Bovine Growth Hormone

Milk does nobody good…
(BGH cliff notes version)

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RACHEL Articles | Where to find more info | BGH Conspiracies | Links | Life Beyond Milk | IGF-1 in Milk Causes Breast, Colon & Prostate Cancers | Pro-BGH Propaganda | BGH & Mad Cows | Genetically-Engineered Food Links | More on Monsanto

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Environmental Research Foundation’s
RACHEL’s Environment & Health Weekly Issues

#381	Hormones in Milk: No Right to Know
#382	Dangers of Hormones in Milk [rBGH]
#383	Drug Experiments [rBGH]
#384	Making Milk: Basic Choices [rBGH]
#402	The Making of a Public Health Crisis [antibiotics]
#454	Milk Safety [rBGH]
#483	Is BGH In Trouble?

Where to get more info:

These are the main groups working on BGH issues in the U.S. Once you’ve exhausted what is available on the web, contact them for more info.

• Organic Consumers Association
  6101 Cliff Estate Rd
  Little Marais, MN 55614
  218-226-4164
  218-226-4157 (fax)
  (email)
  When they were known as the Pure Food Campaign, OCA has probably done more work fighting BGH than any other group.
  • OCA’s Bovine Growth Hormone Site
• Food & Water, Inc.
  RR #1, Box 68 D
  Marshfield, VT 05873
  1-800-EAT SAFE
  802-563-3300; 802-426-3700
  802-426-3711 (fax)
  FWI puts out a GREAT newsletter on food safety issues. If you’re not a member… if you want to follow such issues, I recommend it…) They aren’t as technical, but are focused more on the campaigning end of things.

• Consumers Union
  101 Truman Ave.
  Yonkers, NY 10703-1057
  914-378-2452
  914-378-2928 (fax)
  (email) (Michael Hanson, Ph.D)
  CU can supply you with lots of great reports and congressional testimony on rBGH.

• NotMilk
  Robert Cohen
  1-888-NOT-MILK
  (email)
  Robert Cohen is the author of MILK: The Deadly Poison

• Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
  Campaign For Safe Food
  17070 SW Rivendell Drive
  Durham, OR 97224
  503-968-1520
  503-417-7902 (fax)
  (email)

BGH Conspiracies

• rBGH Scandals
• Monsanto & rBGH Conspiracy
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• Milking a Story: How the Makers of Bovine Growth Hormone Manipulate the Media (Abstract of article by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) –>

Other Anti-BGH Links

• Reporters File Suit Against Fox coverup of BGH-story – lots of good info here!
• Do You Know What is in Your Milk?
• rBGH Documents
• rBGH Controversy Won’t Go Away
• Ben & Jerry’s thoughts on BGH

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• BST website at London Science Museum’s Biotechnology public debate forum
• FDA Fraud & Farmer’s problems with BGH (from Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy newsletter 10/18/94)
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Life Beyond Milk
(Health and Environmental info on milk and veganism)

• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine:
  • Information on Vegetarian Diets
  • Milk: No Longer Recommended or Required
  • What’s Wrong with Dairy Products?
  • Milk Causes Osteoporosis
• NoMilk.com (great links page for anti-milk websites)
• PeTA Factsheets:
  • Veganism and the Issue of Protein
  • Milk: A Cruel and Unhealthy Product
• NotMilk
• Vegetarian and vegan nutrition
• Veganism & Health information from Vegan Outreach
• Milk Sucks
  • Illnesses related to Dairy Products
• How Toxic is Your Diet? (Dioxin)
• More Links on Vegetarianism and Veganism

IGF-1 (Cancer-promoting hormone in milk)

• Milk Does Nobody Good article
• Think Before You Drink (BGH & IGF-1)
• Study Finds Link Between Hormone, Breast Cancer (5/8/98 article on IGF-1 and Breast Cancer)
• New Test May Predict Prostate Cancer (1/22/98 article on IGF-1’s implication in Prostate and Breast Cancers)

Pro-BGH Propaganda

• Monsanto’s BGH product page
• Backgrounder: Bovine Growth Hormone or Bovine Somatotropin (Food Marketing Institute)
• USDA Biotechnology Information Center info on BGH (includes full text of BST patents)

BGH & Mad Cows

• The Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page 3650+ articles on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, BSE, CJD, CWD, TME, and TSE.
• Dead Meat: Why Mad Cows Are the Least of It (BGH connection to Mad Cow Disease)

Genetically-Engineered Food Links

• Center for Food Safety
• Center for Food Safety (same group, different site)
• Council for Responsible Genetics
• Dangers of Genetically-Engineered Foods (Organic Consumers Association)
• Friends of the Earth – Genetic Engineering site
• GE Food Alert
• GE Free Markets Coalition
• Genetic Engineering Action Network
• Genetically-Engineered Food Dangers (including Anti-Biotech e-mail lists you can join)
• Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers
• Greenpeace’s Genetic Engineering site
• Health Hazards of Genetically-Manipulated Foods
• Krafty.org – Kraft Foods’ “Krafted” Biotech foods
• The Campaign to Label Genetically-Engineered Foods
• Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (neRAGE)
• Seeds of Deception (excellent book explaining biotech foods)
• True Food Network

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Safe Food and Ferilizer –>

Monsanto:

There is a wealth of dirt on Monsanto on the web. Here are good places to start:

• Monsantos (great spoof site) – check out their links page
• Monsanto & rBGH Conspiracy
• Search the RACHEL’s Environment & Health Weekly archives for “Monsanto.” Specifically, check out issues #400 (dioxin) and #144 (PCBs). They are all good, though.
• Search the Multinational Monitor site for “Monsanto” as well.
• Jon Rappoport’s Boycott Site (Monsanto, Dow, Dupont…)

Aspartame / Nutrasweet (Monsanto is the company behind Nutrasweet)

• Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Toxicity Information Center
• DORWAY
• Mission Possible International
• Aspartame and Excitotoxins
• Aspartame Consumer Safety Network

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