Bovine Growth Hormone

Table of Contents

Milk does nobody good…
(BGH cliff notes version)

#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.

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)

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)

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)