George and Kathleen Knevelbaard, et al. - Page 7

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            the slaughter price as meat would be only 20 percent of the                               
            herd's value as dairy cows.                                                               
                  Gomes frantically looked for another place to sell his milk,                        
            going to daily meetings of dairymen's associations and                                    
            cooperatives, but all to no avail, because everyone was in the                            
            same boat.  In September 1986, after Knudsen sold its plant in                            
            Hughson, California, Gomes began shipping his milk to the new                             
            owners there.                                                                             
                  Despite their stress, petitioners did not seek professional                         
            mental health assistance.  Their reasons were varied.  Some were                          
            cultural.  Gomes was brought up in a small Portuguese community                           
            of about 2,000 people.  He had been taught that an emotional                              
            problem was a sign of personal inadequacy, and to seek                                    
            professional help was a thing to be shunned.  Knevelbaard's                               
            reasons for not seeking professional help were religious.  In                             
            times of stress he seeks consolation and encouragement through                            
            prayer and Bible reading.                                                                 
                 Within 2 months after Knudsen defaulted on payments to the                          
            milk producers it filed a chapter 11 petition in the U.S.                                 
            Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.  The                             
            milk producers were unsecured creditors.  All filed proofs of                             
            claim.                                                                                    
                  On January 12, 1989, petitioners were among nearly 1,000                            
            milk producers, individually or through their cooperatives, who                           





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