When you buy a pound of butter, pack of cheese or a carton of yogurt labeled as Organic, you're getting a healthy, premium product that you can feel good about serving to your family. But you're also supporting a system of agriculture that is environmentally sound, and which assures the health and future productivity of both animals and land.

A litre of certified organic milk reflects the farm on which it was produced. The dairy cows on that farm were:

    * Fed organic feed raised on land certified as meeting national organic growing standards;
    * Raised in conditions which limit stress and promote health;
    * Cared for as individuals by dairy professionals who value animal health;
    * Not given routine treatments of antibiotics or growth hormones.

Buying an organic product, ensures that you are supporting organic agriculture, a production method which strives to maintain biological diversity while replenishing soil fertility and eliminating the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Because the husbandry practices used by organic farmers require a level of attentiveness and care incompatible with industrialized dairy operations, you're also supporting farmers who work with the health of their animals in mind.