Starbucks uses milk from cows that are injected with a genetically engineered, artificial hormone called recombinant bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST.
The problem is, this hormone is known to cause harm to cows and may pose harm to humans. Use of rBGH can contribute to the growth of antibiotic resistant bacteria. rBGH increases the rate of udder infections in cows, which are then treated with antibiotics. Use of rBGH could also pose a cancer risk to people. Injections of rBGH increase another hormone, called IGF-1, in the cow and the cow's milk. Too much IGF-1 in humans is linked with increase rates of colon, breast, and prostate cancer.
This hormone is banned in Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and all 25 countries of the European Union. And until we can get it banned in the U.S., we need to urge major food producers to use safer milk. Starbucks has already increased its use of hormone-free milk to 37% based on activist letters and calls. Let's keep up the pressure - sign the petition today to urge Starbucks to use milk that is free of artificial hormones!
2007-05-19 08:02:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Since the presidential campaign is starting 2 years in advance, there's time to hear from our presidential contendors about this issue. Let's try to get the issue of growth hormones into the presidential debate.
What we as individuals can do is:
1. only drink organic milk
2. ask out members of Congress to make rBGH illegal
3. ask companies like Starbucks to stop using rBGH
2007-05-19 08:09:10 · answer #1 · answered by Duffman 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As long as Monsanto continues to have such a huge influence in Congress, it will be very hard to pull RBGH from our shelves. Corporations run our government because they buy Congressmen through huge political donations. As long as the money keeps flowing from Monsanto to them, we keep getting screwed. The fact that all those countries ban this hormone and ours doesn't is proof of how corrupt and deceitful our system of government is. Your petition may sway Starbucks to make changes but that is just the tip of the iceberg. You will need legislation to get wholesale changes made with all the milk we drink and with Monsanto's pull in Congress, good luck with that.
2016-03-19 08:32:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is sold to Americans as freedom of choice but the reason is cold hard cash of course.In Europe many hormones and additives are outlawed that are legal in your country.This is really perverted,they are trying to sell freedom to be poisoned as freedom of choice
Also not too long ago and I'm sure those efforts continue the US tried to force Europe to buy or allow these poisoned products under the rules of free trade
2007-05-19 08:32:54 · answer #3 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the industrial agruculture lobby in Washington is second in power only to the military lobby.
Agriculture in the US is subsidized to the tune of $16-billion a year. rBGH is just one of a number of techno-biological fixes the ag lobby has created to artificially increase production and fatten the subsidy checks to corporate farms.
If you don't want pus in your milk, vote out the mobsters in DC who give the ag lobby everything they ask for. Sadly, that's about 95% of them. Who do you think writes agriculture legislation? Monsanto, Cargil, ConAgra, ADM!
2007-05-19 08:13:16 · answer #4 · answered by Robert B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. Government is using it's citizens as the biggest experiment in how cloned, genetically engineered, and chemical laden foods affect the human body.
They have so loosened the standards on food quality and safety in the name of corporate profits, that really nothing is safe to eat anymore.
I try to lessen my exposure by using only organics, preferably locally raised.
2007-05-19 08:24:03 · answer #5 · answered by tiny Valkyrie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I bet you know more about where the materials in your shoes come from, than where the ingredients in your foods come from. Plasticizer in wheat and rice proteins from china. Glycol in sweetners from china. See a pattern?
We need to have the sources of the ingredients listed on food labels.
2007-05-19 08:10:53 · answer #6 · answered by Wonka 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they just think about the economy; its the same with cigarets
2007-05-19 08:11:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where can this petition be found?
2007-05-19 08:11:39 · answer #8 · answered by wyllow 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋