Horizon Organic Shelf-Stable 1% Low Fat Chocolate Milk, 18 Pack

Horizon Organic, America's first nationally distributed organic dairy brand, was founded in 1991. Together with other industry leaders, the company's founders played a key role in developing the National Organic Standards and the USDA Organic Seal. Horizon Organic has pioneered practices for organic dairy farming and land stewardship, and is privileged to work with some of the industry's top experts in land conservation, organic agriculture, and animal welfare.

Horizon Organic's Idaho dairy was the first large certified organic dairy in the country, and now supports more than 30,000 organic acres, including the cropland that supplies feed to its operations. On the company's Maryland farm, its organic practices have transformed previously mismanaged land with dangerously high phosphorous levels into permanent organic pasture. Horizon Organic sponsors numerous non-profit and trade organizations devoted to organic agriculture and related environmental causes, such as Farm Aid, Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES), Help Wanted Organic Farmers Campaign, and The Organic Center. The company has also been recognized with an EPA Green Power Partnership Award for its support of renewable wind energy.

Through the Horizon Organic Producer Education (HOPE) program, the company recruits and supports hundreds of organic family farms across the country. 80% of Horizon Organic's milk is supplied by 363 certified organic family farmers from 18 states, while the balance comes from the company's two certified organic dairies in Idaho and Maryland. An additional 228 family farmers are in the process of converting to organic through the HOPE program.

On Horizon Organic's company-owned farms and the farms of its partners, all of the animals that supply the milk enjoy the holistic benefits of organic management practices. This includes a preventive approach to healthcare that minimizes illness by providing a sanitary environment, proper nutrition, and compassionate, attentive daily care, as well as room to roam outdoors and to display natural behaviors. The cows are fed a 100% vegetarian, certified organic diet of active grazing during the growing season, supplemented by certified organic feed.

Horizon Organic's UHT 1% Low-Fat Chocolate Milk Boxes offer the organic goodness of Horizon milk in a convenient, shelf-stable format. These single-serve milk boxes are great for lunchboxes and on-the-go snacking, providing a wholesome alternative to juice boxes. Each organic milk box contains many nutrients, including calcium, vitamin A, vitamin D, and 8 grams of protein, while being non-GMO and from cows that are given no antibiotics, persistent pesticides, or added hormones.*

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