This article on the bovine growth hormone rBGH is a MUST read.
Raging Hormones?
Highlights:
"15% of American girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7 (with the number closer to 25% for African American girls)"
Age 7. I can't believe this. It is sad and abnormal. This is not how we were created.
"Although the product [rBGH] is made in a lab, it’s designed to mimic a hormone that’s naturally produced in a cow’s pituitary glands. It’s injected into cows every two weeks to boost their hormonal activity, causing them to produce an additional 10 to 15 percent more milk, or about one extra gallon each day. And within the first four years of its introduction in 1994, about one-third of the nation’s cows were in herds being treated with this growth hormone."
"Canada isn’t the only country to bar rBGH. The genetically altered hormone has also been banned in the European Union, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, the U.N. agency that sets food safety standards, Codex Alimentarius, has refused to approve rGBH not just once but twice."
Are all these other countries just not taking advantage of a good thing? Not likely. It seems America is the one missing the boat.
"In case you think that the rising cancer rates have something to do with genetics, stop and think again. According to the Breast Cancer Fund, 1 in 8 women now have breast cancer. But only 10 percent of those cases can be linked to genetics. In other words, 90 percent of breast cancers being diagnosed today are being triggered by factors in our environment."
I think a lot of people do believe cancer is mostly genetics and there is nothing you can do about it. Cancer IS on the rise, its not just diagnosed better, there is simply more of it. There IS a reason why.
Much more good information in the article. Including what rBGH does to the cow. This is another example of money above health in today's food industry.
More of my posts on cow's milk:
http://bunontherise.blogspot.com/2011/03/milk-does-body-uh-not-so-good.html
Hey guys,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing it. The bioengineered hormone is injected in the cows every other week to force the cows to produce more milk than their bodies normally would, which hormone that the cow naturally produces. Increasing levels of this hormone boosts milk production...
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