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Milk With rBGH: Does It Really Do A Body Good?
In 1993 Monsant urged the Federal Trade Commission, (FTC) to restrict labeling milk “rBGH-free”. Monsanto is the manufacturer of Posilac, or bovine somatotropin (bST) , as described on the web site Monsanto Today, “…one of the leading dairy animal health products in the United States and many other countries. Supplementing dairy cows with bovine somatotropin safely enhances milk production and serves as an important tool to help dairy producers improve the efficiency of their operations. “The web site makes the claim that milk from cows receiving the supplemental hormne is ” unchanged and just as wholesome and nutritious as always”.If this statement is true, why do 80 percent of consumers surveyed want milk from cows free of this so-called healthful hormone additive labeled as “rBGH-free”? These results are from a survey of consumers conducted by Food and Water Watch We are also wondering why such major food retailers such Publix Supermarkets, Chipotle, Starbucks, Tillamook, Kroger, and Meiers they will only buy rBGH-free milk? It has been widely reported Kraft Foods plans to produce an rBGH-free line of cheeses.
Most industrial nations, including Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand have banned the use of the hormone. All 27 member nations of the Eurpoean Union have banned the hormone which according to Monsanto “allows dairy farmers to produce more milk with fewer cows, thereby providing dairy farmers with additional economic security as well as providing related environmental benefits”. We interpret this statement to mean the cows and the humans are being exploited and abused. Cows who produce abnormal amounts of milk have a shorter life span. People who ingest milk from cows who produce an abnormal amount of milk because they have received the supplemental hormone bST may have a shorter life expectancy, too. The jury is still out on that point; but if so many governments have restricted the use of this chemical is the U.S. really providing “better living through chemistry” for its consumers who drink hormone laced milk?
We like our milk free of harmful hormones that may be linked to cancer in humans. That is why we drink rice milk or soy milk. We believe as humans we receive more nutritional benefit from milk made from grains than we do from milk from hormone treated cows.
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