The Last Days Of An American Dairy Farm

The Last Days Of An American Dairy Farm is a short documentary which highlights one of the risks that the American dairy farmer has which the Canadian dairy farmer is insulated from because of supply managements. It is also a warning for people who think beyond a superficial level.

Briefly dairy farms produce milk, which is transported to processors. These processors filter, extract components, package and transport to retail stores. In this documentary we can see that Walmart has eliminated the middle man. They have their own processor. Currently there are individual farms in the US capable of supplying milk to over 2 million people. All Walmart needs to do is to buy out these factory farms and it will have full vertical integration within the dairy industry and a virtual monopoly on the entire sector.

Consider this video from about 9 years ago.

If Walmart establishes supply line dominance, it has the ability to sell their milk below cost for a number of months... bankrupting the dairy farmers selling to the competition. Once a farm is taken out of production - like the farm in the first documentary having all their cows sent to slaughter.- it could take years to rebuild a herd. By that time Walmart will have established a monopoly. Once they have that, they could water down their milk and put in whatever additives they want. The only reason that the Chinese dairy was caught putting in an additive, was because people started to get sick. There was insufficient oversight of the entire process. Consider the current and the previous US administration's track record in the rollback in EPA regulations and the recent scandals.

Would the government be antagonistic or would it look away from "Walmart"?