Fwd: Walmart Bovine Growth Hormone

April 22, 2008

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Walmart Bovine Growth Hormone

The headline of an article in the March 22, 2008 issue of the Toronto Globe & Mail proclaims: "Wal-Mart Move 'Tipping Point' for Driving Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market".

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest grocery retailer in the United States with more than 4,000 locations, has announced that its store brand milk in the United States will now come exclusively from cows not treated with artificial growth hormones. The decision means Wal-Mart's Great Value store brand milk will be rBST-free, as will milk offered at the company's Sam's Club warehouse locations.

"It's reached the tipping point," said Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association in the U.S., who has spent years campaigning against the use of hormones designed to boost milk production by up to 15 per cent in dairy cows. Even Wal-Mart's customers are demanding milk free from genetically engineered hormones."

Bovine growth hormone (rBST) is used by about 25% of the dairies in the US. It is a genetically engineered hormone that increases the amount of milk that cows produce by 10-15%. Bovine Growth Hormone has been banned in Europe and Canada because of the possibility of increased risk of breast, colon and prostate cancers. The Lancet and other medical journals have reported that the increased risk is due to a slight increase of Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF-1) in our blood.

"I think things are accelerating now and people are getting more health conscious and are getting more conscious about the connection between their personal health and the health of the environment," Mr. Cummins said.

Of course there's a specific, strong, and significant connection between the health of our soil, our air, our water, our food, and our bodies. The building blocks for every cell and substance in our bodies come from what we eat and drink and breathe. And those building blocks originally came from what is in our soil. My children used to sing a song called "Dirt made my lunch" and it's really true!

Since January, 2008 Starbucks Corp. has only used non-rBST milk in its stores? Kroger, Safeway, Chipotle, Starbucks, Tillamook Cheese and Ben & Jerry's have all phased out use or in the process of phasing out rBST too.

If you're interested in a much larger and more balanced perspective, read "The Wal-Mart Effect" by Christoph Niemann, in the May-June, 2007 issue of Audubon, pages 35-40.

Oh, and I recommend the book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell.

References: Janet McFarland, "Wal-Mart Move 'Tipping Point' for Driving Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market", Toronto Globe & Mail, March 22, 2008

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Dr. Liz Lipski has a PhD and is board certified in clinical nutrition.

A 30-year practitioner, author, and the Director of Doctoral Studies at

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