The milk labeling controversy - and other corporate practices of Monsanto - have been issues for years. For a while every time I saw my Senator, I would greet him with the same comment, "Hey Bernie, when are you going to do something about Monsanto?" Senator Bernie would shake his head and raise his hands in frustration.
I often heard him say that no matter how bad you think things are in Washington, they are really much worse. While the Congress is distracted with growth hormones taken by sports figures, our farm animals are being abused with other hormones. Baseball players have a free choice. Cows don't.
None of us have a choice. Not if Monsanto has anything to say about it and they do. Money talks.
I won't say that cows suffer painful mastitis because of injections of Monsanto's BGH. I won't say that Monsanto puts profits ahead of the health of all of us. Monsanto, known for its strong-arm legal tactics, is opposing the labeling of ice cream. BGH, otherwise known as Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, is a drug developed to increase bovine milk production. Ben & Jerry's is fighting for the right to continue to label ice cream that is made with milk from BGH-free cows. Monsanto's position, which was supported by the USDA was that consumers did not have the right to that information. The food chain is under worldwide assault by U.S. corporations. The Master Race of corporations has seized control of the very essence of life itself. We are now in the age of Genetically Modified Doomsday Seeds. Why has there been no public discussion on who should have control of the planetary gene pool?
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