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- absolutelytrue, on 05/26/2009, -1/+76Consumers have a right to know what went into their food.
- shapattack, on 01/18/2008, -0/+65These guys are trying to take the anti-labeling push into five or six other states, too. If people don't want to drink the hormones, they shouldn't have to.
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -6/+64***** you, Monsanto.
This company is disgusting, and I sincerely hope someday their board is brought up on charges.
Or just lined up against a wall and shot.
These scumbags who play games with our health deserve the worst punishment we can devise.
Let's start with waterboarding...... - granolajoe, on 01/18/2008, -0/+45I'm pretty scared at the thought of a food engineering giant having the audacity and drive to keep such important information from consumers. What the *****?
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -6/+37I think this is an outrage and a violation of our civil liberties. The company should be able to advertise how they want as long as what is on the label is true.
- Berkana, on 01/18/2008, -1/+30Let's milkboard them instead.
- EllieElliott, on 01/18/2008, -0/+22it ain't the first time...
won't be the last. - crewof502, on 01/18/2008, -1/+22I'd like to see a movement to change the ingredients in our foods as well, such as those containing High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is known to be a huge health problem and in 90% of our food.
- Goodanswer, on 01/18/2008, -0/+181 for the little guy, 24,342,753 for Monsanto...well hey, its a start!
We are lucky now that we are on top of the hill (we woke up)so Monsanto can roll all the way back into oblivion.
you know the old saying " ***** rolls down hill.." - socialpyramid, on 01/18/2008, -1/+18Yeah, I mean seriously. Is that so much to ask?
- EllieElliott, on 01/18/2008, -1/+15Thanks for the happy news!
- andyboyd, on 01/18/2008, -2/+15And there was me thinking the USA was a democracy until I remembered multi-natioanl companies couldn't give 2 craps for freedom over profit.
- maiku00, on 01/18/2008, -0/+12its sad how we are all shocked that the logical, obvious, and 'correct 'outcome of events took place
- IADTatami, on 01/18/2008, -1/+13Rev up the Pasteurizer!
- 22pages, on 01/19/2008, -0/+11Let's collectively challenge Monsanto to a test:
If you think Prosiliac is so safe and wonderful as you claim in your website and your pr campaigns, let's see you feed your kids milk with prosiliac residue in it in large quantities for a few weeks straight. You can chug a few gallons yourself.
Call it the Milkboarding challenge (name taken from joke above).
I'm sure anyone at all affiliated with those products steers well clear of them and chooses organic options for their families. If they don't well, that's just sick. - theojanke, on 01/18/2008, -1/+12I prefer to call them MonSatan
- noahhoward, on 01/19/2008, -1/+12Yes but that's not what's going on. The company that makes the milk hormones doesn't want people to know there is a hormone-free competitor.
- nick111, on 01/19/2008, -1/+11You really need to ask yourself how you got to the point where lieing by ommision so Monsanto can make more money equates to your civil liberties.
Corporations don't have civil liberties. They're not people. - LetTheEgoSoar, on 01/19/2008, -0/+10The denaturing of the American food supply is one of the biggest problems America faces, IMO. We haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg of health problems that face this country as a result of the sinister practices of the food, pharmaceutical and insurance companies
- Ferre1, on 01/19/2008, -0/+10I'm a chemist and have worked for Monsanto. Evil company.
- koreth, on 01/18/2008, -1/+11Good luck with that. The big corn-growing regions of the country are represented in the national legislature way out of proportion to their populations, and you can bet they'll fight tooth and nail to avoid any move away from corn syrup, whatever its health consequences.
- Apolloblue20, on 01/19/2008, -0/+9This is good news. People have the right to know what is in their milk (all food for that matter) and how it was made.
- Ellipsys, on 01/19/2008, -0/+9Thank ***** god. There is nothing more disgusting than what corporate and factory farming is doing to the health of this nation. Monsanto is one of the worst. Producers of any agricultural product should be encouraged to put as much information as possible on the label so consumers can make an informed choice. Corporate farming giants are afraid of an informed consumer. Once they see how many hormones, antibiotics, artificial chemicals and preservatives, not to mention animals in horrible condition, are involved in the food production, these same consumers search out certified organic alternatives and never look back.
- maanwi, on 01/19/2008, -0/+8Our government typically doesn't think we have the right to this information - we have labeling laws that are worse than most other civilized countries. That "cinnamon" in your spice cabinet probably isn't; it's most likely Cassia, and it could poison you if you partake too much and too often. Almost every time you see the word "spice" in an ingredient list, along with a host of other pseudonyms for it, the actual ingredient is MSG. The foods that you're eating on a regular basis are likely to be GMOs that Monsanto came up with and that the FDA doesn't require to be disclosed - Americans are part of an unwitting experiment.
- xonahuia, on 01/19/2008, -1/+9I say we fight no matter what instead of rolling over and playing dead
- jjason1985, on 01/19/2008, -0/+7Remember agent orange? self terminating seeds? same guys.
Monsanto is the definition of an evil corporation, with profit above all else including human life. - ZenMojo, on 01/19/2008, -0/+7How dare the FDA let farmers tell people what is and isn't in their food. That creates an unreasonably hostile marketplace for our Big Brother, Big Agro!
/sarcasm - inactive, on 01/19/2008, -0/+7Man, there was a guy in the Wash Post recently that was talking about how some libertarians wanted to lift federal restrictions on unpasteurized milk. I was thinking to myself, who the hell would drink unpasteurized...doesn't sound safe. So I started poking around. Apparently, man was drinking unpasteurized cow milk for thousands of years with little or no problems. When these nasty commercial dairy farms started to crop up all over the place, to increase profits they kept the cows in deplorable conditions. Basically, fed the cows the diseased by products of other dead cows and pretty much made them stand in a muck filled stall all day pumped full of hormones. The large dairy's had to pasteurize to make the product safe to drink. Then they lobbied congress to put tons of restrictions out any dairy that wasn't pasteurizing, basically killing the small dairies with healthy cows.
Why does milk say vitamin D Fortified all the time? Well, pasteurization removes pretty much any nutrition in the milk. All that is left is sugar and denatured proteins, so vitamins are added later. - mateo60, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7No way! I thought this was 100% defeated. I was mad about it too. This made my day a little nicer. :)
- mushoo, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6Nah, save the milk and use hormones instead. You don't even have to (...)board them just inject them with a couple hundred ccs of rbST, bST, BGH or rBGH until they scream uncle.
- meace1234, on 01/18/2008, -1/+7But.....they wont have to label clone animal meat and milk?
http://mrobvious.wordpress.com/category/cloning/ - SkippyDoorknob, on 01/18/2008, -1/+7If the hormones still exist in the milk, shouldn't there have to be an ingredient list showing them?
- iHippie, on 01/19/2008, -0/+6***** you Monsanto! Goddamn corn-stealers.
Try hemp milk instead! - bobartig, on 01/19/2008, -1/+7They are not putting hormones in your milk. Bovine hormones are present in all milk. If you treat cows with rBST (recombinant bovine somatotropin), cows will produce more milk, but it will be indistinguishable from milk from cows that were not given the hormone. So, nothing is ending up in the milk that wouldn't already be there.
Still, Monsanto would like to force milk producers NOT to be able to say whether milk was produced using rBST or not, because they feel that labels that specifically say that rBST was not used 'implies' that milk that comes from rBST users is of inferior quality.
If a dairy chooses to have that level of transparency, they should have the right to say whether the dairy used rBST, whether they treated their cows well, what the cows ate, how well the farm handlers were treated, and what color scarves they knitted the heffers to keep their ears warm. If they want to print these sorts of statements (and back them up), I say more power to them. - inhaler, on 01/19/2008, -1/+7They do have personhood....
- bbear, on 01/19/2008, -0/+5If BST is a natural component of milk then why does rBST exist?
- altgeeky1, on 01/19/2008, -1/+5>Corporations don't have civil liberties. They're not people.
I do not think you know what 'corporation' means.
Legally, corporations ARE people. Do some research or at least look the word up.
As to the grandparent poster, I couldn't tell which side he was arguing on as he was so vague. Was he he really arguing that Monsanto should be able to advertise as they want?? Monsanto isn't the one advertising (packaging actually) - dairy farmers are. It sounded to ME like he was saying that the dairy farmers THEMSELVES should be able to label the milk doesn't contain growth hormones. So you might have misread his statement (easy enough...) - Ellipsys, on 01/19/2008, -0/+4Dug for delicious hemp milk. Doesn't give you boobs or any of those estrogen effects of soy, either. Dig in, guys!
- techresearcher, on 01/19/2008, -1/+5Check this cool video: The Future of Food. Some mention of how Monsanto controls the nation too...
http://www.mercola.com/future-of-food - LeeSoong, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3It certainly is a Free Speech right for a farmer to tell you what IS NOT in his food.
This is important for people who want natural food, organic food, and those who may be sensitive to artificial additives... - LeeSoong, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3Let us not forget the problem with GMO soybeans:
http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm
and what about eating the animals that eat hundreds of pounds of soybeans ?
Are they really safe to eat? - bobartig, on 01/19/2008, -1/+4The issue here is that the hormones are present in ALL milk. Whether you use rBST or not, there will be BST hormone present in your Milk, as it is a natural component of cow milk. rBST milk doesn't contain any more of it, or a different kind. It is indistinguishable from milk produced without rBST.
I am still for labelling rights, because I think consumers should be allowed to decide HOW their food is produced. In that sense, its more akin to sweatshop labelling. The t-shirt is probably the same whether its made by a well-treated employee, or a sweatshop worker, but if a mfr would like to say "we do not use sweatshops", I think that is their right. - khfn, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3Monsanto can suck a fat one.
- LeeSoong, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3remember - the dept of justice said it's not torture unless their organs fail ?
- circleback2, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3***** off Monsanto you lying greedy bastards!
- Bunkyo, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3Monsanto is owned by Pharmacia.
Pharmacia is owned by Pfizer.
Pfizer is owned by Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is owned by little old ladies that care about your health. (Mm-m)
The sit back is minor. It’s like having a pawn tip over. You just sit it back up. - tgc1, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3Funny how the FDA, a government body charged with keeping the american public safe, is complicit with these crimes. I smell some corruption in there. "Here's a few million dollars, make sure this goes through *wink, wink*"
- aidave, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3Monsanto = Evil
- yarukizero, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3What I had heard was that there most certainly were studies that said it was different, and the FDA largely ignored these in favor of questionable research by Monsanto and other proponents of the hormones.
- Hyperion1144, on 01/19/2008, -0/+3No. But certain companies WILL label their stuff as GMO/clone/franken-science free. Unlabeled = suspicious. If they don't want to talk about it (unlabeled) odds are they are hoping you won't think about it (out of sight, out of mind). If the market for non-frankenscience foods is there, some companies will be willing to provide to it, and they will advertise it. Organic foods are by far the fastest growing segment of the food and agriculture industry right now, for a reason.
Vote with your dollars. No label as being GMO/clone/franken-science free means we don't buy it! The cloning will happen if its profitable. Make it unprofitable! -
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