People want to know what's in their food
The article about milk in the Life section (Jan. 7) was very interesting. Monsanto, the producer of the bovine hormone injected into cows, claims the hormone is safe to the public. Monsanto had to submit a report to the FDA and show there were no problems with the hormone and its consumption by the public.
The person who put the report together was Margaret Miller. Miller resigned from Monsanto shortly before her report was to be released. Miller then took a job with FDA. One of her first jobs at the FDA is to decide whether to approve the report she wrote for Monsanto. Monsanto, the maker of Agent Orange, also claimed it was safe when it sprayed more than a million Vietnamese and 100,000 allied troops in Vietnam. Monsanto continues to bully small family farms by pushing genetically engineered crops and hormone-filled cows.
Starbucks and Caribou coffee have eliminated the hormone-filled milk from their coffee. If the hormone is safe, why not let the public know whether the milk they are drinking has it? I believe the reason is that more Americans are concerned with where their food comes from and, most importantly, what's in it.
Jason Roberts
Greensboro
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