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milk containers, Governor Ed Rendell vehemently disagreed and reversed the issue, allowing the references to stay. The decision was initially enacted because State Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said the labels might cause consumers to think the treated milk was somehow inferior to non-treated milk, therefore slowing sales. Why the sudden change? Rendell, along with the Consumers Union, dairy farms, and even Ben and Jerry's representatives thought that consumers deserved the right to know how their drinks were being produced. However, dairies that do choose to label their milk as "hormone-free" also have to list a disclaimer that their milk is no safer than milk that does contain hormones. This is because, despite rumors that hormones cause girls to hit puberty earlier or cause certain types of cancer, no research has proven either of these statements.
However, this hasn't stopped Canada from banning use of the hormone, which is used because it supposedly boosts milk production by 10%. Canada's reasoning? They say it causes mastitis, or udder infection, and reduces the number of pregnancies.
What do you think? Do you want to know whether or not your milk comes from hormone-treated cows? And how much does this fact - whether or not the cows were treated - affect what kind of milk you buy?
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1-24-2008 @10:54PM Cherish said... I wonder how many suffer with dairy-containing-hormones related side effects... To make a long story short, both my husband and myself can't consume any dairy that's not artificial-hormone free. If we do (as we accidentally did last night- hormone containing sour cream), we wake up the next day and we can barely swallow and the nasty stuff lasts all day! Doctors swore I was lactose intolerant but I didn't have any other classic symptoms. After switching to Alta-Dena, Knudsen gold star, or any other brand rgbh/rbst free, we can consume dairy like crazy if we want to. Go figure!!!
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1-19-2008 @5:28PM Grace said... Yes! A resounding yes...I absolutely want to know. And it does influence whether I buy the milk or not. Such games we play. Of course we know it cannot be healthful to ingest these hormones.
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1-19-2008 @9:14PM Allison said... Aaarghhh. As a long-time "enemy" of the organized dairy industry (i.e., I drink raw milk), I absolutely, positively want to know if there are hormones in my milk when I use it sometimes while "our" cows are dry while pregnant in the winter. I have to use the term "our" because it is only legal in my state to get raw dairy if you buy a share in the herd and are therefore an owner who can drink their own milk.
The FDA keeps bowing to the influence of big agri-business and uses all sorts of scare techniques that raw milk is unsafe and there is no scientific evidence to the contrary. Does this sound like the wording above from Pennsylvania?
There is lots of scientific evidence about how healthy raw dairy is; or perhaps the millions of people around the world who have drunk the stuff for thousands of years might convince you it's not a killer.
If you are a serious policy or scientific evidence wonk, I encourage you to go to www.realmilk.com and read the rebuttal to the FDA powerpoint presentation against raw milk. If you think we "real milk" fans are edging toward paranoia, see the rebuttal. If you think scientific evidence can be skewed any way a special interest wants it to be, see the rebuttal.
Meanwhile, here's hoping more and more of you in the "illegal" states will help us fight to at least get choice in the matter. You don't have to drink it, but thousands of us who are your friends and neighbors might like to. And in the mean time, stay away from the hormone-laced stuff.
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1-20-2008 @7:50PM yogachef said... This is in the same ilk as the recent decision by the FDA to allow cloned meat and dairy into the market place without disclosure.
I for one, want to be 100% informed what has been done to improve yields or enhance growth in the food chain. Science does not yet have the research results from a period of time which is long enough to prove real guarantees regarding the safety of these products.
There are so many new disorders and cancers cropping up in society. They have to be caused by some new impact...
When science progresses to the point that it knows definitively what causes mutations, I will listen to their suppositions that altered food is safe.
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