Today’s Good News: Public Pressure Driving rBGH Off Market
Grassroots organizers have been working to get people to stop buying milk and dairy products derived from Monsanto’s recombinant - genetically engineered - Bovine Growth Hormone (rGBH) for at least ten years. rBGH is banned in most of the world, due to its links to prostate and breast cancer, not to mention early puberty for girls. Now sales are tanking in the U.S. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) points out that recent polls show 80% of consumers concerned about artificial hormones in their food. You may have noticed more signs in the dairy aisles of grocery stores proclaiming hormone-free products. Here’s the latest wins at grocery stores and producers, obviously listening to customers:
# California Dairies, which produces 8% of the milk supply in the US, has banned the use of rBGH.
# Food retail giant Kroger recently announced they will be banning rBGH in all of their stores by February 2008.
# All milk produced in Oregon is now rBST-free.
# In May, Publix Super Markets, with 900 stores in the South, went rBST-free in its branded milk products.
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