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

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

[offtheback]

OK, my bad, I''''m thinking Monsanto and "typing" Ben and Jerry''''s"......I hate coffeeless 0600....

Posted by FloydZepp

OK, I thak it back, must have been the lighting

[offtheback]

I''''ll never buy Ben and Jerry''''s. They''''re just Corporte Greed Suckling Sleazebags apparently.

Its all about Money, mammon, for them.

Posted by FloydZepp

Is that another left foot I see growing out of your back?

[Syndicate]

zoe2006: Then move.

[Syndicate]

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 war.

[ici2i]

misprint: ...purchased excess dairy products to keep teh market price stable and counter over..

should read: purchased excess dairy products to keep the market price stable and to counter balance over-production.

that''s better!

[ici2i]

If a baseball player ate some Monsanto product containing rBST, should he let Mr Mitchell & Congress know about it? An artificial growth hormone is a growth hormone whether it''s second hand or not...stick that in your hemoglobin and smoke it. Actually, I never understood why an artificial growth hormone is needed anyway while the US Gov''t has gove price support and purchased excess dairy products to keep teh market price stable and counter over production. If that isn''t corporate (chemical company) influence at the big welfare house in DC, I don''t know what is. We never needed it and now they don''t want us to know about it. Dumb up America!!, it''s good for business!!!!!

[T2_Squared]

Growth hormones, irradiated food, genetically modified foods, cloned meat - the giant corporations and giant agri-business companies would all have you as an unwilling participate in the great modified, frankenfoods experiment. They want to keep this information from you & keeping you in the dark.

I for one will continue to try and eliminate such foods from my diet and will continue to say that the FDA and other governmental bodies should stop being the lap dogs of these corportations and demand that foods produced by these unnatural methods be labeled as such.

Europe & Canada appear to be way ahead in the protection of the food supply. The US should be following that example.

[gershom2-2009]

Body by Monsanto.

[awoloilman]

Would you expect any less from the company responsible for Agent Orange?

[sioux4life1]

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.

[republic1776]

Ok for Wine to say "No Sulfates"

[ne_patriot7]

" Monsanto, a corporate sponsor of the group, says it''s a question of accuracy in labeling."
" Monsanto is really an advocate in support of accurate labeling of dairy products in the dairy case," said Monsanto spokeswoman Lori Hoag."

Duh... so what''s the problem Monsanto... what could be more accurate in the labeling than stating "this product is made with dairy products that have NOT been treated with BST".. Sounds pretty accurate and truthful to me..

Oh, one other point... 50 years ago smoking was considered to be safe along with many solvents used in manufacturing processes.. the same solvents that are now banned because they cause cancer.. Point is, no one knows the "LONG TERM" effects of exposure to such chemicals, so the only safe route is to not expose yourself to those chemicals.

[godseyesore-2009]

What? Can''t print the truth on the label?
Monsanto is just more corporate spin...just what we need in these ''shrubby'' times.

[kennedy7955]

rBGH and all hormones, genetically modified foods should be banned. I suspect these compounds are responsible for the epidemics of asthma, allergies and perhaps even diabetes. Europe which has banned these substances does not have these problems at epidemic levels.

Monsanto should be more concerned with the lawsuits and criminal charges that will occur should it be proven that their rBGH is the cause of these diseases. I wouldn''t b surprised if they had secret research already establishing a link.

The FDA is not doing their job and the proof is tht most countries have banned these substances from their food supply and the USA has not. Could it be that Europe got it wrong and the USA got it right? I doubt it -and even if the opposite becomes true, we will not be the country that sided cautiously.

[republic1776]

Government SHOULD NOT be involved in this.
As long as false claims are not made.
It''s none of their f-ing busniess!

[battleroaron]

it should be mandatory to label anything not natural in foods. if it is synthetic, than we have a right to know. alot of us don''t trust the FDA''s test results and would rather know when we are eating synthetic goods,lol.we have a right to know what big business is putting in our food.

[battleroaron]

if it is not natural it should be made apparent on the label. if it is a synthetic hormone ,or whatever it may be, it should be mandatory to be on the label. we have a right to know what big business is putting in our food.

[smiley676]

I don''t think that all chemicals are bad. But I also don''t think everything is consistently tested enough before it goes on the market. I don''t like growth hormones, they are too much like steroids. But that''s a personal choice.

First, I think that in the freedom of speech sense, they should be allowed to put hormone free labeling on their products. Regardless of whether it is harmful, everyone has the right to choose.

However, there is no test to prove what they are saying is true, so anyone could put that on their label. The states probably have the police power to protect their citizens from misleading labels. But it should be more restricted than a ban on the label entirely.

I think a complete ban on the label would be yet another example of the government supporting business. But I do think that there should be accountability for companies that use the label.

[feelfree1]

USBrit,

Re: "The FDA usually doesn''t do a bad job..."

No. They do a god awful job, and function primarily as a tool of big corporate interests. This article is a good example of that.

Another good example is when Donald "War Criminal" Rumsfeld used it to ram aspartame poison down our throats.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8N0z8stino

[adasher1]

Go to the WWW site called opensecrets.org and type
Monsanto in the search and SEE where the money goes. They are smart because they give to both parties but fully ninty percent is to the Reps.

It is sick that money does this. It is also sick that we vote party in this country instead of sense. We should blame ourselves for these issues, not corporate America. They are simply doing what comes naturally to us all, to wit, putting greed before anything else.

I will say it again....take the money OUT of politics and we would not have this problem. Oh, and VOTE with your head, not because your parents were dem or rep or because you like how someone looks or talks. Use your heads America....this is not a football game.