What is the unbiased truth regarding the effects of levels of B.S.T. in milk?

Question

What is the unbiased truth and data regarding the effects of residual levels of bovine administered B.S.T. in purchased carton dairy milk, as seen in humans; i.e., what evidence exists of whether or not there is a correlation between consumption of milk from cows given supplemental B.S.T., and cases such as extra early onset (precocious) development in modern humans in preadolescence? Why is or why is there not cause for consumers, particularly parents of younger children, to have concern about adverse hormonal changes from B.S.T., and to what degree, taking into account other factors that have a bearing in fluctuating biological variables and maturation, and considering that the intended result in the dairy cows likely also may be observed in other mammals, however unintentional, undesired, or even devastating the latter may be?

Answer 1

You will never get the pure unadulterated unbiased truth about Bovine somatotropin (BST) in milk.

Most research in the area is being performed by individuals who have already made up their minds about the topic before the research is even started.

Here are a few areas and facts which have been published in the past:

BST also occur in milk of non-injected cows. The cows produce some naturally.

As a hormone, it does not seem to effect humans. Attempts to use bovine BST for treatment of certain types of human dwarfism in the 1950 seem conclusive. BST is not HST.

Pasteurization of milk denatures about 90 percent of the BST present in the milk.

Of the three or four modifications of BST currently investigated, all were subject to digestion by proteases in the human stomach. A very simple experiment can prove that BST is rendered inactive within about 10 minutes or less in the human stomach.

If you are serious about this topic, go to the journal library of any local University and dig.