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States, Industry Challenge Ice Cream Maker's Right To Advertise As Synthetic Hormone-Free
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- If you want to know what lobbyist''s do for a living - here it is - Monsanto lobbyist''s at work
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- 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
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- 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. - Reply to this comment
- 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. - Reply to this comment
- 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. - Reply to this comment
- 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/ - Reply to this comment
- 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 - Reply to this comment
- 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 - Reply to this comment
- 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 - Reply to this comment
- 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. - Reply to this comment
