Growth Hormone In Milk Controversy

Speaking of bodyhair ..  Someone sent me an email w. a video (I couldn't get the video to download) about some big controversy involving growth hormone being added or in our drinking milk in the U.S. (apparently Canada has banned it) ..   From the response emails, apparently it is causing little kids to grow body hair or something (?)     Anyone know what this is all about?

I bet you still believe in the tooth fairy and santa clause also.

  (?)   Actually I got a coherent response in TT, of all places ..   FYI ..  yes, they are raising cows with growth hormone in the U.S. and it has made its way into our milk, causing precocious puberty and such in our kids, supposedly, per the articles in the main forum post ..

Um, no.  This is yet another piece of redistributed drivel that's at least 15 years old.  Jeez; could you first exercise the finely-honed critical faculties you developed as a lawyer before sharing this stuff with us (and all the other boards on OH--WTF?).  This is only slightly more stale than someone who came across a DVD remainder bin, watched "An Inconvenient Truth", and immediately xposted to all the boards on OH to warn us all about "global warming".  Most of your audience hasn't been living under a rock for the past few decades. rBST doesn't cause precocious puberty (or anything else) in children.  It's controversial only because it allows a cow to produce much more milk than normal, but such "super cows" have an increased incidence of mastitis, a condition that requires treatment with antibiotics.  I believe this is what was summarized for you in TT. Milk from cows treated with rBST cannot be distinguished from milk from untreated cows; rBST isn't secreted into milk, and the hand-waving arguments that milk from cows treated with rBST contains higher levels of IGF-1 is really grasping for straws.  If there are any traces of IGF-1 in milk, and there is no evidence that milk from cows treated with rBST differs from milk from untreated cows in the respect, it's at the level of detection, and it certainly doesn't have any physiological activity.  (You could drink a rBST or IGF-1 milk shake, and it wouldn't have any effect, because you'd digest these proteins as food; they don't have any oral activity in massive doses, let alone in minute, homeopathic doses.) Needless to say, no children have been harmed (or have started puberty early) after drinking milk, whether it comes from rBST-treated herds or not. Since milk from treated and untreated herds cannot be distinguished , this is not a scientific controversy; it's effectively an aesthetic or religious controversy.  (Transubstantiaion: substance versus accidents, kosher versus non-kosher, organic versus non-organic, etc.)  As it is, many dairies have labelled their products as coming from farmers who "promise" that they don't use rBST on their herds.  Since there's no effective way to test this in the dairy end-products for sale, dairies simply pass on that "promise" from the farmers to consumers.  Most consumers who wish to avoid milk from rBST-treated herds have used this labelling quite effectively for the past decade or so. /Steve

 Geez, some gal hammered me in TT for the same "oversight" ..   and now here (?)    I was just asking ..   Here's, in part, the email I received  ..   I was not able to download the video, but the link appears legit ..    * * * * * *   http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/the-world-acc ording-to-monsanto-a-documentary-that-americans-wont-ever-se e-full-video/   Okay, so I forgot to add the clip........I'm tired!! LOL......but on the serious side, make sure when you buy milk there's a label that says: NO GROWTH HORMONES. Write to your senator/congressman and DEMAND that the food in this country (Canada apparently already demanded no growth hormones in their cows) is growth hormone free.   Not to mention everything else that's mentioned in this clip. Don't pass up this clip, it could save your life.  * * * * * *   An email I received from the same source also mentioned something about Starbucks agreeing to stop selling some contaminated product of theirs ..  supposedly it contained some similar hormone ..     Now I'm wondering if all that talk about antibiotics in beef and poultry contaminating our food is also B.S. ..      Anyway, thanks for the explanation, Foobster ..   Some of us can rest better at nights now ..  !  

I am starting to question if you are really a male. So let me get this straight anything that you get in a email is legit?

 The guys on here KNOW me ..   what about YOU?      (guys, do we have a spy in our midst from TT?   anyone know "Spurt"?)

LOL I read your other posts on the site and I see you are nothing but a trouble maker. Typical female trying to stir up trouble. You get slammed on the milk BS and the flag BS do i have to keep going on?

 Actually, it's the tuna hornets that stir up the trouble on there, mostly ..   I should have learned my lesson a long time ago and just post here, where (hopefully) saner minds prevail ..   &:-D)

  As to the flag thing, I was shocked to see no one defending it ..  They're more worried about the immigrants' "rights" under the 1st Amendment to do it .. I guess they'd feel the same way if the flag were burned or stomped or urinated on in front of their house ..  I'd like to see them defending that behavior to a U.S. soldier missing an arm or leg from combat, or better yet, the family of a Marine killed in action ..  There are better ways of expressing displeasure with our government, such as using the power of the vote, running for office themself, or writing the media or to their elected officials ..  They don't need to disrespect our banner and all it stands for to get their point across  ...   Just MHO, fellas ..

   

 

Anyone with a combine harvesting corn as an avatar can't be all bad I guess (I'm from Iowa so that's a compliment, Sperk).   And yes, I believe we do know the Counselor and imo, he's a flippin' "high-octane, testoterone-drivin, on-the-hunt single male" (I'm from Iowa so that's a compliment, Counselor).    Boner