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This just came in from the Organic Consumers Group.

Judith Alta

" IS MONSANTO'S CONTROVERSIAL COW HORMONE CAUSING CANCER?

Since its release onto the market in 1994, Monsanto's recombinant Bovine

Growth Hormone (rBGH) has been banned in most industrialized nations,

other than the U.S., Brazil, and Mexico. While the genetically

engineered hormone is regularly being injected into 22% of the dairy

herd in the U.S. to force cows to give more milk, scientists warn that

it may increase your risks of getting cancer. Knowing consumers want to

avoid rBGH, Monsanto has successfully sued a number of dairies over the

years for labeling their products " rBGH-Free. " After a decade of

forcing rBGH-tainted milk and dairy products on consumers, Monsanto has

recently admitted to having mysterious production problems in the

Austrian factory supplying them with rBGH. Last week, the company

announced it is being forced to cut back production of rBGH (trade name

Posilac) by 50%, due, in part, to failing FDA inspections at its

manufacturing plant. Rumors are circulating in the dairy industry that

rBGH, the first genetically engineered animal drug put into the U.S.

food supply, may be pulled off the market.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbgh/cowhormone012804.cfm "