Smelly, potentially toxic milk found being dumped in rural Utah

After months of excess toxic milk being dumped on land west of Interstate 15, residents of Greenville are worried about ground water contamination. For decades, the hill was a dumping site for whey, a liquid derived from cheese production which is often used as fertilizer. But for months, residents have been documenting trucks dumping large quantities of milk that become toxic on the hill.

[@iancormie9916]

Excess milk was, once upon a time, turned into cheese and milk powder. There is no excuse for this.

[@anthonyxuereb792]

And butter

[@josephvenero8447]

And protein powder

[@rigos.-rq2qq]

😂

[@rigos.-rq2qq]

Put 2 gallons of milk in the freezer and call it ice cream

[@tvviewer4500]

Change the milk production laws then

[@daryleemanuel5325]

If only we had small family farms again... large corporate agriculture destroys everything it touches....eventually.

[@amyhooper4266]

My thoughts exactly , I grew up on one said small dairy farms and unfortunately my family lost it

[@Eclipse1369]

@@amyhooper4266sadly our government doesn’t care about small farms. Or businesses for that matter. That’s cool that you grew up on one though!

[@racer67]

So true! 🇺🇲

[@jandoel]

We don't even know if the milk was safe to consume. What if it got contaminated and no longer could be used to make cheese. That would explain why they used the same dump site as the whey.

[@roxelie59]

​@@Eclipse1369then we should

[@valerie7422]

Well, maybe every Utah citizen should call Governor Cox's office and ask him how this is legal in our state.

[@Original_Syn]

All that fetid, rotten milk should be diverted directly into the Governor’s backyard until the issue has been resolved because if they had to personally deal with that stench then I can guarantee that Governor would have the issue resolved before lunch. However, since it’s not their donors or themselves being made to personally suffer they’re gonna drag their feet on getting anything done about it and their constituents will suffer in the meantime.

[@BrenMurphy1]

Overproduction from industrial abuse of animals

[@ammantophori]

If it's profitable your government corporations will make sure it's legal.

[@alvashoemaker8536]

Simple solution… 😳‼️

[@eldonhalliburton4766]

@@ammantophoriyep it’s profit over life

[@ODINS_daughter]

This is why corporations should never be allowed to be big farmers!!! I have NEVER SEEN dumping milk in my entire life on MY UNCLE'S DAIRY FARM of 100-200 cows...Not Ever! (This dumped milk could have been made into powdered dry milk, packaged and shipped to countries in need!) Then from the dry milk powder you can make things like sour cream, yogurt, and of course a glass of milk!!!

[@marilynhadley322]

Yes good idea.

[@guiltyifudnthavemnybuyinnocent]

No money in that, they get more money from loss of product then from giving to others

[@ODINS_daughter]

@@guiltyifudnthavemnybuyinnocent that's got to be it. Nothing else makes sense to me.

[@imchris5000]

dumping milk has been happening for over 100 years now. it happens anytime there is an over production to keep the prices high. you cant stop the cows from producing milk so this is used to throttle production

[@ODINS_daughter]

@imchris5000 Whose been dumping milk like this over the last 100 years? Where did you find this data point?🤔 (Since my family has been dairy farmers in rural South Dakota for over 100 years, this was never practiced by our families. I have never heard of this.) I'm texting the cousin right now. Please leave a follow-up comment with your data so I can look into it and get a bit more educated on the topic. Thanks.

[@Drualeaf]

It’s legal because corporations have their dirty money in the pockets of our politicians and lawmakers.

[@Drualeaf]

@BusyBeeFarms I feel your frustration lol. I’ve been saying it forever as well.

[@Drualeaf]

I truly feel the rich and their greed is going to be the death of us all.

[@Jasper118]

Start voting people

[@Drualeaf]

@@Jasper118 I agree, but I think it’s a little bit more complicated than that.

[@Jasper118]

@@Drualeaf keep voting in politicians that sell themselves out then you can expect the same results

[@crimeshy5758]

Blame politicians who take bribes from corporate lobbyists that keep them from selling product for less. This causes production to throw away whatever they make extra because it'll lower the price of the product overall. Hundreds thousands of pounds of food thrown away because companies would rather make a profit than provide recourses.

[@andrewpotter9613]

Exactly

[@genericamerican7574]

Or maybe blame the corporations that hire the lobbyists to bribe politicians into giving them a reason they shouldn’t be blamed when they dump their product to keep prices high?

[@bobbyboombatz1489]

Make lobbying illegal

[@TheAttacker732]

It's a different situation for dairy. The US government subsidizes dairy pretty heavily as a reliable source of calories & protein in case total war breaks out again. It's a holdover of lessons learned in WWII. The US drafted close to 10% of the population, and feeding them ~3600 calories daily was a colossal undertaking. The assumption is that that may be required again, so it's easier to keep paying indefinitely for a surplus of milk that can't be realistically utilized in peace time.

[@johnchandler1687]

It makes more sense to powder it. It has a long long shelf life. Same for cheese if kept cool.​@@TheAttacker732

[@nicholascoroniti9575]

That's crazy, especially considering milk cost more per gallon than gasoline

[@floydrhodesiv5733]

Milk cost more than Beer ! That's what I find disgusting !

[@azcanuck3131]

@@floydrhodesiv5733 Gallon of milk (128oz) is less than $3. 12 pack of beer (144oz) is about $10. Try again

[@renataheiberg7534]

Do not give those creeps any ideas.

[@willybones3890]

2.69 a gallon in central ohio. Vs 3.59 for gas

[@kelsiewilson]

My family are dairy producers. When we need to dump milk, we follow protocol by using our manure injection system where it is incorporated into our crop fields where it becomes fertilizer and feeds soil bacteria to make richer soils. But it's obvious this is irresponsible, and it doesn't and shouldn't be that way.

[@keetahbrough]

the wastee, is the problem, when there's so many starving people, in the land of plenty. You would almost think people didn't need that but you're wrong

[@thebiglebowski8591]

​​@@keetahbroughIf a farm needs to dump milk it's most likely a quality or contamination issue. You can't feed people contaminated milk no matter how hungry they are

[@BearwoodBrown]

why do u Have to dump. milk ???

[@kelsiewilson]

@BearwoodBrown over quota. Aka over production. The processor doesn't want more than they want to process. Not ideal, but just how it is. Or, sometimes we run out of storage space between pick ups. We dump older milk to make room for newer milk. Or, on occasion, weather conditions prevent milk pick up.

[@kelsiewilson]

@thebiglebowski8591 not often true. Over production is the most common reason for consistent dumping. Farmers know that if they supply contaminated milk, they don't get paid, and they are responsible for disposal costs as well as other expenses and they lose their contract.

[@michaelsanpedro2674]

This is way more widespread than most people are aware of. Intentional waste creates artificial shortages, and shortages create the opportunity for massive profit. The people of this world have been totally sold out....

[@Lady-Carmakazi]

What's sad is that there are so many going hungry.

[@Djkommode]

Lol it would be easier to just simply slow down production

[@danafaulhaber334]

​@@Djkommodethats a good idea but i believe that the cows that produce the milk have to be milked least once if not multiple times a day regardless of where the milk goes they have to be milked or itl cause them issues and possibly cause them to stop producing milk.

[@Djkommode]

@@danafaulhaber334 I never thought about that. Good point.

[@redditman3701]

Been happening on a massive scale since covid. People dont know about the money making opportunity brought onto us thanks to U.S government funding.

[@harrystoehr510]

This hurts my soul. I grew up on a dairy farm and my Dad was partners with his Dad. When the government subsidized milk, he had to sell his half or kick his father off the land. Now they are dumping the milk to keep the price high. Come on, you are already subsidized. Give the milk to schools, homeless shelters, food pantries, animal feed. There's a better place for it than a basin.

[@brycebraxmeyer5539]

Government ruines anything it touches

[@badassledee]

Thats capitalism. It makes the most profit. You dont support capitalism? Think hard now.

[@harrystoehr510]

@@badassledee Not really. Not the wasteful side. I already pay 8$ a gallon for milk and support Organic Valley, the largest co-op of organic farmers in America. They pay their farmers far more $ per hundred weight, they have strict guidelines that are easy to follow if you really care about what you are doing. All the money they make is put back into the system.

[@badassledee]

@harrystoehr510 waste is capitalism. Waste makes supply go down, demand over smaller supply makes prices go up. Makes more money for the companies that sell milk. In the fashion industry gucci burns its left overs so they dont make it to thrift stores and lower guccis value. Every capitalist system creates waste on purpose to make profits higher. Learn about your country and how it works before you start talking aboit whats what.

[@harrystoehr510]

@@badassledee I definitely know how it works. I was just commenting on my support of said systems. If the only goal is to make money, then greed will consume you. Not all things that make money put the bottom line first.

[@SenorPickles946]

Yet Utah Natural meat which sells raw milk is shut down because of a potential contamination. Which after many test over the course of a few month found nothing to prove that they have any contamination in any milk they have had. Support small local farms as much as you can.

[@sherryblanchard723]

It is not the farmer dumping the milk it is the government who purchased it. Once sold it is out of the farmers hands what happens to it and due to frivolous lawsuits it cannot be donated for fear of being sued should someone get a bellyache. I watched this happening from my farm I rented on 32 years ago in upstate N.Y.

[@karenreaves3650]

Corporations should be banned from owning farmland.

[@moshunit96]

Single family homes as well.

[@jorgeb9715]

Who owns the Corporation you may ask

[@cleverusernamenexttime2779]

​@@jorgeb9715No one 'owns' a corporation. The richest guy with the most stock controls it. But, thanks to the supreme court, corporations are their own entity

[@cleverusernamenexttime2779]

​@@moshunit96Housing of any type. In Central Indiana, they are buying entire neighborhoods. Just to demolish and build apartment complexes. The sad part is the people around here seem to welcome it.

[@user-iz3gv7th6z]

100%

[@chriswalker6776]

Now we know why we have shortages

[@camfrazer3825]

Yes!! 100% 🎯 ALL the shortages are 100% MAN MADE & DELIBERATE!! Its a case of you will have nothing and like it!! Communism, I don't get how people don't see it. Brace yourselves folks, its going to get a lot worse!! But GOD WINS IN THE END ✝️💜🙏 GOD BLESS

[@judycrisenbery2982]

Sad but true

[@Kimberly-uz6dw]

We don't have shortages, just gimmicks

[@princesslupi4136]

And high prices!

[@suemitchel-runow3566]

We have excesses

[@mageofthestorm1]

There were a ton of milk dumping videos from Iowa, and Nebraska during covid, and during the time of the supposed " meat shortage". Which was literally anything but a shortage. The milk part. They were just writing off product, but saying they had no demand. It was all crap. Yet somehow these companies can still make money by dumping products like that. The meat part. I was personally delivering meat everyday as a truck driver, and my plant was packed with constant full loads all day long. Like usual. Weird.

[@Danielle33384]

And we can’t forget all the suspicious plant fires that happened around the same time!

[@DJ-sv7xf]

Meat shortage - someone in my neighborhood trapped 95% of the squirrels for meat in less than a month - we only had a few left. Sad because it's taken years for them to repopulate.

[@AvalonDreamz]

Our country is being sabotaged from the top down.

[@joshyingling]

You can thank the fda for stuff like this, a corporation would never want to dump potential product but if it is spoiled or contaminated the fda makes them dump the whole truck of milk. There was a dairy farmer interviewed about the crazy rules they have to follow. Like if a cow that is on antibiotics is accidentally milked and that milk is added to the tanker, the whole tanker of milk is rejected.

[@Danielle33384]

Exactly right! The gov is the biggest problem we face!

[@lenitaa7938]

Maybe it can be made into another product? Surely, u understand how harmful it’s to inadvertently consume antibiotics one doesn’t need! It causes deaths when the antibiotics no longer work! Then the Superbug takes hold and spreads with no way to combat it!

[@margaritaamavizca6799]

If this milk enters the market, hard working, tax payers will be buying milk, cheese and dairy products for less, since there’s a surplus, but greedy corporations will not profit. Nobody wants to spend money to process it either for charity.

[@carliemorgan1871]

Not corps, dairy boards/unions

[@donsims1941]

🙄 " greedy" corporations 🤦 tell me you have ZERO understanding of BASIC ECONOMICS without telling me. You sound vaccinated 🤭

[@gailhitson7340]

@@donsims1941 "Greedy corporations" along with the excessively wealthy seems like an accurate assessment. I don't have a doctorate in Economics, but I've had several Economics courses, as well as a few others. I'd have to agree with the statement above, especially the "greedy corporations" part, and I'd be happy to have an in depth discussion regarding it. Margaret sounds very astute in her observations on it though.

[@moshpitmachine]

While your right your not one hundred percent right lol. Only because you forgot the government bit profiting. Remember, they were the ones who essentially bailed out the dairy industry with subsidies and helped them come up with a viral. Arketib campaign in the 90a.on top of that they literally bought, and are still storing, millions of pounds of cheese. Check out the fatelectrician for that full story. Long story short the government and dairy industry have been intertwined for a long time, at least as long as ww1

[@moshpitmachine]

​@@carliemorgan1871don't forget uncle sam who has invested a countries worth of money into the dairy industry

[@womanofsteel9276]

All the hungry kids and families and they are throwing away good milk? What an absolute sin.

[@HeyIwasaValedictorian]

Profits are more important that ppl!

[@bonniesometimes8660]

I totally agree

[@scatreed]

Who says it’s good milk? It said potentially toxic. I guess they could be saying it’s now potentially toxic. Sucks either way.

[@ReactorFour]

They ARE giving it away to hungry families and children. If there is no excess, there is no milk to give away to hungry families and children. What you are seeing is a byproduct of excess supply, which is created through government subsidies, to keep milk available and inexpensive to underprivileged populations. It seems counter intuitive, but this waste is actually because we make too much so it exists to give it to hungry kids and families…. They just make a little too much extra…. that’s the part you see here, But they have to estimate the overage conservatively because if they get it just a little wrong, just a little too little and the prices spike and underprivileged populations suffer. And don’t forget, it’s perishable and doesn’t last forever and also cows have to be milked regardless of demand fluctuations. Essentially, this wasting is so we CAN do exactly what you said in your comment and after we supply school programs, pantries, etc., we still will have a little left over that has to be dumped. Sure, Having no excess milk does prevent us from wasting it all over the ground, which seems good, but it also makes it way more valuable and therefore will be priced out of reach of underprivileged populations and charity organization budgets, and epidemics of malnourished children begin. Now… dumping it where and the way they are in this report… I don’t know. Sounds like they need to find a better way to waste it. This is just one of many examples where one side thinks the other side is evil or dumb or (insert derogatory word here) when really pretty much everyone wants the same good things for humanity, they just have different ideas on how to achieve those goals for humanity. And sometimes what seems like the right thing to do… like don’t make excess milk that has to be wasted… is actually harmful to society, and doing the seemingly wrong thing… like wasting perfectly good milk… is actually extremely beneficial for society.

[@user-kx6fj1to7y]

DISGUSTING THE AMOUNT OF FOOD WASTE IN THE USA. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY HUNGRY PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY. THIS HAS TO STOP. DONATE TO SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, HOMELESS SHELTERS. WE HAVE ENOUGH OF OUR OWN RESOURCES TO BE TOTALLY SELF SUFFICIENT.

[@kotk05]

How they gonna get this milk to Africa while it's fresh? With undersea pipe?

[@samuellwilliams7272]

@@kotk05 you dehydrate it and make a powder out of it

[@kotk05]

@samuellwilliams7272 You going to give them tens of millions of dollars to do that?

[@samuellwilliams7272]

@@kotk05 😂

[@user-yz9yg4yx1k]

This is unpasturized milk. It cannot be sold or given to anyone.

[@ShingleSlingers]

My neighbor was a 1000 acre dairy farm. He told me due to the new regulations started after the whole, vegan and healthy eating laws passed over the last 10 years that if a contaminated batch ends up in a tanker truck, when they get to the bottling factory and do the testing if they find any traces of different Things in there they just throw the whole thing out so I’m assuming that’s exactly what’s going on here.

[@andrewsparks4112]

were is this place?

[@HeartCreationsByRenee]

But yet they can put tons of restrictions on us… we want to work on our home we have tons of hoops to jump through to improve our own property… but THIS?!?! Why is it allowed?!?!

[@bluesky6985]

They put restrictions on property because you don't own the property

[@whysaywhyx7100]

​@@bluesky6985you haven't lived in parts of the country where that happens apparently

[@QuintonRC23]

They pay the senators and congressmen to make it legal with "donations".

[@badassledee]

Actalluy large companies lobbied and threw money at the government to make those regulations, so it would be harder for you. They dont want you competing with them, they want it to be so hard you just buy from them instead. Thats part of capitalism.

[@Danielle33384]

They don’t want anyone to have means of being self sufficient. It’s all about control

[@GW8915]

Where is the EPA now. Who's on the committee that regulates this type of illegality

[@laurachatham8563]

They're busy looking the other way.

[@user-ux5gg1ik8c]

They are being paid to look the other way

[@Tacomuch]

They’re too busy trying to explain why they said the air at ground zero was safe to breath.

[@thatguyoverthereinth]

The epa doesn't care unless you don't pay them

[@markplatt1784]

You mean the EPA and Federal regulations the orange menace gutted, that one??

[@mtpocketswoodenickle2637]

Organic farmers actually spray their crops with milk. It's a practice called: (LAB) Lactic Acid Bacteria.

[@brianbonnet3170]

Good thing there are no homeless people or malnourished or starving kids or adults in the US that could have used that milk. Otherwise this would be borderline CRIMINAL!!!!!😡🤬😡

[@rabbidninja79]

Milk farmers arent allowed to "over priduce" its a way to keep the price from bottoning out... it should bottom out especially with the fiod prices now. The cost of food is intentionally being kept high.

[@badassledee]

Yes by the companies selling it to make maximum profit. Thats how capitalism works, its all about profit. Duh.

[@rabbidninja79]

@@badassledee it's not "how capitalism works". Price fixing is a communist ideal. This is the result of price fixing regulation. In a truly capitalistic free market we wouldnt have this issue.

[@douglasaustin1467]

We were told during COVID to dump a ton of milk in the fields for that exact reason

[@rabbidninja79]

@douglasaustin1467 yeah, it's been going on for a while.

[@austinj3881]

This is why government run industry is a terrible idea, this is why socialism and communism fail 100% of the time. The Soviet Union being the ear mark that everybody should learn from. if they would let anarcocapitalism be the law, this problem wouldn’t exist.

[@ArminiusVicious]

So having worked in the industry, trucks get their loads rejected due to too high ecoli content, too long time to get to the processing plant, or their protein content lab results came back very low and the farmer was offered roxk bottom price ao he says to dump it. This is not the processing plants job, so truckers have either an agreement with who owns that site, or they all deceided themselves that this is the place to get rid of the milk without paying to dump it at the treatment plant. Its part price manipulation, part insurance claim, part irresponsible dairy/trucker. All these guys should be held liable but that would mean shutting down the dairy.

[@richardarriaga6271]

Then shut down the dairy.

[@FISHPOT77]

It's not just milk. It's any kind of food you can think of. I remember as a kid we would plow sweet potatoes under to keep them off the market. The government would pay my Uncle to do it, he had a small farm. They never paid him to plow tobacco under though. It's to keep prices up. Now they don't want you to grow your own food. The government is not your friend.

[@girlytoads]

And……. Nobody knows who’s doing it? That’s mighty mighty strange.

[@p_roduct9211]

Kudos to the reporting team for investigating this, and the locals who tipped them off. I would really hope someone credits their name, but at the same time I worry these companies will use lawyers to bankrupt these people trying to bring justice to this unethical practice.

[@trujillo71921]

I don't think it would be a good idea to credit those names. That's exactly what they'll do. They'll find one way or another to ruin those peoples' lives.

[@Shadow-1949]

That’s why you find criminal charges and press it. If done right you should, you might talk with a lawyer that says it’s civil case , move on to next lawyer . Do they own the land ? You will down the road need to contact lots of government agencies . Do you own the land ? Do you have names and photos of each truck . Videos are great and talking to them , try to get names of people and companies. There’s all kinds of rules they need to abide . How far from land you own is the milk !? Even if you don’t own the land you have plenty of rights to find out if it’s legal or dangerous . Good luck 😅

[@KkevrockK]

Guess we have a different definition of investigation…actually everyone does compared to you it seems.

[@patriotpam777]

​@@Shadow-1949in

[@thomasbell7033]

I spent most of my life in print journalism. I have nothing but admiration for those honest people who talked to me with nothing to gain but truth, and everything to lose. That kind of person is rare, because most people cooperate with manipulation in mind.

[@anniemarizetts2342]

This is why regulations are needed to be enforced. Corporations cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

[@dopeylindstrom2236]

This is enforced regulation.

[@Ryan-li8qc]

Regulations caused it too.

[@pjwesteinde]

But Tramp cut all the regulations, thousands of them

[@pjwesteinde]

Tramp cut all the regulations

[@Backyardmech1]

@@pjwesteinde BS. He killed Barry Sortero’s CAFE standards for passenger cars and light trucks, killed Commiefornias ability to set emissions standards higher than the federal standards, Barry’s mercury emissions standards from coal plants, as well as several other BS standards. Not this.

[@cherylcooper1885]

Making powdered milk would of been a merciful way of dumping milk 😢

[@christyshultz6443]

Or cheese.

[@cherylcooper1885]

@@christyshultz6443 true!!

[@thatswhatshesaid.literally737]

This is what happens when big corporations buy out and push out smaller family owned dairies. The cows have to be milked but they don't have enough trucks to ship it out or enough buyers to buy them out, and no contracts with other companies to turn the excess into cheese or some other product, so they dump it onto to ground. Insanity.

[@billdershem6714]

The government has subsidized milk for nearly 100 years. The guaranteed milk price lead to enormous over production of milk. The milk/cheese/dry milk processing facilities cannot process the abundance of milk, nor do they want to. A surplus of dairy products would decrease the selling price. Why would they increase productivity, only to decrease selling price? The farmer gets paid for the milk whether it gets processed or not. It's dirty, and disturbing, and backed by the government. We have the same issue in central MI. That raw milk, spread in fields, smells DISGUSTING!

[@sneekysnake1239]

Ever heard of the US cheese vaults?

[@daryleemanuel5325]

The prison contracts are the same way. All the contracts stipulate that an empty bed costs/pays more than one that's full. It creates an incentive for municipalities to overfill the jails and prisons.

[@valentinosstamkos4022]

Its not a problem of having too much milk. Just make 20 kinds of cheese make yogurt make protein powder make dry milk for chocolate crepes and etc. Your law makes it so that its dificult to make many world famous cheeses thats why you have crapy cheese for mac and cheese, hamburgers and cheese cake. I hate waste....

[@angiecerciello126]

It’s so stupid cas they could just make better quality milk and have it take more time , thus no surplus.. they system is broken

[@davidblack765]

@@valentinosstamkos4022the whey is hazardous waste product that causes cancer ! They out lawed the dumping of it after this and let the corporations make different commodities like Yoo-hoo drinks and etc. Now that makes perfect sense !

[@Erin-Thor]

If you ever wondered why milk costs $3 a gallon, this is why.

[@kathleenohara6152]

Try $5-$8 in some places.

[@Artistry.of.earthen.arts.]

I just spent $10 bucks on one gallon of raw milk😢

[@jessicasparkle]

Mine is 7 dollars

[@Erin-Thor]

@@jessicasparkle - Yikes! Where are you?

[@Erin-Thor]

@@Artistry.of.earthen.arts. - In where, Alaska?

[@clairhennings8423]

Transparency and Accountability, Justice for All involved!

[@stevens2706]

Why are we dumping milk? Why not DUMP the PRICE of milk so there's no need to waste it?!

[@donwalker8508]

Who is telling them to dump the milk. That seems more the right question

[@lindboknifeandtool]

@@omi_godsell it to companies to extract whey?

[@watchingover3592]

To keep the price of milk at a certain place - More milk means cheaper milk

[@danysanerd2383]

​@@omi_godIt's not about the milk not being wanted. The company that gets the milk from the farmers is dumping it to keep the prices high. There's a pretty good thread full of information from a farmers son who sounds very knowledgeable in the comments of this short. I recommend having a look it was very eye opening. It's definitely DFoA we need to blame not the farmers themselves.

[@oli230]

The dumping isnt the real crime, the waste of a nutritious drink is.

[@georgiagardengirlshomestea1560]

Dumping too! Those blooms make people sick!!

[@road66runner3]

You not very bright...

[@citizenschmitizen]

WHen was the last time you bought a tanker truck of Whey?

[@1g5efj7t]

​@citizenschmitizen but its not the whey, its just straight milk

[@1g5efj7t]

@JerrysKid-uw8kw if its creating red algae it is

[@mg4468]

When you stop supporting regulations in the US, this is what you get! Vote blue!

[@stevenprutko9160]

Blame your REPUBLICAN UTAH GOVERNOR.....VOTE BLUE....

[@kianay3875]

When I was a kid, the field behind my house used to be a dumping ground for strawberries. And you wouldn't realize how bad that smells when it rots, until you smell it. It was call Mira Loma, but us locals called it "SMELLAROMA". The fruit flies were ridiculous. It was very bad news until they finally did out law the dumping. But man, we lived there for good 10 years before that happened. You could taste the nastiness in the air... you'd be chewing on it!!

[@s.a1379]

Man I wouldn't be surprised if there's some lung damage.

[@Lady-Carmakazi]

Wonder if the land would be good for planting & growing other veg now. It's probably full of nutrients. I can't imagine the smell. Had to be pretty bad if you could literally taste it.

[@dtnineninety9406]

San Diego or riverside?

[@mraschmidt8065]

Yes yes rotting food people natures way of cleaning up. You won’t die. Yet if it was dumping of spent nuclear fuel…. Irresponsible non the less.

[@k9thundra]

but I bet that soil is incredible

[@angelam4795]

Why are they dumping milk? Seriously, so many families would have use this. If you don't see the problems in this country you need to wake up.

[@mumonkey13000]

It might not be the case here but cows with an active infection or on antibiotics can't have their milk sold.

[@carloshathcock6371]

Not if it was old karen

[@user-re8bb3kf2z]

We are a "captured nation", the masons have done what evil pirates always do, they just use more subterfuge, deciet and the power of the press.😢

[@christiangraces3732]

And what might you THINK the PROBLEMS ARE?? SWEATHEART???

[@swinn12235]

To manipulate the market.

[@tamibrito3182]

I live here in Utah and I feel that this is just a very disturbing situation and it needs to be handled immediately this is not at all acceptable it was highly intelligent to involve the media that seems to be the only way to get things handled is exposure and I'm so grateful for them doing this

[@roselynn816]

Only in a country so rich, there is no worry about the hungry......

[@tthams73]

So who owns the property? That would be a vital piece of information

[@victormendoza871]

Bet the federal government owns it

[@brendaclark4023]

Who owns the trucks? Illegal dumping.

[@mmmd3429]

It's in a red state / rural area. Don't expect much to happen.

[@highwaydaytime7669]

The county probably own it and they're probably given back handers by the milk haulier company to let them dump it.

[@Pipizzakitchen]

No whey.

[@anongirl420_haunting4]

It started in 2020 when they locked down everything and they told the farmers they couldn’t donate the milk to the schools and they had to dump it even though it was very good milk. There were so many kids that were needing that milk and the food from the farmers, but nobody United States government said they cannot have it. I remember this very clearly that’s probably when they started doing it and we are now going into 2024 almost 4 years.

[@franny4147yoursandmysecrets]

Ma'am What you see there didn't happen in less than 3 years! It takes a long, long time for such a disaster to happen! Maybe covid time has made it worse but this has been going on for much longer!

[@stephie1466]

No excuses there is no Excuse for this !!!

[@TheEmerald524]

@@franny4147yoursandmysecretsCovid brought it to light

[@anongirl420_haunting4]

@@stephie1466 agreed!!

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Wow. Tyvm for the disgusting back story.

[@hollamonE]

The food waste in this country is SHAMEFUL!!!! How many local families in need could have used that. HORRIBLE!!!!

[@davidkleinthefamousp]

It’s actually required by federal law to support milk prices. Congress supports the dairy’s at the cost of poor families. Everything they do, electric cars clean energy, hurts the poor, it helps the rich.

[@badassledee]

Almost like captialism isnt good for poor people 🤔 keep thinking bro, youre almost there lmfao

[@Flippin_Crazy]

You sir are full of it. Propaganda pure propaganda.

[@gtcam723]

@@badassledeeas opposed to what?

[@user-zu5do6ri6r]

​@@Flippin_Crazy What part is propaganda exactly?

[@mrnoliver9]

​@badassledee price supports & subsidies are socialism, not capitalism!😂 Illegal dumping that government $ cleans up; THAT is American capitalism.

[@robertbro.....6076]

The F.D.A. needs to be jailed..this is B.S.

[@deadfisfhalequin2304]

Republicans CUT FDA ...NO COPS THIS why this Happens

[@lindboknifeandtool]

@@deadfisfhalequin2304yeah the FDA was great until that happened, and police were doing sooooo much too.

[@burtan2000]

@@lindboknifeandtoolThis is actually the USDA. One of the problems we have in our food supply is a maze of regulations which result in no reg enforcement (sometimes). Is it the health department? FDA? Or USDA? Any one of them can just point the finger at the other two if they don't want to get involved. Why wouldn't they want to get involved? Bc the ppl making lots of money will hire lobbyists who then apply pressure

[@keepersofthegrid]

The FDA taking money and putting people with questionable interests on their board is what is happening. The FDA was never great.

[@DumbAsh00]

Ah yeah cuz it's the FDA dumping lmfao. It's big corporate farms. Welcome to capitalism bucko

[@cme1027]

The Farmers in Europe are protesting this kind of behavior.. they saw what happened here and have been doing MAJOR protests for a while!! Our American farmers need to do the same!

[@tobascoheat6582]

This is inexcusable!!! People in power (like maybe the governor or county officials, and higher ups if the milk industry) KNOW that this is going on!!! 😠😠😡😡😡😡🤬

[@Jax_the_Huntress]

Milk is a hazmat. When I worked at progressive insurance commercial claims 30 years ago, I took a milk spill claim. It ended up being a hazmat claim due to the damage it caused in the marsh. That was a large money payout for cleanup and damage costs.

[@kaciejames5632]

I can believe it! Look at that bloody basin😢

[@kathleenohara6152]

Thank you for telling and enlightening people. Drones are going to reveal alot of stuff that can be hidden now due to restricting people from trespassing.

[@5Mr2PoWeRs0]

Yup, and flight paths and "big fences and gates that say "no trespassing" blocking roads and passages. In this so called "land of the free"

[@lisafenno4563]

Well, people don't like regulations. This is what happens when politicians take big money from corporations and vote against any regulations.

[@deadfisfhalequin2304]

Republicans CUT FDA ...NO COPS THIS why this Happens

[@vickyn8162]

But hey, it's good for the economy.

[@ryantracey8574]

​@@deadfisfhalequin2304FDA does absolutely nothing, they're funding outpaced there effectiveness a 100x

[@dumb730]

I like regulations. Dumb conservatives and corporations don’t like regulations.

[@josephcharles2917]

I like regulations as long as they are reasonable. This has got to be illegal. Biological waste. Disgusting.

[@DebiB62]

This reporter asks the question about where it's going, but the #1 question should be WHY it's being dumped in the first place.

[@AdrianMunch]

Government subsidies, that’s why they dump it, The government guarantees the price of,milk farmers get paid, No matter where the milk ends up.

[@dontjustbeanotherbrickinthewal]

Nobody on earth should be hungry, walmart throws out dumpsters of good food every month. Lets pass a law to stop this.

[@walterabernathy5663]

One homeless man in San Francisco got some food from a restaurant that did not sell it during the day. He did not have a refrigerator. He ate it for 2 days. He got food poisoning, he sued and won. I believe the owner of the restaurant went bankrupt. Ever since then they dump the food into lock dumpsters.

[@judycrisenbery2982]

I agree 100%

[@benjurqunov]

Then pass a law that prevents Walmart getting sued if somebody gets sick from eating the old dumped food.

[@AndrewKidd14145]

@@benjurqunovyeah has to go both ways too.

[@egman5225]

Can't do that, it would solve a problem that politicians couldn't get anymore funding for

[@tonytsoukalas1699]

Thousands of gallons per day in Canada to force high prices. They don't want to talk about it

[@s.h.6858]

And because of of the climate change conspiracy theories.

[@johnhorne9977]

You cut taxes you cut governmental services.

[@rabidsamfan]

Thank you for prominently posting the date on this video! Best practices for the win!

[@gailhitson7340]

This is immoral in the extreme. Companies should be penalized for doing this on the basis of corporate profit, to encourage decency in corporate profits and social responsibility.

[@whatthefunkingmcshit]

Yeah but in Utah those holier than thou Democrats won't do anything but pass tax cuts for the rich! Dang bluest state there is! /Sarcasm

[@gailhitson7340]

@@whatthefunkingmcshit It's historically white Republican males who pass legislation giving the wealthy and large corporations tax breaks and tax dollars in the form of government grants and preferential treatment. You and I can say whatever we want, but anybody and everybody can look it up online or at their public library to confirm my words here. Go back to the 1990's forward, and to do it quickly just use an agency working as a government watchdog or an office of government accountability type organization. Easy. My best wishes to you!

[@Joey500]

MOVE

[@gailhitson7340]

@@Joey500 No.

[@MatthewSmith-eg2dl]

Lol .. Do you know why they dumped it probably because there's a contaminant or it was out of temperature or out of date. You still want drink it now. Dairy do it all the time... It's also organic and it's not bad for the environment when it dries up you till that land and it grows better the next year... It's not tanker trucks, full of oil or gas. The bad thing about it, is it smells as it's drying up... As long as you're not emptying it into a body of water like a Lake or river. And they keep it contained on their property. That's all they've gotta do. It's not against the epa Regulations

[@skullkrusher1974]

The government pays them to dump it just like they pay farmers not to farm. The problem isn't the farmers as usual the problem is GOVERNMENT!

[@cooluser23]

This is a global problem. And it's been going that way for literal centuries.

[@mj.l]

"the problem is government" - naive. the problem is the lack of regulation of corporate corruption. who has the power to fix this? government. duh.

[@skullkrusher1974]

@mj.l The Corporations own the government. That's like asking a criminal to investigate themselves.

[@blackcountryme]

It's like in the EU, it's control, to keep prices stable. too much, prices drop, too little prices rise... It's a bloody waste

[@davidwilfong5820]

Yes we have a winner

[@Joedoeswhat]

Can't let the price of dairy products get affordable again

[@jBKht931]

Former dairy project engineer. Milk and whey can be reprocessed or used as livestock feed or fertilizers if sprayed on good ground. These was something illegal going on.

[@sgtrickards5683]

In an educated society, the price of goods and services should get cheaper.

[@SamboJones-vs1rh]

Not when committing fraud and using imaginary excuses to increase cost.

[@lindboknifeandtool]

@@SamboJones-vs1rhyes, and if everyone was smart and knew that we could stop it. But now we have people who just want their new Wendy’s meal and marvel funko pop

[@SamboJones-vs1rh]

@@lindboknifeandtool I agree. They have been educated to be stupid and to get scammed, and to love it.

[@sgtrickards5683]

@SamboJones-vs1rh doesn't sound very educated to me

[@SamboJones-vs1rh]

@@sgtrickards5683 Educated and smart are not the same. "Smart" is a measure of how well one can be educated or how well they are able to understand what education is. Education is systematic instruction. One can be educated to be a scammer, or to be scammed.

[@jeanponce2017]

I guess this is why the government no longer gives away high quality government cheese. I remember as a kid seeing trucks bring loads of large 10 lb cheese blocks and hand it out. I remember eating a piece and it was really good cheese not this processed crap

[@leechowning2712]

Actually, they cancelled the government agency which use to buy the milk they made into government cheese, and made a new agency (DMI) which advertises for dairy and makes programs to help companies sell dairy. Capitalism, dont you know.

[@johneubanks5951]

Ahhhh, those were the days..😋.. I remember when I was a kid we had gotten some of the cheese and man o man was it good..😋👌

[@anthonyspencer8310]

Lol I tried it and didn't like it but now I love a good cheese like that

[@user-vo5sw1ws3n]

Yeah, my mom would set me up to stand on that cheese line while my friends played. But definitely worth it

[@Getouttamyfaceatgmaildotcom]

They still do, it has a different name now but it's still given away at local food pantries

[@missrita1826]

Waste, waste, waste, while people are going hungry.

[@KingStix]

no use in crying over dumped milk

[@halfbreed4life62]

Just proves how selfish & money hungry ppl can be & this is awful

[@jandoel]

We don't know even know if the milk was safe to drink. Maybe it got contaminated and was no longer safe to make cheese.

[@jerryhouse6455]

Someone needs to be In JAIL.

[@k9thundra]

milk is good furtlizer though.

[@carsondavis9675]

You guys have no idea. If a load tests positive for ANY amount of antibiotics (1 cows milk into 80-100k lbs of milk) then the whole load has to be dumped. Where you ask? Well if the dairy doesn’t have a wastewater pond and the truck driver is now responsible for it, then this is an option that microbes will break down for us. This happens often, coming from someone who works in the dairy processing industry. And for those saying “turn it into powder or cheese”, there are standards of acidity and quality that has to be upheld for accepting milk into ANY processing facility. So if this is the case and you guys don’t like it, please offer up logical options. PS, it can’t be used for animal feed either if there is a positive antibiotic load.

[@BROUBoomer]

This milk could have gone to schools to give all kids free milk for breakfast, and lunch. Duh. 🤦‍♀️ But heaven forbid we admit millions are starving in America.

[@carlial1]

Because utah as long as the right people are getting their beaks wet you can do anything

[@kellybrandon1179]

Amen

[@sickmade801]

Yep and the rest of us can't afford to live here anymore.

[@Michael_Pepin]

America*

[@ChewyChicken589]

​@@sickmade801yep, the Salt Lake Valley has pretty much been gentrified by the West Coast

[@HUX8075]

Isn't it like that everywhere😢

[@americanjedi5952]

Why are they wasting milk? Cripes, reduce the price to sell more or something. This is shameful.

[@Lady-Carmakazi]

That makes too much sense. They'd rather raise the price & only feed a few. 😢

[@benjurqunov]

The same reason oil wells burn natural gas by product instead of piping the gas to use.

[@dwaynehunt7095]

That's just it, they don't want to reduce the price they want to make it higher.

[@francesannette8698]

Seriously! Wasting food and they can't make cheese out of it. Save the planet people.

[@GardensLadyBug]

Remember the powdered baby formula shortage? Yeah, it was caught on video, dumping csns of powdered baby formula, by the truckloads. Corruption abounds!!! 🤬🤬🤬

[@verahoward9824]

I remember back in the 70s they would take the milk to the high desert and dump it here in California . Greedy. Corporations.. 😮

[@pammccully4400]

Why do you dump milk?

[@ClansmanK]

It was contaminated with fire retardant.

[@richardmccann4815]

​@@pammccully4400because they have more than they can process, and don't want to spend money, and it only has a short shelf life!

[@naomiemoore5725]

​@@pammccully4400Very similar to the tanker trucks that carry gas to gas stations. It is criminal what they are doing.

[@Djkommode]

@@naomiemoore5725I didn’t know milk was flammable or corrosive. Good to know.

[@romarae3723]

It is so sad that the outstanding state of Utah has been so damaged. All by shortsighted humans. Start prosecuting, Utah!!!

[@deadfisfhalequin2304]

Republicans CUT FDA ...NO COPS THIS why this Happens

[@joshlowe2233]

Well when u put profit above morals, and worship money instead of God what can u truly expect

[@luvmyangels3]

These corporations need to be held accountable!!

[@syedhowell]

Welcome to Utah No Expectations No Disappointments!! Or ,Expect the Worst No Disappointments !!

[@aliceestrada2904]

Greedy corporations. Prefer to dump it, tgen to give it to the poor.

[@BrixThePlanter]

This happens with just about every single milk company in America I’ve heard truckers for a lot of years come in and tell me of how every milk plant they’ve been to they don’t milk. It’s so crazy to me because if they talked with the local communities and we all work together we could use that as fertilizer

[@edwinwilliams5322]

Or donate it.

[@jstrange6009]

​@@edwinwilliams5322I don't think they're dumping good milk....

[@edwinwilliams5322]

@@jstrange6009 it most often is good milk. Depression era laws require diary farmers to dump good milk to prevent milk from getting too cheap and harming the farmer's bottom line.

[@NK-ox9uo]

Not to mention those poor cows that gave up their babies just to get their milk thrown away. This is disgraceful and they should be fined big-time.

[@SV-je8mg]

And yet the price of milk is sky high.

[@sandrab794]

My god those poor animals forced to produce dumped milk.

[@pamelajohnson7813]

Right? Those calves taken from their mothers & crying for her! Absolute horror show!

[@nicpadilla9836]

The fact that people think this is not government regulations causing this is astounding.

[@nicpadilla9836]

@omi_god Can't give you exact statutes, but as far as milk goes, it would be under required processing times at the plant. Most jurisdictions do not allow milk to be sold directly without pasteurization to the customer. So since milk production from cows is fairly static, if there is at plant, they are required by law to throw it away.

[@johnchandler1687]

Farmers used to sell the cream and use the milk to mix their hog slop. Made healthy strong pigs.

[@Zeus8U]

I blame the government

[@70vintage58]

❤ AMERICAN'S REMEMBER OUR CHRISTIAN PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, HE made the Corporation give all that extra MILK, CHEESE, BUTTER. To the POOR PEOPLE on aid, FOOD KITCHEN, CHARITY'S So, the food wasn't WASTED. And the consumer price were still protected

[@kathleenohara6152]

Thank u for enlightening people that it CAN be done.

[@deadfisfhalequin2304]

The rich got rid of him 1 Term

[@JoeBidensDiaper]

What should be more worrying is why they are being forced to dump their excess instead of being allowed to sell it. It all comes down to market control.

[@spydervenom2175]

Waste to keep costs up... This proves dairy products should be next to free.

[@rsaldivar4218]

Politicians gone wild… nothing new. It’s probably happening in other states too.

[@retiredcryptohunter9031]

They does the opposite of benefiting citizens so if these companies receive any money from the government then they should immediately be investigated and put out of business if found guilty. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Tax money is explicitly supposed to be used in the benefit of the citizens.

[@deadfisfhalequin2304]

Republicans CUT FDA ...NO COPS THIS why this Happens

[@retiredcryptohunter9031]

@@deadfisfhalequin2304 this has already been happening and the funding bill for the FDA just happened about a month and a half ago. The FDA is already corrupt and using tax payer money to profit those big food and drug companies instead of benefiting the citizens like taxes are supposed to do. Food and drug should also be kept separate but lobbyists in congress use it to allow food companies to add ingredients into our food that makes us sick and benefits drug companies. I retired from the military last year after serving 22 years. While I was active duty I was always told to watch my diet and that I was borderline diabetic with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I moved to the Philippines with my wife after I retired and 6 months after moving here I was no longer borderline diabetic, my cholesterol and blood pressure are also normal now and I am still eating like I was before. If you think the FDA is trying to help us then you’re sadly mistaken.

[@laff000]

30+ years ago in upstate NY a local cheese plant dumped whey waste on a farmers field. A practice that at the time was allowed. But one year an excessive amount of rain inundated the area, flooding many fields. This event contaminated the wells of many houses in the area.

[@raymondspogo]

Remember when Republicans called Obama an idiot because milk was considered toxic? Now you know why.

[@WiggysWilderness]

EMA director here. We had a truck full of milk crash on our highway and the EPA made us clean it all up because the lactic acid is considered a hazmat.

[@nickrachjames]

What's EMA?

[@jennybrooks9027]

Not in Ohio, are you?!? ❤️‍🔥🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🔥

[@WiggysWilderness]

@@jennybrooks9027 nope, Tennessee

[@richardarriaga6271]

Anyone who says don't cry over spilt milk never had to deal with rotten spilt milk.

[@onebadapple83]

So FOS!!!

[@silvertrkf2508]

I heard a while back in the late 90s the company’s who buy milk dumped milk from their trucks as being shown in this clip that’s how they keep the milk prices up. And the dairy farmers continue to make the same amount that they did back then on each gallon of milk produce by the cows.

[@annhutcheson5770]

Why would they be dumping milk? What a waste while people go hungry.

[@joestalin2375]

Vitamin D fights COVID !

[@Q..J..]

With all of the hungry children and adults in the world, there is absolutely zero excuse for wastefulness like this! There is always something to make with something. If a company can dump it, they can donate it for use for feeding people for free. This is disgraceful and disgusting!

[@tenofivelips]

How is this legal? Deregulation.

[@ragnarlothbrook7958]

This is what happens when corporations/governments take over.

[@StucklnAWell]

This is corporations, with government being paid by the corporations to ignore it.

[@tjnucnuc]

Funny those are two opposites. This is what happens when we have no regulations. Typically a right wing GOP stance but now our entire government is controlled by corporations.

[@daveh2404]

Utah has been a republican dominant state since '96, I'll wager the state gov is being paid to look the other way.

[@bigrich7970]

LDS Church would definitely be involved.

[@Zach-ju5vi]

​@@daveh2404The government isn't paid to look the other way. dumping milk is very common, it's just something the associations do to keep prices consistent.