I know that Radiance Dairy is probably the best you can do to attempt to get "ethical" dairy products. I cannot seem to access a website that provides details about their farm, but I have inquired about their practices in the past. I will say that milk from a cow is meant for her calf and humans have no need for it. I don't know if Francis Thicke allows the calves to stay with their mothers for a long time. As you probably know, most take the calves away within 24 hours. I think that is unethical. In most situations, the male calves are raised for veal, often in those terrible hutches --and the cows end up at the slaughterhouse. All this for a product that we do not need. I don't think any of that is ethical. But his cows do have a better quality of life than 99.99% of the other cows in the dairy industry.

As far as eggs go---even if you purchase them at a farmer's mkt, almost all of the chicks come from huge hatcheries : vimeo.com/62826795 There is nothing ethical about this. Most of the hens, no matter the size of the "farm" end up being slaughtered at about 1 1/2 years old. They have all been selectively bred to produce 300 or more eggs a year. In the wild, before domestication, they would have produced 12 to 20 eggs a year. Producing over 300 eggs a year it horribly stressful for the hens.

The humane myth is used to market all of these products. You have to look deeper to understand the whole process.