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food sourcing
milk
amish
organic pastures
claravale
los angeles
molasses
[2010]
[Aajonus]
No, not with our milk quality here cuz they'd be getting organic pastures and Organic Pastures nearly freezes their milk to keep the coliform bacteria down cause our jerk, terminator governor vetoed that bill we worked so hard to get through.
But with the new governor coming in, I'm right off to Sacramento again.
[Attendee]
The milk you buy right now in bottles isn't good?
[Aajonus]
It's not so good, it isn't the best. Schwarzenegger makes sure we didn't have the high quality we need. So I get our shipped from from Amish farmers every week.
It's expensive, just as expensive as Organic Pastures to have ours shipped in. But we have high quality.
[Attendee]
Do you get it in glass?
[Aajonus]
I buy it in the glass, so it's frightenly expensive.
[Attendee]
How much?
[Aajonus]
If I buy it in a half gallon, I'm paying $12 something. If I buy it in the gallon glass, I pay $17 - $18 a gallon.
[Attendee]
What about Claravale?
[Aajonus]
Claravale farms feeds regular old feed. He and his wife called me and said, "Why are you bad mouthing our milk"? I said, "I'm not badmouthing your milk. It's just that you feed yours".
"Well, we're organic."
I said, "Send me the label to your feed. The last time I saw your feed label, it's a regular old, has soy in it", processed soy in it. It has a lot of other processed substance. It has molasses and molasses is boiled sugar cane till the slop boils down to the bottom at 475° - 700°.
I said, "That's not raw, that's not an organic substance". I said, "You send me your label". Never received it.
The Amish grow their own.
[Attendee]
Are there any Amish out here? Are there any Amish in California?
[Attendee #2]
*Laughs*
[Aajonus]
They're too expensive. Amish to California, too expensive.
[Attendee #2]
Land prices are too high.
[Aajonus]
Oh yeah, exactly.
[Attendee]
How close are they?
[Aajonus]
There's a lot in Kansas. Mennonites in Kansas, Utah, there's some in Arizona.
I was just in Sedona and there were some there.
Well you got 'em in Ohio, I have a slew of them in Ohio.. They're all over the place.
Just in the West coast, there's not a lot of rain here. They stay where there's good farming.