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This article talks about the organic milk shortages, that farmers can't buy enough food to feed their caws because the price for their food has been increased, as a result they give less nutrition to their caws and get less milk. But demand for organic milk is still high and in the article they will some suggestions how to solve that problem.

The demand for organic milk is greater than supply because the production cost of creating organic milk is greater than the revenue. The reason for the shortage is that the cost of organic grain and hay has gone up but the price farmers receive for milk has not. As a result farmers buy less grain and hay which lowers the production of milk. The low supply of organic milk than in turn increases the overall price. The solution for this issue would be to increase the price of income the farmers would receive for their milk. If the solution were applied, the farmers would pay more for organic grain and more milk would be produced and consumers would be satisfied.

Many people are lactose intolerant, but this new genetically modified cow looks to solve those problems. If this new "tailless" cow is able to solve the lactose intolerance problem, than the demand for milk will increase, and the demand for soy milk or other milk substitutes will decrease.

The article is about in which countries what type of products are more elastic and inelastic. For example, milk bread has inelastic demand because even though the prices change people will still buy them to survive. Otherwise, meat, chicken has inelastic demand because people might not afford the prices if they change. Especially USA, Japan, Canada has the most inelastic demand for milk, bread and vegetables when you compare them with other nations.

In this article we can read about price and demand elasticity of food, it's written that demand for some product such as milk, bread, fresh fruit and vegetables is not elastic, because these product are part of diet food so that's why the change in price won't affect demand very much. However other it can affect the demand of some other that not suits to diet food very much.