Fox Fires Reporters For Telling the Truth About Milk

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Fox Fires Reporters For Telling the Truth About Milk

_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/10/03/fox-fires-repor

ters-for-telling-the-truth-about-milk.aspx_

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In 1997, a pair of reporters prepared a report for a Fox TV affiliate in

Florida about the dangers of bovine growth hormone (BGH) in milk. Lawyers for

Monsanto, a major advertiser with the network, sent letters promising " dire

consequences " if the story aired.

After attempts by Fox to bribe the reporters to keep quiet failed, the

station agreed to air a revised version of the report. An unheard of 83 edits

later (including Monsanto insisting that the word " cancer " be replaced with the

phrase " human health implications " ), the report was shelved and the courts

took over.

Although a lower court ruled in favor of the reporters for some $425,000, a

Florida appeals court denied them whistleblower protection, claiming Fox, and

the media in general, have no obligation to tell the truth, in effect,

having the freedom to report what is fact and fiction as real news.

 

Sources:

 

* _YouTube.com August 22, 2006_

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZYA2zFsCK8)

 

 

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

 

 

This is another dramatic example of how powerfully some corporations control

the media. You have heard me rant and rave about the drug companies, but

they are the fairy godmother _compared to Monsanto_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2005/oct/1/gm_foods_take_spotlight_in_new_documenta\

ry.htm) .

I simply don't know of any organization on the planet with more sinister

plans to destroy the health of your future. They are the central force behind

genetically modified foods and have conspired to literally own all future food

by unconstitutionally patenting every seed they can get their hands on.

I posted a report two years ago that Monsanto was slowing down sales of its

_bovine growth hormone (BGH)_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2004/jul/17/bovine_growth_hormone.htm) , Posilac,

which is put in much of the commercial milk

sold in the United States.

That seems to have been a temporary measure for publicity, as _Monsanto_

(http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_143.cfm) recently announced plans

to start producing the product themselves at a plant in Augusta, GA, instead

of licensing another company to do it, and they currently sell more than 33

million doses a year.

There could be no stronger proof than this story that the corporations do

not care about your health, but only their profits, and that their paid stooges

in the media, the sciences, and the government are only too happy to say

whatever they are being given money to say. In the instances where people try

to

take a stand, like the reporters in this case, they are silenced by their

bosses.

There's a reason that the FDA, _largely financed by their corporate

" partners " these days_

(http://v.mercola.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/blogs/moderators_blog/This-Cool-Opti\

cal-Illusion-Will-Make-You-Hallucinate--862.aspx) , declared

BGH safe for humans after only a brief study on a few rats. The Canadian

equivalent of the FDA came to vastly different conclusions about BGH.

These factors, more than anything else, are the reason the reports you hear

about what is healthy and what is not are _fatally skewed_

(http://www.mercola.com/forms/myvision.htm) .

On the brighter side, however, there's been a strong push away from

hormone-infested milk and toward _raw milk_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2006/sep/7/the_expert_are_wrong_about_raw_milk.htm)

.. I do not recommend drinking

_pasteurized milk_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/pasteurized_milk.htm) ,

however, even if it doesn't contain hormones, because pasteurization destroys

enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures fragile milk proteins, destroys

vitamin B12, and vitamin B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens

and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants,

growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and

cancer.

Raw milk, on the other hand, is one of the finest natural sources of calcium

available. To find a raw milk source near you, visit the _Real Milk_

(http://www.realmilk.com/where.html) Web site.

By the way, the video in the story above is from _The Corporation_

(http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8 & keywords=the%20corporation & tag=optimalw\

ellnessc

& index=dvd & linkCode=ur2 & camp=1789 & creative=9325) . If you want to have a

great video for your library I would recommend picking up a copy. I bought mine

on Amazon.

 

Related Articles:

 

_BGH: Monsanto and the Dairy Industry's Dirty Little Secret_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2002/feb/27/rbgh.htm)

 

_Monsanto Pushes Hormones on School Kids in Their Milk_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2001/aug/25/milk.htm)

 

_World's Largest Media Source Controlled by World's Largest Drug Compan_

(http://articles.mercola.com/2003/nov/22/reuters.htm)