The reasons for this disaster are not a mystery. Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC) and Ultra-filtered milk are being widely used to displace REAL farm milk and traditional dairy ingredients from milk and dairy processing plants and to extend cheese yields. The school lunch program skim milk, which is devoid of healthy levels of butterfat by federal fiat, is turning off the next generation of milk drinkers. The “dairy industry”, Land Grant Universities, and lending institutions, all relentlessly promote dairy expansion. Trade agreements have already stripped American farmers of any protection and seek to strip all farmers, worldwide, of any safeguards. The United States Congress has been, at least, complicit in this disaster, and now, even you, Mr. Leahy, claiming to be a leader on dairy policy issues, have capitulated to the global agenda, where WTO rules supersede our own rights to maintain a local and diverse domestic food supply. We are not fooled by your assertion of “significant improvements,” as you have clearly joined the ranks of those who are willing to see traditional family dairy farms forever disappear from the rural, American landscape.