Milk Labeling

It just pisses me off that big business keeps getting its way. They have some lame ass argument. Dairies are no longer allowed to say they do not have rBST, because it says other milk is not healthy. I hate Monsanto. Really. Anyway, Shira at unbossed has a good article about there shenanigans. Here is a teaser.

And in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania papers have managed to present the issue in a way that at best gives lipservice to the issues.
In the last month or so, we finally woke up to the fact that the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, now followed by Ohio and New Jersey area all planning to ban labels on milk that tell us whether Posilac / rBST (recombinant bovine somatrophin) has been injected into the cows that produce our milk.

This is an exploration of how the media is playing the story, but for those who are new to this issue, here is a quick overview of how I see the situation.

Some of us want to know, because we are concerned about the safety of the milk. Most other countries in the world are concerned and have banned its use until it is clear it is safe. The US has taken the position that its safety is not in question and placed the burden on proving it is unsafe. There are concerns about the BST or IGF-1 in our milk, the levels and types, and hints that IGF-1 could be connected with cancer - or not - when we have had more testing. There are concerns about the rush to expose the public and children to a product without being totally assured of its safety .