Comments on: Ben & Jerry's Fights For Labeling Rights

States, Industry Challenge Ice Cream Maker's Right To Advertise As Synthetic Hormone-Free

[macusweil]

Free enterprise unless BIG brother says otherwise... s

Soon we''ll all be drinking milk from patent pending cloned cows feed fat on patented feed and synthetic hormones and be liking it!! There will not be any other choice, all other options will be illegal.

[hypnotoad72]

Ben and Jerry, sittin'' in a tree... r-B-S-T-for-our-feed.

[zootallures2]

No rBGH but loaded with - Partially hydrogenated soybean oil, High fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, and alkalized cocoa powder.

[genghis007]

Growth hormones have been proven to increase female human mammary glands.

[feelfree1]

USBrit,

Re: "Terminator is a very bad idea. Sounds distinctly Orwellian. Some scientists do get too caught up in what they can do rather than what they should do."

Agreed. Thanks for following up.

[thgdriver]

Ben & Jerry''s Homemade Inc.,

I feel Ben & Jerry''s should be able to label their product any way they want as long as it''s not misleading that goes for everything.

The very nature of their corporate name is misleading. Homemade??? I hardly think so.

BTW, ever really read the sticker on a new car? Talk about misleading! LOL.

[markmn29]

As a dairy farmer myself i have to say that i am opposed to rBST. I have used it in the past but quit about 8 years ago. The cows are definitely healthier without it, and you don''t need the labor to inject it. Sure you may lose some milk in the short term but a live cow gives more milk than a dead cow.

Consumer groups need to get onboard with this right now and demand the dairy processors only buy milk from non BST herds. In the end the public will win out its just a matter of time as long as the topic continues.

I asked a Monsanto rep about the possible effect of it causing cancer and at first they followed company policy and denied it. With continued pressure i was able to get the rep to admit the study but the person stated "it was only a small study"

I believe in evolution and cows developed over a very long period of time. Going ahead and altering things like this in my opinion HAS to have consequences.

These things just give Farmers a bad image, its to bad the large commercial and investment farms don''t care about anything other than profits. I own a rather large farm run by my family and i want everyone to know the majority of the small family farmers are producing a quality product that they in many cases drink right out of the tank. You don''t see that in large farms, now if they won''t drink the milk should you?

[excoachken]

Rain Forest Crunch, Rain Forest Crunch, Rain Forest Crunch............. I am Jonesing for some Rain Forest Crunch

[oleander8]

Irradiation, GMOs, injections, additives, coatings, antibiotics,etc - get them all out of my food. Think it will cause shortages? Maybe we don''t need 14 different brands of everything at the grocery store. A chicken is a chicken, a tomatoe is a tomatoe -- QUIT MESSING WITH OUR FOOD JUST TO LINE YOUR POCKETS!!

[offtheback]

Where are all the vigilante groups? We now have Monsanto in bed w/ the FDA??? We need concerned citizens to take the laws in their own hands and string up these pill peddling ******, half our politicians, Oil company CEOs, and the FDA. Maybe the next SOB might think twice when he sees the guys he''''s replacing swinging from the gallows or a street lamp.
Wake up America, take the government back from these corrupt, arrogant, pieces of shiiiiit, we place into office. I can''''t wait for Dec 21, 2012!

Posted by BOT5Plus

Careful there, you might be violating the Patriot Act. "Can''t think of anything more patriotic"

[oleander8]

If you want to know what lobbyist''s do for a living - here it is - Monsanto lobbyist''s at work

[offtheback]

As far as Monsanto is concerned, this is the one case where I will display the sickning REP vs DEM mindset; anything done by them is automaticly BAD

[offtheback]

offtheback - It''''s Monsanto forcing industry to use their product. Its been ban overseas. Ben & Jerry''''s have every right to their freedom of speech and product use in their food. Do a little history. Monsanto has been sued so many times on corruption and harmful products. They produced and inforced the use of ASBESTOS...GREED...is on the part of Monsanto.

Posted by zoe200

To which of my posts are you responding? I think you misunderstand me or I may have misspoken. I am a WFM junkie and believe in NO addatives in my food. I do not currently nor have I ever nor will I ever knowingly use/consume any product by Monsanto.

[usbrit-2009]

FeelFree - You''re right; Terminator is a very bad idea. Sounds distinctly Orwellian. Some scientists do get too caught up in what they can do rather than what they should do. I quote from a Monsanto Investor''s Report dated 12/11/07.

"Additionally, due to concerns that the technology would threaten the livelihood of poor farmers worldwide, the United Nations%u2019 Convention on Biological Diversity voted overwhelmingly in 2006 to uphold an international moratorium on Monsanto%u2019s %u201CTerminator%u201D seeds."

Zoe - That''s Anniston, AL. Monsanto plant essentially polluted the town to the point it should be uninhabitable.

Zoe - asbestos is very harmful to those who worked in asbestos mines for years with no protection. It is not neccesarily harmful under conditions found outside. Thought the main company involved was Johns-Manville, not Monsanto though.

[dakotaclark]

Hmmm...

This site has some comments about rBGH:
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/bgh.htm

Here are a few discussion points:

* rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been forced to admit to about 20 veterinary health risks on its Posilac label including mastitis and udder inflammation.
* rBGH milk is contaminated by pus from mastitis induced by rBGH, and antibiotics used to treat the mastitis.
* rBGH milk is contaminated by the GE hormone which can be absorbed through the gut and induce immunological effects.
* rBGH milk is chemically and nutritionally very different from natural milk.
* rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of a natural growth factor (IGF-1), excess levels of which have been incriminated as major causes of breast, colon, and prostate cancers.
* rBGH factory farms pose a major threat to the viability of small dairy farms. Thus, rBGH
enriches Monsanto while posing risks but no benefits to the entire U.S. population.

Monsanto needs to do the right thing and stop rBGH.

[Renegade.Rivers]

Personally, I don''t give a rat''s but about B&J''s ice cream labels.

What I do care about is my family''s and my health. If you all want to get activated, and show some real concern about your health, and the health of your family, then I suggest you look at the drug laden water that your family and you drink each day.

Fluoride is one of the biggest boondoggles ever perpetrated on the American people. It is nothing short of poison, in fact it is the only ingredient in rat poison, sodium fluoride. It has also been shown to cause cancer, and lower levels of learning, i.e. "the dumbing down of America." Oh, by the way, it has been proven that using fluoride in your drinking water has no effect on the health of your teeth.

If you really want to make things better for us all, educate yourself, and then make everyone you know aware of the real dangers of fluoride.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/

[offtheback]

Why don''''t they just use organic milk and lable the Ice cream as such? Could it be that Organic milk is more expensive and Ben & jerry''''s see this rBHG labling as a way to have their cake and eat it too? Is Ben & Jerry''''s trying trick you into thinking their Ice cream is some how healthier? Here you have to corporate monsters fighting it out. It is almost like the coming Google Microsoft wa

Posted by cbscrash07

Ogly enough organic milk in bulk is becoming increasingly hard to obtain as a great portion is being bought out by, of all people, Wal Mart. Talk about a corporate dichotemy

[offtheback]

Monstanto HUH? Better living thru chemistry. Doubt that very much. Has anyone see the movie "The Corporation" Want to find out about cows and hormones? How cows are injected with growth homomes to produce more milk and they suffer. See it for yourselves.
Posted by sioux4life1

Check out Fast Food Nation as well

[offtheback]

Actually plutonium is very expensive so if you sprayed it on your lettuce the price would go up!!! (LOL) So I guess you''''re an organics only guy. That''''s fine with me - everyone to their own. All I''''m saying is don''''t believe all the bad you read about chemicals used in the environment. The people who write most of those stories have as much to gain from their propaganda as the chemical companies do.

Posted by USBrit

All I''m saying is thirty years ago very young girls did not have breasts. Now when na eleven year old has them as large as my wife, something aint right. Anicdotal, maybe, but We aren''t willing to risk it. And no, I did not send this from my WFM computer

[wright5579]

Corporate greed from Ben and Jerry''s? Didn''t they cap their own salaries as CEOs?

The corporate greed is on the Monsanto side. Just let consumers decide.