Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?

[a kennedy]

Monsanto has been in the news this week, with a U.S. District Court Judge ruling that the USDA has to at least go through the motions of regulating the company's genetically engineered sugar beets. Monsanto, you may know, is not likely to win any contests for the most popular company. In fact, it has been called the most hated corporation in the world, which is saying something, given the competition from the likes of BP, Halliburton and Goldman Sachs.

This has gotten me thinking about, of all things, ice cream, and of how Monsanto's clammy paws can be found in some of the most widely selling ice cream brands in the country. These brands could break free from Monsanto's clutches. So far they haven't, but maybe this is about to change.

Ben & Jerry's gets all their milk from dairies that have pledged not to inject their cows with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Why, then, can't Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins do the same?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/is-your-favorite-ice-crea_b_686629.html

[jhonmats]

1. how

How we can know if our Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?

[a kennedy]

4. I don't know.....

:scared: :cry: and welcome to DU. :hi:

[aquart]

2. Now there's a diet aid I never wanted.

[underpants]

3. Monsanto sued to stop accurate labeling by milk farms

http://www.foxbghsuit.com/oakhurstdairy.htm

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Oakhurst Dairy Inc. is being sued by Monsanto Co., which alleges that Oakhurst's marketing campaign that touts its milk as being free of artificial growth hormones is misleading.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, demands that Oakhurst stop advertising that it doesn't sell milk from hormone-treated cows. It also asks that the dairy stop putting labels on its milk containers reading "Our Farmers' Pledge: No Artificial Growth Hormones."

Monsanto officials said Oakhurst's ads and labels are deceptive and disparage Monsanto's products with the inference that milk from untreated cows is better than milk from hormone-treated cows.

Monsanto argued that the seal, which was adopted in 1994, misleads consumers into thinking that hormone-free milk is superior to milk using an artificial growth hormone.

[Blecht]

5. And they won!

Since then everybody who chooses not to poison their product must put a disclaimer on the label. This was a ridiculous ruling which says a lot about our legal system.

[underpants]

6. Thanks- I finally found it. Oakhurst settled, as is the MO they coldn't afford to fight Monsanto

http://www.purefood.org/rbgh/maine010304.cfm

Tuesday, December 30, 2003


For Christmas, Maine's dairy farmers and consumers learned that Oakhurst
Dairy settled Monsanto Co.'s lawsuit challenging the labeling on Oakhurst
milk.

Oakhurst is adding to its label a statement that says the Food and Drug
Administration finds no significant difference in milk produced with or
without artificial growth hor- mones.

[msongs]

7. not likely cuz we make our own - store IC = thickeners, air, non food contents nt