Got Milk With Hormones

PA came to its senses today. It will allow milk to be labeled hormone free, as long as, it states their is nothing wrong with the hormone additives. Here is Shira at unbossed.

Today we got good news. The Monsanto astroturf scheme to take away the rights of the citizens of Pennsylvania to know how their milk was produced lost . . . mostly. The Department of Agriculture issued a notice removing the gag rule, but with lots of caveats.

But more important than the milk labeling is what this this battle says about democracy and how fragile it is.

While the citizens of the Keystone State were caught up in the holidays, its status as a democracy hung in the balance. What may seem to be a trivial issue - what a milk label says - was the battleground. Here's what you may have missed.

Pennsylvanians discovered that their department of agriculture is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto.[...]

If they are so proud of Posilac, then nothing is stopping the producers who use it from putting on their labels: Milk from cows injected with Posilac / rBST. But you don't see this honest "presence" label.

Why not?

Because they know that they will lose customers. So the true "absence labelers" are those who use Posilac and try to hide it by not revealing its use.