Are there other environmental concerns with food production that Turtle Mountain is addressing?
We are buying sugar that has been manufactured without animal products for refinement. We are not using any dairy ingredients, so that has a huge effect on the environment both in terms of animal issues and environmental issues, from minimizing the fossil fuels used to bring animal feed back and forth and dealing with all the pollution of the fertilizer, and waste of the animals. All of us nondairy manufacturers make our products in facilities that also manufacture ice cream. There is a type of testing called neogen that measures down to the parts per million in terms of antibodies of dairy protein present. We vigorously sample test our products for the presence of dairy. None of our competitors do that. We’re concerned that we not have an incidence of dairy contamination. If you don’t watch yourself and wash out the equipment real well, you could kill somebody if someone highly allergic eats the product. We go to tremendous extents to constantly be checking these plants. Where does th
