People who drink milk or consume other dairy products (like cheese or yogurt) might be interested to know the ingredients in their dairy products.

So some manufacturers want to label their products as “free of synthetic hormones” because a growing market wants such products and is willing to pay more.

But the farmers who use synthetic hormones don’t like that and they’re trying to make it illegal, yes illegal, to label synthetic hormone-free products as such. The New York Times reports:

“[A] growing number of consumers are choosing milk that comes from cows that are not treated with the artificial growth hormone. Even though the Food and Drug Administration has declared the synthetic hormone safe, many other countries have refused to approve it, and there is lingering concern among many consumers about its impact on health and the welfare of cows.”[...]

“So Afact [American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology] has embarked on a counteroffensive that includes meeting with retailers and pushing efforts by state legislators and state agriculture commissioners to pass laws to ban or restrict labels that indicate milk comes from untreated cows.”

The only sure way to make sure you’re not consuming synthetic hormones in dairy products is to avoid dairy products altogether. Go vegan!

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