One of the things that wears on me, too, is how the issues are clouded by one side or the other playing on fears and emotions. I believe in choice, but it should be based on truth.

The first poster shows an amazing lack of understanding about what rBST is by claiming it’s a combination of cow DNA and E Coli. Having a science background I am apalled by how out of context that statement is. not to mention that assertion that the public is being used as “lab rats” totally disregards all of the work that was done testing that product.

I have worked for a government regulatory agency and I assure you from first hand experience there is no bureaucracy that just rubber stamps approvals. Approval for new products are VERY slow and painful for the developers of those products.

There are a lot of naturally ocurring compounds which are sythesized “artifically” for market use. A biochemically identical molecule is a biochemically identical molecule.

We don’t think twice about other substances which are synthesized which are used every day in our lives. If you’ve taken any kind of pharmaceutical you’ve taken something which was synthesized, yet people get all up in arms about the specific application of synthesized substances to food production. It totally defies logic.

I am disgusted by people who take advantage of ignorance and the anti-rBST push is definitely based on preying on a lack of understanding in the general public about biology and science.

Cornell University has a pretty good BST fact sheet if anyone is interested in getting more factual information and not more out of context misinformation.

Safety is not the problem with milk for rBST treated cow. Marketers and special interest groups who pray on and multiply public fear, uncertainty and distaste is.

We started this blog exactly because issues such as this are so personal and emotional and very few people really understand how their food is produced, how it is marketed to them and what is and is not safe.”

Here is the deal I and all Americans who find out that the FDA has been and continues to force the population to be human lab rats get pissed off!

While the AMA forces only profitable procedures to prevail and goes to the expent to publish false information to discredit inexpensive cures…

Now you say that this genitically altered substance is save for the manufacturers study on rats show no issues. Oh my god! We have no idea of the long term or generational efects of this.
We ase messing with the building blocks of life itself with no clue of the reprocussions. The government is allowing this and promoting by not labeling GMs.

I do not want to eat any product which has beed or eaten or injected anything genitically altered.

By the way - Where did the HIV virus come from? Do you believe the goverments story of monkeys.

When I say government I really mean the for profit large corperations which are the pupet masters of the government.