Green Options » dairy cows http://greenoptions.com/tag/dairy-cows Posts tagged 'dairy cows' Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:41:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Food Facts: Milk Labels, Choices, and rBGH http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/03/13/food-facts-milk-labels-choices-and-rbgh/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/03/13/food-facts-milk-labels-choices-and-rbgh/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:41:57 +0000 Carla Wise http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/03/13/food-facts-milk-labels-choices-and-rbgh/ milk-label.jpgMilk is big in our house. We eat ice cream, butter, cheese, and yogurt. I love my morning coffee with just enough half-and-half to turn it a lovely shade of caramel. My daughter drinks milk with lunch and dinner. When you factor in the pizza with mozzarella and the breakfast cereal, hardly a meal goes by that is dairy-free.

Haunting all this milk, filled with calcium, protein, and fat, has been a single question: what is the real story behind recombinant bovine growth hormone?

If you read about food in general, or genetically engineered organisms specifically, it can’t have escaped your notice that there is a battle raging in this country about the use of rBGH in dairy cows. It’s a battle being fought in grocery stores, state legislatures, the corporate offices of Monsanto Corporation and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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