[jorvi]

The alternate also happens though.

Over here in The Netherlands, the milk for all milk products comes out of the same cows and is processed in the same tanks. When you're paying 2x the price for brand name milk, you're getting seriously scammed.

[hinkley]

There are a couple cooperatives here that own their own processing facilities. As food businesses got bigger the distance between processing plants has grown and grown and it ends up netting the farmers less and less.

I learned recently that there was a small coop near where I live that got bought up by a larger one, Organic Valley. Which has a semi famous permaculturist as a member (Mark Shepard), and the only reason I knew it to be a coop. They don’t advertise that fact well.