Hm. Wonder what other angling and lobbying is going on behind the scenes here? ISTR that the impetus behind the anti-labeling lobby came from Monsanto, who actually make the hormone in question and managed to spike a story on rBST that was about to make headlines in Fox News of all places.
Agreed, I also thought that rBST was probably worse for the cows than for the humans, but thanks to Monsanto's stonewalling attitudes, we don't know for sure whether or not that's the case. (NY State, for the record, still manages to have milk producers who sell milk labeled as rBST-free, and I've not seen a milk-carton *not* labeled as such around my neighborhood.)
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Date: 2010-10-05 06:51 pm (UTC)Agreed, I also thought that rBST was probably worse for the cows than for the humans, but thanks to Monsanto's stonewalling attitudes, we don't know for sure whether or not that's the case. (NY State, for the record, still manages to have milk producers who sell milk labeled as rBST-free, and I've not seen a milk-carton *not* labeled as such around my neighborhood.)