rBST FREE labeling is alive and well

Mark (markl@buylocalfood.com)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:32:04 -0500

>Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:07:48 -0800
>From: William Evans <williamevans@home.com>
>Subject: rBST FREE labeling is alive and wellRe: sanet-mg-digest V1 #1483
>
>. Some how Monsanto seems> to have gotten the gov. to make it illegal
>to label milk as free of added
>> hormones. This has always troubled me
> In California state at leaaast, ther's lots of dairy products labled "
>rBST FREE" ....is any other state /country really different????
>

Here in MA we work with a dairy cooperative that states on its carton that
"all of our cows are raised with care and love, and not treated with rbST."
The state has no problem with that. The only people I have heard complain
about that language are other dairy farmers who say that the cooperative
should not put that language on the carton because it makes other dairy
farmers look bad. Is safe to presume that these "other farmers" are using
rbST then? What's to keep them from not using it and putting it on their
cartons??

Mark
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