John Klar: Successful agriculture future diverges from big dairy

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John Klar, a Vermont grass-fed beef farmer, and an attorney and pastor who lives in Westfield.
In some provinces of India it is a capital offense to slaughter a cow. Literally: so revered are cows, a person convicted of killing a cow can be executed.
In Vermont, the sacred cow is industrial milk production. For decades our federal and state governments have employed taxpayer money to subsidize milk prices. Vermont was the very first state to do this, in