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Genetic Roulette
The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
by Jeffrey M. Smith
Read Genetic Roulette Excerpt: Summary of the Health Dangers of rBGH"
What’s
In Your Milk?
by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the DANGERS of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You’re Drinking
From the Book:
Monsanto, supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), insists that rBGH milk is indistinguishable from natural milk, and that it is safe for consumers. This is blatantly false:
- rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been forced to admit to about 20 toxic effects, including mastitis, on its POSILAC label.
- rBGH milk is contaminated by pus, due to the mastitis commonly induced by rBGH, and antibiotics used to treat the mastitis.
- rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of a natural growth factor (IGF-1), which is readily absorbed through the gut.
- Excess levels of IGF-1 have been incriminated as a cause of breast, colon, and prostate cancers.
- IGF-1 blocks natural defense mechanisms against early submicroscopic cancers.
- rBGH factory farms pose a major threat to the viability of small dairy farms.
- rBGH enriches Monsanto, while posing dangers, without any benefits, to consumers.
What is rBGH?
rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone) is a genetically engineered variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows. Manufactured by Monsanto, it is sold to dairy farmers under the trade name Posilac. Injection of this hormone forces cows to boost milk production by about 10%, while increasing the incidences of mastitis, lameness, and reproductive complications.
Monsanto has been lobbying state legislatures and departments of agriculture around the country to harass dairies that won't use Posilac. Monsanto wants to take away dairies' right to tell consumers they're rBGH-free. Please go to the following OCA state action centers to learn more and take action:
Recent rBGH News Stories
- 04/29/08 - Making Health Care Greener
- 04/22/08 - Debate Continues to Simmer over Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone
- 04/14/08 - Despite Monsanto's Lobbying & Arm Twisting Consumers and Dairies Are Rejecting Bovine Growth Hormone-Tainted Milk
- 04/09/08 - Coalition Urges Ohio Govemor to Modify Proposed Milk Label Rule
- 04/04/08 - Monsanto's Patchwork Plan to Deny Consumer Choice
- 03/31/08 - A Fake Group Fights for Monsanto's Right to Deceive You
- 03/27/08 - Wal-Mart Offers Private Label Milk Produced Without Artificial Growth Hormone
- 03/26/08 - Why Monsanto Doesn't Want You to Know About Those Hormones in Your Dairy
- 03/26/08 - Monsanto's Nefarious Plan to Deny Consumers Choice Over Bovine Growth Hormone-Tainted Milk
- 03/25/08 - Got rBST? The New Pennsylvania Attack on rBST-Free Milk Production
- 03/24/08 - Wal-Mart Move 'TIpping Point' for Driving Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market
- 03/24/08 - So THIS Is What It Takes to Win?
- 03/23/08 - Wal-Mart Bans Milk Tainted with Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone
- 03/21/08 - Wal-Mart Begins Sales of Hormone-Free Milk
- 03/14/08 - Dairy Processor's Perspective on rbST Milk
- 03/13/08 - New Choices Mean Controversy for Milk
- 03/10/08 - New York Times on Monsanto's Last Desperate Attempt to Save its Bovine Growth Hormone
- 03/08/08 - Frankenfoods' Giant Monsanto Plays Bully Over Consumer Labeling
- 03/01/08 - Update & Overview on the Controversy over Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone
- 03/01/08 - Update on the Battle Against Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone
- 02/29/08 - Downer Cows in Slaughter Video Were Products of Profit Happy Dairy Industry
- 02/27/08 - Critics Say Dairy Labels a Confusing Cash Cow
- 02/18/08 - Monsanto Continues Battle to Deny Consumers' Right to Know Whether Their Milk is Tainted by Growth Hormone
- 02/08/08 - Another Defeat for Monsanto: Ohio Backs Off on Banning rBGH-Free Labels
- 02/07/08 - Ben & Jerry's Opposes Monsanto's Move in Several States to Ban rBGH-Free Labels
- 01/28/08 - Op-Ed by OCA's Director, Ronnie Cummins: Should We Label Growth-Hormone Milk?
- 01/25/08 - Ohio Nurses Tell Governor: Don't Ban rBGH-Free Labels for Dairy Products
- 01/25/08 - Ronnie Cummins: Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone Poses Significant Risks for Consumers
- 01/19/08 - Pennsylvania: State Reverses on Dairy Labeling, Allows Hormone Claims
- 01/18/08 - Public Pressure Again Forces Pennsylvania to Back Off From Banning rBGH-free Labels for Milk & Dairy Products
- 01/18/08 - Good News: Pennsylvania Maintains RBGH free labeling
- 01/17/08 - Action Alert: Consumers May Lose Right to Buy rBGH-Free Milk
- 01/16/08 - Kraft Stabs Monsanto in the Back--New Kraft rBGH-Free Cheese Will Hit Market in June
- 01/02/08 - Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Don't Ban 'Hormone-Free' Label
- 12/28/07 - Caribou Coffee, Following Starbucks, Dumping Monsanto's rBGH-Tainted Milk
- 12/26/07 - Monsanto's Holiday Message to Consumers: Shut Up and Drink Your Hormone-Laced Milk
- 12/18/07 - Consumers Union, OCA & 80 Public Interest Groups Tell Ohio Governor Not to Ban rBGH-free Labels on Dairy Products
- 12/16/07 - Key Consumer Advocate to Squelch rBGH-free Milk Hormone Labels in Ohio Turns Out to Be an Agent for Monsanto
- 12/15/07 - Action Alert - Stop Monsanto's Attempt to Force Bovine Growth Hormone on Consumers in Ohio
- 12/14/07 - Jim Hightower: Battling Monsanto's Doctored Milk
- 12/07/07 - Dairy Industry Taking Notice of Ban on 'Absence' Milk Labels
- 12/06/07 - Chipotle Mexican Grill is Nation's First Chain to go Entirely rBGH-Free
- 11/29/07 - OCA & Allies Open Letter to Pennsylvania Governor on rBGH-Free Dairy Labels
- 11/28/07 - Pennsylvania Governor Blocks Monsanto's Attempt to Ban Popular 'rBGH-Free' Dairy Labels
- 11/26/07 - Save rBGH-Free Labeling in Pennsylvania--Stop Monsanto's Biotech Bullying
- 11/25/07 - Pennsylvania's Milk Cover-Up
- 11/21/07 - BS-Free Milk
- 11/17/07 - Pennsylvania Bars Hormone-Free Milk Labels
- 11/11/07 - NYT on Monsanto & Pennsylvania Ag Bureaucrats Trying to Force Bovine Growth Hormone on Consumers
- 10/25/07 - Pennsylvania Ag Bureaucrats Move to Squelch rBGH-Free Labels on Behalf of Monsanto
- 09/07/07 - Time Stunts Monsanto's Raging Hormones
- 09/06/07 - Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone Being Driven off the Market
- 09/05/07 - Keeping Monsanto Out of Our Milk
- 08/29/07 - FDA & FTC Reject Monsanto's Request to Ban rBGH-Free Labels on Dairy Products
- 08/27/07 - Starbucks Agrees to Ban Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone from All Its Cafes by End of Year