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A far cry from small family farms which Tillamook Creamery advertises For its products. More as a feed lot.
Tillamook Creamery
Tillamook Creamery is in litigation. The Oregon Supreme Court says ‘misleading marketing’ case against Tillamook can move forward. It’s been well over a year since the Oregon Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether a lawsuit against the Tillamook County Creamery Association should be allowed to proceed. On Thursday, the court agreed that a group of Oregon residents suing the creamery does have a claim, allowing the case to move forward. Tillamook, founded in 1909 as a farmer-owned dairy cooperative and known for its varieties of artisan cheese, ice cream and yogurt, is accused of misleading marketing. The creamery has denied the allegations and has said it’s transparent about its practices. Which I personally do not agree with, they have touted that they get their milk from small farms. The suit alleges Tillamook violated Oregon’s consumer protection laws for advertising campaigns that allowed it to sell its cheese, butter and other dairy products at a premium. It claims the creamery’s marketing led consumers to believe its milk is sourced from small, family-owned, lush-green pasture-based dairies in Tillamook County, when in reality, it sources two-thirds of its milk from one of the country’s largest dairies with cement floors and barren feedlots and over 28,000 cows east of the Cascades near Boardman. The large dairy in question, Columbia River Dairy, is managed by Threemile Canyon Farm, which also operates a beef operation and farms corn, onion, potatoes and a variety of other crops on 93,000 acres of land. Threemile is not named in the Tillamook case, although it is one of the defendants in a separate case alleging the farm contributed to a decades-long nitrate pollution crisis in the Lower Umatilla Basin. Where its waste water ran off the property into the Columbia River. A spokesperson for Tillamook, wrote in an email to OPB that the size of a farm does not dictate the quality of care its dairy cows receive, and that it’s never tried to hide its business relationship with Columbia River Dairy. Well if you actually go to a small family farm and see how the cows are treated and then to a big feed lot farm you will see the difference immediately. The trial court and the court of appeals had previously ruled that the case couldn’t go forward because in those courts’ view the consumer protection law did not provide an avenue for relief. “But the Supreme Court has now reversed both of those courts’ decisions, saying that the case can in fact go forward as plaintiffs have pleaded it. Now that the Oregon Supreme Court has reversed the lower courts’ decisions, the plaintiffs can go back to the trial court to try to prove their allegations against Tillamook and seek to get the case certified as a class-action, this decision a big win for consumers. Companies need to start being truthful to the consumer, I think people would still buy their products. And the consumer loves Tillamook products and will still buy ice-cream, cheese etc no matter which way the case turns out. It shows that even Tillamook Creamery is not beyond manipulating the facts to sell more products. Thankfully consumers, have protections against such practices.
Tammy
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