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Anonymous Coward User ID: 287857 United States 03/27/2008 10:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The growth hormone in question is made by the Monsanto Company. The current debate about Monsanto's hormone involves labels. The multinational agricultural biotech company seems to be getting nervous about the prospect of telling consumers what's in their milk - or rather, what's not in their milk. A Monsanto-backed advocacy group is now going from state to state, fighting labels that declare dairy products free from the bovine growth hormone. Monsanto is the only producer of an artificial hormone, the Posilac brand recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST or rBGH), that increases milk production in cows. Labels saying "rBST-free" could lead to financial losses for the corporation. (Matt Mahurin) The growth hormone can mean more milk at cheaper prices. But Posilac has been linked to health problems in both cows and humans -- one reason the European Union and Canada both banned its use. Anti-labeling measures by Monsanto are facing a backlash from consumers who want to know what goes into their milk. Labeling would alert many to the fact that a large majority of American dairy products come from cows injected with the hormone" and some of the products feeding you HORMONES: "Most of the nation's leading dairy processors use milk from cows treated with the bovine growth hormone in at least some products. Land O'Lakes, Good Humor-Breyers, Dreyers, Dannon, Yoplait and Sargento are some of the biggest buyers of milk from rBST-treated cows. Dean Foods and Kraft, the leading U.S. dairy producers, use rBST milk in many products, but not all. In June, Kraft will introduce a line of rBST-free 2-percent milk products. Kraft spokesman Basil Maglaris says the company is responding to a growing consumer movement. "We do understand that some consumers -- not all -- are looking for products from cows not treated with [rBST]," said Maglaris. "So we are converting the line to give those consumers an option." I did not ask for hormones and my developing 7 yr old doesn't need them either-we are a NON-SILCON family ty as cancers increase..."According to Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, rBST increases the risk of cancer by elevating levels of another hormone, IGF-1. High levels of IGF-1 can promote breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer. "If you have even just subtle amounts of IGF-1, there's a link to breast, prostate and colon cancer," said Dr. Jenny Pompilio, an internist with Kaiser Permanente in Oregon. "It's been known for years that that particular hormone is linked with cancers [because of its] effects on the endocrine system. The endocrine system is so sensitive that subtle effects can [make a difference]." take food production out of the hands of corporations-we have had so many problems with food production, diseases, downed cows fed to the masses, tainted spinach and oranges and .... so many connections: Carlyle Group Frank Carluci is a board member of both and promoting the GMO foods and illness they cause is a winning strategy for profits with Carlyle's purchase of Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. ties to Homelandsecurity and food supplies-insiders Department of Homeland Security George Poste, DVM on the Board of Directors of Monsanto and appointed to Bioterrorism division of Homeland Security by George Bush. Monsanto attorney at Burson Marsteller who rewrote the food laws for "substantial equivalence" policy at USDA, now at PEW Biotech group. Monsanto's former lawyer Mike Taylor, now at Resources for the Future and Monsanto's former cow growth hormone lobbyist Carol Tucker Foreman now back at Consumer Federation of America Under Taylor as Deputy Commissioner for Policy at FDA (1991-94). Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994 foxes guarding the henhouse Lobbyist attorney for Monsanto who drafted biotech substantial equivalence policy at USDA. this allowed them to throw their sterile terminator seeds far and wide with minimal accountability Maryanski's quote in Senate testimony "Subsequently, FDA established an informal process by which firms can inform the Agency that they have completed a food or feed safety assessment. rBGH/rBST One of Taylor's duties was to represent Monsanto's efforts to get its bovine growth hormone approved by the FDA. Taylor left King and Spaulding in 1991 to rejoin the FDA, this time as Deputy Commissioner (The other health concern affects first cows and then humans, says the Oregon physicians group. People who consume these dairy products could become resistant to antibiotics -- making them prone to bacterial infections. The resistance is directly related to health problems of cows injected with the hormone. These cows have higher rates of udder infections, or mastitis. When they are treated with antibiotics, resistant bacteria can grow. People who later eat dairy products from these cows can also build up resistance. When antibiotics cease to be effective, the threat of infectious diseases increases.) Taylor rewrote the food laws to create the policy which allowed this to be marketed without testing or regulation. Link to his document image at 00001 below with the first ever approval. www.biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/19/view1.html www.biointegrity.org/FDAdocs/index.html below from FDA above related to oooo1 image only but mother lode of document reference for FDA GMO!! Keywords: Soybean; glyphosate (herbicide) tolerance; EPSPS from Agrobacterium sp. strain CP4 (CP4 EPSPS). This meeting was intended to bring Monsanto's consultation with FDA on the food and feed safety of this product to closure. Monsanto had previously met with the agency on this subject (see memorandum of June 24, 1993 meeting in Subject File 1319 (SBJ 1319)). full text and link @ monsanto-000001 www.cfsan.fda.gov/~rdb/bnfm001.html george hw bush : Starting in 1980, he worked for FDA for 4 years as executive assistant to the commissioner. In 1984 he joined King & Spaulding and remained there until 1991; during that time the law firm represented Monsanto while the company was seeking FDA approval of rBGH. In 1991, President Bush's FDA Commissioner, David A. Kessler, Jr., revolved Taylor back into FDA as assistant commissioner for policy. what is up with these bootlickers? "March 17, 1994 (Last month) Taylor signed the FEDERAL REGISTER notice warning grocery stores not to label milk as free of rBGH, thus giving Monsanto a powerful boost in its fight... to prevent consumers from protecting their health who is protecting whom??? wake up food will only last for a while-the pollinators are dying and disappearing-Einstein stated 4 yrs from when the bees disappear-well, get ready folks and stop waiting for some nuclear savior |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 287857 United States 03/27/2008 10:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | try this link [link to www.politicalfriendster.com] plenty of them out there [link to www.fda.gov] Michael Taylor is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and Director of the Risk, Resources and Environmental Management division. The Center conducts multidisciplinary research on natural resource and environmental issues, with emphasis on evaluating how government programs and policies are working to achieve their goals and developing and analyzing proposals for new policies and programs. In addition to guiding the Center’s future activities, Taylor is developing a research program on the policy and institutional issues affecting the success of the global food and agricultural system in such areas as food security in developing countries, food safety as a global concern, and the natural resource and environmental sustainability of agriculture. Prior to coming to RFF, Taylor served in government, practiced law in Washington, and worked in private industry. He was Administrator of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from 1994 to 1996, Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration from 1991 to 1994, and an FDA staff lawyer and Executive Assistant to the FDA Commissioner from 1976 to 1981. He practiced food and drug law and was a partner in the law firm of King & Spalding for ten years and most recently was Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto Company. Taylor is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches public health regulation of consumer products, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Resolve, Inc., a non-profit environmental and public health mediation and dispute resolution organization. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia and his B.A. in political science at Davidson College. |
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