Mills River Creamery and Dairy is a dairy farm right outside of Asheville. Because they are local to the area, people assume that no cruelty is taking place at the farm.
Mills River Creamery and Dairy
Maple View Dairy
Maple View Dairy, located in Hillsborough, North Carolina, is a supplier to the Farm to Home Milk delivery service that delivers cow's milk to the people of Asheville. Farm to Home claims "All Milk is produced from happy cows." The reality is a far cry from happy.
Homeland Creamery
Homeland Creamery is a family dairy farm in Julian, North Carolina. When you first begin their tour, they start by showing you a calf in a larger sized hutch. Although they display a clean hutch with space to move around, this is not truly how their calves live.
Cane Creek Valley Farm
As on many other dairy farms, the male calves are disposable to the industry and are either slaughtered for veal, sold, or kept for breeding. The Cane Creek Creamery has been dissolved but the farm farm sells milk to Milkco who bottles it for Ingles.
Yellow Branch Cheese
After the female cows at Yellow Branch Cheese are forcibly impregnated though artificial insemination, they only get to spend 48 hours with their mothers before being taken away and separated for good. If they are female, they will endure the same traumatic cycle as their mothers and be required have a baby every 14-16 months who will also be forcibly taken away from them.
Three Graces Dairy
While Three Graces Dairy appears to have classic charm as a "humane" and small local business, what we saw when we visited was an entirely different story. While visiting the farm, we kept stumbling upon more and more babies. They were all separated from their mothers.
Asheville Dairy 