Renter reports: "Companies like Monsanto, the original producer of Posilac (an rBST) product had to reluctantly put safety warnings on the sides of their packages - admitting that it has about 20 'toxic effects' on the cows."
Much of the US milk supply is contaminated by growth hormones. (photo: California Dairy Association)
Monsanto's Cloned Growth Hormone Contaminates US Milk
03 July 12
reast-feeding mothers are often cautioned against eating and drinking certain things; it's because some of these things can find their way into their breast milk and then their baby. Wouldn't it make sense, then, that some of the hormones and antibiotics given to dairy cattle would make their way into your milk carton? One hormone, recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, is given to about 20% of dairy cattle in the United States, having unknown effects on individuals who consume their milk.
Is rBST safe?
IS rBST safe? That depends on who you ask. Companies like Monsanto, the original producer of Posilac (an rBST) product had to reluctantly put safety warnings on the sides of their packages - admitting that it has about 20 "toxic effects" on the cows.
It's a hormone that forces cows to produce more milk. More milk = more money, but the hormone makes the cows sick. Among other things, it causes mastitis which is an infection of the udder. This infection causes pus to be released into the milk. Yes, pus is in your milk.
In turn, large scale dairy operations that use rBST must use more antibiotics in the cows to counter the infection causing effects of the hormones.
According to the Organic Consumers Association, Dr. Samuel S. Epstein of the Cancer Prevention Coalition warns:
- rBST milk is chemically and nutritionally different than natural milk.
- Milk from cows injected with rBST is contaminated with the hormone, traces of which are absorbed through the gut into the blood of people who consume this milk or products made from it.
- rBST milk is supercharged with high levels of the natural growth factor (IGF-1), which is readily absorbed through the gut.
- Excess levels of IGF-1 have been incriminated in well-documented scientific publications as causes of breast, colon, and prostate cancers. Additionally, IGF-1 blocks natural defense mechanisms against early submicroscopic cancers.
Interestingly, numerous large and wealthy countries have banned the use of hormones in milk including all countries of the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, and New Zealand. The United States, obviously has not.
What does this mean for you?
It simply gives you another reason to buy organic, hormone-free dairy products (if you must consume dairy). And if you think you can do without dairy - it's just another reason to go vegan or simply avoid dairy.
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I'd like to know what Monsanto Executives eat or the Congressmen who are in their hip pockets.
I stopped drinking milk years ago. and alcohol for that matter. I don't like to participate in predator economies.
I do not drink milk but I use cream, sour cream, cheese...althou gh I try to use as much organic as possible....how about the millions who cannot afford.
We have the right to Eat food that is not intentionally passed thru FDA knowing testing has not been done.
Union of Concerned Scientists have given me opportunity to stay aware of many things Our Country flips off. Canada saved my life warning against flu shot in GW administration. Friends in Australia, Hawaii, Norway are always teaching us awareness. US Government Agencies take money, admit to passing meds without testing, chemicals without testing, Then we have Dept of Ag who also profit on pushing Monsanto thru. Twenty five years my friends and I have screamed to fight Monsanto....Man y of you put your heads in sand or called us
TreeHuggers or other rift.
Now for ten years all I read is Monsanto Poisoning the food we eat in America and they are goin to Africa.
If you have friends or family send this article to them, get people aware. Let's close up Monsanto once and for all...remember they can go under another name and do it all over again...
Bon Apetit
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gm-food-banned-in-monsanto-canteen-737948.html
(The firm running the canteen at Monsanto's pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire , serves only GM-free meals, Friends of the Earth said. In a notice in the canteen, Sutcliffe Catering, owned by the Granada Group, said it had taken the decision "to remove, as far as practicable, GM soya and maize from all food products served in our restaurant. We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve."
Monsanto confirmed the position. "Yes, this is the case, and it is because we believe in choice," said the company's spokesman, Tony Coombes. But employees at Monsanto's agribusiness plant at Cambridge were happy to eat GM produce, he said. "The notice in the restaurant there says some products may contain GMOs [genetically modified organisms] - because our staff are happy to eat food sprayed with fewer chemicals.")
Bastards, they'll kill us all.
I look at the labels of the milk I buy and look for NO rBST used in the cows that produced this milk.
In our country/society , MONEY has become the King. Anything is justified to make more money, regardless of how many people or animals it harms. When are people going to realize that going down this path only will lead to our ultimate destruction as a viable society and people.
I cannot believe no one paid attention...Now everyone reads this stuff for the past ten years, still you keep allowing non labels, keep buying.
You are in charge and do not want to take the Responsiblity. Cancer is real, there are cures and guess what chemicals to cause more are passed daily.
Who allowed it. Easy FDA, Government, Lobbyists but how about the millions here in USA that Can Read and do not pay attention?
He's a bit of a religious guy, but I can actually see why when he explains his life's experience and work. It's really beautiful and it could be the basis of a whole new way of full employment and health in the US.
If we put people to work restoring the country and the environment and growing crops that don't make people sick how much would that add to our GNP bottom line as well as help the people and the land?
Check the "BackTo Eden" video out. Monsanto does a lot of interesting research, but the products they turn it into are sick and based on death and cause sickness. Get Monsanto out of our good system and put the people's will back into what they eat. Let us know and decide what we want to eat.
That kind of milk gets food co-ops assaulted by SWAT teams, in the US.
Hate to tell you but raw milk and cheese is legal, and we have the right to buy it. We do not find it in supermarkets due to cross contamination law. But anyone interested can learn how to use Raw Products, siphon cream for other uses and I know across the US Local Farmers Markets are selling Raw Milk and products...no swat teams
Bon apetit
Yep knew this for 45 years, we were all part of learning things since Nader in 60's Love Canal in 70's and decades of Media warnings
Yes RSN has had the Alfalfa GMO infor right here
Change is up to you Teach your Children well. We can all turn things around
It sounds like insanity. It is, but what's more. IT IS BANDITRY. And I hope Brazil wins the suit.
We need some good reporters investigating this. The lives they save, may be their own, or that of some one they live Maybe a child?? We can not let them make us ill. We have to do SOMETHING
Little girls reach puberty at a much younger age, and women reach menopause many years earlier, because of the hormones the animals are injected with, and of course we are also in danger because of the antibiotics. Any lawyers here. Please give us some ideas.
Unfortunately, Monsanto has covered that eventuality. Here's a link:
http://farmwars.info/?p=5396
It has become very much of a 'buyer beware' issue. Until the laws that Monsanto has quietly had passed by their pocket politicians are changed - and that means electing more responsible politicians - this will not change.
But under the Constitution, we are guarnteed Quality of Life. So when Farmers use products that are shown to cause Disease, Monsanto continues to produce it...they are now allowing the Earth to be poisoned and with every rainfall, Water Much of which is Well Water, some Municipal Water,
Use your brain, Unfortuantely we have warned everyone and now you can fight or keep sitting your head in sand...Your Choice But do not blame Monsanto when you are just as much to blame.
They even teach communities how to organize on lots of subjects. But it is up to you
We warned, fought Now you can grow up and organize.
All I can say is : DUH! Of COURSE -- if you are drinking store bought milk -- DUH -- you ARE drinking rBST !!
The answer? Hmmmm... get off yer butts and DO SOMETHING!
---> PUSH for the legalization of (raw) unpasteurized milk!
See the following article:
http://foodtruthfreedom.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/raw-milk-hysteria-not-needed/
30 to 40 are too busy in Malls
50 year olds are still voting Republican and not believing the Government would hurt us But us in 60 age range, most of us are on teeter with the totter. We are the hippies that wanted to eat from the land while the other half made asses of us. But we pursued our preferences, our kids thought us fools. I still eat and grow organic. I still have to fight for others, but I fight for those who cannot afford not the lazy slobs who mooch off everyone else. I think about children, Seniors not those who could change but would rather sit with their head in the sand, letting everyone else do the work.
We aren't goin that way, we are tired...
Anyone can pastuerize Raw Milk. No harder than making coffee in a machine
We are in this mess due to people like you no matter what their party.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglas
1. Mastitis is not caused by hormones of any kind. It is caused by bacterial infection of the mammary gland. Ask any nursing mother who has suffered from mastitis how much hormones she was taking at the time.
2. Every tank of milk is checked for the presence of antibiotics and if any are detected (and the tests can detect a single treatment in a truck load of milk), the whole tank is discarded and the farmer is not paid. If it happens more than once, the farmer is penalized on top of losing his income. Figures for 2009 are that 0.026% of the tanks were positive. That is 2.6 out of 10,000. Your bath water has more antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals than that.
3. And speaking about pus in the milk, the incidence of somatic cells in organically raised milk is at least as high if not higher because under organic rules, they are not allowed to treat with antibiotics so the cow continues to shed bacteria and WBC in her milk from chronic mastitis.
4. Just as there is no difference between the insulin produced by genetically altered bacteria and human insulin, there is no chemical or structural difference between the rBST and what is produced by the cow's pituitary. That is the reason that no test can detect rBST and differentiate it from the "natural" hormone.
Look up wikipedia, cdc, mayo clinic, there are at least a hundred vet clinics, Union of Concerned Scientists but number one is not true nor is it totally false.
Cow's Liver cna detect false agents but Farmers do not listen, so eventually the cattle are carrying disease from their moms, and are inferior breed.
Any over breeding causes mutations Republican Party is sure a proof of that. But it is in the science, biology and can be looked into. Sad thing is the teachers are dumb enough, than told not to teach...nice to be paid to do nothing.
Ideas from other people?
Because you are SEEING adds non stop, for foods and snacks. That MAKES you hungry. Even if you are NOT. It is also eating all the wrong things, mainly snack items, which have, Zero value.
I went on a primal diet and I've never felt better. You basically eat what hunter gatherers ate and skip the processed stuff. The first 3 weeks are hardest but you won't crave the empty foods any more. Just look at the packaging and see what has corn syrup or cornstarch or some sort of grain which has corn in it somewhere. It's even in our fuel for crying out loud. It's the -sawdust as a filler- of the 21st century.
Eat like a caveman / cavewoman and you'll be amazed at the results.
Search Engine...show this article to others...called Awareness.
Get involved...
Mastitis occur when white blood cells (leukocytes) are released into the mammary gland (invasion of bacteria into the teat canal) Milk secreting tissue is 'damaged' due to Toxins. Mastitis can also be caused by Chemical, thats right Chemical, mechanical or thermal injury
Animal is in fever, swelling, and pain.
I know about Mastitis from thermal. My dog had to have Cesarian section, and I had to hand feed those babies for weeks. Ildy was on antibiotics and could not feed her pups. She was swollen. I do not need anyone to tell me about Mastitis. I have seen women with it also. Hollywood Rancher who raises cattle for profit doesnot give a crap if their animals are infected. Certainly doesnot care if you are.
Monsanto could produce cancer cures, could produce organic but why bother. I am sure they have special beef for their family.
Goats, Sheep and all mammals can get Mastitis. Ranching is causing their own problems, as are farmers. But remember what goes in them comes out...on your table, in the ground, into the water. So eat up, drink up
50 years of Warnings, Media was involved as were Good Politicians. Then we just went Fast Food crazy and they gave you what you wanted poorly, over bred animals. Want change, then do something ab out it.
If you want to write about something, read up first. Search Engine... What a great place to learn.
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