Comments on: Unhappy Cows: The Hormones in Milk Controversy http://blogs.babiesonline.com/news/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/ News & Information about parenting, pregnancy, and Babies Online's services Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: brit http://blogs.babiesonline.com/news/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-3828 brit Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:33:55 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/04/04/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/#comment-3828 Organic milk, and organic formula (made from organic milk) are rBGH free. For milk to be labeled as "organic" then no artificial hormones like rBGH can be used. Organic milk, and organic formula (made from organic milk) are rBGH free. For milk to be labeled as “organic” then no artificial hormones like rBGH can be used.

]]> By: Dawn Allcot http://blogs.babiesonline.com/news/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-3793 Dawn Allcot Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:46:51 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/04/04/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/#comment-3793 Interesting post! Do you know of any formulas that are decidedly not made with rBGH milk? Maybe organic brands? Are there any? Thanks in advance for any info you may have. :) I'm going to look into the milk I buy more carefully, too. My husband and I go through about 2 gallons a week lately. Dawn Interesting post! Do you know of any formulas that are decidedly not made with rBGH milk? Maybe organic brands? Are there any? Thanks in advance for any info you may have. :)

I’m going to look into the milk I buy more carefully, too. My husband and I go through about 2 gallons a week lately.
Dawn

]]> By: diary farmer mom http://blogs.babiesonline.com/news/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-3763 diary farmer mom Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:59:54 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/04/04/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/#comment-3763 As a mom, I understand your concerns. I was only able to have one child so I was super protective! But I didn't hesitate using milk that was produced from cows who had been injected with rbST. If you have been drinking milk over the past 15 years and it wasn't organic, you have been consuming milk produced with the help of rbST. You have not been consuming rbST as the hormone remains in the cow where her body uses it to make her body more efficient. As far as being cruel to the animals, you need to understand something about milk cows. These very large magnificent creatures are actually VERY VERY sensitive. The slightest discomfort in their housing, change in feed, even change in weather, affects how much milk they produce. So you can see we as farmers work very hard to keep our animals comfortable and happy, because if we don't, they don't produce milk and we go out of business. You can't abuse a dairy cow and stay in business! There is no test available that can determine whether the milk you are buying was produced with the use of rbST or not. So I think that should tell you that the same hormones in the same quantities are in both kinds of milk. Milk is Milk. The use of rbST actually makes a smaller carbon print on the environment than milk produced without it. A farmer can produce more milk with less feed, fossil fuel, electricity, water, and manure. I am also a member of AFACT (American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology). Yes Monsanto is helping us, but only because WE asked THEM to help us win the right to continue using their product. AFACT is fighting for more than just the right to use rbST, but it just happens to be the larger fight right now. I am surprised at the small price difference you found at your store. All of the stores I have looked at milk has a 25%-50% difference. Which by the way, very very little of this increase in cost is being returned to the farmer who has incurred a lot of extra expense in producing this milk. The money is staying with the grocery stores and the processors who have no extra expenses. Us farmers have not been given a choice in this matter. We have been told to stop using rbST or no one will buy your milk. So much for choices! The processors and retailers are counting on two things. 1-That the consumers don't know what is really going on at the dairy farm and 2-When you scare people over food you can easily separate them from their money. So several of us farmers are trying to let as many consumers as we can know what is going on so you won't be needlessly scared out of your money. Thanks for listening! As a mom, I understand your concerns. I was only able to have one child so I was super protective! But I didn’t hesitate using milk that was produced from cows who had been injected with rbST. If you have been drinking milk over the past 15 years and it wasn’t organic, you have been consuming milk produced with the help of rbST. You have not been consuming rbST as the hormone remains in the cow where her body uses it to make her body more efficient.

As far as being cruel to the animals, you need to understand something about milk cows. These very large magnificent creatures are actually VERY VERY sensitive. The slightest discomfort in their housing, change in feed, even change in weather, affects how much milk they produce. So you can see we as farmers work very hard to keep our animals comfortable and happy, because if we don’t, they don’t produce milk and we go out of business. You can’t abuse a dairy cow and stay in business!

There is no test available that can determine whether the milk you are buying was produced with the use of rbST or not. So I think that should tell you that the same hormones in the same quantities are in both kinds of milk. Milk is Milk.

The use of rbST actually makes a smaller carbon print on the environment than milk produced without it. A farmer can produce more milk with less feed, fossil fuel, electricity, water, and manure.

I am also a member of AFACT (American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology). Yes Monsanto is helping us, but only because WE asked THEM to help us win the right to continue using their product. AFACT is fighting for more than just the right to use rbST, but it just happens to be the larger fight right now.

I am surprised at the small price difference you found at your store. All of the stores I have looked at milk has a 25%-50% difference. Which by the way, very very little of this increase in cost is being returned to the farmer who has incurred a lot of extra expense in producing this milk. The money is staying with the grocery stores and the processors who have no extra expenses. Us farmers have not been given a choice in this matter. We have been told to stop using rbST or no one will buy your milk. So much for choices!

The processors and retailers are counting on two things. 1-That the consumers don’t know what is really going on at the dairy farm and 2-When you scare people over food you can easily separate them from their money. So several of us farmers are trying to let as many consumers as we can know what is going on so you won’t be needlessly scared out of your money.

Thanks for listening!

]]> By: Science-mom http://blogs.babiesonline.com/news/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-3757 Science-mom Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:12:51 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/04/04/unhappy-cows-the-hormones-in-milk-controversy/#comment-3757 Use of rBGH is banned in the EU due to animal welfare issues. Milk is more expensive here compared to milk in the US but I think it`s money well-spent. A related post on rBGH: http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/01/27/somethings-wrong-with-american-milk-and-thats-rbgh/ Use of rBGH is banned in the EU due to animal welfare issues. Milk is more expensive here compared to milk in the US but I think it`s money well-spent. A related post on rBGH:

http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/01/27/somethings-wrong-with-american-milk-and-thats-rbgh/

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