Organic Dairy for Babies: Why to Switch with Britt Lundgren from @stonyfieldorganics

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Should I buy organic dairy foods for my baby? In this episode Britt Lundgren, the Senior Director of Sustainability for Stonyfield Farm chats about the differences between organic and conventional dairy foods. We’re chatting through all of the benefits of organic dairy farming and organic dairy foods, from environmental to nutrition, sustainability, profitability and wellbeing of the dairy farmers, and their cows!

ABOUT THE GUEST

• Britt Lundgren is the Senior Direct of Sustainability and Government Farms at Stonyfield Farm.

• Stonyfield Farm is an organic dairy food brand and champion of organic farming practices since 1983

• Britt helps activate Stonyfield’s sustainability efforts throughout policy, farmer relations and retail outlets

SUMMARY OF EPISODE

In this episode we’re talking about:

• How organic dairy farming leads to dairy foods that are free from synthetic hormones and toxic pesticide residues

• Why organic dairy foods have 60% higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids than conventional dairy foods

• What it takes to convert a dairy farm from conventional to organic and how that benefits the environment, human nutrition and dairy farmer and cows’ well-being.

LINKS from episode

• Learn more about Stonyfield Farm and their sustainability efforts on the Stonyfield website, located here: https://www.stonyfield.com/

• The Emory University hormones in conventional milk study results are located here: https://www.organic-center.org/milk-study 

• The Stonyfield Farm 2021 Impact Report is located here: https://773e073e1.flowpaper.com/2021impactreport/#page=1

TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE

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