Your Voice, and Mine, Got Monsanto's Attention!
\Dr. Laibow
Despite strong public, scientific and humane objection to the stuff, Monsanto estimates that 1/3 the cows in the US receive the drug which is frequently associated with very sick cows and, scientists assert, very sick people.
The number of disorders feared associated with rBGH treated milk runs from auto-immune disorders through Crohn's disease to cancer to premature puberty. None the less, the FDA, USDA and Codex have permitted its use. Codex sets no upper limit for its use in dairy cattle.
Farmers who use it must be prepared for chronically ill cows with mastitis, diarrhea from organisms like pseudotuberculinum, and other cattle illnesses. Antibiotic use is very common in cows on Prosilac since they are depleted by the abnormal milk production levels and must receive drugs to stay alive. In addition, rBGH treated cows last not 12 years, like a healthy milk cow without drugs, but as little as 2 years before they are so depleted that they are sold to slaughter houses for meat. That meat, of course, is from drug-treated, sick animals and the rBGH may be transmitted in the meat derived from the sick cows.
rBGH-treated cows are so ill, in fact, that to allow their milk into production the FDA decided to increase the amount of pus (from infected udders) and fecal material (from chronic diarrhea) permitted in milk.
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