Karen Bakies is a R.D. for the American Dairy Association Mideast and is the Nutrition Affairs Director. The National Dairy council was founded around 1915 to help people learn about proper nutrition and the importance of consuming dairy to prevent disease popular in those days like Rickets. Her territory is Ohio and West Virginia. They are funded by dairy farmers so for every 100$ of dairy they sell they must give .15 cents to the Dairy Council. There are about 3,000 dairy farmers in Ohio with an average of 83 cows per farm. She talked about how there are lots of false sources of information on nutrition and dairy on the internet and it is important for people like us to help people learn what is fact or myth.
She was a really great speaker and seemed to really enjoy what she was doing. I did not think about jobs like that before she came to talk with us. It seems like it would be a pretty interesting job.
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