Save Ben & Jerry’s!
Posted by Michael.
I don’t know of any official forum for complaints, but if you feel so moved I’m sure that letters to your congerzman would be appreciated: Monsanto is attacking the RBGH-free labels used by virtually all non-bad-for-you dairy products. Happily, that bastion of all that is good and holy (and tasty) is fighting back.
I like blockquotes, so I’ll go with these two:
A newly formed farmers’ group, backed by Monsanto, is pushing for labeling changes, saying the hormone-free labels imply that the milk is safer than other milk, when they say it’s not.
Well no shit dummies. They imply the crap about of the subject, but if you read the details they very clearly say “we can’t say anything other than our products don’t have any hormones in them.”
and
The hormone, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to boost production in dairy cows in the early 1990s, was not approved in Canada, Japan or the European Union, largely out of concerns it may be harmful to animals.
And “there are unanswered human questions with it. It probably should never have been approved,” said Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:01 pm Using
While we’re implying things, I’ll just post this article on the notable trend that American girls are entering puberty at earlier and earlier ages, putting them at far greater risk for breast cancer later in life… not to mention a variety of social/emotional problems well before they reach “adulthood”.
Girls as young as 8 starting to menstruate! dood.
Note that any correlation between this comment and the above post is merely in the mind of the reader. There’s no way that premature onset of puberty could be reasonably related to the pints of hormone-”enriched” milk consumed daily, nor could this be related to the vast amounts of poorly understood hormone-mimics that come from all the plastics in our lives.
sigh…