organic dairies where I live, so I don't have to choose!

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Miriam

But there are conflicting accounts of how "organic" Horizon is. Their claims that there are no antibiotics in their milk is misleading at best. The USDA requires dairies to test milk to guarantee that there are no antibiotics in it. Even from cows who receive antibiotics. Plus the UHT process kills pretty much anything good in milk other than the calcium. Personally, if we had to use a UHT milk, I would choose Organic Valley over Horizon.

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