Does your Milk have Artificial Hormones? How they want to deceive us.........
I received this in my "Citizens for Health" newsletter today. Very interesting!!! What will they try next?
"As you know, we at Citizens for Health are committed to ensuring consumers have access to the information they need to make their own decisions about their health and wellness. A critical measure of this access is the degree to which products are fully and truthfully labeled to reflect what they do - or do not - contain.
Several large dairy producers and food companies have made news recently by getting rid of recombinant bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST, from their milk supply. This is great news for consumers, since this genetically engineered growth hormone is known to cause harm to cows and may pose health risks to humans.
In yet another attack on consumers' right to know, Monsanto, the company that makes rBGH under the trade name Posilac, has asked the Food and Drug Administration to restrict the use of labels identifying "rBGH-free" or "rBST-free" dairy products. Monsanto claims such labels are "misleading" to consumers, and infer that dairy products without such a label are inferior.
We know better. Sales of products that are rBGH-free have increased dramatically in recent years, and continue to grow. As mentioned above, dairies and food companies around the country are leaping to satisfy the demand. Naturally - pun intended - this makes Monsanto nervous as sales of its hormone have fallen. This move by Monsanto is nothing more than an effort to protect its financial bottom line at the expense of consumers' right to know.
Send an email reminding the FDA that their first responsibility is to consumers, not corporate special interests! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/t/1086/campaign.jsp?campai...
For over 10 years, rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone), also known as rBST (recombinant bovine somatotropin), has been a staple in the dairy products consumed by Americans. Since these products are not required to be labeled as containing rBGH / rBST, most consumers have no idea that a growth hormone intended to induce dairy cows to be more productive is in much of their milk, cheese, and yogurt.
After approving the use of rBGH in 1993, the Food and Drug Administration has turned a deaf ear to the pleas of consumers, food safety organizations and scientists to reverse its approval of the hormone, or even to simply require labeling of foods containing rBGH. Even a legal challenge by the Center for Food Safety could not force FDA to reexamine the health threats of rBGH. The FDA's decision stood despite regulatory bodies in both Canada and Europe rejecting the hormone due to numerous animal and human health concerns.
The FDA approved the use of voluntary labels more than 12 years ago at the request of dairy companies seeking to respond to customer concerns over the use of the genetically-engineered hormone. Since the FDA refused to require mandatory labeling of dairy products from cows treated with rBGH, voluntary labeling of dairy products that do not contain rBGH is the only resource consumers have to make informed decisions about what to feed themselves and their families.
If Monsanto succeeds in convincing the FDA to restrict rBGH-free labeling, consumers will lose valuable information about how their food is produced and will be less able to make their own decisions about their health and wellness.
Protect your right to know - send an email to the FDA today! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/t/1086/campaign.jsp?campai...
"As you know, we at Citizens for Health are committed to ensuring consumers have access to the information they need to make their own decisions about their health and wellness. A critical measure of this access is the degree to which products are fully and truthfully labeled to reflect what they do - or do not - contain.
Several large dairy producers and food companies have made news recently by getting rid of recombinant bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST, from their milk supply. This is great news for consumers, since this genetically engineered growth hormone is known to cause harm to cows and may pose health risks to humans.
In yet another attack on consumers' right to know, Monsanto, the company that makes rBGH under the trade name Posilac, has asked the Food and Drug Administration to restrict the use of labels identifying "rBGH-free" or "rBST-free" dairy products. Monsanto claims such labels are "misleading" to consumers, and infer that dairy products without such a label are inferior.
We know better. Sales of products that are rBGH-free have increased dramatically in recent years, and continue to grow. As mentioned above, dairies and food companies around the country are leaping to satisfy the demand. Naturally - pun intended - this makes Monsanto nervous as sales of its hormone have fallen. This move by Monsanto is nothing more than an effort to protect its financial bottom line at the expense of consumers' right to know.
Send an email reminding the FDA that their first responsibility is to consumers, not corporate special interests! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/t/1086/campaign.jsp?campai...
For over 10 years, rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone), also known as rBST (recombinant bovine somatotropin), has been a staple in the dairy products consumed by Americans. Since these products are not required to be labeled as containing rBGH / rBST, most consumers have no idea that a growth hormone intended to induce dairy cows to be more productive is in much of their milk, cheese, and yogurt.
After approving the use of rBGH in 1993, the Food and Drug Administration has turned a deaf ear to the pleas of consumers, food safety organizations and scientists to reverse its approval of the hormone, or even to simply require labeling of foods containing rBGH. Even a legal challenge by the Center for Food Safety could not force FDA to reexamine the health threats of rBGH. The FDA's decision stood despite regulatory bodies in both Canada and Europe rejecting the hormone due to numerous animal and human health concerns.
The FDA approved the use of voluntary labels more than 12 years ago at the request of dairy companies seeking to respond to customer concerns over the use of the genetically-engineered hormone. Since the FDA refused to require mandatory labeling of dairy products from cows treated with rBGH, voluntary labeling of dairy products that do not contain rBGH is the only resource consumers have to make informed decisions about what to feed themselves and their families.
If Monsanto succeeds in convincing the FDA to restrict rBGH-free labeling, consumers will lose valuable information about how their food is produced and will be less able to make their own decisions about their health and wellness.
Protect your right to know - send an email to the FDA today! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/t/1086/campaign.jsp?campai...
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Permalink Reply by Miriam on -
Thanks, Kathi. I don't drink milk but signed the petition to help prevent this issue from affecting other food as well.
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Permalink Reply by Kathi Kirschner on -
Awesome, everybody counts! Thanks.
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