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3 things you should know about your food.(hormones in milk and meat from genetically-engineered animals)
The cattle industry and related agribusiness interests seem to think that an uninformed consumer is their best customer. Consumers Union disagrees. You deserve answers to the following questions about your milk and meat:
ANY ARTIFICIAL HORMONES?
Since Monsanto introduced recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH) to the market in 1994, some 20 percent of dairy cows have gotten the drug. It increases milk output but also increases udder infections in cows and levels in milk of insulin-like growth factor-1. IGF-1 stimulates tumor growth, but whether enough is present in milk to affect human health is disputed. Consumers, however, have switched in droves to milk labeled free of rbGH.
Monsanto's answer? Keep "rbGH-free" off the label. The dairy farmers who support the product have pushed at least a half-dozen states to propose laws or regulations that would prohibit dairies from labeling their milk "rbGH-free" or would impose such onerous requirements about type styles and placement of statements that milk producers would find it hard to comply. Some restrictions are already in effect in Pennsylvania; at press time, restrictions were expected to go into effect in Ohio. Efforts have stalled elsewhere.
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IS IT FROM CLONED ANIMALS?
In January, the Food and Drug Administration stated that milk and meat from cloned animals are safe and don't need to be labeled. This despite the ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 15, 2008 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) January 4, 2007 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) February 15, 2007 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Catholic New Times November 26, 2006 700+ words
...approving meat and milk from cloned animals, drawing protests...plans to regulate cloned animals and food derived...that the meat and milk from cattle clones...whether food from cloned animals must carry special...healthy meat and milk." Dairy producers...
- Statement of International Dairy Foods Association Re: FDA's Draft Risk...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 28, 2006 700+ words
...safety and wholesomeness of milk and dairy products. While we...safety issues with food from cloned animals, we support FDA's decision to maintain the moratorium on milk and meat from cloned animals entering the food supply during...
- Statement From Mark Walton, President of ViaGen on the FDA Draft Risk...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 28, 2006 700+ words
...the safety of meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring...the safety of meat and milk from the offspring of clones...soon be eating meat and milk from clones. Fact: Because cloned animals are very costly and represent...