You Are What You Eat

USDA recalls 143 million pounds of frozen beef

rBGH has been banned in Canada, EU, Australia and New Zealand. What about the US you ask....the profits gained by the torturous overproduction of meat and milk make it too good to pass up, even if there is direct evidence of adverse human health problems and immoral animal treatment. The cow shown at the end of the video can no longer stand up because rBGH makes the udder too heavy for the animal to support. If it makes dollars it makes sense.

From The Center For Food Safety:
"Because rBGH use results in more cases of mastitis, dairy farmers tend to use more antibiotics to combat the infections, the residues of which also may end up in milk and dairy products. These residues can cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals and contribute to the growth of antibiotic resistant bacteria, further undermining the efficacy of some antibiotics in fighting human infections.

Furthermore, recent research has shown conclusively that the levels of a hormone called "insulin-like growth factor-1" (IFG-1) are elevated in dairy products produced from cows treated with rBGH. Canadian and European regulators have found that the FDA completely failed to consider a study that showed how the increased IGF-1 in rBGH milk could survive digestion and make its way into the intestines and blood stream of consumers. These findings are significant because numerous studies now demonstrate that IGF-1 is an important factor in the growth of cancers of the breast, prostate and colon."