People don't need to drink cow's milk, and they don't need to eat cheap hamburger made from cows who are no longer producing milk profitably.

Nobody is going to die if we decide to treat cows humanely and raise them in environmentally sustainable ways.

Just bigger, more consolidated factory farms, and maybe more pressure on the Amazon for cattle production.

...being pushed out by larger factory farms to meet the demand for milk probably means the cows will be treated less humanely and in less environmentally sustainable ways. Factory farms equals more feedlots, less pasture per animal, and increased use of steroids and antibiotics proactively.

Can you say corporate mega dairies, Baby?

It's as if capitalism is expressing itself and saying it's too expensive to maintain rural communities and culture......

Robots have no culture, and robots are the ideal worker in Republican capitalism. This is how Republicanism is (and has been) hurting culture.

Farms don't get lost, except to things like erosion or pavement. Economic conditions were manufactured to assist in the transfer of ownership of farms to richer owners.