IGF-1, Milk and Cancer

Hoard’s West, Western Watch
By Dennis Halladay
March 2007

Self-inflicted stupidity.

Scream, sigh, or cry - take your pick; they all apply.

In the 30 years I’ve been writing about the Western dairy industry, nothing comes remotely close to inflicting the disappointment, frustration, and sadness that this one does:

On January 23 the board of directors of the nation’s second largest dairy cooperative sent a letter to its members saying effective immediately it would not accept milk produced by cloned cows. It further stated that on August 1 it would no longer accept milk from BST-supplemented cows, and members must sign a statement saying they do not use the product. Producers who wish to continue using it have two options: Pay a handling fee for the co-op to move their milk into markets that accept it, or terminate their membership.

So begins the lynching of sound and approved science. (Read on …)

The Republican
Stan Freeman
March 17, 2007

Excerpt…

AMHERST - Ted F. White doesn’t have cable, the Internet or a car. The reason, he says, is that he’s a Massachusetts dairy farmer.

The seventh generation of his family to milk cows, the Hawley dairyman said the price he is paid for his milk is so low and his operating costs, including for fuel, feed and fertilizer, are so high, that he and other dairy farmers in the state can no longer make a living. (Read on …)