October 19, 2006 at 6:05 am
· Filed under Agricultural Biotechnology, rbST Public Discussion, The Food System
Terry Etherton
Major national and regional dairy food companies appear to have plans for frightening the public into handing over more of their “milk money”. It’s a simple strategy: use fear marketing to make consumers buy more expensive milk that bears labels hinting it might be safer than other milk even though it is the same.Recent articles in the New York Times and Boston Globe have pointed to consumer demand as the reason for companies such as Dean Foods and H.P. Hood refusing to accept milk from cows supplemented with rbST at some of their processing plants. Yet the International Dairy Foods Council, which represents these companies and others, says there is no major consumer concern about farmers using this safe, FDA-approved technology. Read the rest of this entry »
October 17, 2006 at 2:01 pm
· Filed under PodCasts, rbST Public Discussion, The Food System
October 17, 2006 at 2:01 pm
· Filed under PodCasts, rbST Public Discussion, The Food System
October 11, 2006 at 10:52 am
· Filed under Agricultural Biotechnology, PodCasts, rbST Public Discussion
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Transcript: The rbST-Certified Free Milk Label - Follow the Money
Terry Etherton
The story “Which Cows Do You Trust,” which ran in the October 7th issue of the New York Times had all the makings of good investigative journalism, but fell short of the mark for one simple reason: it didn’t follow the money. Read the rest of this entry »
October 9, 2006 at 3:28 pm
· Filed under rbST Facts and Information
An excellent bST fact sheet that presents important questions about rbST. Read the full text…
October 3, 2006 at 4:23 pm
· Filed under Agricultural Biotechnology, rbST Public Discussion, The Food System
Terry Etherton
The Boston Globe ran a story on Sept. 25th on the decision by H.P. Hood and Dean Foods to switch New England milk processing plants to “rbST-free” milk. In this story, a spokesperson for Dean Foods said, “Even though conventional milk is completely safe and POSILAC (recombinant bovine somatotropin; rbST) is completely safe, some people don’t feel comfortable with it.” This is the reason given for labeling milk as not coming from cows supplemented with rbST–a meaningless distinction, because all milk contains the same hormones in the same amounts, irrespective of whether they have been supplemented with rbST. Read the rest of this entry »
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