17-07-2003, 06:00 PM
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BST MILK and Ordinary MILK Indistinquishable? Not Really.
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Ron wrote:
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The Bully's New Victim
Monsanto has declared war on another little guy. Monsanto is
a big bully, but I've got a secret that will bring them to
their knees.
Their timing was designed to create despair and suffering.
Their legal papers were filed on the Thursday before the
long July 4th holiday weekend. No time for attorneys to
review the complaint. A long Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
for Althea, Stanley, and William Bennett, third generation
owners of Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine.
Their timing is also unfortunate for Monsanto's
stockholders. As biotechnology is being debated around the
world, as the European Community considers easing rules
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Monsanto has filed papers in federal court, arguing that
milk from cows treated with their genetically engineered
bovine growth hormone is no different from untreated milk.
That is a lie, of course, and Monsanto knows it.
The proof of that is that they hold a patent.
a patented product is by definition something unique and special,
otherwise it wouldn't be patentable.
If the hormones have no effect on the cows, how are they
producing more milk per unit of feed?
I think Monsanto is planting the seeds for that patent to be revoked or
to reinvent physiology for a brave new world of hormones with no
effects.
As noted above, Monsanto contends that milk from rBST treated cows is
essentially that same as milk produced by non-teated cows. That
really isn't too hard to believe since cows produce BST natuarally.
If they didn't, they wouldn't produce milk.
Monsanto isn't claiming rBST has no effect on cows. Quite the
contrary. They have claimed over and over that use of their synthetic
BST will increase cows' metabloism, thus resulting in increased per
cow milk production and feed efficiency, all other factors being
equal.
From an environmental standpoint, that's a good thing. Same amount of
milk from fewer cows and less feed means less poop and methane, fewer
acres of crops required for to produce feed, etc. Whether the use of
rBST has contributed to an oversupply of milk or the decline of the
"family farm" is fodder for another discussion thread.
There really is no "planting the seeds for that patent to be revoked
or
to reinvent physiology for a brave new world of hormones with no
effects.
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