No he doesn't. I don't have to buy anything from him at all, a point that is obviously lost on you. The persons who have my PIN number are the "conventional" farmers who pump their cows full of hormones until they almost explode from overproduction, and then stick me with the bill for price support subsidies. And how about the owner of the 100,000 bushel pile of wheat? How long before he cries for subsidies because the price is too low to pay for the next load of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified seed he has to license? I also love his government payment for not growing things.
I'll stick with organic milk for now. That way I won't have to worry about my sons growing saggy man breasts.
As you've correctly pointed out, you don't have to buy anything from him.
But if you are buying organic milk, you are willingly, though indirectly, buying from him or guys like him. They are the ones who produce and sell the outragously priced organic feedstuffs to the dairy.
Just think, each bushel of wheat deliverd to that dairy has 1 gallon of fuel used just to make that final delivery. This happens month after month.
And don't think for a moment he doesn't appreciate it. He really wants that new tractor.
No, but you evidently don't mind raising the risks of your son developing type 1 diabetes.
Cow's milk is not good for anyone to consume. You don't even get the benefits of the calcium after two years of age. It has been implicated in causing type 1 diabetes as well as possibly causing many food allergies.