Milk, rBST, & Monsanto's Rats
We're Drinking What?
By Martha Rosenberg
CounterPunch.org
11-19-6
Look at photos of the gigantic udders on rBST treated dairy cows and
it's not hard to imagine the artificial hormone's role in increasing
U.S. rates of breast and prostate cancer, precocious puberty and
obesity.
But U.S. milk producers and agricultural officials continue to say
Monsanto's Posilac, which has been used unlabeled in much of the U.S.
public milk supply since 1994, is safe. [1]
Even as they jump all over each other to ban it.
Last year, Oregon's Tillamook County Creamery Association, the nation's
second largest maker of chunk cheese, renounced rBST. [2]
This year, Dean Foods and H.P. Hood, New England's two largest milk
processors, Arizona's Shamrock Farms and Northwestern Dairy
Association's Darigold did. [3, 4]