How do you feel about Pennsylvania's decision to stop dairies from telling customers that their cows are not treated with artificial growth hormones?
The article is here: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20071113-1350-hormones.html
My opinion is that it doesn't make any difference whether the milk is scientifically the same or not. If customers want to know whether the cows are treated with growth hormones or not, and the companies want to tell them, then the companies should have the right to tell them.
What do you all think?
(I know this is a repost, I'm just hoping I get more answers in this section since vegetarians are often interested in growth hormones and such.)
2007-11-29 06:51:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Another sign that government is run by campaign donations not the people.
2007-11-29 06:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by Lola 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It is appalling, but not surprising. The same thing happened years ago with genetically modified foods. Companies that were making GM foods were (and are) huge, billion-dollar corporations, and they lobbied hard to make sure that food labels could not say "Non-GM", using the same logic. It worked for a long time.
The really sickening thing about all of this is that these companies make potentially harmful products that informed consumers often don't want and instead of being labeled as dangerous, unnatural, etc., they are actually able to change the good guys labels so that they don't look bad. It's disgusting, but they have the money and therefore the power.
2007-11-29 07:11:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, the government actually stopping the milk companies from doing that means somebody got a huge contribution from some lobbyists.
The entire US food industry is being taken over by companies that created GM foods and drug companies. If you're interested, look into the Pharmacia Corp.-Monsanto circle of death. Pharmacia is a drug company that owns Monsanto. Monsanto provides the seeds for the GM produce grown in the US as well as the herbicides and pesticides that they are drowned in. So when you eventually get sick over time from their food Pharmacia will gladly sell you the medicines to treat you. Awful nice of them isn't it?
2007-11-29 07:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by Love #me#, Hate #me# 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. And wow. Makes you wonder how many other similar kinds of disclosures are being silenced by the powers that be.
Things like this wouldn't even be an issue if people could accept the fact that cow's milk is for baby cows and stop demanding it for every meal. Sigh.
2007-11-29 08:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by Gardenia 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The article states there is no way to test the milk. If that's the case, then it may be difficult to prove that the cows are hormone free without taking daily blood tests from the cows and/or taking daily tests.
I agree, until it can be tested directly from the milk in the carton, it shouldn't be on the carton. How could the consumer believe them?
2007-11-29 07:02:22 · answer #5 · answered by Cooking Engineer (CE) 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It makes my blood boil. Unfortunately, I doubt people will put up much of a protest. I would love to see people shunning dairy products en masse because they cannot trust them. But how many people even read the label.
2007-11-29 06:59:32 · answer #6 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think it could be challenged as a free speech issue. If a dairy wants to disclose relevant and factual information about its product, it should have the right to do so.
2007-11-29 06:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Corporate Lobbyists can influence government. A government by the people, for the people is gone forever.
2007-11-29 07:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
More laws equal less freedom....enough said
2007-11-29 06:59:08 · answer #9 · answered by gottapee 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Welcome to capitalism.
2007-11-29 21:25:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋